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SHUTTLE November 1998 The SHUTTLE November 1998 The Next NASFA Meeting will be 21 November 1998 at the Regular Time and Location This is NASFA Elections Month NASFA Receivables Oyez, Oyez by Randy B. Cleary The next NASFA meeting will be 21 November 1998 at HereÕs the latest listing of the many wonderful items that the regular time (6P) and the regular location (room 130 of NASFA has received lately. Contact me if you wish to examine the Madison City Municipal Building). any of them. Note that File 770 has a new address. The November program is to be determined at press time. FANZINES The November after-the-meeting meeting will be at Mike ASFS Future Time, Issues 5 & 6, P. O. Box 98308, KennedyÕs house. Atlanta, GA 30359-2008 DonÕt forget that November is NASFA election month. ConNotations, Volume 8, Issue 3, Fall 1998, P. O. Box Both nominations and elections will be held at the meeting this 62613, Phoenix AZ 85082-2613; [email protected] month. Be there or be president. DeProfundus, Issues 316 & 317, September & October Also keep in mind that there will be a special auction 1998, 1513 Burbank Boulevard, North Hollywood CA 91601 at the November meeting to decide who or what will go on File 770, Number 126, 705 Valley View Avenue, Monro- the plinth to be symbolically smashed each month as the via, CA 91016; [email protected] meeting is called to order. Bring cash folks, this could be quite Memphen, Numbers 247 & 248, September & October a contest. 1998, P. O. Box 12534, Memphis TN 38182 OASFiS Event Horizon, Issues 134 & 135, September & October 1998, P. O. Box 940992, Maitland FL 32794-0992 70143, Ft. Lauderdale FL 33307-0143 ScavengerÕs Newsletter, September 1998, Number 175, Trash Barrel, August 1998, 6543 Babcock Avenue, North 519 Ellinwood, Osage City KS 66523-1329; [email protected] Hollywood, CA 91606-2308 SFSFS Shuttle, Issue 135, JulyÐAugust 1998, P. O. Box (continued on page 2) Inside this issueÉ Minutes of the October Meeting .....................................2 Letters of Comment ........................................................3 NASFA Calendar............................................................2 FFFQ Results Ñ Second Installment .............................6 Deadline for the December 1998 issue of The NASFA Shuttle is Friday, 4 December 1998. 1 (continued from page 1) 23 BD: Michael D. Kennedy. MISCELLANEOUS 26 Thanksgiving Day. Bereshith Publishing, News Release and Promotional 27Ð29 ConCat 10 Ñ Knoxville TN. Material 29 BD: Howard Camp. Bridge Publications, Inc., Writers of the Future, Volume 30 BD: Patricia Brooks. XIV 30 BD: Richard Gilliam. Sci-Con 20, November 6Ð9, 1998, Flyer Stellar 5 Occasion, September 18Ð20, 1998, Flyer DECEMBER Tropicon XVII, November 13Ð15, 1998, Progress Report 04Ð06 SMOFCon 16 Ñ Colorado Springs CO. 07 BD: Alan Brown. 12 BD: Toni Weisskopf. 14 Hanukkah. October Minutes 17 BD: Robin Ray. by Samuel A. Smith, Who Mailed It. 17 BD: Jack L. Chalker. 19* NASFA Meeting Ñ 6P Business, 7P Program, at the The October meeting of the North Alabama Science Madison City Municipal Building. ATMM will be Fiction Association was called to order on Saturday, October the NASFA Christmas Party at Nancy Cucci and 17, 1998 in Room 130 in the Madison City Municipal Building Ray PietruszkaÕs house. at 6:10P by President Anita Eisenberg. 19 BD: Harry Warner, Jr. ANNOUNCEMENTS 19 BD: Dave Chalker. The Crickets have spoken! Long live the Crickets! 25 Christmas Day. OLD BUSINESS 26 BD: Mike Stone. Randy Cleary gave a report on this yearÕs Con Stellation 26 Boxing Day (Canada). Art Show: The Art Show did $3,124 in sales, with 37 panels 31 New YearÕs Eve Party at Ray Pietruszka and Nancy sold, 10 comped, and 3 artists who were no-shows. The unsold CucciÕs house. art was returned to the artists on October 17th. (The Art Show award winners were reported in the October Shuttle, so I will JANUARY 1999 not repeat them here.) 01 New YearÕs Day. Ray Pietruszka gave a treasurerÕs report. So far it looks 05 BD: Debbie Mitchell. like we lost money on Con Stellation this year, to the tune of 06 BD: Rich Garber. about $650. The hotel bill has not arrived yet and, while the 07 BD: Douglas E. Lampert. coke bill has arrived it is, as usual, wrong. 15Ð17 Chattacon XXIV Ñ Chattanooga TN. Anita read to us after-the-con e-mails received from the 16* NASFA Meeting Ñ 6P Business, 7P Program, at the following people: D. J. Sutherlin, Bob Eggleton, Toni Madison City Municipal Building. ATMM TBD. Weisskopf, David O. Miller, Rick Shelley, and Jennipher 18 Martin Luther King Day. Catrett. 