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Lambda Sci-Fi DC Area Gaylaxians (202) 232-3141 - Issue # 324 – March 2017 E-MAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: www.lambdascifi.org The LSF Book Discussion Group Have a very Spidey birthday! + If you’re interested in lively discussions of F&SF books (with an emphasis on elements of interest to the LGBT community), we invite you to join the LSF Book Discussion = ? Group. Each month, we conduct fas- cinating round-table discussions of works by significant F&SF authors. The LSF Book Discussion These are a couple Group usually meets on the 4th Thurs- of questions to be day of every month, starting at 7:00 resolved in the PM, at Peter & Rob’s home: 1425 “S” Lambda Sci-Fi turns 27 St., NW – for directions or more this month! The first meeting was coming months… details, call 202-483-6369. The next held on March 14, 1990, at the home book discussion will be held on March of Loree and Marcelle Cook-Daniels. 23, 2017. There were nine attendees. The min- Here are the details for the utes of that first meeting include the next several book discussions: following information: @ March 23 – The Long Way to a Small, “As for ‘business,’ we deci- Angry Planet, by Becky Chambers ded to circulate and read the Gay- (moderator: Konrad). lactic Network’s Principles and By- April 27 – Air, by Geoff Ryman Laws, with an eye toward sooner or (moderator: Rob). later deciding if we want to join as a May 25 – Lily and the Octopus, by subsidiary group; not to decide now Steven Rowley (moderator: Bob A.). about officers, name, structure, etc…” ? LYF LYF < < < < < < March 2017 LSF Meeting > > > > > > What’s Inside? The next LSF meeting will be held on Sunday, March 12th. The Page 2: Osprey Meets Cthulhu (short meeting will be held at Peter and Rob’s home, 1425 “S” Street NW, book reviews); Minutes of the Feb- Washington, DC. The meeting will begin at 1:30 and the “group watch” will ruary LSF Meeting. begin at 3:00 PM. Hope to see you there! (REMINDER: Daylight Savings Time Page 3: Richard Hatch (obituary). begins at 2 AM on Sunday! So set your clocks ahead by one hour!) Page 4: Information About Lambda Sci-Fi: DC Area Gaylaxians and Con Calendar. Osprey Meets Cthulhu Minutes of the February short reviews by Carl LSF Meeting The Magicians has aired; the TV taken by Scott series is much better than the If you’re a fan of table-top book. Peter Capaldi is leaving Dr. gaming or militaria, then you’re LSF Business: Who. Margaret Atwood’s Hand- probably quite aware of Osprey Pub- As Rob reported in his article maid’s Tale will be shown on Hulu in lishing. Since 1968, they’ve been a in last month’s newsletter, the cost of April. Supergirl and Flash will join leading publisher for military history the Pride Day table has been rising forces for a musical cross-over epi- enthusiasts. On any given day, you’ll each year – this year, it’s $280 (even sode. Riverdale (based on Archie probably find several dozen of their with the early-registration dis- Comics characters) didn’t receive any thin, well-researched, and beauty- count). Rob’s suggestion about split- raves, although Carl reported that TV fully-illustrated books on the Military ting a table with Geeks OUT! this year Guide feels it’s badly under-rated. History shelves of your local B&N. to save money was discussed, and But it’s on the F&SF shelves that attendees voted in favor of his Movie News: you’re going to find a couple of fas- idea. Rob will now contact Geeks Richard Hatch (Capt. Apollo cinating 2016 books in the “Osprey OUT! to see if that group might be of Battlestar Galactica) has passed Adventures” line: The Cthulhu Cam- interested in sharing a Pride Day table away. Carl passed around an item paigns: Ancient Rome and The Cthul- with LSF. from Wayne: Blade Runner 2049 is hu Wars: The United States’ Battles We will need to have Peter expected to be released in October; Against the Mythos. advise us about whether he has heard Harrison Ford will make an ap- Mark Latham’s The Cthulhu back from AwesomeCon about LSF pearance as Rick Deckard. Did you Campaigns explores the involvement possibly hosting a discussion panel this know that Warm Bodies (the zombie of Lovecraftian entities with the Ro- year. movie) is based upon Shakespeare’s man Empire, from the city’s foun- Otakon 2017 will be held at Romeo and Juliet? Lego Batman has ding to its fall. Seems as how an the Washington Convention Center just opened with rave reviews. inner circle of the Roman priesthood rather than in Baltimore. Carl will (Sauron guest stars!) Guardians of controlled (or attempted to control) ensure that it’s added to the Con Cal- the