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Volume 28 Number 4 Issue 334 September 2015 A WORD FROM THE EDITOR Mount Dora, FL 32757 Guests: 501st Florida Garrison (Star Wars, cosplay As always August is very busy. I did three group) presentations at Anime Festival Orlando (AFO) 16. I learned a Ronald Mann (comic artist) lot and have some ideas for next year’s panels. Right after AFO and many more was Sasquan, 73rd Worldcon, in Spokane WA. Despite the $5 at the door problems with the wild fires on Friday, I wish I could have www.lakecollectacon.com/ stayed there long. There was a great bicycle store that rented bikes and some very nice trails. I wish I could have ridden more. Huricon The con was great and I need to start working on my report. September 24-27 This month I will be at SF in SE in Maitland. International Palms Resort and Convention Center 6515 International Drive As always I am willing to take submissions. Orlando, FL 32819 $15 pre-reg for members and 25 for non-members See you next month. Gaming www.hmgs-south.com/ Events Klingon Feast Ultracon Presents Comic Book & Cosplay Mania September 25-27 September 12 LaPlaya Resort 2500 North Atlantic Ave Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County Daytona Beach, FL 32118 1300 Biscayne Blvd. $45 before Sep 1, $55 after Sep 1 Miami, FL 33132 www.klingonfeast.com Free Admission SF :SE hultraconofsouthflorida.com/comic-book-cosplay-mania September 25-27 Sheraton Orlando North Lake Collect-A-Con 600 North Lake Destiny Drive September 19 Maitland, Florida 32751 4425 N Highway 19A Guests: Catherynne M. Valente Jacqueline Carey Peter Brett Birthdays Orson Scott Card Kelly Armstrong Susan Cole - Sept. 3 $5 at the door per day sfse2015.com (Continued on page 2) OASFiS Event Horizon Vol 28 Issue 334, September 2015. Published Monthly by the Orlando Area Science Fiction Society (OASFiS). All rights reserved by original Authors and Artists. Editor: Juan Sanmiguel, 1421 Pon Pon Court, Orlando, FL 32825. 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Page two September 2015 September OASFiS Calendar OASFiS People Steve Cole 407-275-5211 OASFiS Business Meeting [email protected] Sunday, September 13, 1:30 PM, , Gods and Monsters Susan Cole 407-275-5211 (Artegon Marketplace 5250 International Drive; Suite E8, [email protected] Orlando, Florida 32819). Come and join in the discussion Arthur Dykeman 407-328-9565 on Lock In by John Scalzi [email protected] Steve Grant 352 241 0670 SciFi Light [email protected] TBA. Check website and Facebook page. Mike Pilletere [email protected] David Ratti 407-282-2468 [email protected] To contact for more info: Juan Sanmiguel 407-823-8715 OASFiS Business Meeting 407-823-8715 [email protected] Patricia Wheeler [email protected] Palm Con September 27-28 Any of these people can give readers information about the Palm Beach County Convention Center club and its functions. To be included in the list call Juan. 650 Okeechobee Boulevard West Palm Beach, FL 33401 Guest: Matthew Wood (voice actor) Juan discussed the hotel situation. He will send an email message Jose Delbo (comic artist) asking questions to UCF Doubletree Hilton about function space Chris Harrelson (zombie, The Walking Dead) costs and ADA reference. Jay Fotos (comic artist) Vinnie Tartamella (comic artist) Juan sent the flyer for SF:SE event in September. He will $20 pre-reg for the weekend and $25 at the door looking into the table at the event. www.palmcon.net Non-Profit paperwork is done. Peggy will be filing it after going over with her church advisor. August 9, 2015 Juan discussed the requirements for Deep South Con. Officers: Peggy Stubblefield, Kim Darin, Juan Sanmiguel Book for next month Locked In Members: Arthur Dykeman, David Plesic, Tom Reed, Patricia Patricia discussed the pros and cons of using Gods and Monsters Wheeler store as a meeting place. Guest: Ken Konkol We will have the next meeting at Gods and Monsters. Meeting started at 1:30PM Book Discussion: The Martian by Andy Weir. Peggy described the plot. An Peggy asked what culture we have so consumed (borrowing a astronaut, Mark Watley, is left for dead on Mars. He survives term from the Galactic Suburbia podcast) and tries to figure out to stay alive on Mars without support from Earth. Peggy explained what Watley does to survive. Peggy was not impressed with Minions. Arthur recommended Ant-Man. Patricia explained