Te Shutle June 2012 The Next NASFA Meeting will be at DeepSouthCon 50, Embassy Suites Breaking News—Renasant Bank Meeting Room Closing, New Meeting Location Must Be Found Starting in July ConCom 6P, Thursday 14 June at Mike Kennedy’s House Thursday 14 June—the evening before the beginning of d Oyez, Oyez d DeepSouthCon 50. The meeting will be at Mike Kennedy’s house, starting at 6P. This will be a dinner meeting, most likely The next NASFA Meeting will be held at DeepSouthCon delivery pizza. 50, on either Saturday 16 June or Sunday 17 June 2012. The July concom meeting will be Saturday 14 July—the This meeting was to be a meeting in a very virtual sen- same day as that month’s club meeting—at 3P. Note that this is se—and may still be—but a key item of urgent business has the 2nd Saturday because the club meeting that month was come up. Renasant Bank has announced that they are remodel- moved to accommodate folks going to LibertyCon the next ing their Community Room and that it will no longer be avail- weekend. Because of the meeting room issue, the location is able to us, effective immediately. So, we are in urgent need of a uncertain. It may be at the new NASFA meeting location (if new meeting room. Club officers have been casting around and available) or at Mike Kennedy’s house or even at an alternate should have a possibility or two to present. Your editor recom- location depending on circumstances. Stay tuned. mends that as many of us as possible gather after the closing Dates for concom meetings after July are not yet set. ceremony at DSC on Sunday afternoon to discuss the meeting CHANGING SHUTTLE DEADLINES location issue. Some folks will be tied up in DSC duties, but we The deadline for the NASFA Shuttle has been tweaked yet can hopefully reach a conclusion acceptable to all. again. The likely repro date has shifted somewhat to the right JUNE PROGRAM AND ATMM (roughly the weekend before each meeting) but most of each There will be no program or After-the-Meeting Meet- issue will still need to be put to bed as much as two weeks be- ing—the goings on at DSC should provide adequate substi- fore the monthly meeting. tutes, eh? Please check the deadline below the Table of Contents each CONCOM MEETINGS month to submit news, reviews, LoCs, or other material. We The next Con†Stellation XXXI concom meeting will be will generally need to enforce that deadline strictly. Continuing Our 32nd Year of Publication Inside this issue… NASFA Calendar ..................................................................3 News & Info .........................................................................2 Awards Roundup ..................................................................4 Minutes of the May Meeting (Not!) ......................................3 Letters of Comment ..............................................................6 Deadline for the July 2012 issue of The NASFA1 Shuttle is Monday 25 June 2012 FUTURE PROGRAMS AND ATMMs HUGO VOTER PACKET ONLINE Future programs include: Are you a member (Supporting or Attending) of this year’s • July: Stephanie Osborn, “Walk Toward The Light”—using worldcon? If so, hie ye over to the Chicon 7 website history in the Displaced Detective series. <www.chicon.org> to download this year’s voter’s packet. IF • August: Les Johnson speaking on his book Going Interstel- you don’t already have your Hugo PIN you’ll need to get that lar. from Chicon as that (plus your membership number) is the key • October: Probably the Con†Stellation Post-Mortem. to access the download area. • December: Probably the More-Or-Less-Annual NASFA Gift This material covers the large majority of works and persons Exchange. nominated, including everything in the written fiction catego- We have a tentative volunteer for the July ATMM, but it’s ries. Only the Dramatic Presentation (short and long) categories somewhat up in the air due to the meeting room issue. We need are unrepresented. Even without the DPs, the full package is volunteers for August and almost all months past (though No- hefty, around 1 Gbyte compressed, so it’s broken up into cate- vember is spoken for). gories (and sometimes broken down more than that) for down- FUTURE CLUB MEETING DATES loading. All remaining 2012 meetings are currently scheduled for While not a required part of the worldcon, this voter’s packet the usual 3rd Saturday except the July meeting, which will be has become traditional over the last several years. It certainly the 2nd Saturday due to a conflict with LibertyCon. makes for more informed voters, but its existence depends on NASFA CALENDAR ONLINE those voters not abusing the material—that is, not sharing it NASFA has an online calendar on Google. Interested parties with ineligible persons. [So please don’t ask me for a copy. can check the calendar online, but you can also