DOCSLIB.ORG

Thursday Evening Issue

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text

Load more

5a Program Changes – Late Friday Friday One new item, and participants added to program items: Afternoon 4PM Friday Charles Stross, to “Rumors at the Masquerade Photo Area Passes Speed of Light” 5PM Friday Reading for Steve Nagy (New) Masquerade fan photo signups are taken at the Masquerade Desk by 11AM Saturday Harry Turtledove, to “Golden Duck Awards” the Costume Exhibit in the Concourse. Even those registered by email must check in, give their membership numbers, and pick C’mon Barbie Let’s Go Party up their passes! No pass, no place in the photo area! Roxxor your Soxxors Friday Fashion Additional autographing at SFWA table All Parties are Sheraton North Tower. There will be two additional daily autographing sessions at the Anybody who tells you different is a COWARD and a TRAITOR. SFWA table in the Dealer’s Room. Friday, 3-4PM: Mark Tiedemann Friends of Liad Lounge 9PM-12:30AM 1208 Friday, 4-5PM: Karen Travis Liquid Hot Magma 8PM-MIDNIGHT 1205 (Tanya Huff Party) Boxboro Fandom Confuses Many, Selves Val & Ron’s 2005 9PM-? 1138 Six Plastered in Pre-Party Planning Pugilistic Britain Trip Brotherhood Without 9PM-LATE 1108 Ghouls, zombies, and other undead fen are summoned to help Banners (GRRM fan club) celebrate Boxboro Fandom’s 25th birthday with ‘Boxboro Fandom: Sime~Gen 8PM-MIDNIGHT 1042 Beyond the Grave’ starting at 9PM in Sheraton Suite 708. A Baaad I-Con 23 9PM-1AM 1041 Beatles Songfest will immediately follow the party … it’s last call! Wheatland Press 5PM-7PM 1008 Red Dwarf Smegfest 10PM-1AM 1008 Please be careful of your badge and clip! Writers of the Future 8PM-LATE 10th Floor It is recommended that you put a piece of tape around the clip to help Norwescon 28 9:30PM-? 942 keep it securely closed. There is a replacement fee for a lost badge! Frogsmart’s Tron Party 9PM-? 916 Xerps in 2010 9PM-LATE 908 Mini-Gaylaxicon Albacon 2004 9PM-? 841 Kinda Surprised The Boys Would Admit That League of Evil Geniuses 9:30PM-? 808 Michael Ottings’s Klingon 8PM-MIDNIGHT 716 Gaylaxicon 2005’s queer fandom party lists the following special Birthday Bash events: Boxboro Fandom 9PM-? 708 6:30-9PM: Four queer-themed episodes of Star Trek: Hidden Frontier Nippon 2007 and 9PM-1AM Commonwealth 9PM: Chocolate Symposium – a Gaylaxicon tradition! Bring Columbus 2007 chocolate to share and enjoy a wide variety of chocolate creations! Interaction & LA Con IV 9PM-? Fairfax 10PM-1AM: We’re working on various special guests to do surprise Con Suite 10PM-MIDNIGHT Constitution readings throughout the night. Come join us, since you never know Queer Fandom 6PM -1AM Berkeley who might pop in! Circlet Press 8PM-1AM TBA Chuck & Colette’s Wedcon 9PM-? They Didn’t Say Lost Something? Have you tried Hari Krishna? Video Program Changes Remember to come to the Lost and Found to claim your lost items. Lost and Found is located at the Information Desk in Hynes Hall C/ Note: Republic B is next to Republic A, despite not being on the map in the Concourse. Items found so far include cheques, Massachusetts the program guide. driver’s licenses (2), CDs, membership badges (2), a cell phone, Adds: eyeglasses, a security card, a walking tool, and a hardcover book. 3PM Friday, Republic B: Babylon 5: In the Beginning 7PM Friday, Republic B: Frank Herbert’s Children of Dune miniseries Furry Fandom Feed MIDNIGHT Friday night, H208: Project Moonbase – a Heinlein script The mice are not an hors d’oeuvre. They’re a garnish. 1AM Saturday, Republic B: Star Trek: The Next Generation – Furry Fandom Feed! Meet next to the dragon outside registration by The Best of Patrick Stewart 6:15 tonight (Friday); dinner will be at 6:30PM at the Wisteria House. WSFS Preliminary Much of the work of WSFS occurs in Thursday Party Reviews Business Meeting Report committees that meet between Worldcons. Bill and Dave’s Excellent Stairwell Adventure These include: 3 September 2004: Lead Time for Worldcon Site It was a good night for easing into WorldCon • The Mark Protection Committee, which Selection Up for Grabs; Large Body Count Expected Partying and we started by cutting our extended WSFS’s exclusive right to Noreascon 4 teeth at the Philcon 2004 party. Lead time for Worldcon site selection may be service marks like “Worldcon” and This was a good party throughout the night reduced from three to two years by the World “Hugo” for another decade and with very active conversations. We then walked Science Fiction Society (WSFS) Business successfully defended against a possible down the hall to the LJ and Bloggers Party Meeting, which will convene at 10AM Saturday encroachment on the latter by the where we found volunteer Kate working hard in H210. A motion to do so was given Richard Hugo House of Seattle; to keep the serving plates full of salami and preliminary approval at Torcon 3 and will take • The Hugo Eligibility for the Rest Of the