The SHUTTLE October 2003 Con Stellation XXII 10Ð12 October 2003 The Next NASFA Meeting will be 18 October 2003 at the Regular Time and Location { Oyez, Oyez { NASFA Calendar The next NASFA meeting will be 18 October 2003 at the OCTOBER regular time (6P) and the regular location. Call BookMark at 02Ð05 Archon 27 Ñ Collinsville IN. 256-881-3910 if you need directions. 05 Con Stellation Con Committee Meeting Ñ Mike The October program will be a Con Stellation KennedyÕs house. postmortem. The location of the October after-the-meeting 09 Con Stellation Con Committee Meeting Ñ at the meeting is undetermined at press time. hotel. Note that the November program will be the more-or- 10Ð12 Con Stellation XXII Ñ Huntsville AL. less annual auction. Start searching your closets and bookcases 12 Columbus Day (Traditional). now for donations. (continued on page 2) Inside this issueÉ Minutes of the September Meeting.................................2 Rhysling Award Winners ...............................................4 Doctor Who Re-Do.........................................................2 SFWA Emergency Medical Fund at Worldcon ..............4 Alabama-Cuba Week Conference ..................................3 Hugo Nomination Statistics ............................................4 Start Trek Night at the Library .......................................3 No Need for a Dragon with a Migraine Chapter 9 .........7 British Fantasy Awards Nominations .............................3 Letters of Comment ........................................................7 Deadline for the November 2003 issue of The NASFA Shuttle is Friday, 31 October 2003. 1 13 Columbus Day (Observed). The regular meeting location is the upstairs meeting room at 15 BD: Robert Buelow. BookMark on South Memorial Parkway. The Executive 18* NASFA Meeting Ñ 6P Business, 7P Program, at Committee meeting (if scheduled) is at 5P. The business BookMark. Program: Con Stellation Postmortem. meeting is at 6P. The program is at 7P. Anyone is welcome to ATMM TBD. attend any of the meetings. There is usually an after-the- 24 United Nations Day. meeting meeting with directions available at the program. 24Ð26 Hallowcon Õ03 Ñ Chattanooga TN. 24Ð26 Necronomicon Ñ Tampa FL. 25 BD: Marie McCormack. 30Ð02 World Fantasy Convention 2003 Ñ Washington DC. September Minutes 31 Halloween. by Samuel A. Smith, too much! Too much! NOVEMBER The September meeting of the North Alabama Science 04 Election Day. Fiction Association was called to order on Saturday, Septem- 11 VeteransÕ Day. ber 20, 2003 in the upstairs meeting room at BookMark at 11 Remembrance Day (Canada). 6:20:08P by President Mary Ortwerth, gavel, crickets, and all. 15* NASFA Meeting Ñ 6P Business Meeting at Book- OLD BUSINESS Mark. Program: Auction. ATMM at Mike Ken- There was discussion of the delayed Shuttle delivery. nedyÕs house. NEW BUSINESS 20 BD: Geoffrey Hintze. Randy Cleary: Pete Mohney will be running the Starfleet 22 BD: Nancy Renee Peters. International Conference in Birmingham next year. He has 23 BD: Mike Kennedy. sent word (via Randy) that he would like to rent our Art Show 23 BD: Wilson ÒBobÓ Tucker. fixtures for the conference. There was much discussion, and 27 Thanksgiving Day. we agreed that we could do this, but we donÕt remember the 29 BD: Howard Camp. arrangements we made the last time it was done. So weÕll figure 30 BD: Joshua Kennedy. it out later (probably after Con Stellation). 30 BD: Richard Gilliam. Anita Eisenberg had a suggestion for a program for next year Ñ participating in (or just visiting?) the Botanical Gar- DECEMBER denÕs ÒScarecrow Trail.Ó (There was considerable discussion 05Ð07 SMOFCon 21 Ñ Rosemont IL. of AnitaÕs possible volunteering to be Program Director next 12 BD: Toni Weisskopf. year.) 15 Bill of Rights Day. Randy Cleary noted that Fred Ordway will be participat- 17 BD: Robin Ray. ing in a panel on Space and S. F. Art at the Huntsville Public 19 BD: Yvonne Penney. Library on November 2nd, from 2Ð4P. 20* NASFA Meeting Ñ 6P Business, 7P Program, at Randy Cleary announced that he is starting a freelance BookMark. Program: Gift Exchange. ATMM TBD. appreciation service. 22 Winter begins. CONVENTION BUSINESS 25 Christmas. There was some discussion of program book issues (we 26 BD: Michael R. Stone. have an earlier than usual program book deadline this year). 26 Kwanzaa. There are con committee meetings on September 21st and 26 Boxing Day (Canada). October 5th, plus October 9th at the hotel. The Art Show load out 27 Chanukah. will be October 5th before the con committee meeting. [All, 31 New YearÕs Eve. except possibly the 9 October meeting, past by the time you see this.] JANUARY 2004 Sam Smith reported that the Con Stellation web site 01 New YearÕs Day. received 817 visitors in August, and the NASFA web site 02Ð04 ShadowCon VII Ñ Memphis TN. received 122 visitors in the same time period. 03 BD: Jim Kennedy. ANNOUNCEMENTS 03 BD: Karen Hopkins. Randy Cleary saw Underworld last night. 