Te Shutle April 2017 The Next NASFA Meeting Will be the More- or-Less Annual NASFA Cookout/Picnic on 15 April 2017 at Sam & Judy’s House; 2P Concom Meeting 3P at Sue’s House, 22 April 2017 nic/Cookout. It will be at Sue Thorn’s house See the map on d Oyez, Oyez d page 11 for directions. ! In general, future Con†Stellation XXXV Concom Meetings The next NASFA Meeting will be 15 March 2017, but defi- will be at 3P on the same day as the club meeting, at least until nitely NOT at the regular meeting time or location. The NAS- we need to go to two meetings a month. Exceptions for the FA Meeting (and Program and ATMM) will be superseded by concom meeting date/time/place may be made if (for instance) the More-or-Less-Annual NASFA Picnic/Cookout on that date the club does a “field trip” program like we did for the at Judy and Sam Smith’s house. The gathering will start at 2P Huntsville Art Museum in 2016. and last until they kick us out. Bring food and drink to share. FUTURE PROGRAMS Please see the map on page 2 for direction to the Smith’s house. • October: Con†Stellation XXXV Post-Mortem. PLEASE NOTE that beginning in May the regular meeting • December: NASFA Christmas Party. Stay tuned for more location is changing to the new location of the Madison cam- info on the location as we get closer. pus of Willowbrook Baptist Church. See more info, below. JudySue would love to hear from you with ideas for future APRIL PROGRAM AND ATMM programs—even more so if you can lead one yourself! As noted above, all the usual meeting-day events (except the FUTURE ATMMs Concom Meeting) will be subsumed by the More-or-Less-An- We need volunteers to host After-the-Meeting Meetings for nual NASFA Cookout/Picnic. all future months in 2017, beginning in May. Please email CHURCH/MEETING LOCATION IS MOVING
Inside this issue… Hugo Awards Nominations ...... 4 News & Info ...... 2 Hugo Awards Nominations—Analysis ...... 6 Minutes of the March Meeting ...... 3 Awards Roundup ...... 7 NASFA Calendar ...... 3 Letters of Comment ...... 10 Deadline for the May 2017 issue of The NASFA Shuttle is Monday 1 May 2017 church. See the first paragraph of this article for more details. Hall and march to the Space and Rocket Center. This will be a • July: The meeting will be one week later than usual (that is, family friendly event, and everyone is invited. Further info on 22 July) due to a conflict with DeepSouthCon 55/ConGre- how to participate can be found at the local URL above. gate 4. NASHVILLE SF CLUB DISBANDS (MOSTLY) CHANGING SHUTTLE DEADLINES The last scheduled meeting of the Middle Tennessee Science In general, the monthly Shuttle production schedule has been Fiction Society in Nashville TN was held in early March 2017. moved to the left a bit (versus prior practice). Though things Attendance at club meetings had dwindled into the single digits are a bit squishy, the current intent is to put each issue to bed as due to a number of factors (their newsletter cited “age, sick- much as 9 days before each month’s meeting. ness, death, divorces, people moving out of town, working Please check the deadline below the Table of Contents each hours which conflict with the meeting, personality clashes, month to submit news, reviews, LoCs, or other material. unemployment, the loss of new [and especially younger] fans, JOINING THE NASFA EMAIL LIST the dreaded GAFIA, etc.”) The club lasted 45 years and was All NASFAns who have email are urged to join the NASFA responsible for well over 30 conventions. email list, which you can do online at
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