Einblatt! October 2002 Calendar Sanderson, 612-872-8468, [email protected]. Publishing News Tues, Oct 1, 7-10PM. North Country Per Will Shetterly, Emma Bull’s new novel Gaylaxians Book Discussion. Lilith's Thurs, Oct 24, 23:59PM. Einblatt! Territory should be coming out about Jan Blood, by Octavia E. Butler. Betsy's Deadline. ’04. Back Porch, 5447 Nicollet Ave S, Sat, Oct 26, 2PM. Stipple-Apa Mpls. (SE corner of Nicollet & collation at a farm outside of Fargo. 's American Gods won the Diamond Lake Rd.) FFI: No smoking, cats, kids, farm stuff, Hugo for Best Novel. www.ncgaylaxians.com/calendar.htm visit to the Space Aliens restaurant. Local nominees for World Fantasy Fri Oct 4 & Sat Oct 5, 9AM-4PM. FFI: Jeanne Mealy, 651-771-7226. Awards include not only Bujold and Mpls Downtown Library Excess Gaiman for Best Novel (as noted in last Furniture & Equipment Sale. Sun, Oct 27. Second Foundation discusses Mervyn Peake at David month's EINBLATT) but also The Sidecar Sat, Oct 5, 2PM. Minn-StF Meeting. Christenson's, 3728 Longfellow Ave Preservation Society in the Special Award Irene & Scott Raun’s, 3928 11th Ave S, Mpls, 612-722-9764. FFI: Eric M. category. We've missed noting several of S, Mpls. Smoking outside, dogs. FFI: Heideman, 612-721-5959 or their chapbooks, the latest being A Scott or Irene, 612-822-0451, [email protected]. Donald Wandrei Miscellany, edited by [email protected], Duane Olsen. For details and a list of past [email protected]. Mon, Oct 28, 7:30PM. Ctein publications, see Photography Showing at Blaisdell http://flintsilver.netfirms.com/Sidecar Sun, Oct 6, 7PM. Howard Ashby Poly, 3721 Blaisdell Ave S, Mpls. books.htm Kranz and Nate & Louie Bucklin in General FFI: Ctein, concert. Jerry Corwin’s, 3040 Grand [email protected], show Lois McMaster Bujold's The Curse Of Ave S, Mpls. Howard 7PM & 9PM; FFI: DD-B, 612-827-6521 x3, dd- Chalion won the 2002 Mythopoeic Nate & Louie 8PM. A $10 donation is [email protected] Fantasy Award in the Adult Literature requested, all proceeds go to the category musicians. FFI: Jerry, 612 824-7800 Advance Warning Neil Gaiman's American Gods was a Best Minn-StF Halloween, Nov 2nd at Novel finalist for the British Fantasy Sat, Oct 12. MinneAPA Collation. th Exact time & location to be Dreampark. Minn-StF Meeting Nov 16 . Awards determined. FFI: Dean Gahlon, 612- Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: 15th 929-2150, [email protected]. Birthdays: Annual (ed Datlow & Windling) "Honorable Mentions" Ruth Berman's Wed, Oct 16, 7:30PM. Minn-StF 2: Elizabeth LaVelle; 5: Joel Halpern; 6: poem "Renting the Overgrown Grounds" Board meets at Scott Raun’s, 3928 Joe Agee; 9: Kevin Trainor; 10: Kashia th (Asimov's Jan 2001) and Neil Gaiman's 11 Ave S, Mpls. Smoking outside, LeBeau, Steve Glennon; 11: Beth story "Other People" (F&SF Oct/Nov dogs. FFI: Any board member. Friedman, Barry Watson; 12: Betsy 2001), plus four pieces from Minnesota- Lundsten; 13: Lisa Bah; 14: Barb Jensen; Sat, Oct 19, 1-3PM. Katya Reiman & 16: Ryan Alexander; 17: Andy Anda, based magazines: Alex DeNiro's "The Lois McMaster Bujold sign at Uncle Mauricette Keeley; 18: Jeff Schalles; 19: Excavation" from Minnesota Monthly (June 2001); Patricia Rutale's "Creatures" Hugo’s, 2864 Chicago Ave. S, Mpls. Hewitt Schaefer; 20: Andrew Berlien, Lee from Tales Of The Unanticipated #22; FFI: 612-824-6347 Reynolds, Sharon Rosenberg; 21: Nancy Darrell Schweitzer's poem "I Dreamed McClure; 24: Jerry Boyajian; 25: Sue Sat, Oct 19, 1PM. The Worldbuilding That I Sailed in a Ship of Heroes" from Grandys; 27: Sergei Alderman, 28: Society. Topic: Informal discussion. MOOREEFFOC #4 and Kiel Stuart's story Slugger, 30: Shaun Tancheff Penn Station, 2205 44th Ave N, "Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?" Mpls. FFI: Dan Goodman, from MOOREEFFOC #5 [email protected], 612-821-3934 Announcements: Lois McMaster Bujold's Diplomatic Sat, Oct 19, 1:30PM. Rivendell Survey Question: I’m thinking of Immunity was #3 hardcover bestseller on discusses Autumn Worlds with some producing a PDF version of Einblatt that the September Locus list as well as #7 on of its authors - Joan Marie Verba, could print out just like the dead tree the Barnes and Noble/B. Dalton list and Tess Kolney, Deb Jones, Margaret edition. Would the existence of this #9 on the Walden/Borders list in the same Howes and Ruth Berman. St. Paul version mean you wouldn’t need the dead issue. Public Library Rice Street Branch, tree edition any more? Responses to 995 Rice St, St. Paul. FFI: David [email protected]. Neil Gaiman's American Gods was #1 Lenander, [email protected]. paperback bestseller on the September Robert Forward died of brain cancer on Locus list; #2 on Barnes and Noble/B. nd Sat, Oct 19, 2PM. Minn-StF Meeting. Sept 22 . Dalton, and #10 on the Amazon.com lists Marian Turner's, co-hosted by Dr. Lloyd Biggle, Jr., Ph. D., musician, in the same issue; it also spent three Michael Kauper & Erica Stark, weeks in June on the New York Times 4042 Wentworth Ave S, Mpls. author, and internationally known oral historian died September 12, 2002, after Book Review bestseller list, rising to #15, Children welcome, childproof. FFI: and two weeks in June on the Michael or Erica, 612-827-3481 a twenty-year battle with leukemia and cancer. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY bestseller list, Sun, Oct 20, 2PM. Minicon 38 Open topping at #8 Meeting. Larry Sanderson’s, 519 W CoA: David W. Schroth, P.O. Box th 130361, Roseville, MN 55113-0004 Naomi Kritzer, Fires Of The Faithful now 27 St, Mpls. No Smoking. FFI: out; Turning The Storm due January (both Laura Jean, 612-724-2514, Bantam Spectra pbs) [email protected]; Larry Katya Reimann, Prince Of Fire And pb=mass market paperback. hc=hardcover. $15 through 5/15, $20 ATD. Supporting Ashes (Tor hc) was published earlier this tp=trade paperback nf=nonfiction. $20 through 5/15, converting $20. FFI: summer coll=collection. anth=anthology. r=reissue www.convergence-con.org David Prill's The Unnatural is being reprinted as an online serial at Conventions Ongoing Information www.revolutionSF.com Oct 4-6: Trinoc-con 2002, Durham, NC. Board of Directors: Laura Jean Fish, Dean GOHs: Lois McMaster Bujold, James Laurel Winter, "The Intergalactic Host Gahlon, Sharon Kahn, Scott Raun, and Wappel, Dave Arneson, Fred Chappell. Larry Sanderson. Email [email protected]. Program" (poem) is in the http://www.trinoc-con.org Mn-STF meetings are held the 1st and 3rd October/November 2002 Asimov's Saturday every month. Oct 18-20: ICON 27, Cedar Rapids, IA. Bruce Bethke's 1990 novel Maverick is GOHs: Jennifer Roberson, John Garner, Minn-STF Hotline: Provides latest being reprinted in the Pocket tp omnibus Les & Jeannette Roth, Rusty Hevelin. information and accepts messages: 612- 's Robots and Aliens 3, due http://www.mindbridge.org/icon/ 824-5559; web site at: http://www.mnstf.org/. January Minicon web site at: Oct 18-20: Conjecture, San Diego, CA. http://www.mnstf.org/minicon/. Steven Brust's The Book Of Taltos, hc GOH: Steven Brust. omnibus reprint from SFBC out Gamesday Players: Board & card gaming http://www.conjecture.org almost every Friday evening. 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World Fantasy Einblatt is posted on Usenet groups Joel Rosenberg, Guardians of the Flame Convention 2002, Minneapolis, MN. rec.arts.sf.fandom, alt.fandom.misc, and (Baen hc omnibus), due January; Not GoH’s: Dennis Etchison, Jonathan Really The Prisoner Of Zenda (hc novel) mn.sf // Einblatt from July 95 to date is on Carroll, Kathe Koja. Stephen Jones, Dave the web at http://www.mnstf.org/einblatt/. due from Tor June 2003; Murder In Lamut McKean. Hilton Minneapolis & Towers, (with Raymond E. Feist), British pb reprint Einblatt is distributed via e-mailing-list – Mpls, MN. FFI: send e-mail to einblatt-list- due June 2003 from [email protected] [email protected]. HarperCollins/Flamingo Apr 18-20, 2003. Minicon 38, Mpls. GoHs: This Einblatt was edited by Scott Raun with Laurel Winter, Growing Wings, Robert J. Sawyer & Carolyn Clink, Sue the assistance of Denny Lien (publishing September pb reprint from Mason, Steve Macdonald. $30 early bird news) and Mike Pins (conventions). 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