Volume 25 Number 9 Issue 303 February 2013

A WORD FROM THE EDITOR OASIS Meeting Date: 13 Jan 2013 Wow it was a busy January with Swampcon and Time Officers: Patricia Wheeler, Juan Sanmiguel, Peggy Stubblefield Lord Fest. Both were great events. Thanks to the Swampcon Members: Dave Plesic, Judy and Rob, Arthur Dykeman, Kim staff for giving me a table. Thanks to Arthur Dykeman and Darin, Dave Lussier, Ed Anthony, Patty Russell Julia Langston for their help at Time Lord Fest. Guests: If you have not renewed your membership and wish to do so, please contact Micahel Pilletere or myself. Checkout the Locus website for their recommended Old Business: Elections – Current officers Mike Pilletere reading list. It is a good guide if you are an award voter or just (Treasurer, at work), Steve Grant(Vice President at work) Patricia looking for something new to read. (President), Peggy (Secretary) Next month I hope to do some reviews and hopefully the Nebula final ballot should be out. Pay your dues

On of New Business: Juan visited SwampCon. at UF On January 18, 2012, the last episode of Fringe was Peggy mentioned LosCon broadcast on Fox Network. Fringe was on for about four years Location of meeting: Brick and Fire. Other venues were (five television seasons), consisting of 100 episodes. It discussed. Libraries, churches, hospitals, and malls were followed FBI Agent Oliva Dunham (), Dr. Walter suggested. Please bring any suggestions to club. Bishop () and his son Bishop () as they investigated crimes involving fringe science. Fringe Spring Picnic- The dates suggested were Mar 24 or Apr 7. We was the spiritual successor of The X-Files, since both shows will take Pavilion One away from the water. (Continued on page 4) ICFA—International Conv of Fantastic in the Arts. will be on the Award News 4th week of March. Neil Gaiman and Kij Johnson will be the SFWA Grandmaster announced writer guest of honor. (source SFW A website) Media Discussion: The Hobbit film of Jackson, 2012— many Gene Wolfe was named the 2012 Damon Knight Memorial thought it was too long. Grand Master Award. Wolfe is the writer of the Book of the New Sun series. The award will be presented at the 48th Plays— Ed Anthony discussed the current Players Round Table Nebula Weekend on May 16-19th, 2013, in San Jose at the San (PRT) production. There was a play called 93 Days about the end Jose Hilton. of the world. The play was written by former OASIS member David Strauss. There was also a play set in a fantasy world and (Continued on page 2) another about a couple that meet at a furry con.

Birthdays Special: Con 2013 Hotel Walk through end of Jan/early Feb GOH: Seanan Maguire. Juan will send a link to a podcast Pat Sims February 9 (Continued on page 3)

OASFiS Event Horizon Vol 25 Issue 303, February 2013. Published Monthly by the Orlando Area Society (OASFiS). All rights reserved by original Authors and Artists. Editor: Juan Sanmiguel, 1421 Pon Pon Court, Orlando, FL 32825. Subscriptions are $12.00 per year and entitle the subscriber to membership in the Society. Attending Memberships are $25.00 per year. Extra memberships to family members are $6.00 per year when only one newsletter is sent to the household. To subscribe or join OASFiS, send a check or money order to: OASFiS, PO Box 592905, Orlando, FL 32859-2905. To submit Articles, Artwork or Letters of Comment to the Event Horizon, send them to the Editor's address above or [email protected]. For additional information, call our Voice Mail at (407) 823-8715. OASFiS is a state chartered not for profit corporation whose goal is the promotion of Science Fiction in all its forms. All opinions expressed herein are solely those of the Author(s) and in no way represent the opinions of the Society or its members as a whole.

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February OASFiS Calendar OASFiS People

OASFiS Business Meeting Sunday, February 10, 1:30 PM, Brick and Fire Steve Cole 407-275-5211 (Downtown Orlando, 1621 South Orange Avenue, Orlando, [email protected] FL 32806,407-426-8922). Come join us as we discuss Susan Cole 407-275-5211 Ready Player One by Ernest Cline [email protected] Arthur Dykeman 407-328-9565 Sci Fi Light [email protected] Saturday February 16, 6:00 PM, Raga (W. Sand Steve Grant 352 241 0670 Lake Road Orlando, FL 32819) . We will be the works of [email protected] John Scalzi. For more info contact Steve Grant Mike Pilletere [email protected] David Ratti 407-282-2468 To contact for more info: [email protected] OASFiS Business Meeting 407-823-8715 Juan Sanmiguel 407-823-8715 [email protected] Patricia Wheeler 407-832-1428 [email protected]

(Continued from page 1) Any of these people can give readers information about the Philip K. Dick Award club and its functions. To be included in the list call Juan. (source Locus website)

