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Warp 52 Is Shaping up to Be a Hot Issue PRICE: FALL 2001 (VOLUME 15, NUMBER 2) AA5522 THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE MONTREAL SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY ASSOCIATION (MonSFFA) Inside This Issue: UFO Video Project, Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Princess of Mars, Enterprise, Toronto Trek, Model Building, the latest SF News, and More… MONSFFA’S EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: 2000 MonSFFA EVENTS SCHEDULE JANUARY Berny Reischl President ALL MonSFFA MEETINGS HELD SUNDAY 21 Sebastien Mineau AFTERNOONS, 1:00PM TO 5:00PM (SOME FEBRUARY Vice-President MEETINGS INCLUDE MORNING ACTIVITIES, Sylvain St-Pierre WHICH BEGIN AT 10:30 AM), IN THE 18 Treasurer ST-FRANCOIS ROOM OF THE DAYS INN, 1005 GUY STREET (CORNER RENÉ LÉVESQUE), MARCH MONSFFA’S DOWNTOWN MONTREAL APPOINTED OFFICERS AND ADVISORS: 25 Keith Braithwaite 2001 EVENT PROGRAMMING* APRIL PR, Membership October 21- Open Meeting Sylvain St-Pierre 1:00pm: No scheduled programming. Join us for a post-Con•Cept 22 Membership get-together; or in fannish terms, a “dead dog” party. MAY Dominique Durocher November 18 - Sci-Fi ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire?’ Berny Reischl 1:00pm: Considering our budget, make that ‘Who Wants to Win a Web Site Administrators T-Shirt?’ 6 Wayne Glover JUNE Audio/Video December 8 - MonSFFA Christmas Party 7:30pm: Saturday. Place to be announced. Josée Bellemare 10 Michele Berry Marquise Boies 2002 EVENT PROGRAMMING* AUGUST Marc Durocher Cindy Hodge January 20 - To Be Continued… David James 1:00pm: The Old-fashioned Serial: Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon, etc. 19 Les Lupien 2:30pm: The ModernSerial: Story Arcs and Movie Sequels SEPTEMBER Ernst-Udo Peters Advisors Without Portfolio February 17 - Evolution 1:00pm: The Mr. Data Question: Are Human Rights only for 16 NEWSLETTER STAFF: Humans? Artificial Beings and Cloning. 3:00pm: Teenage Sci-Fi Sock-Hop: How the Role of the Teenager OCTOBER Lynda Pelley (Editor) has Evolved in Sci-Fi. Editing, Word Processing, Layout, Photo/Art Scans, March 24 - MonSFFA’s Invited Guests 21 Production Manager 1:00pm: Author Guest Speaker: TBA e-mail to: [email protected] 2:30pm: Lord of The Rings: Guest Speaker TBA NOVEMBER Keith Braithwaite Editorial Consultant, April 21 - At The Movies! 18 Word Processing 1:00pm: Summer Movie Previews 2:30pm: Game: Coming Soon - Movie Posters in a Minute. DECEMBER Murphy Typos, Misspellings *All programming is tentative, and scheduling is subject to change. and Other Errors 8 COVER UP: Warp is published about four times a year by the Montreal Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (MonSFFA). Address Actor Mark Burakoff all correspondence to: Warp, c/o MonSFFA, P.O. Box 1186, Place du Parc, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H2W 2P4. A about to be probed by an alien subscription to Warp is a benefit of membership in MonSFFA. MonSFFA is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the enjoyment and promotion of science fiction and fantasy literature, film and television, comics, fanzines, art, music, in MonSFFilm’s latest award- costuming, model-making, gaming, etc. The opinions expressed in Warp are solely those of the individual writers and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Warp or MonSFFA. The use of copyrighted material in this newsletter is—yes, we winning video short know—verboten, but is not intended to seriously infringe upon any of the rights of the copyright holders. Come on, Encounters of a Very Close Kind, people…lighten up! This is an amateur publication intended for enjoyment only. “Mechanical engineers build weapons; Civil engineers build targets!” a Blair Witch-style spoof of UFO sightings/abductions. MonSFFA’s Address: P.O. Box 1186, Place du Parc, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H2W 2P4 Photo by David Burakoff. MonSFFA’s Web Site: http://www.monsffa.com A TABLE OF CONTENTS 52 A52 From The Editor’s Chair . 4 A52 MonSFFA Mailbag . 5 A52 MonSFFAandom . 6 A52 A Princess of Mars: Sources for and Imitations of the Edgar Rice Burroughs Classic . 11 A52 (Georges Dodds) A52 Movie Reviews . 18 A52 Convention Reviews -Toronto Trek. 20 A (Sebastien Mineau, Josée Bellemare) 52 A Convention Flyer . 22 52 (Conthulhu) A52 It Came From The Sci-Fi Modeler’s Desk . 23 A (Forbidden Planet C-57D Starcruiser) 52 Convention Flyer . 25 A52 (Can/Am Con III) A52 Sensors . 26 A52 LaLaWeb . 29 A52 MonSFFA Membership Benefits . 30 A52 MonSFFA Discount Program . 30 A52 A MonSFFA Membership Application Form . 