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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. 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  • W a S T E L a N D S

    W a S T E L a N D S

    NIGHT SHADE BOOKS 1423 33rd Avenue | San Francisco, CA 94122 | Phone: 415-759-8901 | Fax: 603-590-2754 _____________________________________________________________________________________ CONTACT: James Foster, [email protected] What will life be like after the end of the world as we know it? W A S T E L A N D S S T O R I E S O F T H E A P O C A L Y P S E SCHEDULED FOR A JANUARY 1, 2008 RELEASE Famine. Death. War. Pestilence. These are said to be the harbingers of the biblical apocalypse— Armageddon, The End of The World. In science fiction, the end of the world is usually triggered by more specific means: nuclear warfare, biological disaster (or warfare), ecological/geological disaster, or cosmological disaster. But in the wake of any great cataclysm, there are survivors—and post-apocalyptic science fiction speculates what life would be like for them. WASTELANDS (Night Shade Books trade paperback; January 1, 2008; $15.95) gathers 22 of the finest works of post-apocalyptic fiction ever written, including fiction from the likes of Stephen King, George R. R. Martin, Jonathan Lethem, Orson Scott Card, Gene Wolfe, Octavia E. Butler, and many others. Post-apocalyptic SF first rose to prominence in the aftermath World War II—no doubt due in large part to the world having witnessed the devastating destructive power of the atomic bomb—and reached the height of its popularity during Cold War, when the threat of worldwide nuclear annihilation seemed a very real possibility. So why the resurgence in popularity now? Is it because the political climate now is reminiscent of the climate during the Cold War? During times of war and global unease, is it that much easier to imagine a depopulated world, a world destroyed by humanity's own hand? In WASTELANDS , you will find 22 different science fictional apocalyptic scenarios.