Volume 26 Number 10 Issue 316 March 2014 A WORD FROM THE EDITOR John Barrowman (Jack Harkness, Torchwood) Eve Myles (Gwen Cooper, Torchwood) Please note that some of the Nebula short fiction Burn Gorman (Owen Harper, Torchwood) nominees may be available online. Please check Oasfis Gareth David-Lloyd (Ianto Jones, Torchwood) Convention on Facebook or OasisCon on Twitter for links to the and many more stories. www.megaconvention.com Next month pictures from Megacon (maybe a Megacon report) and ICFA. ICFA 35 (professional conference) March 19-23 Orlando Airport Marriott, Orlando, Florida Events Guest of Honor: Nnedi Okorafor Guest of Honor: Ian MacDonald Comic Book Connection Guest Scholar: Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. March 1-2 Special Guest Emeritus : Brain Aldiss Holiday Inn Express www.iafa.org 137 AutoMall Circle Daytona, FL Comic Book Connection $5 Admission March 29-20 thecomicbookconnection.com Holiday Inn & Suites 5905 Kirkman Road Megacon Orlando, FL March 21-23 $5 Admission Orange County Convention Center thecomicbookconnection.com 3-Day-$60.04(pre) , 1-Day $25 (pre) OASIS Meeting Guests: Stan Morrison (OASIS artist) Date: 9 February 2013 Paul Vincenti(OASIS artist) Officers: Peggy Stubblefield, Dave Ratti, , David Lussier, Patty Stan Lee (comic pioneer) Russell, Juan Sanmiguel, Neal Adams (comic artist) Members: Kim Darin, Arthur Dykeman, Hector Hoghlin, Bill Sienkiewicz (comic artist) Michael Pilletere, Patricia Wheeler George Perez (comic artist) Guests: Bob Yazel, Darwyn Cooke (comic artist) Mark Waid (comic writer) Peggy discussed the last meeting and other possible meeting Karl Urban (Dr. McCoy, Abrams’Star Trek) locations. For now, club meetings will be at Brick and Fire Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher, Star Trek:The Pizza. Treasurer's report: all the club books are balanced through Next Generation) January 2014, and were passed on to the new Treasurer, along Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca, Star Wars( with instructions on filing income tax, square-up instructions, Danai Guria (Michonne, The Walking Dead) etc.. Since Michael is not flying to Italy until April, he will help David Morrissey (The Governor, The Walking with any questions, and transfer the corporate "physical" address Dead) to David's address. Lauren Cohen (Maggie, The Walking Dead) Steven Yuen (Glen, The Walking Dead) The Ken Spivey Band (Continued on page 2) OASFiS Event Horizon Vol 26 Issue 316 March 2014. Published Monthly by the Orlando Area Science Fiction Society (OASFiS). All rights reserved by original Authors and Artists. Editor: Juan Sanmiguel, 1421 Pon Pon Court, Orlando, FL 32825. 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Page two March 2014 March OASFiS Calendar OASFiS People OASFiS Business Meeting Sunday, March 9, 1:30 PM, , Brick and Fire Pasta and Steve Cole 407-275-5211 Pizza Parlor (Downtown Orlando, 1621 South Orange Ave [email protected] Orlando, Florida 32806) Come join us as we discuss Susan Cole 407-275-5211 Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie [email protected] Arthur Dykeman 407-328-9565 SciFi Light [email protected] Saturday March 22, 6 PM, Oblivion Taproom (5501 Steve Grant 352 241 0670 [email protected] E. Colonial Drive). Will be discussing Time Travel. For Mike Pilletere [email protected] more info contact Steve Grant David Ratti 407-282-2468 [email protected] To contact for more info: Juan Sanmiguel 407-823-8715 OASFiS Business Meeting 407-823-8715 [email protected] Patricia Wheeler 407-832-1428 [email protected] (Continued from page 1) Any of these people can give readers information about the April 13th is the Club Picnic, and Juan will rent Pavillion One in club and its functions. To be included in the list call Juan. Downey Park, like last year. A question came up about the date technology would never work, as the bandwidth demand would being Palm Sunday, but traditionally it is just on the club be way too high. So, Peggy wanted to know, would a film of meeting date, and avoids Easter holiday, so will be kept. Mars, Inc., make a series or just Movie-of-the-Week? Most agreed on the latter. Juan summed up the book for discussion, Mars, Inc. by Ben Bova. He said the plot was identical to that of The Man Who As for other reading and media recommendations, Bob is reading Sold the Moon but not everyone agreed. They did agree that the Work for Hire by Joe Haldeman, and Hector mentioned a characters seemed predictable, and Thrasher's business sense was YouTube steampunk pirate short. The next meeting discussion nonexistent. So what was his motive for the Mars landing caught will be on Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie. And there will be on virtual reality? Getting people excited