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A WORD FROM THE EDITOR Recon 2017 The Florida Film Festival opened after Easter. There May 4-7 International Palms and Resort were a fair sample of SFF films. Colossal was about an 6515 International Drive alcoholic who has a strange connection to a monster attacking Orlando, FL 32819 Seoul. Birdboy: The Forgotten Children (Psiconautas) was a $15 pre-reg, $25 at the door (HMGS members) Spanish animated film about children looking for a new life in a post apocalyptic world. My Entire High School Sinking Into $25 pre-reg, $35 at the door (non HMGS members) The Sea does a surreal take on high school life using a trippy http://www.hmgs-south.com/ animation style. Albion: The Enchanted Stallion tells the story Gator Con of a young girl who is taken by a mysterious horse to another May 13 world to save a kingdom. This is actress Castile Landon’s first Hilton Airport film and it was a good portal . 150 Australian Avenue This month is OASIS so we a re get ready for that. West Palm Beach, FL The Nebulas will also be announced during the $7 pre-reg, $10 at the door convention. Some of the short fiction is online. Guests: Chris Doohan (Scotty, Star Trek Continues) Alison McInnis (Pink Ranger, Poer Rangers) Till next time. Mark Sparacio (comic artist) Jose Delbo (comic artist) OASFiS Meeting 4/9/2017 www.gatorcon.net

Megacon May 25-28 Officers: Juan Sanmiguel, Tom Reed Orange County Convention Center Members: Deb Canaday, Steve 4-Day-$99 pre-registration , $110 at the door Cole, Arthur Dykeman, Ken Konkol, Dave Ratti, 1-Day (pre)-Thu $20, Fri $35, Sat $45, Sun $35 Patty Russell 1-Day (at the door)-Thu $25, Fri $40, Sat $50, Sun $40 Guests: Stan Morrison (OASIS artist) Guests: Bill Hatfield (OASIS panelist) Stan Lee (comic pioneer) Club Business Gail Simone (comic writer) Juan wanted to thank everyone at the Kevin Smith (film writer-director) picnic, especially griller David Plesic and food Tim Curry (Frank-n-Furter, Rocky Horror) Barry Bostwick (Brad, Rocky Horror) buyer Peggy Stubblefield. Patricia Quinn (Magenta, Rocky Horror) Meat Loaf (Eddie, Rocky Horror) Juan will out for three months (June, July, and Nell Campbell (Columbia, Rocky Horror) August) on the meeting week due Felicia Day (Kinga Forrester, new MST3K) Mike Tyson (Heavyweight World Champion) to the Anime Festival Orlando, NASFiC 17, Norman Reedus (Daryl, The Walking Dead) and Worldcon 75. Tom will take over the and many more meetings. Juan will if he can do his Hugo megaconvention.com presentation at Orange County Library.

OASFiS Event Horizon Vol 28 Issue 342 May 2016 Published Monthly by the Orlando Area Society (OASFiS). All rights reserved by original Authors and Artists. Editor: Juan Sanmiguel, 1421 Pon Pon Court, Orlando, FL 32825. Subscriptions are $12.00 per year and entitle the subscriber to membership in the Society. Attending Memberships are $25.00 per year. Extra memberships to family members are $6.00 per year when only one newsletter is sent to the household. To subscribe or join OASFiS, send a check or money order to: OASFiS, PO Box 592905, Orlando, FL 32859-2905. To submit Articles, Artwork or Letters of Comment to the Event Horizon, send to the Editor's address above or [email protected]. For additional information, call our Voice Mail at (407) 823-8715. OASFiS is a state chartered not for profit corporation whose goal is the promotion of Science Fiction in all its forms. All opinions expressed herein are solely those of the Author(s) and in no way Page two May 2017