The 2012 Philip K. Dick Award nominees have been announced:  “Song of the Body Cartographer”, Rochita Loenen-Ruiz (Phillipines Genre Stories)  Blueprints of the Afterlife, Ryan Boudinot (Black Cat)  “Limited Edition”, Tim Maughan (Arc Magazine 1.3)  Harmony, Keith Brooke (Solaris)  “Three Moments of an Explosion”, China Miéville  Helix Wars, Eric Brown (Solaris) (Rejectamentalist Manifesto)  The Not Yet, Moira Crone (UNO)  Fountain of Age, Nancy Kress (Small Beer)  Adrift on the Sea of Rains, Ian Sales (Whippleshield)  Lovestar, Andri Snær Magnason (Seven Stories)  Lost Everything, Brian Francis Slattery (Tor)  Best Non-Fiction The awards are presented annually to a distinguished work of  “The Complexity of the Humble Space Suit”, Karen science fiction published in paperback original form in the Burnham (Rocket Science) United States.  “The Widening Gyre”, Paul Kincaid (Los Angeles Review of Books) The winner and any special citations will be announced March  The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature, Edward 29, 2013 at Norwescon 36 in SeaTac WA.. James & Farah Mendlesohn (Cambridge University Press)  The Shortlist Project, Maureen Kincaid Speller For more, see www.philipkdickaward.org  The World SF Blog, Lavie Tidhar (chief editor)

Best Art British Science Fiction Award (source Locus website)  Ben Baldwin for cover of Dark Currents (Newcon)  Blacksheep for cover of Adam Roberts’s Jack Best Novel Glass (Gollancz)  Dominic Harman for cover of Eric Brown’s Helix  Dark Eden, Chris Beckett (Corvus) Wars (Rebellion)  Empty Space: a Haunting, M. John Harrison (Gollancz)  Joey Hifi for cover of Simon Morden’s Thy Kingdom  Intrusion, Ken Macleod (Orbit) Come (Jurassic London)  Si Scott for cover artwork of Chris Beckett’s Dark  Jack Glass, Adam Roberts (Gollancz) Eden (Corvus)  2312, Kim Stanley-Robinson (Orbit) The awards will be voted on by members of BSFA and the Best Short Fiction British Annual Science Fiction Convention (Eastercon). Winners  “Immersion”, Aliette de Bodard (Clarkesworld #69) will be announced during the 2013 Eastercon, March 29 – April 1, 2013 at the Cedar Court Hotel, Bradford.  The Flight of the Ravens, Chris Butler (Immersion) (Continued on page 3) Page three February 2013

(Continued from page 1) which McGuire appeared on. (source Wikipedia entry) Juan discussed the idea of a soliciting a guest artist. It Speculative Fiction nominees was suggested to table that until the hotel walk through.

Ads: at various cons, a Time Lord fest in Tampa next Sat, UCF anime con Knightro-con the week after us. Email Best Animated Feature blasts. Thank yous. Brave – Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman Gaming: pending Frankenweenie – Tim Burton Finding helpers to work the con. ParaNorman – Sam Fell and Chris Butler The Pirates! Band of Misfits – Peter Lord Suggestion to move con from Memorial Weekend for OASIS 27 Wreck-It Ralph – Rich Moore was discussed. A lot of people like that weekend. There is a lot going on in the Memorial Day weekend in Orlando: Fringe Best Animated Short Festival, an anime con, Mayhem (horror con) and Time Gate Adam and Dog – Minkyu Lee (Doctor Who con in Atlanta) Fresh Guacamole – PES Head over Heels – Timothy Reckart and Fodhla Cronin Juan will look into getting Deep South Con, a floating O'Reilly convention in the south, try for 2014 or 2015--pending. The Longest Daycare – David Silverman Paperman – John Kahrs Date of Con-Con: Jan 27th, Sunday Afternoon at Tu Tu Tango at 2 p.m. Best Original Score Skyfall—Thomas Newman Special: Best Novels of 2012, presented by Juan. This was from the io9 website. Best Original Song  2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson—space mystery, “Skyfall” from Skyfall hard scifi  The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Best Sound Editing Baxter—alternate earths Skyfall –Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers  Intrusion by Ken MacLeod—genetic sci  Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson—political Best Sound Mixing computer fantasy Skyfall—Scott Milan, Greg P. Russell, and Stuart Wilson  The Killing Moon & The Shadowed Sun by N.K. Jemisin—fantasy dreams vs reality Best Production Design  Wonders of the Invisible World by Patricia The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey-Dan Hennah, Ra McKillip—anthology of fantasy Vincent, Simon Bright  Mr. Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan—mystery of literature Best Cinematography Skyfall-Roger Deakins  vN by Madeline Ashby—artificial intel/android

