ASFACTS 2010 SPOOKTACULAR OCTOBER EDITION Sheraton at the end of this month, and thus being subject to corporation guidelines on rental prices. The contract we signed goes through December 2010 at $45.00 a month (thus club dues were increased last October). Our liaison at the hotel was able to get us a $75 rate 2010 H UGO AWARD WINNERS for January and February 2011, thus giving us a few ex- by Cyriaque Lamar tra months to find a new place. After that, the Sheraton The 2010 Hugo Award Winners were presented Albuq Airport Hotel would run the club $100 a month – September 5 at Aussiecon 4, the 68th World Science more than we can afford. Fiction Convention, in Melbourne, Australia. Who were ASFS, started in June 1965 at Roy Tackett’s house, among the big winners? China Miéville, Paolo Baci- was fortunate not to pay any rent for more than 44 years. galupi, and Moon . Before the Albuquerque Grand, meetings had been held Here's the full list of Winners: in members’ homes, bank community rooms (gone, es- BEST NOVEL: [Tied] The City & The City by pecially post-9/11), Oddfellows Hall, the downtown China Miéville, and The Windup Girl by Paolo Baci- PNM Building, Sirloin Stockade, the UNM Law School, galupi. NOVELLA: "Palimpsest" by Charles Stross. the Lovelace Education Building, Irysh Mac’s, Grant NOVELETTE: "The Island" by Peter Watts. SHORT Middle School and Huff Studio. STORY: "Bridesicle" by Will McIntosh. Unfortunately, with most members wanting to keep RELATED WORK: This is Me, Jack Vance! (Or, meetings on Friday evenings and those lasting more than More Properly, This is "I") by Jack Vance. GRAPHIC 90 minutes, finding a new location may be difficult for STORY: Girl Genius, Volume 9: Agatha Heterodyne under $55 with seating for 40-50 people theater-style and the Heirs of the Storm by Kaja and Phil Foglio. (plus parking). DRAMATIC PRESENTATION - LONG FORM: Moon , DRAMATIC PRESENTATION - SHORT FORM: Doctor Who : "The Waters of Mars." UUUPCOMING ASFS MEETINGS EDITOR, LONG FORM: Patrick Nielsen Hayden, • Club Elections & Aussie Con Trip Reports EDITOR, SHORT FORM: Ellen Datlow. PROFES- Tonight! Intrepid travelers Kevin Hewett & SIONAL ARTIST: Shaun Tan. Randi Tinkham talk about their trips Down Un- SEMIPROZINE: Clarkesworld edited by Neil der, with slides even. Plus, Three offices need to Clarke, Sean Wallace & Cheryl Morgan. FAN be filled for Nov 2010-Oct 2011, and the WRITER: Frederik Pohl. FANZINE: StarShipSofa ed- “challenge ingredient” for December chosen (see ited by Tony C. Smith. FAN ARTIST: Brad W. Foster. below). Voting rules apply, based on attendance JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARD: Seanan McGuire. at the club and dues paid to date. It was also announced at Aussiecon 4 that Chi- • November 19: A special visit from Colorado cago's Chicon 7 will host the 2012 World Science Fic- author Connie Willis (and thus a week later than tion Convention August 30-September 3, 2012. Chicon normal), fresh off her All Clear book tour. 7's guests include Mike Resnick, Rowena Morrill, and • December 10: The 6th ASFS Dessert Cook-Off, John Scalzi. and short SF-oriented holiday films. Plus, the annual issue of SITH FACTS will be distributed ASFS L OOKS FOR NEW HOME … A GAIN (deadline Sunday, Dec 5). We’ll be in the Berna- lillo Room on the 2nd Floor of the hotel! by Craig Chrissinger, co-executive secretary • January 14, 2011: The long-awaited visit of After a year of ASFS at the Albuquerque Grand Diana Gabaldon. At least that’s the plan... Airport Hotel, it was announced last month that the • February 11: Unknown this far out. We do group will need to find a new home come March 2011. The move is necessitated by the hotel becoming a know there will be a Valentine issue of ASFacts . Craig Chrissinger, normal editor. Darth Vader, guest editor each December. Please Send All Correspondence to — PO Box 37257, Albuquerque, NM 87176-7257. Phone: (505) 266-8905. E-mail: [email protected]. ASFACTS published February, April, July & October for the Albuq SF Society. SITH FACTS out each December. NEXT DEADLINE : Sun, Dec 5. Club Officers: Kevin Hewett & Craig Chrissinger, co-Zec Secs (505) 266-8905. Kathy K Kubica, Moderator. Jessica Coyle, Alternator. Jack Skeleton, Halloween Advisor. Bubonicon Co-Chairs: Craig Chrissinger & Kristen Dorland (505) 459-8734. A search for a new location is ongoing now. Any- of Terra , unknown artist, for novel by Poul Anderson, one who has an idea is encouraged to do the basic re- Toy: DC Direct Blammoids (some adorable, other search on rental cost, size of space (again 40 people at are just wrong). least), whether food/drink is allowed (at least in Decem- ber), how late we can meet (10:00-10:30 