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The SHUTTLE July 2003

The Next NASFA Meeting will be 19 July 2003 at the Regular Time and Location

Upcoming ConCom Meetings 3 & 17 August 2003 at Mike KennedyÕs House

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The next NASFA meeting will be 19 July 2003 at the The next Con Stellation XXII con committee meeting regular time (6P) and the regular location. Call BookMark at will be held 2P Sunday 3 August at Mike KennedyÕs house Ñ 256-881-3910 if you need directions. 7907 Charlotte Drive SW, Huntsville AL. An email announce- The July program will be a trip to the Huntsville Stars ment with additional information will be sent out closer to the baseball game. Game time is 7:05, so the people going from day. BookMark will probably leave for the stadium as soon as the concom meetings are scheduled for 17 August, 7 business meeting is over. There are free general admission September, 21 September, and 5 October at MikeÕs house. tickets available for the game at local Skill Lube stores. There will also be the usual last-minute concom meeting on The July after-the-meeting meeting was to be a pool Thursday 9 October at the hotel. party at Russell McNuttÕs house. Due to the length of the baseball game (likely end time is around 10P) the ATMM will probably be canceled.

Inside this issueÉ Winner ...... 5 NASFA Calendar...... 2 Campbell and Sturgeon Awards Presented...... 5 Minutes of the June Meeting ...... 2 Stoker Awards Announced ...... 5 Harry Potter Capsule Review ...... 3 Mark Time And Ogle Awards ...... 5 Awards News Section Sidewise Awards Nominations...... 6 Locus Awards Announced ...... 3 Sunburst Awards Nominations ...... 6 Nominations ...... 3 Wooden Rocket Awards...... 6 Prix Aurora Nominations ...... 4 Letters of Comment ...... 7

Deadline for the August 2003 issue of The NASFA Shuttle is Friday, 1 August 2003. 1 25 BD: Marie McCormack. NASFA Calendar 30Ð02 World Convention 2003 Ñ Washington DC. 31 Halloween. JULY OoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoO 01 Day. 02 BD: Deb Stone. The North Alabama Association meets on 04 Independence Day. the third Saturday of each month. (Unless there is a large 06 Con Stellation Con Committee Meeting Ñ Mike nearby convention being held that weekend Ñ in which case KennedyÕs house. we usually hold the meeting on the second or fourth weekend.) 19* NASFA Meeting Ñ 6P Business Meeting at Book- The regular meeting location is the upstairs meeting room at Mark. The Program will be a trip to the Huntsville BookMark on South Memorial Parkway. The Executive Stars baseball game. This will probably serve as the Committee meeting (if scheduled) is at 5P. The business ATMM, too. meeting is at 6P. The program is at 7P. Anyone is welcome to 24 BD: Jay Johns. attend any of the meetings. There is usually an after-the- 25Ð27 DeepSouthCon 41/LibertyCon 16 Ñ East Ridge meeting meeting with directions available at the program. (Chattanooga) TN. 25Ð28 MythCon XXXIV Ñ Nashville TN. 27 ParentsÕ Day. 29 BD: Mark Paulk. June Minutes by Samuel A. Smith, June-Bugged AUGUST 03 Con Stellation Con Committee Meeting Ñ Mike The June meeting of the North Alabama Science Fiction KennedyÕs house. Association was called to order on Saturday, June 21, 2003 in 08 BD: Jim Woosley. the upstairs meeting room at BookMark at 6:17:14P by Presi- 08Ð10 Conglomeration Ñ Louisville KY. dent Mary Ortwerth and the Crickets. 