Te Shutle June 2014 The Next NASFA Meeting is Saturday 21 June 2014; in Conjunction with the More-or-Less Annual Club Cookout/Picnic ! See Info Below for Picnic/Cookout Start Time, Location, etc. • August: Les Johnson mixes science fact and science fiction d Oyez, Oyez d with Mars Exploration and Rescue Mode <tinyurl.com/ ! RMBBLJ>. The next NASFA Meeting will be 6P Saturday 21 June We need ATMM volunteers for most future months in 2014 2014, but not at the regular time or location. The club meeting (July and forward, except, possibly, November). will be combined with the More-Or-Less Annual Club Picnic/ FUTURE CLUB MEETING DATES Cookout. This year’s hosts are Judy and Sam Smith, starting at All further NASFA meeting dates for 2014 are currently 2P, at their house in Madison. Please see the map on page 3 of scheduled on the normal 3rd Saturday. this issue if you need help finding their house. JOINING THE NASFA EMAIL LIST JUNE PROGRAM AND ATMM All NASFANs who have email are urged to join the NASFA The club program and After-The-Meeting Meeting will also email list, which you can do online at <tinyurl.com/ be subsumed into the More-Or-Less Annual Club Cookout/ NASFAEmail>. The list is usually low traffic, though the rate is Picnic at Sam and Judy’s house. rather variable. Generally the list is limited to announcements CHANGING SHUTTLE DEADLINES about club activities plus the occasional message of general The latest tweak to the NASFA Shuttle schedule shifted the interest to north-Alabama sf/f/h/etc. fans. Non NASFAns are usual repro date somewhat to the right (roughly the weekend both encouraged and welcomed to join the list, but please only before each meeting) but much of each issue will need to be put do so if you’re interested in the above restricted topics. to bed as much as two weeks before the monthly meeting. NASFA CALENDAR ONLINE Please check the deadline below the Table of Contents each NASFA has an online calendar on Google. Interested parties month to submit news, reviews, LoCs, or other material. We can check the calendar online, but you can also subscribe to it will generally need to enforce that deadline strictly. and have your Outlook, iCal, BlackBerry, or other calendar FUTURE PROGRAMS AND ATMMs automatically updated as events (Club Meetings, Concom Future programs include: Meetings, local sf/f/h/etc. events) are added or changed. You • July: TBD. can view the calendar online at <tinyurl.com/NASFACal>. Continuing Our 34th Year of Publication Inside this issue… Awards Roundup ........................................................................4 News & Info ...............................................................................2 No Need for a Questing Beast—Chapter 6 ...............................6 NASFA Calendar ........................................................................2 Letter of Comment .....................................................................8 Minutes of the May Meeting .....................................................3 Art by Simon Pearce ..................................................................9 Deadline for the July 2014 issue of The NASFA Shuttle is Monday 30 June 2014 lishing novellas, shorter novels, serializations, and any other News & Info pieces of fiction that exceed the traditional novelette length ! (17,499 words).” The main difference between Tor.com the HUGO & RETRO-HUGO website and Tor.com the imprint? The former publishes free VOTING ONLINE fiction while the latter sells fiction. All, um, imprinted titles will After a bit of a delay, voting for both the 2014 be available in DRM-free electronic formats, but also as print- Hugo Awards and the 1939 Retrospective Hugo on-demand physical books and in audio formats. Awards has opened online (details follow). You can GUFF WINNER also vote by mailing a paper ballot to Loncon 3, The Shuttle has seen a report that Gillian Polack has won the this year’s Worldcon. You must be an Attending, 2014 Get Up-and-over Fan Fund. She will be the Australasian Supporting, or YA member of Loncon 3 to vote in delegate and travel to Loncon 3 later this year. It was apparent- this final round. ly a close race; there were 4 candidates (plus No Preference and Whichever way you vote, the deadline is a Hold Over Funds) and it was reported that the 100+ preferential minute before midnight Pacific Daylight Time 31 votes had to be put through five rounds of automatic runoffs. July 2014—about 6 weeks after this issue of the ! Shuttle will be published. Those who vote online ! can revisit their ballot multiple times, making addi- tions or changes right up to the final minute. [At NASFA Calendar least in theory—pushing it too late might be asking ! for a website crash or for your ISP to hack up a fur- JUNE ball. -ED] 01 BD: Glenn Valentine. You can find links to online voting pages for 02 BD: Lloyd Penney. both sets of awards as well as a link to print a 04 Shavuot. paper ballot at <www.loncon3.org/hugo_awards. 