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NEWS BULLETIN onSFFA•AMonSFF OF THE MONTREAL SCIENCE FICTION DOES YOUR NAME APPEAR AND FANTASY BELOW?WATCH THIS SPACE ASSOCIATION TO KNOW IF YOUR ANNUAL LE BULLETIN MonSFFA MEMBERSHIP D’INFORMATION DE L’ASSOCIATION FEES ARE DUE. MONTREALAISE` DE SCIENCE-FICTION ET January / Janvier 2009 (Vol. 13, No./ No 1) DE FANTASTIQUE The annual membership fees of the following MonSFFA overdue INEXTM MonSFFAPULSE2009 Club Elections members are : MEETING IS The first order of business as the club kicks off 2009 BOIES, Marquise will be the selection of MonSFFA’s Executive Committee for METHE, Ann THIS WEEKEND the coming year. We will do so at our first event of this new year, January 18’s club meeting. All MonSFFA members in Annual membership Sunday, January 18 good standing are encouraged to participate. fees are due this month, MonSFFA elects annually a president, vice-president, 1:00PM-5:00PM January, from the and treasurer—who together form the Executive following club members: St-François Room, Days Hotel Committee—and charges them with the responsibility of running the club on behalf of the membership. The three 1005 Guy Street, Montreal PALMER-LISTER, Cathy executives recruit advisors and appoint officers to assist SCHEDULED PROGRAMMING them in carrying out this responsibility. Our sitting Executive members are: Berny Reischl, Annual membership fees 1:00PM president; Keith Braithwaite, vice-president; and Sylvain CLUB ELECTIONS: will become due next month, MonSFFen St-Pierre, treasurer. February, from the following club select their Executive for the Any MonSFFA member in good standing who is coming year (see lead item, responsibly and reliably able to carry out the duties of office members: right, for details). may run for any one of the Executive posts. Candidates may 1:15PM nominate themselves or accept nomination from another KRIMP, Nick member in good standing. Nominations are received by the GIVING GOOD PANEL: LUPIEN, Denise A few chief returning officer, or CRO, usually just before the LUPIEN, Leslie of MonSFFA’s most experienced commencement of voting on election day. panelists offer pointers on All MonSFFA members in good standing are eligible presenting a topic and to cast a ballot. Members are asked to be present at the designated place and time in order to exercise their right to Please renew your MonSFFA moderating a discussion panel. not 3:00PM vote. Proxy voting is permitted, except under special membership in timely fashion. circumstances and by approval of the CRO. LANDING THE PHOENIX: Annual dues for a regular Meet the Club’s 2008 Christmas membership are $25. Fill out pair of Montrealers who built a the application form, below, full-scale replica of NASA’s Dinner/Party include payment (cheque or Phoenix Lander for the Canadian money order made out to Space Agency, a partner in the MonSFFA closed 2008 with it’s traditional Christmas recently completed Phoenix Mars Dinner/Party, held on the evening of December 6. MonSFFA), and mail to: Mission, and hear the story of We began with dinner at the Nickels Bar and Grill MonSFFA c/o how they landed the job, plus the Restaurant in Alexis Nihon Plaza before repairing to our 4456 Boul. Ste-Rose details of construction. familiar seasonal watering hole, the downtown Park Place Laval, Québec, Canada Bar, where we enjoyed an evening of music, lively conversation, H7R 1Y6 Next Month’s libations and, as always, pool. The bar’s backroom pool table MonSFFA Meeting welcomed a succession of MonSFFen over the course of the evening who played with varying degrees of skill, a few Thank you for renewing improved FEBRUARY 22 finding that a couple of beers actually their game! your membership in MonSFFA, Several genre DVDs, books and other nifty prize items Montreal’s premiere SF/F fan • Apollo 11 Moon Landing were put up for raffle to raise a sack of lucre for both the club. • Sci-Fi’s Hottest Hunks club’s general operating fund and our planned Anticipation MonSFFA MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION AMonSFF FORMULAIRE D’INSCRIPTION Please print legibly. Cut out form and mail as per directions. Complétez lisiblement. Découpez le coupon et postez tel qu’indiqué. Name / Nom: Age /Âge: Tel. /Tél.: ( ) ( ) HOME/MAISON WORK/TRAVAIL Address /Adresse: E-mail /Courriel: NO. & STREET /NO ET RUE APT./APP. Interests/ Intérêts: CITY/VILLE PROVINCE POSTAL CODE /CODE POSTAL room party later this year. The group also MonSFFA’s 2009 Meetings on the popular cartoon adventures of collected a healthy stack of toys and non- and Events Schedule Scooby-Doo and his mystery-solving pals, perishable food items for donation to Sun who embarked on their first of many SF/F-ish Youth’s annual Christmas Basket Drive. Details of MonSFFA’s 2009 meetings cases 40 years ago. A good time was had by all and we trust and events schedule, as worked out at the July 26 that MonSFFA’s