about space more information on a possible Oasis Relaxicon at the Hilton exploration, like in the anime Space Brothers? Beating the Hotel near UCF. Chinese, following in his dad's footsteps, or to leave a lasting legacy? Letters Most agreed just making more money motivated Thrasher, but that the risks would be too unrealistic to interest any other 1706-24 Eva Rd. financial backers, since the trip to Mars would be a one-way Etobicoke, ON suicide mission for the participants. Peggy's insightful questions CANADA M9C 2B2 also brought out that most found the love affair predictable and a February 14, 2014 bit stereotypical, since the female lead was smarter than Trasher when it came to running the business end, but subscribed to the Dear OASFiSians: '50s "serve and obey" model classic SF writers used with their female characters. Since the author has been married for a third Thanks to Juan for issue 315 of the Event Horizon. Yes, it’s time, someone thought maybe the romance in Mars, Inc. is Valentine’s Day, and the best thing I can do for Yvonne is…take patterned on his current experience. Others thought maybe the her out another day. Restaurant workers go crazy on this day!, author needed a certain number of pages for the book to sell, and and they appreciate it when you come another day when the so used a style of writing he would have used when he first restaurants aren’t packed. So, we’re going out this Sunday. started writing in the '50s to fill on the plot (The Mote in God's Comments on this issue commence! Eye used this model). Crowd-sourcing was brought up as a way Thrasher could have funded his enterprise (The film Veronica Looks like you’ve got plenty of cons to go to without leaving the Mars was funded this way). The question of believability and state! This coming September sees a big steampunk event or set the Vince character came up, and most agreed that yes, of events in southern Ontario. First thing I know is Abney Park, technology and video games create a kind of disconnect from and the rest is yet to come. reality in our society in general. Patricia brought up the example in he news of a hit-&-run where the victim, still alive and Best of birthdays to Pat Sims, and Yvonne sends her greetings to embedded in the windshield, kept asking for the driver to stop, Roger. We wanted to go and see the second Hobbit movie…no while the disconnected driver kept going and even parked the car time and no money. We may have to catch it on DVD to see it, or in his garage! And Dave Ratti mentioned that the virtual reality (Continued on page 4) Page three March 2014 The 2013Nebula Awards nominees Short Story (source Locus & SFWA website) ‘‘The Sounds of Old Earth’’, Matthew Kressel (Lightspeed The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America announced 1/13) the nominees for the 2013 Nebula Awards (presented 2014), the nominees for the Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic ‘‘Selkie Stories Are for Losers’’, Sofia Samatar (Strange Presentation, and the nominees for the Andre Norton Award for Horizons 1/7/13) Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy Book. The winners ‘‘Selected Program Notes from the Retrospective Exhibition will be announced at SFWA’s 49th Annual Nebula Awards of Theresa Rosenberg Latimer’’, Kenneth Schneyer Weekend, to be held on May 15– 18, 2014 at the San Jose (Clockwork Phoenix 4) Marriott in San Jose, CA. Samuel R. Delaney will be awarded ‘‘If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love’’, Rachel Swirsky the Damon Knight Grand Master Award. (Apex 3/13) ‘‘Alive, Alive Oh’’, Sylvia Spruck Wrigley (Lightspeed Novel 6/13) We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Fowler (Marian Wood) Presentation The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman (Morrow; Headline Review) Doctor Who: ‘‘The Day of the Doctor’’ Fire with Fire, Charles E. Gannon (Baen) Europa Report Hild, Nicola Griffith (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Gravity Ancillary Justice, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK) Her The Red: First Light, Linda Nagata (Mythic Island) The Hunger Games: Catching Fire A Stranger in Olondria, Sofia Samatar (Small Beer) Pacific Rim The Golem and the Jinni, Helene Wecker (Harper) Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Novella Fantasy Book ‘‘Wakulla Springs’’, Andy Duncan & Ellen Klages The Coldest Girl in Coldtown, Holly Black (Little, Brown; (Tor.com 10/2/13) Indigo) ‘‘The Weight of the Sunrise’’, Vylar Kaftan (Asimov’s 2/13) When We Wake, Karen Healey (Allen & Unwin; Little, ‘‘Annabel Lee’’, Nancy Kress (New Under the Sun) Brown) ‘‘Burning Girls’’, Veronica Schanoes (Tor.com 6/19/13) Sister Mine, Nalo Hopkinson (Grand Central) ‘‘Trial of the Century’’ Lawrence M.