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Bcsfazine 370 Colophon BCSFAzine 370 Colophon BCSFAzine © March 2004, Volume 32, #3, Issue #370 is the club newsletter published by the B.C. Science Fiction Association, a social organization. For comments, subscriptions, suggestions, and/or submissions, Vol. 32, No. 3 $3.00 March, 2004 write to: BCSFAzine, c/o Box 15335, VMPO, Vancouver, B.C. CANADA V6B 5B1, or email [email protected]. BCSFAzine is distributed monthly at WHITE DWARF BOOKS, 3715 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver, B.C. V6R 2G5, tel. 604-228-8223; email [email protected]. Single copies $3.00 each. BCSFA’s e-mail discussion list may be joined by emailing [email protected] To post a message, email [email protected] The shortcut URL to this list is http://www.yahoogroups.com/community/BCSFA F.R.E.D., the weekly gathering of BCSFAns and all others interested in coming, usually happens every Friday at 8:00 p.m. at the Jolly Alderman Pub, 500 West 12th Avenue (entrance on Cambie Street, just south of 12 th Avenue, diagonally across from Vancouver City Hall) – BUT on hockey nights we have been meeting at the Denny’s on Davie at Thurlow, and we’re thinking of a permanent move there. BCSFA’s Web page may be viewed at http://www3.telus.net/dh2/bcsfa/ The V-Con Society Web page may be viewed at http://www3.telus.net/dh2/vconsociety/ Vcon 29’s Web page may be viewed at http://www.v-con.ca BCSFA Executive President: R. Graeme Cameron Vice President: Doug Finnerty Treasurer: Kathleen Moore-Freeman Secretary: Barb Dryer Archivist: R. Graeme Cameron Editor: Garth Spencer Keeper of FRED Book & VCon Ambassador for Life: Steve Forty BCSFA membership rates: email version: $15.00 New member: $26.00 Renewal: $25.00 New Family (2 votes): $32.00 CANVENTION 2004 UPDATE! Above prices include subscription to BCSFAzine. Make cheques payable to WCSFA (West Coast Science Fiction Association), c/o 86 Warrick Street, Contents: Coquitlam, B.C. CANADA V3K 5L4. Editorial.......................p. 1 BCSFAzine is also available by e-mail; please email the editor at LoCs.............................. 2 [email protected] if you wish to receive our newsletter this way. Advertisements................... 3 Birthdays......................... 4 Art Credits: Calendar ......................... 5 Cover - Taral Wayne; p. 1 – Garth’s photo collection; p. 4 – Michael Morse News ............................. 9 Media File .......................15 About Canfandom...............16 MARCH EVENTS Very Plain Speaking Date Event Location March 5 FRED at Denny's Davie at Thurlow, starting 7 p.m. Sometimes people ask me why I keep nattering on about a different March 6 First Saturday Feeding 7pm at "Brooklyn Tap and kind of fandom than the kind we’ve got, here and now. Well, it’s kind Frenzy Grill", 200 Columbia Street, of a dumb story ... New Westminster. Excellent I was looking for community, at the time I entered fandom. pub-style food served here. “Community” can mean a lot of different things, but to me it means Live entertainment also a possibility. being part of something, and it means something made of people. March 12 BCSFAzine deadline; Davie at Thurlow, starting 7 There was an idea still going around – which I bought into – that FRED at Denny's p.m. fandom was a community. That might even have been true, when fans March 13 Movie night 6 pm at The Graeme’s, 86 were far fewer, but fandom changed in this respect at least a decade Warrick Street, Coquitlam before I came along. Coquitlam, BC. Phone 604- Contemporary fandom is several hobby groups, receding from 526-7522 for directions. contact with each other as their market share expands. There’s no March 19 FRED at Denny's Davie at Thurlow, starting 7 reason for anime or gaming fans to invest as much emotional stake in p.m. “community” as I do. So of course my search didn’t work, I was looking BCSFA meeting/party at Garth Spencer’s, 82 March 20 7pm in the wrong places; but I took a while to get the point. East 40th Ave., Vancouver, BC. Phone 604-325-7314 And all this is bullshit; I just brood too much, and don’t know for directions. when I am in a community. March 25 Book discussion 7 pm at The Brickhouse, 730 Main Street, Vancouver. The So, that is how I ended up daydreaming about a fannish fandom I Book: Midnight Robber by never really entered, and remembering wistfully a few hot -tub parties, Nalo Hopkinson and brooding on some disastrous relationships. None of which matters March 26 BCSFAzine production See Garth and Doug at much now. FRED. Kaffeeklatsch March 27 7-8 pm onwards at Garth ** Spencer’s, 82 East 40th Ave., Vancouver. Bring a Neat Idea and start a weird Wrongos: Last issue I forgot to indicate that Lloyd Penney’s “Gathering conversation. Phone 604- of the Fellowship” conreport was also submitted to the Ottawa SF 325-7314. Statement. 