Price: Spring 2001, Volume 15, Number 1

51 The Official Newsletter of the Montreal Science Fiction & Fantasy Association (MonSFFA)

In This Issue: Arthur C. Clarke: Grand Master of Science Fiction, Interview with a Dragon, Chicon VI Worldcon Review, Perry Rhodan modelbuilding, and more… MONSFFA’S EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: 2000 MonSFFA EVENTS SCHEDULE JANUARY Berny Reischl President ALL MonSFFA MEETINGS HELD SUNDAY 21 Sebastien Mineau AFTERNOONS, 1:00PM TO 5:00PM (SOME FEBRUARY Vice-President MEETINGS INCLUDE MORNING ACTIVITIES, Sylvain St-Pierre WHICH BEGIN AT 10:30 AM), IN THE 18 Treasurer ST-FRANCOIS ROOM OF THE DAYS INN, 1005 GUY STREET (CORNER RENÉ LÉVESQUE), MARCH MONSFFA’S DOWNTOWN MONTREAL APPOINTED OFFICERS AND ADVISORS: 25 Keith Braithwaite 2001 EVENT PROGRAMMING* APRIL PR, Membership Sylvain St-Pierre June 10 - Get Ready for Convention Season 22 Membership 10:30am: Con*Cept 2001 concom meeting. MAY Dominique Durocher 1:00pm: Tribute to the late author Douglas Adams. 2:00pm: Berny Reischl Convention Primer: what to expect at a convention. 3:00pm: Creating your Costume. Web Site Administrators 6 Wayne Glover July - Summer Break - No Meeting JUNE Audio/Video August 19 - Making Movies Josée Bellemare 1:00pm: Game: Now Showing: Movie posters in a minute. 10 Michele Berry 3:00pm: Homemade Movies; Shoestring SPFX. Marquise Boies September 16 - Collisions in Space AUGUST Marc Durocher 1:00pm: Real Meteorites: tentative guest speaker Gaetan Cormier. Cindy Hodge 3:00pm: Hollywood Meteorites: how collisions are portrayed in David James 19 the movies. Les Lupien SEPTEMBER Ernst-Udo Peters October 20- Con•Cept 2001 Advisors Without Portfolio The annual SF/F convention returns as a one day event. 16 NEWSLETTER STAFF: October 21- Open Meeting 1:00pm: No scheduled programming. Join us for a post-Con•Cept OCTOBER Lynda Pelley (Editor) get-together; or in fannish terms, a “dead dog” party. Editing, Word Processing, Layout, Photo/Art Scans, November 18 - Sci-Fi ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire?’ 21 Production Manager 1:00pm: Considering our budget, make that ‘Who Wants to Win a e-mail to: [email protected] T-Shirt?’ NOVEMBER Keith Braithwaite December 8 - MonSFFA Christmas Party Editorial Consultant, 7:30pm: Saturday. Place to be announced. 18 Word Processing DECEMBER Murphy *All programming is tentative, and scheduling is subject to change. Typos, Misspellings and Other Errors 8

COVER UP: Warp is published about four times a year by the Montreal Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (MonSFFA). Address This issue’s cover is a all correspondence to: Warp, c/o MonSFFA, P.O. Box 1186, Place du Parc, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H2W 2P4. A subscription to Warp is a benefit of membership in MonSFFA. MonSFFA is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the tribute to author Arthur C. enjoyment and promotion of science fiction and fantasy literature, film and television, comics, fanzines, art, music, costuming, model-making, gaming, etc. The opinions expressed in Warp are solely those of the individual writers and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Warp or MonSFFA. The use of copyrighted material in this newsletter is—yes, we Clarke’s and filmmaker know—verboten, but is not intended to seriously infringe upon any of the rights of the copyright holders. Come on, people…lighten up! This is an amateur publication intended for enjoyment only. “If they offer you a penny for your Stanley Kubrik’s 2001: A Space thoughts, and you put in your two cents worth, who gets the other penny?” Odyssey in an artwork by MonSFFA’s Address: P.O. Box 1186, Place du Parc, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H2W 2P4 Berny Reischl. MonSFFA’s Web Site: http://www.monsffa.com A TABLE OF CONTENTS 51 A51 From The Editor’s Chair ...... 4 A MonSFFA Mailbag ...... 5 51 A MonSFFAandom ...... 6 51 A Fanzines...... 15 51 (Ted White) A51 Interview With a Dragon ...... 16 (Josée Bellemare ) A51 Arthur C. Clarke: Grand Master of Science Fiction ...... 17 A (Keith Braithwaite) 51

Review: Chicon VI Worldcon ...... 21 A51 (Sylvain St-Pierre) A Convention Flyer ...... 23 51 (Conthulhu) A51 Convention Flyer ...... 24 (CapCon 2001) A51 It Came From The Sci-Fi Modeler’s Desk ...... 25 A (Models from Perry Rhodan) 51 A51 LaLaWeb ...... 26 A Play: Killing Jar Jar ...... 27 51 A51 Sensors ...... 28 A MonSFFA Membership Benefits ...... 30 51 A51 MonSFFA Discount Program ...... 30 A MonSFFA Membership Application Form ...... 32 51 A51 Submissions: We will accept submissions on a variety of media, however, please take note that your text or artwork must eventually be processed on a Macintosh computer using QuarkXpress for page layout. For e-mail submissions, send to [email protected] with text in the body of the e-mail or as an attachment in ASCII format, and photos/artwork in jpeg format. For disk submissions, please send your material on diskettes or zip disks with Macintosh formatting—text should be ASCII and images should be jpeg or any format that can be processed by Adobe Photoshop. Please include a print-out of your material with all disks. If you do not own a compatible computer or a modem, you may submit typed or neatly hand-written documents, preferably single column and double-spaced. Please send all photographic material as prints; my flat-bed scanner cannot scan slides. Material (other than e-mail) can be submitted in person at MonSFFA meetings or be sent by mail. 3 FROM THE editor’s chair

Warp 51 is the Spring 2001 issue in our new quarterly format. Yes, it’s June 10th as I write this, but technically it’s still spring. Summer doesn’t officially start until June 21st. Yes, this issue was supposed to go out to you earlier in the spring, but the rather sudden death of my The photographic material in this issue has come grandmother left any fannish plans not happening. I from a wider variety of sources than ever before. People would also like to express my condolences to former have sent prints, CD-ROMS, video grabs, digital art, and MonSFFA V.P. Stephen Toy for the loss of his sister to website downloads. I’ve worked with a mix of TIFFs, cancer. This year has not started out well. GIFs, JPEGs, and EPS. If the quality varies from page-to- The summer issue of Warp will probably go out late page, you’ll understand why. I hope that I didn’t get the as well. I am planning it for August, but it may be images mixed up this time. Last issue I mistakenly September. The summer movie season is starting, as is credited Daniel P. Kenney for the Merlin 2000 video the convention and the model competition season. If you project production photos used on the cover and in Josée participate in any interesting SF/F activities, please share Bellemare’s “Behind The Scenes of Merlin 2000” article. the experience with us by writing an article about it or a This excellent photography was instead done by Nicola review, and don’t forget to take some photos. Stoeckert. My apologies, Nicola. I hope to feature Toronto Trek in the next issue of Warp. Many MonSFFen are regulars at this convention, and have been for several years. This will be the first year that MonSFFA has a club table at T-Trek, a more visible presence than ever before. I hope it will be a success. I also hope that several of you will write reviews and take photos for Warp. See you there… Enjoy!

