The SHUTTLE August 2002 The Next NASFA Meeting will be the Cookout on 10 August 2002 at Russell McNuttÕs House The Next Con Stellation ConCom Meeting will be 15 August 2002 at Randy Cleary's House August Con Stellation { Oyez, Oyez { ConCom Meeting Set The next NASFA meeting will be the more-or-less an- nual NASFA cookout/picnic on 10 August 2002. It will be at The next Con Stellation XXI will be Thursday 15 August Russell McNuttÕs house and pool with the gathering starting 2002 at 6:30P at Randy ClearyÕs house Ñ 138 Bibb Drive in at 2P. Note that this is a week earlier than the usual meeting Madison. This is an eating meeting, with the eating starting at date. 6:30 and the meeting proper following. The food theme is RussellÕs address is 902 Drake Avenue SE in Huntsville. Òpurple.Ó Call Randy at 256-772-3826 for directions. From the Parkway, take Drake eastbound past Whitesburg Drive. Continue on Drake up and over the hill. RussellÕs house is on the right, just before you get to Randolph School. The house has a U-shaped drive so you have two shots at turning in. Worldcon Reporters Sought Call Russell at 256-650-3195 for more complete directions. Due to the picnic, there will be no program or after-the- Your intrepid Shuttle editor will unfortunately not be meeting meeting in August. We do need ATMM volunteers for attending ConJosŽ over the Labor Day weekend. WeÕd like to future months. We also need donations for the more-or-less track down a few of our readers who do plan to attend to send annual NASFA auction in November. in both factual data and your own impressions of this yearÕs Worldcon. Interested parties can email reports to <[email protected]> or <[email protected]>. If you donÕt have email access, contact Mike Kennedy at 256- 883-5922 to make other arrangements. The more the merrier! Inside this issueÉ Minutes of the July Meeting ...........................................2 Awards News Roundup ..................................................4 NASFA Calendar............................................................2 Fiction: Part 18 of No Need for a Dragon ......................6 NASFA Receivables .......................................................3 Fiction: Part 19 of No Need for a Dragon ......................6 Book Review: Somewhere in Time .................................3 Letters of Comment ........................................................9 Deadline for the September 2002 issue of The NASFA Shuttle is Friday, 6 September 2002. 1 23 First day of Autumn. July Minutes 26 BD: Jenna Victoria Stone. by Samuel A. Smith, Centered 29 BD: Nelda Kathleen Kennedy. The July meeting of the North Alabama Science Fiction OCTOBER Association was called to order on Saturday, July 20, 2002 in 12 BD: Columbus Day (Traditional). the upstairs meeting room at BookMark at 6:22:22P by Presi- 14 BD: Columbus Day (Observed). dent Mary Ortwerth. We Came, We Saw, We Gaveled and 15 BD: Robert Buelow. Cricketed. 18Ð20 Con Stellation XXI: Pavo Ñ Huntsville AL. NOTE: Ray is paying bills. Stay tuned for possible changes. OLD BUSINESS 24 BD: United Nations Day. Randy Cleary: The August program (and meeting) is the 25 BD: Marie McCormack. annual NASFA Picnic and Cookout. 2:00P, Saturday, August 26* NASFA Meeting Ñ 6P Business, 7P Program, at 10, at Russell McNuttÕs house. The September program is BookMark. ATMM TBD. tentatively planned to be a field trip to Andre NortonÕs library. 27 BD: Gabrielle Mitchell. (Letter and phone call to pre-arrange the trip required.) The 27 Daylight Saving Time ends. November program will be the annual NASFA auction. 31 Halloween. Randy Cleary would like to know when the bulk mail 31Ð03 World Fantasy Con Ñ Minneapolis MN. committee is going to meet. The answer was: Ask Marie. (Who was not present.) NOVEMBER NEW BUSINESS 05 Election Day. Get out the crickets again. 11 VeteransÕ Day. CONVENTION BUSINESS 16* NASFA Meeting Ñ 6P Business, 7P Program, at 688 visitors to the Con Stellation web site, 938 visitors to BookMark. ATMM at Mike KennedyÕs house. the DeepSouthCon 40 web site, 81 visitors to the NASFA web 22 BD: Nancy Renee Peters. site. 23 BD: Michael D. Kennedy. We have received a survey from the Huntsville Conven- 23 BD: Wilson ÒBobÓ Tucker. tion and VisitorÕs Bureau. 28 Thanksgiving Day. The meeting was adjourned at 6:34:34P. The program was 29 BD: Howard Camp. ÒS.F. toys.Ó The After-The-Meeting Meeting was held at 30 BD: Joshua Kennedy. Russell McNuttÕs house. 30 BD: Richard Gilliam. 30 Chanukkah. OoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoO NASFA Calendar The North Alabama Science Fiction Association meets on the third Saturday of each month. (Unless there is a large AUGUST nearby convention being held that weekend Ñ in which case 08 BD: Jim Woosley. we usually hold the meeting on the second or fourth weekend.) 