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SFC Update Vol. 1 No. 11 SoUTheRN FANDOM CONFEDeRATiON UPDATE VoLUMe 1, ISsUE 11 NoVeMBEr 2009 2 Musings of a Faned The reviews continue! We’ve got two from me, and one each from Chris Garcia and Glug. The font for last issue’s cover got such positive comments, I’ve decided to keep it around for a while. Also, Brad Foster sent us more art, so I went ahead and used one of his pieces on this cover, because it was too much fun to sit on. I was pleased to see that last issue got some letters of comment from folks who don’t usually send them in. Also, the TAFF race has officially begun, so those of you who are getting this by email will also be receiving a copy of that ballot. I made it up to Capclave last month, and I’ll hit Philcon this month. I consider Philcon to be a pilgrimage – it was the first SF con (at least, they called their gathering a convention before anyone else met and did so). If I had to cut my congoing back severely, I think I’d still try to make StellarCon (my first), Philcon (the first), DeepSouthCon (come hell or high water), LibertyCon (my favorite), and Worldcon (whenever possible). Which cons do y’all hit every year? Table of Contents: Calendar of Events Warren Buff 3 Review: The Revolution Business , by Charles Stross Warren Buff 5 Review: Shambling Towards Hiroshima , by James Warren Buff 6 Morrow Review: Soulless , by Gail Carriger Christopher J. Garcia 7 Review: Fables: The Dark Ages , by Bill 9 Willingham, Mark Buckingham, Peter Gross, Christopher Hensley Andrew Pepoy, Michael Allred, and David Hahn Rebel Yells: News and Notes from all over Y’all 10 A Visit to the Nashville Comic and Horror Fest Dr. Jeff Thompson 15 Colophon: Editor & SFC President: Warren Buff [email protected] (919) 633-4993 2412 F Still Forest Pl. Raleigh, NC 27607 USA All contents copyright their creators. This zine is free, either by direct email or www.efanzines.com . A letter of comment or other contribution will get you on my mailing list, as long as I remember to put you there. If I forget, bother me a second time, or however long it takes to add you. I haven’t been printing this one, which leaves me free to use as many pages as I wish, and do things like color. It also lets me use all the contributions I can muster, so fire away! 3 Calendar of Events: November 6-8: Nekocon 12 (Hampton, VA – Hampton Roads Convention Center. Greg Ayres, Tony Oliver, Newton Ewell, Colleen Clnikenbeard, Kyle Herbert, Ellyn Stern, Richard Epcar, Caitlin Glass, Fred Perry.) MACE (High Point, NC – Best Western High Point. Gaming convention. This is one of the cons I cut my teeth on, and I’ve always enjoyed going when I can. I believe a day trip is in the cards this year.) Weekend in the Realms (Atlanta, GA) MilleniumCon 12 (Round Rock, TX – Wingate Inn and Conference Center. Historical miniatures wargaming.) November 12-15: Euro Quest VII (Timonium, MD – Holiday Inn. Boardgaming, blending tournaments and open gaming. Tournaments in Agricola, Power Grid, Princes of Florence, Puerto Rico, Ra, Race for the Galaxy, St. Petersburg, Settlers of Catan, Ticket to Ride Combo, Thurn und Taxis, and the Hot New Game for 2009: Dominion.) November 13-15: Game Con (North Little Rock, AR – Wyndham Hotel and Resort. Reuben Langdon, Johnny Yong Bosch, Peter Mayhew, JG Jones. More than the name alone would indicate, this gaming convention seems to have expanded into anime, film, and comics. I’m not sure what to expect, but their prices are in line with other cons, so they may well be worth a try. Plus it’s a con in Arkansas – how often do you see one of those?) November 14: OutLantaCon (Atlanta, GA – Holiday Inn Atlanta NE. Looks like a one-day event for GLBT fans, run by the same folks who put on a full weekend event back in May. Mostly a game day, with some special events. Look for another full weekend con next Spring.) November 20-22: Anime USA (Arlington, VA – Hyatt Regency Crystal City. Steven Blum, Michael Tremain Sinterniklaas, Leah Clark, J. Michael Tatum, Troy Baker, and a host of musicians, artists, cosplayers, and webcomics creators. All of the usual anime convention fun, supplemented by something of a steampunk vibe, if the website’s any indication.) ZonaCon (Orlando, FL – Holiday Inn International. Eric Vale, Sybil Danning, Terrance Zdunich, Jim O’Rear, Kynt and Vyxsin, Jason Craig, Robert Axelrod, Eric Vale, Anjanette Clewis, Kelly Jo Minter. This is a combination Anime/Horror con, and looks to have a full schedule for both halves of its audience.) November 27-29: Darkover Grand Council XXXII (Timonium, MD – Crowne Plaza Baltimore. Emma Bull, Will Shetterly, Katherine Kurtz, Clam Chowder. Fairly traditional SF 4 con, though they have a Regency ball and steampunk