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Editorial Remarks Darkecho Newsletter, Vol July 1999 A monthly publication of the Fandom Association of Central Texas, Inc. Greenberg, eds. (Barnes & Noble); Nonfiction: Editorial Remarks DarkEcho Newsletter, Vol. 5 #1-50, Paula Guran, ed. Hello again, or maybe for the first time! Regular (DarkEcho); Screenplay: [tie] Dark City, Alex Proyas FACT Sheet editor John Gibbons will be busy co- and Gods and Monsters, Bill Condon; Work for younger chairing ArmadilloCon 21 for a few months, so he readers: "Bigger Than Death", Nancy Etchemendy asked me to fill in. Longtime FACT members may (Cricket Mar 1998); Life achievement: Ramsey Campbell recognize my name as a previous editor of this and Roger Corman; Specialty press award: Barry newsletter. Newer members likely will know me best Hoffman, Gauntlet Press. for my work with the Reading Group. I’ll try my best to keep up to John’s high standards. Media News Unlike John, I don’t plan to write detailed hard Ambassador Spock marries Commander Saavik in science editorials. My scientific interests are Vulcan’s Heart, a Star Trek novel by Josepha Sherman primarily about topics related to my career field, 3D and Susan Shwartz, due out from Pocket in hardcover in computer graphics. I doubt that an article about July. voxels vs. pixel-based rendering or about the relative The WB Network plans to air the Buffy the Vampire merits of OpenGL and Direct3D would have much Slayer season finale "Graduation Day, Part 2" on July13. widespread appeal here. I’ll fill the extra space with Studios USA has announced that it will replace news and other goodies. Hercules: The Legendary Journeys with two half-hour --- A. T. Campbell, III shows airing back-to-back, starting in January 2000. Cleopatra 2525 involves female warriors fighting evil FACToids & Friends robots in the future. Jack of All Trades follows the This column is for news about FACT members, adventures of a British Secret Service agent in 1699. their friends, Texas writers, and important events in Here’s a casting update on the X-Men movie: Patrick the SF&F community. If you have any such news, Stewart (Professor Xavier), Ian McKellan (Magneto), please contact the F.A.C.T. Sheet Editor at the Halle Berry (Storm), Rebecca Romijm-Stamos address on page 7. (Mystique), Anna Paquin (Rogue), Dougray Scott (Wolverine). Award News "Weird Al" Yankovic's new CD, Running with Winners of this year's Bram Stoker Awards for Scissors, includes a Star Wars: Episode I parody "The superior achievement in horror were announced June Saga Begins" The video can be played over the Internet 5. Winners include Novel: Bag of Bones, Stephen from http://www.sagabegins.com. King (Scribner); First novel: Dawn Song, Michael Marano (Tor); Long fiction: "Mr. Clubb and Mr. Obituary Cuff", Peter Straub (Murder For Revenge Otto DeForest Kelley, the actor who played Dr. Leonard Penzler, ed., Delacorte); Short fiction: "The Dead McCoy on the original Star Trek TV series, died Friday, Boy at Your Window", Bruce Holland Rogers (The June 11, at the age of 79. He is survived by his wife of 55 North American Review Nov/Dec 1998); Collection: years, Carolyn. Black Butterflies, John Shirley (Mark V. Ziesing); Anthology: Horrors! 365 Scary Stories Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Writer News Thursday, July 22, 6-8PM, Thomas Harlan signs The Aaron Allston’s fourth Star Wars book, Shadow of Ararat.. Ridley Pearson will do a driveby Starfighters of Adumar, is due out from Bantam in signing in early July, and Walter Jon Williams is August. tentatively scheduled to sign The Rift on August 21. Neal Barrett, Jr.’s “The Lizard Shoppe” (Dragon Adventures in Crime & Space is also holding several #251) won the Maggie Award for Western fiction. sales this summer. For the week of July 19-25, 20% off Bruce Sterling has a new collection, A Good any books with men walking on the moon in honor of Old-Fashioned Future, out in paperback from Apollo 11. For the week of August 2-6, 10% off any Bantam around the time this newsletter comes out. books with psychic powers in honor of National Psychic Don Webb's latest mystery, Essential Saltes, is Week. July 23rd is Raymond Chandler's Birthday -- 10% just out in hardback from St. Martin’s. off all of his books all day. August 20th is H. P. The Avon paperback of Martha Wells’s Nebula- Lovecraft's Birthday -- 10% off all Cthulhuiana all day. nominated Death of the Necromancer is out this And every Monday in August, 50% off the ACS-marked month. prices in the used rooms. The latest Gardner Dozois Year’s Best Science Fiction anthology includes stories by Texas writers Movies William Browning Spencer and Bruce Sterling. This list provides release dates on upcoming SF&F movies. Times and dates are subject to change. Upcoming Events July 14: Muppets from Space (d. Tim Hill) Starring Meetings & Gatherings Kermit, Miss Piggy, Gonzo, Hulk Hogan, and Gates July 6, 7 PM: FACT Reading Group. Adventures in McFadden (http://www.muppetsfromspace.com/) Crime & Space. 