other delicious treats. As we finished our effect if ratified here at Noreascon 4. The World (HEROW) Committee, which blogger beers, we took our leave of party matter is expected to be hotly debated, as it considers whether works initially hostess Mary Kay and made our way to the 3rd was passed by only 5 votes last year. The published outside the USA should have floor parties. preliminary business meeting on Friday set extended Hugo Award eligibility; debate time for this item at 30 minutes. • The Nitpicking and Flyspecking Nippon 2007 and Columbus 2007 shared a All members of Noreascon 4 are automatically Committee (true), which fiddles with the large room to conduct their bid parties. members of WSFS and are eligible to attend official wording of WSFS documents; Nippon 2007, as always, had a terrific spread • the business meeting and participate in policy The Formalization of Long List Entries of interesting Japanese snacks and as well as a making for future Worldcons. (FOLLE) Committee, which compiles wonderful green tea bar. The powdered green the official lists of previous Worldcons, tea (maccha) was the best in our humble Other items due for ratification Friday are: opinion and the Sapporo beer that followed it • their guests, Hugo winners, and related requiring public notification of data; was tasty and refreshing. Columbus 2007 extensions of Hugo eligibility beyond • The Worldcon Runners’ Guide Editorial provided a good spread of snacks and dips st the normal “1 prior year”; and a series of musical duos. Dave thought • Committee, which maintains the clarifying difference between “nominees” operations manual for these shindigs. their crab avocado dip to be surprisingly good. and “works” for moving items from one Hugo category to another; All of these committees are being We then traveled on to the Torcon 3 Thank • setting a default rate for supporting reconstituted for the coming year. People You and Very Dead Dog Party. Thankfully memberships for North American willing to serve should contact Donald Torcon 3 was serving the smoked salmon that rd Science Fiction Conventions (NASFiCs); Eastlake 3 , the presiding officer of the had made them famous at their bid parties in • establishing procedures for tie votes in business meeting, prior to the Saturday years past. We also enjoyed vanilla ice cream site selection and dealing with incapacity session. served with real Canadian maple syrup. Thanks, Eh! of a selected Worldcon committee to All previous and seated Worldcon committees fulfill its obligations. except Torcon 3 provided financial reports. After finishing our bowls of ice cream we New Constitutional amendments to be Three of those committees had accounted for went on walkabout Down Under. The introduced for 1st consideration this year are: all of their funds and gave final reports; Australia 2010 bid had a good solid party and • revising the wording for the Best Torcon 3’s new board of directors is reviewing everyone enjoyed the koala clip-ons the hosts Dramatic Presentation Hugos to its finances. Several seated Worldcons and the were handing out. The line of fans waiting to explicitly mention “theatrical features” Mark Protection Committee thanked Chicon pre-support was impressively long, a good under Long Form and “television 2000, Millennium Philcon, and ConJosé for sign of things to come from the Aussie bid. programs” under Short Form; timely delivery of pass-along funds. Finally we tottered on over to the Sheraton • establishing formal procedures for All WSFS meetings at Noreascon 4 will be South Tower to visit the Kerry-Edwards moving Hugo nominees between adjourned in memory of George Flynn, Support Party. We found everyone already categories; whose long-time service to WSFS was much engaged in intense political discussions • in a lengthy (but non-controversial) admired and appreciated by all. following the president’s GOP acceptance amendment, creating a process to deal speech. We declined to weigh in on any issue with breaking ties in Hugo or site- First Citizen of Fanitopia being discussed, not wanting to use our lofty selection elections. Politics, Fannish Style position as official party reviewers to affect any of these dialogues. Two motions adopted at the preliminary At First Night, spirited campaigning and business meeting were: voting ruled the evening. After trailing Robert While the convention’s First Night party was • Works originally published outside the Heinlein in early returns, Mary Shelley led by fantastic and the Con Suite had steady traffic USA and first published within the USA one vote at mid-evening, and two votes by the throughout the evening, the joint Columbus in 2004 shall be eligible for Hugos in end. The final tally: Shelley 104, Heinlein 102, 2007/Nippon 2007 effort was, in our humble 2005; Wells 53, Verne 49, Doc Smith 33.
Recommended publications
  • ENGL 279 Course Title: Science Fiction and Dystopic Literature Units