May OASFiS Calendar OASFiS People

OASFiS Business Meeting Sunday, May 14 1:30 PM,Brick and Fire Pasta and Susan Cole 407-275-5211 Pizza Parlor (Downtown Orlando, 1621 South Orange Ave [email protected] Orlando, Florida 32806 407-426-8922). Come join us as Arthur Dykeman 407-328-9565 we discuss what we have been watching and reading and [email protected] do some con planning Steve Grant 352 241 0670 [email protected] SciFi Light Mike Pilletere [email protected] TBD. Please check website David Ratti 407-282-2468 [email protected] Juan Sanmiguel 407-823-8715 [email protected] To for more info: Patricia Wheeler 407-832-1428 OASFiS Business Meeting 407-823-8715 [email protected]

Award News Any of these people can give readers information about the club and its functions. To be included in the list call Juan (source Locus website)

2017 Finalist\s Hiscock (self-published) (source Locus website) • “The Tomato Thief”, Ursula Vernon (Apex 1/5/16) • The Jewel and Her Lapidary, Fran Wilde (Tor.com Best Novel (2,078 nominating ballots) Publishing) • All the Birds in the Sky, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor; Titan • “You’ll Surely Drown Here If You Stay”, UK) (Uncanny 5-6/16) • A Closed and Common Orbit, (Hodder & Best (1,275) Stoughton; Harper Voyager US) • “Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies”, Brooke Bolander • The Obelisk Gate, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK) (Uncanny 11-12/16) • Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris US; Solaris UK) • “Seasons of Glass and Iron”, Amal El-Mohtar (The Starlit • Death’s End, Cixin Liu (Tor; Head of Zeus) Wood) • Too Like the Lightning, Ada Palmer (Tor) • “The City Born Great”, N.K. Jemisin (Tor.com 9/28/16)

Best (1,410) • “That Game We Played During the War”, Carrie Vaughn (Tor.com 3/16/16) • Penric and the Shaman, Lois McMaster Bujold (Spectrum Literary Agency) • “A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers”, • The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe, (Tor.com Alyssa Wong (Tor.com 3/2/16) Publishing) • “An Unimaginable Light”, John C. Wright (God, Robot) • The Ballad of Black Tom, Victor LaValle (Tor.com Publishing) Best Related Work (1,122) • Every Heart a Doorway, Seanan McGuire (Tor.com The Princess Diarist, Carrie Fisher (Blue Rider) Publishing) • Women of Harry Potter series of posts, Sarah Gailey • This Census-Taker, China Miéville (Del Rey; Picador) (Tor.com) • A Taste of Honey, Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com • The View from the Cheap Seats, (Morrow; Publishing) Headline) • The Geek Feminist Revolution, Kameron Hurley (Tor) Best Novelette (1,097) • Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, • “The Art of Space Travel”, Nina Allan (Tor.com 7/27/16) 2000-2016, Ursula K. Le Guin (Small Beer) • “Touring with the Alien”, Carolyn Ives Gilman • Traveler of Worlds: Conversations with , (Clarkesworld 4/16) Robert Silverberg & Alvaro Zinos-Amaro (Fairwood)

• Alien Stripper Boned from Behind by the T-Rex, Stix (Continued on page 3) Page three May 2017

