Volume 13, Issue 5 October/November ConNotations 2003 The Bi-Monthly Science Fiction, Fantasy & Convention Newszine of the Central Arizona Speculative Fiction Society The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Featured Inside Harlan Ellison By Dawn Mullan SF Tube Talk Special Features All the latest news about Harlan Ellison’s Phoenix Appearance For all of his social improprieties and tions. Some recoil. Some rejoice. Still Scienc Fiction TV shows Ode To A Fantasy Seller narcisstic compulsions, his philosophy others sit baffled and frightened hoping by Lee Whiteside Love’s Savage Bindings protuberates underneath pretense and he won’t ask them the next question. General Research In Genetics pretext. Subliminal. An 24 Frames asynchronous perforation of All the latest Movie News Plus our Regular Features: the subconscious mind by Lee Whiteside making nothingness absorb CASFS Business Report realization, this irreverent ConClusion revolutionist drives past CopperCon Event Calendar mere conception and into by Lee Whiteside Area events, TV premires, the garage of visionary Comic Con DVD & Movie releases intellectualism. by Shane Shellenbarger In a room with an FYI agminate of students, Musical Notes News and tidbits of professors, and staff, Mr. The latest news of Filk and Filkers interest to fans Harlan Ellison uncannily from Tom Tuerff chooses from the audience Club Listings those subjects having car ReAnimation troubles on the intellectual Convention List & Reviews of Anime super-highway of life. 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