14 BD: Edward Kenny. OLD BUSINESS 16* NASFA Meeting Ñ 6P Business, 7P Program, at We need a 2004 con chair! BookMark. ATMM Russell McNuttÕs house. After much discussion, it was decided to have nomina- 17 Con Stellation Con Committee Meeting Ñ Mike tions for 2004 con chair at the June and July meetings, and KennedyÕs house. elections at the July meeting. The nominations so far are: Mike 21 BD: Deborah Denton. Kennedy, Doug Lampert, and Mary Ortwerth. Sam Smith, 28Ð01 Torcon 3/ 61 Ñ ONT Canada. doing his best ÒRadarÓ OÕReilly impersonation, declared that 29Ð01 DragonCon Ñ GA. there will be co-chairs. (Tune in next month to see if heÕs right!) NEW BUSINESS SEPTEMBER Mitzi Adams of NASA has contacted us (via Jack Lundy) 01 Labor Day. to see if we would be interested in co-sponsoring (along with 07 Con Stellation Con Committee Meeting Ñ Mike the Von Braun Astronomical Society, and possibly others) a KennedyÕs house. talk by Larry Nemecek (Star Trek: The Next Generation 07 GrandparentÕs Day. Companion, et.al.) and Dr. Chip Meegan about the science (or 09 BD: Mike Cothran. lack thereof) associated with several of the planetary systems 11 BD: Ray Pietruszka. visited by Star Trek. Said talk is tentatively planned for August 17 Citizenship Day. 28 at the Chan Auditorium at UAH. 20* NASFA Meeting Ñ 6P Business, 7P Program, at After much discussion, a motion was made, seconded, BookMark. ATMM TBD. voted, and passed, to authorize up to $50 to be spent for this 21 Con Stellation Con Committee Meeting Ñ Mike purpose. Mary Ortwerth will likely coordinate from our end. KennedyÕs house. There was additional discussion of the publicity angle on 23 Autumn begins. our end. 26 BD: Jenna Victoria Stone. CONVENTION BUSINESS 27 Rosh Hashanah. Mike Kennedy: The next con committee meeting will be Sunday, July 6, with a cookout afterwards [now past]. OCTOBER Sam Smith reported that the Con Stellation web site 02Ð05 Archon 27 Ñ Collinsville IN. received 786 visitors in May, and the NASFA web site re- 05 Con Stellation Con Committee Meeting Ñ Mike ceived 175 visitors in the same time period. KennedyÕs house. Mike Cothran has made a request for suggestions for 09 Con Stellation Con Committee Meeting Ñ at the offset printing shops that could do our program book for us this hotel. year. 10Ð12 Con Stellation XXII Ñ Huntsville AL. Mike Cothran further requested that stuff for this yearÕs 12 Columbus Day (Traditional). Mass Mailing be turned in no later than August 6th. He 13 Columbus Day (Observed). suggested looking on the web site for last yearÕs Mass Mailing 15 BD: Robert Buelow. information and sending him corrections based on that. 18* NASFA Meeting Ñ 6P Business, 7P Program, at The meeting was adjourned at 6:50:37P. The program was BookMark. ATMM TBD. our own little ÒCow Parade.Ó (See if 24 United Nations Day. you donÕt know what that is.) The After-The-Meeting Meeting 24Ð26 Hallowcon Õ03 Ñ Chattanooga TN. was held at Russell McNuttÕs place. 2 Collection...... Stories of Your Life and Others, Capsule Book Review Ted Chiang (Tor) by Jim Woosley Anthology ...... The YearÕs Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, by J. K. Rowling, , ed. (St. MartinÕs) Scholastic, 21 June 2003, hardback, 870pp, ISBN: 043935806X, Nonfiction ...... Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the $29.99 (available at major booksellers for about $16+) Next Fifty Years, Bruce Sterling (Random House) Art Book ...... Spectrum 9: The Best in 17.6 hours of elapsed time from purchase to completion, Contemporary , Cathy Fenner approximately 13 hours reading time. and Arnie Fenner, eds. (Underwood Books) Fastest paced, most tightly plotted, best written book yet Editor ...... Gardner Dozois in the series. Certainly by the standards of the previous novel, Magazine...... The Magazine of Fantasy & this novel should have been at Science Fiction least 25% longer. Ms. Rowling Book Publisher ...... Tor has hit her stride as a mature Artist ...... Bob Eggleton author. In addition to the themselves, several Spe- Adolescent angst, of both the cial Awards were also given this year. They went to: alienation (ÒIÕm alone in the Tom Doherty, for winning the Locus Award 15 years in a row worldÓ) and romantic variety. A Eileen Gunn, best acceptor First Kiss. Ample humor, both Bob Eggleton, for artistic contributions to Locus adult and juvenile, sophisticated , best toastmaster and straightforward, light and dark. WeasleyÕs Wizarding Wheezes. New Defense against the Dark Arts teacher described Chesley Awards on jacket as having Òa personality like poisoned honey.Ó WeÕre talk- Nominations ing strychnine here, folks, in fatal doses per false smile; youÕll cringe Nominations for the 18th annual Association of Science when you see her detention punishment. Severe trials for the Fiction and Fantasy Artists Awards have been announced. The Gryffindor Quiddich Team in the aftermath of last yearÕs stand Chesleys are awarded for SF and Fantasy art (individual works down due to the Triwizard Tournament. The wizard equivalent and achievements) during a given year. Art works and achieve- of ÒmachineÓ-run newspapers and tabloid newspapers Ñ and ments by non-ASFA members are eligible for the Chesley faithless politicians. Boggles and Centaurs and Giants, Oh my. Awards, but one must be an ASFA member to vote. More info Several key characters Ñ including, of course, Harry Ñ on ASFA (including pictures of most of the nominated works) targeted for death; one dies. Disillusionment and illumination. can be found at at . The awards will be Mysteries revealed and the game plan for the final two install- presented at Torcon. The nominees are: ments laid out. BEST COVER ILLUSTRATION: HARDBACK BOOK Take a day off. Kick back. enjoy. Bob Eggleton for Resurgence by Charles (, November 2002) Mark Harrison for DiuturnityÕs Dawn by (Del-Rey, February 2002) Locus Awards Winners for The Thousand by R. A. Salvatore (WotC, October 2002) The 2003 Locus Awards (sponsored by Locus magazine) Alan Pollack for Argonaut by Stanley Schmidt (Tor, July were presented Friday evening, 4 July 2003 at Westercon 56 in 2002) SeaTac WA. The awards are given to winners in Locus maga- for Sorcery Rising by Jude Fisher (DAW, zineÕs annual reader poll. Complete results of that poll will July 2002) appear in the August issue of the magazine. Further informa- BEST COVER ILLUSTRATION: tion can be found at the Locus web site . PAPERBACK BOOK And the winners are: Tom Canty for The Fall of the Kings by Ellen Kushner and SF Novel ...... The Years of Rice and Salt, Delia Sherman (Bantam Spectra, November 2002) Kim Stanley Robinson (Bantam) Tristan Elwell for Briar Rose by Jane Yolan (Tor/Starscape Fantasy Novel ...... , China MiŽville Editions, March 2002) (Macmillan; Del Rey) James Gurney for Dinotopia: Dolphin Watch by John Vornholt First Novel ...... A Scattering of Jades, (Random House ChildrenÕs Publishing, March 2002) Alexander C. Irvine (Tor) for Stealing the KingÕs Roses by Diane Duane Young Adult Novel ...... , (Warner Books, November 2002) (HarperCollins) Matt Stawicki for Restoration by Carol Berg (Penguin/Roc, Novella ...... The Tain, China MiŽville (PS Publishing) August 2002) Novelette ...... ÒThe Wild Girls,Ó