subscribe to the -ED] calendar and have your Outlook, iCal, BlackBerry, or other 2013 WORLDCON MEMBERSHIP RATE GOING UP calendar automatically updated as events (Club Meetings, Con- As of the end of June 2012, the membership rates for the com Meetings, local sf/f events) are added or changed. You can 2013 Worldcon, LoneStarCon 3 <www.lonestarcon3.org>, will view the calendar online at <tinyurl.com/NASFACal>. go up. Adult Attending Membership will bump up $20 to $180. Some, but not all, other rates will also increase. INSTANT ZOMBIES, JUST ADD, ER, BRAINS? Zombie Run <howtophil.com/zombierun> is a free (more or News & Info less, keep reading) card game you can print yourself. You do have to “pay” for the PDFs by clicking through their site to RIP RAY BRADBURY mention ZR on Facebook or Twitter. Or, follow a different link As virtually the whole genre world has heard by now, Ray from their page to buy a professionally printed, boxed set for Bradbury died this month at age 91. There is really nothing the about $25 (about $20 without the box). Shuttle can add about his life, work, or death. For the few of If you choose to print it yourself, you’ll need a pile of our readers that may not have heard the story, though, your 3.5ʺx2ʺ pre-perforated business card stock to print the 130 editor will relate his favorite Bradbury story. cards. At the 1986 Worldcon, ConFederation in Atlanta, Mr. Brad- LOVE THE SMELL OF BOOKS? bury was the pro guest of honor. At the entrance to the dealers If you just can’t get enough of the smell of a new book, but room (or was it the art show?) a badge checker stopped him be- are trying to switch over to ebooks—or perhaps your paramour cause he wasn’t wearing his badge and the checker didn’t recog- likes that scent—there’s a new perfume just for you. Paper nize him. Stories vary but apparently Mr. B was able to find his Passion <steidlville.com/books/1312-Paper-Passion.html> by badge and enter the room past the now embarrassed (but per- Geza Schoen, Gerhard Steidl, and Wallpaper* magazine, with fectly justified) checker. So, the saying around the con became packaging by Karl Lagerfeld and Gerhard Steidl could be just “Bradbury, Schmadbury, you still have to show your badge.” the thing. It’s a steal at only $115. DUFF TO HOLD OVER FUNDS SFWA ELECTION RESULTS As mentioned in the last issue of the Shuttle, some furor had The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America <www. arisen over the short timeline for nominations and voting in this sfwa.org> recently held their annual election. The winners are: year’s Down Under Fan Fund run race. The trip direction was President ...............................................................John Scalzi to be North America to Australasia. The timing was such that it Vice President ................................................Rachel Swirsky would have been impossible to get to the New Zealand natcon Secretary ..............................................................Ann Leckie after the vote was finalized, and a scramble to get to the Austra- Treasurer ........................................................Bud Sparhawk lian one. West Coast Representative ....................................Jim Fiscus In the end, two candidates—Juanita Coulson (USA) and Canadian Representative ..........................Matthew Johnson Murray Moore (Canada)—made the ballot. Mr Moore’s posi- QUIDDITCH DEMO AT OLYMPICS, SORT OF tion was that a vote for Hold Over Funds was for the best. A The International Quidditch Association <www. win for HOF would result in no representative being sent this internationalquidditch.org> has announced plans to demo year. Muggle Quidditch during the 2012 London Olympics. Well, The final vote tally (first place votes) was HOF 57 (38 North no, it’s not an official part of the festivities but I’m sure the America, 19 Australasia), Coulson 25 (24, 1) , Moore 13 (12, IQA is hoping to 2). With a first-round majority for HOF, there was no need to piggyback a bit on go to a second round. the attention focused WORLDCON HOTEL FILLING on London at that The main hotel (in which all functions will take place) for time. The game is this year’s Worldcon—Chicon 7—is getting full. As this article (duh!) adapted from was being written, they had increased their room block to 1900 Quidditch as de- rooms and were still 92% full on the peak night (Saturday). scribed in the Harry Quidditch Uniform Details 2 Potter series. The website claims it is currently played at over Chronicles, Ray Bradbury; 6P. 300 universities and high schools in 13 countries. In a related 09 Nunavut Day. note, the 5th Quidditch World Cup <www.worldcupquidditch. 13–15 Anime Southeast—Sevierville TN. com> will take place 12–13 November 2012 at Randall's Island 14* Con†Stellation XXXI Concom Meeting—3P, location in New York City.