Lynda Pelley, Editor

4 Yvonne and I have not only February, Ad Astra 2001, also in rejoined the Ad Astra committee, but February (come on down!), and we’re now working on their FilKONtario 11 in Mississauga in marketing committee, and will be March (we’ll be running their con coordinating flyer distribution. We suite). We’ve also agreed to run the can send a package of flyers for green room at the 2001 World distribution at future meetings, plus Fantasy Convention in Montreal next insertion into a future Warp. Also, if November. Marc Nadeau can send me his I don’t know how many of you MonSFFA and Warp welcome address, I can make sure that SF have checked out Don Bassie’s Made letters of comment and inquiry. Vortex also gets a package of flyers. in Canada SF website (www. Mail letters to: The guest of honour list now geocities.com/canadian_sf), but I P.O. Box 1186, Place du Parc, includes Connie Willis, David G. now have a Canadian convention list Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Hartwell, Rick Green, Urban on that site. Once information about H2W 2P4. Tapestry (filkers Alison Durno, Jody Con*Cept, and ConJuration, and Krangle and Debbie Ohi) and Robert Concinnity and CanCon in Ottawa Unless otherwise indicated, we J. Sawyer as our toastmaster. are available, this is a major list to assume all letters are intended for The debate over a club with a add them to. Also, I’ll be doing a publication. Warp reserves the right paper zine and regular meetings and similar list for the new Realms to edit letters where deemed a totally on-line club continues. Magazine, which is being distributed necessary. Lionel Wagner, the president of OSFS all over North America. Check out in Ottawa has stated that he will not www.realmsmagazine.com. Dear MonSFFen: run for re-election, and will not even And that is probably it. Given renew his membership in the club the publishing schedule, I doubt the Congratulations on reaching 50 unless the club goes totally on-line: next issue will be out until after the issues of Warp! It’s never easy with zine, meetings, and everything. New Year, so I hope everyone has a fandom’s easily swayed interests to BCSFA in Vancouver continues with great Christmas, Hanukkah, reach that plateau. I'll crack the cover meetings and paper zines, but offers Kwanzaa, Solstice and any other and make some comments on the the option of a .pdf version of the December celebration, and see you contents. zine to save money on printing and all next millennium! I regret, but understand, the postage, and an extensive web site. I decision to postpone this year’s think the BCSFA mode is the way to Yours, Con*Cept, but I did hear that Boreal go. Social contact is just too did well in a reduced format. I hope important, but the web is quite Lloyd Penney that the committee will set the hotel important, too. A combination of Etobicoke, ON and guests as early as possible, and electronic and personal contacts will announce the con as early as possible give a modern edge to the club Hi Lloyd: to get the largest registration you without throwing away the personal can. Send a package of flyers to me, contact and activities aspect to the It looks like you’re having a very and I’ll go to all the conventions I club, which is what most people busy convention season. We hope Ad usually go to, and drop them on the want, perhaps even more than the Astra went well. We received your flyers flyer table. When it comes to getting SF. and distributed them at one of our enough dealers, you may have to The movies we were to be meetings. Unfortunately, the Spring find new ones. Go to craft stores, and involved with simply did not 2001 issue of Warp is going out a bit too craft shows to see if there’s anything happen. The film shoot in Chicago late to advertise the February and March with an SF or fantasy content. Seeing didn’t happen because the two conventions. that Nebula was forced to close their principals in producing the film Thanks for your advice, and your store, perhaps they may still be couldn’t go to the con. And, the final offer to help distribute Con*Cept interested in tables. Maybe there are screenplay of the movie version of advertising. Con*Cept will return, dealers as far away as Ottawa and Rob Sawyer’s Illegal Alien had to trim however, it is shaping up to be in the Quebec City who might like to come the novel so much for a short enough form of a one-day relaxacon, similar to to sell. An information package shooting script, the character of Dr. the Transwarp event that used to take about what your room policies are, Penney had to be cut out. That’s place here in Montreal. If the new such as hours, level of security show biz, I guess… downsized Con*Cept is successful, provided, estimated attendance, any New stuff coming up…just this perhaps it can eventually return as a possible price breaks for incentive, past weekend on November 18, full-fledged convention in a few years. size of tables, number of chairs, etc. Yvonne and I ran registration for MonSFFA, too, is feeling the pull of can help. If you are looking for Who Party 12, the latest incarnation the internet and its effects on traditional American dealers, information about of the irregular series of Doctor Who fandom. Any changes to MonSFFA will ways to easily get merchandise conventions in Toronto and area. be approached slowly and carefully, and across the border and information (The previous con had been more hopefully with level heads prevailing, so about GST and Customs are very than 3 1/2 years ago.) Upcoming is that the club can survive them useful. Astronomicon 2001 in Rochester in intact.—Ed 5 MMoonnSSFFFFAAnnddoomm “ALL THE CLUB NEWS THAT FITS, WE’LL PRINT!”

As long-time readers will know, successes, the overall picture was getting February 2001 issue of Impulse “MonSFFAndom” is the title we worse every year. Ultimately, the concom announced that “Con•Cept has come have given to the column that itself began to lose steam. Without home.” covers club news and reports on our sufficient organizational manpower to activities. With the revival of our properly plan, promote, and run the con, CON•CEPT COMES HOME monthly news bulletin, Impulse, last Con•Cept/Boréal’s fate was sealed. The September, we have shifted con, which MonSFFA had founded in MonSFFA has assumed control of “MonSFFAndom” to this monthly 1989 and run for its first few years, was Con•Cept. All of the convention’s publication in order to insure that all but dead. monetary and physical assets were club news of importance and The small, French-language Boréal transferred to MonSFFA’s interest to our members reaches component of the con did manage to hold stewardship last month, in them in a timely manner. Warp, now a modest event on the weekend that accordance with a deal worked out publishing as much as possible on a would have seen Con•Cept/Boréal 2000 between the two before Christmas. quarterly schedule, is no longer take place. The Con•Cept side hosted a Several years of declining geared to doing that job. Warp is, Friday night wake, dubbed Consolation, attendance numbers and resulting however, the perfect vehicle to in the bar of the con hotel. financial losses, culminating in the provide MonSFFen with a sort of The following report on Consolation cancellation of 2000’s event, diary or scrapbook (as one member ran in the November 2000 issue of prompted Con•Cept’s concom to described it) of the club. Impulse. throw in the towel. It was proposed In this spirit, Warp editor Lynda that the con be handed over to Pelley and Impulse editor Keith CONSOLATION MonSFFA in the hope that the club Braithwaite have worked out a co- might better be able to make a go of ordinated approach to A room full of people, including it. Con•Cept has come home. “MonSFFAndom.” Impulse provides many MonSFFen, gathered at the However, the con today is but a the quick, monthly coverage of the familiar Days Inn on Friday evening, shadow of its former self and a club’s goings-on, while Warp offers October 13, for what had been Con•Cept 2001 is by no means a a compilation of the Impulse dubbed Consolation. This infamous certainty. In the coming months, material, illustrated with plenty of combination of day and date, the MonSFFA will take a good hard look photos (something that Impulse superstitious noted, would have seen at what’s involved in restarting the cannot but in rare instance provide) Con•Cept/Boréal 2000’s opening con. Should we judge such a venture and presented as an overview of the ceremonies take place. But the con not to be feasible, the con’s assets last few months worth of club was cancelled, as we all know, will be rolled into the club’s and activity. leaving Montreal fandom without its Con•Cept will cease to be. The annual sci-fi party. And so, hoped-for scenario, of course, is that MONSFFACTIVITY: Consolation, at which we came of a reborn Con•Cept taking place OCTOBER 2000-MARCH 2001 together to console each other on the sometime later this year, although loss of our convention this year, given the limited resources available, At about the time of Warp 50’s analyze what went wrong, toast the such an event would almost certainly release, October of last year, Impulse con’s revival next year and talk about be a small, one-day relaxicon or some became available online. Surf to the how we might help make that such. following link and follow the directions happen. But mostly we just enjoyed Former MonSFFA president provided: the good company and quaffed a Cathy Palmer-Lister is set to certain quantity of beer. All in all, a spearhead the revival of Con•Cept. http://www.monsffa.com/MonSFFA_ fine evening. PDFs.html Those of you who have been reading Soon after, the idea was floated of your more recent issues of Impulse now Also , news had just broken that returning control of Con•Cept (now know, of course, that Con•Cept will Con•Cept/Boréal 2000 had been separate from Boréal) to MonSFFA. By indeed be returning. Plans are well cancelled. Montreal’s annual SF/F Christmas, talks had been held and a underway for Con•Cept to go back to its convention had seen marked declines in tentative agreement had been reached. roots as a one-day relaxicon event on attendance numbers for the past few Approval by both MonSFFA’s Saturday, October 20th, 2001. Check out years. Organizers had struggled gamely membership and Con•Cept’s remaining the latest flyer on the following page. We against apathy, stagnation, downsized concom was needed to finalize the deal. hope to see you there! budgets, but despite some small That approval was given and the Montreal fandom was at an ebb in 6 7 2000. Fanac was down and we took two raiser. Bucket.” The modelers in the room big hits: the aforementioned cancellation We received a veritable bounty battled repeatedly over the many of Con•Cept/Boréal 2000, and the of donations for the garage sale this cool skiffy kits up for grabs. And closing of Nebula Books, Montreal’s year, largely courtesy of our everyone had fun bidding Keith finest sci-fi specialty bookshop and a members. We note that several Braithwaite up on a fashion strong supporter of local fandom. donators were exceptionally magazine that included a Gillian Through all of this, MonSFFA generous. Paul Bennett, for example, Anderson photo spread. remained in reasonably good shape, but who sent along a couple of large The auction put up over 80 lots was experiencing a decline in boxes worth of toys, collectibles, and for bid. Average bid: about $9. membership, resulting in a bit of a cash books; John Dupuis, whose sci-fi Highest bid: $50. There were some 25 crunch as the year drew to a close. books and magazines easily covered successful bidders. Meanwhile, 60 Treasurer Sylvain St-Pierre reported that a table top, and Linda Huntoon, who raffle tickets were sold, nine raffle the club was running at a deficit and pitched in with a tall stack of videos. prizes awarded. And by afternoon’s warned that action had to be taken to Others offered interesting or unusual end, a good many of the books, increase revenues, lest the club run dry items, like the Marvin the Martian comics, and magazines on the sales of its cash reserves a year or so down the souvenirs Sylvain St-Pierre picked table had been snapped up at road. Several costly projects were up during a recent Las Vegas bargain prices. immediately put on hold, annual vacation, or the vintage portable tube A power failure plunged us into membership fees were increased from $20 tester—looks like some kind of Buck darkness just as we were about to get to $25, recruitment efforts stepped up, Rogers rocketship control things underway, but fortunately and a fund-raiser held in November. It panel—brought in by Georges proved brief. proved to be our most successful ever. Dodds. To all those who donated In closing we thank those The December 2000 Impulse led items to the cause, whether a few or MonSFFen who ran our fund-raiser: with the good news: boxes full, MonSFFA thanks you a Keith Braithwaite (auctioneer), Cathy hundred times over. Palmer-Lister (auction “runner,” NOVEMBER 19 And we thank equally, of course, raffle ticket sales), Maureen FUND-RAISER CLUB’S those winning bidders at auction, Whitelaw (sales table supervisor), MOST SUCCESSFUL EVER! those who bought raffle tickets, and Sylvain St-Pierre and Georges Dodds those who availed themselves of the (cashiers). And a nod, too, to those MonSFFA’s meeting of many bargains to be had on our sales who helped with set-up, and those November 19 was given over to our table. Wayne Glover, Ernst-Udo who saw to the snack table. annual Sci-Fi Garage Sale, a fund- Peters, David James, and Dominique raising event at which we put up for Durocher were among our big Also in November came the official sale, raffle, or auction many genre spenders. Georges Dodds and Josée announcement from four-term club books, comics, magazines, videos, Bellemare engaged in one of the president Cathy Palmer-Lister that she posters, toys, collectibles, etc., all afternoon’s most dramatic bidding would not seek the presidency again proceeds to benefit the club. Just shy wars, over a fluffy toy bunny like the come the 2001 elections in January. of $800 was raised this year, the most one used in the club’s FedEx Files Long-time MonSFFA member Berny ever netted at a MonSFFA fund- vignette “The Rabbit Kicked the Reischl would step up to the plate.