Ursula K. Le Guin BEST COVER ILLUSTRATION: MAGAZINE (AsimovÕs, March 2002) Kenn Brown for Wired December 2002 Short Story ...... ÒOctober in the Chair,Ó Neil Gaiman David Cherry for Computer Gaming World November 2002 (Conjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists) for Corporate Knights October/November 2002 3 Todd Lockwood for Dragon Magazine #302, December 2002 AWARD FOR ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT Ron Miller for AsimovÕs February 2002 Jim Burns Kinuko Y. Craft Tom Kidd BEST INTERIOR ILLUSTRATION Hayao Miyazaki Maurice Sendak Kinuko Y. Craft for Sleeping Beauty by Mahlon F. Craft (Sea Star Books, 2002) Bob Eggleton for Dragonhenge by and Bob Eggle- ton (Sterling Publications, September 2002) 2003 Scott Gustafson for Classic Fairy Tales by Scott Gustafson (Greenwich Workshop/Hallmark, October 2002) Finalists/Finalistes William Stout for Abu & the Seven Marvels by Richard Matheson (Gauntlet Press/Edge Books, April 2002) Nominations for this yearÕs Prix Aurora Awards have been for Stuff OutÕA My Head by Joseph M. announced. The AuroraÕs are voted on by members of the Monks and Bernie Wrightson (Chanting Monks, 2002) Canadian national convention Canvention (which will this BEST COLOR WORK: UNPUBLISHED year be held in conjunction with Worldcon in Toronto). One Richard Hescox for The Storm must also be a citizen or permanent resident of Canada to vote Tom Kidd for The Rungius Pass on the awards. The nominees are: Maurizio Manzieri for Briony, Princess of Shadowmarch BEST LONG-FORM WORK IN ENGLISH Theresa Mather for Wings of the Wind MEILLEUR LIVRE EN ANGLAIS Christopher Vacher for The Dream To Trade the Stars, Julie E. Czerneda (DAW) Michael Whelan for Bean Stalk Warchild, Karin Lowachee (Warner Aspect) BEST MONOCHROME WORK: UNPUBLISHED Hominids, Robert J. Sawyer (Tor) Maurizio Manzieri for The SkimmerÕs Lagoon Permanence, Karl Schroeder (Tor) James Owen for Old TomÕs Study Martyrs, Edo van Belkom (Design Image Group) Jean-Pierre Targete for Morgana Reborn MEILLEUR LIVRE EN FRAN‚AIS Mike Weaver for Miss Fix-it BEST LONG-FORM WORK IN FRENCH Lawrence Allen Williams for Still Waters Les Sources de la magie, JoŽl Champetier (Alire) BEST THREE-DIMENSIONAL ART PiŽge pour le Jules-Verne, MichŽle Laframboise (MŽdias- Kim Graham for ConJosŽ Dragon paul) Daniel Hawkins for The Alchemist LÕAigle des profondeurs, Esther Rochon (Alire) Real Musgrave for Rocket Science Horizons blancs, Guy Sirois (MŽdiaspaul) Laura Reynolds for Hippocampus Le Revenant de Fomalhaut, Jean-Louis Trudel (MŽdiaspaul) Lisa Snellings Clark for Winter Guardians BEST SHORT-FORM WORK IN ENGLISH BEST GAMING-RELATED ILLUSTRATION MEILLEUR NOUVELLE EN ANGLAIS William Hammock for Darkness and Light (Vigilance expan- ÒJust Like Being There,Ó Eric Choi (Orbiter, Trifolium) sion, ÒDarkness and Light,Ó Vigilance Press) ÒPrism,Ó Julie E. Czerneda (30th Anniversary DAW: Science Todd Lockwood for Spider Queen ( supple- Fiction, DAW) ment ÒCity of the Spider Queen,Ó WotC) ÒRain, Ice, Steam,Ó (Explorer, Trifolium) David Martin for MirariÕs Wake (card art for Magic: Judgment ÒIneluctable,Ó Robert J. Sawyer (Analog November 2002) expansion deck, WotC, 2002) ÒBy Its Cover,Ó Isaac Szpindel (Explorer, Trifolium) BEST PRODUCT ILLUSTRATION MEILLEUR NOUVELLE EN FRAN‚AIS David Cherry for New Age of Mythology Trio (Poster for BEST SHORT-FORM WORK IN FRENCH iGames advertising, Microsoft/Ensemble Studios) ÇLa Guerre sans tempsÈ, Sylvie BŽrard (Solaris 143) James C. Christensen for Garden Rendezvous (fine art print for ÇFracturesÈ, Mehdi