2005 Heinlein Awards To Be Given to Niven and Pournelle In Seattle at NASFiC July 2005 Contents 2005 Heinlein Awards to Be Given to Niven and Pournelle in Seattle at NASFiC.................................. Pages 1 & 3 Secretaryʼs Report ..................... Page 2 Lindalee Stuckey New Library Com- mittee Chair........................ Pages 4 & 5 Blood Drives Committee Report ............................................... Pages 6 to 8 The Virginia Edition ................. Page 9 Education Committee Report .............. ............................................ Pages 10 & 11 Plans for Our 2005 Annual Meeting at NASFiC in Seattle ................................. ............................................ Pages 12 & 13 “ ... a time when loose and easy isnʼt enough ...” .................................. Page 14 The Heinlein Centennial Year ............. ........................................................ Page 15 Convention Coordinatorʼs Report Larry and Jerry peeping out from behind a huge Mote in Godʼs Eye ............................................ Pages 16 & 17 cutout during a promotional tour for the novel. Heinlein Society Makes Its First unopened; he usually didnʼt Visit to the Mid-West ........... Page 18 Colorado Springs, CO, on a day in June 1973 even acknowledge receipt Fourth Annual Visit to Norwescon of those not yet published, ............................................ Pages 19 & 20 There arrived in Robert Heinleinʼs mailbox a pack- hadnʼt read one received in Awards Banquet Reservations & age containing a massive six months before this one Membership Application ....................... came in, and hadnʼt com- ............................................ Pages 21 & 22 manuscript. Robert received such things with “monoto- mented favorably on publica- Membership Services ............ Page 23 nous regularity”; and if he tion for one in 4 or 5 years. didnʼt recognize the name as But this one was from Jerry “But still, a few small things ... ” ........ Pournelle and Larry Niven. ...........................................................Page 24 someone he knew, liked and Contʼd on Page Three trusted, he sent them back Jun05NL 1 7/12/05, 5:43 PM The Secretary-Treasurerʼs of the board of directors for The Heinlein Society Table and Reports the Golden Duck Awards for Notice of Annual General Meeting And Voting Procedures excellence in childrenʼs sci- Board of Directors ence fiction literature, and Virginia Heinlein (1916-2003) Charles N. Brown a member of Reading for Bill Patterson Yoji Kondo the Future, the group de- Alan Milner Joe Haldeman veloped to promote the use Jane Silver, Secretary-Treasurer David M. Silver, President and Chairman of science fiction literature P.O. Box 1254 in classrooms and libraries Venice, California 90294-1254 Dear Members of The Society: by Messrs. Brin, Bear, and Our by-laws, adopted by the Board of Directors in 2002, as amended, require that the board conduct an Benford. Ms. Stuckeyʼs ar- annual general membership meeting each year during the time and at the place of the annual World Science-Fiction ticle appears in this newslet- convention, when held in North America, and when not at a place in North America it shall determine. ter and we will be sending This the written notice of that meeting as required in our by-laws to each member entitled or likely to be out a call for all volunteers entitled to vote at the meeting. You will be entitled to vote only if you are registered as a regular member and only if who have come forward very your dues are fully paid up and through the current year of 2005 at the time of the meeting. An opportunity to generously in the past and make dues current will be afforded members prior to and Jane Silver at Noreascon Dinner at the beginning of the meeting. Supporting members are any new members who have not entitled to vote, but, subject to ruling of the chair, may Greetings and saluta- address the meeting. expressed an interest in this This yearʼs meeting will be our Societyʼs fourth annual tions from the Secretaryʼs general meeting. It will be held at Seattle, Washington, on committee. Congratulations Monday, September 5, 2005, at 1:00 PM, PDT, in a room cubicle. as yet to be assigned by Cascadia Con programming, at Lindalee, I am at your dis- the Seattle Airport Hilton Convention Center and Hotel, 17620 Pacific Highway South Seattle, Washington 98188 First, the good news: posal. or at the Airport Radisson Hotel, 17001 Pacific Highway South, Seattle Washington 98188. Cascadia Con has Pam Somers has proved I encourage everyone not yet published its programming schedule with room numbers. You need not be a purchaser of Cascadia Con to be an excellent member- to be sure to attend the membership to attend the meeting. Both hotels are public venues, open to non-Cascadia Con members. Visitors who ship services committee Heinlein Awards Banquet are not members