609-A W. Sixth St, Austin, TX July 16: Lake Placid (d. Steve Miner) Man-eating (512)473-2665. Topic: Children of God by Mary alligator film written by David E. Kelley. Stars Doria Russell. Oliver Platt, Bill Pullman, and Bridget Fonda. July 11, 1PM: FACT Board Meeting. 3801 July 16: Eyes Wide Shut (d. Stanley Kubrick) Hawkshead Dr, Austin, TX. (512)833-5269. Psychological thriller starring Tom Cruise and Nicole July 17, 2PM: ArmadilloCon 21 Meeting. 108 Kidman. (http://www.eyeswideshut.com/) Stonehedge Blvd. Georgetown, TX. July 23: Inspector Gadget (d. David Kellogg) Live-action (512) 868-0036. cartoon starring Matthew Broderick, Rupert Everett July 20, 7PM: FACT Reading Group. Adventures and Joely Fisher. in Crime & Space. Topic: The Dazzle of Day by (http://disney.go.com/DisneyPictures/gadget/) Molly Gloss July 23: The Haunting (d. Jan de Bont) Based on the August 3, 7PM: FACT Reading Group. Adventures Shirley Jackson novel. Starring Liam Neeson and in Crime & Space. Topic: Cosm by Gregory Catherine Zeta-Jones. Benford (http://www.asylum.com/movies/h/haunting/) August 17, 7PM: FACT Reading Group. July 30: The Blair Witch Project (d. Daniel Myrick and Adventures in Crime & Space.. Topic: Clouds Eduardo Sanchez) Roger Ebert and Harry Knowles End by Sean Stewart say this is really scary (http://www.blairwitch.com/) September 7, 7PM: FACT Reading Group. July 30: Deep Blue Sea (d.. Renny Harlin) Sci-fi shark Adventures in Crime & Space. Topic:.Secret movie starring Samuel L. Jackson and Stellan Realms by Tom Cool Skarsgard. (http://www.wb-deepbluesea.com/) September 21, 7PM: FACT Reading Group. July 30: Mystery Men (d. Kinka Usher) Superhero film Adventures in Crime & Space. Topic: The Black with Ben Stiller, Janeane Garofalo, Geoffrey Rush, Sun by Jack Williamson and William H. Macy. (http://www.mysterymen.com/) Bookstore Events August 4: Dick (d. Andrew Fleming) Nixon fantasy with Dan Hedaya, Kirsten Dunst, and Michelle Williams. Several signings are scheduled at Adventures in August 6: The Iron Giant (d. Brad Bird) Great looking Crime & Space Bookstore (609-A W. Sixth St, giant robot film. (http://www.irongiant.com) Austin, TX 512/473-2665): Saturday, July 10, 5-7 August 13: The 13th Warrior (d. John McTiernan) Much- PM, Austin author Don Webb will sign his latest delayed adaptation of Michael Crichton's Eaters of novel of magic and murder from St. Martin’s Press, the Dead, starring Antonio Banderas and Omar Essential Saltes. Tuesday, July 13th, 6-8PM, Dave Sharif. (http://movies.go.com/the13thwarrior/) Wolverton will sign A Very Strange Trip, a novel he developed from a story by L. Ron Hubbard. August 20: The Sixth Sense (d. M. Night Shyamalan) Sep 10-12: ARMADILLOCON 21 Omni South Park, Supernatural thriller starring Bruce Willis. Austin TX. GoH: Sean Stewart. AGoH: Wayne August 27: The Astronaut's Wife (d. Rand Ravich) Barlowe, EGoH: Shawna McCarthy. FGoH: Hal SF/thriller starring Johnny Depp and Charlize Clement. TM: William Browning Spencer. Special Theron Guest: Neil Gaiman. Guests: Aaron Allston, Mark August 27: Universal Soldier: The Return (d. Mic Anthony, Bill Baldwin, Neal Barrett Jr., Austin Bay, Rogers) Sequel featuring Jean-Claude Van M. Shayne Bell, Jayme Lynn Blaschke, Pat Cadigan, Damme and Michael Jai White. Lillian Stewart Carl, Stepan Chapman, Cat Conrad, August 27: Stigmata (d. Rupert Wainwright) Roxanne Conrad, Bill Crider, Scott A. Cupp, Bradley Religious horror thriller with Gabriel Byrne and Denton, Marianne J. Dyson, Brad W. Foster, Jim Patricia Arquette. Frenkel, Katharine Eliska Kimbriel, Rick Klaw, (http://www.mgm.com/stigmata/)6 Susan J. Kroupa, Alexis Glynn Latner, C. J. Mills, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Cary G. Osborne, Lawrence Conventions Person, Carrie Richerson, Caroline Spector, Warren Here are details on conventions that FACT Spector, Joan D.Vinge, Don Webb, K. D. Wenworth, members, associates, and Favorite Authors will Wendy Wheeler, Walter Jon Williams. Memb: $20 attend. advance, $30 at door. Info: ArmadilloCon 21, Box 27277, Austin TX 78755; (512) 868-0036; e-mail: July 9-11: READERCON 11 Westin Hotel, [email protected]. website: http://www.golem- Waltham MA; rms $89 + tax. GoHs: Harlan computing.com/dillocon/ Ellison, Ellen Datlow. Past Master: Gerald Kersh. Memb: $35 to 6/30/99, $50 at door (limit Meeting Minutes 500). Info: Readercon, Box 38-1246, Cambridge MA 02238-1246; e-mail: [email protected]; MINUTES FOR REGULAR MEETING website: www.readercon.org BOARD OF DIRECTORS Aug 6-8: DEEPSOUTHCON 37/CRESCENT FANDOM ASSOCIATION OF CITY CON XIV Best Western Landmark, Metairie LA; rms $69. GoH: Mike Resnick. CENTRAL TEXAS, INC. FGoH: Toni Weisskopf. GGoH: Steve Jackson; JUNE 13, 1999 TM: George Alec Effinger. Special Guest: Barbara Hambly.
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