ISSUE #1 LX 2009: THE NEWSLETTER FRIDAY AFTERNOON The Voice

PROGRAMME PARTICIPATION! DIARY DIFFERENCES!

Programme particpants: the Green There are some important Room should be open daily from programme changes and reminders 9:30am until shortly after the 10pm that members should be aware of: programme items start, except for on Monday, when it will close just It’s Grim Up North: Originally scheduled for 8pm on Saturday in after 5pm. If you're on one of the items starting at 9am, 11pm or Sycamore, this panel item has Editor-in-Chief: midnight, please would you drop by moved to the same time on Sunday, John Coxon earlier in the day and claim your in the Boardroom. Writers: drink then or the means to get it John Coxon Fran Dowd yourself later? READ-ME REVELATIONS! Jan van ’t Ent Carrie Gillespie The Future British Launch described Ilana Grune Nicholas Jackson PROCURING PUBLICATIONS! on p30 of the Read-Me as being at 2pm on Sunday is a fictional EDITORIAL EXCITEMENT! This newsletter will be available from a variety of fixed locations programme item. The Future Bristol This issue comes to you from the throughout the convention. Firstly Launch will happen in its place. past – it’s still March as I write (and most obviously) there are this! I am extremely proud to be always going to be newsletters MEDIA MUSEUM! able to edit the newsletter at LX, floating around the Newsletter LX visits the National Media and even more proud to be editing a Office, located upstairs, but there Museum in central Bradford at 9am newsletter with header art by David are also plastic stands dotted on Saturday and Sunday. Meet Lloyd – a huge thank you to him. around the convention that will hold underneath the portico of the hotel newsletters as and when they’re to catch the free circular bus. Full Since this is the first issue, I published. To find out when a details are available in the Cedar haven’t got a lot of content from newsletter’s been published, simply (fan) suite. anyone yet, so if you feel like keep an eye on #eastercon on rectifying that please give us any Twitter. I will update whenever a new LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION! artwork or content you want us to issue is about to hit news stands. publish. More information on how to The cash machine at the garage submit material for the newsletter SUBMITTING STUFF! across the road from the Cedar is just across the page and we look Court is reported out of order as of forward to seeing your submissions. There are a variety of ways to Friday morning – but, there is a 24 submit content: the first one is to hour cashpoint within walking In other news, I have chosen to do give content in at the Newsletter distance at Morrison’s, about five every single header in the Office. Another way of getting minutes away. Morrison’s itself is newsletter as an alliteration. things to the team is to drop it off open 8am – 8pm Friday and Suggestions are welcome, and in the newsletter box in Ops or e- Saturday and 8:30am – 7pm on please do expect them to get worse mail [email protected] with Monday. It is shut on Sunday and and worse over the course of the anything you’ve come up with. We convention... I make no apologies! has, we are told, a good café. are eagerly anticipating your stuff!

See you in the bar – John. ISSUE #1 LX 2009: THE NEWSLETTER FRIDAY AFTERNOON HILTON HOTEL HAVOC! RESTAURANT REVIEWS! died. Details and comfirmation of a memorial service are to follow – Important news about the Hilton for We have had some restaurant please see Assaf or visit the those of you who are staying there reviews from the Thursday night’s gaming room for more details! and driving to and from the eating and dining: convention – the Hilton in Bradford COLUMN CONTINUUM! is closing its carpark between Prashad: midnight and 6am each day. Way back, just after the close of Postcode: BD7 2DW Orbital, I decided that it’d be nice if To compensate for this, the Cedar Website: prashad.co.uk I could do something to recognise Court has arranged a solution with Phone: 01274 575893 the fact that LX is the sixtieth the nearby Great Victoria to offer Matriarchal Gujerati vegetarian Eastercon with The Voice. Having parking for LX members in their car this in mind, I e-mailed Mark park. Parking is £5 for 24 hours and food – a deli/takeaway and very small restaurant. It’s roughly £12.50 Plummer and Claire Brialey, who tokens are available from the Cedar were incredible and did me around Court’s reception. per head for 3 courses. The deli sells fresh-made Bombay-type 1000 words for the newsletter on this very theme. I’ll let them explain: AWESOME ALES! mixes, sweets and snacks, and it’s a 10 minute drive from the Cedar “LX is the sixtieth Eastercon – As well as Black Sheep and Classic Court. Recommended by the Dowds, either that or something’s gone Blonde, the hotel have arranged a Fishlifters, GuffPeeps and Ang. wrong and we’re all back in 1960. On selection of guest beers. We are the assumption that it’s the told one has already run out, but no Nawaab: former, John has asked us to mark confirmation yet as to which. Postcode: BD1 4QE the anniversary with a summary of British science fiction and fandom Angel 4% Website: nawaabs.com/bradford in the years since that first Four Minute Mile 4% Phone: 01274 720371 ‘Eastercon’ in 1948. It would be neat Rams Revenge 4.6% if those sixty Eastercons spanned Easter Cream 4% A wide-ranging and familiar menu sixty years, but no, of course they Westgate Gold 4% (already on tap) with lots of fish and veggie dishes and kids’ portions. Speciality menu don’t. So, six chapters of 100 words from £7 - £9. In central Bradford, each, plus a prologue and an SAD NEWS! not far from the railway station. epilogue.” Jet-setting Scottish fan Sneerpout Recommended by Julian Headlong is in hospital recovering from an and Tony Berry. FUTURE FROLICS! emergency operation to remove an The next newsletter is currently appendix. Only in Geneva could they DISASTROUS DEATH! scheduled to come out some time name a hospital "HUG". She seems this evening. Anything you want us to be in good spirits with a net Reports are coming in that the to include, from plugs to panels to connection, Irn Bru, and eye candy. infamous Baron Munchausen has information about decent PROLOGUE: BEFORE 1948 restaurants near the hotel, should Mark Plummer and Claire Brialey be given to us by 7pm if you want it to be in that issue. We’ll try to Animal Farm, Beynon, Big Pond Fund, Birchby, Brave New World, British publish any decent stuff we’re given, Interplanetary Society, Burdekin, Carnell, Clarke, Doyle, Erewhon, Fearn, so please submit early and often! Frankenstein, Futurian War Digest, Gillings, Hanson, Huxley, Ilford, Last and First Men, Leeds, Lewis, Low, Mayer, Midvention, Novae Terrae, The art in this issue is © 2009 David Lloyd, used with permission. The fonts used in this Nuneaton, Odd John, Out of the Silent Planet, Rosenblum, Science Fiction newsletter are all from the Komika range by League, Scientific Romance, Scientifiction, Scoops, Sinister Barrier, Apostrophic Labs, and are completely free for Sirius, Stapledon, Star Maker, Stowaway to Mars, Swastika Night, Tales anyone to download and use. The text in this newsletter, including contributions by others, are of Wonder, Temple, The First Men in the Moon, The Flat, ‘The Four-Side released under the Creative Commons Triangle’, The Futurian, The Invisible Man, The Time Machine, The War of Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 England and Wales License. the Worlds, Things to Come, Turner, Wells, Youd, Zenith.

Number Two LX 2009: THE NEWSLETTER FRIDAY eveNing The Voice

BSFA BRILLIANCE! BUS BUSINESS!

