Te Shutle Septmber 2010 The Next NASFA Meeting will be 25 September 2010 at the Regular Time Note That This is a One Week Delay due to Con†Stellation Other than watching out for the “land mines,” the usual d Oyez, Oyez d NASFA rules apply—please bring your favorite drink and a food item to share. The next NASFA Meeting is Saturday 25 September 2010 We need an ATMM volunteer for October. The November at the regular time (6P) and the regular location. Note that ATMM will be at Mike Kennedy’s house. We need ATMM this is one week later than usual due to Con†Stellation. volunteers for December and all months beyond. Meetings are at the Renasant Bank’s Community Room, CONCOM MEETINGS 4245 Balmoral Drive in south Huntsville. Exit the Parkway at The date for the first Con†Stellation XXX concom meeting Airport Road; head east one short block to the light at Balmoral is not yet set. Con chair Anita Eisenberg will probably set it Drive; turn left (north) for less than a block. The bank is on the around the end of this calendar year or the beginning of the right, just past Logan’s Roadhouse restaurant. Enter at the front next. door of the bank; turn right to the end of a short hallway. SHUTTLE NEWS SEPTEMBER PROGRAM Due both to the Worldcon converge in this issue and the con- NASFA’s September program will be a post-mortem discus- stricted time available to put it together, we’ve asked PieEyed- sion of Con†Stellation XXIX. Come prepared to discuss what Dragon to hold on to the next several chapters of No Need for a went wrong so we can fix it, but also to discuss what went right Ring until more time (and possibly space) is available. We hope so we can repeat it. to continue NNFAR in the October issue. ATMMs NASFA CALENDAR ONLINE The September After-The-Meeting Meeting will be at Nancy NASFA has an online calendar on Google. Interested parties Cucci and Ray Pietruszka’s house—211 Evalyn Street in Madi- can check the calendar online, but you can also subscribe to the son. Nancy sends word that the neighbor’s dog has left, er, let’s calendar and have your Outlook, iCal, BlackBerry, or other call them land mines, all over the neighbor’s yard… so your calendar automatically updated as events (Club Meetings, Con- best bet is to stay off the grass. com Meetings, local sf/f events) are added or changed. Continuing Our 30th Year of Publication! Inside this issue… Special Worldcon Review Section News and Info!.......................................................................2 ! Worldcon, What a Trip!!.....................................................5 Minutes of the August Meeting!.............................................2 ! Hugo and Campbell Awards!..............................................6 NASFA Calendar!..................................................................2 ! Worldcon Site Selection!.....................................................6 Book Review: Masters of SF!.................................................3 ! Australian Awards at Worldcon!..........................................7 World Fantasy Awards Nominations !.....................................4 ! Other Awards at Worldcon!.................................................7 Awards Roundup !..................................................................4 ! Worldcon Business Meeting!..............................................8 Letter of Comment!...............................................................5 ! Upcoming Worldcons and Bids!.........................................8 Deadline for the October issue of The NASFA1 Shuttle is Friday 1 October 2010 The promotional bookmarks we ordered to promote Con† News & Info Stellation 2010 and 2011 had many errors. Randy brought flyers he picked up at NASFIC 2010 in Ral- RENO RATES RISING eigh NC. Certain membership rates for the next Worldcon, to be held Doug brought a bag he called “Sam in absentia,” since it 17–21August 2011 in Reno NV, are rising 1 October 2011. The could be used to conduct Treasurer business. Adult Attending membership will go from $160 to $180. Fam- There’s a new convention in New Orleans. Mike C. pro- ily rates (covering two adults and any number of children) will claimed, “Fandom lives!” Doug pantomimed choking. rise from $430 to $460. Details can be found on the Reno web- CONVENTION BUSINESS site at <www.renovationsf.org>. As mentioned before, the bookmarks we ordered were mis- 2012 WFC SITE ANNOUNCED printed. The site for the 2012 World Fantasy Convention has been As of the meeting, Con†Stellation flyers were almost ready. announced as Toronto ON. According to their Facebook page, If you hadn’t already, after the meeting was a good time to it will be held 1–4 November of that year. Links to sitting WFC reserve a hotel room for Con†Stellation. committees can be found at the main WFC website <www. Anita had nothing new to report about Con†Stellation 2011, worldfantasy.org> though the 2012 link was not yet in place at but reminded everyone