members, friends, and their BoA meeting of November 16, are as follows: January 18 MonSFFA’s Annual Summer Barbecue this families delighted in a very merry Christmas year will be held, as is our custom, in Parc and a happy New Year. • Club Elections Angrignon. Should inclement weather prevail, We’d like to thank, in particular, club • Giving Good Panel we have scheduled the following Sunday, president Berny Reischl and vice-president • Landing the Phoenix August 2, as an alternate date. Keith Braithwaite, who between them arranged February 22 August 6-10 for the dinner, set up the Park Place party, • Fly Me To The Moon: this summer will mark provided the evening’s music, and saw to our Anticipation, the 67th World Science Fiction the 40th anniversary of the first manned moon collection for charity. Thanks, as well, to those Convention, will unfold here in Montreal over landing. We offer an historical overview of the MonSFFen who helped with the raffle. And this extended weekend. MonSFFA will, of Apollo 11 mission, plus a look at moon finally, thanks to the staff of the Park Place, course, be present; we plan to host a room mythology and some of the many lunar our most welcoming and long-time party hosts. party and on the convention floor, mount a adventures in sci-fi cinema and television. display offering an historical overview of World’s Most Famous Sci-Fi • Saviours of the Universe—Sci-Fi’s Hottest MonSFFA and Montreal fandom. Fan Passes Away; Catwoman Hunks: MonSFFA’s women flip through August 23 the SF/F equivalent of the annual fireman’s Programming to be announced. Actress Dies calendar while exploring the manly attributes September 20 of the genre’s most handsome heroes. The most famous sci-fi fan in the world, March 22 • Best Sci-Fi Movies Never Made: we explore a selection of potentially great genre films Forrest J Ackerman, who is said to have coined • It’s a Small World After All: we explore the proposed but, ultimately, never produced, as the very term “sci-fi,” died of heart failure at Lilliputian worlds of SF/F in such examples as Gulliver’s Travels Land of the Giants well as a few endlessly stuck, it seems, “in his home in Los Angeles last month. He was 92. and . development.” We’ll also make a list of genre 4SJ, or Forry, was possessed of an insatiable • Game—Magnification Factor 3: players are films we’d like to see produced. appetite for all things science fiction and horror. challenged to identify iconic sci-fi images that • Next on This Channel…: we explore some His legacy includes an unparalleled memorabilia have been greatly magnified. collection accumulated over a lifetime—more April 19 of the proposed sci-fi television series that than 300,000 books, magazines, posters, failed to make it past a pilot, or were quickly costumes, models and film props once housed • What’s Cooking?—The Cuisine of SF/F: a cancelled after but a handful of episodes. in a former home dubbed the Ackermansion, presentation on food in SF/F. October 25 to which thousands of SF fans have made the • Easter Egg-Decorating Contest: in conjunction with the above presentation, we are holding an • Afternoon of the Living Dead: we dissect the pilgrimage. zombie story in genre literature and film. Ackerman served as literary agent to a Easter egg-decorating contest. Prior to the meeting, MonSFFen are encouraged to apply • Fund-Raising Auction/Garage Sale: great many genre writers over the years, MonSFFA’s annual fund-raiser; support your including such notables as Ray Bradbury, H.P. an SF/F theme to their creative decoration of an Easter egg and bring the finished result in club by purchasing SF/F books, comics, toys Lovecraft, and controversial Scientology and other cool collectibles. Bargain prices! founder L. Ron Hubbard. Ackerman himself to the meeting for all to see. Entries will be November 22 wrote some 50 short stories and appeared as an judged by the group and a prize awarded for extra in countless sci-fi films. He created the the most popular. Decorators may work with • The Write Stuff: a discussion of trends in comic book character Vampirella and his a real or artificial egg. SF/F writing. What’s hot, what’s not, both in Famous Monsters definitive fan magazine, • DVD Easter Eggs: we’ll reveal some of the professional circles and in online fanfic? We’ll of Filmland , which he wrote and edited from more interesting so-called “Easter eggs” (special highlight the most original and exciting new hidden extras) to be found on sci-fi DVDs. fiction. the late 1950s to the early 1980s, ignited the May 24 imaginations a younger generation of science • Game—The Word is Given: players must fiction and horror fans that included such In lieu of a regular meeting this month, we identify the SF/F book, film, or television plan to attend as a group a Sunday-afternoon future genre stars as Stephen King, Steven Star Trek show attached to a randomly selected Spielberg, and George Lucas.