Shiny boxes have appeared at the The buses are running! The last bus registration desk and on the BSFA is at midnight tonight and the last table in the Dealers’ Room. These bus on Saturday/Sunday will leave boxes are hungry and want your at 12:30am. The last bus on Monday votes for the BSFA Awards. Please leaves somewhat earlier, at 9pm. do your bit and feed them your ballot papers by 2:30pm on PERIODICAL PARTY! Editor-in-Chief: Saturday 11th April to ensure the John Coxon awards are not just shiny , but On Sunday, from 2pm to 5pm, TWP Writers: glittering! will be having the traditional tea John Coxon Fran Dowd party in Aspen. Past, present and Jan van ’t Ent Carrie Gillespie ASTOUNDING ALES! potential members of The Women's Ilana Grune Nicholas Jackson Periodical APA are welcome, as well Come along at 9pm on Saturday for as anyother miscellaneous women Pencillers: the beer tasting and try half a who feel like coming along. Sue Mason dozen fine ales and lagers while Jim de Liscard tells you about them, Flick, having cleared out her EDITORIAL EXCITEMENT! explains the myriad falvours of malt wardrobe, will also have a large pile and hops or just generally talks of free clothes, mostly from M&S The reason that the alliteration rubbish. Styles of beer range from and mostly size 12 (plus or minus a didn’t run all the way through the porter to gueze, so even if you don't couple), which people are free to last issue was because I felt it think you like real ales and beers, pick through, add too and take would be a bit glib to entitle a you might be surprised. Places are away from. section dealing with someone’s limited to 30 people, and there's a operation using alliteration. Given sign-up sheet on the wall in Ops if PHARMACY FORESIGHT! some of the copy I find written for you're interested – first come, first Asda provide what we think could be me by others, I would like to make it served! This item has been moved to the nearest pharmacy which will be clear I apologise wholeheartedly for the Directors' Suite, but is still the open on Friday 7am – 8pm, this unforgiveable lapse in editorial same time as advertised, so you Saturday 7am – 10pm, closed on judgement... it will never happen don’t have to reschedule. again, and that’s a promise! Sunday, and Monday 9am – 16am. The store opening hours are longer, PROGRAMME PARTICULARS! See you in the bar – John. and there are 24 hour cashpoints Howard Rozenblum points out, in available there as well. CORRECTION CONFUSION! refernce to the ‘Howden we have a problem!’ panel at 11am on Saturday, RESTAURANT ROSTERS! Rather embarrassingly, we got Barnes Wallis designed the R100 and something wrong in issue #1. The As well as reviews, The Voice is not the R101 as stated. The R100 was tokens for parking at the Great accumulating a library of very much more successful in all Victoria are available from their restaurant and take-away menus. aspects. Those who committed this reception, and not the Cedar Doner and Tikka Calzone, anyone? vile calumny will find out about Tall Court’s. Apologies! Contributions and seekers of Boy the bad way. wisdom welcome.

Number Two LX 2009: THE NEWSLETTER FRIDAY eveNing BROKEN BUG! and so many long running series, fan fund or if you just want to swop where should we start? The (we already have a spare Leicester The volunteers in Ops would like to panellists will discuss how to get Square) then pop by. Particularly send a sympathy message to their started on reading comics, good and/or generous newsletter Gopher Mum Bridget, who has introducing us to some of their contributions may be rewarded with retired injured. Rachel has gallantly favourites. a free token for a sundae, hot drink, stepped in as a replacement, and or HMV money off token, subject to would like to remind everyone that ‘Zip, Boing, Bounce’ at 7pm: A series the randomness of the editor. gophering is a wonderful of games of verbal dexterity, opportunity to meet new and scrupulous honesty, and sharp wits, READ-ME REVELATIONS! exciting people, and get a T-shirt for you all to enjoy. (terms and conditions may apply). The programme item on Monday at 11am in Hawthorn should in fact be INFIRMARY INNOVATIONS! entitled ‘The Search for Dark Matter at Boulby Mine’. In an innovative move, unbeknown to the committee, LX has launched a Dr. Sean Paling of the University of new program stream off-site. Colin Sheffield will talk about how UK Fine has selflessly offered to astrophysicists are searching for dispense wisdom on any topic you the missing mass in the universe at like on account of being stuck in the bottom of Boulby Mine. Dr. hospital for the whole Easter Paling will give an easy introduction weekend with a poorly hand. Colin is to astronomy, the universe and the available for consultation from 2pm search for dark matter followed by to 4pm and 6pm to 8pm in the York a virtual tour of the experiments Suite, Bradford Royal Infirmary - all currently underway over 1km visitors welcome. underground at Boulby. BEAUTIFUL BAPS!

CHILDRENS’ CAPERS! There are baps on offer from DISASTROUS DEATH! 11:30pm in the Cedar Court. They will Reports are coming in that the ‘Mapping the Mysterious’ at cost £2 each and the options are memorial for Baron Munchausen 12:30pm: An epic story needs an epic sausage, egg or bacon. has been scheduled. More details to setting. Find out what you need to follow, but rumour has it the do when designing your world. Then McDONALD’S MONOPOLY! memorial will be Saturday evening. create your own maps. Keep your eyes glued to The Voice! The newsletter team is building up a ‘Starting with Comics’ at 2pm: collection of McDonald’s Monopoly Comics as a medium can appear tokens. If you have any to donate FUTURE FROLICS! off-putting. With so many choices, we will see if we can get a prize for a The next newsletter is currently CHAPTER ONE: 1948-1957 scheduled to come out tomorrow Mark Plummer and Claire Brialey morning. Content should be e- mailed to [email protected], given ‘Allamagoosa’, Atom, Authentic, Bentcliffe, Billy Bean and his Funny to a newsletter person or put in the Machine, Bounds, Bulmer, Carnell, Childhood’s End, Christopher, Clarke, Big Newsletter Box in Ops. Any Clarke, Cytricon, Dan Dare, Eye, Femizine, Hamilton, Hyphen, James, contributions are welcome! Jeeves, Journey Into Space, Kippax, Loncon, McIntosh, Nebula, New Artwork is © 2009 to the artists responsible, Worlds, Now and Then, Oblique House, OMPA, Operation Fantast, used with permission. Fonts used in this Quatermass, Rayer, Russell, Slant, Slater, Space Times, St Fantony, newsletter are all from the Komika range by Supermancon, TAFF, Temple, The Chrysalids, The City and the Stars, The Apostrophic Labs. The text in this newsletter, including contributions, is released under the Day of the Triffids, The Death of Grass, The Enchanted Duplicator, The Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- Epicentre, The Kraken Wakes, The Man in the White Suit, ‘The Sentinel’, ShareAlike 2.0 England and Wales License. ‘The Star’, The White Horse, Tubb, Turner, Wasp, Whitcon, Willis, Wright, Wyndham. The magic number LX 2009: THE NEWSLETTER SATURDAY NOON The Voice

BSFA BRILLIANCE! CHILDRENS’ CAPERS!

