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SFSFS Shuttle 87 CONTENTS 3 Meeting News 4 A Bit of Korn 5 Book Reviews - Becky Peters 7 LOC’s 8 It Came in the Mail 9 Meeting Minutes 9 T-ll News 10 FANAC 11 More News 11 Membership Application Form 12 Birthdays TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT Shuttle Crew Mucho thanks to Bill Wilson and Cynthia Editors: Warmuth for copying, collating and mailing Don Cochran, Fran Mullen Shuttle #86. Contributors: Steven Gold, Becky Peters, Gerry Adair Cover: Correspondence should be addressed to: Linda Michaels SFSFS Shuttle Editor Art: PO Box 70143 Pam-2 Fort Lauderdale, FL 33307-0143 Peggy Ran son-5,6,8 or E-Mailed to Fran Mullen via Shuttle Logo: CompuServe # 76137,3645 Phil Tortorici SFSFS Logo: COA’s should be sent Gail Bennett to the SFSFS Secretary Work Crew: at the above PO Box Whomever we could sucker into it! Unknown at time of printing. Deadline for July Shuttle: Sunday, June 28, 1992 The SFSFS SHUTTLE June 1992 #87 The South Florida Science Fiction Society is a Florida non-profit educational corporation recognized by the Internal Revenue Service under Section 501 (c) (3). General membership is $15 per year for adults, $1 for children (see form at the back, of this issue for current pro-rated dues'). Subscribing membership is $1 per issue. The views, reviews, and opinions expressed in the SFSFS SHUTTLE are those of the authors and artists and not necessarily those of the publishers. And so it goes . SEMPER SURSUM June 1992 Issue #87 The Official SFSFS Newsletter JUNE MEETING JULY U1EET Get out your spare material, stage makeup DATE: Sunday, June 28, 1992 and gew-gaws and learn how to prepare a TIME: 2:00pm to 5:00pm costume for your next con. Deanna Lyman PLACE: South Regional/BCC Library and a special guest wil give us pointers. Room 208 (2nd floor) 7300 Pines Boulevard Pembroke Pines, FL 33024 t-xi ConComm (305) 963-8825 Gerry has called the next meeting for one hour prior to the general meeting, June 28, How to get there: 1:00pm in room 208 at the South Regional Take 1-95 to the Hollywood/Pines exit, then Library. The last meeting had good drive due west. The campus fronts the south attendance, so he is looking forward to side of Pines Blvd about four miles west of another productive meeting. Need to bring S.R 7 (441). If you are taking the Turnpike, suggestions for Filk Guest, ideas for local take the Hollywood exit, and go west about charities we could help out, suggestions for three miles. There is ample parking (z/ you a food function. reach University Drive, you have gone about two blocks too far) SHUTTLE DEWS STS 50, shuttle Columbia will take off Call Francine at (305) 435-9572 if you need Thurdsay, June 25 (watch your local news additional information. for the exact time), with the U.S. Microgravity Laboratory. This will be an PROGRAM: extended thirteen day mission with seven Our very own Arlene Garcia will introduce astronauts. It will take off from pad 39A, us to Fantasy and Science Fiction for Young and will land at Edwards AFB. People. She is working diligently on her notes and outline, and will even have Shuttle Atlantis will be going up in handouts for us. This will be interesting for mid-July. Shuttle Endeavor is scheduled for those of you who have young children, and September 1 (remember these are tentative). those young at heart (aren’t we all?). To get a car pass, write NASA Visitor Note: Come attend the T-U ConComm in Services, Mail Code NASA PA-PASS, the same room at 1:00pm. Maybe we’ll start Kennedy Space Center, Florida 32899. on time! VILLIANS STALK Mel Herz - OASIS VI Co-Chairpersan Pop Korn's Foster-Mother KORN I miss my foster child, and hope that whomever pop-napped him returns him I am sad to report that at the 1992 OASIS V unharmed convention held in Altamonte Springs, Florida, only one bad thing happened: a fan Joe Siclari - MagiCon Chairperson was pop-napped! POP KORN was Pop Korn will be sorely missed. We will pop-napped out of the con-suite late do everything within our power to retrieve Saturday night. For those of you him. wondering, POP KORN has been attending Florida cons for about 5 years. Earlier this G.W. Bush - President of the United States year he was Fan Guest of Honor at I have asked all federal & state agencies CrackerCon I. He has been passed from to peruse all possible avenues to recover Florida convention to convention, and was Mr. Pop Korn. He is a national treasure. supposed to be passed on to MagiCon by the OASIS V Con-Com. D. Quayle -Vice President of the United States