The SHUTTLE March 2006 The Next NASFA Meeting will be 18 March 2006 at the Regular Time and Location Concom Meeting 16 March, 7:30P, at Sam SmithÕs Place { Oyez, Oyez { February Minutes (Not) The next Con Stellation concom meeting is 7:30P Due to inclement weather, the February meeting was Thursday 16 March (two days before the club meeting) at canceled. So (you guessed it) there are no minutes. Sam SmithÕs apartment. Call Sam at 883-4493 if you need directions. The next NASFA meeting will be Saturday 18 March 2006 at the regular time and location. NASFA Calendar The March program will be a short indy movie Ñ Wayfarer I from Lighthouse Art Production Ñ with a discus- MARCH sion following. 02 BD: Ronnie Lajoie. The March after-the-meeting meeting will be at Nancy 03Ð05 Starfleet Region 2 Summit Ñ Birmingham AL. Cucci and Ray PietruszkaÕs house Ñ sort of a make-up party 08 BD: Bill Payne. for the weather-related cancellation last month. (continued on page 2) Inside this issueÉ Oscar and BAFTA Roundup ..........................................2 Nebula Awards Final Ballot ...........................................3 Razzie Awards ................................................................3 No Need for a Ring Ñ Chapter 3....................................4 Awards News Roundup ..................................................3 Letter of Comment .........................................................5 Deadline for the April 2006 issue of The NASFA Shuttle is Friday, 31 March 2006. 1 09 BD: Tracey Kennedy. 26Ð28 OASFiS 19 Ñ Orlando FL. 10 BD: Kerry Gilley. 26Ð28 ConQuest 37 Ñ Kansas City MO. 13 BD: Anita Eisenberg. 29 Memorial Day. 15 BD: Carlo DeShouten. 15Ð19 International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts JUNE 27 Ñ Ft. Lauderdale FL. 01 BD: Glenn Valentine. 16 Con Stellation ConCom Meeting, 7:30P, at Sam 02Ð04 PersaCon 2006 Ñ Madison AL. SmithÕs apartment. 02Ð04 ConCarolinas 2006 Ñ Charlotte NC. 17 St. PatrickÕs Day. 02 BD: Lloyd Penney. 17 BD: JoAnn Parsons. 07Ð11 Mythic Journeys 2006 Ñ Atlanta GA. 17Ð19 FantaSciCon 2006 Ñ Chattanooga TN. 14 Flag Day. 18* NASFA Meeting Ñ 6P Business, 7P Program, at 16Ð18 Sci-Fi Summer Con 2006 Ñ Atlanta GA. BookMark. Program: Short movie. ATMM: Ray 17* NASFA Meeting Ñ 6P Business, 7P Program, at Pietruszka and Nancy CucciÕs house. BookMark. Program: TBD. ATMM: TBD. 18Ð19 MomoCon 2006 Ñ Atlanta GA. 18 FathersÕ Day. 20 First Day of Spring. 21 First Day of Summer. 22 BD: Jayson Woosley. 23Ð25 HyperiCon 2 Ñ Nashville TN. 23Ð26 AggieCon 37 Ñ College Station TX. OoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoO 24Ð26 MidSouthCon 24 Ñ Memphis TN. 24Ð26 CoastCon 29 Ñ Gulfport MS (NOTE: moved from The North Alabama Science Fiction Association meets on Biloxi due to Katrina). the third Saturday of each month. (Unless there is a large 26 SciFi Spring Break Ñ Stone Mountain GA. nearby convention being held that weekend Ñ in which case 30 BD: Maurine Dorris. we often move the meeting to the second or fourth weekend.) 31Ð02 Technicon 23 Ñ Blacksburg VA. The regular meeting location is the upstairs meeting room at BookMark on South Memorial Parkway. The Executive APRIL Committee meeting (if scheduled) is at 5P. The business 01 April FoolÕs Day. meeting is at 6P. The program is at 7P. Anyone is welcome to 02 Daylight Savings Time begins. attend any of the meetings. There is usually an after-the- 07 BD: Mary Ortwerth. meeting meeting with directions available at the program. 09 Palm Sunday. 13Ð16 Frolicon Ñ Atlanta GA. 13 Passover. 13 Con Stellation ConCom Meeting (Tentative). Genre Films in the Majors 14 Good Friday. 15* NASFA Meeting Ñ 6P Business, 7P Program, at The season for the major film industry awards has come BookMark. Program: TBD. ATMM: TBD. and gone with sf/fantasy movies making modest waves this 15 BD: ÒUncle TimmyÓ Bolgeo. year Ñ seven of nine wins falling in the technical categories. 16 Easter. This yearÕs Orange British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) 17 Income Tax Day. were awarded Sunday 19 February 2006 while the 78th annual 21 BD: Randy B. Cleary. Academy Awards (Oscars) were given out Sunday 5 March 21Ð23 Middle Tennessee Anime Convention Ñ Nashville 2006. TN. King Kong was the leader among genre films in terms of 21Ð23 ShowMeCon Ñ St. Louis MO. total wins, with four combined BAFTAs and Oscars. Kong 22 Earth Day. took the Visual Effects award in both the BAFTAs and Oscars. 26 BD: Chloie Airoldi. It also captured both the Sound Mixing and Sound Editing 26 Administrative ProfessionalsÕ Day. Oscars. 28 Arbor Day. Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit took 30 BD: Mark Maxwell. only half as many awards, but they were choice. The BAFTAs chose W&G as the Best British Film, while Oscar voters MAY crowned it Best Animated Feature Film. 01 BD: Russell McNutt. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the 03 BD: Martha Knowles. Wardrobe got both the Oscar in the Makeup category and the 14 MothersÕ Day. more-or-less corresponding BAFTA for Makeup and Hair. 14 BD: Debbie Hughes. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire took one award, the 16 BD: Linda Bolgeo. BAFTA for Production Design. 