The SHUTTLE September 2006 The Next NASFA Meeting will be 16 September 2006 at the Regular Time and Location Concom Meetings Scheduled for 14 September, 5 October, and 19 October { { with a new syndication agreement. Battle sequences, ship Oyez, Oyez exteriors, galaxy shots, and landscapes will all reportedly be CGI-enhanced. Title sequences will be redone, including The next NASFA meeting will be Saturday 16 Septem- remastering the music and the ÒSpace, the final frontierÓ ber 2006, at the regular time and location. Both the program monologue. The final masters will be in HDTV. The first and the location of the After-The-Meeting Meeting are TBD at episode to be broadcast will be ÒBalance of Terror,Ó available press time. as early as 16 September. Meanwhile, cable network TV Land The final Con Stellation concom meeting dates have will be showing all of the original non-enhanced versions been set (though stay tuned for possible changes if circum- starting in November. stances dictate). As of now the dates are 14 September, 5 October, and 19 October Ñ all on Thursdays. The first two are at 7:30P at Sam SmithÕs apartment. The last one is the Thursday-before-the-con meeting at the hotel. August Minutes Ñ Not The August NASFA meeting was the more-or-less annual Bounceback News picnic, so there are no minutes. Small press Apogee Books <www.cgpublishing.com> has announced an English translation of Project Mars by NASFA Calendar Wernher Von Braun. Preprint copies were to be available at Worldcon; a trade paperback edition with Chesley Bonestell SEPTEMBER illustrations will be published in September. The Space Center 01Ð03 Mephit Furmeet 2006 Ñ Memphis TN. owns the rights, and will get a percentage of the profits. 01Ð04 Dragon*Con 2006 Ñ Atlanta GA. The original Star Trek is getting a digital makeover along 03 BD: David K. Robinson. Inside this issueÉ Worldcon Site Selection ..........................................7 Emmy Award Winners ...................................................2 Business Meeting Results ........................................7 British Fantasy Award Nominations ..............................2 Masquerade Results.................................................8 Quill Award Nominations ..............................................3 Art Show Awards ....................................................9 Special Worldcon Section Other Awards at Worldcon......................................9 Worldcon: The Basics .............................................3 Hugo Voting Statistics...........................................10 Worldcon Trip Report by Gary Shelton ..................5 Hugo Nomination Statistics...................................14 Hugo Award Winners ..............................................6 Letters of Comment ......................................................17 Deadline for the October 2006 issue of The NASFA Shuttle is Friday, 29 September 2006. 1 04 Labor Day. 19 BD: Yvonne Penney. 08Ð10 Outside Con 19 Ñ Burns TN. 20 BD: Aaron Kennedy. 09 BD: Mike Cothran. 21 First Day of Winter (22nd UTC). 10 Grandparents Day. 25 Christmas Day. 11 BD: Ray Pietruszka. 26 First Day of Kwanzaa. 12 BD: Pat Butler. 26 Boxing Day. 14 Con Stellation ConCom Meeting. 26 BD: Michael R. Stone. 16* NASFA Meeting Ñ 6P Business, 7P Program, at 31 New YearÕs Eve. BookMark. Program: TBD. ATMM: TBD. OoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoO 17 Citizenship Day. 22 Atumnal Equinox (23rd UTC). The North Alabama Science Fiction Association meets on 22Ð24 Anime Weekend Atlanta 12 Ñ Atlanta GA. the third Saturday of each month. (Unless there is a large 22Ð24 FenCon III Ñ Dallas TX. nearby convention being held that weekend Ñ in which case 23 Rosh Hashanah. we often move the meeting to the second or fourth weekend.) 26 BD: Jenna Victoria Stone. The regular meeting location is the upstairs meeting room at BookMark on South Memorial Parkway. The Executive OCTOBER Committee meeting (if scheduled) is at 5P. The business 02 Yom Kippur. meeting is at 6P. The program is at 7P. Anyone is welcome to 05Ð08 Archon 30 Ñ St. Louis MO. attend any of the meetings. There is usually an after-the- 05 Con Stellation ConCom Meeting. meeting meeting with directions available at the program. 09 Columbus Day (Observed). 12 Columbus Day (Traditional). 14Ð15 Con-Sequential Ñ Memphis TN. 14* NASFA Meeting Ñ 6P Business, 7P Program, at Emmy Winners BookMark. Program: TBD. ATMM: TBD. 15 BD: Robert Buelow. Genre TV shows were not in the running for many of the 19 Final Con Stellation ConCom Meeting (at the hotel). categories at the 58th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, but did 20Ð22 Con Stellation XXV: Cygnus Ñ Huntsville AL. pull off a few victories. Unsurprisingly, vaguely-sort-of-genre- 24 United Nations Day. related 24 (Fox) claimed by far the largest number of them, 25 BD: Marie McCormack. including three major awards for Drama Series, Lead Actor in 27Ð29 HallowCon Õ06 Ñ Chattanooga TN. a Drama Series (Kiefer Sutherland), and Directing for a Drama 27Ð29 Necronomicon Õ06 Ñ Tampa FL. Series. 