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LX the Voice 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.
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