09Ð11 Crescent City Con XVII Ñ New Orleans LA. The regular meeting location is the upstairs meeting room at 10* NASFA Meeting Ñ Annual Cookout/Picnic at Russell BookMark on South Memorial Parkway. The Executive McNuttÕs house. NOTE: This is one week earlier Committee meeting (if scheduled) is at 5P. The business than the usual meeting date. meeting is at 6P. The program is at 7P. Anyone is welcome to 14 BD: Edward Kenny. attend any of the meetings. There is usually an after-the- 15 Con Stellation ConCom Meeting Ñ Randy ClearyÕs meeting meeting with directions available at the program. house; 6:30P eating with meeting to follow. 16 BD: Zachary Mitchell. 16Ð18 Jophan Family Reunion Ñ Birmingham AL. 19 BD: Ariane Mitchell. 21 BD: Deborah Denton. 29Ð02 ConJosŽ/Worldcon 60 Ñ San JosŽ CA. 30Ð02 Dragon*Con 2002 Ñ Atlanta GA. SEPTEMBER Sam Smith at DSC 02 Labor Day. 40, in his ÒPointy- 07 Rosh Hashanah. Haired Con ChairÓ 08 GrandparentsÕ Day. (ˆ la Dilbert) outfit. 09 BD: Mike Cothran. -photo by Mike Stone 11 BD: Ray Pietruszka. 16 Yom Kippur. 17 Citizenship Day. 21* NASFA Meeting Ñ 6P Business, 7P Program, at BookMark. ATMM TBD. NOTE: This meeting may involve a field trip to Andre NortonÕs library earlier in the day. Stay tuned for details. 2 NASFA Receivables Everyone Has to be by Randy B. Cleary Somewhen with additional reviews by Mike Kennedy book review by Mike Kennedy Here are the latest zines received by NASFA. ASFA Future Times, Volume 5, Number 7, July 2002; Somewhere in Time, by Richard Matheson, Tor Books, Janu- Jayne Rogers, Atlanta Science Fiction Society, P. O. Box ary 1999, Trade Paperback, $13.95, ISBN 0-312-86886-3 98308, Atlanta GA 30359-2008 Ñ This 6-page club zine (originally published as Bid Time Return, 1975, Viking) features a cover by Charles Keegan and an illo by Brad Foster. There are articles about John Ringo (recent speaker at the Under my oversized, long-haired, red- (and, now, gray-) club), a review of Smallville, the TV show, and a personal bearded exterior beats the heart of a true romantic. As witness, account of a meeting with H. R. Giger. Also enclosed was a take the fact that 1980Õs Somewhere in Time has long been one flyer for Dragon*Con. of my favorite movies. Yes, I know, itÕs shameless in the way De Profundis, 353, May 2002; Marty Cantor, c/o The Los it manipulates the viewer. Yes, I know, itÕs overly sentimental. Angeles Science Fantasy Society, 11513 Burbank Boulevard, Yes, I know, the fantasy-time-travel aspect is thinly drawn. But North Hollywood CA 91601; <www.lasfs.org> Ñ A crowded I just love watching the love developing between Richard club calendar and lots of meeting minutes shared space with Collier (played by Christopher Reeve) and Elise McKenna almost 3 pages of short remembrances of Bruce Pelz in this 10- (played by Jane Seymour). And I cry every time at the heart- page clubzine. [MDK] rending ending, sappy as it may be. De Profundis, 354, June 2002; Marty Cantor, c/o The Los Yet somehow I never realized that there was a novel out Angeles Science Fantasy Society, 11513 Burbank Boulevard, there on which the screenplay was based. Bid Time Return (the North Hollywood CA 91601; <www.lasfs.org> Ñ This 20- original title) was published in 1975 and won the 1976 World page club zine is the Bruce Pelz Memorial Issue. Bruce Pelz Fantasy Award in the novel category. ItÕs among numerous passed away on May 9th, 2002. About 10 pages are dedicated Richard Matheson works (which also include I Am Legend, to remembrances of him. The Shrinking Man, What Dreams May Come, and Hell House) Derogatory Reference, 99; Arthur D. Hlavaty, 206 Val- to be adapted for the silver screen. entine Street, Yonkers NY 10704-1814; 914-965-4861; When I did recently realize the book existed Ñ and <[email protected]> Ñ This personal zine is 8 pages, has a discovered there was still a version in print, albeit not under the cover by Mercy Van Vlack, and reports on Lunacon, ICFA, original title Ñ I immediately called BookMark and ordered it. and Mincon. Now I almost wish I hadnÕt. Memphen, Issues 279, June 2002; Greg Bridges, The IÕm sorry if that sounds harsh, but this is a case where the Memphis Science Fiction Association, P. O. Box 820534, movie was better than the book. ItÕs not a case of the story lines Memphis TN 38182-0534; 901-664-6730; differing (in fact the movie plot rather faithfully follows the <[email protected]> Ñ A nice Tom Foster cover fronted novel). Nor was I put off overly much by the structure of the 6 pages containing mostly club news (including a long look book Ñ with the first-person narrative of the fictional Richard back at the first Memphis con in 1972) and LoCs.