There is a rumor of a ransom note being •????? « • > • received! I have been told that it states that the 1992 Worldcon must be transferred to B. Mulroney - Prime Minister of Canada the former Washington D.C. bid committee Who is Pop Korn? immediately, or POP KORN will be scattered to the wind. Jesse Jackson - Minister, Politician I will fly out immediately, and negotiate Please note that the MagiCon Con-Com with the pop-nappers. does not negotiate with pop-nappers, and that the 1992 Worldcon will be held at Carl Sagan - TV personality, Astronomer Orlando, Florida as scheduled. A missing Billions and Billions of Pop Korn lost to pop report has been filed and the FBI, the universe. Secret Service have been informed. Please be on the look-out for a bag of pop-corn 3 B. Clinton - Democratic Presidential feet in diameter, 3 feet high, sporting badges Candidate, Governor of Arkansas from various Florida conventions (usually While I have tasted Pop Korn, I have membership # 000), various never actually swallowed any! hazardous/toxic waste material signs and radiation symbols. The NRC warns that Ross Perot - Independent Presidential Pop is radioactive and highly toxic (do not Candidate, Multi-Billionaire I would send in a crack squad o f attempt to eat him!). commandoes to rescue Pop. Please inform any member of Florida Vicki L. - one of Pop’s lovers Fandom or the Korn Police of any sightings. It was a one night stand, but it was out of He must be returned!!!!!!! this world He buttered me up. Following are a few comments from some of Michael Jackson - Singer Pop’s friends and admirers: I will arrange for a collaborative record to free Pop. Jack Haldeman Not Pop Korn! Orville Redenbacker - Kornisewer This is bad news, indeed. He and I had a I will eat no Korn before it’s popped! long talk, over a few cans o f beer at CrackerCon and I’m crushed (or at least - Steven Gold 6/1/92 popped). 4 . housekeeper (she can visit me any time!). Book Reviews Douglas fits into his new niche quite well, and grows with each new challenge. BECKY PETERS Challenges there are aplenty, for his master is preparing to take on Frigeon, the Ice King, who plans to conquer the entire world by spreading an evilly invincible winter PYROMANCER, Don Callander throughout. The journey to best him in his Ace, 1992; ISBN 0-441-69222-2 own lair provides the traditional excuse to introduce a large cast of different beings. By the end of this book you feel good! The characters’ quirks are of character, not Douglas proves added to try and flesh out a cardboard himself as cutout. The world is nicely roughed out and Journeyman and a slight tendency to the cute can easily be even finds a forgiven in this promising debut. There is a betrothed, though rumor that the author resides in Florida: the marriage well bear that in mind since it may become a may have to wait boasting point in the future. until she completes her apprenticeship The back cover could find no better to a water-adept attention hook than the sign our young hero is reading on page one: This is well-written, fun to read and "APPRENTICE WANTED definitely to learn the MYSTERIES and SECRETS of recommended. If WIZARDRY in the discipline of FIRE you don’t like From a MASTER MAGICIAN, SUPREME fantasy, it probably SPELLCASTER, WONDERFUL WIZARD won’t change your and PRESTIGIOUS PYROMANCER! mind. If you do, this is one of the I require a bright, obedient, well-witted lad best published this of at least ten summers and at most sixteen year. I am looking winters to assist me and learn the ART and forward to the SCIENCE of PYROMANCY. Must be author’s next book. neat, prompt, well-spoken, and have a LARGE BUMP OF CURIOSITY. Also must be able to read, to write a fair BLOOD TRAIL, Tanya Huff manuscript, and not snore except when Daw, C1992, ISBN 0-88677-502-7, $4.50 asleep on his back." Vicki Nelson, reluctant private eye (forced It is immediately obvious this is a fantasy, to retire from the police force because of for our young hero does meet these retinitis pigmentosa) and her friend Henry requirements (are there any teens of your Fitzroy, bastard son of King Henry VIII acquaintance that do?). But by the end of (yes, a vampire) have a new case. Someone the sign I was interested enough to follow is killing off members of a sheepherding that last line, "INQUIRE WITHIN". With family who just happen to be werewolves. the introduction of a bronze owl door So the pair leave Toronto for the wilds of knocker, this became an interesting place to Ontario..
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