ASFACTS 2012 APRIL “L ET IT RAIN ” S PRING ISSUE Fiction, Third Edition edited by John Clute, David Lang- ford, Peter Nicholls & Graham Sleight, Jar Jar Binks Must Die… and Other Observations about Science Fic- tion Movies by Daniel M. Kimmel, Wicked Girls by Se- anan McGuire, WRITING EXCUSES , S EASON 6 BY BRAN- DON SANDERSON , Dan Wells, Howard Tayler, Mary Robinette Kowal, & Jordan Sanderson, and The Steam- UTHORS UBONICON RIENDS punk Bible by Jeff VanderMeer & S.J. Chambers. NM A & B F GRAPHIC STORY: The Unwritten, Vol. 2: Leviathan AMONG 2012 H UGO NOMINEES by Mike Carey, Locke & Key, Vol. 4: Keys To The King- dom by Joe Hill, Schlock Mercenary: Force Multiplica- Nominees for the Hugo Awards and for the John tion by Howard Tayler, DIGGER BY URSULA VERNON , W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer were an- and Fables, Vol. 15: Rose Red by Bill Willingham & nounced the first weekend of April at Eastercon by Chi- Mark Buckingham. con 7. Among the nominees are three NM authors for DRAMATIC PRESENTATION – LONG: Captain best novel (and George RR Martin’s HBO series of America: The First Avenger, GAME OF THRONES : S EASON Game of Thrones for dramatic presentation). Of other 1, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, Hugo interest are nominations for 2011 visitors to Albuquer- and Source Code . DRAMATIC PRESENTATION – que – Catherynne M. Valente, Paul Cornell and John SHORT: Community : “Remedial Chaos Theory,” “The Picacio – and Bubonicon 44 guests Brandon Sanderson Drink Tank’s Hugo Acceptance Speech,” Doctor Who : and Ursula Vernon. The 70th World Science Fiction “The Doctor’s Wife,” Doctor Who : “The Girl Who Convention will be held in Chicago, Ill, August 30- Waited,” and Doctor Who : “A Good Man Goes to War.” September 3, 2012. The Hugo Awards ceremony will PROFESSIONAL EDITOR - LONG FORM: Lou take place September 2. A list follows: Anders, Liz Gorinsky, Anne Lesley Groell, Patrick Niel- NOVEL: LEVIATHAN WAKES BY JAMES S.A. C OREY sen Hayden, and Betsy Wollheim. PROFESSIONAL (Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, of Albuquerque), EDITOR - SHORT FORM: John Joseph Adams, Neil Deadline by Mira Grant, A D ANCE WITH DRAGONS BY Clarke, Stanley Schmidt, Jonathan Strahan, and Sheila GEORGE R.R. M ARTIN (of Santa Fe), Embassytown by China Miéville, and Among Others by Jo Walton. NO- UPCOMING ASFS M EETINGS VELLA: “The Ice Owl” by Carolyn Ives Gilman, • Tonight: Bob Vardeman hosts the annual ASFS “Countdown” by Mira Grant, “The Man Who Bridged Auction. the Mist” by Kij Johnson, “Kiss Me Twice” by Mary • May 11: Unknown programming - perhaps a Robinette Kowal, “The Man Who Ended History: A movie screening or a gaming night. Documentary” by Ken Liu, and Silently and Very Fast • June 1: Visits from author Richard E. Peck, and by Catherynne M. Valente. Albq Comic Expo (ACE) coordinators Greg Der- NOVELETTE: “Six Months, Three Days” by Char- rick & Craig Butler. Meeting is a week early! lie Jane Anders, “The Copenhagen Interpretation” by • July 13: A visit from Ian Tregillis. Plus the sum- Paul Cornell, “What We Found” by Geoff Ryman, mer issue of ASFacts (deadline July 8). “Fields of Gold” by Rachel Swirsky, and “Ray of Light” • August 10: Bubonicon 44 preview and some other by Brad R. Torgersen. SHORT STORY: “Movement” fun bit. Plus nominations for Bubonicon 45’s chair. by Nancy Fulda, “The Paper Menagerie” by Ken Liu, • August 17: Bubonicon 44 Gofer Meeting. “The Homecoming” by Mike Resnick, “Shadow War of • September 21: Bubonicon 44 & Worldcon re- the Night Dragons, Book One: The Dead City ports. Meeting is a week late (3rd Friday). (Prologue)” by John Scalzi, and “The Cartographer • October 12: Club officer elections, some other bit Wasps and the Anarchist Bees” by E. Lily Yu. and the Halloween issue of ASFacts . RELATED WORK: The Encyclopedia of Science 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, July 8. Club Officers: Kevin Hewett & Craig Chrissinger, co-Zec Secs (505) 266-8905. Jessica Coyle, Moderator. Randi Hewett, Alternator. Bubonicon Chairs: Craig Chrissinger & Kristen Dorland (505) 459-8734. www.bubonicon.com Williams. PROFESSIONAL ARTIST: Daniel Dos San- tos, Bob Eggleton, Michael Komarck, Stephan Marti- 2011 N EBULA NOMINEES ANNOUNCED niere, and John Picacio. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Amer- SEMIPROZINE: Apex Magazine, Interzone, ica announced the nominees for the 2011 Nebula Awards Lightspeed, Locus , and The New York Review of Science (presented 2012) in mid-February, plus the nominees for Fiction . FANZINE: Banana Wings, The Drink Tank, the Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Pres- File 770, Journey Planet , and SF Signal . FANCAST: entation, and the nominees for the Andre Norton Award The Coode Street Podcast, Galactic Suburbia Podcast, for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy Book. SF Signal Podcast, SF Squeecast , and StarShipSofa . NOVEL: God’s War by Kameron Hurley, The FAN WRITER: James Bacon, Claire Brialey, Kingdom of Gods by N.K. Jemisin, Firebird by Jack Christopher J Garcia, Jim C. Hines and Steven H Silver. McDevitt, Embassytown by China Miéville, FAN ARTIST: Brad W. Foster, Randall Munroe, Spring Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti by Gene- Schoenhuth, Maurine Starkey, Steve Stiles and Taral vieve Valentine, and Among Others by Jo Walton. NO- WayNe. VELLA: “With Unclean Hands” by Adam-Troy Castro, JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARD FOR BEST “The Ice Owl” by Carolyn Ives Gilman, “The Man Who NEW WRITER [NOT A HUGO AWARD]: Mur Bridged the Mist by Kij Johnson, “Kiss Me Twice” by Lafferty, Stina Leicht, Karen Lord, Brad R. Torgersen, Mary Robinette Kowal, “The Man Who Ended History: and E. Lily Yu. A Documentary” by Ken Liu, and Silently and Very Fast There were 1,101 nominating ballots received from by Catherynne M. Valente. members of Chicon 7 and Renovation. The deadline for NOVELETTE: “Six Months, Three Days” by Char- online ballots and the receipt of paper ballots is July 31. lie Jane Anders, “The Old Equations” by Jake Kerr, “What We Found” by Geoff Ryman, “The Migratory STAR WARS ARTIST DIES Pattern of Dancers” by Katherine Sparrow, “Sauerkraut Station” by Ferrett Steinmetz, “Fields of Gold” by Ra- Ralph McQuarrie, the legendary artist who helped chel Swirsky, and “Ray of Light” by Brad R. Torgersen. bring to life Star Wars ’ unforgettable galaxy far, far SHORT STORY: “Her Husband’s Hands” by Adam- away – died March 3 in Berkeley, CA, after battling Troy Castro, “Mama, We Are Zhenya, Your Son” by Parkinson’s, reported Entertainment Weekly in mid- Tom Crosshill, “Shipbirth” by Aliette de Bodard, March. He was 82 years old. “Movement” by Nancy Fulda, “The Axiom of Choice” Born in Gary, Ind, McQuarrie moved to California by David W. Goldman, “The Paper Menagerie” by Ken to work as a technical illustrator for Boeing before Liu, and “The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist breaking into Hollywood as a movie-poster designer. Bees” by E. Lily Yu. He’d later contribute concept art for Close Encounters of RAY BRADBURY AWARD for Outstanding Dra- the Third Kind , the original Battlestar Galactica TV se- matic Presentation: The Adjustment Bureau, Attack the ries, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Block, Captain America: The First Avenger, Doctor Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and Cocoon , which won Who : “The Doctor’s Wife,” Hugo, Midnight in Paris and him an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects in 1986. Source Code . But it’s his now-iconic designs of Darth Vader, ANDRE NORTON AWARD for Young Adult Sci- Chewbacca, R2-D2 and C-3PO that will be McQuarrie’s ence Fiction and Fantasy Book: Ultraviolet by R.J. most cherished legacy. Anderson, Chime by Franny Billingsley, The Girl of Fire Anthony Daniels, who played C-3PO in all six Star and Thorns by Rae Carson, The Boy at the End of the Wars films, tweeted, “Without his inspirational art I World by Greg van Eekhout, Everybody Sees the Ants by would not be C-3PO. I once said to him, ‘This is all A.S. King, Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor, The Free- YOUR fault!’ Then I thanked him.” dom Maze by Delia Sherman, and Daughter of Smoke & In fact, there might be no Star Wars at all without Bone by Laini Taylor. McQuarrie. George Lucas used his designs to help sell The SFWA announced the recipients of the 2012 the space opera to a still-skeptical 20 th Century Fox in Solstice Awards in mid-March: Octavia Butler and John 1975. As Lucas said in a statement, “Ralph McQuarrie Clute. The award, created in 2008 and given at the dis- was the first person I hired to help me envision Star cretion of the SFWA president with the majority ap- Wars … When words could not convey my ideas, I could proval of the Board of Directors, is for individuals, liv- always point to one of Ralph’s fabulous illustrations and ing or dead, who have had “a significant impact on the say, ‘Do it like this.’” science fiction or fantasy landscape, and is particularly He illustrated numerous Star Wars -related books, intended for those who have consistently made a major, including The Illustrated Star Wars Universe , written by positive difference within the speculative fiction field.” Kevin J. Anderson. McQuarrie is survived by his wife. Previous winners are Alice B. Sheldon (aka James Tip- Page 2 ASFACTS , April 2012 tree, Jr.), Michael Whelan, Kate Wilhelm, Tom Doherty, Thomas Eugene DeWeese was born January 31, Terri Windling, and Donald A.