18 Con Stellation ConCom Meeting (Tentative). 19 BD: David O. Miller. 19Ð21 Mobicon 9 Ñ Mobile AL. 20* NASFA Meeting Ñ 6P Business, 7P Program, at BookMark. Program: TBD. ATMM: TBD. 20 BD: Mike Glicksohn. 20 Armed Forces Day. 27 BD: Kathy Paulk. 26Ð28 Rocket City FurMeet 4 Ñ Huntsville AL. 2 Tickets for the Locus Awards can be purchased online at SF Gets Razzed <https://www.locusmag.com/About/LocusAwardsAd.html>, or by phone at 510-339-9198, or by check sent to Locus The 26th annual Golden Raspberry Awards (Razzies) were Publications, P. O. Box 13305, Oakland CA 94611. given out Saturday 4 March 2006 Ñ the day before Òthose A limited number of rooms have been blocked at a other film awards.Ó As usual some of the more dismal genre $129.00 rate (single/double) at the Courtyard Marriott. For efforts of the year did pretty ÒwellÓ in the Razzies, though this hotel reservations, call 1-800-321-2211 and ask for the ÒHall year they were put partly in the shade by non-genre multiple of Fame/Locus AwardsÓ room rate. award winner Dirty Love (Worst Picture, Worst Actress, Worst SPECTRUM AWARDS Director, Worst Screenplay). Winners and runners-up of the 13th annual Spectrum Still, four genre films did pull off, um, wins Ñ each in one competition for fantastic art were announced 3 March 2006 in category. Bewitched took the Worst Screen Couple award (for Kansas City MO. Judges included Brom (artist), Bruce Jensen Will Ferrell and Nicole Kidman) while Son Of The Mask was (artist), Christopher Klein (artist/art director National Geo- crowned as the Worst Remake or Sequel. Both supporting graphic), Heidi MacDonald (journalist), Stephan Martiniere acting categories went to genre films. The Worst Supporting (artist), and Meg Walsh (artist). Winners receive a Spectrum Actor selection was Hayden Christensen for his work in Star Award sculpted by Joseph DeVito on a base sculpted by Tom Wars, Episode III: Revenge of the Sith Ñ or, as the Razzies Banwell, with either a gold or silver engraved plate bearing the put it, Star Wars III: No Sith, HeÕs Supposed to be Darth Vader. recipientÕs name. The winners are: Worst Supporting Actress was deservedly won by Paris Hilton Grandmaster ..................................................Jeffrey Jones for House Of Wax (or, if you prefer, House of Whacks). Advertising ..................................................ÒPrometheus,Ó Donato Giancola (for AsimovÕs) 2nd place ..........................................................ÒDie SF,Ó Andrew Jones (for <ConceptArt.org>) Awards News Roundup Book .................................Jon Foster, Cover of The Demon and the City by Liz Williams SKYLARK AWARD 2nd place....................................Michael Deas, Cover of David Hartwell was awarded this yearÕs Skylark Award Earthbound by Richard Matheson on Saturday 18 February 2006. The Edward E. Smith Memo- Comics......................................Doomed #4, Jeremy Geddes rial Award for Imaginative Fiction (the Skylark) is presented 2nd place ................The DevilÕs Rejects, David Hartman annually by NESFA (New England Science Fiction Associa- Dimensional .............ÒUnder AutumnÕs Tentacled Spell,Ó tion). It honors a person, who in the opinion of the membership, Tim Bruckner has contributed significantly to science fiction, both through 2nd place...........ÒMoodius Centaurus,Ó Andrew Sinclair work in the field and by exemplifying the personal qualities Editorial...............ÒAntarctic Megalosaur,Ó William Stout which made the late ÒDocÓ Smith well-loved by those who 2nd place .........ÒRevenge of the Geisha,Ó Yuko Shimizu knew him. Institutional .............ÒWarriors of Khorne,Ó Cos Koniotis TIPTREE AWARD 2nd place.................ÒJade Sea Walker II,Ó Daniel Dociu Geoff RymanÕs Air (St. Martins, Gollancz) has been Unpublished ..............ÒCarnivore Pond,Ó William Carman announced as the winner of this yearÕs James Tiptree, Jr. 2nd place............................ÒBurning Man,Ó August Hall Award, given to Òscience fiction or fantasy that expands or explores our understanding of gender.Ó The award will be presented at WisCon <www.wiscon.info>, which will be held in Madison WI, 26Ð29 May 2006. The award includes a cash Nebula Awards Final Ballot prize of $1000. The 2005 short list of other worthy works cited by the judges will be posted on the Tiptree Award web site The final ballot for the 2005 Nebula Awards Report was <www.tiptree.org>. This yearÕs judges were Liz Henry, Nike announced 24 February 2006. The Nebula Awards are voted Bourke, Matt Ruff, Georgie Schnobrich, and Hiromi Goto. on by members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of LOCUS AWARDS WEEKEND America, Inc. Several items have been added since the earlier Locus magazine will present their annual genre awards at announcement of the preliminary ballot. a gala weekend to be held 16Ð18 June 2006 at the SF Museum Award winners will be announced at the Nebula Awards (SFM) in Seattle WA during the Science Fiction Awards Banquet to be held at the Tempe Mission Palms Hotel in Weekend, in conjunction with the SF Hall of Fame Induction Tempe AZ on Saturday 6 May 2006.