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NASFA 'Shuttle' The SHUTTLE July 2004 The Next NASFA Meeting will be 17 July 2004 at the Regular Time and Location Con Stellation ConCom Meeting 8 August 2004, 2P, Mike KennedyÕs House { Oyez, Oyez { NASFA Calendar The next NASFA meeting will be 17 July 2004 at the JULY regular time (6P) and the regular location. Call BookMark at 01 Canada Day. 256-881-3910 if you need directions. 02 BD: Deb Stone. There will be an election for 2005 con chair at the July 04 Independence Day. meeting. The July program will be Lord of the Rings Trivial 04 Con Stellation XXIII ConCom Meeting Ñ Mike Pursuit. KennedyÕs house. Note: Cookout after the meeting. The July after-the-meeting meeting will be a pool party 16Ð18 Conestoga Ñ Tulsa OK. at Russell McNuttÕs house. The usual rules (bring your favorite 17* NASFA Meeting Ñ 6P Business, 7P Program, at drink and a food item to share) apply. BookMark. Program: LotR Trivial Pursuit. ATMM: The next Con Stellation XXIII: Delphinus concom meet- Pool Party at Russell McNuttÕs house. ing is scheduled for Sunday 8 August 2004 (2P, Mike Ken- 23Ð25 LibertyCon 17 Ñ Cleveland (near Chattanooga) TN. nedyÕs house). Future concom meetings are tentatively sched- Note Hotel Change from original announcement. uled for 5 September, 19 September, 3 October, and 14 23Ð25 Trinoc*coN 2004 Ñ Durham NC. October. All but the last of those are Sunday meetings at Mike 25 ParentsÕ Day. KennedyÕs house. The 14 October meeting is the last-minute 24 BD: Jay Johns. Thursday meeting at the hotel. (continued on page 2) Inside this issueÉ Minutes of the June Meeting ..........................................2 Awards Roundup ............................................................3 NASFA Receivables .......................................................3 Letters of Comment ........................................................6 Deadline for the August 2004 issue of The NASFA Shuttle is Friday, 6 August 2004. 1 29 BD: Mark Paulk. we often move the meeting to the second or fourth weekend.) The regular meeting location is the upstairs meeting room at AUGUST BookMark on South Memorial Parkway. The Executive 06Ð08 ConGlomeration 2004 Ñ Louisville KY. Committee meeting (if scheduled) is at 5P. The business 06Ð08 Crescent City Con 2004 Ñ Metairie (New Orleans) meeting is at 6P. The program is at 7P. Anyone is welcome to LA. attend any of the meetings. There is usually an after-the- 08 Con Stellation XXIII ConCom Meeting Ñ Mike meeting meeting with directions available at the program. KennedyÕs house. 08 BD: Jim Woosley. 13Ð15 Armadillocon 26 Ñ Austin TX. 14 BD: Edward Kenny. June Minutes 21* NASFA Meeting Ñ 6P Business, 7P Program, at by Jim Kennedy, the disgruntled BookMark. Program: TBD. ATMM: Pool Party at Russell McNuttÕs house. The June meeting of the North Alabama Science Fiction 21 BD: Deborah Denton. Association was called to order on Saturday, 19 June, 2004 in the upstairs meeting room at BookMark at 18:31:50 by Presi- SEPTEMBER dent Mary Ortwerth. (The meeting immediately descended 02Ð06 Noreascon Four/Worldcon 62 Ñ Boston MA. into disorder.) The very lame crickets were heard repeatedly. 03Ð05 Outside Con 17 Ñ Dickson TN. Doug asked asinine questions. 03Ð06 Dragon*Con 2004 Ñ Atlanta GA. 03Ð06 Mephit Furmeet 2004 Ñ Memphis TN. OLD BUSINESS 05 Con Stellation XXIII ConCom Meeting (Tentative) The d*mn crickets wouldnÕt shut up. Ñ Mike KennedyÕs house. There are no Shuttles downstairs, except in MikeÕs car. 06 Labor Day. ÒThere he isÓ was heard repeatedly. 09 BD: Mike Cothran. (Was any of this actually old business? See below.) 11 BD: Ray Pietruszka. NEW BUSINESS 12 Grandparents Day. It is new that there is no old business. 16 Rosh Hashanah. We need to elect a chair for the next Con. Elections will 17 Citizenship Day. take place next month. (Warning! Be present, or be elected!) 18* More-or-less Annual NASFA Picnic Ñ Location and Sam Smith was pre-nominated by Jim Kennedy. Mike Time TBD. Cothran seconded. 19 Con Stellation XXIII ConCom Meeting (Tentative) Mike Cothran made lame observations. Ñ Mike KennedyÕs house. Mike Kennedy refused to pass around a suspicious green 22 Atumunal Equinox. leaf. 24Ð26 Anime Weekend Atlanta 10 Ñ Atlanta GA. CONVENTION BUSINESS 24Ð26 Fencon Ñ Dallas TX. The next Con Committee meeting will be held on Sunday, 25 Yom Kippur. 04 July at Mike KennedyÕs house [now past]. Mike will be 26 BD: Jenna Victoria Stone. cooking out of doors. All are invited to show up and join the 30Ð03 Archon 28 Ñ St. Louis MO. ConCom. [Probably, it would have been more effective to threaten, ÒShow up, or join the ConCom.Ó] OCTOBER A working meeting will be held on Saturday, 26 June [now 03 Con Stellation XXIII ConCom Meeting (Tentative) past] at MikeÕs house to make drapes for the pipe & drape stuff Ñ Mike KennedyÕs house. that weÕre making. Mary will pick the time, but it will not be 11 Columbus Day (observed). before 1100. 12 Columbus Day (traditional). On Sunday, 20 June [now past], a meeting will be held at 14 Con Stellation XXIII ConCom Meeting Ñ at the con the home of Louise Kennedy (MikeÕs mother) to finalize hotel. design. 