24 also picked up trophies for Original Dramatic Score 29 Daylight Saving Time ends. and Single-Camera Editing for a Drama Series. More definite 31 Halloween. genre winners included: Original Main Title Theme Music .........................Masters NOVEMBER Of Horror 02Ð05 World Fantasy Convention 2006 Ñ Austin TX. Sound Editing for a Series ..................................Smallville 07 Election Day. Special Visual Effects for a Miniseries, Movie, 09Ð12 NovaCon Ñ Huntsville AL. or Special .........................................................The Triangle 10 VeteransÕ Day (Observed) Commercial...............................................Stick (for FedEx) 11 VeteransÕ Day (Traditional). Individual Achievement in Animation ...................Escape 11 Remembrance Day (Canada). From Cluster Prime, FosterÕs Home 18* NASFA Meeting Ñ 6P Business, 7P Program, at For Imaginary Friends, and The Grim BookMark. Program: TBD. ATMM: Mike Ken- Adventures of Billy & Mandy nedyÕs house. 22 BD: Nancy Renee Peters. 23 Thanksgiving Day. 23 BD: Michael D. Kennedy. BFA Shortlist 23 BD: Wilson ÒBobÓ Tucker. 29 BD: Howard Camp. Nominations for the 2006 British Fantasy Awards have 30 BD: Joshua Kennedy. been announced. The BFAs are voted on by members of the 30 BD: Richard Gilliam. British Fantasy Society <www.britishfantasysociety.org.uk>. This yearÕs awards will be announced at the 2006 Fantasycon DECEMBER <www.fantasycon.org.uk>, to be held 22Ð24 September 2006 01Ð03 SMOFCon 24 Ñ Kansas City MO. at the Britannia Hotel, Nottingham UK. The nominees are: 01Ð03 East Meets South Ñ Oxford AL. BEST NOVEL: The August Derleth Award 07 Pearl Harbor Day. Ramsey Campbell, Secret Stories 09 BD: Maria West. Mark Chadbourn, The Hounds of Avalon 12 BD: Toni Weisskopf. Hal Duncan, Vellum: The Book of All Hours 1 15 Bill of Rights Day. Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys 16 First Day of Hannukah. George R. R. Martin, A Feast for Crows 16* NASFA Meeting Ñ 6P Business, 7P Program, at Mark Morris, Nowhere Near an Angel BookMark. Program: TBD. ATMM: TBD. BEST NOVELLA 17 BD: Robin Ray. Guy Adams, ÒDeadeatÓ 2 Jeffrey Ford, The Cosmology of the Wider World A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Diana Gabaldon (Dell Publish- Joe Hill, Voluntary Committal ing) Paul Kane, ÒSigns of LifeÓ Cell, Stephen King (Scribner, Simon & Schuster) Paul Meloy, ÒDying in the Arms of Jean Harlow (The Coming A Feast for Crows, George R. R. Martin (Bantam Books) of the Autoscopes)Ó Labyrinth, Kate Mosse (Putnam) Sean Wright, Dark Tales of Space and Time The Stolen Child, Keith Donohue (Doubleday Publishing) Stuart Young, ÒThe Mask Behind the FaceÓ BEST ANTHOLOGY Allen Ashley, The Elastic Book of Numbers Peter Crowther, Fourbodings Worldcon: The Basics Gary Fry, PoeÕs Progeny Stephen Jones, The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 16 L.A.con IV, the 64th World Science Fiction Convention, Stephen Jones, DonÕt Turn Out the Light was held Wednesday 23 Ð Sunday 27 August 2006 at the BEST COLLECTION Anaheim Convention Leigh Brackett, Sea-Kings of Mars & Other Worldly Stories Center and the adja- Simon Clark, Hotel Midnight cent Hilton Anaheim Joe Hill, 20th Century Ghosts and Anaheim Marri- Andrew Hook, Beyond Each Blue Horizon ott. Invited guests Tim Lees, The Life to Come were Writer Guest of Stuart Young, The Mask Behind the Face and Other Stories Honor Connie Willis, BEST SHORT FICTION Artist Guest of Honor Ramsey Campbell, ÒJust Behind YouÓ James Gurney, Fan Joe Hill, Best New Horror Guest of Honor How- Paul Kane, ÒHomelandÓ ard DeVore, and Spe- John Lucas, ÒApproaching ZeroÓ cial Guest Frankie Will McIntosh, ÒSoft ApocalypseÓ Thomas. Both DeVore Marie OÕRegan, ÒCan You See Me?Ó and Thomas died Sean Wright, ÒThe NumberistÓ within the last year. BEST ARTIST L.A.con chose to keep Clive Barker Randy Broecker Les Edwards them on the list of honored guests; most people seem to believe Dominic Harman Richard Marchand Robert Sammelin this was the right choice. As of the time this article was written, BEST SMALL PRESS the published membership numbers were 6832 total members, Andy Cox, TTA Press Peter Crowther, PS Publishing with 5913 warm bodies on site. That leaves 919 members who Andrew Hook, Elastic Press D. F. Lewis, Nemonymous had purchased an attending or supporting membership but did Christopher Teague, Pendragon Press not come to the con. These numbers are still subject to minor revisions. L.A.con IV tried out a new ÒtasterÓ membership Ñ one could pay the regular one-day rate (from $50 to $75, depending Quill Awards Noms on the day) then (if you, e.g.,