2 3 Locs Advertisements Morbius’ BCSFAzinezine, February 14, 2004 DRAGONFLY MUSIC BCSFAzine is on sale at Locs – Michael Morse: “Eh?” Winifred Bambera was a character in 106 Harrison Village Mall WHITE DWARF BOOKS a late-eighties episode of Doctor Who (the actress also played female 196 Esplanade (Box 118) 3715 W. 10th Avenue Harrison Hot Springs, B.C. V0M 1K0 Vancouver, B.C. V6R 2G5 Lister from the parallel universe on Red Dwarf). Tel. 604-796-9289 tel. 604-228-8223 Advertisements: “I have to apologize … for the lack of illos … I have 10% DISCOUNT to card-carrying email [email protected] real trouble fitting the illos I have into the copy I get. Any suggestions?” WCSFA members I can draw smaller illos, or you can try turning the zine sideways (like MICHAEL’S BOOKS WRIGLEY CROSS BOOKS Opuntia, or the zine you’re reading right now) and making it two Michael Elmer, Owner 1809 N.E. 39th Avenue columns, so that one entire column could be an illo. Or we could 109 Grand Portland, OR 97212 always bite the bullet and go back to the old format. Bellingham, WA 98225 U.S.A. Convention Reports – The Gathering of the Fellowship: “ … few U.S.A. Tel. (503) 281-9449, fax 281-9706 people in attendance had ever gone to the kind of SF conventions we’re Tel. (206) 733 -6272 science fiction, fantasy, horror, familiar with. This was a new experience for them, and they really books in all fields mystery, general stock, new, used, "We pay cash for hardback & collectable books! enjoyed getting away from the computer, and meeting friends for the paperback." 10% DISCOUNT to card-carrying first time.” One’s first real con, if one’s formative cons were things like 10% DISCOUNT to card-carrying WCSFA members Creation cons, is a very pleasant surprise. WCSFA members Murray Moore, February 15, 2004 METROTOWN WRITER’S GROUP IMPERIAL HOBBIES 5451 No. 3 Road In BCSFAzine 369 Ray Seredin reports the alarming possibility that is open to new members. Richmond, B.C. V6X 2C7 Doctor Who might be shown on the CBC. IF YOU ARE: (across from Lansdowne Mall) Serious about your prose, short tel. 604-273-4427, fax 273-2916 Outside of Toronto, okay. But in Toronto, if is to be Doctor Who stories, novels, etc., role-playing games, tabletop games, broadcast, Doctor Who must be broadcast by Toronto's newest and want constructive advice ... models, television station, Toronto 1. Then this is the supportive peer comics, supplies, and much more! Toronto 1 must be the Doctor Who broadcaster so that the answer group you’ve been looking for. 10% DISCOUNT to card-carrying to the most common Dr. Who question will be "Who's on First." Meetings are held twice a month at WCSFA members (on selected items) I enjoyed the Ralph Alfonso sighting in Michael Morse's Comicon the Metrotown library, report. Ralph, a former Montrealer, in the early 1970s was a prominent on Thursdays from 7 to 9 p.m. and prolific producer of fanzines, and a member of the first Canadian For information call Ken, 604-876- 5751, email [email protected] apa, (the defunct) CANADAPA. Elizabeth Holden, [email protected], February 19, 2004 THIS SPACE FOR RENT I was looking at your (BCSFA Handbook) website at PHONE 604-325-7314 http://www.bcgreen.com/tmp/bcsfahb2.html and was delighted to see that you have a listing for the apazine APAPLEXY. This is to announce a change of address … ((That’s actually Steve Samuel’s mirror site for the Handbook, but good enough. I’m glad of the update – the handbook is dated 2002, and I need to double-check a lot of addresses.)) Richard Smith has resigned as Central Mailer and I have taken over. The address for APAPLEXY is now: APAplexy, c/o Elizabeth Holden, 350 Queen Elizabeth Dr., Apt. 104, Ottawa ON K1S 3N1. 4 5 Birthdays in March Calendar 1: Indira Witherspoon-Li is one of our less-known March members, but is not without curious and profound accomplishments: on three occasions she has saved the Mar. 5: Starsky & Hutch (remake with Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson) Western world from outbreaks of terminal psoriasis, and she has independently discovered an English word Mar. 6: The Dead Sea Scrolls, a presentation by Prof. Jodi Magness, that rhymes with orange. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A free public lecture sponsored by The Vancouver Institute, 8:15 p.m. at Lecture Hall No. 2, Woodward Instructional Resources Centre, University of British Columbia. Mar. 12-14 - Trumpeter Salute 2004, Bonsor Recreational Complex, 12: Karen Kelly, one of Allen Kelly’s Burnaby, BC.
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