    ENGL 279 Course Title: Science Fiction and Dystopic Literature Units

    Course name: ENGL 279 Course title: Science Fiction and Dystopic Literature Units: 3 Course Description: This course is designed to increase students’ knowledge of the literary genre known as Science Fiction. Emphasis will be on the study of literature--novels and short fiction--that depicts our future world, visionary scientific endeavor, and conflicts between humans, aliens, and sentient technology. Students will study the history, exciting contemporary trends, and the relevant contemporary issues in Science Fiction, including dystopia vs. utopia, artificial intelligence, current theory concerning technology, cloning and physical science, human psychology in a futuristic environment, and the rise of Cyberpunk and new Alternate Reality literature within the genre. Prerequisites: Completion of ENGL 101 Course Objectives: l. Analyze the role of literature as a means of reflecting and shaping thought and behavior. 2. Recognize and employ literary terminology and the language of literary criticism. 3. Identify, interpret, and compare and contrast specific leitmotifs and character types of the Science Fiction genre. 4. Practice critical reading and writing skills. 5. Conduct research and synthesize material from outside the given text in developing a written or oral project. 6. Recognize the attributes that make literary works universal and timeless, as well as unique to certain genres. 7. Demonstrate the ability to discuss literature using relevant support from the text. 8. Evaluate a literary work objectively, being able to understand and analyze critical responses to the works read. Course Content: I. In discussing the roots of many essential elements of Science Fiction, the instructor will guide students in: A. Distinguishing the important archetypes of Science Fiction.
  • Chapterhouse: Dune Frank Herbert April 1985 Those Who Would Repeat

    Chapterhouse: Dune Frank Herbert April 1985 Those Who Would Repeat

    Chapterhouse: Dune Frank Herbert April 1985 Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history. -Bene Gesserit Coda When the ghola-baby was delivered from the first Bene Gesserit axlotl tank, Mother Superior Darwi Odrade ordered a quiet celebration in her private dining room atop Central. It was barely dawn, and the two other members of her Council -- Tamalane and Bellonda -- showed impatience at the summons, even though Odrade had ordered breakfast served by her personal chef. "It isn't every woman who can preside at the birth of her own father," Odrade quipped when the others complained they had too many demands on their time to permit of "time-wasting nonsense." Only aged Tamalane showed sly amusement. Bellonda held her over-fleshed features expressionless, often her equivalent of a scowl. Was it possible, Odrade wondered, that Bell had not exorcised resentment of the relative opulence in Mother Superior's surroundings? Odrade's quarters were a distinct mark of her position but the distinction represented her duties more than any elevation over her Sisters. The small dining room allowed her to consult aides during meals. Bellonda glanced this way and that, obviously impatient to be gone. Much effort had been expended without success in attempts to break through Bellonda's coldly remote shell. "It felt very odd to hold that baby in my arms and think: This is my father," Odrade said. "I heard you the first time!" Bellonda spoke from the belly, almost a baritone rumbling as though each word caused her vague indigestion. She understood Odrade's wry jest, though.
  • The New Cosmic Horror: a Genre Molded by Tabletop Roleplaying Fiction Editor Games and Postmodern Horror

