Volume 29 Number 10 Issue 351 March 2017
A WORD FROM THE EDITOR Great Month. I went to SyFy Bartow and saw friends Infinity Toy and Comic Con from Stone Hill. March 4 Holiday Inn Please note that some of the Nebula short fiction 1724 N. Alafaya Trail nominees may be available online. Please check Oasfis Orlando, Florida 32826 Convention on Facebook or OasisCon on Twitter for links to the Guests: Chuck Dixon (comic book writer) stories. Roland Mann (comic book writer) Next month pictures from ICFA, and with luck a Barry Gregory (comic book writer) review. Javier Lugo (comic book artist) Dimitri Diatchenko (actor) Events $8 admission www.infinitytoyandcomicon.com Infinity Con March 3-4 Ultracon Florida Gateway College March 4 Howard Conference Center Universal Palms Hotel 149 SE College Place 4900 Powerline Road Lake City, FL 32025 Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309 Guests: Martin Pierro (Indie Publisher) $10 admission Michael Koske (actor, The Walking Dead) www.ultraconofsouthflorida.com/ 501st Legion and others. Florida Anime Experience $15 for the weekend, $10 per day March 10-12 infinityconfl.com Park Inn by Radisson Resort and Conference Center 3011 Maingate Lane Omni Expo Kissimmee, Florida March 3-5 Guests: Amanda Miller (voice actor) Florida Hotel and Convention Center Cherami Leight (voice actor) 1500 Sand Lake Road Christina Vee (voice actor) Orlando, FL 32809 Kate Higgins (voice actor) Guests: Chris Rager (voice actor) Stephanie Sheh (voice actor) Josh Martin (voice actor) $45 for 3 days at the door, $20 Fri and Sun, $25 Sat Leslie Wilkerson (voice actor) www.floridaanime.com Paul St. Peter (voice actor) Brian Muir (Film Industry Sculptor) Hero Hype Rob Sims (voice actor) March 11 Tiffany Ciper (webcomic artist) Miami Airport Convention Center And others 711 NW 72nd Ave $50 at the door for weekend Miami, FL 33126 www.omniexpo.com $10 admission www.herohype.com
OASFiS Event Horizon Vol 29 Issue 351 March 2017. Published Monthly by the Orlando Area Science Fiction Society (OASFiS). All rights reserved by original Authors and Artists. Editor: Juan Sanmiguel, 1421 Pon Pon Court, Orlando, FL 32825. Subscriptions are $12.00 per year and entitle the subscriber to membership in the Society. Attending Memberships are $25.00 per year. Extra memberships to family members are $6.00 per year when only one newsletter is sent to the household. To subscribe or join OASFiS, send a check or money order to: OASFiS, PO Box 592905, Orlando, FL 32859-2905. To submit Articles, Artwork or Letters of Comment to the Event Horizon, send them to the Editor's address above or [email protected]. For additional information, call our Voice Mail at (407) 823-8715. OASFiS is a state chartered not for profit corporation whose goal is the promotion of Science Fiction in all its forms. All opinions expressed herein are solely those of the Author(s) and in no way represent the opinions of the Society or its members as a whole. Page two March 2017
March OASFiS Calendar OASFiS People
OASFiS Business Meeting Sunday, March 12, 1:30 PM, Brick and Fire Pasta and Susan Cole 407-275-5211 Pizza Parlor (Downtown Orlando, 1621 South Orange Ave [email protected] Orlando, Florida 32806). Come join us as we discuss Arthur Dykeman 407-328-9565 Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson [email protected] Steve Grant 352 241 0670 SciFi Light [email protected] TBD Mike Pilletere [email protected] David Ratti 407-282-2468 To contact for more info: [email protected] OASFiS Business Meeting 407-823-8715 Juan Sanmiguel 407-823-8715 [email protected] OASFiS Meeting 2/12/2017 Patricia Wheeler 407-832-1428 [email protected] Officers: Juan Sanmiguel, Tom Reed, Peggy Stubblefield Any of these people can give readers information about the club and its functions. To be included in the list call Juan. Members: Ed Anthony, Arthur Dykeman, Ed Meskys, Any of these people can give readers information about the Sandra Meskys club and its functions. To be included in the list call Juan.
Club Business medical attention.