The shiny BSFA boxes that There are child-friendly items at appeared yesterday are still hungry 12:30pm, 2pm and 7pm today. More for ballot papers – by the time this details can be found in issue #2, comes out you ought to have about which ought to still be available an hour left to vote. Please do so if from most distribution points, for you haven’t already! parents who didn’t see it last night. Editor-in-Chief: BEEBLEBEAR BROUHAHA! PROGRAMME PRAGMATISM! John Coxon Writers: (Well, you try finding another There are some changes to John Coxon Fran Dowd alliteration that’s closer to ‘picnic’!) scheduled programme items that Jan van ’t Ent Carrie Gillespie you should know about: ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha, the official Ilana Grune Nicholas Jackson Hitchhiker’s Guide fanclub, are Feedback sessions: These have been holding a Beeblebears’ Picnic in the moved from 9am to 9:30am and will EDITORIAL EXCITEMENT! Foyer Bar at 3:30pm today. They only run for half an hour. should be quite apparent – they’re I was talking to Dave Haddock at Sci-Fi London Premiere: This item breakfast today and we drifted to the people with the two-headed teddy bears and the ‘Don’t Panic’ starts at 6:30pm instead of the the topic of how the eggs are 8:30pm given elsewhere. cooked. I think they’re poached, towel. If you happen to have brought a picnic rug to LX, please bring it! whereas Dave thinks they might be Beer Tasting: This has changed from deep-fried afterwards. Anyone who If you don’t have a Beeblebear yet, Mimosa to Directors, and is at 9pm. knows should come and see me, they’ve just acquired new stock that It’s Grim Up North: Moved from 8pm there could even be free porridge on is available in the Dealers’ Room and Saturday to 8pm Sunday in the offer (from McDonald’s). you can grab one before heading Boardroom. What’s the breakfast like in the along. ZZ9 are offering free stuff to con volunteers and are also happy other hotels? Has anyone found a EASTER EUPHORIA! restaurant near to one of the other to accept groats. hotels that’s a must-try? Give me Despite Julie’s absence, we will be reviews, I’ll publish them! TAI CHI TREMENDOUSNESS! going ahead with the planning meeting for the Sunday morning In order that more members can do See you in the bar – John. service at 5:30 pm Saturday in the some Tai Chi breathing exercises Foyer Bar (outside Main there have been extra sessions CORRECTION CONFUSION! Programme). Everybody is welcome, added to the program. These are at please bring any resources or notes. It wouldn’t be a newsletter written 2pm on Saturday and Sunday, and with the assistance of beer if there there’s also another session at CONVENTION CRAZINESS! weren’t a few corrections. Aside 10am on Monday. All of these extra from the typos in #2, the Baron sessions are in Directors – this is Dave Lally would like to remind Munchausen item is in fact on not the same as the currently members that there is a display in Sunday evening at 10pm. scheduled sessions so please don’t the Cedar suite of various upcoming turn up to Mimosa by mistake! conventions. Go sign up! The magic number LX 2009: THE NEWSLETTER SATURDAY NOON RESTAURANT REVIEWS! 3 Singhs: SOUVENIR SWEETENER!

We have had some more restaurant Postcode: BD4 8RN Don’t worry if your memory is not reviews from the Thursday night’s Website: 3singhs.com what it was! We have the solution: eating and dining for your pleasure Phone: 01274 68 8799 the LX Souvenir Book. A book of and delight. If you have any more memories of the convention with reviews after Friday’s evening meal, Unusually this is a Sikh restaurant articles and stories from the GoHs please feel free to submit them! and thus serves beer. I have eaten and your favourite convention there several times: the meals are personalities. Toby Carvery always of a high standard and the portions generous. There are The Souvenir Book is also about Postcode: BD5 8LB almost as many vegetarian options your memories of the convention. Website: toby-carvery.co.uk as carnivorous. Heartily Do you have a good photo, or a tale Phone: 01274 736316 recommended by Mike Spiller. to tell? If you do let us add it to our collective memory and include it A (challenging) fifteen minute walk in the Souvenir Book. away is a Toby Carvery. If you drive RECORDING RECREATION! you need to head up the Ring Road There is currently underway a Just email any photos or stories to and turn back on yourself at the historic attempt to broadcast the editor Steve Cooper at Asda roundabout. The food at the parts of the convention over the [email protected] or if carvery is cheap, quick and filling. If Internet. We’re hoping to have a you have time bring them along to you are seated before 7pm it is just piece on this by Peter Sullivan next the ConRunner con desk and he’ll a fiver and meals are £7.50 after issue for more details, so if you take them off you in person. that. have anything you want to Starters and puddings are contribute to that please feel free GALLOPING GAGARINS! available, but we didn't see the need to tell us. So far, amongst the It’s Gagarin Day tomorrow and for a starter, or have room for a people that have been watching are apparently there’s no programming pudding. Beef, Gammon and Turkey fans from Britain who have to work to celebrate this. Wikipedia tells us are always available along with this week and fans from all over the about the official celebration, which eight types of vegetables, plus world who were familiar with Peter’s mentions visiting lots of cemeteries Yorkshire Puddings that appeared excellent work at Corflu. and sounds rather morbid, so we to be deep fried. RIP RPG! have an alternative: the editor and the newsletter team are planning to Saturday's special is lamb, with a Sad news reaches the LX newsletter be in the bar on Sunday evening to couple of extra dishes available. of the death of Dave Arneson, one mark this event. Fish and Vegetarian options are of the co-creators of Dungeons and mentioned on the menu. Restaurant Dragons. He passed away earlier FUTURE FROLICS! recommended by David Haddock. this week, and will be missed. The next newsletter is currently scheduled to come out early this CHAPTER TWO: 1958-1967 evening. Content should be e-mailed Mark Plummer and Claire Brialey to [email protected], given to a A Fall of Moondust, A for Andromeda, Aldiss, Amis, Aporrheta, Atom, newsletter person or put in the Big Badger, Ballard, ‘Behold the Man’, Bennett, Bentcliffe, Berry, Beyond, Newsletter Box in Ops, and any Birmingham, Brunner, BSFA, Cheltenham, Crispin, Dr Who, Fanthorpe, Field contributions are gratefully Hospital, Galaxy 666, Hothouse, Hyphen, Inchmery, Kapp, Lindsay, Loncon received.

II, LXIcon, Malcolm, Masson, Mercer, Moorcock, New Maps of Hell, New The title artwork is © 2009 David Lloyd, used with Wave, New Worlds, Non-Stop, Parker, Peterborough, Platt, Presslie, permission. The fonts used in this newsletter are Rackham, Sanderson, Science Fantasy, Science Fiction Adventures, all from the Komika range by Apostrophic Labs. The text in this newsletter, including Scottishe, Sector General, Sellings, SF Impulse, Skyrack, Slater, ‘Strange contributions by others, is released under the Highways’, Telepathist, The Day the Earth Caught Fire, The Drowned Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- ShareAlike 2.0 England and Wales License. World, The Prisoner, The Squares of the City, Thunderbirds, Tubb, White, Willis, Worlds for the Taking, Zenith. TWO PLUS TWO LX 2009: THE NEWSLETTER SATURDAY EVENING The Voice

AWARDS ANNOUNCEMENT! CASHPOINT CALM!

