The SHUTTLE May 2001 The Next NASFA Meeting is 19 May 2001 at the Regular Time and Location Con Stellation ConCom 17 May 2001 at Mike KennedyÕs House Oyez, Oyez Con Stellation ConCom The next NASFA meeting will be 19 May 2001 at the The next Con Stellation XX con committee meeting will regular time (6P) and the regular location Ñ BookMark on be on Thursday 17 May 2001 at Mike KennedyÕs house Ñ South Memorial Parkway. Call the store at 256-881-3910 if 7907 Charlotte Drive SW, Huntsville. Call him at 256-883- you need directions. 5922 or 256-726-1540 (work) if you need directions. The program at the May meeting will be a trip to the ball This is an eating meeting, with the food theme being game! WeÕll be going to see the Huntsville Stars versus the Òspotted food.Ó Eating starts at 6:30P with the meeting proper Birmingham Barons. The game starts at 7:05, afterwards. so we can carpool from the meeting (leaving a little early) up the Parkway to Joe Davis Stadium. Contact Program Director Randy Cleary about your ticket needs. We can also Cinco (+13) de Mayo look forward (?) to an appearance by The Famous Chicken. NASFAns and others are invited to a party in honor of Due to the length of the Òprogram,Ó there Cinco de Mayo on Friday 18 May 2001 at Nancy Cucci & Ray will not be a formal After-The-Meeting PietruszkaÕs house. The party will begin at 8P. Standard rules Meeting, though all will be welcome to come apply Ñ bring your favorite drink and a food item to share. If by Mike KennedyÕs house after the game. you need directions contact Ray or Nancy at 256-772-3587. Inside this issueÉ Minutes of the April Meeting .........................................2 Special Awards Section NASFA Calendar............................................................2 Nebula Awards Presented........................................5 NASFA Receivables .......................................................2 Hugo Nominations Announced ...............................6 Obituaries .......................................................................3 Retro Hugo Nominations.........................................6 Star Trek News ...............................................................3 Stoker Award Nominations .....................................7 News at 11, Science Fiction meets CNN ........................3 Other Award News ..................................................8 Review of Kubla Khan ...................................................4 Letters of Comment ........................................................9 Review of DeepSouthCon 39/Tenacity 1 .......................4 Fiction: No Need for a Dragon, Part 3..........................11 Deadline for the June 2001 issue of The NASFA Shuttle is Friday, 1 June 2001. 1 19 BD: David O. Miller. April Minutes 19 Armed Forces Day. by Samuel A. Smith, Still Looking 19* NASFA Meeting Ñ 6P Business at BookMark. Spe- cial Program: A trip to a Huntsville Stars baseball The April meeting of the North Alabama Science Fiction game; contact Randy Cleary for ticket information. Association was called to order on Saturday, April 14, 2001 in 20 BD: Mike Glicksohn. the upstairs meeting room at BookMark at 6:22P by Vice- 24Ð27 SFRA 2001 Ñ Schenectady NY. President Mike Kennedy, sans everything. 25Ð27 LibertyCon 15 Ñ East Ridge (Chattanooga) TN. OLD BUSINESS 25Ð27 Oasis 14 Ñ Orlando FL. Randy Cleary needs a head count of those attending the 25Ð28 World Horror Convention Ñ Seattle WA. baseball game (The Huntsville Stars vs. the Birmingham 27 BD: Kathy Paulk. Barons, with the Famous Chicken!) on May 19th so he can go 28 Memorial Day. ahead and buy the tickets. The baseball game will be our program/After-The-Meeting-Meeting for May. After much JUNE discussion it was decided to go for general admission seats. Let 01 BD: Glenn Valentine. Randy know if you are going and want him to buy your ticket(s) 14 Flag Day. for you. 16* NASFA Meeting Ñ 6P Business, 7P Program, at Randy Cleary announced that he might actually be at 4th BookMark. ATMM TBD. Saturday Dinner and a Movie this month (on April 28th). (His 17 FathersÕ Day. first time!) Meet at Barnes & Noble between Noon and 12:30P 19 BD: Julie Schwartz. on the 28th if youÕre interested (now past). 22Ð25 MidWestCon 51 Ñ Springdale OH. NEW BUSINESS Randy Cleary: Does anybody know anything about ÒThe JULY Definitive Library of Science FictionÓ? HeÕs thinking about 01 Canada Day. subscribing. 02 BD: Deb Stone. We received an e-mail from Robert Oliver regarding his 04 Independence Day. uncle J. T. Oliver. His uncle was involved in fanac some time 21* NASFA Meeting Ñ 6P Business, 7P Program, at ago (the 1950Õs or earlier, apparently) and Robert is trying to BookMark. ATMM TBD. track down anything his uncle may have written during that 22 ParentsÕ Day. time. 24 BD: Jay Johns. There was some discussion about making a Road Trip. 29 BD: Mark Paulk. CONVENTION BUSINESS Con StellationÕs Toastmaster this year will be Jack AUGUST McDevitt. 