We are looking at dates for spring picnic. April has a Treasurer’s Report lot of cons. April 2 and the April 30 are open. We decided on April 2. Juan will check by email with the (Numbers are rounded off). other members. If it looks good we will reserve our traditional pavilion. Primary checking: $7300 PayPal account: $4400 Juan said we will met at Brick and Fire at least till June. Peggy and Juan discussed possible more Money in for 2017 $194 meetings in the library. Our library contact Sarah Fisk says that as long our meetings are public, we can get Hotel has deposit. the room for free. We need to get GOH of tickets and per diem. Gods and Monsters is opening in its new location on February 25. Juan will be there to hand out Convention newsletters and flyers. Juan has asked David Plesic to do Dealers room SyFy Bartow and Time Lord Fest will be going on layout. February 18 & February 19 respectively. Juan sent out invites to guests. Needs to contact two Swampcon was smaller but interesting. There were more. some talks on writing and cosplay. We need to do a new email blast. The Last Starfighter will be at the Enzian on last Sunday February 26. Juan is asking someone to run the Chili Cook off.
ICFA is next month and the GOHs are N.K Jemisin The next Con Com meeting is Feb 26. and Steven Erikson. Peggy recommended ice cream for the end of the con. Dave Ratti is feeling better, though he needs to further (Continued on page 7) Page three March 2017
The 2016 Nebula Awards nominees ‘‘Things With Beards’’, Sam J. Miller (Clarkesworld 6/16) (source Locus & SFWA website) ‘‘This Is Not a Wardrobe Door’’, A. Merc Rustad (Fireside Magazine 1/16) The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America announced ‘‘A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers’’, the nominees for the 2016 Nebula Awards (presented 2017), the Alyssa Wong (Tor.com 3/2/16) nominees for the Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation, and the nominees for the Andre Norton Award for ‘‘Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy Book. The winners Station│Hours Since the Last Patient Death: 0’’, Caroline will be announced at SFWA’s 51th Annual Nebula Awards M. Yoachim (Lightspeed 3/16) Weekend, to be held on May 18– 21, 2017 at the Pittsbirgh Marriott City Center in Pittsburgh, PA. Bradbury
Novel Arrival Doctor Strange All the Birds in the Sky, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor; Titan) Kubo and the Two Strings Borderline, Mishell Baker (Saga) Rogue One: A Star Wars Story The Obelisk Gate, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK) Westworld: ‘‘The Bicameral Mind’’ Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris US; Solaris UK) Zootopia Everfair, Nisi Shawl (Tor) Novella Norton The Girl Who Drank the Moon, Kelly Barnhill Runtime, S.B. Divya (Tor.com Publishing) (Algonquin) The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe, Kij Johnson (Tor.com The Star-Touched Queen, Roshani Chokshi (St. Publishing) Martin’s) The Ballad of Black Tom, Victor LaValle (Tor.com The Lie Tree, Frances Hardinge (Macmillan UK; Publishing) Abrams) Every Heart a Doorway, Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Arabella of Mars, David D. Levine (Tor) Publishing) Railhead, Philip Reeve (Oxford University Press; Switch) ‘‘The Liar’’, John P. Murphy (F&SF 3-4/16) Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies, Lindsay Ribar (Dawson) A Taste of Honey, Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com The Evil Wizard Smallbone, Delia Sherman Publishing) (Candlewick)
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‘‘The Long Fall Up’’, William Ledbetter (F&SF 5-6/16) ‘‘Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea’’, Sarah Pinsker (Lightspeed 2/16) ‘‘Blood Grains Speak Through Memories’’, Jason Sanford (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 3/17/16) “The Orangery“, Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 12/8/16) The Jewel and Her Lapidary, Fran Wilde (Tor.com Publishing) ‘‘You’ll Surely Drown Here If You Stay’’, Alyssa Wong (Uncanny 5-6/16)
Short Story ‘‘Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies’’, Brooke Bolander (Uncanny 11-12/16) ‘‘Seasons of Glass and Iron’’, Amal El-Mohtar (The Starlit Wood) ‘‘Sabbath Wine’’, Barbara Krasnoff (Clockwork Phoenix 5) Page four March 2017
