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The FACT Sheet a Monthly Publication of the Fandom Association of Central Texas July, 2008 FREE with Your FACT Membership! Convention Reports Wanted! The FACT Sheet A Monthly Publication of the Fandom Association of Central Texas July, 2008 FREE with your FACT Membership! Convention Reports Wanted! xxFACT EVENTS THIS MONTH Please consider taking a few notes about panels, readings and other aspects of ArmadilloCon, and Friday-Sunday, August 15-17: ArmadilloCon. then submitting them for next month’s issue. We Doubletree Hotel. want to include a special section on the con, and Writers’ Workshop: Friday, 9AM-4PM need your submissions to make it happen! Opening Ceremonies: Friday, 4PM Meet the Pros Party: Friday, 8-10PM FACT Benefit for Literacy Austin Charity Auction - Literacy Austin: Saturday, 5PM The Charity Auction at this year’s ArmadilloCon will Art Auction: Saturday, 6PM benefit Literacy Austin. 24% of Texans read below Campfire Stories: Saturday, 9PM the 5th grade level. Literacy Austin is taking action Board Meeting: Sunday, 9AM, Fourth Floor to improve these people’s lives by improving their Capital reading skill. Please attend the Charity Auction on Reading Group: Sunday, 2PM, de Zavala. The Saturday at 5PM and use a little of your spending Automatic Detective by A. Lee Martinez. money to help benefit this wonderful program! Thursday, August 21, 7-8 PM: South Austin Read- North Reading Group Selections ing Group. (Pleasant Hill Branch, Austin Public Library, 211 E. Wm Cannon Dr) Snow Crash by Neal The North Austin Reading Group has selected books Stephenson. through the end of the year: Sunday, August 17: The Automatic Detective by A. South Reading Group Selections Lee Martinez (Join us at ArmadilloCon to discuss!) Monday, September 1: Babel-17 by Samuel R. The South Austin Reading Group has announced Delany selections through November. Note that the Tuesday, September 16: Last Dragon by J. M. November and December meetings will be a week McDermott early because of the holidays. Monday, October 6: The Complete Roderick by John Thursday, August 21: Snow Crash by Neal Sladek Stephenson Tuesday, October 21: On Basilisk Station by David Thursday, September 25: Do Androids Dream of Weber Electric Sheep?/Blade Runner by Philip K. Monday, November 3: Gordath Wood by Patrice Dick Sarath Thursday, October 23: Good Omens by Neil Gaiman Tuesday, November 18: The Blade Itself by Joe and Terry Pratchett Abercrombie Thursday, November 20: Grave Sight by Charlaine Monday, December 1: Kitty and the Midnight Hour Harris by Carrie Vaughn Thursday, December 18: TBD Tuesday, December 16: Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny Hugo Awards Announced Monday, January 5: Axis by Robert Charles Wilson The 2008 Hugo Awards were presented at Worldcon on August 9. Winners include: ArmadilloCon Guest of IS IT TIME TO RENEW Honor John Scalzi as Best Fan Writer, ArmadilloCon 31 Artist Guest Stephan Martiniere as Best YOUR FACT MEMBERSHIP? Professional Artists, and Brad Foster as Best Fan Artist. Here is the complete list: Please be sure to keep your Best Novel: The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon (HarperCollins; Fourth Estate) membership up to date! Best Novella: “All Seated on the Ground” by Connie Willis (Asimov’s, December 2007; Subterranean Press) Stop by the FACT table in the Dealers’ Best Novelette: “The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Room at ArmadilloCon, or Gate” by Ted Chiang (Fantasy & Science Fiction, September 2007) go to www.fact.org and pay online. Best Short Story: “Tideline” by Elizabeth Bear Just $21 for a one year membership! (Asimov’s, June 2007) continued on page 4 The FACT Sheet - July 2008 - Page 2 Focus on the Art Show Anita Haddock, Scott Zrubek is back this year for another year DragonFishArt as the ArmadilloCon Art Show Director. This year’s Works.com, group of artists includes some familiar names and Flambeau some new ones. (Necklace) & Trilobite Ear- rings The Art Show will be open Friday, 2-7PM and 8-10PM. On Saturday, hours will be 10AM-6PM, with the Auction at 6PM. It will open again on Sunday from 10AM-12 Noon. Be sure to stop by! The exhibition space is completely booked by a varied group of artists that includes David Lee Anderson, the Artist Guest of Honor; Joe Haldeman, one of the Special Guests; Brad W. Foster, this year’s Hugo winner for Best Fan Artist; John Picacio, who has won a number of awards and was a finalist for Best Professional Artist in this year’s Hugos; Rocky Kelley, who won the 2006 World Mary Helms Fantasy Art Show Award; “Diesel” LaForce, who Rocky Kelley (www.rockykelley.com) worked on Dungeons and Dragons; and more. Diesel LaForce Visit the Art Show at ArmadilloCon to see work by all these artists! Lubov (www.lubov.net) Theresa Mather (www.rockfeatherscissors.com) Melia Newman Mai Nguyen Night Wolf Studios John Picacio (www.johnpicacio.com) Shelly Pinder (www.shellypinder.com) Douglas Potter Mark Roland Brandy Stark (metalpug.deviantart.com) Alison Tawney Rachel Waterfield “A Little Friend” © Brandy Stark David Lee Anderson (www.davidleeanderson.com) Kimm Antell (www.kimmantell.com) Jolie E. Bonnette (www.joliebonnette.com) Nancy Cagle (tinyurl.com/5za48p) Peri Charlifu (tinyurl.com/5vbgof) Sarah Clemens (www.clemensart.com) Daniel Cortopassi (www.dacort.com) Sara Felix Brad W. Foster (www.jabberwockygraphix.com) Fairy Glade Ashen Grey (www.ashengray.com) Anita Haddock (www.dragonfishartworks.com) Joe Haldeman Kathleen Hardy Kendall R. Hart (maskedmayhem.deviantart.com) The FACT Sheet - July 2008 - Page 2 continued from page 2 Best Professional Editor, Long Form: David G. A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an Hartwell invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write Best Professional Editor, Short Form: Gordon a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort Van Gelder the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form: program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die Stardust, written by Jane Goldman and Matthew gallantly. Specialization is for insects. Vaughn; based on the novel by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Charles Vess; directed by Matthew Vaughn -- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (1973) Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form: “Blink” (Doctor Who), written by Steven Moffat; directed by “Singing of Mount Abora” Theodora Goss Hettie Macdonald (Logorrhea, Bantam Spectra) Best Related Book: Brave New Words: The Oxford “The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs Dictionary of Science Fiction by Jeff Prucher (Oxford of North Park After the Change” Kij Johnson (The University Press) Coyote Road: Trickster Tales, Viking) Best Semiprozine: Locus “Damned if you Don’t “ Robert Shearman” (Tiny Best Professional Artist: Stephan Martiniere Deaths, Comma Press) Best Fan Artist: Brad Foster “The Church on the Island” Simon Kurt Unsworth (At Ease with the Dead, Ash-Tree Press) Best Fan Writer: John Scalzi Anthology Best Fanzine: File 770 edited by Mike Glyer Five Strokes to Midnight Gary A. Braunbeck & Hank John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer Schwaeble, Eds. (Haunted Pelican Press) (Sponsored by Dell Magazines and administered on their behalf by WSFS): Mary Robinette Kowal Wizards: Magical Tales From The Masters of Modern Fantasy Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois, Eds. (Berkley) World Fantasy Nominations Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural Ellen Datlow, Editor (Tor) The 2008 World Fantasy Award nominations have The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales Ellen Datlow & been announced. ArmadilloCon 31 Guest Artist Terri Windling, Eds. (Viking) Stephan Martiniere was nominated, as was John Logorrhea: Good Words Make Good Stories John Picacio of San Antonio. Klima, Editor (Bantam Spectra) Lifetime Achievement Collection Life Achievement winners are Leo & Diane Dillon Plots and Misadventures Stephen Gallagher and Patricia McKillip. (Subterranean Press) Novel Portable Childhoods Ellen Klages (Tachyon Territory Emma Bull (Tor) Publications) Ysabel Guy Gavriel Kay (Viking Canada/Penguin The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club Kim Newman Roc) (MonkeyBrain Books) Fangland John Marks (Penguin Press) Hart & Boot & Other Stories Tim Pratt (Night Shade Gospel of the Knife Will Shetterly (Tor) Books) The Servants Michael Marshall Smith (Earthling Tiny Deaths Robert Shearman (Comma Press) Publications) Dagger Key and Other Stories Lucius Shepard (PS Novella Publishing) The Mermaids Robert Edric (PS Publishing) Artist Illyria Elizabeth Hand (PS Publishing) Ruan Jia “The Master Miller’s Tale” Ian R. MacLeod (Fantasy Mikko Kinnunen & Science Fiction May 2007) Stephan Martiniere “Cold Snap” Kim Newman (The Secret Files of the Edward Miller Diogenes Club, MonkeyBrain Books) John Picacio “Stars Seen through Stone” Lucius Shepard Special Award—Professional (Fantasy & Science Fiction July 2007) Allison Baker and Chris Roberson for MonkeyBrain Short Story Books “The Cambist and Lord Iron: A Fairy Tale of Alan Beatts and Jude Feldman for Borderlands Economics” Daniel Abraham (Logorrhea, Bantam Books Spectra) Peter Crowther for PS Publishing The FACT Sheet - July 2008 - Page 4 The FACT Sheet - July 2008 - Page 5 Gordon Van Gelder for Fantasy & Science Fiction “Unique Chicken Goes in Reverse”, Andy Duncan Jeremy Lassen and Jason Williams for Night Shade (Eclipse One) Books Collection Shawna McCarthy for Realms of Fantasy *The Imago Sequence and Other Stories, Laird Special Award—Non-professional Barron (Night Shade Books) Midori Snyder and Terri Windling for Endicott The Bone Key, Sarah Monette (Prime Books) Studios Website The Entire Predicament, Lucy Corin (Tin House) G. S. Evans and Alice Whittenburg for Cafe Irreal Like You’d Understand, Anyway, Jim Shepard Stephen Jones, Editor for Travellers in Darkness: (Knopf) The Souvenir Book of the World Horror Convention Old Devil Moon, Christopher Fowler (Serpent’s Tail) 2007 Anthology John Klima for Electric Velocipede *Inferno, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Tor) Rosalie Parker and Raymond Russell for Tartarus At Ease with the Dead, Barbara & Christopher Press Roden, eds (Ash-Tree Press) Dark Delicacies 2, Del Howison & Jeff Gelb, eds. Shirley Jackson Awards (Running Press) The first annual Shirley Jackson Awards, for Logorrhea, John Klima, ed.
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