20 BD: Larry Montgomery. NEW BUSINESS The gavel has returned, and is still minus pictures Ñ what FEBRUARY 1999 pictures should be put on it? Many suggestions were received, 02 Groundhog Day. some cute, others obnoxious. It was decided to hold an auction 09 BD: Jack Lundy. in November to auction off the gavel space and determine who/ 10 BD: Marcia McCoy. what gets smashed each month when the meeting is called to 11 BD: Jeanna Woosley. order. Be prepared to vote with your money for your Òfavor- 12 LincolnÕs Birthday. itesÓ! 14 St. ValentineÕs Day. The election for NASFA officers for 1999 should be held 15 PresidentÕs Day. in November Ñ be there or be an officer! 16 BD: Mike Ray. The meeting was adjourned at 7:03P. The program was the 17 BD: Nancy A. Cucci. usual Con Stellation postmortem. The After-The-Meeting 17 Ash Wednesday. Meeting was held at Mike and Robin RayÕs place, where we 20* NASFA Meeting Ñ 6P Business, 7P Program, at the finished up the leftover consuite food. Madison City Municipal Building. ATMM at Nancy Cucci and Ray PietruszkaÕs house. 22 WashingtonÕs Birthday. NASFA Calendar 25 BD: Nicholas Mitchell. OoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoO NOVEMBER The North Alabama Science Fiction Association meets on 03 Election Day. the third Saturday of each month. (Unless there is a large 11 VeteransÕ Day. nearby convention being held that weekend Ñ in which case 11 Remembrance Day (Canada). we usually hold the meeting on the second or fourth weekend.) 13Ð15 TropiCon XVII Ñ Ft. Lauderdale FL. The regular meeting location is room 130 of the Madison City 21* NASFA Meeting Ñ 6P Business, 7P Program, at the Municipal Building. The Executive Committee meeting (if Madison City Municipal Building. ATMM at Mike scheduled) is held at 5P. The business meeting is held at 6P. KennedyÕs house. The program begins at 7P. Anyone is welcome to attend any of 22 BD: Nancy Renee Peters. the meetings. There is usually an after-the-meeting meeting 23 BD: Wilson ÒBobÓ Tucker. with directions available at the program. 2 meet Tim Powers and heÕs a nice man and he loves my air Letters of Comment guitaring a lot. Then we set up the convention at the hotel. Mostly we set up the art/dealers room. The next day I was ready to check in EMOC-EMOC-EMOC-EMOC-EMOC-EMOC-EMOC which I was lucky because the hotel is booked solid. And IÕm told some fans from some football game homecoming reunion was going to be there. But I didnÕt see any one of them. I wasnÕt George ÒLanÓ Laskowski 7 October 1998 too impressed with the dealers room. ThereÕs hardly anything [email protected] I like and I heard the convention had 231 people this year. I entered the live-action role-playing game though hardly Sorry I havenÕt responded to the issues of the NASFA any people register[ed] to play. But I was the blind man (from Shuttle that you have sent me these past few months, but I am last year) playing my (toy) guitar and jamming the CD boom back at school teaching full time, and I am very busy. No, the box. And many people loved the music while some IQ per- cancer is not gone, but the last CT scan showed that the tumor sussmist[?] people want to keep the volume down. (Screw has not increased or spread, so that is good news. We hope that em!) the current rounds of chemotherapy will [put] the tumor into Also two teenage fans Ari and Rachel kept with me most remission. Meanwhile, I am managing to keep up with my load of Saturday. And we talked, seeing them Òfight,Ó and all of that. at school, though when I get home I need to lay down and rest Plus we talked about old times as well. Along with wrestling[?] for a couple of hours before preparing for the next dayÕs to old boy friends. classes. So far this is working. Plus a pack of 8Ð10 year old girls led by Nancy Peters As for the August Shuttle, I very much enjoyed Anita come running and hugs me when they see me. And they did EisenbergÕs review of Mike ResnickÕs Kirinyaga. I checked annoy me a bit. the book out from the library and read it. I have all the Anyway back to the story. I met some interesting people. individual stories and read them as they came out in the There was a mad psychiatrist which I wasnÕt too sane about magazines, but reading them all at once as a novel gives a better him. A sleazy man in a blue polyester suit and his ÒwifeÓ who perspective of what Mike has done with the concept. Indeed, looked a lot like Marylin Manson!! (IsnÕt he cool?) one feels sorry for Koriba as he attempts to create the Kirinyaga At the near of the game, while the mad doctor was getting utopia and miserably fails. I recommend it as a cautionary tale arrested for talking to a plant, my eyesight finally got restore[d] for those who might want too much to create their utopia and by the religious fanatical cult known as POOL (from last year foist it upon others.
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