Below Left: Cathy Palmer-Lister acts as “runner” while Keith Braithwaite, in the background, auctions off this Star Wars model. Below Right: MonSFFA Treasurer Sylvain St-Pierre is auction cashier. Photos by Lynda Pelley.

8 Impulse covered Cathy’s “retirement” and Berny’s selection as our fifth president.

CLUB PRESIDENT TO STEP DOWN

Cathy Palmer-Lister has announced that she will step down from her position as MonSFFA’s president upon completion of her current term in office on January 21, 2001, the date of MonSFFA’s first meeting of the new year. Cathy, the club’s fourth president, has steered the club for the past four years, equalling the number of years served by her two Moments after taking office: MonSFFA president Berny Reischl (left) and vice- predecessors, Lynda Pelley and Keith president Sebastien Mineau (right). Photos by Lynda Pelley. Braithwaite. Luke Fallon, a founder confidence of his fellow members as Approval was given to pricing of the club and its first president, MonSFFA’s fifth president with so-called “piggyback” memberships held office for one year. Sebastien Mineau, an enthusiastic at $10 over the annual membership After “directing traffic for four newcomer to our ranks, backing him fee for up to three piggyback years,” explains Cathy, “I am getting up as our new vice-president. members. These are auxiliary tired.” She also cited as a reason for Sylvain St-Pierre was returned to members sponsored by a full her stepping down her belief that it’s office as treasurer for yet another member. They enjoy some but not all not healthy for a club to be led by the term, prompting some to suggest of the benefits enjoyed by a full same person for too many years. She that so fine a job is he doing as our member. This measure is aimed had words of encouragement for bean-counter that he simply be primarily at keeping yearly fees whoever will succeed her, offering designated “Treasurer-for-Life.” affordable for families. Any that MonSFFA’s BoA (Board of We take this opportunity to MonSFFAn may, for that extra $10, Advisors) do much of the work congratulate our 2001 Executive piggyback on top of his or her club when it comes to running the club, Committee, and wish them well as membership up to three family which makes the job of president not they undertake their duties. members. so daunting a prospect as it might It was agreed that a two-tier seem. She also had praise for the Board of Advisors (BoA) meetings price list for MonSFFA merchandise sound fiscal management of long- are capsulized in Impulse for the benefit (T-shirts, etc.) be established, offering time club treasurer Sylvain St-Pierre, of MonSFFen. These meetings serve to our members a discount on the price who has held that post during the plan club activities, discuss and we charge to non-members. entirety of her presidency. “I’ve implement policy, and deal with the always relied on Sylvain’s advice,” details of running MonSFFA. Two BoA BOA: FEBRUARY 11 she said, adding that she hopes meetings took place during the period we Sylvain will return for another term are covering, here. The club’s new president, Berny as treasurer, and that the new Reischl, convened the first BoA president will be well served if he BOA: NOVEMBER 5 meeting of his administration on does. Sunday afternoon, February 11. Cathy plans to remain active in The club’s Board of Advisors met Discussed was MonSFFA’s MonSFFA, taking part in our on November 5. Uppermost on the involvement in this year’s World monthly meetings and involving agenda was the selection of meeting Fantasy Convention, which will take herself in some of the club’s Special dates and the planning of the club’s place in Montreal in November, 2001. Interest Groups, or SIGs. monthly meetings for 2001. Also We will offer the con volunteer help MonSFFA offers much thanks to discussed was a proposal to have in exchange for promotional Cathy for her devoted service to the MonSFFA take Con•Cept’s reins, considerations for our club. It was club. which, it was argued, presented the noted that the WFC is a very pricey best chance of survival for the event geared almost exclusively to 2001 EXECUTIVE TAKES OFFICE struggling con (covered above). professional writers and publishing- Recent raffles have seen an industry types. Fans generally do not MonSFFA’s Executive abundance of treasures one month attend in large numbers as Committee for 2001 took office and a dearth the next. The BoA programming has little to offer them, effective January 21st, the date of the resolved to better allocate raffle not to mention ticket prices of well club’s first meeting of the new year. prizes over the course of the year, so over $100 for the weekend. Berny Reischl, a member of the club that each month’s raffle feature an Also on the agenda was a since day one, received the attractive selection of prize lots. proposal by our new vice-president, 9 Sebastien Mineau, to offer members of the Star Wars fan club, to which he also belongs, a special trial membership in MonSFFA. His hope is that by attending a few of our meetings or becoming involved in one of our projects, some of the Star Wars people will develop a taste for MonSFFA and end up joining our ranks at the end of the trial membership period. Sebastien put a $10 price tag on his proposed special memberships. Details need to be discussed but the BoA were generally amenable to the idea. Other topics on the table included the establishment of an online MonSFFA photo album, ongoing plans for our Web site and A dinner meeting at the Deli Planet: the first co-activity between MonSFFA and the registration of a domain name for Sithclan, the Star Wars club to which vice-president Sebastien Mineau belongs, and the club, the club’s finances, and our hopes to introduce to MonSFFA. In addition to Sebastien, MonSFFA members in assuming control of Con•Cept. attendance included Cathy Palmer-Lister, Lynda Pelley, Dominique Durocher, Lastly, a trio of BoA meetings Theresa Penalba, and David James. A couple of back issues of Warp with heavier Star content were given to each member of Sithclan as a gesture of friendship and were scheduled for later in the year, Wars public relations. Photo by Sebastien Mineau. all to be held Sunday afternoons at 1:00PM in the west end of the food fool listeners into believing that what meeting, we screened some of the court, Faubourg, downtown. they were hearing was not a radio most memorably terrifying scenes MonSFFen interested in becoming drama, but the real thing. They from several decades worth of horror involved with the club at the succeeded beyond all expectations, films. Discussion centered on what organizational level are welcome to pulling off the greatest Halloween makes for a good scare on screen. attend; mark the following dates in prank ever. Keith offered up behind- Most were of the opinion that the your calendars: April 8, June 3, the-scenes details of the broadcast, hint of something horrifying, the October 14. and described the escalating monster in the shadows, if you will, incidents of hysteria that evening, as gets the imagination going and gives Excluding Consolation and our listeners heard unfolding what they one the most spine-tingling of scares. November fund-raiser (covered above), believed was the end of the world. No rubber movie monster can equal in chronological order, following are During the second part of the what one’s imagination can concoct Impulse’s reports and brief notations on the club’s monthly meetings and other Attack of the Killer Bunny! At the October meeting Keith Braithwaite (below) talks activities of the past six months: about what makes for a good scare on screen. Perhaps with atmospheric lighting, creepy music, and the right special effects, even a bunny could be scary…or maybe OCTOBER MONSFFA MEETING not. Photo by Lynda Pelley.