08 BD: Jim Woosley. There were 489 hits on the Con Stellation web site in 10Ð12 ConGlomeration 2001 Ñ Clarksville IN. March. There were 62 hits on the DSC 40 web site in the same 14 BD: Edward Kenny. time frame. 16 BD: Zachary Mitchell. The next DSC 40 Con Com meeting will be Wednesday, 18* NASFA Meeting Ñ 6P Business, 7P Program, at April 18, at 7:00P at BookMark (now past). BookMark. ATMM TBD. The next Con Stellation Con Com meeting will be Thurs- 19 BD: Ariane Mitchell. day, April 19, at 6:30P at Mike KennedyÕs house (eating 21 BD: Deborah Denton. meeting) (now past). 30Ð03 The Millennium Philcon/Worldcon 59 Ñ Philadel- ANNOUNCEMENTS phia PA. Randy Cleary is buying a house Real Soon Now. (Party at 31Ð03 DragonCon 2001 Ñ Atlanta GA. RandyÕs! ) OoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoO The meeting was adjourned at 6:52P. The program was a psychic test, using the traditional testing cards but no electrical The North Alabama Science Fiction Association meets on shocks. After a coin flip, the After-The-Meeting-Meeting was the third Saturday of each month. (Unless there is a large held at Mike KennedyÕs house. nearby convention being held that weekend Ñ in which case we usually hold the meeting on the second or fourth weekend.) The regular meeting location is the upstairs meeting room at BookMark on South Memorial Parkway. The Executive NASFA Calendar Committee meeting (if scheduled) is at 5P. The business meeting is at 6P. The program is at 7P. Anyone is welcome to MAY attend any of the meetings. There is usually an after-the- 03 BD: Martha Knowles. meeting meeting with directions available at the program. 13 MothersÕ Day. 14 BD: Debbie Hughes. 16 BD: Linda Bolgeo. 17 Con Stellation ConCom, 6:30P, at Mike KennedyÕs NASFA Receivables house. Food theme: Spotted Food. by Randy B. Cleary 18Ð20 Roc*Kon 2001 Ñ Little Rock AR. 18 Cinco de Mayo Party at Ray Pietruszka and Nancy Here are some items received of late: CucciÕs house (8P). De Profundis, 338Ð339, Marty Cantor, c/o The Los 2 Angeles Science Fantasy Society, 11513 Burbank Boulevard, North Hollywood CA 91601 Ñ The February issue had 10 pink pages of club happenings with Rotsler illos. The March Huntsville Losses issue had 10 blue pages of the same. FOSFAX 202, March 2001, Timothy Lane and Elizabeth Members of Huntsville fandom suffered two losses Garrott, The Falls of the Ohio Science Fiction and Fantasy on the same day this past month. Association, P. O. Box 37281, Louisville KY 40233-7281 Ñ Jannis Marie Melton-Woosley, known to almost 84 packed pages of articles, features, con and trip reports, book everyone as Jann, died early Monday morning 16 April reviews, and letters of comment with lots of spot illustrations. 2001. Funeral services were held Wednesday the 18th at OASFiS Event Horizon 164Ð165, MarchÐApril 2001, Spry Funeral Home in Huntsville and the burial on Leslie R. Hammes, The Orlando Area Science-Fiction Soci- Thursday the 19th at Mount Pleasant Community ety, P. O. Box 940992, Maitland FL 32792-0992; 407-263- Cemetery in Caneyville KY. Jann was 45 years old. 5822 Ñ March had 4 pages of club information and a short Jann was survived by her husband James K. (Jim) fiction piece. April had 4 pages of club information, a book Woosley, her daughter Jeanna Marie Tidwell, and son review, a movie review, and award news. Jayson Kirby Woosley. The entire family has long been Twilight Zine #42 and 45, Yevgeniya Nusinovich, MIT active in fandom, both here in Huntsville and elsewhere. Science Fiction Society, 84 Massachusetts Avenue, Room Jann also left behind a sister, Rose Melton-Patrick of 473, Cambridge, MA 02139; (617)258-5126; <mitsfs@mit. Nashville, and a brother, Steve Melton also of Nash- edu>; <http://www.mit.edu/~mitsfs/> Ñ Issue 42 had a poem, ville. book reviews, and a novella excerpt. Issue 45 had book The family has requested that lieu of flowers, reviews, a poem, and some short fiction. donations may be made in JannÕs memory to the Cedar Crest Methodist Church Camp, Lick Creek Road, Lisle TN 37098. Jim has written a short personal thank you to Star Trek Lives (Duh) members of the fannish community which appears in the letter column of this issue. Paramount Network Television had announced casting for The other loss was the father of current Star Trek: Enterprise, the next installment in the television Con Stellation chair Marie McCormack. James E. sector of the Star Trek universe. Production is expected to McCormack, born 17 October 1926, died on 16 April begin right away, headed up by executive producer Rick 2001. In addition to Marie, he is survived by his wife Berman. Ruth C. McCormack. Leading the crew will be Scott Bakula as Captain Jonathan Mr. McCormack was born in Tennessee. He and Archer. The series reportedly will be set on board a starship at his family were residents of Huntsville since 1962.