Science Fiction/San Francisco Issue 41 Date: March 21, 2007 Editors: Jean Martin, Chris Garcia email: [email protected] Copy Editor: David Moyce Layout Editor: Eva Kent TOC News and Notes ..........................................................Christopher J. Garcia ............................................................................................................... 2 Letters Of Comment ...................................................Christopher J. Garcia ............................................................................................................... 3-6 Editorial ......................................................................Jean Martin .............................................................................................................................. 7-8 Cinequest ...................................................................Christopher J. Garcia ............................................................................................................... 9-10 Stars Light Up WonderCon .........................................Jean Martin ...........................Photos by Jean Martin .............................................................. 11-16 Three Days No Nights at WonderCon .........................España Sheriff .........................Photos by España Sheriff ......................................................... 17-19 Five Days Four Nights at Gallifrey One .......................España Sheriff .........................Photos by España Sheriff ......................................................... 20-23 The Other Legacy of Mrs. Gaskell ...............................Cary W. Tucker ......................Photos by Cary Tucker and Jean Martin ................................... 24-26 Battlestar Galactica Signing Event in San Francisco .....Francis Yun .............................................................................................................................. 27-32 BASFA Minutes: meeting 866-867 ............................................................................................................................................................................... 33-35 Bay Area Fannish Calendar ..........................................David Moyce ........................................................................................................................... 36-46 Science Fiction/San Francisco is the twice monthly news zine for the San Francisco Bay Area. All issues can be found at www.efanzines.com All articles and photos are copyright 2007 by the original creators. Used with permission. News and Notes By Christopher J. Garcia com. I managed to get a Drink Tank out, and John Hertz as well as all the little stuff Editor which amazed me since I was running from our man Glyer makes for very fine around so much. True, it’s mostly a bunch reading. For two weeks out of every year, of letters, but I even managed a film review Add to that the eFanzines.com Cinequest replaces fandom as my main of Monster Camp in it! version of Peter Weston’s Prolapse. This motivating force. This year, like many Three new things popped up that I one’s just as history-soaked as the previous others, I’m exhausted from having burnt hadn’t expected. Mike McInerney (who I issue that ranked as my number two single the candle at both ends and a couple of think is a BArea fan) and rich brown used issue for 2006. Lots of good writing and a points in the middle for ten long, at times to do a zine called Focal Point. I remember fun playlet, too! grueling days. There was a lot of fun to be seeing a couple of issues and thinking they had (especially hanging around with such were really well done. Issues 12 through great folks as the team behind The Town 23 are on eFanzines.com thanks to Robert That Was) and there were a lot of movies. Lichtman scanning them. It’s always good The ones that stand out as potential to see more issues of older stuff coming on- favorites for SF/SF readers include Monster line for us history lovers. Camp, Long Pigs, Blood Car and We Are The Another debut on eFanzines.com Strange. Other films that had a large level is Felicity Walker’s Ish and well as Rodney of buzz included the political documentary Leighton’s The Mail Carrier Brought It. Shootdown, the Indonesian filmMaskot , the I kinda liked the way The Mail Carrier amazing Danish filmWe Shall Overcome, and Brought It looks. It’s typed and scanned, Outsourced, which Jim Terman absolutely so there’s no art or anything, but it’s well- loved. I was also a big fan of the shorts written and good reading. (Animated Worlds deserves major credit as There’s a new File 770 from Mike one of the best programs Cinequest has ever Glyer on eFanzines.com. It’s one of the put on). If you want to read more about better issues of late and a firm reminder of Cinequest movies, drop by FanboyPlanet. why File 770 ends up on Hugo ballots so com for details. often. The art in this issue, including