Some 30 MonSFFen were in attendance at out meeting of the 22nd. With Halloween almost upon us, our theme for the afternoon was frightfully appropriate. Keith Braithwaite began with a presentation on the famous Orson Welles radio adaptation of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds. Welles’ broadcast aired on the evening of October 30, 1938, and set off a panic across America when listeners believed that the fictional “news” bulletins of the piece were the genuine article and that a formidable Martian invasion force was laying waste to the country. Playing excerpts from the broadcast, Keith illustrated how Welles and his Mercury Theatre on the Air set out to 10 when left to run wild, not that the displays of costumes were set up. A number of MonSFFen enjoyed special effects people haven’t Meanwhile, the club’s scale modelers the October 28 paintball outing managed a few good frights over the displayed a variety of their stuff. Our organized by KAG and we thank our years—Alien, and John Carpenter’s people hosted informal costuming Klingon friends for inviting us to The Thing, for example. The and modeling workshops take part. masterful work of Alfred Hitchcock throughout the evening. Over in the was featured, of course, and it was lecture room, Keith Braithwaite HOBBY SHOW noted that many of the genre’s best reprised the slide show on motion crafted frights owe something to picture special effects he had given at MonSFFA attended Expo-Train Hitchcock. our September club meeting. Modelisme in Laval on the weekend Readers were directed to Our efforts were very much of November 11-12. Our showcase of Stephen King, H.P. Lovecraft, some enjoyed and praised by the attending sci-fi models stood out among the of Ray Bradbury’s work, Edgar Allan public, many of whom were eager to hobby show’s model railroad Poe. Literature, when seeking to know more about our club. We made exhibits and Wayne Glover, who scare, depends far more on creating a sure that everyone went home with arranged for the club to participate, spooky atmosphere than in graphic an info flyer. reports much interest in our display. descriptions of the gruesome and The library estimated that about gory. 30 people attended at peak. Their NEW FEDEX FILES PROJECT Keith gets a nod of thanks for small number was offset by their putting this meeting’s programming genuine appreciation and A half-dozen MonSFFen met in together, and we thank those enthusiasm for SF, and for MonSFFA. mid November to kick around ideas MonSFFen who saw to our October It was our pleasure to have taken for another FedEx Files movie project. raffle and snack table. part. Plans are to develop a story that gets We thank the folks at the Pointe- away from the familiar space SCIENCE FICTION FALL Claire Public Library for inviting us, cabbages of previous adventures. A particularly Céline Laperrière, who werewolf tale has begun to take MonSFFA was invited to found us on the Web and got us shape and a story outline is currently participate in Science Fiction Fall, an involved. And we thank our crew for being written. All interested event organized by the Pointe-Claire making MonSFFA look so good: MonSFFen are welcome to become Public Library. The library dedicated Cathy Palmer-Lister, Wayne Glover, involved in this project. the evening of Friday, October 27, to Keith Braithwaite, Dominique science fiction, bringing in local SF CHRISTMAS PARTY 2000 writers Donald Kingsbury and Durocher, Mark Burakoff, Nick Daniel Sernine as featured speakers. Krimp, André Poliquin, JJ Sobey, Marc Durocher, David James, Josée 2000 came to a close for MonSFFA’s contribution was MonSFFA with an evening of Bellemare, Lindsay Brown, and John multifaceted. A few of our costumers seasonal celebration at the Days Matthias. donned full regalia, providing the Inn’s restaurant/bar. 30-35 PAINTBALL CHALLENGE event with a little of the appropriate MonSFFen and their friends partied atmosphere. Additionally, static all night at the club’s December 9 Christmas bash, enjoying food, Science Fiction Fall: MonSFFA members share their love of SF/F and promote the drink, and conversation as DJ club at the Pointe-Claire Public Library. Photo provided by Josée Bellemare. Michele Berry kept ’em dancin’ to the beat. The evening’s many raffle prizes, including a few Star Wars items and souvenirs of the 2000 WorldCon (Chicago), were displayed under Dominique Durocher’s funky, fibre-optic Christmas tree, the undulating, colourful, star-like lights of which lent a certain sci-fi look to our decorations. Meanwhile, we collected a couple of large boxes worth of toys and non-perishable food items, which were donated to Sun Youth’s Christmas Basket Drive. And we were pleased to welcome Toronto-area member Paul Bennett and his wife, Sue, who drove all the way up just for this event. Such dedication to partying earns them each the title of honourary Montrealer! The club thanks Keith 11 Braithwaite for setting up the party with the very accommodating folks at the Days Inn, and for seeing to our charity effort; Michele Berry for providing us with the sound system and spinning the tunes; Cathy Palmer-Lister for running our raffle; and Dominique Durocher for supplying that cool Christmas tree. Thanks also to those MonSFFen who helped out with decorations, the snack table, etc.

JANUARY MONSFFA MEETING

Our first meeting of the new year took place on January 21. Some 35 MonSFFen were in attendance. Arthur C. Clarke was the topic of Above: DJ Michele Berry (left) with Dan Kenney and Lindsay Brown at the our opening panel. Moderator Keith MonSFFA Christmas Party. Photo provided by Dan Kenney. Braithwaite was joined by Leslie Lupien and Marc Durocher in effect of such modern technologies as handful of genre television shows discussion of Clarke’s life, his major the Internet and satellite TV on sci-fi aired on a handful of networks. SF novels, non-fiction writing, and of fandom. Today, specialty TV channels feed us the celebrated science fiction film, Such technologies have vastly sci-fi 24/7. And the VCR allows us to 2001: A Space Odyssey, which was co- expanded the reach and view it all at our convenience. In scripted by Clarke and based upon quantity—though not necessarily the years past the B-fare of drive-ins, one of his short stories. quality—of SF/F, it was posited. contemporary sci-fi movies are often Credited with the invention of Once a niche interest shared by a among Hollywood’s blockbusters. the geostationary satellite relative few, SF/F today is SF/F fans don’t really need fandom communications system (he outlined mainstream stuff. anymore to enjoy their favourite this concept in 1945, 25 years before However, with the genre. the idea became reality), Clarke’s mainstreaming of the genre has come Why then do we continue to be strong interest in science and space the decline of such staples of fandom involved with clubs like MonSFFA? as a young man carried into his SF as the convention and the fanzine. We like to spend time with our writing. His early work was of the What cons, ’zines, and other fanac friends, came the reply, and we get a “hard science” variety. Clarke’s offer—discussion of SF/F, amateur generally more substantial vision was often one of technology fiction, art, the latest inside dope on enjoyment of SF/F as part of a group as man’s key to the stars. Later sci-fi’s next big thing—are now strongly interested in and works, however, began to explore readily available on the Web. Not knowledgeable about the genre. themes more metaphysical. that long ago, we’d relish the Exploring a passion for sci-fi seated Our panelists drew up a recommended reading list that Below: Panelists (l-r) Keith Braithwaite, Leslie Lupien, and Marc Durocher discuss included the novels Childhood’s End, the works of author Arthur C. Clarke at the January meeting. Photo by Lynda Pelley. The City and the Stars, Rendezvous with Rama, Fountains of Paradise, 2001 (Clarke’s novelization of the film), and it’s sequel, 2010. Highly recommended, too, was Clarke’s non-fiction. A few audience members commented that his Rama sequels (written with Gentry Lee) were disappointing. On the topic of 2001, the film, opinion was mixed. While some praised it as an SF movie classic, others found it difficult to follow and slow moving. But its visuals, all agreed, get top marks. Keith Braithwaite flew solo during the second half of the meeting, leading an animated discussion with the group on the 12 in front of a computer or TV screen is fine, but not nearly as satisfying or fun as doing so in a room full of real, live people. The meeting also saw us select our Executive Committee for 2001. Thanks to all who put this meeting together and made it work.