    The New Cosmic Horror: a Genre Molded by Tabletop Roleplaying Fiction Editor Games and Postmodern Horror

    315 Winter 2016 Editor Chris Pak SFRA [email protected] A publicationRe of the Scienceview Fiction Research Association Nonfiction Editor Dominick Grace In this issue Brescia University College, 1285 Western Rd, London ON, N6G 3R4, Canada SFRA Review Business phone: 519-432-8353 ext. 28244. Prospect ............................................................................................................................2 [email protected] Assistant Nonfiction Editor SFRA Business Kevin Pinkham The New SFRA Website ..............................................................................................2 College of Arts and Sciences, Ny- “It’s Alive!” ........................................................................................................................3 ack College, 1 South Boulevard, Nyack, NY 10960, phone: 845- Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities ....................................................3 675-4526845-675-4526. [email protected] Feature 101 The New Cosmic Horror: A Genre Molded by Tabletop Roleplaying Fiction Editor Games and Postmodern Horror ..............................................................................7 Jeremy Brett Cushing Memorial Library and Sentience in Science Fiction 101 ......................................................................... 14 Archives, Texas A&M University, Cushing Memorial Library & Archives, 5000 TAMU College Nonfiction Reviews Station, TX 77843. Black and Brown Planets: The Politics of Race in Science Fiction ........ 19
  • Starlog Magazine Issue

    Starlog Magazine Issue

    23 YEARS EXPLORING SCIENCE FICTION ^ GOLDFINGER s Jjr . Golden Girl: Tests RicklBerfnanJponders Er_ her mettle MimilMif-lM ]puTtism!i?i ff?™ § m I rifbrm The Mail Service Hold Mail Authorization Please stop mail for: Name Date to Stop Mail Address A. B. Please resume normal Please stop mail until I return. [~J I | undelivered delivery, and deliver all held I will pick up all here. mail. mail, on the date written Date to Resume Delivery Customer Signature Official Use Only Date Received Lot Number Clerk Delivery Route Number Carrier If option A is selected please fill out below: Date to Resume Delivery of Mail Note to Carrier: All undelivered mail has been picked up. Official Signature Only COMPLIMENTS OF THE STAR OCEAN GAME DEVEL0PER5. YOU'RE GOING TO BE AWHILE. bad there's Too no "indefinite date" box to check an impact on the course of the game. on those post office forms. Since you have no Even your emotions determine the fate of your idea when you'll be returning. Everything you do in this journey. You may choose to be romantically linked with game will have an impact on the way the journey ends. another character, or you may choose to remain friends. If it ever does. But no matter what, it will affect your path. And more You start on a quest that begins at the edge of the seriously, if a friend dies in battle, you'll feel incredible universe. And ends -well, that's entirely up to you. Every rage that will cause you to fight with even more furious single person you _ combat moves.
  • Gay Subculture Identification: Training Counselors to Work with Gay Men

