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Newsletter/Kawaraban Issue #4 – Saturday Morning 65th Annual World Science Fiction Convention & 46th Annual Japan Science Fiction Convention Tiptree and Sense of Hugo Ceremony Gender The door will open at 1700 (5 p.m.) for the Hugo Ceremony, which The programme item on Friday starts at 1800 Saturday in the Main Hall (Conference Centre). If you evening introduced and discussed are planning to sit with a small party, please enter the hall together. the similarities between the Please do not save seats for latecomers. Ushers will be on hand to English-language Tiptree Award help people find seats as they arrive. If you arrive too late to sit in and the Japanese Sense of the hall, or wish to watch the ceremony without attending, there will Gender Award. The 2006 Tiptree be video feeds to rooms 501 and 502 of the Conference Centre. Award winners were Cathrynne George Takei and Nozomi Ohmori will be the Masters of Ceremonies Valente (The Orphan’s Tales: In for the awards. the Midnight Garden) and Shelley Jackson (Half Life), with a special George Takei and Star Trek Site Selection award going to Julie Phillips for New Voyages Site Selection for the 2009 her biography James Tiptree, Jr.: George Takei's talk and Q&A Worldcon closes tomorrow, The Double Life of Alice B. session on Friday afternoon was Saturday, at 1800 (not 1900 as Sheldon. both popular and well received, previously announced). Please covering topics including SF's remember to vote! Programming Changes role in encouraging diversity, T. Szczesuil public transport in San Francisco 312304 Mundane or Filking Update and how his life has changed Transcendent? now has the The Pan Pacific has said “no” to from his time in a US internment following panelists: Charles filking in the lounge. We have camp during the war to his Stross, Cory Doctorow, not heard yet from the current status as an Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Intercontinental. Function rooms internationally famous actor. Yoshio Kobayashi. are not available after 1800, but Initial reports suggest that the 316415 Religion In Fantasy if we want to rent a room, it’ll Star Trek New Voyages episode will now also feature Derwin cost $1,800.00 US. The only way World Enough And Time was very Mak. I see filk sessions happening is if well received: the Newsletter 316413 Science Fiction they're organized spontaneously. team would be grateful for a Museum, A Virtual Tour will I am open to suggestions, but I review! now be at 1600 on Saturday. continue to try. Meantime, we J. Baddley 416414 Thomas the Rhymer still have the room next to the will now be at 1600 on Booze! mad doctors' boutique on Sunday Sunday. Entertaining contributions are at 1000. I will be there then, 414422 Surprised! solicited for a future Australian hopefully. Scientific Experiment has had fanzine concerning the faanish Michael Liebmann the subject changed to "A life experience affected by that Kid's stuff Bed of Nails." (Originally substance. From 1100 on Saturday and scheduled for Friday.) Copyright will be Australian with 1000 on Sunday, children big There will be a repeat all rights returned to the and small can visit the Kyosho performance of Star Trek contributors. Booth, where they will have a New Voyages: World Enough JJ Styles and Time on Saturday at rare opportunity to interact with 1600 in room 421. Scandinavians! the robots there. You can also Stan Schmidt's Kaffeklatsche (Well, what else could come after attend the construction workshop has been moved from 1600 booze?) held in room 424: ask at the to 1500 on Saturday. The party in Room 601 after the booth for more details. Charles Ardai's autograph Hugos will now be hosted by both Oono session has been moved from the Norwegians and the Swedes! 1600 to 1500 on Saturday. Heidi Lyshol Prometheus Awards The Libertarian Futurist Society (LFS) announced their 2007 awards during Nippon 2007. The awards ceremony was held on Friday 31 August. The Prometheus Award for Best Novel goes to the novel Glasshouse by Charles Stross. The Prometheus Hall of Fame Award was a tie this year with awards going to the novel It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis and the novella “True Names” by Vernor Vinge. This year the Libertarian Futurist Society voted a Special Award for the motion picture V for Vendetta directed by James McTeigue, screenplay by the Wachowski brothers. Founded in 1982, the Libertarian Futurist Society sponsors the annual Prometheus Awards and the Prometheus Hall of Fame; publishes reviews, news and columns in the quarterly “Prometheus”; arranges annual award ceremonies at the Worldcon; debates libertarian futurist issues (such as private space exploration); and provides fun and fellowship for libertarian SF fans. A list of past winners of LFS awards can be found on the LFS web site at http://www.lfs.org. Fred Moulton circumvent computer security. Speed Reading Workshop Parties! NASA Physicist Dr. Landis was all Saturday 1000, room 411 We hear that there are parties, about the money. More than Please bring a book and writing but we've been locked in the once he returned to his central materials. Newsletter office with nothing theme that while some crimes Heidi Lyshol but water and rice balls: let us are possible many of them did know what they're like! not have an easy way of making Podcasting Your poor, poor editors In his kaffeeklatche on Friday, him rich. Patrick Nielsen Hayden, SF Tech Savvy Criminal Panel The concept of a mastermind criminal is one that has played editor, writer, and teacher, Makes Masterminds On Friday afternoon, authors well in literature for hundreds of spoke about the many years. Today’s technology and changes taking place in the Patricia MacEwen, Cory Doctorow, and Geoffrey A. Landis “Security Theater” act to create a publishing industry. He (left to right in photo below) panoply of options for authors answered questions about discussed the many ways tech and their masterminds. Even the issues including the savvy criminals could get away non-authors in the crowd eagerly proliferation of podcasts and with crimes from the mundane to participated as a thought ebooks as alternatives to the disastrous. The audience in experiment to see just how well traditional print books, and the packed room eagerly became their own nefarious plans might the increasingly common absorbed in the thought come to fruition. Ninety minutes flew by all too practice of giving content experiment and was soon adding to the master plans being soon, and both panelists and away online for free. audience were returned to their Nielsen Hayden worked discussed. Ms. MacEwen, whose background is in crime scene normal law abiding selves. While directly with Cory Doctorow, investigation, discussed various it is exciting to play the criminal making the latter's novel ways to commit murder without mastermind in your head, most Down and Out in the Magic being caught. Mr. Doctorow, with of us don’t have the desire to risk Kingdom available on the a background in computer law jail time or worse for criminal Internet for free, and and civil liberties, waxed poetic gains. suggested that doing so was about ways to disable and P Fischer nothing but positive, as an author's greatest enemy is not theft, but obscurity. The small group and informal setting made for a refreshing change from the more structured panels, and the whole affair was recorded for future release as a podcast from Tor Books, along with others being made through the course of the Worldcon. C. Ellis Issue 4 of Changing Tides/SF Kawaraban brought to you by: Martha Holloway, Paul Fischer, Marilyn Mix, Christina Ellis, Flick, Vincent Docherty, Elsa Chen, Nanase Tominaga and Sachiyo Matsushita (Publishing Editor). Illustrations by Sue Mason, Michael Whelan, Steve Stiles, and Paul Fischer (with a little help from Photoshop). .
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