Bouhalassa (Solaris 140) The Greenwich Workshop, June 2002) ÇLes Femmes viennent de Mars et les hommes de VŽnusÈ, Scott Gustafson for Happily Ever After (fine art print for The MichŽle Laframboise (Solaris 140) Greenwich Workshop, November 2002) ÇLa Trajectoire du poissonÈ, Yves Meynard (Solaris 141) Dean Morrissey for The Light Ship (fine art print for The ÇLes Navires de Saint-ElmeÈ, Jean Pettigrew (Solaris 143) Greenwich Workshop, April 2002) ÇUn Port dans la Temp•teÈ, Mark A. Rayner (Science-Fiction Michael Parkes for The Court Painter (stone lithograph for Magazine, FŽvrier 2002) [traduction: Marc Bailly] Swan King Editions, October 2002) BEST WORK IN ENGLISH (OTHER) BEST ART DIRECTOR MEILLEUR OUVRAGE EN ANGLAIS (AUTRE) Irene Gallo for Tor Books ÒBatÕs Life,Ó Isaac Szpindel (Rescue Heroes Cycle III Ñ Dana Knutson for Episode 33b, Warner Bros./Nelvana) [TV screenplay] Julia Kushnirsky for St. MartinÕs Press Explorer: Tales from the Wonder Zone, Julie E. Czerneda, ed. Dave Land for Dark Horse Comics (Trifolium Books) [anthology] David Stevenson for Ballantine and Del Rey Books ÒFaster Than Light,Ó Joe Mahoney, Robert J. Sawyer, Barbara AWARD FOR CONTRIBUTION TO ASFA Worthy (CBC Radio) [Drama pilot, first aired 22 Septem- Ted and Bonnie Atwood for years of service ber 2002] Holly Bird for production design and layout of ASFA Quar- Stardust: Tales from the Wonder Zone, Julie E. Czerneda, ed. terly (Trifolium Books) [anthology] Joni Brill Dashoff for fund-raising efforts and years of service Edo van Belkom, editing Be VERY Afraid! (Tundra Books) Morgana for years of service hosting the ASFA suite at MEILLEUR OUVRAGE EN FRAN‚AIS (AUTRE) BEST WORK IN FRENCH (OTHER) Geoffrey Surette for ASFA webpage management Dž au manque de nominations, aucun prix ne sera dŽcernŽ 4 dans cette categorie. Sturgeon Award, second and third places went to ÒBronteÕs Due to insufficient nominations, no award will be pre- EggÓ (F&SF) by Richard Chwedyk and ÒSingletonÓ (Inter- sented for this category. zone) by Greg Egan. ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT ACCOMPLISSEMENT ARTISTIQUE Andrew Barr James Beveridge Lar deSouza MichŽle Laframboise Jean-Pierre Normand Stoker Awards Winners Ronn Sutton Mel Vavaroutsos FAN ACHIEVEMENT (PUBLICATION) Winners of the Bram Stoker Awards were presented Sat- ACCOMPLISSEMENT FANIQUE (PUBLICATION) urday evening, 7 June 2003, at the Horror Writers Association Ailleurs, Pierre-Luc Lafrance, rŽd. [fanzine] annual conference and Stoker Banquet in City. Life Filking from C to C, Peggi Warner-Lalonde, ed. [filkzine] Achievement recipients were previously announced. The Made in Canada Newsletter, Don Bassie, ed. [webzine] winners are: Opuntia, Dale Speirs, ed. [fanzine] Life Achievement (2 awards) ...... J. N. Williamson Pubnites & Other Events, Yvonne Penney, ed. [e-zine] and FAN ACHIEVEMENT (ORGANIZATIONAL) Novel ...... The Night Class, Tom Piccirilli (Leisure) ACCOMPLISSEMENT FANIQUE (ORGANISATION) First Novel ...... The Lovely Bones, Georgina Miles Martin Miller Alice Sebold (Little, Brown) Barb Schofield Marah Searle-Kovacevic Long Fiction (tie) ...... ÒMy Work Is Not Yet Done,Ó Joan Sherman Brian Upward Thomas Ligotti (My Work Is Not Done Yet: Three Tales FAN ACHIEVEMENT (OTHER) of Corporate Terror) and El Dia de Los Muertos, ACCOMPLISSEMENT FANIQUE (AUTRE) Brian A. Hopkins (Earthling Publications) Eric Layman, fan writing / Žcriture fanique Short Fiction...... ÒThe Misfit Child Grows Fat Lloyd Penney, fan writing / Žcriture fanique on Despair,Ó Tom Piccirilli (The