2017 Stoker Award Nominees Borderlands 6, Oliva F. Monteleone & Thomas F. (source Locus) Monteleone, eds. (Samhain) Fright Mare – Women Write Horror, Billie Sue Mosiman, Superior Achievement in a Novel ed. (self-published) Hard Light, Elizabeth Hand (Minotaur) Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories, Doug Murano & D. Mongrels, Stephen Graham Jones (William Morrow) Alexander Ward, eds. (Crystal Lake) The Fisherman, John Langan (Word Horde) Stranded, Bracken MacLeod (Tor) Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, Paul Tremblay (William Morrow) Haunted, Leo Braudy (Yale University Press) Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, Ruth Franklin Superior Achievement in a First Novel (Liveright) The Apothecary’s Curse, Barbara Barnett (Pyr) Guillermo del Toro’s “The Devil’s Backbone” and “Pan’s Hollow House, Greg Chapman (Omnium Gatherum) Labyrinth”, Danel P. Olson (Centipede) Haven, Tom Deady (Cemetery Dance) In the Mountains of Madness, W. Scott Poole (Soft Skull) Mayan Blue, Michelle Garza & Melissa Lason (Sinister Something in the Blood, David J. Skal (Liveright) Grin) The Gothic Worlds of Peter Straub, John Tibbetts The Eighth, Stephanie M. Wytovich (Dark Regions) (McFarland)
Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection Snowed, Maria Alexander (Raw Dog Screaming) Sacrificial Nights, Bruce Boston & Alessandro Manzetti Last Days of Ston alAcademy, Jennifer Brozek (Ragnarok) (Kipple Officina Libraria) Holding Smoke, Elle Cosimano (Disney-Hyperion) Corona Obscura, Michael R. Collings (self-published) When They Fade, Jeyn Roberts (Knopf) Field Guide to the End of the World, Jeannine Hall Gailey The Telling, Alexandra Sirowy (Simon & Schuster) (Moon City) Small Spirits, Marge Simon (self-published) Superior Achievement in Long Fiction Brothel, Stephanie M. Wytovich (Raw Dog Screaming) The Sadist’s Bible, Nicole Cushing (01Publishing) “That Perilous Stuff”, Scott Edelman (Chiral Mad 3) Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel The Ballad of Black Tom, Victor LaValle (Tor.com Blood Feud, Cullen Bunn (Oni) Publishing) Kolchak the Night Stalker: The Forgotten Lore of Edgar “The Jupiter Drop”, Josh Malerman (You, Human) Allan Poe, James Chambers (Moonstone) The Winter Box, Tim Waggoner (Darkfuse) No Mercy: Volume 2, Alex de Campi (Image) Outcast: Volume 3: This Little Light, Robert Kirkman Superior Achievement in Short Fiction (Image) “Time is a Face on the Water”, Michael Bailey (Borderlands The Steam Man, Mark Alan Miller & Joe R. Lansdale 6) (Dark Horse) “A Rift in Reflection”, Hal Bodner (Chiral Mad 3) Providence: Act 1, Alan Moore (Avatar) “The Bad Hour”, Christopher Golden (What the #@&% Is That?) Superior Achievement in a Screenplay “Arbeit Macht Frei”, Lisa Mannetti (Gutted: Beautiful Penny Dreadful: “A Blade of Grass” Horror Stories) Stranger Things: “The Upside Down” “The Crawl Space”, Joyce Carol Oates (Ellery Queen 9- Stranger Things: “The Vanishing of Will Byers” 10/16) 10 Cloverfield Lane The Witch Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection Swift to Chase, Laird Barron (JournalStone) Active and lifetime HWA members are eligible to vote for A Long December, Richard Chizmar (Subterranean) winners. The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror, Joyce Carol Oates (Mysterious) Winners will be honored April 29, 2017 at a gala held aboard Lethal Birds, Gene O’Neill (Omnium Gatherum) the Queen Mary in Long Beach CA during StokerCon. For more American Nocturne, Hank Schwaeble (Cohesion) information, see the HWA website.. Superior Achievement in an Anthology Chiral Mad 3, Michael Bailey, ed. (Written Backwards) The Beauty of Death, Alessandro Manzetti, ed. (Independent Legions) Page five March 2017 SyFy Bartow
Clockwise Starting on the upper left: Black Canary from DC Comics, Mrs. Emma Peel, John Steed, and Batman 66, Steampunk soldier, Starfleet officer from Star Trek, Gambit from the X-Men, The Time Traveller and his machine from the 1960’s film The Time Machine, a group of Power Rangers, The Eleventh Doctor, Rose Tyler, and Amy Pond. Page six March 2017
(Continued from page 1) Letters of Comment Melbourne Toy and Comic Con March 19 1706-24 Eva Rd. Melbourne Auditorium Etobicoke, ON 625 E. Hibiscus Blvd CANADA M9C 2B2 Melbourne, FL 32901 Guest: Roland Mann (comic book writer) February 8, 2017 Barry Gregory (comic book writer) $10 Admission Dear OASFiSians: www.melbournetoyandcomiccon.com Many thanks for issues 350 and 351 of the Event Horizon; time ICFA 38 (professional conference) to comment on all, and get myself caught up! March 22-26 Orlando Airport Marriott, 350…Juan, you are getting so busy! Editing this newsletter, Orlando, Florida being the president of the club, and chairing the annual Guest of Honor: Steven Erickson convention next year. Don’t burn yourself out! It’s so easy to do. Guest of Honor: N.K. Jemisin Guest Scholar: Edward James That’s an impressive list of conventions coming up in Florida. Special Guest Emeritus : Brain Aldiss We don’t have as many up here, but some of us wonder aloud if www.fantastic-arts.org/ we have too many cons in Ontario. I’d wonder if some conrunners and con attendees in Florida think the same thing. Collective Con March 24-26 My letter…cons may be reacting to inflation, but where once the Morocco Shrine Auditorium money for going to cons came