15Ð17 Con Stellation XXIII: Delphinus Ñ Huntsville AL. Web site hit counts were not reported, because Sam was 15Ð17 Necronomicon Õ04 Ñ Tampa FL. regrettably absent. 15 BD: Robert Buelow. Sewing geekdom was discussed. 16* NASFA Meeting Ñ 6P Business, 7P Program, at Mike Cothran would not shut up. BookMark. Program: TBD. ATMM: TBD. NOTE: Math was discussed (or at least integrals). The meeting date will probably be changed to 23 There were more disintegrating discussions. October. Doug discussed his multi-lingual background. 24 United Nations Day. The meeting was 25 BD: Marie McCormack. adjourned at 18:48:50. 28Ð31 World Fantasy Convention 2004 Ñ Tempe AZ. The program was a group 31 Daylight Savings Time Ends. reading of an adap- 31 Halloween. tation of a movie, not to be named. OoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoO The After-The-Meeting The North Alabama Science Fiction Association meets on Meeting was held around the third Saturday of each month. (Unless there is a large and in the pool at Russell nearby convention being held that weekend Ñ in which case McNuttÕs house. art by Sheryl Birkhead 2 both funding and the award venue for the last 8 years. Nonethe- NASFA Receivables less the award ceremony was apparently quite successful and by Randy B. Cleary the future of the award looks good, at least in the near term. Also announced at the ceremony were next yearÕs judges, Here are the items received by NASFA since last time. Carol-Ann Kerry Green and Mark Greener for the BSFA, Alabama Arts, Volume XX, Number 1, Alabama State Mark Bould and Justina Robson for the SF Foundation and Council on the Arts, 201 Monroe Street, Suite 110, Montgom- Dave Palmer for the Science Museum. ery AL 36130-1800; 334-242-4076; <www.arts.state.al.us> BRAM STOKER AWARDS WINNERS Ñ This magazine has 40 pages of articles about Alabama folk Winners of this yearÕs Bram Stoker Awards music and art. <www.horror.org/stokerballots.htm> were announced Satur- ConNotations, Volume 14, Issues 2Ð3, April/MayÐJune/ day 5 June 2004. The Stokers, given annually by the Horror July 2004; Editor Stephanie L. Bannon; Central Arizona Writers Association, honor superior achievement in horror Speculative Fiction Society, P. O. Box 62613, Phoenix AZ fiction and related fields. The Life Achievement and Specialty 85082; <[email protected]> Ñ These news zines had 20 and Press Awards were announced in advance. 24 newsprint pages each of SF media news, reviews, and club Novel...........................................................lost boy lost girl, and convention listings. Peter Straub (Random House) De Profundis, 370Ð372, MarchÐJuly 2004; Editor Marty First Novel ...................The Rising, Brian Keene (Delirium) Cantor; c/o The Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society, 11513 Long Fiction ...............................................ÒClosing Time,Ó Burbank Boulevard, North Hollywood CA 91601; Jack Ketchum (Peaceable Kingdom) <www.lasfs.org> Ñ These club zines have club minutes, Short Fiction ......ÒDuty,Ó Gary A. Braunbeck (Vivisections) event calenders, and info. Fiction Collection .................................Peaceable Kingdom, Fantastic Book Club Flyer, DNA Publications, Inc., P. O. Jack Ketchum (Subterranean Press) Box 2988, Radford VA 24143-2988. Anthology ...............................Borderlands 5, Elizabeth and Memphen, 279Ð281, September 2002ÐMarch 2004; Edi- Thomas Monteleone, ed. (Borderlands Press) tor Greg Bridges; Memphis Science Fiction Association, P. O. Nonfiction ........................The Mothers and Fathers Italian Box 820514, Memphis TN 38182-0514; 901-664-6730 Ñ Association, Thomas F. Monteleone (Borderlands Press) Note the new address. These three club zines have art work by Illustrated Narrative ............The Sandman: Endless Nights, Tom Foster, club news. Issue 281 was filled with memorials to Neil Gaiman (DC Comics) Dal Coger, P. L. Caruthers-Montgomery, and Sid Jones. Screenplay ....................................................Bubba Ho-Tep, Nice Distinctions, 5 & 6; Editor Arthur D. Hlavaty; 206 Don Coscarelli (Silver Sphere) Valentine Street, Yonkers NY 10704-1814; 914-965-4861; Work for Younger Readers ..................Harry Potter and the <[email protected]> Ñ These personal zine had six pages Order of the Phoenix, J. K. Rowling (Scholastic) each of discussion and essay style writing. Poetry Collection ...............................................Pitchblende, OASFiS Event Horizon, Volume 17, Number 1, Issues Bruce Boston (Dark Regions Press) 200Ð204, MarchÐJuly 2004; Editor Leslie R. Hammes; The Alternative Forms ...............The Goreletter, Michael Arnzen Orlando Area Science-Fiction Society, P. O. Box 592905, (e-mail newsletter, <www.gorelets.com>) Orlando FL 32859-2905; <[email protected]>; 407-263- Specialty Press Award .....................Earthling Publications 5822 Ñ These five small club zines have club minutes, events, (Paul Miller) and info. Life Achievement ..........................................Anne Rice and SFSFS Shuttle Volume 1, Issues 2Ð3, MayÐJune 2004; Martin H. Greenberg Editors George Peterson and Chris Negelein; South Florida SESFA AWARD NOMS Science Fiction Society, P.
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