The National Fantasy Fan Cras ad Stellae — Tomorrow to the Stars Volume 78 Number 5 May 2019 Neffy Nominations When We Were Starless - Simone Heller— Behold the nominations for the 2019 Neffy Awards, Clarkesworld issue 145 honoring works appearing in 2018. We now have Prophet of the Roads - Naomi Kritzer - Infinity's two months to discuss these stfnal gems. Please End, Solaris send your comments for publication to Tightbeam A Song of Home, the Organ Grinds - James Beamon ([email protected]) or contribute to N’APA - Lightspeed Magazine issue 98 ([email protected]).. Meat And Salt And Sparks - Rich Larson - Tor.com The City of Lost Desire - Phyllis Eisenstein - the Jan Best Novel (over 100,000 words) -Feb F&SF Against Three Lands—George Phillies Best Book Editor A Guide For Murdered Children—Sarah Sparrow Legion---The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds - Toni Weisskopf Brandon Sanderson The Princess in the Tower—Chris Nuttall Best Fanzine (electronic publication is allowed) Uncompromising Honor—David Weber We Sold Our Souls - Grady Hendrix Ionisphere from John Thiel Optuntia from Dale Spiers Best Shorter Work (under 100,000 words) Origin from John Thiel Spartacus, published by Guy Lillian Shadowdrop - Chris Willrich—Beneath Ceaseless Tightbeam from the N3F Skies issue 261 The Black God's Drums - P. Djèlí Clark - Tor Pub- Best Blog lishing Joyride - Kristine Kathryn Rusch - Asimov's Sci- Gary Labowitz ence Fiction 11-12/2018 Mad Genius Club—the Mad Genii What Is Eve? - Will McIntosh - Lightspeed Maga- zine issue 95 Best TV Show Intervention - Kelly Robson - Infinity's End, Solaris Bloom - Kate Elliott - The Book of Magic, Bantam Game of Thrones Books Supergirl Art Angela K. 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Zines: Poetry & Writers Book Review Bureau Genres: Not hard science, but I do love gritty real- ism, mixed with character-based drama. We are making positive progress on getting more Creators: Frank Herbert, David Brin, Margret At- books reviewed. See the pages of Tightbeam. I did wood, JRR Tolkien, Mary Stewart, Edgar Allen ask our reviewers if they would be willing to review Poe, Ursula Le Guin, Neil Gaiman, Janet Frame, the Hugo nominees; I expect we will instead get Stephen R. Donaldson, Ray Bradbury, Madeline reviews of the Dragon nominees and perhaps the L'Engle, C.S. Lewis Neffy nominees. N3F Interests: Artwork , Writing for club publica- tions TNFF Page 4 their day and wreaking havoc with their nights. We have the cure. Sign up with the Electronic Round Robins and you will be paired with another SFOL in which to share your science fiction needs and reduce your over load. Contact Judy Carroll Au- [email protected] Fan-Pro Coordinating Bureau We give email addresses for the writers we inter- view. I hope members are taking advantage of this. Also we give URLs for those we interview. When Aliens … Jose Sanchez you see them on their sites it moves you closer to the writers. I am wishing we had a staff person to con- Directorate tact members of the NFFF and ask whether they have been taking advantage of this. I won’t do this There was a new proposal this month to myself—the standard “too busy with other things”— re-establish the correspondence bureau. This and but I would like to find out how we’re doing at pro- alternate possibilities for communications moting activity. I’d like to establish a new position improvement were discussed.—John Thiel of “membership communications” and also get the people in the bureau exchanging correspondence Correspondence Bureau about the bureau, and am planning to try to get things going here. We do intercommunicate but not How many of you like to have conversations with at any great length.—John Thiel people who have the same or similar interests as yourself? How do you go about finding these same History and Research Bureau -interest people? Do you casually mention to the person working closest to you that you are going I think we’re up to good sailing; we’re giving many to a science fiction convention this weekend, hop- pointers on research, keeping members aware of his- ing to strike up a conversation? Do you accidently torical things (thanks to Jon Swartz) and getting live- leave a science fiction anthology on your desk ly insights from Jeffrey Redmond. Judy Carroll is thinking someone with the same interest will no- also bringing in interesting data.