MEDIEVAL BANQUETS

On two occasions, February 10 and 24, a small group of MonSFFen dressed up in period attire and enjoyed an authentic medieval feast courtesy of Cathy Palmer-Lister’s sister, Judy, who specializes in this kind of thing. Judy hosted our people at her home in Chateauguay and received rave reviews for her cooking. Above: Judy Palmer (left), sister of Cathy Palmer-Lister, with MonSFFA members FEBRUARY MONSFFA MEETING Yolande Rufiange and Chantal Brodeur costumed for the medieval dinner. Photo by Lynda Pelley. Some 30 or so MonSFFen along and renders a fine example of action is an indication that the genre attended our February 18 club a romance (Kirk and Edith Keeler), is not ready for a female Kirk. Some meeting, which, in honour of even elevating the love story to of the men in the room remained Valentine’s Day, featured a panel primary importance as a plot unconvinced and argued that discussion on romance in SF/F. element. contemporary SF has given us many Panelists Marquise Boies, Georges Many commented that such engaging female characters who can Dodds, Michele Berry, and Ernst- be admired not so much for their Udo Peters presided over a lively quality is a lot more commonplace in physical attractiveness as for their discussion that had audience fantasy. Without a doubt, all agreed, members commenting on almost fantasy handles romance better than does SF. Certainly, the courtly Below: Is the Arthurian fantasy more every point. suited to romance than SF? The romance of Arthurian fantasy tales The consensus was that February meeting asked this question. romance, generally, is not one of and the like provide much of the Dominique Durocher and Lynda Pelley science fiction’s strong suits. Science appeal of such stories. Love stories in pose for this photo taken by Josée driven adventure tales, sprawling fantasy are written with more of an Bellemare at the medieval dinner. galactic political intrigues, space adult flavour than the juvenile operas—this is the stuff of which SF offerings of most SF. is made. Aimed at a primarily young The discussion wandered into and male audience, SF focuses on the area of SF’s portrayal of women, “guy stuff,” leaving little room for yesterday and today, and whether any quality romantic plotlines. What the genre is ahead of or behind the romance there is often is quite times in regard to the advances clichéd. Heroic rocket boy meets women have made, and continue to beautiful astro girl, astro girl is make, in modern society. Many of captured by evil alien fiends, rocket the women in the room put SF boy rescues astro girl, astro girl behind the times and noted that swoons, rocket boy gets astro girl. female characters, one, only get That’s pretty much the level of what respect when they equal or best the passes for romance in your typical SF men and fit nicely into a spandex or story. leather jumpsuit, and two, are Not that there aren’t exceptions. judged by a different standard than The original Star Trek series served as male characters, anyway. To employ a means of illustrating this. Most Trek again to illustrate, if Captain episodes featured Captain Kirk and Janeway catted around as much as some provocatively dressed space Kirk, she’d be labeled a slut, unlike siren engaging in what used to be space-age swinger James T., who is called heavy petting—pretty juvenile admired for his conquests. That stuff, really. But then an episode like Voyager’s writers have given “City on the Edge of Forever” comes Janeway little in the way of romantic 13 intelligence and resourcefulness. The merchandise. Both MonSFFA lapel pins and T- X-Files’ Scully was cited as a prime We thank Marquise, Georges, shirts are now available from the example. Michele, Ernst, Berny, and Mark for club store. Orders for pins and shirts In a nutshell, the room doing the programming thing this will be taken at the club’s monthly concluded that while both genres can meeting, and all of the usual suspects meetings, over the Net, or via our certainly be accused of clichéd who took care of the meeting’s raffle P.O. box. Make cheques or money portrayals of men and women, SF and snack table. orders payable to MonSFFA. Add does not do romance nearly as well $1.50 shipping/handling per item. as does fantasy. VISIT TO MOUNTAIN LAKE Allow about three weeks for your Such was interest in the topic PUBLIC BROADCASTING order to be filled. that had time permitted, the The attractive lapel pins discussion could have gone on all On Saturday evening, March 10, reproduce the club’s logo in colour. afternoon. But the meeting had a crew of MonSFFen drove down to They are priced at $8, but discounted scheduled a game of Sci-Fi Win, Plattsburgh, New York, to help staff at $6 for MonSFFA members. Lose, or Draw, an SF/F version of the the pledge phones at Mountain Lake The white, short-sleeve, pre- parlour game Pictionary, and this Public Broadcasting, Channel 57, the shrunk cotton shirts sport a full- followed the mid-meeting break. local PBS TV station. Airing that colour MonSFFA logo on front and Berny Reischl and Mark evening was probably the station’s the “MonSFFA ” and “AMonSFF” Burakoff hosted the game. Players final Red Dwarf “smegathon,” a acronyms on one sleeve. Price per had one minute to get across to collection of favourite episodes. The shirt: $20 regular, $18 for club teammates sci-fi movie titles, long-running British sci-fi comedy is members. character names, etc. by providing apparently no longer in production, Please note: our shirt supplier clues in the form of marker drawings although a feature film is said to be advises us that an inventory problem on an easel. Two teams were made in the works. has left size large shirts unavailable up and the fun began. Frantic We thank those club members at this time. Small, medium, and sketching elicited rapid-fire guesses who made the trip and represented extra-large are available. We hope to yelled out in round after round. The us well. MonSFFA has been doing announce soon that large shirts have score remained close until the final pledge phone duty at Channel 57 for been added to our stock. Stay tuned. few rounds, when one team pulled some 10 years, now, usually in MonSFFA thanks Berny Reischl, ahead convincingly to win the game. conjunction with airings of Red Mark Burakoff, and Cathy Palmer- Each member of the winning Dwarf. Lister for setting us up with our lapel team received a beautifully crafted MONSFFA MERCHANDISE pins, and JJ Sobey and Michele Berry lapel pin, depicting the helicopter for seeing to our T-shirts. Airwolf, made especially for the event by Berny and Mark in their Below: The MonSFFA crew get green- incarnation as the Two Wacky Pin screened onto a Red Dwarf background. Guys, dealers in sci-fi pins and other Photo by WCFE.

14 FFAANNZZIINNEESS by Ted White Fanzines are a basic part of paid up (success beyond the wildest articles by American TAFF-winner science fiction fandom, having been dreams of anyone else publishing in Ulrika O’Brien, Dave Langford, in existence as long as fandom that way); in a later statement she Martin Hoare (who often accepts itself—the past 70 years. insisted that reader response had Langford’s Hugos at Worldcons for Fanzines are a reflection of many nothing to do with it. Some think him), Rob Hansen, Jeff Schalles and fans‚ interest in the printed word, King grew tired of a project that in Geri herself—and a 30-page letter and amateur publishing. The his terms never generated more than column. Discussions fill the letter publication you are reading this in is small change, supposedly around column and invite your responses a fanzine, but a specialized one. A $375,000.” (there’s nothing like seeing your own variety of other fanzines are also letter in print!). available—many of them by TRASH BARREL request—and this column will cover (Donald Franson, 6543 Babcock Ave., some of them each issue. North Hollywood, CA 91606-2308; All fanzines are published as a available “on request,” but a hobby and lose money. Their editors stamped, self-addressed envelope The 1998 CUFF Trip appreciate money to defray their wouldn’t hurt) Report expenses and sometimes list single- is now available! copy or subscription prices, but they Trash Barrel typically runs only appreciate even more your written two-to-four pages of typewriter- PENNEYS UP THE RIVER response—a Letter of Comment, or typed double-columns, and although and Other CUFF Tales LoC. Feedback—better known in it’s printed by Xerox copying, it has by fandom as “egoboo”—is what the look and feel of older-fashioned, Lloyd and Yvonne Penney fanzine publishing is all about. mimeographed fanzines. This A trip report in fanzine form, in Check out the fanzines below fanzine is devoted to nothing but the fine tradition of fan funds and broaden your participation in listings (with a sentence or two of going back to the 1950s. Contains fandom. description) of fanzines. They are our trip report, plus an essay on almost too brief to be called CUFF by Linda Ross-Mansfield, a ANSIBLE “reviews,” and they don’t make list of past and present CUFF (Dave Langford, 94 London Rd, exciting reading, but the latest issue winners, a financial statement, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 5AU, (dated “Nov. 2000” and and a memorial to Hugo-winning United Kingdom; [email protected]; unnumbered) has 52 fanzines listed, fan artist, the late Joe Mayhew. monthly single sheet newsletter; in alphabetical order—making it a There’s something for CUFF available in the U.S. for a self- good place to find out about a wide supporters, fanzine fans, and addressed, stamped envelope sent to variety of fanzines for anyone fanhistorians alike. All copies are U.S. agent Janice Murray, Box 75684, wishing to explore this aspect of signed and numbered, limited Seattle, WA 98126-0684) fandom. supply. Cover art by Teddy Harvia and Brad Foster, and Ansible has been appearing IDEA interior illustrations by Teddy regularly for 20 years; the December (Geri Sullivan, Toad Hall, 3444 Harvia. issue is #161. Dave Langford writes Blaisdell Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN and edits Ansible with clarity and 55408-4315; [email protected]; How much is it? $10…Canadian, wit, and has been winning Fan available for Letters of Comment; American, Australian, don’t Writer Hugos for it with an almost query about single-copy availability) care…all money raised from sales monotonous consistency for years— will go to CUFF, the Canadian if not decades.This is a newsletter Idea falls at the opposite end of Unity Fan Fund. We can accept with a British accent which covers the fanzine spectrum from Trash Canadian and American dollar both fan and pro events, cramming Barrel. The new #12 runs 78 pages cheques, and cash is always good, an amazing amount of wordage into and is an ambitious “genzine” or too. If you are interested in its two double-columned pages. general, unspecialized fanzine. Geri purchasing a copy, send an e-mail There is actually more real news in uses a high-tech mimeograph to with a message of your intentions an issue of Ansible than can be found produce this very attractive fanzine, to Lloyd and Yvonne Penney at in most issues of Locus. Here’s an but the text is all computer-set and [email protected], and then example: “Stephen King suspended looks virtually photo-copied. The send $10 ASAP to us at: 1706-24 publication of his download free, front cover (both sides) is produced Eva Rd., Etobicoke, ON M9C 2B2. pay on the honour system‚ serial on a color inkjet printer and presents Make cheques payable to Lloyd ‘The Plant’ as of 9 November. His eight full-color photographs of such Penney. assistant Marsha DeFilippo first said notable fans as British TAFF-winner this was because only 46% of readers Maureen Kincaid Speller. Inside are 15 IINNTTEERRVVIIEEWW WWIITTHH AA DDRRAAGGOONN by Josée Bellemare

Warp fanzine was fortunate enough to get an exclusive inteview with Calypso the Dragon, who can be seen in the upcoming MonSFFilm Merlin 2000.

Warp: Originally, you’re from Chicago. Tell us how you came to be part of the Merlin 2000 project here in Montreal.

Calypso: My owner saw me at a Above: Portrait of a dragon—Calypso poses for a publicity shot. Could this be the convention and fell in love with me beginning of a new acting career? Photo by Cathy Palmer-Lister. right away. She bought me and took me home with her to Montreal. Warp: So for the next month you had Warp: What happened between the As for the video project, Cathy, a new owner? location shoot and the next my new owner, brought me to the MonSFFA meeting? September MonSFFA meeting. Calypso: Yes. I was a little concerned Everybody loved me there—people about that at first. After all, there I Calypso: Very little. Except for a are often fascinated by dragons. In was, a stranger in a new city; just couple of publicity pictures, I was particular, one of the stars of the arrived in my new home and already able to relax. I was given a project, and it’s principal writer, saw me and thought that I would be I was moving again. comfortable spot on top of the living perfect for a small part in the video. Fortunately, my doubts were room sofa and almost every day She immediately asked my shortlived. The lady who was to be someone would give me a neck rub owner—now my agent as well—if I my temporary owner immediately or a gentle scratch behind the ears or would be available. Cathy graciously took possession of me and for the between the wings. accepted. rest of the meeting proved to be very affectionate. When we arrived at her Warp: What are your plans now? Do Below: A knight out—Calypso attends home, she introduced me to her you see yourself acting again after the medieval dinner. Photo by Cathy family and took excellent care of me Merlin 2000? Palmer-Lister. for the entire month. Calypso: I don’t know. It’s been Warp: What about the actual filming suggested that I become the on location? MonSFFA Mascot and possibly take part in a publicity campaign using Calypso: That Saturday was sunny the MonSFFA logo, but nothing is and the temperature not too cold. I definite at this point. Time will tell. was carefully placed in the minivan for the trip to the cabin. When we got Warp: What are your impressions of there, the equipment was unpacked, the Merlin 2000 project? the humans ate lunch, got into costume, and we set out to the Calypso: It’s a very different telling clearing to shoot the video. of the Camelot legend. I’ve had a lot Throughout the afternoon we did of fun working on it. one scene after another, working very hard and taking many publicity Warp fanzine and the production shots along the way. Eventually we team of Merlin 2000 wold like to take ran out of battery power and this opportunity to thank Calypso’s sunlight. That’s when everybody owner and gaent, Cathy Palmer- had dinner, packed up their things Lister, for her cooperation in this and went home. project.