how Wier published the book was first as a series of blog entries by Weir. Juan explained Hugo David recommended the Silent Hill graphic novel. Re-watched Administrators disqualified the boom for the award since it was both the Night Stalker and Twin Peaks. Watching a lot of horror published online several years before the novel came out. on Netflix. Juan unfortunately informed that Night Stalker Patricia, Kim, Dave, and Peggy discussed the science in the book creator Jeff Rice recently died/ and how it affected the plot. Peggy talked about the other characters at NASA. Tom described AMC’s Humans. He gave it a mixed review. He Meeting adjourned at 3:30PM liked Daredevil. He also thinks that Supergirl will be a promising new show on CBS. DC is continuing its impressive work on television, but one wonders why their movie projects are not as successful. Tom was creeped out by the Suicide Squad trailer. Page three September 2015 Anime Festival Orlando 16 Top: (Left to right) Daryl Surat, Gerald Rathkolb, Clarissa Graffeo, the Anime World Order podcast presenting Anime Greatest Anime Openings Bottom: Adam Beaton presents Best Romance Anime. Page four September 2014 Anime Festival Orlando 16 Haikyuu!! (volleyball), Eyeshield 21 (American football) and the recent hit Yowapeda (cycling). Daryl Surat looked back at the year 1985 in anime. The Anime Festival Orlando (AFO) 16 took place on August anime studios were willing to take risks during the string 14-16, 2015, at the Wyndham Orlando Resort International economy. In contrast, most US animated shows at the time were Drive. The Guests of Honor were Dante Basco, Todd Haberkon, weak with either talking animals or sanitized violence. The clip Eric Stuart, Hilary Shepard, Christopher Khayman, and Ruben from Urusei Yatsura Movie 3: Remember My Love showed a Langdon. complicated flying sequence with multiple reflections in I did a survey of Fantasy Anime from 1960s to the windows. Very challenging with hand drawn animation. Area 88, present day. My criteria was any show or film that was fantastic, a show about a mercenary air force fighting a war in the Middle but did not have tradition Science Fiction aspects like space East, showed a very detail aerial combat sequence with modern travel, cyberpunk, time travel, and mecha. I started with Sally fighters. The first Vampire Hunter D movie came out that year the Witch, show from the late 60s about a young girl from a and now is available on Blu-Ray. The movie depicts a future magical kingdom, and decides to live on Earth. I discussed 26 apocalyptic world where a mysterious figure fights against television series and several films. I dedicated one slide to vampires. The most surreal piece was Penguin Memories: A Studio Ghibli whose output has mainly been fantasy with Kiki’s Tale of Happiness. There was a beer commercial with talking Delivery Service, Princess Mononoke, The Cat Returns, Howl’s penguins. The film explained where the penguins came from. It Moving Castle, Ponyo, and Arriety. Some of the shows I depicted a Vietnam War film with all the characters as penguins. mentioned were Princess Knight, Dragon Ball, Ramna ½, Surat showed a clip were American penguins are trying to get out Sailor Moon, One Piece, Inuyasha, Bleach, Naruto, Jojo’s of a firefight with help from a helicopter and they do not all Bizarre Adventure, Beserk, and Full Metal Alchemist. I tried make it out. One can find a full list of the clips shown by Surat to push The Eccentric Family, an underappreciated show about a at this link: www.awopodcast.com/2015/08/list-of-titles-shown- family of shape-shifters in modern day Japan. at-anime-festival-orlando-2015.html. Adam Beaton did two panels: Best Romance Anime and Kent Ward and Shane Morawski of the Propeller Best Josei anime. Josei is a genre that focuses on older girls. Anime, a local fan group and podcast, examined the career of Beaton’s definition of romance anime was “a story that focuses director Mamoru Hosoda. They seem him as a successor to on the affectionate involvement of the main characters and the Hayao Miyazaki, the Oscar winning director and co-founder of journey that their love takes them through dating, courtship, Studio Ghibli. They covered his work on Digimon and other obstacles, and/or marriage.” Beaton thought the best how was shows before his first feature film The Girl Who Leapt Through Clannad After Story.