Galaxy II is coming out soon, and the Republic and the Empire in the endar in the newsletter. Vin Diesel voices Baby Groot. interest of dominating the world and Coming out later this year: Kong: waking Cthulhu from his dreams in TV News: Skull Island, Power Rangers, and R’lyeh. The Cthulhu Campaigns re- There seemed to be agree- Ghost in the Shell. An American counts Rome’s (and Cthulhu’s) cen- ment that the television version of The live-action version of Death Note is turies-long battles with various eso- Man in the High Castle has better plot- being made. Controversial film The teric cabals and other Lovecraftian based development than the book. The Assignment features a hitman trans entities around the Empire’s borders, Dark Knight Retires (fan shorts) fea- woman played by Michelle Rodri- including Shub-Niggurath (among tures an older Batman – find it on guez. Remakes in the news: Flat- the Germans), Nodens (among the YouTube! General consensus is that liners, Murder on the Orient Express, Celts), Dagon (in the Mesopotamian Powerless is very clever. Season 2 of and Stephen King’s It. cities), and Nyarlathotep (among the Egyptians). And it’s filled with mag- Other News: nificent illustrations (both full color David reported that a Broad- and B&W) by aRU-MOR. way adaptation of Groundhog Day is The Cthulhu Wars, as its debuting in May subtitle indicates, tells the “secret David also described “the history” of the United States’ ongo- Un-canny Valley”, which is “used in ing struggles with NREs (Necro- reference to the phenomenon where- nomicon-Related Entities). Authors by a computer-generated figure or Kenneth Hite and Kennon Bauman humanoid robot bearing a near-iden- have done a masterful job of com- tical resemblance to a human being bining actual historical incidents and Horror”. Darren Tan also does a mas- arouses a sense of unease or revulsion people (such as Secretary of Defense terful job of supplementing the written in the person viewing it.” He used James Forrestal) with characters and narrative with a combination of actual reactions to the 2004 Polar Express storylines from the Lovecraft canon photographs, clever photoshopped im- movie as an example; and various (such as the Government attack fea- ages, and striking color plates. folks described their reactions to the tured in “The Shadow Over Inns- Lovecraft fans, be on the “Princess Leia’ and “Grand Moff mouth”), into a fascinatingly inte- lookout for these two books. I think Tarkin” recreations in Rogue One. grated narrative – from pre-Colonial you’ll be more than happy to add ‘em LYF days to the current “Global War on to your Mythos library. LYF Richard Hatch 1945 - 2017 Richard Hatch was an actor, writer, and producer best known for his role as Captain Apollo on the ori-ginal Battlestar Galactica, and also as Tom Zarek in the 2003 remake of Battlestar Galactica. He died on February 7th from pancreatic cancer under hospice care in Los Angeles, aged 71. Hatch began his theatrical career with the Los Angeles Repertory Theater. In the late 1960s, he starred in several plays and musicals Off Broadway and won an Obie Award for his work in PS Your Cat is Dead in Chicago. Captain Apollo Commander Kharn Hatch began working in television in 1970 when he starred as Philip Brent in the daytime soap opera All My tinuation of the original 1978 series (ignoring the events of Children, which he played for two years. He then made the failed spin-off Galactica 1980, in which Hatch did not guest appearances in such primetime TV series as Cannon, appear). Although the trailer won acclaim at science-fic- Barnaby Jones, Hawaii Five-O, and The Waltons, as well tion conventions, Universal was not interested and instead as appearing in several made-for-TV movies such as The opted for a remake rather than the sequel. Hatch (who Hatfields and McCoys and the 1978 TV movie Deadman's claimed to have remortgaged his house to make the trailer) Curve (portraying Jan Berry of the musical duo Jan and was bitterly disappointed and was highly critical of the Dean). Hatch gained his first major television role in 1976 prospective new series on his website. In 2004, he stated as Inspector Dan Robbins on The Streets of San Francisco to Sci-Fi Pulse that he had felt resentment over the failure (replacing Michael Douglas, who had left the series that of his planned Galactica continuation and was left “ex- year). He also had a recurring role for one season on Mary hausted and sick... I had, over the past several years, Hartman, Mary Hartman. By this time, Hatch had become bonded deeply with the original characters and story..
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