After a wonderful introduction by It appears that the cashpoint at Kim Newman and Paul McAuley, the garage (mentioned in issue #1) involving Galileo and astrological is now working. predictions (via Wells and Gernsback in 1909 and a Frost SCANDINAVIAN SHINDIG! interview of Clarke in 1969 looking forward to the great future of 1999 You are hereby cordially invited to Editor-in-Chief: and 2009 – phew!) it came to the the Friendly Scandinavians’ Party. It John Coxon presentation of the BSFA Awards starts at 8:30pm in Directors. Writers: for the best works in 2008. John Coxon Fran Dowd SPLISH SPLASH SPLOSH! Jan van ’t Ent Carrie Gillespie Best Artwork: Andy Bigwood, the Alison Scott reports that the Ilana Grune Nicholas Jackson cover of Subterfuge (presented by Jon Courtenay Grimwood). splendid pool and gym are open from 8am to 9pm, with kids’ times EDITORIAL EXCITEMENT! Best Non-fiction: Farah Mendlesohn Rhetorics of Fantasy (presented by from 9am to 7pm. For those looking There has been drama in the Ken MacLeod). for a quiet swim, you should note newsletter room – a USB stick had Best Short Fiction: Ted Chiang, that we took the children swimming a worm on it, and we’re currently Exhalation (presented by Alastair this morning at 10am, and we had taking steps to safeguard against Reynolds). such fun that we’re going to do it infection. All very exciting stuff, I Best Novel: Ken MacLeod, The Night again tomorrow. think you’ll agree! Sessions (presented by Tim Kids will need to bring a parent, or Powers). somebody responsible who is We have heard back from you about Well done to all who won awards! breakfasts. Apparently in the prepared to act as their parent, so Campanile, today’s scrambled eggs The BSFA Awards may be over, but that we have a reasonable number were yesterday’s, yesterday’s were you can still join the BSFA, or renew of adults. last week’s. The Rosenblums were your membership, at its table in the not impressed. Few people in the Dealers' Room next to Newcom WEBCAST WONDERS! Midland will discuss the meal on the Press. It’s £26 for a UK resident, In what we believe is a first for a grounds that we’ll all crash it and £18 for a reduced UK membership major British science fiction there won’t be any left for them. and £32 for those outside the UK. convention, several items are being See you in the bar – John. DOOR DRAMA! broadcast online under the "LXtra" label. It isn't official, but is being CORRECTION CONFUSION! When you open one of the doors to organised on an ad-hoc basis by a programme room while an item is Steve Green and Peter Sullivan, We would like to apologise sincerely, happening – whether you’re coming building on the experience of but it appears that we didn’t make in, going out, or being indecisive – webcasts at various US a mistake in the last issue and so would you please quietly close the conventions, most notably Corflu. this section is pointless. We door fully behind you? Thank you promise to do worse in the future. very much! TWO PLUS TWO LX 2009: THE NEWSLETTER SATURDAY EVENING Peter reports: To find us, our page last seen wandering round the choice. Ice creams looked decorative is at ustream.tv/channel/LXtra, and convention bars on Saturday at and were eaten fast. Srsly, eat here. an updated schedule is available at 2pm, giving out chocolates. If you This review handwritten by at least tuckerverse.livejournal.com. We are find him, please bring him back to seven people! starting small, and have covered the Satellite 2 table and sign up three panels and a number of less whilst you're there. Where else LOST LAPTOP! formal happenings across the would you want to spend the Apollo weekend so far. anniversary, than at a con? A laptop (a grey Gateway laptop with a cow-type pattern logo) To avoid privacy violations, we are RESTAURANT REVIEWS! appears to be missing from its only webcasting panels with the rightful home in the newsletter consent of the panellists and have After hearing some complaints office. The power cord is still here, agreed guidelines with the floating around we are including a it’s running Windows XP, and is committee to minimise concerns. If street address for each of the password protected. If you know you see us around the convention restaurants reviewed so far. anything about this please get in with our bright orange warning Apologies if you couldn’t find touch with us ASAP. signs, come up and say hello to The anywhere to eat because of this! Internet! PAPERBACK PROMOTION! Prashad: 86 Horton Grange Rd Nawaab: 32 Manor Row Multi Award winning publisher Elastic Press in the Dealers’ Room, Toby Carvery: 244-246 Rooley Lane near the fire exit, is running a last 3 Singhs: 254 Sticker Lane stock opportunity offer! Two free books with every purchase of any of ChinoThai their books which are only £5! Centenary Square, BD1 1SD Nothing can beat that! (The books www.chinothai.co.uk/bradford/ are not available online or in 01274 723388 stores.) Good quality, reasonably priced SATELLITE SILLINESS! Visit the Fantast Three stall, also in Chinese and Thai restaurant. the Dealers’ Room, and ask for a While today is Gagarin Day, in July Friendly staff and an unhurried free sample copy of either Locus or it’s the 40th Anniversary of Apollo atmosphere with very tasty food. I F&SF in return for your name and 11, the good people of Satellite 2 in recommend Thai mussels as a address. Whilst there buy some Glasgow (25th-26th July 2009) starter, and duck stuffed with bargain priced books! have bribed us to tell you. seafood as a main. Jungle curry fairly spicy, with a lovely complex FUTURE FROLICS! Astronaut Roger, the Satellite 2 flavour. Panang curry very tasty. con mascot, has escaped! He was Good with seafood in sauce of your The next newsletter will be published whilst reasonably drunk at CHAPTER THREE: 1968-1977 something ridiculous like 2am. The Mark Plummer and Claire Brialey next sober newsletter will be 2001, A Clockwork Orange, Aldiss, Bayley, Bell, Billion Year Spree, Boak, published tomorrow, in the early Brunner, BSFG, Bulmer, Burns, Checkpoint, Clarke, Compton, Coney, afternoon. Content should be e- Cooper, Dark They Were and Golden-Eyed, Dumarest, Eastercon 22, Egg, mailed to [email protected], given Foundation, Gannets, Inverted World, Jackson, Jerry Cornelius, Jones, to a newsletter person or put in the Kettle, Mancon 5, Maya, New Writings in SF, Novacon, Orbitsville, Pavane, Big Newsletter Box in Ops. Pickersgill, Priest, Rats, Rendezvous with Rama, Roberts, Roberts, The title artwork is © 2009 David Lloyd, used with Saxton, Science Fiction Monthly, Shaw, Silicon, Space:1999, Speculation, permission. The fonts used in this newsletter are all from the Komika range by Apostrophic Labs. Stand on Zanzibar, Stop Breaking Down, The Jagged Orbit, The Jonah Kit, The text in this newsletter, including The Man Who Fell to Earth, The Moment of Eclipse, The Tomorrow People, contributions by others, is released under the True Rat, Tubb, Tynecon, UFO, Vector, Watson, Weston, Wrinkled Shrew, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- ShareAlike 2.0 England and Wales License. Zimri. LASHINGS OF GINGER BEER LX 2009: THE NEWSLETTER SUNDAY AFTERNOON The Voice

TERRIFIC TAFF! TREMENDOUS T-SHIRTS!

We reported earlier in the Anders Holmström was the first convention that Bug has been person to win one of the exclusive broken this weekend. In light of this, white-on-black gopher reward T- Claire Brialey confirmed at today’s shirts, with artwork by David Lloyd GUFF panel that she will be happy (the same artwork gracing our front to collect TAFF votes this weekend. page!) – well done to him, and to You will be able to find her variously the rest of you, why aren’t you Editor-in-Chief: on panels and in the bar. volunteering?! John Coxon Writers: The TAFF candidates are Steve ABJECT APOLOGIES! John Coxon Fran Dowd Green and Tom Womack and the Jan van ’t Ent Carrie Gillespie race will take the winner to the 2009 Co-chair James Bacon would like to Ilana Grune Nicholas Jackson Worldcon, Anticipation in Montreal. apologise for the overrunning of the Minimum donation with a vote is beer tasting session, which EDITORIAL EXCITEMENT! £2/$3. Vote early and vote often! eventually ended at 1:38am, some three and half hours after it was It’s Easter Sunday, the sun might PROGRAMME PRAGMATISM! scheduled to finish, but welcomes be shining (I haven’t been outside), Jim de Liscard’s initiative. I’ve got a couple of panels and it’s There are some changes to shaping up to be a good day. As I scheduled programme items that QUOTATION QUORUM! write this we’re eagerly anticipating you should know about: any news of an Eastercon bid for Fran Dowd was overheard during Idiosyncratic Anime: This is not a 120 the communion at the early morning 2011, but we should be able to report minute item but is in fact a 90 on that by the time we go to print. service: “Bugger peace, I’ve got minute item. chocolate!” I’m going to use this to urge people Baron Munchausen: This item moves This was followed by the ensuing to vote for TAFF (personally I’m from 8pm in Mimosa to 10pm in voting for Steve Green) – the fan conversation: “There’s plenty of Sycamore. More detail elsewhere in room for everyone to watch the funds, both TAFF and GUFF, are this newsletter. incredibly important and it’s vital sheep!” “Oh, it’s that sheep!” “The holy sheep?!” that we all support them. Details on The Kunji Revolt: This has been moved how voting is being handled are from 9pm in Walnut to 10pm in the You had to be there, perhaps… in elsewhere this issue. Boardroom. other news, this was overheard in the bar last night: “Are you going to See you in the bar – John. The Kunji Revolt Disco: There is a ‘Bad Sex’ with Liam?” “No, I’ve done disco in Mimosa after the Rock that already,” replied thirty-five CORRECTION CONFUSION! Band concert. women. We said we’d do worse and we did – Brief History of the Universe: This is “I’m going to see the twits!” “You the Scandinavian party is (as many still at 11pm but moves from the mean the Twitter panel?” “Yeah, people came and told us last night) Boardroom to Hawthorn. same thing…” obviously tonight, at 8:30pm in

