I just tele rted in Did that put at faster-than-light. you ahead or behind on your bat aE photosynthesis? oRTEDpy HARVIAoS The CactusCon Daily Newsletter -- Issue 1 -- Wednesday Sept. 2, 1987 Welcometo CactusCon,the 1987 North VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! American Science Fiction Convention! There's a If you havetimeto spare, please stop by great weekendplannedfor you-- lots of things to Remington A in the Hyatt Atrium, and volunteer. do, things to see, places to go and people to meet! Wecan always use more help. And thanks. ‘Nowthat we've used up our exclamation- Ken Lemons and Terri Birmingham point quota for this issue, we'd like to introduce ourselves. Your CactusCon daily newsletter, WATCH YOURBACK... The Cactus Clipperis edited and produced by This area of Phoenixis notoriousfor its "street Pat Mueller and Richard Brandt(and a cast of people" -- a number of whom are wandering hundreds, none of whom haveidentified around the convention areas. Watch your themselves yet). The Cactus Clipper is (ahem) belongings-- that grubby and unwashed your one-stop newssource -- where to find individual eyeing them may not be a memberof information about program changes,party our friendly fan family! listings, what happened yesterday and what's likely to happen today and tomorrow. THURSDAY PROGRAM CHANGES Ofcourse, the contentsof this daily newsletter depend upon you, the reader! If you have any Noon Censorship itemsof interest you'd like everyoneelseto see -- add Dan Murphy information about room parties, short articles or brief opinions, restaurant reviews, lost-and-found Noon Fan Clubs -- Wanted or Needed? -- by all means write them up and drop them off add Fred Patten and in the Newsletter Drop-Boxesat the Information Kathy Nerat; drop John Desksin the Hyatt (atrium level) and the Civic Trimble Plaza. Please sign and date your contribution, though, or we can't printit. Noon They Bought My Book... You'll find copies of The Cactus Clipperat drop Joan Winston various locations around the convention area -- at registration, the information desks, and anywhere 12:30 pm So They Ask Youto Be A Judge-- else you'd expectto findit! CANCELLED We'll be doing one issue on Thursday, two on Friday and Saturday, andat least one on Sunday 1:30 pm Art Saleability -- with one last issue wrapping up our convention drop Armand Cabrera coverage on Monday morning. ManyThanksto Teddy Harvia for the logo and 1:30 pm Can Good Stories Survive? art this issue! drop Fred Saberhagen Speaking of the Worldcon... 1:30 pm Marketing Media ... you can probably get the scoop on how the con drop Dave McDonald wentat the "Brighton Report" panel on Friday at 1:30 (Phoenix Room,Civic Plaza). 4:30 pm_ Horror or Reality - But here's the REAL importantstuff... drop Amy Stout The 1990 Worldcon, ConFiction, will be held August 23-27 in the Netherlands Congress 4:30 pm How Notto Sell Your Work Center, the Hague, Holland. In other words, the drop Ron Montana and Dutch won! Fred Saberhagen — Los Angeles garnered 530total votes; Holland, 810. There were 1373 total votes. 4:30 pm Upcoming Films The ConFiction guest slate is: Joe Haldeman, drop Dave McDonald Wolfgang Jeschke, and Harry Harrison, with Andrew Porter, editor of Science Fiction 4:30 pm Weapons Chronicle, as Fan Guest of Honor. add "Ozzie" Osmond and Membership rates until 1 December 1987 are Jim Webbert; drop Paula $45 attending, $25 supporting. If there's no one Crist here to take ConFiction memberships, we'll publish their addressin a later issue of The 6:30 pm Do TheyStill Print Cactus Clipper. Funny Books? Now,for the other big results -- the Science drop Sandy Cohen and Fiction Achievement Awards, known popularly GuyLillian III as ... The Hugos! Best Novel -- Speakerfor the Dead, Orson 7:00 pm Violence at Cons Scott Card. add Cary Riall, Ben Best Novella -- "Gilgamesh in the Outback", Yalow, Keith Williams Robert Silverberg. Best Novelette -- "Permafrost", Roger Zelazny. 8:30 pm NEW ITEM Best Short Story -- "Tangents", Greg Bear Reading by Dean Ing Best Nonfiction -- Trillion Year Spree, Brian Aldiss with David Wingrove. 10:00 pm Agents and Collectors Best Dramatic Presentation -- Aliens drop Fred Saberhagen Best Professional Artist -- Jim Burns _ Best Professional Editor -- Terry Carr 10:00 pm What Every New Fan Best Semiprozine -- Locus, edited by Charles Should Know N. Brown add Terry Whittier and Tom Best Fanzine -- Ansible, edited by Dave Whitmore; drop John Trimble and Langford. Jacqueline Lichtenberg Best Fan Writer -- Dave Langford Fan -- Brad Foster! CHANGE-- The Mythadventures Fan Club John W, Campbell Award -- Karen Joy Fowler Meeting has been moved to 11:00 pm on Saturday, in Phoenix A (Hyatt). WORLDCON '88 MEMBERSHIPS Yes, it's true -- they're everywhere you go! You can even buy your NolaCon II memberships here at CactusCon-- they'll havea sales table in the Civic Plaza, at the west end of the north lobby. Ask them abouttheir jazz band send-off at Brighton!.