Volume 16, Issue 3 June/July ConNotations 2006 The Bi-Monthly Science Fiction, Fantasy & Convention Newszine of the Central Arizona Speculative Fiction Society A Conversation with Featured Inside L.E. Modesitt, Jr Regular Features Special Features By Catherine Book SF Tube Talk A Conversation with I’ve met Lee casually several times detected some of that in a couple of his All the latest news about L.E. Modesitt, Jr over the past two or three years so it was a series. He admitted there was some of it, Scienc Fiction TV shows by Catherine Book real pleasure to sit down and chat with him not that he ever wanted to be ‘in your by Lee Whiteside personally. We met in the basement of the face’ with his opinions; but obviously a 40 Years of Star Trekking Carnegie Library during the 2006 Arizona writer’s opinions are going to enter his 24 Frames Book Festival. It was a lovely sunny day work. He uses them more as a forum for Across The Universe All the latest Movie News and the by Shane Shellenbarger asking by Lee Whiteside Festival questions was fun. Nebula Awards Photo Montage than for Lee Pro Notes by Shane Shellenbarger supplying looked News about the particularly genre authors and fans answers. An American in England dapper in What are Part 11 a gold ConClusion the impli- by Jeffrey Lu vest and Convention News & Reviews cations of tie with a uncon- Plus brimmed, trolled Costume Closet jaunty hat. population, Articles Covering Topics of interest CASFS Business Report I found … in the constuming field him to be FYI environ- very News and tidbits of interest to fans ment ReAnimation articulate Reviews of Anime on DVD (not Club Listings surprising) and gentlemanly with a very non-control or regimented control, precise manner of speech. deforestations…and so on. Lee wanted to Screening Room Convention List & Lee didn’t publish his first novel until be clear that he doesn’t believe in Reviews of current theatrical releases Generic Registration Form 1982 while working as a Director of ‘absolute single value answers’ …that Congressional Relations & Legislation for there’s no simple answer to any question; In Our Book the EPA. He much prefers working for but that people want one. In this time of Reviews of New SF/F Books himself. He’s been writing full-time since great societal and technological about 1992. I asked if he used his uncertainty – people hunger for the NonGenre By Genre experiences with the EPA in his writing. I ( Continued on page 8 ) Non SF/F books by SF/F Authors ConNotations Non-Profit Org. 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