pm is prefer- SNYDER TO REBOOT SUPERMAN able), parking availability, and an open schedule for the 2nd Friday of most months (we take holidays into ac- Zack Snyder beat out at least five other directors count). Contact Craig or Kevin with as much informa- who were reportedly in the running to reboot Super- tion as possible to present to the club membership. man —including Deja Vu 's Tony Scott and Moon 's Dun- Approved unanimously in September 2009, Indi- can Jones —and has been chosen by Warner Brothers vidual dues are currently $2.50 per meeting or $25.00 a and Legendary Pictures to direct the newest installment year; while Households are $3.50 a month or $35.00 in the Man of Steel's big-screen franchise, reported annually (please make checks to Craig Chrissinger so he Blastr in early October. can cash them for the club). With rent being a cruel real- Snyder, who directed Watchmen and 300, and is ity, dues are vital and necessary. nearing completion on Sucker Punch , confirmed the news to Deadline by saying: E.C. T UBB DIES AT 91 "I've been a big fan of the character for a long time, he's definitely the king of all superheroes, he's the one. British novelist Edwin Charles Tubb died in Eng- It's early yet, but I can tell you that what David and Chris land Sept. 10, on the same day that his final novel, the have done with the story so far definitely has given me a dystopian epic To Dream Again , was accepted for publi- great insight into a way to make him feel modern. I've cation in 2011. He was 91 years old. always felt he was kind of awesome. I'll finish Sucker His contributions to the genre were immense. Tubb Punch and get right at it." wrote over 130 novels, including 33 volumes of the Du- marest of Terra series, which begins with The Winds of Gath . Earl Dumarest is a young Earth boy who stows MILEHICON PREPARES FOR away on a spaceship, and instead of tossing him out an 42 ND CELEBRATION airlock, the captain takes him under his wing. By the time he becomes an adult, he's traveled so far that no- Milehicon, Colorado’s longest-running SF conven- body has even heard of Earth and people think it's just a tion, will celebrate its 42nd incarnation October 22-24 legend. with a “Hitchhiker’s Guide” theme at Denver’s Hyatt Tubb also wrote six Space: 1999 novels and many Regency-Tech Center on East Tufts Avenue near the other stand-alone novels, some under various pseudo- southern end of the Mile High City. This year’s Guests nyms. He edited the final twenty issues of Authentic Sci- of Honor are authors Katherine Kurtz and Rachel Caine. ence Fiction magazine and co-founded the British Sci- Artist Guest is Donato Giancola, who has won three ence Fiction Association. His short story "Little Girl Hugos, eight Chesley Awards, Lost" was adapted for American television in 1972. and one World Fantasy Award; and Toastmaster is GREEN SLIME AWARDS HANDED OUT Paolo Bacigalupi, author of the highly decorated Windup In a ceremony August 29 at Bubonicon 42 at the Girl . Albuquerque Grand Airport Hotel in Albuquerque, NM, Other guests that New Kathy Kelley-Kubica presented the following with rec- Mexicans may recognize include Daniel Abraham, ognition of their wretchedness in the last 12 months: Mario Acevedo, Doug Beason, David Boop, Peri Char- Film: The Last Airbender (an agonizing experience, lifu, Craig Chrissinger, Fred Cleaver, Daniel and David clunky dialog, bad 3-D), Dvorkin, Cynthia Felice, Warren Hammond, Sarah Hoyt Technical Trends: Fake 3-D, added in post- (Sat only), Jim Humble, Wil McCarthy, Charles & Tauni production (either plan to film as 3-D or don’t do it), Orndorff, Robin Owens, Melinda Snodgrass, Jeanne Television: The Gates on ABC (enough with cheap Stein, Robert Stikmanz, John Stith (Sat only), David Lee vampire romance/soap operas), Summers, Ian Tregillis, James Van Pelt and Carrie SyFy Movie: Stonehenge Apocalypse (too many Vaughn. plots – choose one, please; no continuity), Programming starts at 3 pm Friday, which some Novel: Divine Misdemeanors by Laurell K. Hamil- offered items as a mini writer’s conference, the Improvo- ton (the actual mystery takes a backseat), cation, the Milehicon Mix, Munch & Mingle, a Texas Book Cover Art: Sir Dominic Flandry: Last Knight Hold’em tournament, the Critter Floatilla Race, and Page 2 ASFACTS , October 2010 “Carrie and The Midnight Hour.” In the film's most memorable scene, McCarthy's Saturday is full of events, such as the con suite cof- frantic Bennell runs into traffic, screaming to motorists, feeklatsch sponsored by Who Else Books, costuming "Stop and listen to me! They're not human! …Can't you demos, performances by Serpentmoon, a bellydancing see? Everyone! They're here already.