Birthdays Susan Cole
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
Volume 29 Number 4 Issue 346 September 2016 A WORD FROM THE EDITOR Kimber Groman (graphic artist) and others August was Worldcon in Kansas City. MidAmericon 2 $25 for 3 days pre con, $30 at the door had a lot going on. There were two Hugo Ceremonies. There spacecoastcomiccon.com were a lot of exhibits and of course 5,000 items on the program. I did a lot of work pre-con and got to see aKansas City at the Animate! Florida same time. The con was great and I need to start working on my September 16-19 report. Port St Lucie Civic Center This month I may checkout some local events. I may try 9221 SE Civiv Center Place to squeeze in a review. Port St Lucie FL As always I am willing to take submissions. Guests: Tony Oliver (Rick Hunter, Robotech) See you next month. Julie Dolan (Star Wars: Rebels) Erica Mendez (Ryoka Matoi, Kill La Kill) Events and many more $55 for 3 days pre con Comic Book Connection animateflorida.com/ September 3-4 Holiday Inn Treasure Comic Con 2300 SR 16 September 16-19 ST Augustine, FL 32084 Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention Center $5 at the door 1950 Eisenhower Blvd, thecomicbookconnection.com Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316 Guests: Space Coast Comic Con Billy West (Phil Fry, Futurama) September 9-11 Kristin Bauer (Maleficient, Once Upon a Space Coast Convention Center Time) 301 Tucker Ln Beverly Elliot(Granny, Once Upon a Time) Cocoa, FL 32926 and many more Guests: Terance Baker (comic artist) $35 for 3 days pre con, $40 at the door Jake Estrada (comic artist) www.treasurecoastcomiccon.com Fusion Con II September 17 Birthdays New Port Richey Recreation & Aquatic Center 6630 Van Buren St Susan Cole - Sept. 3 New Port Richey, Florida 34653 Guest: Chuck Dixon (comic writer) Austin Janowsky (comic inker) Sergio Cariello (comic artist) (Continued on page 2) OASFiS Event Horizon Vol 29 Issue 346, September 2016. 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 $7.00 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 September 2016 September OASFiS Calendar OASFiS People Susan Cole 407-275-5211 OASFiS Business Meeting [email protected] Sunday, September 11, 1:30 PM, , Brick and Fire Arthur Dykeman 407-328-9565 Pasta and Pizza Parlor (Downtown Orlando, 1621 South [email protected] Orange Ave Orlando, Florida 32806 407-426-8922). Come Steve Grant 352 241 0670 and join us as we discuss Written in Red by Anne Bishop. [email protected] Mike Pilletere [email protected] SciFi Light David Ratti 407-282-2468 TBA. Check website and Facebook page. [email protected] Juan Sanmiguel 407-823-8715 [email protected] To contact for more info: Patricia Wheeler [email protected] OASFiS Business Meeting 407-823-8715 Any of these people can give readers information about the $10 at the door club and its functions. To be included in the list call Juan. www.fusioncon.net Creative Con September 17-18 Daytona Beach, FL 32118 Marina Civic Center $45 before Sep 1, $55 after Sep 1 8 Harrison Ave krumscomics.wixsite.com/klingonfeast Panama City, FL 32401 Guest: Michael Bell (Duke, GI Joe) Anime Festival Orlando 2016 Ann Van Hooft (actress) Dave Dorman (comic artist) Anime Festival Orlando (AFO) 2016 took place on July Emily Bauer (voice actress) 29-31, 2016, at the Wyndham Orlando Resort International Justin Kuculain (actor) Drive. The Guests of Honor were Gregg Berger, Richard Michael Papajohn (actor) Branson, Aaron Dismuke, Todd Haberkon, Ruben Langdon, $25pre-reg for the weekend, $30 at the door Mark Musashi, Vic Mignogna, Stephanie Sheh, Michael www.pccreativecon.com Sinterniklass, John Swasey, and Veronica Taylor. I did a discussion on Japanese Science Fiction and Huricon Fantasy. This panel covered Japanese books translated into September 22-25 English. The presentation began with the history of Japanese International Palms Resort and Convention Center Science Fiction/Fantasy literature. The books I discussed were as 6515 International Drive follows: Orlando, FL 32819 Virus by Sakyo Komatsu – In the late 1960s, a $15 pre-reg for members and 25 for non-members virus discovered in space and rogue scientists Gaming weaponize the virus. An accident releases the www.hmgs-south.com/ virus and the results are catastrophic. A community of scientists in the