Directors, rather than last night. LASHINGS OF GINGER BEER LX 2009: THE NEWSLETTER SUNDAY AFTERNOON ZZ9 ZONE! EASTERCON EMPTINESS! running. Well, more sort of waddling, to be fair. At any rate, she can be ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha have been giving Fran reports: The bid session wasn’t spotted around the place in training flyers out with the wrong details on very well attended, and lasted for the British Heart Foundation them – don’t send an SAE, just e- approximately five minutes, the Hyde Park Jog; a five kilometre mail [email protected] or visit quickest session your reporter has walk/jog/run on, er, Wednesday. zz9.org to join. known. No bids were presented, and That was well planned. She’d like a vote was taken to holdover the bid everyone to sponsor her at CONSTITUTION CALAMITY! to take place at Odyssey 2010. Rita tinyurl.com/cz7aly. Or find her in the Medany, Odyssey’s chair, said that bar and press money on her. Not planned your summer holidays there is a group working on a bid, yet? Why not come to Cambridge and they will confirm by Novacon if for more convention goodness? they are going ahead. Constitution runs over the weekend of 31st July – 2nd August with DIGNITY DRINKING! SF/fantasy, gaming and filk For those looking for a free drink, streams. Guests of Honour include and some mighty funny storytelling, Steph Swainston and Henry Gee. both are available at the Baron Membership costs only £20 – much Munchausen item which is on this cheaper than Worldcon! Come and evening. Please go and have a grand find us at our desk just outside the time! Dealers’ Room. BEEBLEBEAR BRAVADO! FANTASY FAREWELL! ODYSSEY OPPORTUNITY! ZZ9 reports that the Beeblebear Picnic on Saturday Afternoon was This is of course the Fantasy attended by 36 bears, where they After the bid session, Rita Medany Centre’s last Eastercon, after had hoped for 42. Not quite there, gave a quick update on Odyssey nearly forty years in the business. but still really good going! Initially 2010. Single room bookings for the They have a stall in the Dealers’ there was a picnic in each of the con hotel are closed for now, but Room and there are, we are told, downstairs bars – confusion there is a waiting list. Bookings in mad discounts. Erik Arthur, ensued, until one bar was picked, the overflow hotels will open in two proprietor, will be happy to cater to after which a happy sleuth of bears weeks. Mitch Benn has confirmed your every need. that he will be performing, which has piled in together. We think this meeting might set a record of nothing to do with the reminder GALLOPING GERTIE! that there will be a price rise after assembled Beeblebears in one place – we’ll try to do better next time! this convention. [Excellent, I missed Alison Scott tells us, rather him at Orbital! – Ed] hilariously, that she’s taken up FUTURE FROLICS!

CHAPTER FOUR: 1978-1987 The next newsletter will be Mark Plummer and Claire Brialey published this evening, at around the same time as yesterday (we 2000 AD, Albacon, Aldiss, Andromeda, Ansible, Arthur C Clarke Award, hope). Content should be e-mailed Atkinson, Banks, Barker, Bell, Blake’s 7, Brazil, Bridges, Burns, Carol, to [email protected], given to a Conspiracy, Cowper, Edwards, Encyclopaedia of Science Fiction, Evans, newsletter person or put in the Big Faircon, Forbidden Planet, Frank’s APA, Golden Witchbreed, GUFF, Newsletter Box in Ops. Hansen, Hardy, Helliconia, Holdstock, Jarrold, Keele, Kilworth, Kiteworld, Langford, Lessing, Lloyd, Matrix, Moore, Riddley Walker, Rubicon, Seacon The title artwork is © 2009 David Lloyd, used with permission. The fonts used in this newsletter are ’79, Seacon ’84, Shaw, Slater, Tappen, The Flipside of Dominick Hide, The all from the Komika range by Apostrophic Labs. Fountains of Paradise, The Glamour, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the The text in this newsletter, including Galaxy, The Ragged Astronauts, The Road to Corlay, The Unlimited Dream contributions by others, is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- Company, Trillion Year Spree, Twll-Ddu, TWP, V for Vendetta, Watchmen, ShareAlike 2.0 England and Wales License. West, Whiteoak, Yorcon. ZZ9.

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GARCIA GENIUS! MONDAY MAYHEM!

Chris Garcia, known to many for Emma Peel, of Odyssey 2010, being absolutely mad, extremely reports: For those of you staying Californian, but still an absolute on Monday night, there's an exciting genius, has revealed on Twitter that (or at least loud) audience he has hidden something under a participation event. This will be seat in a public area, and the one singalongaweedon, followed by who finds it, gets to eat it. (We Singstar, with prizes for the Editor-in-Chief: have no idea about this either.) following (judge’s decision final): John Coxon

Writers: CHILDREN’S CAPERS! • highest score;

John Coxon Fran Dowd • lowest score despite effort;

