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May 3013 NASFA Shuttle Te Shutle May 2013 The Next NASFA Meeting is Saturday 18 May 2013 in Conjunction With Picnic ConCom Meeting also 18 May; see below for details Please check the deadline below the Table of Contents each d Oyez, Oyez d month to submit news, reviews, LoCs, or other material. We will generally need to enforce that deadline strictly. The next NASFA Meeting will be at Saturday 18 May FUTURE PROGRAMS AND ATMMs 2013 but not at the regular time or location. The May meeting Future programs include: will be subsumed into the More-Or-Less Annual NASFA Pic- • June: TBD. nic/Cookout. That will start at 2P at Sam & Judy Smith’s house • July: Field trip to the Von Braun Astronomical Society Plane- and last until they kick us out of their house. See the map on tarium <www.vbas.org/index.php/planetarium> for “Life in page 2 for directions. the Universe” with Gena Crook. Stay tuned for further de- MAY PROGRAM & ATMM tails. The May program and After-The-Meeting Meeting will also • August: “Adding Bling to Your Costume” with Angela from be subsumed into the Cookout/Picnic. Sci-Quest <sci-quest.org>. CONCOM MEETINGS • September: The More-Or-Less Annual NASFA Auction. The next Con†Stellation XXXII concom meeting will be Please start saving stuff to donate. Saturday 18 May 2013 during the Picnic/Cookout; check with • October: Con†Stellation XXXII Post-Mortem. Mary & Doug Lamper for details. • November: Max Rosenthal, a former manager on the Hubble The general plan going forward will be to have a concom program, shares personal stories and highlights of the Hubble meeting each club meeting Saturday, until we get close enough development and its remarkable pictures. to the con to need to accelerate that schedule. Generally these • December: Holiday Party (volunteer host(s) needed). will be at the church when possible, though see above for this We need ATMM volunteers for June and almost all future month’s plan. months. (November is tentatively spoken for, but otherwise it’s CHANGING SHUTTLE DEADLINES pretty much wide open.) The latest tweak to the NASFA Shuttle schedule shifted the FUTURE CLUB MEETING DATES usual repro date somewhat to the right (roughly the weekend Remaining scheduled NASFA meeting dates for 2013 are before each meeting) but much of each issue will need to be all the normal 3rd Saturday. As noted above, this month’s put to bed as much as two weeks before the monthly meeting. meeting will be on the 3rd Saturday, but will be incorporated Continuing Our 33rd Year of Publication Inside this issue… NASFA Calendar ..................................................................3 News & Info .........................................................................2 Awards Roundup ..................................................................4 Minutes of the April Meeting ................................................2 DeepSouthCon Awards .........................................................6 Map to Cookout/Picnic .........................................................2 Letter of Comment ...............................................................7 Deadline for the June 2013 issue of The 1NASFA Shuttle is Monday 26 May 2013 into the More-or-Less Annual NASFA Picnic/Cookout. fandom/duff2013.pdf>. JOINING THE NASFA EMAIL LIST IS ASIMOV HISTORICAL ENOUGH? All NASFANs who have email are urged to join the NASFA There’s a petition sponsored by Philadelphia Weekly up at email list, which you can do online at <tinyurl.com/ Change.org <tinyurl.com/IAPennPet> to convince the Penn- NASFAEmail>. The list is usually low traffic, though the rate sylvania Historical Marker Commission to put up a marker for is rather variable. Generally the list is limited to announce- the apartment in West Philly where Isaac Asimov lived from ments about club activities plus the occasional message of gen- 1942 to 1945. It’s been pointed out, though, that what may eral interest to north-Alabama sf/f/h/etc. fans. Non NASFAns really be needed is privately-raised funds to make and install are welcome to join the list, but please only do so if you’re the plaque should the commission be convinced. interested in the above restricted topics—posts unrelated to the COMIC CONVENTION DELAYED BY MANHUNT those purposes are strongly discouraged and could result in you The Boston Comic Con <www.bostoncomiccon.com> was being asked to leave the list. delivered a blow when the city of Boston went on lockdown NASFA CALENDAR ONLINE following the Boston Marathon bombings. It has been resched- NASFA has an online calendar on Google. Interested parties uled for 3–4 August 2013. can check the calendar online, but you can also subscribe to it SFWA ELECTION RESULTS, SERVICE AWARD and have your Outlook, iCal, BlackBerry, or other calendar Results of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Amer- automatically updated as events (Club Meetings, Concom ica <www.sfwa.org> latest election have been announced. The Meetings, local sf/f events) are added or changed. You can incoming slate of officers (effective 1 July 2013) is view the calendar online at <tinyurl.com/NASFACal>. President .............................................................Steven Gould Vice-President ..................................................Rachel Swirsky Secretary ...............................................................Susan Forest Treasurer ...........................................................Bud Sparhawk News & Info South/Central Regional Director........................ Lee Martindale Overseas Regional Director ....................Tansy Rayner Roberts TAFF WINNER ANNOUNCED In separate SFWA news, Michael Payne has been selected Jim Mowatt won the 2013 Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund race in for the 2013 Kevin O'Donnell, Jr. Service to SFWA Award. an east-to-west year and will travel to this year’s Worldcon, Payne has been the coordinator for SFWA’s Circulating Book LoneStarCon 3 in San Antonio. Mowatt received 91 votes ver- Plan for over 2 decades. This scheme circulates books among sus 16 for Theresa Derwin, 1 for Hold Over Funds and 13 for interested SFWA members, for the express purpose of helping No Preference. The full voting breakdown is available at the inform them as Nebula voters. TAFF website <taff.org.uk>. DUFF VOTING OPEN Voting for the 2013 Down Under Fan Fund has opened. This is a south-to-north year so the nominees are from Australasia April Minutes and will travel to LoneStarCon 3. The vote is between Clare by Steve Sloan, Secretary, aka the Steve without pulps McDonald-Sims and Bill Wright, both of Australia. Full voting rules can be found on the ballots at <www.difference.com.au/ The April meeting of the North Alabama Science Fiction Map To Cookout/ Sam & Judy Smith Picnic 1501 Slaughter Road Madison AL 35758 Road Rideout University Drive Slaughter Road Slaughter I-565 Memorial Parkway From near the I-565/Memorial Parkway intersection, either: (1) Take I-565 West; exit at Madison Boulevard (exit 13); turn right (North) on Slaughter Road; the house is about 3.3 miles ahead, on your right —or— (2) Take University Drive West; stay on University for about 7 miles; turn left (South) on Slaughter Road; the MadisonI-565 Blvd. house is about 1.1 miles ahead, on your left 2 Association was called to order on Saturday, April 13, 2013 in 10–12 Nashville Comic Con—Nashville TN. the Madison satellite location of Willowbrook Baptist Church 12 Mother's Day. at 6:16:40P by President Mary Lampert. We had a guest named 14 BD: Nancy Whittle. Steve, who brought a few classic science fiction pulps for the 16 BD: Linda Bolgeo. club to look at. 17–19 MOBICON XVI—Mobile AL. OLD BUSINESS 18* Con†Stellation XXXII Concom Meeting—To be held in None. conjunction with the More-or-Less Annual NASFA NEW BUSINESS Cookout/Picnic at Judy and Sam Smith’s house. Sam had mail. Does anyone need coupons for Momma 18* NASFA Meeting—To be held in conjunction with the Goldberg’s Deli? He also received a card from Sparkle City More-or-Less Annual NASFA Picnic/Cookout at Sam Comics in New Jersey saying that they buy comics. and Judy Smith’s house. The Cookout/Picnic starts at There was a digression about who is a “brony.” The discus- 2P. sion prompted Doug to ask if we need to redo the geek hierar- 19 BD: David O. Miller. chy. Tracey asked Mike K. to write a column about it in the 20 Victoria Day. next Shuttle to educate her. [Such an article will have to wait, if 23–27 Atlanta Game Fest—Atlanta GA. it ever happens at all. In the meantime, check out <brunching. 24–26 Timegate—Atlanta GA. com/geekhierarchy.html> for version 2.0 of the chart in ques- 24–26 Oasis 25—Orlando FL. tion. -ED] 24–26 NashCon—Franklin TN. Sam reported that the concom (Con†Stellation convention 24–26 Phoenix Festival—Birmingham AL. committee meeting) discussed the Square credit card reader for 25 JABECon—Lebanon TN. smart phones. A credit card reader would allow the convention 27 BD: Kathy Paulk. to take credit cards, and also allow credit card payments for 27 Memorial Day. club-related stuff. According to Sam, the club and convention 29 BD: John F. Kennedy. bank accounts are currently with BB&T, and they have a better 31–02 ConCarolinas—Charlotte NC. credit card deal than Square’s. 31–02 Hamacon—Huntsville AL. The new Steve was introduced, and members of the club 31–02 Fanboy Expo—Knoxville TN. around the room introduced themselves to him. JUNE CONVENTION BUSINESS 01–02 Lolita Convention—Atlanta GA. Per tradition, Mike K. reported that “there will be a con” this 02 BD: Lloyd Penney. year. 06 Bailey Cove Library Book Discussion: Some Kind of According to Doug, we now have a complete slate of guests. Fairy Tale, Graham Joyce; 6P. Our Guest of Honor will be Larry Correia, our Artist GoH will 07–09 Sci Fi Summer Con—Atlanta GA. be Kurt Miller, our Fan GoH will be Darrell Osborn, and our 08–09 Con Kasterborous—Huntsville AL. Mistress of Ceremonies will be Stephanie Osborn.
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