of the Society are encouraged to attend, subject to ruling of the Chair. chair! that we are co-hosting with The regular order of business specified in the by-laws to be observed is that customary for non-profit member- Please read her article of Cascadia Con on Labor Day ship charitable corporations and will include, this year, election of two of the seven directors of The Society for what she has planned. I per- Weekend in Seattle if you the two senior non-exempt positions on the Board for a term of three years, as specified in the by-laws. sonally thank Pam for com- are able. I plan to be there The two senior incumbents by length of service in their current term are William F. Patterson and Alan Milner. ing on board and taking on to make sure that this is an Either, or both, or neither, may stand for reelection, as he each may announce at or before the time of the meeting. this very important position. even bigger success than Mr. Patterson has served as an original director of this Society since its formation and pre-incorporation filings, Next, we are up to 538 past Awards Banquets. We in August 2000, and was reelected to a three-year term in 2002. Mr. Milner was elected to a three-year term in registered members--more have some great plans relat- 2002. Other nominations may be made and accepted at the meeting. than a tenfold increase since ing to a special program and Further business consistent with the by-laws will occur at the meeting. 2001, our charter year. if all goes well it will be an- You may vote at the meeting in person, or by an assigned written proxy, if you are eligible to vote at We have a library commit- other one you will not want the time of the meeting. All proxies must be written, signed, and notarized, or accompanied by a clear and tee chair! This is me dancing to miss. legible photocopy of a government-issued photo identification containing a signature for comparison in glee, while I take that hat If you wish to volunteer purposes, to be valid. Further, they must designate in writing the person off and store it carefully in or discuss anything, please to exercise the proxy; and they must be received by the Secretary of the Society by postal mail or in person the box atop my closet, hop- E-mail me at secretary@hei at or before the time of the meeting. If you mail your proxy to the Societyʼs postal address in Venice, Califor- ing I will never take it down nleinsociety.org, please; and nia, please note that an officer of the Society will finally check that post office box address on the afternoon again--except for some weʼll talk. We truly need help of Tuesday, August 30, 2005, before he departs to Seattle;, and it is solely your responsibility to ensure other use. I know Lindalee to meet our dreams and en- it arrives before his departure. You may designate any natural person to attend the meeting and vote your Stuckey will be the same sort deavors that we have set to proxy. Further, the by-laws specify that failure of a non-attending member to designate a proxy shall of take charge and do it per- Pay it Forward. constitute designation of the president as the holder of the proxy of the member not in attendance. son Pam Somers has proved Dues: Need I say more? We all hope as many of the Societyʼs members as pos- to be with Membership Ser- Bad news? There is no sible do attend the meeting. vices. bad news. FOR THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS: /s/Jane Silver Ms. Lindalee Stuckey who Jane Silver, Director and Jane Silver Secretary-Treasurer and Director is an educator, both a teach- Secretary-Treasurer June 19, 2005 er and a librarian, a member 2 3 Jun05NL 2 7/12/05, 5:43 PM 2005 Annual Heinlein Puget Sound keeps it tem- ing on something special, Awards To Niven and perate; and thereʼs much to but havenʼt nailed it down Pournelle see including Paul Allenʼs enough to announce, yet. Contʼd from Page One new Science Fiction Museum We have substantially re- So he opened it and started and Hall of Fame, downtown duced banquet dinner prices reading. Three days later he Seattle, with its famous Pike to $45 each, no host bar, sat down and started typ- Place Market and Under- which means food is provid- ing a letter of advice to them ground, the Space Needle ed at cost, with the Society which became, first, twenty- and monorail downtown, or Cascadia Con bearing all seven pages long; and then, Childrenʼs Museum, the Se- additional expenses associ- after revisions were made attle Art Museum and Pacific ated with the banquet; and, and returned, grew into a although the dinner is black second letter and a tie optional for the third letter totalling 33 head table and honored more pages--60 pages guests, attire is relaxed in all. for the balance of at- The published novel tendees to open the that resulted became a festivities to general best seller, The Mote members of the con- in Godʼs Eye (1974), vention.