Best Graphic Story (842) Best Professional Artist (817) • Black Panther, Volume 1: A Nation Under Our Feet, Ta- • Galen Dara Nehisi Coates, art by Brian Stelfreeze (Marvel) • Julie Dillon • The Vision, Volume 1: Little Worse Than A Man, Tom King, art by Gabriel Hernandez Walta (Marvel) • Chris McGrath • Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening, Marjorie Liu, art by • Victo Ngai Sana Takeda (Image) • John Picacio • Paper Girls, Volume 1, Brian K. Vaughan, art by Cliff Chiang (Image) • Sana Takeda • Saga, Volume 6, Brian K. Vaughan, art by Fiona Staples Best Semiprozine (857) (Image) • Beneath Ceaseless Skies • Ms. Marvel, Volume 5: Super Famous, G. Willow Wilson, • Cirsova Heroic Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine art by Takeshi Miyazawa, Adrian Alphona & Nico Leon (Marvel) • GigaNotoSaurus • Best Dramatic Presentation — Long (1,733) • Uncanny Magazine • Arrival • The Book Smugglers • Deadpool • Ghostbusters Best Fanzine (610) • Hidden Figures • Castalia House Blog • Rogue One • Journey Planet • Stranger Things, Season One • Lady Business • nerds of a feather, flock together Best Dramatic Presentation — Short (1,159) • Rocket Stack Rank • Black Mirror: “San Junipero” • SF Bluestocking • Doctor Who: “The Return of Doctor Mysterio” • The Expanse: “Leviathan Wakes” Best Fancast (690) • Game of Thrones: “Battle of the Bastards” • The Coode Street Podcast • Game of Thrones: “The Door” • Ditch Diggers • Splendor & • Fangirl Happy Hour • Galactic Suburbia Best Professional Editor Short Form (951) • The Rageaholic • John Joseph Adams • Tea & Jeopardy • Neil Clarke • Best Fan Writer (802) • Jonathan Strahan • Mike Glyer • Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas • Jeffro Johnson • Sheila Williams • Natalie Luhrs • Foz Meadows Best Professional Editor Long Form (752) • Abigail Nussbaum • Vox Day • Chuck Tingle • Sheila E. Gilbert • Liz Gorinsky Best Fan Artist (528) • Devi Pillai • Ninni Aalto • Miriam Weinberg • Vesa Lehtimäki (Continued on page 4) • Navah Wolfe Page four May 2017

(Continued from page 3) Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel • Likhain (M. Sereno) • Maria Alexander – Snowed (Raw Dog Screaming Press) • Spring Schoenhuth • Steve Stiles Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel • James Chambers, – Kolchak the Night Stalker: The • Mansik Yang Forgotten Lore of (Moonstone)

Best Series (1,393) Superior Achievement in Long Fiction • The Craft Sequence, (Tor) • Tim Waggoner, Tim – The Winter Box (DarkFuse) • The Expanse, James S.A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK) • The October Daye Books, Seanan McGuire (DAW; Corsair) Superior Achievement in Short Fiction • The Peter Grant/Rivers of London series, Ben Aaronovitch • – The Crawl Space (Ellery Queen Mystery (Gollancz; Del Rey; DAW; Subterranean) Magazine Volume #2016/Issue#8) (Dell Magazines)

• The Temeraire series, Naomi Novik (Del Rey; Harper Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection Voyager UK) • Joyce Carol Oates – The Doll-Master and Other Tales of • The , Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen) Terror (Mysterious Press)

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer [Not a Hugo Superior Achievement in a Screenplay Award] (933) • Robert Eggers – The VVitch (Parts and Labor, RT Features, • Sarah Gailey Rooks Nest Entertainment, Code Red Productions, Scythia • J. Mulrooney Films, Maiden Voyage Pictures, Mott Street Pictures, Pulse Films, and Very Special Projects) • *Malka Older • Ada Palmer Superior Achievement in an Anthology • Thomas F. Monteleone, and Olivia Monteleone,. – • *Laurie Penny Borderlands 6 (Samhain Publishing, Ltd.) • *Kelly Robson • Finalists in their 2nd year of eligibility. Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction • Ruth Franklin – : A Rather Haunted Life The awards will be presented at Worldcon 75 in Helsenki, (Liveright Publishing Corporation) Finland. Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection

Final voting for the Hugo Awards will close on July 15, 2017. • Stephanie M. Wytovich, – Brothel (Raw Dog Screaming Press)

Other HWA Awards Mentor of the Year Award

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Silver Hammer Award • James Chambers

The Bram Stoker Awards Specialty Press Award The Horror Writers Association announced the winners of the • Kate Jonez of Omnium Gatherum 2016 Bram Stoker Awards® on April 29 at StokerCon in Long Beach, CA. Lifetime Achievement Award • Superior Achievement in a Novel • Thomas F. Monteleone • , – The Fisherman (Word Horde)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel • Tom Deady – Haven (Cemetery Dance Publications) (Continued on page 6) Page five May 2017 the steampunk writer Gail Carriger’s book series. Her newest is Poison and Protect. Ken offered his place for a future meeting. Juan said they will consider it after OASIS 29. Arthur is also watching Agents of SHIELD but has not started watching the new arc. He did like the last Problems with the website are being looked into. arc, the Life Model Decoy. The new Doctor Who will start next week, as well as its spin-off, Class. Announcement Worldcon 75 announced Hugo finalists on April 4. Tom mentioned the new MST3K. An Orlando Juan mentioned some of the finalists. All the International Fringe Festival puppeteer is working finalists will be listed in the next Event Horizon. on the show. He says the production and writing values are up. Becky Chambers, a 2017 Hugo Finalist for Best Novel, will be at the Waterford Barnes and Noble Ken saw Ghost in the Shell and Power Rangers and on Friday April 14. gave them good reviews.