Grant But, even while I was at the festival, Canfield, Brad W. Foster and Taral Wayne, there were still zines posted on eFanzines. is really good. Articles from James Bacon Letters Of Comment Let us begin with Mr. Lloyd Penney! there is a group calling themselves Kanadi- the Japanese Worldcon, and we have made Dear SF/SF Team: ans for Kansas City, ripping the Montreal our Hugo nominations. I’ve gotten to the Time for another letter from me, bid for being inexperienced, and full of optometrist, and my new glasses should be especially seeing I’m two issues of SF/SF the people who made Torcon 3 a mess. All here in a week or so. Clear vision? What a behind…what else is new? Here’s com- I can say is that you’ve got to get your ex- treat! And yup, Murray Moore delivered mentary on issues 39 and 40. perience somewhere… (Frank Wu might my FAAn Award to me at Ad Astra. Pat Chris Garcia replies: We’re like sharks- be right about another Canadian World- Virzi has my nominee button in the mail. if we stop pubbing, we will die! con…) Glad to hear you got your stuff. I still 39…Chris is absolutely right about I’m still full-bore for Montreal. From stare at my Best New Fan certificate from last Lee Hoffman. She is, unfortunately, just what I’ve seen of the Montreal bid, there are year when I’m thinking. It helps that it’s right the latest in a string of those who influ- few of the folks who took a lot of the punish- next to my monitor. enced fanzine fandom, and in many ways, ment for the 2003 debacle. I’m just hoping I did not get to see An Inconvenient fandom as a whole. As the founder of Sci- that Montreal will be able to hang on since Truth, but I wish I had. Al Gore will be ence Fiction Five Yearly, I was lucky enough they’ve got some good momentum. speaking in Toronto shortly, and tickets to to get on the mailing list for the last three We’ve been able to scrape up some his lecture was the hottest ticket in town. or four issues. I have the last issue, and more cash, and it turns out we’ll both be It is refreshing to see that the environment I will be writing a letter of comment to going to the International Space Develop- has become an important issue among the Randy and Geri anyway. ment Conference in Dallas in late May. electorate…I just hope it isn’t too late. If I was hoping that they’d keep it going, Should be fun, although I don’t think it is a fact, we need to act upon it, and re- but alas that was not to be. I sent an LoC off there’ll be the time or money to visit with duce emissions into the atmosphere. If it and it’s nice to know that I did get to LoC John Purcell. isn’t a fact, we’ll have cleaner air, anyway. one issue of SFFY. Well, you can always try and convince So, let’s do it. Richard Branson has put up Ad Astra 2007, our local conven- him to come to you! He’s a really nice guy some substantial cash to give incentive to tion here, took place about 10 days ago (and a helluva roommate!) scientists to come up with something that now, and both the Montreal and Kansas My loc…Chris, if you think I’m will not only reduce emissions, but even City contingents were there to stage room sending you royalties on every Smartass™ take the pollutants out of the air. Now to parties. Montreal, being just up Highway remark I made… Not long after this letter, see if the scientists have the science to do 401, seems to be a popular choice, but we did get our Hugo voting packages from it. 3 Money is what it’ll take. It’d be nice if ons too. Two great issues, and I thank you we could build a few of those mega-recycling The St. Louis NASFiC is probably all for them. Slowly but surely, I am get- centers that can deal with everything but ra- the most northerly NASFiC there’s been. ting caught up with the stack of zines I dioactive materials. I’m no fan of Mr. Gore, Some years ago, there was the possibility of have. Take care, and see you all next time. but I will say that we certainly need to deal a Detroit NASFiC, and we supported that Yours, Lloyd Penney with global warming and emissions in gen- bid. Didn’t happen, and that’s probably Always good to have a Lloyd Penney- eral. the last time a bid for a large convention style LoC! Now I really, REALLY wish I could came out of Detroit. There is a group of have gone to Corflu! Not fair! It, from all NYC and other city fans who had started And we’ve also got the Texas Tornado, accounts, was a very good time, and Pat up the idea of a continental convention John Purcell! Virzi has really topped up her egoboo ac- every year, but I haven’t heard much from Say, you BAreans! count. Now, Vegas sounds really good, them lately. If any of your readers haven’t yet taken too… Seattle’s far more Northerly than St. the time to peruse Guy Lillian’s wonderful I can’t wait, I just hope that they find Louis, though not nearly as far east. I hear zine Challenger at www.challzine.net/ a date that isn’t the last weekend in April that there’s the seed of a bid for 2014 from lindex.html, they are really missing a treat.