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Volume 21, Issue 2 FApril / May 2011 FREE ConNotationsThe Bi-Monthly Science Fiction, Fantasy & Convention Newszine of the Central Arizona Speculative Fiction Society A Conversation with Featured Inside Regular Features Davidby Catherine Weber Book Special Features The extraordinarily SF Tube Talk A Conversation with popular and prolific All the latest news about David Weber author, David Weber, Scienc Fiction TV shows by Catherine Bookge granted me an interview by Lee Whiteside during the Tucson Book Festival on March 12th. It Farewell was a warm, sunny day 24 Frames It’s the very nearly 50th on the U of A campus and All the lastest genre movie news Anniversary of thousands of people were by Jeffrey Lu Rocky the Flying Squirrel and there. David had several Bullwinkle J. Moose - Part 12 panels and long signing Gamers Corner By Shane Shellenbarger lines and managed to New and Reviews from spend a very entertaining Making It Up As They Go Along hour with me when he the gaming world The Tenth Annual Phoenix could have been having Improv Festival lunch. Musty Tomes by Shane Shellenbarger David has supported himself as a writer in Reviews of Classic Genre books various forms since he An Amercan on the was 17 and in 1989, MangaZone Iberian Peninsula while running Weber Reviews of Manga, Comics & Graphic by Jeffrey Lu Assoc, a one-man Novels advertising/consulting Plus firm, he sold his first In Our Book novel, Insurrection. Reviews of New SF/F Books FYI Insurrection grew out News and tidbits of interest to fans © Catherine Book of a collaboration with Trivia Questions Steve White while they CASFS Business Report were designing a war game. 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