Darker Side) Gord Rose, masquerade MC at Toronto Trek and Ad Astra Fiction Collection ...... One More for the Road, Larry Stewart, entertainer / personnalitŽ: amuseur (Morrow) Jason Taniguchi, one-man SF parody shows / presentations Anthology ...... The Darker Side: Generations of individuelles de parodies SF Horror, John Pelan, ed. (Roc) Alex von Thorn, fan writing / Žcriture fanique Nonfiction ...... Ramsey Campbell, Probably: Essays on Horror and Sundry , Ramsey Campbell (PS Publishing) Illustrated Narrative ...... Nightside, Compton Crook Winner Robert Weinberg (Marvel) Screenplay ...... Frailty, Brant Hanley (LionÕs Gate Films) This yearÕs Compton Crook Award (for first solo science Work For Younger Readers ...... Coraline, fiction/fantasy/horror novel published in 2002) has been an- Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins) nounced. The award is selected by members of the Poetry Collection ...... The Gossamer Eye, Science Fiction Society and presented at . The winner Mark McLaughlin, Rain , and is Patricia BrayÕs novel DevlinÕs Luck. Sequel DevlinÕs Honor David Niall Wilson (Meisha Merlin) has recently been published. Alternative Forms ...... ÒImagination Box,Ó Steve and Melanie Tem (Lone Wolf Publications) (multimedia CD) John W. Campbell and Mark Time and Awards Presented Ogle Awards The Mark Time and Ogle Awards Ñ sponsored by the Winners of the John W. Campbell and Theodore Sturgeon American Society for Science Fiction Audio for best Science Awards (hurried awards for the best science fiction novel and Fiction and Fantasy/Horror audio works respectively Ñ were short fiction respectively) were announced at the Campbell presented Friday 4 July 2003 at CONvergence at the Radisson South Hotel in Bloomington the J. Wayne and Elsie M. Gunn Center for the Study of MN. The Mark Time Award is named after the character Science Fiction at the created by the Firesign Theatre in the 1970s. The Ogle Award University of Kansas. is named for Charles Ogle, who played the The John W. Campbell Award was won by monster in the 1910 film of the novel. You can for Probability Space (Tor). The find out more about the awards at

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***************************************************************************************************************** The NASFA Shuttle is the newsletter of the North Alabama Science Fiction Association, Inc. This is the July 2003 edition (Volume 23, Number 7). NASFA Officers for 2003: President Mary Ortwerth; Vice President Mike Kennedy; Secretary Sam Smith; Treasurer Ray Pietruszka; Program Director Karen Hopkins; Publicity Director Doug Lampert. Shuttle Editor Mike Kennedy. Comments, inquiries, and contributions of writing by email to: [email protected] Ñ EDITORIAL ADDRESS (EMAIL) Comments, inquiries, and contributions of writing by snailmail to: Mike Kennedy, 7907 Charlotte Drive SW, Huntsville AL 35802-2841 Ñ EDITORIAL ADDRESS (SNAILMAIL) Dues ($), subscriptions ($), and Official Mail to: NASFA, Inc., P. O. Box 4857, Huntsville AL 35815-4857 Ñ OFFICIAL ADDRESS Contents Copyright, © 2003. All rights revert to contributors. All opinions are those of the individual authors and do not reflect club policies other than by coincidence. LoCs subject to edited printing. NASFA Dues = $15/year (Family rates available) Subscription only = $10/year Single copy = $1.50 each. *****************************************************************************************************************

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