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NASFA 'Shuttle' Jun 2006 The SHUTTLE June 2006 The Next NASFA Meeting will be 17 June 2006 at the Regular Time and Location ATMM at Mike KennedyÕs House Con Stellation Concom Meeting 7:30P Thursday 15 June 2006 at Mike KennedyÕs House TAFF Winner Announced { Oyez, Oyez { The winner of the 2006 Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund race was The next Con Stellation concom meeting is 7:30P announced 27 May 2006 at a gathering in LondonÕs Horseshoe Thursday 15 May (two days before the club meeting). Sam is Inn. Bridget ÒBugÓ Bradshaw will travel from across the pond out of town so the meeting will be at Mike KennedyÕs house Ñ to the US to attend Worldcon (L.A.con IV) in August, with 7907 Charlotte Drive SW in Huntsville. additional visits to other US fannish groups and events Ñ The next NASFA meeting will be Saturday 17 June starting with Readercon the first weekend of July in Boston. 2006 at the regular time and location. Published plans include a stop at this yearÕs DeepSouthCon, so The June program is to be a show-and-tell from DougÕs many Shuttle readers may be able to meet ÒBugÓ at that time. recent trip to Alaska. (I suppose we might cut Doug a tiny bit TAFF was established in 1953 to raise funds and select of slack since he and Mary are just back from their honeymoon. winners to travel between Europe and North America on But IÕll see what I can round up to show on video as a backup.) an annual basis. The direction of travel alternates each The June after-the-meeting meeting will be at Mike year. Funds are raised by various mean, including a small KennedyÕs house. fee to cast a ballot, auctions at various conventions, This issue of the Shuttle was thrown together a bit more donations, etc. Candidates must be sponsored by five nomina- hastily than usual, leaving no time to include the next install- tors, three from their side of the Atlantic and two from the ment of PieEyedDragonÕs current adventure. It will resume in destination side. Winners act as administrator for the two a future issue. following awards, so there are normally two administrators at any given time Ñ one from each side of the travel direction. Administrators for the 2006 race were James Bacon (Europe) and Suzanne ÒSuzleÓ Tompkins (North America). Inside this issueÉ NASFA Calendar...........................................................2 Awards News Roundup ..................................................3 Minutes of the May Meeting ..........................................2 Letters of Comment ........................................................5 Deadline for the July 2006 issue of The NASFA Shuttle is Friday, 30 June 2006. 1 22Ð24 Anime Weekend Atlanta 12 Ñ Atlanta GA. NASFA Calendar 22Ð24 FenCon III Ñ Dallas TX. 23 Rosh Hashanah. JUNE 26 BD: Jenna Victoria Stone. 01 BD: Glenn Valentine. OoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoO 02Ð04 PersaCon 2006 Ñ Madison AL. 02Ð04 ConCarolinas 2006 Ñ Charlotte NC. The North Alabama Science Fiction Association meets on 02 BD: Lloyd Penney. the third Saturday of each month. (Unless there is a large 07Ð11 Mythic Journeys 2006 Ñ Atlanta GA. nearby convention being held that weekend Ñ in which 14 Flag Day. case we often move the meeting to the second or fourth 15 Con Stellation ConCom Meeting, 7:30P at Mike weekend.) The regular meeting location is the upstairs KennedyÕs house. meeting room at BookMark on South Memorial Parkway. The 16Ð18 Sci-Fi Summer Con 2006 Ñ Atlanta GA. Executive Committee meeting (if scheduled) is at 5P. The 17* NASFA Meeting Ñ 6P Business, 7P Program, at business meeting is at 6P. The program is at 7P. Anyone is BookMark. Program: Alaska Show and Tell. ATMM: welcome to attend any of the meetings. There is usually an Mike KennedyÕs house. after-the-meeting meeting with directions available at the 18 FathersÕ Day. program. 21 First Day of Summer. 22Ð24 Science Fiction Research Association 2006 Confer- ence Ñ White Plains NY. 23Ð25 HyperiCon 2 Ñ Nashville TN. May Minutes by Steve Sloan, Secretary JULY 01 Canada Day. The May meeting of the North Alabama Science Fiction 02 BD: Deb Stone. Association was called to order on Saturday, May 20, 2006 in 04 Independence Day. the BookMark upstairs meeting room at 6:21:28P by President 13 Con Stellation ConCom Meeting (Tentative). Mary Ortwerth. The crickets had to be shaken awake. 15* NASFA Meeting Ñ 6P Business, 7P Program, at OLD BUSINESS BookMark. Program: TBD. ATMM: TBD. None. 21Ð23 Trinoc*coN VII/DeepSouthCon 44 Ñ Raleigh NC. NEW BUSINESS 23 ParentsÕ Day. A couple of member dues were taken care of. 24 BD: Jay Johns. As far as anyone at the meeting knew, the Rocket City 28Ð30 LibertyCon 19 Ñ Chattanooga TN. FurMeet had not contacted NASFA to rent our art show 28Ð30 Conestoga 10 Ñ Tulsa OK. equipment. It is likely that they dealt directly with Howard. 29 BD: Mark Paulk. The new Rave movie theater was discussed, along with new movies. Poseidon and Mission Impossible 3 got bad AUGUST reviews among the club members. 