06 BD: Rich Garber. The meeting was adjourned at 6:48:43P. The program was 07 BD: Doug Lampert. a discussion of what we are currently reading (and why). The 16Ð18 Chattacon XXIX Ñ Chattanooga TN. After-The-Meeting Meeting was the annual September birth- 16 BD: Bruce Butler. day party at Nancy Cucci and Ray PietruszkaÕs house. 17* NASFA Meeting Ñ 6P Business, 7P Program, at BookMark. ATMM TBD. NOTE: Date could be changed due to Chattacon. 19 BD: Martin Luther King (Observed). Doctor Who Re-Do 20 BD: Larry Montgomery. OoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoO The BBC has announced a revival of the Doctor Who franchise, with new programs tentatively scheduled to air The North Alabama Science Fiction Association meets on beginning in 2005. Series writer Russell T. Davies is quoted as the third Saturday of each month. (Unless there is a large saying ÒThe new series will be fun, exciting, contemporary, nearby convention being held that weekend Ñ in which case and scary.Ó Few details have been announced, and in particular we usually hold the meeting on the second or fourth weekend.) the new Who has not been named. 2 jollied into doing silly things on stage for the evening. Alabama-Cuba Week Door prizes and prizes for the various contests were furnished by a local collectibles store, who also had a sales area Conference set up in a small meeting room hear the main room. Information tables were (wo)manned by local fan groups, including NASFA/ Andy Duncan, University of Alabama Assistant Director Con Stellation (thanks, Mary and Karen!) and the local Star- of Student Media, has announced that the University of Ala- fleet chapter (the USS Wernher von Braun). bama in TuscaloosaÕs Alabama-Cuba Week conference (17Ð20 The centerpieces of the evening were a talk by Birming- November 2003) is scheduled to include appearances by ham writer Lee Shackle- Cuban science fiction writers Angel Arango and Michel ford (a story writer for Star Encinosa. Other scheduled sf participants include Juan Carlos Trek: TNG among other Toledano and James Stevens-Arce. (The overall event covers credits) and a showing of many aspects of Cuban and Cuban-American culture, from original-series episode poetry and photography to wastewater treatment and baseball.) ÒThe City on the Edge of SF-related events scheduled for that week include an Forever.Ó (I would have appearance at the Tuscaloosa Science Fiction SocietyÕs monthly thought that ÒAll Our Yes- meeting at 7P Wednesday 19 November and a panel devoted terdaysÓ might have been to Cuban science fiction at 10A Thursday 20 November. There the choice, given the set- will also be a party in the science fiction visitorsÕ honor at the ting.) ShacklefordÕs talk home of Andy and Sydney Duncan, with details still to be included a cold reading of announced. the first few pages of an The registration fee for the conference is $25. Details and unproduced Next Genera- registration forms were not available online at press time. tion script with half a photos by Karen Hopkins Questions and suggestions regarding the science fiction events dozen audience members should be directed to Andy Duncan (<[email protected]>, (including NASFAÕs 205-348-9298); questions about the overall conference should Steve Sloan) taking the be directed to Carmen Taylor, associate dean of UAÕs College various parts. Shackle- of Arts and Sciences (<[email protected]>, 205-348-7007). fordÕs script, which had Mr. Duncan notes that, given the nature of U.S.-Cuban politics, reached a late stage of de- the issuance of visas is never certain so the final conference velopment before being lineup is subject to change at the last minute. canned, ventured an answer to why the original series Klingons look nothing like those in the movies and later. Steve played an original-series-type Klingon being beamed onboard the Next Gen Enterprise in a rescue operation. His ÒmaterializationÓ Library Trek (rising from a crouch) was priceless. by Mike Kennedy A number of events remain in the libraryÕs Century of Flight series. Details can be found on their web site As part of their ongoing Century of Flight series, the <www.hpl.lib.al.us> or by calling the library at 256-532-5940. Huntsville-Madison County Public Library held a Star Trek themed event 6-9P Friday 3 October 2003 at the main branch in downtown Huntsville (aka Fort British Fantasy Awards Book). Titled ÒA Sa- lute to Star Trek; or, Nominations Not with my Yeomen You DonÕt, Captain Nominations have been announced for this yearÕs British Kirk,Ó the evening was Fantasy Awards, given by the British Fantasy Society. Winners intended to be a light- will be announced at the British Fantasy Convention hearted evening, and <www.britishfantasysociety.org.uk/info/fantasycon.htm>, to mostly succeeded. be held 21Ð23 November 2003 at the Tillington Hall Hotel, The main meeting Stafford. The nominees are: room at the library was AUGUST DERLETH AWARD (NOVEL) pretty much filled, The Darkest Part of the Woods, Ramsey Campbell (PS with over 100 people Publishing) at the peak (though far The Devil in Green, Mark Chadbourn (Gollancz) fewer remained by the The Facts of Life, Graham Joyce (Gollancz) end of the evening).