Jan van ’t Ent Carrie Gillespie Here are Monday’s child-friendly • most entertaining performance. programme items: Ilana Grune Nicholas Jackson The event will start when we have ‘Paper airplane session’ at 10am: determined people are drunk enough EDITORIAL EXCITEMENT! Create a paper plane or a miniature to be uninhibited! As some of you who know me will be model of the solar system in this aware, I am a huge fan of Douglas paper art workshop that will KETTERING KARNAGE! Adams and his Hitchhiker’s Guide culminate in a paper plane piloting Stef and Fran report: There were trilogy. Some of you will have competition. two clans in the ‘Battle of Kettering’ noticed the T-shirt in your ‘Dirty Water’ at 2pm: The latest item. Clan McHinge, who believed registration pack with “FROODY” Bond movie is about a fight over that Kettering took place and written on the front. If anyone has clean water. Can you clean up dirty therefore this is the 61st an XL (of which there are rumours), I water with the the supplies we Eastercon; and Clan McChuff who will swap them an L for it and buy offer? Prizes for the most believed that Kettering did not take them a drink of their choice. Come successful team. place and therefore this is the 60th and see me and I’m yours. Eastercon. We are currently discussing which REAL ALE REVELATION! Two warlords led the clans: Tamar Mythbuster is the sexiest – Adam Blind Pew reports that the hotel for McChuff and Gary for McHinge. Savage (the manic one), or Jamie staff do not believe that we are After a fierce battle - the warlords Hyneman (the quieter one). Opinions going to drink them dry of real ale. surging forth with magical swords - to the usual place, please. The newsletter team thinks that one by one the non-believers were See you in the bar – John. this is a challenge and would like to cut down to a single survivor, urge everyone to go and drink as Tamar. Gary gallantly offered her a CORRECTION CONFUSION! much as humanly possible this single combat to the death for evening (responsibly). total victory, which she accepted. For the second time, there are no As she swung the lethal stroke, his corrections from the previous QUOTATION QUOTIENT! evil cohorts struck her down from newsletter. Given I did the last behind to cries of “Treachery!” issue on two hours’ sleep, there’s no Fran: “I don’t bother with names, I logic there. Again, I do apologise! just lech.” So we still don’t bloody know! BALL On the pavilion roof! LX 2009: THE NEWSLETTER SUNDAY EVENING WORLDCON WONDERMENT! RESTAURANT REVIEWS! bit limited (lots of Balti, nada Tandoori), and in white on black a Ilana reports on the presentation of Shalamar tad hard to read, but the food was the Worldcon bid. There is not yet a 862 Manchester Road, BD5 8DJ excellent. On a side note, the con committee, but there is a group 01274 726468 oversized nan was a bit much. If of people who have joined an online you're going out for a conversation The restaurant about 10-15 minutes' community to discuss the bid at over dinner, this is not the place to walk from the Cedar Court (turn tinyurl.com/crn36u (EU1415 on go for, as the chatter from all right at the Craven Heifer pub). Google Groups). around the rather bare rooms Good curry at around £6 for a main reflects back to white noise – Jan Currently, the plan is to select a course with rice or chappatis. van’t Ent. site this year and launch the There’s not much for vegetarians Worldcon bid next year. Several and it isn’t licensed. There are five possible sites were discussed tables seating 18 people, and it’s PROPERTY PROPERNESS! during the presentation, boiling open til 1am all weekend. Ops would like to remind people down to two possibilities – the that they are responsible for lost SECC in Glasgow and ExCel in property (well, not responsible for London (the Olympics mean that you having lost it, responsible for the facilities required are going to receiving any that is found around be present by the convention). the hotel), and so anything you find The chair of the bid will be decided should be delivered to them in May, and the bid will be voted on posthaste. If you have lost anything at the 2012 Worldcon. European they will be only too happy to lend fans should become supporting you a hand. Turn right at the Heifer! by Sue Mason members of that Worldcon if they want to vote for this bid. Join the Akbar's The Restaurant ‘BOUT BITTERCON! group for more information and to 1276 Leeds Road, BD3 8LF On LiveJournal, brisingamen is contribute to 2014! akbars.co.uk running a series of entries intended 01274 773311 to spark discussion based on panel ED ECSTACY! A cab ride away, this modern-style items at LX under the banner of Bittercon. If you’re interested in Ed tells the newsletter team that eatery didn't look very Indian. saying more about topics LX is he will be providing free massages Stepping inside, it proved to be very covering, please go along and join in to anyone who wants one this busy and noisy as well, but despite with the debate – the URL is evening in one of the bars us not having a reservation, they brisingamen.livejournal.com. downstairs (most likely the main lived up to the promised table in ten bar). minutes. The menu was perhaps a FUTURE FROLICS! CHAPTER FIVE: 1988-1997 Mark Plummer and Claire Brialey The next newsletter is due to be published on Monday morning, and Adelphi, Ammonite, Ansible, Attitude, Attitude, Aztec Century, Banks, will be the penultimate issue! Baxter, Burns, Clarke, Contabile, Critical Wave, ‘Dark Night in Toyland’, Content should be e-mailed to Desolation Road, Encyclopaedia of Science Fiction, Eternal Light, [email protected], given to a Fairyland, Greenland, Griffith, Holdstock, Incon, Intersection, Interzone, newsletter person or put in the Big Jarrold, Jersey, Jones, Kairos, Leeds, McAuley, Mexicon, MiScon, Newsletter Box in Ops. Moorcock, Mooring, Newman, Other Edens, Ounsley, Pasquale’s Angel, The title artwork is © 2009 David Lloyd and other Pickersgill, Pringle, Rastus Johnson’s Cakewalk, Red Dwarf, Ryman, artwork © 2009 Sue Mason, used with permission. Science Fiction Foundation, SMS, Stableford, Take Back Plenty, Talbot, The fonts used in this newsletter are all from the The Adventures of Luther Arkwright, The Child Garden, The Empire of Komika range by Apostrophic Labs. The text in this newsletter, including contributions by others, Fear, The Prestige, The Star Fraction, The Time Ships, Then, Titan, is released under the Creative Commons Unquenchable Fire, Use of Weapons, Voyage, Vurt, Wells, West, White, Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 England and Wales License. Willis, Zenith. MAY CONTAIN NUTS LX 2009: THE NEWSLETTER MONDAY AFTERNOON The Voice

apologies to Dutch fandom, but I Karen: “I’d like to think I’m more am not allowed to edit that box. coherent than the average troll.”

O.J. OBSOLETENESS! EDITOR EXCLUSION!

Further to our insistence last issue Someone has contacted the editor that you all go and drink much real about a newsletter that was ale, we have learned that the hotel apparently released last night. I has sold out of Black Sheep. We would like to make it clear that no Editor-in-Chief: have also learned that the hotel newsletter was released in the late John Coxon has sold out of cans of cola and evening and that all rumours to the also orange juice, which sounds contrary are vicious lies. However, if Writers: suspiciously healthy to us… it had been published it would be John Coxon Fran Dowd available from the newsletter office, Jan van ’t Ent Carrie Gillespie RECOVERY RETCON! obviously. Ilana Grune Nicholas Jackson Bradford Royal Infirmary discovered GAMING GAMBIT! EDITORIAL EXCITEMENT! that Colin Fine had introduced an alien life-form into their nice clean Forgotten Futures: The League of Amazon are currently (apparently) hospital via his thumb (see below). Extraordinary Geometers is now at being extremely discriminatory to Subsequently, they have ejected 6pm in the games room, unless it’s gay and lesbian people, it is him, and he is now at large at the not available. The game takes about reported on Twitter this morning convention. The Invader is hidden two or three hours for 3-6 players. (use #amazonfail for more details). inside a large bandage around his For those of you who don’t keep up left thumb. Can you help rescue the High Circle with the Internet at cons where the of Flatland, who has been kidnapped Wi-Fi is £15/day, you might want to by abductors from the mysterious catch up with that when you get Third Dimension? Warning: it’s home. extremely silly…

On a lighter note, this is the last LOST AND LOCATED! issue before the dead dog party. There have been seven (including A black velvet dress was found this) proper issues, a spoof issue, a inside-out in the foyer on the first photo issue and an issue I didn’t floor. The finder would like to know know about until they were printing what happened with its contents! it without me, so if you have ten QUOTATION reQUIREMENT! issues you’re up-to-date. A moleskine notebook has been lost, Pepper: “I’m not used to having one it was last seen upstairs in the See you in the bar – John. as long as this!” Cedar Court on Sunday night. Robert Newman: "Why is Nolly CORRECTION CONFUSION! A sofa has gone missing, last seen sharing a room with Liam Proven?" being moved by two burly fans on Apologies to BlindPew, whose name Tobes: "Because he's too nice to Saturday. The newsletter team was misspelt last issue, and say ‘fuck off!’” reports they are very comfortable. MAY CONTAIN NUTS LX 2009: THE NEWSLETTER MONDAY AFTERNOON Lost: one hotel chain. If found, Kashmir conventions, as voted for by the please return to Novacon. 27 Morley Street, BD7 1AG panel, were Plokta.con 2 in third, (downstairs in the basement) Redemption 2005 in second and ROCKBAND REBOOT! 01274 726513 Inconsequential winning.

Liam Proven: "Do any of you know No visit to Bradford would be TEENAGE TIM! how to set up a Playstation 3?" complete without a visit to the Everyone else: “No, sorry, try the Kashmir, near the University and a Tim Powers was born on February Games Room.” ten minute walk from the Hilton. The 29th, and he turned 14 recently – we original curry restaurant, here since think this may make him the Liam was later seen returning to the 70s, it serves authentic curries youngest Eastercon GoH ever. If Mimosa with two ten-year-old girls – lamb, chicken, veg with large that’s untrue please tell us! who had the skills required to set it chappatis – and even rice or naan if up for him… Eventually we were all you insist. Cutlery is an optional FILK FROLICS! able to get down and ROCK! extra but it’s much more fun to use your fingers (right hand only, The filk concert on Saturday night Max tells us that the winners were please). An experience not to be was enjoyed by far too few people, called Con-Monkey. Laurie Cowan missed, and cheap too. reports Ilana, as it was wonderful. gets a special mention because her Recommended by Mick Taylor. Our well-known Minstrel was the drumming apparently carried the brightest star there, nicely rest of the band (their words, not Karachi balanced by the other musicians. ours!). Forbidden Planet gave prizes 15 Neal St, DB5 0LB Highly enjoyable and utterly to all those who took part. 01274 732015 underappreciated.