Treasurer’s Report Patty saw Silent Sky, a play at Rollins Theater. It (Numbers are rounded off). was about an American female astronomer who ?Is there a report? discovered how to measure the distance between the stars. Patty also read One Damn Thing After Convention Another by Jodi Taylor. It was funny and clever. Juan asked that Convention attendees please book hotel rooms by April 29th. Dave Ratti recommended The Amazing Race television series. He is working on the schedule and hopes to have a draft by the end of the week. Book Discussion The book was Rampage by Michele Cook and John He will ask Peggy Dave’s questions about rooms Sandford near the Con Suite. Ken summarized the book: a company is developing Juan ask for recommendations for t-shirt colors with cybernetically muscle to help wounded veterans. Tom’s Con insignia. Meeting members agreed on a The company is also transferring minds into heathered gray. unwilling subjects. A performance artist is fighting this company. The artist runs a hotel for wayward Arthur is working on theVideo Room schedule. teens. They are fighting against the company any way they can. Juan will try to get the Program Book material to Tom by the end of April. Steve thought it was not SF, but more a near- future thriller. Characters were not well defined.and there was too much coincidence for the plot to work, he Culture Consumed said. Juan liked the movies your name, Get Out, Ghost in the Shell, and Iron Fist. He also recommended the There was some confusion about which book to novels Everfair by Nisi Shawl and The Stars are read, but Juan also read the third book of the series, Legion.by Kameron Hurley. which begins with Uncaged and continues with Outrage. It was easy to get into the book, he Steve is watching the television shows Time After thought, and the writers did a good job summing up Time and Agents of SHIELD. He also recommended (Continued on page 6) Page eight May 2017 Letters of Comment My letter…only recently have downloads been 06-24 Eva Rd. available for reading for the Best Novel Aurora. I Etobicoke, ON rarely have the time to read to vote, so I usually only M9C 2B2 vote in the Fan Aurora categories. My love of reading is fading somewhat, and I find more and more I need April 16, 2017 things to do at conventions. I won’t just pay my way in, sit down, shut up and listen to the readings, there Dear OASFiSians: has to be more than that for me. I prefer to participate, and if I can’t, I just socialize.

Thanks kindly for Event Horizon 352. This will Next weekend is the first of the big conventions this probably be a fast letter, seeing as the three-day Easter season in the Toronto area, CostumeCon 35, in the weekend is drawing to a close. Let’s see what I can next-door city of Mississauga. It’s a five-day do… convention, but the real convention is in the middle three days. It will also be three full days of the dealers Hugos…still pleased that Steve Stiles won the Hugo room for us. Anyone from Orlando and area coming for Best Fan Artist. He’s been drawing in fanzines and up, or did everyone spend their money at the Star comics for decades, and he was one of the few names Wars event? I recognized on the ballot. I guess we will see the next Hugo ballot soon, but I expect not to know anyone on I was not able to make Star Wars Celebration because it. Time marches on, and I simply have not been able of the Easter holiday. I did it a few years ago and to keep up with all the changes going on. there were some good fan run and non-actor panels. It was packed from what I hear. They also have great One way with keeping with literary fandom is badge art. podcasts. The Coode Street Podcast, The Fangirl Happy Hour, The Skiffy and Fanty Show, and Take care, all…see you next issue. Galactic Suburbia are shows that discuss issues in the literary science fiction world. The all mention what Yours, Lloyd Penney. books and writers to look out for.