16 As the year made mythic by venerable science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke dawned, MonSFFA assembled a panel to discuss his life and work as part of the programming at the club’s first meeting of the year, on January 21. The following overview of Clarke reflects in brief biographical and other information imparted to the meeting by our panelists. ARTHUR C. CLARKE: GRAND MASTER OF SCIENCE FICTION Arthur C. Clarke is one of modern science fiction elements of the metaphysical. Taking inspiration from literature’s so-called “big three,” Isaac Asimov and W. Olaf Stapledon, whose works he greatly admired, Robert A. Heinlein (both deceased) being the other two Clarke developed in such novels as Childhood’s End, The of the genre’s best known and most celebrated writers of City and the Stars, and Rendezvous With Rama, themes of the post-World War II era. Clarke, who has resided in Sri cosmic perspective and near-religious mythology— Lanka (formerly Ceylon) for over 40 years, contracted humanity’s child-like incomprehension of the polio in 1962, recovered, but was diagnosed in 1988 as unfathomable wisdom of ancient and mysterious alien suffering from post-polio syndrome. He cannot walk races, mankind’s transcendence to a higher plane of unaided. He celebrated his 83rd birthday on December existence, the search for God. TV producer Gene 16 last. Roddenberry took some of his inspiration for Star Trek The British-born Clarke, an RAF veteran, twice from Clarke. chairman of the British Interplanetary Society (BIS), Clarke’s output slowed in the 1980s and early and an enthusiast of undersea exploration, is a multiple ’90s as his advancing age and illness took their toll. He Hugo and Nebula award-winner and was named a nevertheless remained fairly productive, penning sequels Nebula Grand Master in 1986. to 2001, and with Gentry Lee, sequels to Rendezvous with In 1945 he published “Extra-Terrestrial Relays,” a Rama. His recollection of a literary life, Astounding Days: paper outlining the principles of satellite communication A Science Fictional Autobiography, was released in 1989, using satellites in geostationary orbits. Some 25 years followed in 1990 by an interesting tale of attempts to later his concept became reality. He has received raise the Titanic in the 21st century, The Ghost from the numerous honours for his invention and today the Grand Banks. 42,000-kilometer geostationary orbit is referred to as the Clarke was among the first to predict reusable space Clarke Orbit, so named by the International vehicles, the millennium bug, and the proliferation of the Astronomical Union. mobile phone. The space travel depicted in the film 2001 His major science fiction novels include Childhood’s has yet to be achieved, as does the development of a End (1950; expanded 1953), The City and the Stars (1953; HAL-like supercomputer, but both are well on their way expanded 1956), The Deep Range (1954; expanded 1957), to realization. Clarke speculates that by 2030 we will A Fall of Moondust (1961), Rendezvous With Rama (1973), have made contact with an extraterrestrial civilization, and The Fountains of Paradise (1979). He is probably most and that agriculture and animal husbandry will come to associated, however, with 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), an end as we become able to synthesize all of our food. the definitive SF film by Stanley Kubrick, which Clarke The 21st century will see the development of some co-scripted with Kubrick, and which was based on kind of new energy source—“Cold fusion, hot fission, Clarke’s short story “The Sentinel” (1951). Clarke also goodness knows what,” says Clarke. We’ll also see space novelized the film. tourism, complete with domed hotels on the moon. And Says the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (by John Clute people will travel into orbit via the space elevator he and Peter Nicholls) of Clarke’s prose: “Never a ‘literary’ envisioned in The Fountains of Paradise. author, he nonetheless writes always with lucidity and Recent news stories announced that DNA extracted candour, often with grace, sometimes with a cold, sharp from strands of Clarke’s hair will be shot into space evocativeness that has produced some of the most as part of a “cosmic message in a bottle.” A project memorable images in SF.” organized by Houston-based Encounter 2001 LLC Clarke’s earliest work was of the “hard SF” variety, proposes to launch a space age time capsule of humanity that is, based solidly in science and technology. He had into the cosmos for any extraterrestrials who may be taken a strong interest in science and space as a young interested. Clarke is one of 55,000 people signed up man and was an optimist about the future, seeing to take part. Along with his DNA, Clarke included a technology as mankind’s key to the stars. Subsequent photograph of himself and a brief handwritten note: works, beginning with “The Sentinel,” would introduce “Fare well my clone!” 17 BRIEF CHRONOLOGY OF LIFE AND TIMES OF ARTHUR C. CLARKE

1917 light-beam transmitter, which uses satellites in geostationary orbits, Arthur C. Clarke born December light to transmit sound; his uncle, which becomes reality quarter- 16 in Minehead, Somerset, England. an engineer, supplies parts and century later. Will be honoured 1927 teaches him how to build wireless many times for his invention, Takes first flight, with mother, in crystal sets. including 1982 Marconi International biplane. 1934 Fellowship; Gold Medal, Franklin Institute; Vikram Sarabhai 1928 Joins fledgling British Professorship, Physical Research November: Reads his first science Interplanetary Society (BIS). Laboratory, Ahmedabad; Lindbergh fiction magazine, Amazing Stories; 1936 Award; Fellowship, King’s College, becomes avid collector of pulps. Leaves home for civil service London. 1930 job in London. 1946 July: Publication of W. Olaf 1938 • “Rescue Party,” written March Stapledon’s Last and First Men, a July: Moves into flat a few blocks 1945, first story sold, for $180. First book that will profoundly from British Museum with fellow professionally published story, influence Clarke’s writing. science fiction writer Bill Temple; their flat becomes BIS headquarters. “Loophole,” appears April issue of 1931 Astounding Science Fiction; “Rescue 1939 • Father dies. Party” follows in May. • BIS spaceship design featured in • Discovers The Conquest of Space, • June 21: Demobilized from RAF. Time magazine and on cover of by David Lasser, first book in • October 7: Enrolls King’s College, Practical Mechanics. English to review work of early London; pursues Bachelor of Science • September 3: Britain declares war rocket pioneers and discuss General Degree, Physics, Pure and on Germany. possibility of interplanetary space Applied Mathematics. flight. (Lasser had founded 1941 • Becomes chairman of BIS, recruits American Interplanetary Society Joins Royal Air Force (RAF); many new members, including previous year.) Clarke becomes selected to train in radio direction George Bernard Shaw. devoted “space cadet.” finding (radar). • Meets C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien Early-1930s 1945 in Oxford. Throughout his teens constructs Publishes “Extra-Terrestrial 1947 telescopes to observe Moon; builds Relays,” paper outlining principles Writes first novel, Prelude to Space; several homemade rockets. Builds a of satellite communication using published 1951. 1948 • Graduates King’s College with honours; enrolls University College

18 for year of post-graduate studies in Smith, 18-year-old Harlan Ellison. Sputnik 1, world’s first astronomy. Later meets Robert A. Heinlein. man-made satellite. • Writes short story “The Sentinel,” • July: Visits White Sands Proving 1958 Grounds, New Mexico; meets many published 1951; will become basis January-March: Lecture space enthusiasts, including Clyde for film 2001: A Space Odyssey. tour of 15 U.S. states. 1949 Tombaugh, who discovered Pluto in 1959 Contracted to write non-fiction work 1930. Visits Mount Palomar, Mount February: Spends weekend in on space flight, Interplanetary Flight, Wilson observatories in California. Boston with Jacques Cousteau. published 1950; first English- Meets Ray Bradbury. Visits set of language book to present basic film The War of the Worlds; meets 1961 theory of space flight, including director George Pal. • May 25: President John F. technical details. Influences • August 1: Returns to England. Kennedy commits U.S. to landing Carl Sagan. 1953 man on moon. • Becomes science and plot adviser • June 15: Marries Marilyn • August: Meets Hugo Gernsback, for Dan Dare comic strip in The Eagle. Mayfield, whom he met on Florida pioneer editor and publisher of scuba diving trip; marriage over by 1950 science fiction, in New York. Christmas. First TV appearance, 20-minute • September: Attends 12th • August: U.S. release of talk on The Fourth Dimension. International Astronautical Congress Childhood’s End is immediate success; in Washington, D.C.; delivers speech 1951 first printing of 210,000 copies sells in which he says: “Communication September: Chairs Second out in less than two months. satellites will enable us, in effect, to International Congress on • Meets Wernher von Braun. move almost instantaneously to any Astronautics in London, organized 1954-1956 part of the world. …by the end of by BIS; attracts 63 delegates from 10 Interest in undersea exploration this century, all terrestrial calls may countries, including German rocket prompts expedition to Australia’s be local calls and may be billed at a pioneer Hermann Oberth. Clarke: Great Barrier Reef, later to Ceylon flat standard rate.” “Space flight is likely to be the next (which will become Sri Lanka), • December 6: Brief audience major technical achievement of our where he decides to make his home. with Yuri Gagarin while Russian species.” 1956 astronaut visits Ceylon. Will later 1952 Guest of Honour at World Science receive inscribed copy of Gagarin’s • April: Boards Queen Mary at Fiction Convention, New York; first autobiography. Southampton bound for New York. non-American GoH. 1962 • June: His non-fiction The 1957 February: Polio confines Clarke to Exploration of Space (1951) selected October 4: Launch of Russian bed for months; recovers but will be by Book-of-the-Month Club. Appears on Today Show. Attends Midwestcon in Ohio; meets many other writers, including Robert Bloch, E.E. “Doc”

