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SF/SF #150! 1!March 2014 Science Fiction / San Francisco Science Fiction/San Francisco Issue 150 March 2014 Letters of Comment Forbidden Planet Art and Poetry Convolution Star Trek Gafia Fur ... and more! SF/SF #150! 1!March 2014 Science Fiction / San Francisco Issue 150 Editor-in-Chief: Jean Martin February 26, 2014 Managing Editor: Christopher Erickson email: [email protected] Compositor: Tom Becker Contents Editorial ......................................................................................Christopher Erickson.............. ........................................................................................ 3 Letters of Comment ...................................................................Jean Martin............................. ........................................................................................ 6 Return to the Forbidden Planet Review................................... Jack Avery.............................. Photos by Jean Martin.................................................. 12 A Year Without Cons .................................................................Thad Gann ..............................Photos by Thad Gann ...................................................16 Fursuiters vs. A Convention: FurCon 2014 .............................Christopher Erickson.............. Photos by Christopher Erickson................................... 19 Rediscovering Creation’s Star Trek Conventions ...................Jean Martin............................. Photos by Jean Martin.................................................. 27 Convolution 2013........................................................................ Jean Martin............................. Photos by Jean Martin.................................................. 34 Art and Poetry by Christopher Villa ........................................Christopher Villa ....................Art by Christopher Villa ...............................................40 BASFA Meeting 1228 .................................................................BASFA ......................................................................................................................... 45 Bay Area Fannish Calendar ......................................................Christopher Erickson.............. ...................................................................................... 47 Art Credits Cover Beach story by Lucy Huntzinger Science Fiction/San Francisco is the monthly news zine for the San Francisco Bay Area. All issues can be found at www.efanzines.com. Except as noted, all articles and photos are copyright 2014 by the original creators. Used with permission. SF/SF #150! 2!March 2014 Editorial By Christopher Erickson Managing Editor There hasn’t been a whole lot of things happening since I what people should aspire to. I read the books on their own last wrote an editorial. I did the season of Dickens Fair, went merits, but I believe that all of the criticisms with the book are to the PEERS 12th Night Ball in their new location at the Elks valid. I will not disparage the people who like the books, since Lodge in Alameda, attended FurCon and participated in the it is important to find things that people are interested in to get parade and traveled down to Los Angeles for Gallifrey One. them to read and think critically. (My sister is dyslexic and The big thing I have done is to read the “Twilight” saga of only started to read outside of academic need through Harry books. I undertook this as a personal experiment in Potter.) I will conclude that Stephanie Meyer is a horrible suppressing expectations and as an analysis of the criticisms of writer with characters that are insufferable, plodding stories the book that many in the fandom community have with it. I and repetitive word choices. wanted be able to argue the points for or against the criticisms I looked forward to the Beatles tribute to the 50th after actually have read the books. The upshot of this was that Anniversary of their appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show.” I found that the books aren’t well written, the characters feel The tribute was amazing with plenty of wonderful underdeveloped and the plots are lengthy to the point of performances (my favorites were Paul McCartney and Ringo tedium while failing to balance a love story and supernatural Starr as well as Stevie Wonder’s cover of “We Can Work It action. I wrote a lengthy Facebook posting on my feelings as Out,” which was a version he previously recorded). I would to why the novels are horrible. The summary is that the pacing have liked to see more of the original footage used or just a is terrible, the repetitive descriptions and use of words is whole period where we could see their musical set. I will just grating on the ears, the characters choices are weak, the have to look for it on YouTube. It was a wonderful show and it sudden plot twists feel forced and the lessons that can be seemed like all of the people had a great time that were in the drawn from how the characters treat each other are destructive. Ed Sullivan Theater. Both Edward Cullen and Jacob Black are thoroughly I have been watching “Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD” and disrespectful to Bella Swan, her choice of becoming a vampire have been impressed by the change in scriptwriting. There to be with Edward promotes a message of having to change finally has been more focus on the team members with oneself to be accepted by people is misguided, and Bella’s individual stories for a couple of them and a nice subplot self-loathing attitude does little to change the perception of featuring one of the members as well as a main villain to fight SF/SF #150! 3!March 2014 against. Various plot elements have been consolidated into a One of the developments announced at Gallifrey One was more cohesive story as well. There are plans to include events the crowdfunding for an Inspector Spacetime movie. I was from the upcoming “Captain America: The Winter Solider” excited by this prospect since Sylvester McCoy (The Doctor) movie as well as a guest appearance by the Asgardian warrior and Robert Picardo (The Doctor from “Star Trek: Voyager”) Sif from the “Thor” movies. will be featured in the movie as well as Chase Masterson I have also caught up with “Once Upon A Time in (Dabo girl Lita on “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine”). The Wonderland.” The show has been a bit slow to develop and the decision was made to move forward since a movie is easier to plot elements seem to be created specifically for the show get financial backing than a webseries. There is also an since there is only so much from the two stories and any other Inspector Spacetime comic book series in the works at IDW works by Lewis Carroll that could be put into a long-form Publishing since they lost their license to “Doctor Who.” The storytelling format. The show has developed by providing a fundraiser for the movie is at www.indiegogo.com/projects/ back-story for Jafar, The Red Queen/Anastasia, The Knave of the-inspector-chronicles-untitled-motion-picture-about-a- Hearts/Will Scarlett and Alice. The different threads of the space-traveler. story have come together and they have managed to resolve Jean and I also spent our Christmas vacation in Cambria at the original character motivation (Alice to rescue her true love, a nice hotel right on the beach and made a visit to Hearst the genie) and set up another interesting plotline. Castle in San Simeon. I have wanted to see this place for a I have mostly been watching WWF “Attitude Era” long time as it was the inspiration for Xanadu in “Citizen championship matches of Bret “The Hitman” Hart and “Stone Kane” and the place did not disappoint. We also spent time at Cold” Steve Austin and the Undertaker anthology. It seems Mission San Miguel on the way back to the Bay Area (and like there has been more emphasis on long-form story telling past two other missions on the way back as well). We also with these old matches as they feel more natural than the took in the Rios-Caledonia Adobe directly across from the recent storylines I have been hearing about in the WWE now mission. It was neat seeing these structures and how they have adays. survived and been preserved. I attended Gallifrey One in February and got to make new We have also reached our 150th issue here at Science friends and reconnect with old ones. I listened to an Eight Fiction/San Francisco. It has been a treat being able to write Doctor audio adventure, “The Vengeance of Morbius” and about my experiences at conventions, which gives me special some “Doctor Who” music from a 25th Anniversary disc that appreciation for putting on an event, learning about the behind we picked up a while back as well as some mix compact discs the scenes operations that go into running a successful that I made. Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky” was played a couple of function, promoting it and being able to share something you times on the way down. love with other people. I also get to support something that my wife has devoted her time and effort to by providing material SF/SF #150! 4!March 2014 and managing the calendar. It has also enabled me to attend communicate with others as well as learn about some of the events that I would never have thought of attending, such as problems with the cosplay community (nerd privilege and the WorldCon when it was in Reno and Maker Faire. fake geek girl issue) and has made me more aware of how I It has also let me connect with other people who share my treat people (both men and women) and how they would like interests in photography, costuming, cosplay
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