(Continued from page 4) (Continued from page 5) the previous novels. The Arthur C. Clarke Award The six shortlisted books for the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best science fiction novel of the year published in 2016 are: Meeting adjourned at 3PM.

A Closed and Common Orbit – Becky Chambers (Hodder & Next month’s meeting, we will focus on the Stoughton) Convention.

Ninefox Gambit – Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris)

After Atlas – Emma Newman (Roc)

Occupy Me – Tricia Sullivan (Gollancz)

Central Station – Lavie Tidhar (PS Publishing)

The Underground Railroad – Colson Whitehead (Fleet) Page nine May 2017

40 Years of Star Wars lacking. They added depth to the characters and did stories you would not expect in the Star Wars universe. There were political thrillers, mystery, horror, and war stories that focused on toll the Star Wars was always fun. It was a story of good conflict takes on those are fighting it. The prequels gave us this a versus evil with some depth. Good had to face the darkness in new look into the universe. themselves and deal with it. That was mixed in with space battles We now live in an era of abundance. With Disney and alien worlds. You had the films and you could get stuff from owning Star Wars, there will be a film every year. The makers of the films whether they be action figures, models, or mock-up of Star Wars: The Clone Wars are working on the successful Star the props. You could always have a part of Star Wars. Wars: Rebels series. Established science fiction writers like Star Wars came out of the theater and into the home for Chuck Wendig are writing new novels. Marvel, also owned by first time via the Marvel comic adaptation. Every month you got Disney, is making the comics again. These new projects provide to go galaxy far far away. At the time, I realized the comic could what we expect from Star Wars. They give us interesting not deal with the big plot points like Vader’s identity, but you got characters with some depth mixed with harrowing adventures. to have some adventures until the next movie came out. One my Thank you, Star Wars, for all the fun you have given us favorite stories was called “The Last Jedi”. I thought we were these 40 years. May the Force be with you. going to get some information of what happen to the Jedi. The story was not that but a compelling tale of an alien who passed up the chance to be Jedi to protect a prince of a planetary kingdom. While protecting the prince this would-be Jedi was injured, but continued to serve his prince as best he could and later helped Luke and Leia. This story really felt like Star Wars. If you were a kid at the time, The Star Wars Holiday Special was fun. It was Star Wars on TV. You did not realize how goofy the variety show acts were and you saw a Star Wars cartoon. You hoped there would be more or that it would be shown again. Instead the show was wiped from history. Looking at it again as an adult you saw the problems with it. Its attempts of comedy were cringe worthy and they should have picked better names for Chewbacca’s son and father (Itchy and Lumpy!!!!???). The TV producers should have focused on an adventure on the Wookie homeworld. The next time Star Wars left the theater was a success, the NPR radio adaptation. The first film was made into a 13-part (half hour) radio show. Mixed in with the movie’s story you got hear what Luke’s life on Tattoine was like, Leia’s involvement in the Rebellion on Alderaan, and Han’s dealings with Jabba. The show had the music and sound effects from the film. NPR then adapted The Empire Strikes Back into a 10-part series. Sadly, due to funding cuts there was no adaptation of Return of the Jedi, but it was fun to have Star Wars in my home on regular basis. After the Marvel comic was cancelled in 1987, the next big Star Wars item were the novels. There were novels before based on the adventures of Han Solo, and Lando Calrissain. The Splinter of the Mind’s Eye came out after the first film. There something different when Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn came out in 1991. It was a continuation of the saga after Return of the Jedi. Zahn introduced new characters and the Galactic capital planet Coruscant. The tale of our old friends in the New Republic facing the complex plans of Grand Admiral Thrawn was gripping. Star Wars had come back. When the prequels came back I was excited. They were not perfect. They should have developed Padme a bit more in the films particularly the third one and maybe tone down some Jar Jar’s annoying behavior. The films felt like Star Wars, though a different type. I think the disappointment some people felt was that these films were never as good as those we made in our heads. The films set the stage for Star Wars: The Clone Wars. This animated television show filled in the gap between Episodes II and III and gave people what they felt the prequels were OASFiS P.O. Box 592905 ORLANDO, FL 32859-2905

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