32 52 A52 Submissions: We will accept submissions on a variety of media, however, please take note that your text or artwork must eventually be processed on a Macintosh computer using QuarkXpress for page layout. For e-mail submissions, send to [email protected] with text in the body of the e-mail or as an attachment in ASCII format, and photos/artwork in jpeg format. For disk submissions, please send your material on diskettes or zip disks with Macintosh formatting—text should be ASCII and images should be jpeg or any format that can be processed by Adobe Photoshop. Please include a print-out of your material with all disks. If you do not own a compatible computer or a modem, you may submit typed or neatly hand-written documents, preferably single column and double-spaced. Please send all photographic material as prints; my flat-bed scanner cannot scan slides. Material (other than e-mail) can be submitted in person at MonSFFA meetings or be sent by mail. 3 FROM THE editor’s chair With Mark on the cover about to be “probed” by an alien and Sebastien describing how he lost his virginity—er, con-virginity—at Toronto Trek, Warp 52 is shaping up to be a hot issue. Or perhaps a tasteless issue, depending on your point-of-view. From my point-of- view, I’m just glad it’s a finished issue. Fortunately, with Impulse taking care of the time- Once again, the publication of Warp has been delayed sensitive material, there is a lot less pressure these days due to lack of submissions. Supposedly Warp is a to deliver an issue of Warp on any sort of schedule. That’s quarterly fanzine; that is, an issue every three months. probably the way things will be for the foreseeable According to schedule, Issue 52 should have gone out in future. Warp will be published on a fannish schedule, that August. I asked that everybody turn in their submissions is, whenever there is sufficient material. If there are a lot by the end of July, allowing sufficient time for articles to of submissions, you will probably receive your fanzine be written and photographs to be developed from approximately quarterly, as indicated on the inside cover. Toronto Trek—the planned feature topic for Issue 52. I But consider that schedule as an estimate only. If there didn’t receive anything at all! are no submissions, there will be no Warp! It’s that I must thank Keith Braithwaite for providing almost simple. This is your fanzine, and if you value it, you are half of the material for this issue. He was also the first encouraged to actively participate by providing material person to deliver his submissions, mid-to-late August. A for it. few more articles trickled in through September, and The next issue should theoretically go out in January. finally at the beginning of October, I was able to start I need to have all of your submissions before the assembling Warp 52. It is only 2 months late, but in time Christmas holidays to have an issue of Warp ready for the for Con•Cept. January MonSFFA meeting. You have two whole months. Send in your impressions of Con•Cept. If you attended some other out-of-town convention, your report is the next best thing to being there for someone who couldn’t make the trip. Take some photographs at the fannish events you attend. Read a book and tell others if it was worthwhile, or not. Go to the movies, and then write a review. It doesn’t have to be long, or perfect. A submission to Warp is about sharing the experience with others in the club. Lynda Pelley, Editor 4 their experiences when Ottawa attracted Yvonne into reading SF hosted the WFC some years ago. literature. Chicon 2000 was a great The Perry Rhodan novels are Worldcon…I wish I’d seen more of very much a European phenomenon; it! We spent most of the five days I remember when English-language shopping, holding the three parties versions of the novels were being in the Torcon suite, and sitting at the cleared out at the World’s Biggest bid and conversion tables. One Bookstore in Toronto at six for a wonderful surprise for me was dollar! I remember the Worldcon in MonSFFA and Warp welcome finding out that I was only a few 1990 in Holland also being the site of letters of comment and inquiry. nominations away from being on the the Perry Rhodan Worldcon, with Mail letters to: final ballot for Best Fan Writer. Now many eager German-speaking fans P.O. Box 1186, Place du Parc, that the 2003 Worldcon will be in in attendance. Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Toronto, I hope that Progress Report 1 Earlier this month, Yvonne and I H2W 2P4. will be available soon. were in charge of the outdoor food I have heard about the fortunes function for local fans Christina Carr Unless otherwise indicated, we of other clubs, like KAG, and the late and Martin Hunger, who renewed assume all letters are intended for Warp 9, but it’s good to see that other their wedding vows after ten years publication. Warp reserves the right clubs are forming, and that of marriage, and they did it in a to edit letters where deemed MonSFFA is forming alliances with medieval-style in a secluded park in necessary.
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