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The SHUTTLE August 2001 The Next NASFA Meeting is 18 August 2001 at the Regular Time and Location Con Stellation ConCom Meeting 16 August 2001 at Mike KennedyÕs House { Oyez, Oyez { Movie News The next NASFA meeting will be 18 August 2001 at the The name of the next Star Wars movie, has been an- regular time (6P) and the regular location. Call BookMark at nounced: it will be known as Star Wars: Episode II Ñ Attack 256-881-3910 if you need directions. The August program is of the Clones. Meanwhile, the original Star Wars trilogy has not set at press time, but may be the DUFF report delayed from found a new life on stage. With George LucasÕ blessing, last month. students from the University of Southern California School of Contrary to earlier plans, the August After-The-Meeting Theater are presenting a condensed, tongue-in-cheek version Meeting will be at Mike KennedyÕs house. (Russell McNutt is of the entire trilogy. It is currently being staged at the Ed- recovering from cataract surgery.) Call Mike at 256-883-5922 inburgh Fringe Festival and has previously seen runs in Paris if you need directions. and Los Angeles. Props include trash cans, milk cartons, and We hear from Samanda Jeude that she has a Philadelphia upturned chairs, while Luke Skywalker is armed with a plastic Worldcon membership for sale for $175. You can contact her light saber. at <[email protected]>. The news for Steven SpielbergÕs A.I. is not so cheerful. Due to the length and time-sensitive nature of some of the Censors in Sweden have applied the highest available rating, submissions we received, this issue does not have an episode barring anyone under 15 from seeing the picture. They cited a of No Need for a Dragon. We will resume NNFAD in the scene in which the young robot-boy is abandoned by his September or October issue (depending on the length of our mother in a forest and expressed concern that it could upset Worldcon coverage next month.) children. An executive of the film distributor disagreed and The September meeting will be subsumed by the annual announced that they would appeal. Spielberg and the Swedish NASFA cookout, which will take place starting at 1:00P at board of censors have a history of conflicts going back to E.T. Robin RayÕs house. Stay tuned for more details. which was given an 11-rating because the censors thought some scenes were scary and presented the adult world in a hostile way. The distributor then also fought for a lower rating, Con Stellation ConCom but lost. The next Con Stellation XX con committee meeting will be on Thursday 16 August 2001 at Mike KennedyÕs house Ñ 7907 Charlotte Drive in Huntsville. Call him at 256-883-5922 if you need directions. This is an eating meeting, with the food theme being Òhorny food.Ó Eating starts at 6:30P with the meeting proper afterwards. Inside this issueÉ World Fantasy Awards Nominations..............................3 NASFA Calendar............................................................2 Two Sides of a Coin: A Review of Planet of the Apes ...4 Minutes of the July Meeting ...........................................2 NASFA Receivables .......................................................5 Award News Roundup....................................................2 Essay: Pandora's Box Revisited......................................5 Obituary: Poul Anderson ................................................3 Letters of Comment ........................................................9 Deadline for the September 2001 issue of The NASFA Shuttle is Friday, 31 August 2001. 1 we usually hold the meeting on the second or fourth weekend.) NASFA Calendar The regular meeting location is the upstairs meeting room at BookMark on South Memorial Parkway. The Executive AUGUST Committee meeting (if scheduled) is at 5P. The business 08 BD: Jim Woosley. meeting is at 6P. The program is at 7P. Anyone is welcome to 10Ð12 ConGlomeration 2001 Ñ Clarksville IN. attend any of the meetings. There is usually an after-the- 14 BD: Edward Kenny. meeting meeting with directions available at the program. 16 Con Stellation ConCom Meeting Ñ Mike KennedyÕs house. Food theme: Òhorny food.Ó 16 BD: Zachary Mitchell. 18* NASFA Meeting Ñ 6P Business, 7P Program, at July Minutes BookMark. ATMM Ñ Mike KennedyÕs house. by Samuel A. Smith, PEI-Man 19 BD: Ariane Mitchell. 21 BD: Deborah Denton. The July meeting of the North Alabama Science Fiction 30Ð03 The Millennium Philcon/Worldcon 59 Ñ Philadel- Association was called to order on Saturday, July 21, 2001 in phia PA. the upstairs meeting room at BookMark at 6:16:47P by Presi- 31Ð03 DragonCon 2001 Ñ Atlanta GA. dent Mary Ortwerth, who once again had the crickets, but did not use them. SEPTEMBER OLD BUSINESS 03 Labor Day. Now the crickets come out. 09 BD: Mike Cothran. NEW BUSINESS 09 Grandparents Day. Randy C.: There will be a substitute program tonight Ñ 11 BD: Ray Pietruszka. Craft night, with dinosaurs and insects. 