04Ð06 DarkCon Ñ Nashville TN. CONVENTION BUSINESS 08 BD: Jim Woosley. We have a T-shirt company, art for the flyer, a sample 11Ð13 ConGlomeration 2006 Ñ Louisville TN. flyer, and guests. 11Ð13 Armadillocon 28 Ñ Austin TX. We need someone to volunteer to run gaming. 12 BD: Sue Thorn. The swan in the flyer looks a little too much like a duck for 14 BD: Edward Kenny. some peopleÕs taste. Apparently, different kinds of swans have 17 Con Stellation ConCom Meeting (Tentative). different beaks, including some that have duck-like beaks. 19 BD: Khen Moore. There was definite agreement that Theresa Mather does drag- 19 National Aviation Day. ons well, though. 19* NASFA Meeting Ñ 6P Business, 7P Program, at ANNOUNCEMENTS BookMark. Program: TBD. ATMM: TBD. Rocket City FurMeet will be held next weekend. 21 BD: Deborah Denton. Doug and MaryÕs wedding will be held next weekend. 23Ð27 L.A.con IV (64th Worldcon) Ñ Los Angeles CA. The two events will be held in entirely separate Radissons. There is another Star Trek memorabilia auction coming SEPTEMBER up. This one will be run by ChristieÕs. They are planning 1000 01Ð03 Mephit Furmeet 2006 Ñ Memphis TN. lots, at an estimated average cost of a few hundred dollars per 01Ð04 Dragon*Con 2006 Ñ Atlanta GA. lot. 03 BD: David K. Robinson. SamÕs fetish was almost revealedÉ The meeting ad- 04 Labor Day. journed at 6:31:02P, just in time. 08Ð10 Outside Con 19 Ñ Burns TN. For the program, we had a visit by local SF author Dr. 09 BD: Mike Cothran. Travis Taylor. He talked about his current and upcoming 10 Grandparents Day. projects. We heard about alien invasion, death, and destruc- 11 BD: Ray Pietruszka. tion, and that was just the nonfiction! 12 BD: Pat Butler. The After-the-Meeting Meeting was held at Sam SmithÕs 16* NASFA Meeting Ñ 6P Business, 7P Program, at apartment. He graciously agreed to it on short notice, after BookMark. Program: TBD. ATMM: TBD. several people, including the Secretary, misread the Shuttle. 17 Citizenship Day. The Shuttle only said that the ConCom meeting would be there, 22 Atumnal Equinox (23rd UTC). but said nothing about the ATMM. 2 Whiteside, anthology) Awards News Roundup Neo-opsis Science Fiction Magazine, Karl Johanson, ed. (<www.neo-opsis.ca>, sf magazine) HUGO NOMINEE META-REVIEWS On Spec, Diane Walton, managing ed. (The Copper Pig Nicholas Whyte has assembled a meta-review site for the Writers Society, <www.onspec.ca>, sf magazine) Hugo nominees in the fiction categories. Check out Six Impossible Things, Nalo Hopkinson (host and curator); <explorers.whyte.com/sf/Hugo2006.htm> for links to a pretty Joe Mahoney (series coordinating producer) (CBC Radio extensive list of reviews of the 20 items. He also lists his own One, 16Ð27 May 2005, radio anthology) preferences and gives a mini-review of each item himself. Tesseracts Nine: New Canadian Speculative Fiction, Nalo Recommended. Hopkinson and Geoff Ryman, eds. (Edge Publishing, July AURORA NOMS 2005) The final ballot for the 2006 Aurora Awards has been Meilleur ouvrage en fran•ais (autre) announced. The deadline for mail-in votes is 26 June 2006. Best Work in French (Other) Awards will be presented at Toronto Trek 20 <www.tcon.ca/ LÕAnnŽe de la Science-Fiction et du Fantastique QuŽbŽcois tt20>, to be held 7Ð9 July 2006 in Toronto. The nominees are: 2000, dir. Claude Janelle (Alire) Best Long-Form Work in English Jean Pettigrew, critiques (Solaris 153Ð156) Meilleur livre en anglais Solaris, rŽd. Jo‘l Champetier <www.revue-solaris.com> Migration (Species Imperative 2), Julie E. Czerneda (DAW ÇLes enfants de Jules Verne au Canada: la gŽnŽration Books, May 2005) ŽtouffŽeÈ, Jean-Louis Trudel (Solaris 156) Cagebird, Karin Lowachee (Warner Aspect, April 2005) Artistic Achievement Mindscan, Robert J. Sawyer (Tor, April 2005) Accomplissement artistique Silences of Home, Caitlin Sweet (Penguin, February 2005) Elaine Chen <www.elainechen.com> (Wasps at the Speed of Lone Wolf, Edo van Belkom (Tundra Books, October 2005) Sound, Mockingbird) Spin, Robert Charles Wilson (Tor, April 2005) Lar deSouza <www.lartist.com> Meilleur livre en fran•ais Stephanie Ann Johanson <www.neo-opsis.ca/art> (Cover Best Long-Form Work in French for Neo-opsis 6, illustrations Neo-opsis 5, 6, and 7) AlŽgracia et le Serpent dÕArgent, Dominic Bellavance (Les Jean-Pierre Normand <www.jeanpierrenormand.com> (Asi- Six Brumes) movÕs April/May 2005, Analog September 2005, Asi- AurŽlie et lÕ”le de Zachary, VŽronique Drouin (Les Žditions de movÕs December 2005, Solaris 154) la courte Žchelle) Martin Springett <www.martinspringett.com> Le Dragon de lÕAlliance, Mich•le Laframboise (MŽdiaspaul) Ronn Sutton <www.ronnsutton.com> (Elvira, Mistress Of Les Archipels du temps (La Suite du temps 2), Daniel Sernine The Dark; Ò5 Alarm CharlieÓ in Even More Fund Comics) (Alire) Fan Achievement (Publication) Reine de MŽmoire 1.
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