Price: Spring 2001, Volume 15, Number 1 51 The Official Newsletter of the Montreal Science Fiction & Fantasy Association (MonSFFA) In This Issue: Arthur C. Clarke: Grand Master of Science Fiction, Interview with a Dragon, Chicon VI Worldcon Review, Perry Rhodan modelbuilding, and more… MONSFFA’S EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: 2000 MonSFFA EVENTS SCHEDULE JANUARY Berny Reischl President ALL MonSFFA MEETINGS HELD SUNDAY 21 Sebastien Mineau AFTERNOONS, 1:00PM TO 5:00PM (SOME FEBRUARY Vice-President MEETINGS INCLUDE MORNING ACTIVITIES, Sylvain St-Pierre WHICH BEGIN AT 10:30 AM), IN THE 18 Treasurer ST-FRANCOIS ROOM OF THE DAYS INN, 1005 GUY STREET (CORNER RENÉ LÉVESQUE), MARCH MONSFFA’S DOWNTOWN MONTREAL APPOINTED OFFICERS AND ADVISORS: 25 Keith Braithwaite 2001 EVENT PROGRAMMING* APRIL PR, Membership Sylvain St-Pierre June 10 - Get Ready for Convention Season 22 Membership 10:30am: Con*Cept 2001 concom meeting. MAY Dominique Durocher 1:00pm: Tribute to the late author Douglas Adams. 2:00pm: Berny Reischl Convention Primer: what to expect at a convention. 3:00pm: Creating your Costume. Web Site Administrators 6 Wayne Glover July - Summer Break - No Meeting JUNE Audio/Video August 19 - Making Movies Josée Bellemare 1:00pm: Game: Now Showing: Movie posters in a minute. 10 Michele Berry 3:00pm: Homemade Movies; Shoestring SPFX. Marquise Boies September 16 - Collisions in Space AUGUST Marc Durocher 1:00pm: Real Meteorites: tentative guest speaker Gaetan Cormier. Cindy Hodge 3:00pm: Hollywood Meteorites: how collisions are portrayed in David James 19 the movies. Les Lupien SEPTEMBER Ernst-Udo Peters October 20- Con•Cept 2001 Advisors Without Portfolio The annual SF/F convention returns as a one day event. 16 NEWSLETTER STAFF: October 21- Open Meeting 1:00pm: No scheduled programming. Join us for a post-Con•Cept OCTOBER Lynda Pelley (Editor) get-together; or in fannish terms, a “dead dog” party. Editing, Word Processing, Layout, Photo/Art Scans, November 18 - Sci-Fi ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire?’ 21 Production Manager 1:00pm: Considering our budget, make that ‘Who Wants to Win a e-mail to: [email protected] T-Shirt?’ NOVEMBER Keith Braithwaite December 8 - MonSFFA Christmas Party Editorial Consultant, 7:30pm: Saturday. Place to be announced. 18 Word Processing DECEMBER Murphy *All programming is tentative, and scheduling is subject to change. Typos, Misspellings and Other Errors 8 COVER UP: Warp is published about four times a year by the Montreal Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (MonSFFA). Address This issue’s cover is a all correspondence to: Warp, c/o MonSFFA, P.O. Box 1186, Place du Parc, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H2W 2P4. A subscription to Warp is a benefit of membership in MonSFFA. MonSFFA is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the tribute to author Arthur C. enjoyment and promotion of science fiction and fantasy literature, film and television, comics, fanzines, art, music, costuming, model-making, gaming, etc. The opinions expressed in Warp are solely those of the individual writers and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Warp or MonSFFA. The use of copyrighted material in this newsletter is—yes, we Clarke’s and filmmaker know—verboten, but is not intended to seriously infringe upon any of the rights of the copyright holders. Come on, people…lighten up! This is an amateur publication intended for enjoyment only. “If they offer you a penny for your Stanley Kubrik’s 2001: A Space thoughts, and you put in your two cents worth, who gets the other penny?” Odyssey in an artwork by MonSFFA’s Address: P.O. Box 1186, Place du Parc, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H2W 2P4 Berny Reischl. MonSFFA’s Web Site: http://www.monsffa.com A TABLE OF CONTENTS 51 A51 From The Editor’s Chair . 4 A MonSFFA Mailbag . 5 51 A MonSFFAandom . 6 51 A Fanzines. 15 51 (Ted White) A51 Interview With a Dragon . 16 (Josée Bellemare ) A51 Arthur C. Clarke: Grand Master of Science Fiction . 17 A (Keith Braithwaite) 51 Review: Chicon VI Worldcon . .21 A51 (Sylvain St-Pierre) A Convention Flyer . 23 51 (Conthulhu) A51 Convention Flyer . 24 (CapCon 2001) A51 It Came From The Sci-Fi Modeler’s Desk . 25 A (Models from Perry Rhodan) 51 A51 LaLaWeb . 26 A Play: Killing Jar Jar . 27 51 A51 Sensors . 28 A MonSFFA Membership Benefits . 30 51 A51 MonSFFA Discount Program . 30 A MonSFFA Membership Application Form . 