Four Cubed The Newsletter of EightSquaredCon, the 2013 Eastercon Issue 4: Sun am Email: [email protected] Twitter: #Eastercon or 8SqCon

Site Non-Selection Healthy Exercise Time Stealers There were no bids for the 2015 Tai Chi is not all about gentle Satellite 4 would like to guarantee that Eastercon, so both 2015 and 2016 will movement and breathing. It forms the we will not steal an hour of your life. be voted on at next year’s Eastercon, basis of a martial art, used by Jane We can’t give you back the one you Satellite 4, in Glasgow. Assuming that Yellowrock in a series of novels by lost, but we won’t be taking any more. anyone volunteers. Please come to the Faith Hunter, the latest of which, Dyllanne programme item about the future of Blood Trade is released by Roc on 2 Art Show Admin Eastercon at 1pm on Monday in the April. In addition to the normal Could A Payton, membership number Boardroom. breathing exercises in the Tai Chi 0177, go back to the art show and get Adult Art Prizes session on Monday at 9am in Rowan, a bidder number please. Fiona Anderson will be demonstrating 1.Fangorn: The Angel Jordan some of Jane’s vampire-busting Teenage Gamers on Speed 2.Jackie Burns: Astronaut In A Pool Of moves. Ever wanted to help run a space Light station? Badly? Ever wanted to do so 3.SMS: Dog: Track Things (If I had a Todayʼs Programme Plugs from almost any Windows machine? dog… we could track things) At 2pm in Main, Edward James will Then Space Station 13 may be for you! Kidsʼ Art Prizes be interviewed by Kari Sperring. At Featuring a large variety of hilarious 1.Nathaniel Smithers: Pipe Cleaner 3:30pm in Main, Walter Jon Williams screwups and messups, in which Zombie Defender (Best 3D) will be interviewed by Roz Kaveney. players will be antagonists, traitors, 2.Cuil: Caltorp (Best Comic) The BSFA Awards will be announced aliens, cultists or central command. 3.Amrit Singh: Phoenix And Dragon at 7pm in Main, followed by an Think of it as similar to the Paranoia (Best Line Work) and Matthew update from the Loncon 3 committee. RPG, but a video game in space! Smithers: Chicken In Barn (Best Check out Baystation 12 on the Scene) The Fan Fund Auction will be at 9pm BYOND platform. You can visit a Honorable mentions: in Hawthorn; please come along and buy a superannuated newsletter Facebook group to find out more by • Libby Cooper: Easter Chick (Best Use editor. heading to http://on.fb.me/16oju3B. of Colour) There are also more instructions • Evelyn Fisher/Biggins: Pretty cDave’s Fast Talk on Monday will be available at http://bit.ly/16ojHUr. Flowers (Most Decorative) ‘Comics Are Still For Children!’ Alternatively, email me at • Jonathan Smithers: Falp (Best More Cons! [email protected]. Reproduction Remember that Jo Walton is the GoH James Walker • Katheryn Meenan: 8 Squared (Best at Novacon 43, in the Park Inn Hotel Better Than Euros Design) 4Nottingham from 8 to 10 November The Dealers’ Room would like you to Have You Seen This Panda? 2013. know that Groats are acceptable A 6” tall panda has escaped into the The Bad Death Awards currency for all debts, public and wilds of the con: if you find it, please The winner of the Bad Death award, private. feed it bamboo and take it back to Ops. by general acclaim of the audience, was Lazarus Reactor Fission Sequence by Tom Francis from the This Is How You Die anthology (note: not the Machine Of Death as announced in the item—this is the sequel), in which Victoria the tapir is dropped onto a prisoner from a height of 30 meters with hilarious consequences. No, Sue, the dealers are accepting groats... Hugo Nominations •Locke & Key Volume 5: Clockworks written Best Semiprozine A total of 1,343 valid nomination forms by Joe Hill, illustrated by Gabriel •Apex Magazine edited by Lynne M. (1,329 online and 14 paper) were received, Rodriguez Thomas, Jason Sizemore and Michael with 468 originating from Chicon 7, 716 •Saga, Volume One written by Brian K. Damian Thomas from LoneStarCon 3 and 159 from Vaughn, illustrated by Fiona Staples •Beneath Ceaseless Skies edited by Scott H. Loncon 3. •Schlock Mercenary: Random Access Andrews Memorabilia by Howard Tayler, colors by •Clarkesworld edited by Neil Clarke, Jason Best Novel Travis Walton Heller, Sean Wallace and Kate Baker •2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson •Saucer Country, Volume 1: Run written by •Lightspeed edited by John Joseph Adams •Blackout by Mira Grant Paul Cornell, illustrated by Ryan Kelly, and Stefan Rudnicki •Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance by Lois Jimmy Broxton and Goran Sudžuka •Strange Horizons edited by Niall McMaster Bujold Best Dramatic Presentation Harrison, Jed Hartman, Brit Mandelo, An •Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas by (Long Form) Owomoyela, Julia Rios, Abigail John Scalzi •The Avengers Screenplay & Directed by Nussbaum, Sonya Taaffe, Dave •Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Joss Whedon Nagdeman and Rebecca Cross Ahmed •The Cabin in the Woods Screenplay by Best Fanzine Best Novella Drew Goddard & Joss Whedon; Directed •Banana Wings edited by Claire Brialey •After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the by Drew Goddard and Mark Plummer Fall by Nancy Kress •The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey •The Drink Tank edited by Chris Garcia •The Emperor’s Soul by Brandon Screenplay by Fran Walsh, Philippa and James Bacon Sanderson Boyens, Peter Jackson and Guillermo del •Elitist Book Reviews edited by Steven •On a Red Station, Drifting by Aliette de Toro, Directed by Peter Jackson Diamond Bodard •The Hunger Games Screenplay by Gary •Journey Planet edited by James Bacon, •San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the Ross & Suzanne Collins, Directed by Gary Chris Garcia, Emma J. King, Helen J. California Browncoats by Mira Grant Ross Montgomery and Pete Young •“The Stars Do Not Lie” by Jay Lake •Looper Screenplay and Directed by Rian •SF Signal edited by John DeNardo, JP Best Novelette Johnson Frantz, and Patrick Hester •“The Boy Who Cast No Shadow” by Best Dramatic Presentation Best Fancast Thomas Olde Heuvelt (Short Form) •The Coode Street Podcast, Jonathan •“Fade To White” by Catherynne M. •Doctor Who:”The Angels Take Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe Valente Manhattan” Written by Steven Moffat, •Galactic Suburbia Podcast, Alisa •“The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Directed by Nick Hurran Krasnostein, Alexandra Pierce, Tansy Sushi” by Pat Cadigan •Doctor Who:”Asylum of the Daleks” Rayner Roberts (Presenters) and Andrew •“In Sea-Salt Tears” by Seanan McGuire Written by Steven Moffat; Directed by Finch (Producer) •“Rat-Catcher” by Seanan McGuire Nick Hurran •SF Signal Podcast, Patrick Hester, John Best Short Story •Doctor Who:”The Snowmen” Written by DeNardo, and JP Frantz •“Immersion” by Aliette de Bodard Steven Moffat, Directed by Saul Metzstein •SF Squeecast, Elizabeth Bear, Paul •“Mantis Wives” by Kij Johnson •Fringe:”Letters of Transit” Written by J.J. Cornell, Seanan McGuire, Lynne M. •“Mono no Aware” by Ken Liu Abrams, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Thomas, Catherynne M. Valente Note: category has 3 nominees due to a Akiva Goldsman, J.H.Wyman, Jeff (Presenters) and David McHone-Chase 5% requirement under Section 3.8.5 of the Pinkner. Directed by Joe Chappelle (Technical Producer) WSFS constitution. •Game of Thrones:”Blackwater” Written by •StarShipSofa, Tony C. Smith George R.R. Martin, Directed by Neil Best Related Work Best Fan Writer Marshall. Created by David Benioff and •The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy •James Bacon D.B. Weiss Literature Edited by Edward James & •Christopher J Garcia Farah Mendlesohn Best Editor (Short Form) •Mark Oshiro •Chicks Dig Comics: A Celebration of Comic •John Joseph Adams •Tansy Rayner Roberts Books by the Women Who Love Them Edited •Neil Clarke •Steven H Silver by Lynne M. Thomas & Sigrid Ellis •Stanley Schmidt Best Fan Artist •Chicks Unravel Time: Women Journey •Jonathan Strahan •Galen Dara Through Every Season of Doctor Who Edited •Sheila Williams •Brad W. Foster by Deborah Stanish & L.M. Myles Best Editor (Long Form) •Spring Schoenhuth •I Have an Idea for a Book… The4 •Lou Anders •Maurine Starkey Bibliography of Martin H. Greenberg •Sheila Gilbert •Steve Stiles Compiled by Martin H. Greenberg, edited •Liz Gorinsky John W. Campbell Award (NaH) by John Helfers •Patrick Nielsen Hayden Award for the best new professional •Writing Excuses Season Seven by Brandon •Toni Weisskopf science fiction or fantasy writer of 2011 or Sanderson, Dan Wells, Mary Robinette Best Professional Artist 2012, sponsored by Dell Magazines. Kowal, Howard Tayler and Jordan •Vincent Chong •Zen Cho * Sanderson •Julie Dillon •Max Gladstone Best Graphic Story •Dan Dos Santos •Mur Lafferty * •Grandville Bête Noire written and •Chris McGrath •Stina Leicht * illustrated by Bryan Talbot •John Picacio •Chuck Wendig * * Finalists in their 2nd year of eligibility.

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