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Volume 21, Issue 3 June / July 2011 FREE ConNotationsThe Bi-Monthly Science Fiction, Fantasy & Convention Newszine of the Central Arizona Speculative Fiction Society A Conversation with Featured Inside Regular Features Jonathanby Chris ThomasPaige Special Features Interview with SF Tube Talk A Conversation with Jonathan Thomas All the latest news about Jonathan Thomas Author of Tempting Scienc Fiction TV shows by Chris Paige Providence and by Lee Whiteside Other Stories Farewell Jonathan Thomas’s 24 Frames It’s the very nearly 50th story “Tempting All the lastest genre movie news Anniversary of Providence” is by Jeffrey Lu Rocky the Flying Squirrel and included in Black Bullwinkle J. Moose - Part 13 Wings: New Tales of Lovecraftian Pro Notes By Shane Shellenbarger Horror, edited News about by S.T. Joshi genre authors and fans An Evening with and nominated Stephen Hawking for the 2010 by Jeffrey Lu Shirley Jackson ConClusion Edited Anthology News and Reviews An Amercan on the Award. Jonathan of SF/F conventions and Joshi were Iberian Peninsula among the dozens by Jeffrey Lu of professional Costume Closet Lovecraftians at Articles Covering Topics of Plus MythosCon last interest in the constuming field January in Phoenix. © Jonathan Thomas Between panels FYI and mass book Screening Room Reviews of current theatrical releases News and tidbits of interest to fans signings, we managed to squeeze by Milt Gross, A Is for Alien by in this interview. Jonathan is also Caitlín R. Kiernan, Stealing God’s In Our Book CASFS Business Report a musician who likes to hit things, Thunder by Philip Dray, Mariah Reviews of New SF/F Books percussive instruments by choice, of the Spirits by Sherry Austin, Club Listings but keyboards will do. The Big Town by Ring Lardner, Convention List & The Weird Tale by S.T. 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