    Gay Subculture Identification: Training Counselors to Work with Gay Men

    Article 22 Gay Subculture Identification: Training Counselors to Work With Gay Men Justin L. Maki Maki, Justin L., is a counselor education doctoral student at Auburn University. His research interests include counselor preparation and issues related to social justice and advocacy. Abstract Providing counseling services to gay men is considered an ethical practice in professional counseling. With the recent changes in the Defense of Marriage Act and legalization of gay marriage nationwide, it is safe to say that many Americans are more accepting of same-sex relationships than in the past. However, although societal attitudes are shifting towards affirmation of gay rights, division and discrimination, masculinity shaming, and within-group labeling between gay men has become more prevalent. To this point, gay men have been viewed as a homogeneous population, when the reality is that there are a variety of gay subcultures and significant differences between them. Knowledge of these subcultures benefits those in and out-of-group when they are recognized and understood. With an increase in gay men identifying with a subculture within the gay community, counselors need to be cognizant of these subcultures in their efforts to help gay men self-identify. An explanation of various gay male subcultures is provided for counselors, counseling supervisors, and counselor educators. Keywords: gay men, subculture, within-group discrimination, masculinity, labeling Providing professional counseling services and educating counselors-in-training to work with gay men is a fundamental responsibility of the counseling profession (American Counseling Association [ACA], 2014). Although not all gay men utilizing counseling services are seeking services for problems relating to their sexual orientation identification (Liszcz & Yarhouse, 2005), it is important that counselors are educated on the ways in which gay men identify themselves and other gay men within their own community.
  • March 2013 NASFA Shuttle

    March 2013 NASFA Shuttle

    Te Shutle March 2013 Te Next NASFA Meetng is Saturday 16 March 2013 at te Regular Locaton ConCom Meeting 16 March, 3P; see below for details Member of MindGear LLC <mindgearlabs.com>, discussing d Oyez, Oyez d 3D printers. (And doubtless he’ll touch on some of the other cool stuff in their lab.) The next NASFA Meeting will be at 6P, Saturday 16 MARCH ATMM March 2013 at the regular meeting location—the Madison The host and location for the March After-the-Meeting Meet- campus of Willowbrook Baptist Church (old Wilson Lumber ing are undetermined at press time, though there’s a good Company building) at 7105 Highway 72W (aka University chance it will be at the church. The usual rules apply—that is, Drive). Please see the map below if you need help finding it. please bring food to share and your favorite drink. MARCH PROGRAM Also, assuming it is at the church, please stay to help clean The March program will be Rob Adams, the Managing up. We need to be good guests and leave things at least as clean as we found them. CONCOM MEETINGS The next Con†Stellation XXXII concom meeting will be 3P Saturday 16 March 2013—the same day as the club meeting. Jeff Road Jeff Kroger At press time the plan is to meet at the church, but that’s subject to confirmation that the building will be available at that time. US 72W Please stay tuned to email, etc., for possible updates. (aka University Drive) CHANGING SHUTTLE DEADLINES The latest tweak to the NASFA Shuttle schedule shifted the usual repro date somewhat to the right (roughly the weekend before each meeting) but much of each issue will need to be Slaughter Road Slaughter put to bed as much as two weeks before the monthly meeting.
  • For Fans by Fans: Early Science Fiction Fandom and the Fanzines

    For Fans by Fans: Early Science Fiction Fandom and the Fanzines

    FOR FANS BY FANS: EARLY SCIENCE FICTION FANDOM AND THE FANZINES by Rachel Anne Johnson B.A., The University of West Florida, 2012 B.A., Auburn University, 2009 A thesis submitted to the Department of English and World Languages College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities The University of West Florida In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts 2015 © 2015 Rachel Anne Johnson The thesis of Rachel Anne Johnson is approved: ____________________________________________ _________________ David M. Baulch, Ph.D., Committee Member Date ____________________________________________ _________________ David M. Earle, Ph.D., Committee Chair Date Accepted for the Department/Division: ____________________________________________ _________________ Gregory Tomso, Ph.D., Chair Date Accepted for the University: ____________________________________________ _________________ Richard S. Podemski, Ph.D., Dean, Graduate School Date ACKNOWLEDGMENTS First, I would like to thank Dr. David Earle for all of his help and guidance during this process. Without his feedback on countless revisions, this thesis would never have been possible. I would also like to thank Dr. David Baulch for his revisions and suggestions. His support helped keep the overwhelming process in perspective. Without the support of my family, I would never have been able to return to school. I thank you all for your unwavering assistance. Thank you for putting up with the stressful weeks when working near deadlines and thank you for understanding when delays
  • Australian SF News 43