out of your pocket, now we have 3800 St. Johns Bluff Road to save for them. Just this past weekend, we vended at a Jacksonville, Florida convention in the town of Guelph, just to the northwest of Guest: Millie Bobby Brown (Elle, Stranger Things) Toronto, and sales were very poor. Makes me wonder if for us, Noah Schapp (Will, Stranger Things) cons are not the way to go, but craft shows are. We have costume Margot Kidder (Lois Lane, Superman I-IV) jewelry that the average person has never seen, but the average Johnny Yong Bosch (voce actor) con-goer may have seen too much of. I hope there will be another Graham McTavish (actor) Worldcon for us to go to, but where we are, and given how Jessica Lucas (actor) Worldcon cities certainly are now around the world, I doubt it Steve Cardenas (actor) will happen. Eric Vale (voice actor) Kari Wahlgren (voice actor) 351…please give Pat Sims a hug for us. It’s been a long time Andy Miller (actor) since we’ve seen her. For me, something strange has happened… Steve Dash (actor) Peter Capaldi, the current Doctor Who, who said as a child, he Bob Layton (comic book writer) always wanted to be the Doctor, has announced he will be John Beatty (comic book artist) leaving the show. Can anyone explain to me why? He made a Seth Mann (comic book artist) dream come true, why would he want to leave? Perhaps dreams Jeremy Clark (comic book artist) are better dreamt then realized? Mitsuhiro Arita (game artist) and others It seems three years is right now the average for an actor playing $45 3 Day Pass the Doctor. I get the impression in Britain, as an actor you move www.collectivecon.com on after a certain point rather stay with something for a long time. I could be wrong about this. Crucible 6 March 31-April 2 I know that CostumeCon has been in Florida at least several Radisson Hotel and Conference Center Orlando times, but this year, it’s our turn, again! CostumeCon 35 comes 3011 Maingate Lane up April 20-24 in nearby Mississauga, Ontario. Anyone planning Kissimmee, FL 34747 to come up and join us? Penney’s Steampunk General Store will Gaming Con be in the dealers’ room. $50 for the weekend (basic) crucibleorlando.com Time to go, get this going, and get on to the long list of things to do. I like making these long lists, but I’ve got to find someone to do the things on the list while I relax… Take care, and see you next issue.
Yours, Lloyd Penney.
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Academy Awards (source Wikipedia entry) Speculative Fiction winners
Best Animated Feature Film Zootopia –Byron Howard, Rich Moore, and Clark Spencer
Best Animated Short Piper—Alan Barillaro, and Marc Sondheimer
Best Sound Editing Arrival—Sylvain Bellemare
Best Makeup and Hairstyling Suicide Squad—Alessandro Bertolazzi, Giorgio Gregorini, and Christopher Nelson
Best Costume Design Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them - Colleen Atwood
Best Visual Effects The Jungle Book – Robert Legato, Adam Valdez, Andrew R. Jones, and Dan Lemmon
Juan had some reservations on that. Tom saw Legion based on the X-Men line comics. Its about a mutant who is in a mental hospital. Tom did Panels ideas were discussed. not connect with the series. Juan like some of the shows innovative story telling. Arthur discussed Video Room Ideas. He is planning to show Arrival and new version of Metropolis. Juan saw the following anime features in a movie theater: Princess Mononoke, One Piece: Gold, and Culture Consumed Ghost in the Shell.
Tom discussed Westworld. Book Discussion
Tom recently saw Luke Cage. He thought it was a Skinwalker by Faith Hunter very good rendition of the character. Peggy introduced the book. Jane Yellowrock is a skin walker, a shape shifter from Native American legends. Arthur, Juan, and Ed enjoyed Rogue One. Arthur liked She uses her abilities to hunt rogue vampires for Alec Tudyk’s voice performance of K-2SO. bounties. She keeps her skinwalking abilities secret. She sets up shop in New Orleans in a world were Arthur caught up on the CW’s DC shows. He enjoyed vampires are known to exist. It is the first of a series. the more single episode stories rather those episodes that are part of a bigger story arc. Arthur also liked the Ed Mesyks discussed Tanya Huff vampire series and Supergirl episode directed by film director Kevin its similarities with the Jane Yellowrock series. Smith. Juan liked the world, characters, and action. Arthur saw Powerless on NBC. It is set the DC Universe and it is lighter in tone. It is about surviving Next month Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo in a super hero world. Hopkinson, one of this year’s Worldcon Guest of Honor. Arthur wants to see DC’s direct to DVD film Justice League Dark. Doctor Strange will be released on Meeting adjourned at 3PM. DVD.
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