programming, too. The program does not appear to be dependent on Marion Zimmer Bradley’s work, so don’t feel discouraged if you’re not well-versed in it. Looks like a fun place to escape from the turkey and football contingent.) November 28-December 8: Pirates in Paradise Festival (Key West, FL. Nine days of pirate-themed events, some free, some with a price-tag.) December 4-6: CatchupCon (Atlanta, GA) Kajonk-A-Con (Knoxville, TN) Smofcon 27 (Austin, TX) December 5-10: Furry Cruise (Miami, FL) December 11-13: WeddingCon (Atlanta, GA) December 18-20: Anime South (Destin, FL) January 1-4, 2010: MAGFest (Alexandria, VA) January 8-9: ShadowCon XIV (Memphis, TN) January 8-10: GaFilk 12 (Atlanta, GA) January 15-17: MarsCon (Williamsburg, VA) January 22-24: ChattaCon 35 (Chattanooga, TN) Siege of Augusta (Augusta, GA) January 28-31: WAM VIII (Baltimore, MD) January 29-31: Creation Twi/Tour (Nashville, TN) June 4-6, 2010: ConCarolinas/DeepSouthCon 48 (Charlotte, NC) August 5-8, 2010: ReConStruction/NASFiC 10 (Raleigh, NC) 5 September 2-6, 2010: AussieCon 4 (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) September 3-6, 2010: Dragon*Con (Atlanta, GA) Reviews: The Revolution Business by Charles Stross (Tor, April 2009) Warren Buff Stross has delivered a novel which demonstrates both the virtues and flaws of the sequence novel. His characters already feel like distinct individuals, and interact with each other without having to provide a full background for everything they do, and when they do reference the events of previous books, it comes off with more of the helpfulness of the old Marvel Comics bullet footnotes than the tedium of an infodump. It is not prohibitively hard to pick up this novel and understand the events without having read any others in the series. Stross’s pacing and dialog are superb, and keep the story flowing smoothly. Unfortunately, it is still a novel in a sequence, and must accomplish quite a bit to serve the overarching plot of the sequence. Stross is maintaining adventures on three worlds, and adds a fourth in this outing, and while he manages to switch between worlds and plot-lines without creating any confusion, the need to follow the events of each becomes tedious, and the presence of several threads within each chapter only enhances the tedium. Recall that Tolkien wrote complete chapters that focused on a single set of events, then he shifted back in time to give another set rather than running the entire story in parallel. While Stross’s parallel storytelling keeps his story flowing quickly, it also reduces the tension, making the whole novel easily digestible but lacking in excitement. The final ill consequence of Stross writing this story as a novel within a sequence is the abruptness of its conclusion – the novel ends on a rather consequential event, but provides absolutely no dénouement. Thankfully, the novel is buoyed by its central character, Miriam. She provides an outsider’s perspective on the strangeness of Stross’s alternate universes, although she is by this point not so uninformed as to require infodumps, while not so much a part of the Clan as to seem quite like an echo of Zelazny’s Corwin (nor does she have his memories to unlock). Stross is a skillful enough writer that he can handle an outsider believably while keeping her a true outsider. Miriam also manages to advocate for the reader by bringing her real- world attitudes into a strange mixture of organized crime and nobility, and challenging the assumptions she finds there. Her opposition to the world she finds drives one of the titular revolution plots, as the proponents of modernization within the Clan seek to use her as a focal point for their efforts. The other revolution is on a different parallel world, and while the modernization within the Clan is a revolution by businesspeople, this other sees revolutionaries learning to conduct business as various liberal forces rise up against a North American monarchy during an abdication crisis. 6 This plays interestingly off of the events of Miriam’s story, in which the revolutionary element is focused around a succession crisis. The connection to our world, meanwhile, involves several government agencies, and the clandestine reaction to the discovery that the Clan has stolen small, dirty nuclear weapons from the Army. Overall, the story is fairly strong, and only suffers from its position as a middle volume in an ongoing saga. Stross’s writing is admirably engaging, keeping the right tone to treat the readers like intelligent science fiction readers without going over their heads. And given how interesting a character Miriam is, it’s probably worth starting from earlier in the series to see how she develops.
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