AUCTION ACTION! Located behind the Media Museum, combining a popular cultural trip POSTER PREVALENCE! The art auction lasted three hours with an affordable curry (at £7.50 For those curious about the Dead and managed to total over £8000 for two courses). Both David Girl posters dotted about the by selling 178 lots. Cooper, who had lunch there last hotel, we can reveal the mystery. week, and Rick Stein recommend Richard Culder's cult novel is being The LFF auction last night raised this restaurant. over £500 [partly thanks to me, I turned into a graphic novel and will be serialised in Murky Depths, might add – Ed] for the fan funds. CONVENTION CONFIRMATION! Thanks to everyone who spurned starting with issue #9, launching at Rock Band and came along and There was a panel on the best Fantasycon in September. bought tat. convention ever yesterday, Dave Mansfield reports. FUTURE FROLICS! Your humble editor helped to raise money for the LFF by being dressed Each convention mentioned by the The next newsletter is due to be in a corset and being paraded assembled throng was rated by published on Monday evening, and around the bar. Photos will follow in Programme, People, Place (hotel) will be the Dead Dog issue. the Dead Dog issue. and Pros (guests). The three best Content should be e-mailed to [email protected], given to a RESTCHAPTERAURANT SIX: REVIEWS! 1998-2007 newsletter person or put in the Big Mark Plummer and Claire Brialey Newsletter Box in Ops. The title artwork is © 2009 David Lloyd and other 28 Days Later, A Time Odyssey, Air, Ansible, Arabesk, Ash, Baxter, Black artwork © 2009 Sue Mason, used with permission. Man, Bold as Love, Brasyl, Brown, Cloud Atlas, Clute, Davies, Destiny’s The fonts used in this newsletter are all from the Komika range by Apostrophic Labs. The text in Children, Dr Who, Dreaming in Smoke, Edwards, Efanzines.com, Fallen this newsletter, including contributions by others, Dragon, Fangorn, Fletcher, Gentle, Glasgow, Grimwood, Hamilton, is released under the Creative Commons Harman, Harrison, Hicks, Hinckley, Interaction, Iron Council, James, Jones, Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 England and Wales License. Kincaid, Lake, Langford, Life on Mars, LiveJournal, McDonald, MacLeod, Mason, Mendlesohn, Miéville, Moffat, Morgan, New Space Opera, New Weird, Nova Swing, Perdido Street Station, Pickersgill, Plokta, Plokta.con, Priest, PS, Revelation Space, Reynolds, River of Gods, Robson, Rowse, Scott, SFX, Speller, Stef’n’James, Stross, Sullivan, The Cabal, The Separation, Weston, Williams, Young, Zoo Nation. The other magic number LX 2009: THE NEWSLETTER DEAD DOG issue The Voice

Editor-in-Chief: John Coxon Writers: John Coxon Fran Dowd Jan van ’t Ent Carrie Gillespie Ilana Grune Nicholas Jackson

EDITORIAL EXCITEMENT!

It’s the dead dog issue. Posters are being taken down, the closing ceremony has been and gone, and the Doc Weir award has been given to someone thoroughly deserving of the award (more details elsewhere).

For those of you who are wondering, copies of Procrastinations made their way to this convention, and are available from me if you see me (assuming you see me in the newsletter office or I have some in the bar).

It’s been absolutely manic, but I’ve had an extraordinarily good time, CORSETRY CORNER! DOC WEIR WONDER! being rushed off my feet and taking a while in the evenings (until the It’s all your fault if you need brain Kari won the Doc Weir award for early hours of the morning) to chill bleach after viewing this photo by a being outstanding and awesome in out and be with awesome people I GUFF delegate. You were the ones the face of overwhelming fandom. A don’t see nearly often enough. who begged me to include it! As a heartfelt “Well done” to her – result of this corset, several everyone at the newsletter was See you in the bar – John. pounds were raised for the glory of rooting for her. the fan funds.

The other magic number LX 2009: THE NEWSLETTER DEAD DOG issue QUOTATION reQUIREMENT! Shana began by explaining some of REPORT RECEIVED! the different calendars in use Liz: “I could move to Sheffield, but throughout Europe (in 12th-16th A drabble from James Shields: then I’d be in Sheffield.” Century France, for example, the ‘What's Opera Doc’ (the best year started on Easter Sunday) cartoon of all time) at the opening Dan: “Fuck me, that bear’s got two and then moved on to an ceremony sums up almost heads!” exploration of how individual days everything that happened during were divided into hours. She then the weekend. It had a fantastic plot, ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! discussed the various mechanisms and some things worked brilliantly, while others took a little time to get Normal people (businessmen, in that were developed for measuring off the ground. It was all okay on fact) are booking into the hotel… time: sundials, water-clocks, marked the night, though, and everyone our correspondent got some very candles, astrolabes, mechanical enjoyed themselves at the time. The odd looks. clocks and sand hourglasses. We also learned about allegorical programme kept me too busy to eat and left me wishing for the elusive ALLITERATION ASSISTANT! depictions of time, and the "New Iconography of the Virtues" (or "The art of bi-location. The split I would like to thank Dave Haddock Virtues Went Shopping") in which locations really weren't an issue for for his awesome assistance in several allegorical figures acquired most people. Now I'm off to the bar finding amazing alliterations for about as many additional items and where Peter Harrow owes me a nice this noteworthy newsletter. A shout attributes as they could carry. I pint. goes out to Ang for help with some look forward to learning more about of the alliteration, too. the Hedgehog of Nineveh at a later MISSING MINIHEADLINE! date. Due to privacy concerns, this part BSFA LECTURE! All in all, an excellent start to what I of the Dead Dog issue has been This new endeavour from the BSFA, hope will be a long tradition of BSFA removed prior to its upload to intended as an arts and humanities lectures at Eastercon – Nicholas eFanzines.com – we apologise to counterpart to the SF Foundation's Jackson. those who were not at Eastercon popular George Hay memorial LX, but can assure you that you’re scientific lecture, has got off to a PHLOSQUE PROBLEMS! not really missing out on loads… strong start with ‘Visualising Time in the Middle Ages’ by Dr Shana If not for a cockup at the closing FUTURE FROLICS! Worthen. ceremony, the pink and musical Phlosque award would have been The next newsletter is due to be Her fascinating talk on the given to Anne Stokes for ‘Water published at Odyssey 2010, the 61st measurement and visualisation of Dragon’ by Jodie Payne, the future British Science Fiction Convention. time during the (somewhat face of Phlosque. “Gorgeous Content should be buried for a year nebulously defined) medieval period. dragon, blue water and slight and recycled as firelighters. improbableness.” The title artwork is © 2009 David Lloyd, used with permission. The fonts used in this newsletter are EPILOGUE all from the Komika range by Apostrophic Labs. Mark Plummer and Claire Brialey The text in this newsletter, including contributions by others, is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- 2t0nic, Asher, Ashes to Ashes, Ballard, Banks, Baxter, Brown, BSFA:50, ShareAlike 2.0 England and Wales License. Conrunner, Coxon, Cytricon V, Dr Who, Evans, Fenn, Flood, Gaiman, Going Under, Hamilton, Harkaway, House of Suns, Interzone, Kethani, Langford, Lee, Line War, MacLeod, MacLeod, Martin Martin’s on the Other Side, Mason, Matter, McAuley, Miéville, Miracles of Life, Newcon, Non-Stop, Novacon, Omega, Orbital, Peyton, Postscripts, Principles of Angels, Prolapse, Reynolds, Rhetorics of Fantasy, Roberts, Robson, Saturn's Children, Scott, SFX, Song of Time, Stross, Swiftly, The Gone-Away World, The Night Sessions, The Quiet War, The Temporal Void, Torchwood, Wernham, What It Is We Do When We Read Science Fiction, Williams, Winterstrike. Paparazzi issue LX 2009: The Newsletter Monday morning The Voice

