Voyageur The Anticipation newsletter Issue 1: Thursday Afternoon Email your news to [email protected] About This Newsletter bringing broke fans to the Worldcon. Weapons Policy Reminder Welcome to the first issue of Voyageur, Pretty good for one night. No weapon, whether edged or projectile the official newsletter for Anticipation. —Patty Wells firing (or facsimiles thereof or anything Voyageur is being run by the Plokta resembling a weapon) shall be carried Cabal, whose fanzine, Plokta, has been a Tonight’s Parties within the boundaries of the convention. Hugo nominee ten times, and a winner All these parties are in the Delta Any weapon sold in the dealers room twice. We are Alison Scott, Steve Davies, must be wrapped for transport to the Mike Scott, Sue Mason, Giulia de Cesare, Ville Marie: Tor purchaser’s room; failure to do so will Steven Cain, Flick, Marianne Cain and 2804: Texas in 2013 result in the dealer being asked to Jonathan Cain. 2815: Aberdeen Proving Ground remove all weapons from their table. 2802: Philcon Operations/Rovers will have the final We’re all English (except for Giulia, who 2818: Hal-con Committee say on what constitutes a weapon. comes from Tasmania but now lives on 1331: Fast Forward 20th Anniversary Planet Giulia). This will therefore be an —John Harold English-style newsletter, which may A Word from the Chairs/ come as something of a surprise to those Un Mot des Présidents WSFS News who have only been to North American The WSFS Mark Protection Committee, Bonjourhi! conventions. which manages the intellectual property —René Walling & Robbie Bourget of WSFS such as the service marks on You too can get involved in the “Hugo Award” and “Worldcon”, will newsletter! We need stories —you can meet at 18:00 in P-518A to finalize its drop them off at the submission boxes Hydrate or Die report to the WSFS Business Meeting. located next to the Voodoo Board and in This meeting is open to all Worldcon the con office or, even better, email us at GoH Q&A members. [email protected]. We will There will be a Q&A session with Neil also be watching your tweets tagged The deadline for submitting new Gaiman at 14:00 today. Questions can be #worldcon or #anticipationsf. business to this year’s WSFS Business left in the box at the Kaffeeklatsch sign- M eeting is 22:00 Thursday. To submit up table, up to an hour beforehand. Why is This Newsletter Called new business, bring 200 copies Voyageur? —Farah Mendlesohn (including an original signed by at least two Worldcon members) to the Con Voyageurs were licensed fur traders in Nuts! French North America who navigated Office and ask that they be set aside for the waterways in canoes and were the As several members have severe peanut B usiness Meeting. You can also deliver a main means of disseminating news. allergies, the con suite and staff den will new business item to Business Meeting be peanut free. We ask that party hosts Secretary Linda Deneroff or Chairman Reno in 2011 take this into consideration, and either Kevin Standlee in person. A good way to Reno in 2011 would like to thank Ellen serve a nut-free choice or place a sign on do that is to bring it to the WSFS Mark Klages and David Levine for the door of their event so that those with Protection Committee meeting in improvising at our party. We understand allergies can avoid the area. P-518A at 18:00 or the Introduction to the Business Meeting panel in P-511D at Heisenberg was explained, and Ellen —Hope Kott 15:30. was made to say “Monkeys are crispy”. [Warning: This newsletter may contain nuts They raised over $125 towards a fun1d for —Ed.] —Kevin Standlee Party Plugs uses remote sensing for forensics such as Handicapped Seating Find out more about the first Worldcon the detection of mass graves. Designated seating for those with visual bid outdoors and on a Military Base. The Prof. Jason Lewis and artist Skawennati or audio impairments will generally be Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, in 2011 Tricia Fragnito from the department of located in the front of each meeting Worldcon bid will be tonight at 21:00 in Design and Computation Arts at room and will have a sign with the D elta room 2815. This is your chance to Concordia University will be presenting international accessibility symbol. Please h ear more about this bid. Have a Blast two projects on Friday evening at 19:00: reserve the use of these seats for at APG! “Time Traveller™ and Skins”. Time participants with disabilities until 15 m inutes after the session has started. —Tom Stidman Traveller™ is a machinima production shot in Second Life, the first episode of Meeting rooms will have indented areas Wednesday Membership which will be screened during the (with no chairs) located within the Numbers presentation—it is about an angry young general audience seating. Please reserve Mohawk man living in 2121 who uses a 1186 warm bodies, 3751 total these areas for individuals using scooters new technology to observe and membership. and wheel chairs or who have assistance participate in historical events. The animals. Please do not put personal Dealers’ Room Hours “Skins” project is series of workshops items in these spaces or move chairs into designed to teach “Storytelling in 11:00-18:00 Thursday these areas. Instructions for special Cyberspace” to Aboriginal youth. Skins seating for the Hugos and Masquerade 10:00-18:00 Friday through Sunday was prototyped with graphic arts will be provided in later newsletters. 