32 51 A51 Submissions: We will accept submissions on a variety of media, however, please take note that your text or artwork must eventually be processed on a Macintosh computer using QuarkXpress for page layout. For e-mail submissions, send to [email protected] with text in the body of the e-mail or as an attachment in ASCII format, and photos/artwork in jpeg format. For disk submissions, please send your material on diskettes or zip disks with Macintosh formatting—text should be ASCII and images should be jpeg or any format that can be processed by Adobe Photoshop. Please include a print-out of your material with all disks. If you do not own a compatible computer or a modem, you may submit typed or neatly hand-written documents, preferably single column and double-spaced. Please send all photographic material as prints; my flat-bed scanner cannot scan slides. Material (other than e-mail) can be submitted in person at MonSFFA meetings or be sent by mail. 3 FROM THE editor’s chair Warp 51 is the Spring 2001 issue in our new quarterly format. Yes, it’s June 10th as I write this, but technically it’s still spring. Summer doesn’t officially start until June 21st. Yes, this issue was supposed to go out to you earlier in the spring, but the rather sudden death of my The photographic material in this issue has come grandmother left any fannish plans not happening. I from a wider variety of sources than ever before. People would also like to express my condolences to former have sent prints, CD-ROMS, video grabs, digital art, and MonSFFA V.P. Stephen Toy for the loss of his sister to website downloads. I’ve worked with a mix of TIFFs, cancer. This year has not started out well. GIFs, JPEGs, and EPS. If the quality varies from page-to- The summer issue of Warp will probably go out late page, you’ll understand why. I hope that I didn’t get the as well. I am planning it for August, but it may be images mixed up this time. Last issue I mistakenly September. The summer movie season is starting, as is credited Daniel P. Kenney for the Merlin 2000 video the convention and the model competition season. If you project production photos used on the cover and in Josée participate in any interesting SF/F activities, please share Bellemare’s “Behind The Scenes of Merlin 2000” article. the experience with us by writing an article about it or a This excellent photography was instead done by Nicola review, and don’t forget to take some photos. Stoeckert. My apologies, Nicola. I hope to feature Toronto Trek in the next issue of Warp. Many MonSFFen are regulars at this convention, and have been for several years. This will be the first year that MonSFFA has a club table at T-Trek, a more visible presence than ever before. I hope it will be a success. I also hope that several of you will write reviews and take photos for Warp. See you there… Enjoy! Lynda Pelley, Editor 4 Yvonne and I have not only February, Ad Astra 2001, also in rejoined the Ad Astra committee, but February (come on down!), and we’re now working on their FilKONtario 11 in Mississauga in marketing committee, and will be March (we’ll be running their con coordinating flyer distribution. We suite). We’ve also agreed to run the can send a package of flyers for green room at the 2001 World distribution at future meetings, plus Fantasy Convention in Montreal next insertion into a future Warp. Also, if November. Marc Nadeau can send me his I don’t know how many of you MonSFFA and Warp welcome address, I can make sure that SF have checked out Don Bassie’s Made letters of comment and inquiry. Vortex also gets a package of flyers. in Canada SF website (www. Mail letters to: The guest of honour list now geocities.com/canadian_sf), but I P.O. Box 1186, Place du Parc, includes Connie Willis, David G. now have a Canadian convention list Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Hartwell, Rick Green, Urban on that site. Once information about H2W 2P4. Tapestry (filkers Alison Durno, Jody Con*Cept, and ConJuration, and Krangle and Debbie Ohi) and Robert Concinnity and CanCon in Ottawa Unless otherwise indicated, we J. Sawyer as our toastmaster. are available, this is a major list to assume all letters are intended for The debate over a club with a add them to. Also, I’ll be doing a publication. Warp reserves the right paper zine and regular meetings and similar list for the new Realms to edit letters where deemed a totally on-line club continues. Magazine, which is being distributed necessary. Lionel Wagner, the president of OSFS all over North America. Check out in Ottawa has stated that he will not www.realmsmagazine.com. Dear MonSFFen: run for re-election, and will not even And that is probably it. Given renew his membership in the club the publishing schedule, I doubt the Congratulations on reaching 50 unless the club goes totally on-line: next issue will be out until after the issues of Warp! It’s never easy with zine, meetings, and everything.