19 afflicted with post-polio syndrome Clarke’s television set is only one Conference on the Exploration and in later life. on island of Sri Lanka. Peaceful Uses of Outer Space 1964 1976 (UNISPACE ’82), in Vienna. April 22: First meeting with March: Attends celebrations marking • August 31: Delivers address to Stanley Kubrick, in New York, to 100th anniversary of telephone; U.N. Committee on Disarmament discuss project that will become meets artificial intelligence pioneer in Geneva, opposing technology 2001: A Space Odyssey. Marvin Minsky, Dr. Edwin Land, and deployment of “Star Wars” weaponry. 1965 inventor of Polaroid camera. December 29: Filming of 2001 begins 1980 1983 at Shepperton Studios, England. • February: Mother dies. • May: Visited in Sri Lanka by Steven Spielberg, Harrison Ford, 1968 • September: Shoots ads, directed who have just finished shooting part 2001 premieres. by Ridley Scott, for launch of science fiction/fact magazine Omni. of Indiana Jones and the Temple of 1969 1981 Doom on island nation. • Intelsat III begins service over • May 17: Gives keynote address at Indian Ocean, completing global • April 12: Launch of first space shuttle. United Nations on World communications system envisioned Telecommun- ications Day; his by Clarke in 1945. 1982 theme, “Beyond the Global Village.” • 27 March: Attends World Science • March: Completes 2010: Odyssey • November 25: Official Fiction Symposium and Film Two, which he began writing inauguration ceremony of Arthur C. Festival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; previous July. Clarke Centre, University of among those present are writers • June: First visit to Soviet Union. Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. Brian Aldiss, J.G. Ballard, filmmakers • August: Is Sri Lankan delegate to 1984 Fritz Lang, George Pal. the Second United Nations February: Shooting begins on film • Lectures on astronomy in Arizona; 2010. At same time, space shuttle audience includes Gene Challenger is orbiting Earth; on Roddenberry, creator of TV’s CLARKE’S LAWS February 7th, Bruce McCandless Star Trek. successfully completes first • July: Apollo 11 moon mission; FIRST LAW untethered space walk. co-anchors CBS news coverage with Walter Cronkite and astronaut Wally When a distinguished 1986 Schirra. Will repeat assignment for but elderly scien- • January 28: Space shuttle Apollos 12 and 15. tist states that Challenger explodes shortly after launch, killing crew. 1971 something is possi- • Made Nebula Grand Master by November 12: Attends conference at ble, he is almost Science Fiction Writers of America Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, certainly right. (SFWA). California, on occasion of Mariner 9 When he states encounter with Mars; Ray Bradbury, 1989 that something is Carl Sagan also present. June 17: Awarded Companion of impossible, he is British Empire (CBE). 1972 very probably wrong. • Ceylon becomes Sri Lanka. 1990 • March 14: Addresses Goddard Arthur C. Clarke Centre officially Spaceflight Institute dinner in SECOND LAW begins to act as distributor for CNN in Sri Lanka. Washington, D.C., telling audience The only way to “wiring of the global electronic 1998 village is now complete.” discover the limits Awarded knighthood. of the possible is 1973-1974 2000 Rendezvous with Rama wins Nebula, to venture beyond December 16: Celebrates Hugo, John W. Campbell Memorial, them into the impos- 83rd birthday. and British Science Fiction awards. sible. 2001 1975 Announced that DNA extracted • July: Covers historic THIRD LAW from strands of Clarke’s hair will be Apollo-Soyuz link-up for CBS. included in “cosmic message in a • August: Receives gift of satellite Any significantly bottle,” a time capsule of humanity dish from Indian government, for advanced technology to be shot into space. “demonstration purposes”; first is indistinguishable private home to be so equipped. from magic. —Keith Braithwaite 20 Review:Review: ChiconChicon VIVI 20002000 WWorldorld ScienceScience FictionFiction ConventionConvention by Sylvain St-Pierre

A few of a while, I had to give in to certain it seems that the cliché of the “great us MonSFFen were lucky enough to various biological functions. unwashed fan” is not quite dead: the attend the 60th World Science Fiction It was indeed, occasionally in-con newsletter felt it necessary to Convention last Labour Day: Cathy necessary to stop to eat, but the area remind some participants to bathe Palmer-Lister, Marquise Boise, Ann is well provided with many once in a while… Methe, Jean-Pierre Normand and restaurants in a wide range of prices, Moon Time was published at least myself. We even managed to bump and offering a good variety of food, twice a day. Thanks to computer into each other occasionally… A lot which is always welcome if you get technology, it was technically superb, of bumping certainly did occur at the tired of con suite fare. In addition, but the content somehow lacked the central message board, as it was the con restaurant guide was quite whimsical tang that I have come to located in a hotel passageway comprehensive—a bit too much, in associate with this sort of bottleneck. It was hard to miss! fact—it took forever to choose! publication. It was interesting to None of us apparently spent In another area of bodily needs, compare it with the early much time on the city proper. While mimeographed examples displayed there were a number of interesting in the fan lounge, alongside the non-con attractions, such as rather venerable copying devices and the nice Art Deco skyscrapers from the antique computers used by previous ’30s and a Star Wars exhibit at the generations of fans. Fields Museum, we were there for One area where the latest the Worldcon and there was a lot in technologies were put to good use it to keep us occupied. was the dealers room: at least one Chicago is blessed with a merchant was using a plasma screen complex of three large hotels close to monitor to display his entire each other, which are interconnected catalogue! A worldcon still remains by a network of underground the year’s largest concentration of passages. This locale—the same as genre merchandise on the planet, but for the ’91 Worldcon—is very I could not help but feel that the convenient in case of bad weather; variety has gone down in recent but this feature proved unnecessary years. Am I getting jaded? I hope this time, as it remained mostly not! I did find a number of extremely sunny and warm. In fact, many good deals, especially for vintage people chose the above ground pulps, and there were also plenty of routes, as some of the passages are books, comics, magazines, rather twisted and time-consuming. sculptures, jewellery, costumes, Whoever was in charge must movies, pictures, posters, ray-guns, have taken this in consideration, for compact disks and positronic the schedule sensibly allowed a translinear pandimensional comfortable fifteen minute margin to sprockets (batteries not included). get from one panel to another. The The opening ceremony was program listing was available on the rather amusing, with a retrospective Internet a couple of weeks before the of the events leading to the bid, and actual con; which was a good thing interviews with fans who had because I was able to sort out in actually attended the very first advance what I wanted to see, and worldcon, in 1939. (Did you know managed to boil down sixty printed that it is called the “world” con pages worth of panels into only because it was supposed to be held twelve. I did not, of course, see all of at the New York World Fair?) that—being constantly side-tracked People who had paid extra to be put by a lot of interesting activities, and in the “pre-opposing” category often confronted with a half-dozen gained the right to throw cream pies mouth-watering events all scheduled in the face of selected members of at the same time. And, every once in the con committee… This makes you