10:00-16:00 Monday teacher Owisokon Lahache and her students at Kahnawake Survival School —Hope Kott Stand Back: We’re Going to Try during the 2008-2009 academic year. The Get Yer Free WiFi Here Science! team created a vertical slice of an original game mod based on Iroquois The secret code for WiFi in the Delta is There is a Science poster session, legends, using the Unreal Tournament e3fa9077. No more than 499 sponsored by the SF Foundation, in the game engine. Both presentations will be s imultaneous connections, chaps. Exhibit hall. The undergraduate and followed by a question and answer Pocket Programme post-graduate students whose research session. is described in the posters will be Anticipation has already set one available to answer questions and Consuite Hours Worldcon record: largest ever pocket provide explanations to all who are Room 522 in the Delta is open 24 hours a programme. We're looking around for a interested on Friday afternoon starting at day until 16:00 Monday member with a suitably large pocket. 14:00. Room 523 in the Delta is open 12:00 - —Henry Balen 02:30 today, 07:30 - 02:30 tomorrow Phi Delta Plokta through Sunday, 07:30 - 16:00 Monday. Anticipation has reached out to Press Gang members of the academic community You may not know, but Worldcon runs from the local Universities: entirely on volunteers. That means you. Prof. Frederic Fabry from the If you'd like to volunteer, please go to Department of Ocean and Atmospheric the volunteer signup located near Sciences and the School of the registration in room 210 of the Palais and Environment at McGill will be they'll set you to work. You'll need to participating on the panel “Climate sign a waiver. Bwa ha ha ha ha! Change in the Canadian North” on Saturday at 11:00 in P-511A. A nime Program The Anime programme didn't make it Prof. Margaret Kalacska from the into the pocket programme, but it will be Department of Geography will be at the happening. There's a full programme of convention on Saturday 9 August, and films in Les Courants in the Delta and of participating on the panel “Getting Your films and Anime in room 513AB of the Forensics Right” at 17:00. Prof Kalacska Palais. Details should be on the programme changes sheets. This issue produced by Mike Scott, Alison Scott & Flick, with illustrations by Hugo nominee Sue Mason, copy-editing by Beth Friedman and sundry assistance from1 Lew Wolkoff and the Cabal. Set in Palatino, Myriad Pro & Captain Kidd. Voyageur The Anticipation newsletter Issue 2: Thursday Evening Email your news to [email protected] Why is This Newsletter Called Book of Horror Stories) Stephen H. Segal & Ann VanderMeer Voyageur? “A Buyer's Guide to Maps of (for Weird Tales) Antarctica”, Catherynne M. Valente Jerad Walters (for A Lovecraft Because the committee wouldn't let us (Clarkesworld 5/08) Retrospective: Artists Inspired by H.P. call it L'Espace Lointain 9.... Lovecraft) Anthology Jacob Weisman (for Tachyon World Fantasy Awards The Living Dead, John Joseph Adams, ed. Publications) The nominees for the 2009 World (Night Shade Books) Fantasy Awards have been announced. The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Special Award—Non-professional The World Fantasy Convention 2009 will Fantasy, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Del Rey) Edith L. Crowe (for her work with The be held in San Jose, California. The The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: Mythopoeic Society) judges are Jenny Blackford, Peter Heck, Twenty-First Annual Collection, Ellen John Klima (for Electric Velocipede) Ellen Klages, Chris Roberson & Delia Datlow, Kelly Link, & Gavin J. Grant, Elise Matthesen (for setting out to Sherman. eds. (St. Martin's) inspire and for serving as inspiration for Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban works of poetry, fantasy, and SF over the Novel Fantasy, Ekaterina Sedia, ed. (Senses Five last decade through her jewelry-making The House of the Stag, Kage Baker (Tor) Press) and her “artist's challenges”) The Shadow Year, Jeffrey Ford (Morrow) Steampunk, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, eds.