    Australian SF News 43

    REGISTERED BY AUSTRALIA POST #VBG2791 Number43 SI 00 nusiMunn Shews Volume 7 Number i —X may |986 THE SF WORLD MOURNS FRANK HERBERT, L.RON HUBBARD, JUDY-LYNN DEL REY AND ORSON WELLES ARE AMONGST PEOPLE WHOSE LIFE AND WORK INFLUENCED SCIENCE FICTION AND WHO HAVE DIED THIS YEAR. ( See page 4) Hawes NEW NOVEL BY Ric DAVID LAKE by Photo FRANK HERBERT IN THIS ISSUE: PUBLISHING NEWS, BOOKS RECEIVED AND REVIEWED - THE DITMAR AWARD WINNERS and more of our usual features... nusTRnunn if hews ISSN 0155-8870 Edited and published by Mervyn R.Binns, P.O.Box 491, Elsternwick 3185, Victoria, AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIAN SF NEWS is registered for posting under Australia Post, publication # VBG2791 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $6.00 for 6 issues, by surface mail and $15.00 for air mail. Please make all payments to the editor, After gafiating for the last three months and Mervyn R.Binns or MERV BINNS BOOKS. At this watching what little cash that was available time I have no confirmed overseas agents, so rapidly running out, while sitting on the pier please contact me direct for new rates and cr the bank of the river holding a fishing line, payment details. I plan to keep to no more than I have finally made some decisions. AUSTRALIAN twelve pages and to publish every two months. SF NEWS will continue and I am starting a mail Depending on future size and cost the sub rate order book service from home. Depending on how will most likely increase. A list of new books things develop, I may open a small suburban by publisher, will be included and I will do a bookshop dealing largely in second hand books complete listing of all books by author, that and continue on the mail order for new science have been published in the last six months in fiction and possibly other types of books.
  • Logging Into Horror's Closet

    Logging Into Horror's Closet

    Logging into Horror’s Closet: Gay Fans, the Horror Film and Online Culture Adam Christopher Scales Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy University of East Anglia School of Art, Media and American Studies September 2015 © This copy of the thesis has been supplied on condition that anyone who consults it is understood to recognise that its copyright rests with the author and that use of any information derived there from must be in accordance with current UK Copyright Law. In addition, any quotation or extract must include full attribution. Abstract Harry Benshoff has boldly proclaimed that ‘horror stories and monster movies, perhaps more than any other genre, actively invoke queer readings’ (1997, p. 6). For Benshoff, gay audiences have forged cultural identifications with the counter-hegemonic figure of the ‘monster queer’ who disrupts the heterosexual status quo. However, beyond identification with the monstrous outsider, there is at present little understanding of the interpretations that gay fans mobilise around different forms and features of horror and the cultural connections they establish with other horror fans online. In addressing this gap, this thesis employs a multi-sited netnographic method to study gay horror fandom. This holistic approach seeks to investigate spaces created by and for gay horror fans, in addition to their presence on a mainstream horror site and a gay online forum. In doing so, this study argues that gay fans forge deep emotional connections with horror that links particular textual features to the construction and articulation of their sexual and fannish identities. In developing the concept of ‘emotional capital’ that establishes intersubjective recognition between gay fans, this thesis argues that this capital is destabilised in much larger spaces of fandom where gay fans perform the successful ‘doing of being’ a horror fan (Hills, 2005).
  • February 2021