05 Bailey Cove Library Book Discussion: His Majesty’s php>. Loncon 3 has emailed members for whom Dragon, Naomi Novik; 6P. Per the library website they have contact information their membership <hmcpl.org/bookclubs/bailey_cove_scifi>, this book number and Hugo PIN—both of which you’ll club is currently inactive. need to vote online. You can also get your mem- 06–08 Hamacon—Huntsville AL. bership number at <www.loncon3.org/members. 13–15 Hypericon—Nashville TN. php> and request your PIN by emailing 13–15 Rocket City FurMeet—Decatur AL. Canceled. <[email protected]>. 13–15 Sci Fi Summer Con—Atlanta GA. HUGO PACKET UPDATED 13–15 AndoCon—Atlanta GA. The packet of Hugo-nominated works available to Loncon 3 14 BD: Ali Scanland. members was expanded on 9 June 2014. Three of the fiction 14 Flag Day. categories (Short Story, Novelette, and Novella) had additions, 15 Fathers’ Day. as did both the Fan Artist and Related Work categories. Mem- 17 BD: Jeff Freeman. bers can download the packet at <www.loncon3.org/ 20–22 Anime Blues Con—Memphis TN. hugo_vote/hugo_voter_packet.php>. 21* NASFA Meeting—2P More-or-less Annual Club Picnic/ WORLDCON MEMBERSHIP RATES RISING Cookout, Judy and Sam Smith’s house. Meeting & Effective 14 July 2014 Loncon 3’s Attending Membership ATMM will be subsumed in the Cookout/Picnic. rates will increase for all age ranges. The headline Adult At- 21 BD:PieEyedDragon. tending rate bumps up to £135/$225/€175. Other Attending 21 Summer Solstice. rates (Infant, Child, YA, and Family) also increase. The Sup- 26–29 Play On Con—Birmingham AL. porting Rate stays at £25/$40/€35. Further details can be found 27–29 LibertyCon 27—Chattanooga TN. at <www.loncon3.org/documents/140610_MR26_rate_rise. 28–29 Con Kasterborous—Huntsville AL. pdf>. 29 Ramadan starts. AMAZING DEAL FOR WORLDCON & NASFiC MEMBERS JULY Amazing Stories <www.AmazingStoriesMag.com> has 00 Bailey Cove Library Book Discussion: No meeting arranged with both Loncon 3 and Detcon1, the 2014 Worldcon scheduled. Per the library website <hmcpl.org/ and NASFiC respectively, to provide a free one-year subscrip- bookclubs/bailey_cove_scifi>, this book club is current- tion to the cons’ “Attending, Supporting and Special” members. ly inactive. The conventions will be contacting their members with opt-in 01 Canada Day. details. Those who choose to take advantage of the offer will 02 BD: Deb Stone. reportedly be required to supply only a username and email 04 Independence Day. address. 09 Nunavut Day. AWARDS FOR AWARDS—PARTLY 12 Comic & Toy Show—Nashville TN. Anne Perry has been named the winner of the Kim Scott 12–13 Goo-Con—Atlanta GA. Walwyn Prize, in part for here work with the genre Kitschies 13–26 Shared Worlds—Spartanburg SC. Awards. The prize of £1000 is given by the Society of Young 19 Biter Bash—Alpharetta GA. Publishers to honor “professional achievements and promise of 21* NASFA Meeting—6P Business, 7P Program, at Wil- women who have worked in publishing in the UK for up to lowbrook Madison. Program: TBD. ATMM: TBD. seven years.” 25–27 ArmadilloCon 36—Austin TX. HOW DO YOU IMPRINT ON THE WEB? 27 Parents’ Day. Publisher Tor Books has announced that Tor.com will hence- 29 Eid al-Fitr. forth be considered an imprint of Tor Books “dedicated to pub- 29 BD: Mark Paulk. #2 AUGUST 12 BD: Pat Butler. 01–02 TattooNooga—Chattanooga TN. 19–20 DayCon—Clarksville TN. 01–02 Akaicon—Nashville TN. 11 Patriot Day. 01–03 Monsterama—Atlanta GA. 16 Día de la Independencia. 02 Rob-Con 29—Bristol TN. 17 Constitution Day. 03 Comic Book Show—Columbus GA. 17 Citizenship Day. 07 Bailey Cove Library Book Discussion: Parable of Sow- 19 National POW/MIA Recognition Day. er, Octavia Butler; 6P. Per the library website 20* NASFA Meeting—6P Business, 7P Program, at Wil- <hmcpl.org/bookclubs/bailey_cove_scifi>, this book lowbrook Madison. Program: TBD. ATMM: TBD. club is currently inactive. 23 Autumnal equinox. 08 BD: Jim Woosley. 25 Rosh Hashanah. 08–10 Steampunk Expo—Chattanooga TN. 26 BD: Jenna Victoria Stone. 09 SukoshiCon—Birmingham AL. 26–28 Anime Weekend Atlanta—Atlanta GA. 12 BD: Sue Thorn. 26–28 Wizard World—Nashville TN. 14–18 Loncon 3 (72nd Worldcon)—London UK. 28 Gold Star Mother’s Day. 14 BD: Edward Kenny. OoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoO 16* NASFA Meeting—6P Business, 7P Program, at Wil- The North Alabama Science Fiction Association meets on the lowbrook Madison. Program: Les Johnson mixes sci- third Saturday of each month. (Unless there is a large nearby ence fact and science fiction with Mars Exploration and convention being held that weekend—in which case we often Rescue Mode <tinyurl.com/RMBBLJ>. ATMM: TBD. move the meeting to the second or fourth weekend.) The regu- 21 BD: Deborah Denton. lar meeting location is the Madison campus of Willowbrook 22–24 Intervention—Washington DC.