15* NASFA Picnic Ñ 1P at Robin RayÕs house. Stay tuned Randy also has a house, near Jim and Tracey. for more details. Randy also announced that the annual NASFA Auction 17 Citizenship Day. will be coming Real Soon Now, so ÒBring our yer books!Ó 18 Rosh Hashanah. Ray P.: I need authorization to open a DSC bank account. 26 BD: Jenna Victoria Stone. A motion was made for Ray to open the account, with Ray and 27 Yom Kippur. Sam authorized to sign checks. The motion was seconded, 29 BD: Nelda Kathleen Kennedy. voted, and passed many to one. Question: NASFA picnic? After much discussion it was OCTOBER decided to have the NASFA picnic on Saturday, September 08 Columbus Day (Observed). 15th at 1:00P at RobinÕs cat house. (It was several days later that 12 Columbus Day (Traditional). we realized that this represents a potential conflict with the 13* NASFA Meeting Ñ 6P Business, 7P Program, at annual Virgo party at Nancy and RayÕs house. Stay tuned...) BookMark. ATMM TBD. NOTE change of date Russell McNutt will be having cataract surgery on August due to Con Stellation. 13th and will not be able to host the August After-The-Meeting 15 BD: Robert Buelow. Meeting, as was previously announced. 19Ð21 Con Stellation XX: Camelopardalis Ñ Huntsville AL. CONVENTION BUSINESS 24 United Nations Day. None. (Actually, I forgot to read the number of hits, er, 25 BD: Marie McCormack. visitors each web site had in June. 456 for Con Stellation and 26Ð28 2001: A Necronomicon Odyssey Ñ Tampa FL. 80 for DeepSouthCon 40.) 27 Gabrielle Mitchell. ANNOUNCEMENTS 28 Daylight Saving Time ends. Just lots of discussion, mainly about RandyÕs lack of 31 Halloween. furniture. The meeting was adjourned at 6:34:17P. The program was NOVEMBER Craft Night with Insects and Dinosaurs. The After-The-Meet- 01Ð04 World Fantasy Convention Ñ Montreal. ing Meeting was a pool party held at Russell McNuttÕs place. 06 Election Day. 11 VeteransÕ Day (Traditional). 12 VeteransÕ Day (Observed). 17* NASFA Meeting Ñ 6P Business, 7P Program, at Awards News Roundup BookMark. ATMM Ñ Mike KennedyÕs house. 22 BD: Nancy Renee Peters. HUGO VOTING SNAFU 22 Thanksgiving Day. This yearÕs Worldcon (The Millennium Philcon¨) slightly 23 BD: Michael D. Kennedy. extended the deadline for submitting Hugo ballots, either 23 BD: Wilson ÒBobÓ Tucker. electronically or as indicated by postmark, from July 18 to July 29 BD: Howard Camp. 25. They also admitted that some online votes were lost due to 30 BD: Richard Gilliam. a technical problem and advised anyone who submitted online votes on or before July 12 to cast another ballot. [Speaking as someone who did vote online, I had no idea this had happened OoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoO until after the extended deadline has passed. It sounds like my The North Alabama Science Fiction Association meets on vote may have been lost and I am not pleased! -ED] the third Saturday of each month. (Unless there is a large MYTHOPOEIC AWARDS ANNOUNCED nearby convention being held that weekend Ñ in which case The 2001 Mythopoeic Awards were announced at a ban- 2 New Planet,Ó produced by The One Act Players Ogle Gold Award .................The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Passing of a Legend adapted and directed by David Ossman, produced by Other- world Media for the ChildrenÕs Museum of Los Angeles Science fiction legend Poul Anderson died at his Ogle Silver Award ...................The Soul Patrol, Episode 6: home in Orinda CA near midnight, Tuesday 31 July ÒBridge of Indecision,Ó produced by David Koenigsberg 2001. He had come home that day to receive hospice Additional links and past winners are available on the care after kidney failure brought on by prostate cancer. awardsÕ website <http://www.greatnorthernaudio.com/ Report are that his last day was spent with family and MarkTime/MTwinners.html>. friends. A memorial gathering and wake were planned CANADIAN AWARD NEWS for Saturday 4 August. Mr. Anderson was 74 at the time The shortlist for the first annual Sunburst Award, for best of his death and is survived by his wife and writing novel-length Canadian literature of the fantastic, has been partner Karen, his daughter Astrid, brother John, grand- released. Jurors for the award are John Clute, Candas Jane children Erik and Alexandra, nieces Janet and Cathy, Dorsey, Phyllis Gotlieb, Monica Hughes, and Leon Rooke. and son-in-law Greg Bear. The award, which consists of a cash prize of $1000 and a In his career Anderson won almost every award bronze medallion of the ÒSunburst,Ó crafted by Linda Carson imaginable Ñ including three Nebula Awards, seven (from a design by Marcel GagnŽ), is tentatively scheduled to be Hugo Awards, SFWAÕs Grandmaster Award, induc- presented on 28 September 2001 at the Winnipeg International tion into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, Writers Festival.
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