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Volume 20, Issue 4 August / September 2010 FREE CoThe Bi-Monthly Sciencen Fiction,Nota Fantasy & Convention Newszinetions of the Central Arizona Speculative Fiction Society An Interview with Featured Inside Regular Features Melindaby Chris Snodgras Paige s Special Features Melinda Snodgrass was one of and it is a story about St. George and SF Tube Talk An Interview with the GoHs at LepreCon. In Trek circles, the Dragon - what really happened, All the latest news about Melinda Snodgrass what St. George really was and what she is well known as one of the best Scienc Fiction TV shows by Chris Paige writers for Star Trek: The Next Generation the dragon really was. This story is set during the American Depression, and it by Lee Whiteside episodes; more recently, she has worked Hokey Smoke! with Wild Card series originator George features a character named Cross. He’s It’s the very nearly 50th R. R. Martin, developing new characters an odd man, a strange man, and he works 24 Frames Anniversary of and contributing to the next generation of for a mysterious Howard Hughes-like All the lastest genre movie news billionaire who is in fact an ancient being, Rocky the Flying Squirrel and storylines in such books as Inside Straight by Jeffrey Lu and Busted Flush. Independently, she billions of years old, an alien who is Bullwinkle J. Moose has written The Edge of Reason, now out Prometheus, and Lucifer [Light-Bearer], By Shane Shellenbarger in paperback, and the newly published and Coyote, and Trickster. In this story his Gamers Corner The Edge of Ruin. Melinda lives in New name is the Italian word for knowledge; New and Reviews from In Memory Mexico and keeps horses. There must in the books he is called Kenntnis, which the gaming world James Hogan be something about New Mexico that means knowledge in German. I’m terrible is good for creativity; Roger Zelazny at coming up with titles, and my friends ConClusion An Amercan in New Zealand lived in Santa Fe, as does Sherri Tepper. facetiously told me to call it “Jesus by Jeffrey Lu Maybe it’s the scent of pinon in the air. Christ, P.I.” I opted for “No Mystery, No News and Reviews At LepreCon, Melinda read aloud to a Miracle.” of SF/F conventions captivated audience and gave a copy of Plus CP: Isn’t Kenntnis trapped at the end of The Edge of Reason to a delighted fan. Pre-Con News She then answered questions before going Reason? FYI off to enjoy the rest of the convention. MS: He’s trapped in spin glass. Tidbits about upcoming News and tidbits of interest to fans Comfortable in her own body and mind, My boyfriend, Ian Tregillis, is an conventions rich in experiences, wise, something about astrophysicist at Los Alamos where CASFS Business Report they’ve made the stuff in the lab. Spin Melinda Snodgrass made me want to In Our Book glass can actually stop light. Now Kenntis call her “Mom.” As it was, meeting her Reviews of New SF/F Books Club Listings was one of the high points of attending is wearing a human body but he is really LepreCon. a light creature, and he gets trapped by his Convention List & enemies. I called it called slow glass in the Musty Tomes Generic Registration Form MS: I was invited to submit a story to first book, but it is renamed and described Reviews of Classic Genre books a supernatural noir anthology that Ellen in the second. Andrew was supposed to be Datlow is putting together. I’ve written here also, but he had to give a presentation Trivia Questions CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT now two short stories set in the Edge in New Jersey. 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