21 live broadcasting of the main events program will be like if they do win in all three major hotels, and that the bid… was an excellent idea. Unfortunately, Re-reading the previous the technical quality of the show left paragraphs, I realize that some might much to be desired in some conclude that I did not enjoy the instances. The sound for the Hugos, convention, but that would be quite most particularly, was terrible. They inaccurate. This is my eighth had the very same problems nine worldcon, so I am beginning to have years ago when they tried it last, a good basis for comparisons. While which shows that some things do not it is true that some of the events improve with the passage of time. could have been better, everything is Still, it did allow many fans who relative. There were still a great many enjoyable things to see and do, Forest J. Ackerman at the Hugo would have otherwise missed them, to see the important ceremonies, and many of the panels were both ceremonies, as seen from a television. entertaining and informative. The Photo by Sylvain St-Pierre. even if there is no substitute for being there in person. In that regard, logistic aspect was better handled than usual for this kind of event, wonder about the sanity of the kind the hall costumes were much more enjoyable. from the well-designed Pocket of people that actually volunteer to Program Book that you could hang hold such positions. There were a couple of live plays and, for those who prefer canned from your belt to the prompt The art show proper was entertainment, a comprehensive notification of any changes in the somewhat disappointing. Not only selection of movies—although I am schedule. was it barely half the size of the one at a loss to understand why the Most people expected Toronto to at Chicon V, but the general quality people who ran this last track win the bid for the 61st worldcon, of the items displayed was not—in insisted on showing movies that and they did. The major surprise was my opinion—worthy of the anybody can get at the corner video the proportion of voters who choose magnitude of the event. I have also store. The Japanese animation rooms Torcon III: a whopping 81%! The rest been told that the administrative (two of them!) were much better in sided with the only other contestant, aspect was riddled with problems. this regard, with plenty of fan- Cancun, expressed no preference, or However, this was more than subtitled gems running around the voided their ballot. So, start packing compensated by a separate special clock. folks; the Queen City is only a few display, showing paintings and Incidentally, Japan is now hours from Montreal and Labour illustrations from the ’50s. Great officially running for the 2007 Day 2003 is not that far away… classics by illustrious artists were on worldcon. I wonder what their loan from private collections, and it was fantastic to see the originals for many of the older paperback covers in my library. The exhibit included works by Emshmiller and Frank Kelly Freas, two of my favourite artists. Chancing to meet the latter while touring the room, I complimented him on the fact that his art was still very popular after half a century. “You know, he chuckled, I do not even recall doing some of these…”. Knowing the popularity of the masquerade, I joined the queue an Masquerade entrants: Top Left - Galactic Liberace, Top Right - We’ll Meet by hour before starting time, only to Earthlight, Bottom Left - Mother-in-Law of Gor, Bottom Right - In Space No One find a very large crowd already Can Hear You Tap. Photos by Sylvain St-Pierre. waiting. People much ahead of me in the line were told that it was unlikely that they would get in, so I settled for watching the show on the hotel’s closed-circuit TV. I am glad that I did, because many costumes and presentations were very forgettable for a worldcon, and the few good entries did not quite compensate for the overdone cow-theme running jokes that accounted for almost a third of the thirty-five contestants. The organizers had arranged for

22 23 24 IItt CCaammee FFrroomm TThhee SSccii--FFii MMooddeelleerr’’ss DDeesskk Artwork by Berny Reischl. Berny Artwork by MODELS FROM PERRY RHODAN a time and tape the whole assembly series, although some REVIEWS BY DOMINIQUE DUROCHER into position until they are dry. If detail—possibly weapons and done carefully, his will ensure that all sensors—on the inside face of the When these kits were first of the legs touch the surface. front projections is somewhat soft announced, I thought this would be Next is the Spaceship Sol, an 8 and indistinct. The engines also seem different and cool, as they are the km long, dumbbell-shaped ship that somewhat bare. first mass-produced kits that I know has been traveling the universe for The Blue’s Ship, the of that come from a purely literary, 1300 years. This one is made up of a unadvertised fourth of the series, is rather than media, source. Perry series of rings, with the two basically a sooped-up flying saucer; Rhodan is a series of novels from connecting cylindrical sections made and the best looking one I’ve seen! It Germany that started in 1961 and is up of four segments each. The fit of has great surface detail, fine panel still running. As far as I can find, the rings is excellent, and the lines, and a lot of decals. It is also the there are no movies or TV series segments are again helped by simplest kit to assemble, having only based on these novels. When first trimming or cutting off the two hull halves, a few landing legs, rumoured, there were to be four alignment tabs. I’m not sure how to nozzles, and turrets. ships made into kits, but only three mount this one yet, as it has no stand These kits are great! For one were shown in Revell-Germany’s or landing gear, and will tend to roll thing, they are very different from catalogue. off of any surface. I’m not even sure anything else, which is a nice change. All of these kits are very well which side is the front yet. They are very colorful, decently moulded with sharp detailing of The Siganese Space Jet Glador sized, and have nice potential for average to very fine raised panel is a smaller vessel—saucer shaped dioramas. For kits costing less than lines, very little flash, and few with two projections on the front. $20, they are very good value and demould pin marks. While fit is Detail again is quite nice, with the fun to put together. overall quite good—better than most finest panel lines of any kit in this Star Trek kits—I still found it was necessary to use putty on just about every seam. The biggest problem is that many hangar bays are split between two parts, and this will make it difficult to get a good flat decal application later. The paint schemes are all very colourful, as are the many, many decals. These have so far settled down well and have good response to setting solutions. The first kit is the Marco Polo, a 2.5 km-diameter ship that is one of Top Left: the Marco Polo, Top Right: Siganese Space Jet Glador, Bottom Left: the key Perry Rhodan vessels. It is Spaceship Sol, and Bottom Right: the Blue’s Ship. made up of 20 segments for the central ring and 2 caps, as well as many gun turrets, and 30 landing legs! Obviously, achieving proper alignment of the segments is crucial to getting a good-looking model, and the segment fit is pretty good. I did find that cutting off the alignment tabs helped, as well as using lots of tape. Aligning the landing legs is the other tricky part. As the instructions mention, glue them on only a few at 25 26 27 FACT, RUMOUR AND SPECULATION FROM AROUND SF/F-DOM

Information for this column reaches CFCF-12 TO DROP the internet seems to be that the new from the inner mind to the outer STAR TREK AND STARGATE SG-1 edit is an improvement on the limits. original version. For more CFCF 12 has been sold to CTV information, and possibly some and starting in September they will suggestions as to where fans might OBITUARY: DOUGLAS ADAMS most likely be carrying the complete obtain a copy of The Phantom Edit, CTV schedule, which does not try the following web site: http:// Douglas Adams, author of the include the new Star Trek series, members.onecenter.com/hollywood satirical SF novel The Hitchhiker’s Enterprise, nor Stargate SG-1. /phantomedit. Guide to the Galaxy and its sequels, Last year CFCF-12 decided to died unexpectedly May 11 of an drop the final season of Voyager, but FIRST EPISODE II apparent heart attack in Santa re-instated the show after numerous TRAILER AT DRAGONCON Barbara, CA. He was 49. British-born letters from devoted Star Trek fans Adams reportedly collapsed while were received. Perhaps this approach Steve Sansweet, director of fan working out at a gym. could work again. If not, at least the relations for Lucasfilm Ltd., will The Hitchhiker’s Guide, which price of a satellite dish is more unspool a sneak peek of Star Wars : began as a BBC radio series in 1978, reasonable than it used to be. Episode II at the upcoming was turned into a book, which sold Dragoncon, taking place Labour Day 14 million copies worldwide, and STAR WARS: weekend in Atlanta, GA. Sansweet later into a television mini-series. The THE PHANTOM EDIT will also discuss how the prequel fits Guide is a satirical adventure about a into the overall Star Wars saga. group of interplanetary travelers, A mysterious new, re-edited including Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, version of Star Wars: Episode 1 - The NEW ZEALAND JEDI Zaphod Beeblebrox, and Marvin the Phantom Menace is starting to Paranoid Android. circulate around. Titled “The “Jedi” will not become an Guide was followed by the Phantom Edit”, the film is a shorter officially recognized religion in New sequels The Restaurant at the End of version than the original by about 20 Zealand, the government says, no the Universe, Life, the Universe, and minutes. It is a sort of fan-made matter how many people wrote that Everything, and So Long, and Thanks “special edition,” created by an word under “religion” on their for All the Fish. Adams followed with anonymous fan calling himself the census forms. several books about holistic detective Phantom Editor. This new cut of the Somebody in New Zealand Dirk Gently; Last Chance to See, a movie removes scenes and dialogue started an e-mail chain letter a week book about endangered species; and, that fans objected to when the before the census stating that if at with John Lloyd, the alternative original film debuted in May, 1999. least 8000 people professed to follow dictionary The Meaning of Life. Adams After the movie opens with its the mystical Star Wars force, the also produced the Starship Titanic signature “A long time ago, in a government would have to list “Jedi” computer game and an online travel galaxy far, far away…” audiences see among recognized faiths. While a guide inspired by Guide. In recent a different scroll explaining the significant number of fans did this, years, Adams was working on reasons behind this new edit: the government is now saying that bringing Guide to the big screen. “Anticipating the arrival of the the new faith would only be listed if newest Star Wars film, some fans, like it really exists with meeting places BAKULA TO myself, were extremely disappointed and holy men or officials. CAPTAIN TREK PREQUEL by the finished product. So being someone of the ‘George Lucas “SOUND OF THUNDER” Scott Bakula (Quantum Leap) is Generation,’ I have re-edited a COMING TO BIG SCREEN standard VHS version of The Phantom reportedly cast as the starship Menace, into what I believe is a much A Montreal-based producer is, captain in the next Star Trek series, stronger film by relieving the viewer apparently, behind the planned big- Enterprise, currently being readied to of as much story redundancy, screen adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s replace Voyager, which wraps for pointless Anakin actions and classic time travel tale “A Sound of good this year. The new series is set dialogue, and Jar Jar Binks, as Thunder.” The story involves a big 100 years before the events of the possible.” game hunter who travels back in original series. The general consensus of fans on time to hunt a dinosaur and 28 accidentally alters the future to which he must then Lower Left: Did they see any cabbages? The Montreal Gazette return. Pierce “James Bond” Brosnan is set to star. The ran this article on the front page on Sunday, June 3rd, 2001. film was to have shot here in Montreal this summer, but Lower Right: We’re invited to a party—a Star Wars pulled out as schedules were shuffled in order to avoid party—that launches a play about camping out, waiting in line problems stemming from the looming Hollywood strike of writers and actors. for Episode I .

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