    February 2021

    F e b r u a r y 2 0 2 1 V o l u m e 1 2 I s s u e 2 BETWEEN THE PAGES Huntsville Public Library Monthly Newsletter Learn a New Language with the Pronunciator App! BY JOSH SABO, IT SERVICES COORDINATOR According to Business Insider, 80% of people fail to keep their New Year’s resolutions by the second week in February. If you are one of the lucky few who make it further, congratulations! However, if you are like most of us who have already lost the battle of self-improvement, do not fret! Learning a new language is an excellent way to fulfill your resolution. The Huntsville Public Library offers free access to a language learning tool called Pronunciator! The app offers courses for over 163 different languages and users can personalize it to fit their needs. There are several different daily lessons, a main course, and learning guides. It's very user-friendly and can be accessed at the library or from home on any device with an internet connection. Here's how: 1) Go to www.myhuntsvillelibrary.com and scroll down to near the bottom of the homepage. Click the Pronunciator link below the Pronunciator icon. 2) Next, you can either register for an account to track your progress or simply click ‘instant access’ to use Pronunciator without saving or tracking your progress. 3) If you want to register an account, enter a valid email address to use as your username. 1219 13th Street Then choose a password. Huntsville, TX 77340 @huntsvillelib (936) 291-5472 4) Now you can access Pronunciator! Monday-Friday Huntsville_Public_Library 10 a.m.
  • Sept1998 (Without Graphics)

    Sept1998 (Without Graphics)

    PO Box 656, Washington, DC 20044 - (202) 232-3141 - Issue #102 - Sept. 1998 E-MAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: http://members.aol.com/lambdasf/home.html Gaylaxicon 1999 “Video Madness” Party Gayteways Is Completed - Con Committee Meeting Set for Sept. 19th Finally! announced by Rob Gates (New Location, reported by Rob Gates Same Old Madness) GAYLAXICON 1999: THE 10TH GAYLAXICON After almost two years, it’s fin- That’s right, gang, it’s time for ished! Gayteways is Lambda Sci-Fi’s first another bout of “video madness”! It’s set foray into ‘zine publishing. It’s been a for Saturday, Sept. 19th - beginning at 3:00 long time coming; but the finished prod- The Gaylaxicon 1999 ConComm PM and lasting until ??? However, the uct is fabulous. It includes original fiction, will hold its next meeting on Saturday, latest outbreak of this dreaded mania is poetry, and artwork submitted by LSFers, Sept. 12th, beginning at 4:00 PM. All are scheduled for a brand-new location: the Gaylactic Network members, and others. welcome. The meeting will be held at the home of LSFer Bethany Ramirez in Takoma As a reminder, our premise was home of LSFers Nan & Kay. There will be Park, MD! to put together a collection of quality, a BBQ grill out on the patio - so BYOG Other than the new site, the rest gay-positive, non-slash, non-porn, genre (bring your own grillables) - and the usual of the “rules” remain the same. As with works. The idea was originally put for- munchies and soda. previous Lambda Sci-Fi “Video Madness” ward by Philip Wright and myself in 1996.
  • The Death of the Book Through the Ages - Nytimes.Com

    The Death of the Book Through the Ages - Nytimes.Com

    The Death of the Book Through the Ages - NYTimes.com http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/books/review/the-death-of-the... August 10, 2012 Dead Again By LEAH PRICE Two decades ago, the Book Review ran an essay, “The End of Books,” in which the novelist Robert Coover questioned whether print could survive the age of “video transmissions, cellular phones, fax machines, computer networks, and in particular out in the humming digitalized precincts of avant-garde computer hackers, cyberpunks and hyperspace freaks.” Was the book as “dead as God”? Coover’s answer was noncommittal, but his metaphor launched a thousand eulogies for the book as we knew it: a gathering of printed pages mass-produced on spec to be sold to anonymous strangers for financial gain. Back then, hyperlinks were the killer app. Coover’s title punned on the page-turning powers of the codex, which sweeps novel readers inexorably from Page 1 to The End. (He ignored how many codices, like the Yellow Pages, are designed for random access; millenniums before the advent of Bible.com, the codex allowed the first Christians to cross-reference their Scriptures.) Now, succession planners have shifted their sights from the lowly hyperlink to the seemingly indomitable e-reader. Earlier this year, the Pew Research Center calculated that the percentage of Americans who own e-reading devices doubled last December. Christmas, for centuries the publishing industry’s busiest season, became a gift to hardware manufacturers. And last year, Amazon announced it was selling more e-books than print books — hardcover and paperback combined.