LX is proud to present the STEAMPUNK TEA PARTY

Discussing the Empire Observe their outlandish

to-day attire

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

Two young rapscallions Editor-in-Chief: John Coxon Photographers:

Wilf James (steampunk) Hayley Marsden (steampunk) Fran Dowd (punk rock) Mattia Valente (punk rock)

The title artwork is © 2009 David Lloyd “So you’ve been and photos © 2009 their photographer, used with permission. The text in this fighting, then?” newsletter is released under the Creative “Yes, just back Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- Musical entertainment, anyone? from India…” ShareAlike 2.0 England and Wales License. BRADFORD

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MATHEMATICIANS SEEING DEAD TIPS FOR FIRST TIME CON-GOERS PEOPLE: Yes. It’s a bit late., but by this point Not your average subject, surely, you might need a little reminder, so but the room was packed, with the you can make the most of your last male of the species outnumbering day. the female by about twenty to one. But topology was the foremost Don’t sit in a corner. Talk to people. problem on our minds. This hour Strike up conversations with the would bring us the answers we were person next to you - they will be Editor-in-Chief: looking for. friendly. If there’s something you The Voices told us to see you like, poke your nose in and Writers: Jules Henri Poincaré, (physicist, ask to be involved. Volunteer, go to Fran Dowd Jan van’t Ent mathematician, engineer and Ops and ask what your options are. Ilana Grune David philosopher of science) pioneered Eat at least twice a day. Have at algebraic topology. So what's that? least one shower a day. Try to get a And what does it have to do with minimum of five hours a night. EDITORIAL EXECUTION us? Well, he’s the top topology guy, Check out the dealer’s rooms. Find Congoers, the Voice has gone rogue! of course. We present you with out about other conventions and no announcements, no programme He came up with the statement 'If it sign up for them. Check out the art alterations, no apologies, and no looks like a sphere, it is.' Ultimately show! Enjoy the diversity. Again profound, of course, but this poses strike up a conversation and make restaurant recommendations! None of that useful stuff. So forget it if a new problem immediately. friends. you are confused on what to do Jules was into the three dimensions The Media room has panel later today. We’re not helpful at all as we know them quite intimately. discussions as well as showings of in this issue! Instead we want to But it turns out that it’s TV shows, odd stuff, fan films, bring you reviews and articles on topologically impossible to look foreign films. The program is listed everything that’s been going on at properly at a three dimensional outside the room. the con so far. We’re sure you all object in three dimensions. You want to know how our roving need six dimensions to classify The Music stream in the Oak has reporters have experienced the three dimensional space in! Humans filking. Have a look and listen to the various panels. Re-live those are therefore completely flawed and filk circles as well (but do not bang moments and see if your favourite we need ridiculously smart with doors when someone is panel or insanity made it onto the mathematicians to define things singing). Wait until the song is done printed page. for us. before coming in or going out.

We hope you enjoy our Rogue Issue Ultimately, the answer is sure to be Games here include interesting as much as we are chuffed to be forty-two, but this time it’s by way boardgames. Everyone is friendly able to present you with it. of American style doughnuts, and you can join a game when one Asteroids games from the early 80s starts. There is no programming, WHAT ALLITERATION? and folding objects in space. except for the Games stream laid out in the programme guide. We don’t do no poetry here... I feel so much better now!

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The Fan fun programme is a mix of Does anyone want a copy to read it as indeed where all of the ones fannish discussions on issues such yourselves?’ Fifteen hands went up available for tasting. Flick and as the Fan Fund Auction, which will and issues of ‘2477 AD’ were others demonstrated their raise money for fans to go to passed around. flexibility with the astral pole, much conventions in places that they to Liam’s and Jim’s delight, I was wouldn’t normally be able to go to. The next bit was a flowery sex scene not alone in not being able to get This year we have two fans from that had everyone in stitches, not my leg over the bar that night. Australia, especially over for that anything else was possible in Eastercon and the lovely Yorkshire this room anymore, when it started ENTRY LEVEL CRITICISM - REVIEW weather. off with ‘bristling pubis’ and went downwards from there. The Entry Level Criticism panel BAD SEX PANEL REVIEW featured a strong discussion on Obviously vampires appeared and the difference between criticisms The Bad Sex in SF was swamped disappeared during the rest of the and reviews. A review is an opinion with attention on Saturday night. panel, some sucking of bodily fluids, on the material, including the Gali Golan entertained us by and at finally the not-to-be-missed writer’s style, which helps to inform summarizing bad sex and gender rampant necrophilia with cold tv the reader if the title is of interest paranoia in Israeli SF. She also dinners in, yes, the morgue. It’s only and worth one’s time. Criticism is enlightened us into the concept of really freaky if the corpse turns out more of a discourse, where the being able to communicate love and to be a vampire. features of the piece can be sex, which apparently is something It’s truly amazing what bad writing discussed, as the reader is Hebrew is totally unsuitable for. The is out there, never mind the expected to have either read the sex scenes in Hebrew SF therefore completely over the top, ridiculously piece or not mind its structure are described with a lack of proper unbelievable sci-fi sex fantasies! being discussed, thus spoilers terminology, turning it from a shouldn’t be an issue. narrative train wreck into something BURNS NIGHT RECOLLECTIONS completely hilarious. It is best As for its central advice on how to be a better critic it was practice, summarized by Gali’s idea that, ‘the On wandering into the Burns Night author has a tiny penis and fear he gathering, on Friday I saw the practice, practice, and read widely - both magazines and websites - and will therefore never be able to miniature highland games clustered satisfy a woman.’ Such small box at the end of the room. In the name review your own work as well as think about your readership. thinking created a sex scene that of journalism I tried my hand at all had our audience rolling with of the activities: the pencil caber laughter. toss, cube throw and of course the FUTURE FROLICS! tossing of the straw with one’s Then there was ‘Planet Sex’, which The normal newsletter schedule right hand. During this I witnessed resumes now, handing you back to was brought in by another panelist. Pepper giving the attendant a side control. Anything you still want the The AngloSaxon futuristic sex newsletter to include, from plugs to show bob make-over, which I’m sure riddled insanity was equally panels to information about decent he enjoyed. The fury curling was fun, restaurants near the hotel, should hilarious and he hadn’t gotten to even if my team lost. The be given to us as soon as poss if the sex scenes yet. ‘No, I can’t really commiseratory whisky was very nice, you want to get it in a Monday read them, they are too horrible. issue. The art in this issue is © 2009 David RUNAWAY INTERESTS Lloyd, used with permission. The fonts Summary of the weekend, aka, what we missed but not limted to everything else used in this newsletter are all from the we might miss. Take a breath and here goes: Komika range by Apostrophic Labs, and 3D, Anime, Art, Bad Biology, Battlestar Galactica, Beer, Bids, Breakfast, are completely free for anyone to BSFA, Bus Service, Catan, Cermonies, Children, Chocolate, Comics, download and use. The text in this Conrunning, Convention, Crossbow, Disco, Dr Who, Easter, Egg Race, Fair Use, newsletter, including contributions by Fanzines, Fencing, Filk, Filk, Gaming, GoHs, Gophering, GUFF, Horror, others, are released under the Creative Insidious, Kaffeklatsch, Kunji, (LA)RP, Manga, Marketing of Novels, Martial Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- Arts, Music Stream, Paper Airplane, Pcifism, Phantasmagoria, Phlosque, ShareAlike 2.0 England and Wales Pictionary, Plot, Programme; Quantum, Re-creating History, RoboRally, License. Satellite Technology, Sleep, Steampunk, Sticking stuff on walls, Symphonic Fantasy, Tai Chi, Time, University, Watchmen, Wish You Were Here, Writers.