laws Best Makeup and Hairstyling  Redshirts by John Scalzi—space mystery with The Hobbit:An Unexpected Journey– Peter Swords King, some humor Rick Findlater, Tami Lane  Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed—zombies meet Moslem government/ Best Costume Design culture Mirror Mirror –Eiko Ishioka  The Dog Stars by Peter Heller—post-apocalyptic Snow White and the Huntsman—Colleen Atwood brother saga Best Visual Effects Juan’s Choices: Existence by David Brin, Capt Vorpatril’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – Joe Letteri, Eric Alliance by Lois McMaster Bujold, Pirate Cinema by Cory Saindon, David Clayton, and R. Christopher White Doctorow, Some Kind of Fairy Tale by Graham Joyce. Marvel's The Avengers – Janek Sirrs, Jeff White, Guy Williams, and Dan Sudick Open discussion of books read by club members. Prometheus – Richard Stammers, Trevor Wood, Charley Henley, and Martin Hill For Next Month: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, apocalyptic Snow White and the Huntsman – Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, fantasy escapism game called Oasis. Interesting. Philip Brennan, Neil Corbould, and Michael Dawson

Sci-Fi Light: Suggestions Open—Not likely to happen this month. Page four February 2013 were about government agents dealing with paranormal invaded and ruled the Earth under a totalitarian problems. The main difference was that The X-Files was more dictatorship. A group of future Fringe Division focused on horror whereas Fringe had a more science fiction feel. agents try to revive the original Fringe team, who It always bothered me that John Noble never got an are suspended in amber. They are the only hope for Emmy. He played 3 aspects of the same character, Walter the future of mankind. Bishop. He played the regular eccentric Walter of our world, the It is great to see a television show wrap all their story reserved and menacing Walter Bishop from the parallel universe, arcs and not leave anything dangling in its final episode. and an earlier version Walter Bishop in a flashback episode set in Hopefully, some of the episodes from last year will appear on the 1985. Noble changed his manner and how he carried himself to Hugo ballot, and give Doctor Who a run for its money. I hope distinguish the characters. Noble really pulled it off. something will take its place soon. Until then, watch out for bald There was a lot of attention to detail on the show. When they introduced the alternate universe, there were many men wearing hats. subtle things in the background which indicated that one was in another world. Every sign, poster, news headline, and even the language were things to notice. This continued into the last season, which was set 24 years in the future. There the changes were more obvious with the look of the architecture and desolation brought on by the Observers, who were invaders from Letters the future. The opening credits changed to suit the episode. There was the regular opening sequence, another for when a story was 1706-24 Eva Rd. set in the alternate universe, one for episodes that involved both Etobicoke, ON universes, an opening for the flashback episode in 1985 where CANADA M9C 2B2 the fringe science topics that appeared included items that are January 30, 2013 commonplace today, and the last opening sequence describing the conflict with the invading Observers. Dear OASFiSians: The best episodes forwarded the story, but also invoked that classic science fiction sense of wonder. Below are some of examples. Thank you for issue 302 of the Event Horizon…Not sure how “” – In this episode Alastair Peck is much I can say with this issue, but I’ll write something, and fire it attempting to travel in time to stop the death of his off to you. fiancée unfortunately, the effects of time travel have a devastating effect on where Peck lands, so he has to be stopped. Walter Bishop tries to Hope everyone enjoyed their Christmas and New Year’s…we convince Peck of the dangers of time travel. In the sure did, and we even attended a Twelfth Night dinner party, and process, Bishop explains that he is looking for a had a great time. sign that his son will forgive him. Peck listens to Walter and goes back in time and accomplishes his goal without collateral damage, and gives Walter My letter…unfortunately, that new daytime job fizzled, and I am the sign he is looking for. on the hunt again. We did see the first Hobbit movie, and any “” – This was the season 2 finale which took return to Middle-Earth is a good one. I have read most of the books listed under 20th Century novels, both fantasy and science the main characters to the alternate universe. They st have to bring back and prevent the fiction, but when it comes to 21 Centurn novels…well, hardly alternate universe or “other side” from destroying any. I wouldn’t mind a peek at that new David Brin book, our universe. It was the first close look at the though. “other side”. There is a lot of action, and a really big twist at the end, which sets up the stories for the The spring always brings in new things to do…this coming third season. weekend, there’s the Toronto Tea Festival, followed by a gather- “Lysergic Acid Diethylamide” – Dunham is ing for lunch of fans of the CBC television show Murdoch Mys- housing Walter Bishop’s former research partner teries. Look it up…it’s not shown on US stations, as far as I William Bell’s mind, and that will soon kill her. To know, but it is a fan favorite in Canada, the UK, Australia and prevent this, Walter and Peter Bishop enter Olivia’s most of Europe. mind to find Bell, figure out how to safely remove his conscience and restore Olivia. This becomes a very trippy ride into Olivia’s mind. One portion of Not much of a letter, but we will see what happens when the next the story is completely animated. The key to issue arrives. See you then! solving the problem is Peter’s understanding of Olivia. “” – This sets up the last season. The Yours, Lloyd Penney. episode takes place in 2036 and the Observers have Page five February 2013

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