that Gene Wolfe will be Guest of the time this article was written. Honor. The committee/site for WFCs is chosen by the World Fan- The new, corrected bookmarks will be printed soon. tasy Convention Board <[email protected]>, currently Doug moved to adjourn at 6:29:55P. chaired by David G. Hartwell. For the program, we held the more-or-less annual NASFA DALEKS THE BEST (OR, UM, WORST?) Auction. Russell McNutt hosted the After-the-Meeting Meeting Magazine SFX <www.sfx.co.uk> has named Daleks from and pool party at his house. the Dr. Who universe as the “Favourite Monsters, Supernatural Beings & Fantasy Creatures,” based on an online poll. Actually, the Daleks are only one of ten winners, since the poll covered that double-handful of categories. Winners in NASFA Calendar other categories were R2-D2 (Robots & Androids), Batman (Superheroes & Comic-Book Characters), Mr. Spock (Alien), SEPTEMBER Rupert Giles from the Buffyverse (Sages, Mentors And Bof- 02! Bailey Cove Library Book Discussion: Foundation, fins), The Master, another Dr. Who fave (Villains), Dr. Horri- Isaac Asimov; 6P. ble, of sing-along fame (Anti-Heroes, Accidental Good Guys 02–06!Aussiecon 4/68th World Science Fiction Convention— And Dodgy Do-Gooders), Dracula (Vampires), The Doctor Melbourne, Australia. (Hero), and Sarah Connor (Heroine). 03! BD: David K. Robinson. The lists at <ww.sfx.co.uk/2010/08/18/sfx-200-poll-results> in- 03–05!Mephit Furmeet—Memphis TN. clude a Top 20 in each of the categories. Let the arguments begin. 03–06!Dragon*Con—Atlanta GA. GIVING SKYNET A DIFFERENT MEANING 06! Labor Day. DARPA wants to throw a net over all the junk that’s clutter- 09! BD: Mike Cothran. ing up low Earth orbit. 10–12!OutsideCon 23—Burns TN. News reports have surfaced that the Defense Advanced Re- 11! BD: Ray Pietruszka. search Projects Agency is investigating a technology called 11*! Con†Stellation concom meeting—3P, at Renasant Bank. Electrodynamic Debris Eliminator that can grab bits of space 12! BD: Pat Butler. garbage with one of a number (reportedly 200) of nets, then set 12! Grandparents Day. each on a trajectory to either burn up in the atmosphere or 16*! Con†Stellation concom meeting—all day, at the con- splash down in some harmless location like the southern Pacific. vention hotel. NOTE: This is the setup meeting Thurs- Development of the technology is said to be ongoing, with a day before the con. Also, there will be a pre-convention first test flight as early as 2013 and the fully developed EDDE dinner that evening at Lone Star Steakhouse. ready to go by 2017. One might cast a jaundiced eye over those 17–19!Con†Stellation XXIX—Huntsville AL. dates, but anything to clean up LEO would bring a concomitant 17! Citizenship Day. decrease in the riskiness of spaceflight. 22! First day of autumn. 25*! NASFA Meeting—6P Business, 7P Program, at Renasant Bank. Program: Convention Postmortem. ATMM: Ray Pietruszka and Nancy Cucci’s house. NOTE: Date August Minutes changed due to Con†Stellation. by Steve Sloan, Secretary 25–26!Comic Con—Nashville TN. 26! BD: Jenna Victoria Stone. The August meeting of the North Alabama Science Fiction 30–03!SIEGE—Atlanta GA. Association was called to order on Saturday, August 21, 2010 OCTOBER in the Renasant Bank meeting room at 6:22:26P by President 01–03!Archon 34—St. Louis MO. Mary Lampert. The crickets were working this month, but they 01–03!GameCon—Memphis TN. were once again threatened with a hammer. 07! Bailey Cove Library Book Discussion: Replay, Ken OLD BUSINESS Grimwood; 6P. None. 11! Columbus Day (Observed). NEW BUSINESS 12! Columbus Day (Traditional). Mike K. gave Randy Con†Stellation flyers to leave at 15! BD: Robert Buelow. Dragon*Con. 16*! NASFA Meeting—6P Business, 7P Program, at Re- 2 nasant Bank. Program: TBD. ATMM: TBD. Collector's Guide Publishing, Inc., 22–24!Geek Media Expo—Nashville TN. 1August 2010, ISBN: 1897350287, 22–24!Necronomicon—St. Petersburg FL. ISBN-13: 978-1897350287 22–24!Capclave 10—Washington, DC. Some of you might remember from 24! United Nations Day. the Toronto Worldcon in 2003 that a 25! BD: Marie McCormack. series of vintage science fiction books 28–31!World Fantasy Convention 36—Columbus OH. were republished and sold by Apogee 29–31!HallowCon—Chattanooga TN. Books, the world’s largest publisher of 31! Halloween. space-related books. Apogee now re- NOVEMBER turns to science fiction with Masters of 02! Election Day. SF: A Biographical Encyclopedia—The 04! Bailey Cove Library Book Discussion: The Fifth Head Science Fiction Hall of Fame by W. of Cerberus, Gene Wolfe, 6P. Fraser Sandercombe. 05–06!Comic & Fantasy Convention—Memphis TN. This single-volume, biographical encyclopedia is a fairly 07! Daylight Saving Time ends. comprehensive desktop reference book, with details on all the 11! Veterans’ Day. members of the Science Fiction Hall of Fame, in the order in 12–14!MACE—High Point NC. which they were inducted, from 1996 onwards to 2010. 15! BD: Robert Buelow.