Antarctica Palm Con weather the situation and try to rebuild September 24-25 civilization. Palm Beach County Convention Center Legend of the Galactic Heroes by Yoshi Tanaka- 650 Okeechobee Boulevard This is a series of ten novels. The Galactic West Palm Beach, FL 33401 Empire and Free Planets Alliance are the Guest: Michael Bell (Duke, GI Joe) competing powers in the future. The series Ron Schneider (Dreamfinder from EPCOT) focuses on the conflict between the two Samantha Newark (Jem, Jem) governments and those who are fighting the and others wars. The books won the Seiun Award and $25+tax pre-reg for the weekend director Noburu Ishiguro adapted the books www.palmcon.net into a popular anime series. Gene Mapper by Taiyo Fujii – A blight on a new Klingon Feast rice strain maybe ecological sabotage. September 30-October 1 Hayashida investigates via Augmented Reality LaPlaya Resort and going to Vietnam. There is an interesting 2500 North Atlantic Ave problem and solution. Page three September 2016 Anime Festival Orlando 2016 Top: Gerald Rathkolb of the the Anime World Order podcast presenting Anime’s Appearances Outside of Anime Bottom: Daryl Surat of Anime World Order podcast reviewing the anime of the year 1986 Page four September 2016 (Continued from page 2) Original Video Animation (OVA) embody the All You Need is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka – times. It had all trends of the 1980s with Kenji Kiriya is a soldier fighting an alien clothing and hairstyles invasion in an armored suit. He finds himself Dragon Ball – The first feature of the popular reliving the same day. A fellow soldier manga and anime series. The film recreated the understands his plight and she helps him to first story arc of the manga. The film depicts escape this phenomenon and end the war. This how Goku met Bulma. is the source material for the Hugo nominated The Fist of the North Star – This anime series was film Edge of Tomorrow. still on the air when this feature came out. It I explained the significance of Sakyo Komatsu career as Japan’s also follows the original manga from the premier Science Fiction writer. There was also a story bundle beginning to Kenshiro’s first fight with his from the publisher Haikasrou, which included some of the books, brother and rival Raoh. It was more violent mentioned in the talk. than the series. Vic Mignogna presented an episode of the fan Maison Ikkoku – A romantic comedy based on the production Star Trek Continues. This is a non-for-profit series of manga by Rumiko Takahashi. The title comes fan films based on the original Star Trek. Mignogna is an from the boarding house the characters live in. Executive producer and stars as Captain James T. Kirk. The The story focuses on a young man who falls in episode he showed was “Come Not Between the Dragons”. A love with a very young widow who is also his space borne alien breeches the Enterprise. Soon after, waves of landlord. energy hit the ship causing the crew to become agitated and Urusei Yatsura 4: Lum the Forever – A film based paranoid. As the crew seeks to control their emotions, a larger on another Takahashi property. Lum loses her alien arrives. Mignogna discussed the episode afterwards it was powers and the insanity begins. Not as strong shown. People liked the themes in the episode dealing with as the previous films but considered to be a family relationships. Mignogna explained some of the choices he multi-layered work and the production team made with the story. This is the sixth Dirty Pair: Project EDEN – Super agents Kei and episode of the series and all are available on YouTube. Yuri aka The Lovely Angels investigate Gerald Rathkolb of the Anime World Order podcast attacks on mining operations crucial to space looked into Anime’s Appearances Outside of Anime. This travel. As always, action and adventure follow presentation had clips of television shows and films that showed them. Many consider this the best of the Dirty or talked about anime and manga. The first clip was President Pair series. Obama introducing Japanese Prime Minister Abe at the White Project A-ko – A high school girl with super House. Obama thanked the Japanese people for their strength and speed has to deal with attacking contributions to the world and mentioned manga and anime. This aliens and rivals with mecha.