The SHUTTLE July 2003 The Next NASFA Meeting will be 19 July 2003 at the Regular Time and Location Upcoming ConCom Meetings 3 & 17 August 2003 at Mike KennedyÕs House { Oyez, Oyez { ConCom Meetings The next NASFA meeting will be 19 July 2003 at the The next Con Stellation XXII con committee meeting regular time (6P) and the regular location. Call BookMark at will be held 2P Sunday 3 August at Mike KennedyÕs house Ñ 256-881-3910 if you need directions. 7907 Charlotte Drive SW, Huntsville AL. An email announce- The July program will be a trip to the Huntsville Stars ment with additional information will be sent out closer to the baseball game. Game time is 7:05, so the people going from day. BookMark will probably leave for the stadium as soon as the Future concom meetings are scheduled for 17 August, 7 business meeting is over. There are free general admission September, 21 September, and 5 October at MikeÕs house. tickets available for the game at local Skill Lube stores. There will also be the usual last-minute concom meeting on The July after-the-meeting meeting was to be a pool Thursday 9 October at the hotel. party at Russell McNuttÕs house. Due to the length of the baseball game (likely end time is around 10P) the ATMM will probably be canceled. Inside this issueÉ Compton Crook Award Winner ..............................5 NASFA Calendar............................................................2 Campbell and Sturgeon Awards Presented..............5 Minutes of the June Meeting ..........................................2 Stoker Awards Announced ......................................5 Harry Potter Capsule Review ........................................3 Mark Time And Ogle Awards .................................5 Awards News Section Sidewise Awards Nominations................................6 Locus Awards Announced ......................................3 Sunburst Awards Nominations ................................6 Chesley Awards Nominations .................................3 Wooden Rocket Awards..........................................6 Prix Aurora Nominations ........................................4 Letters of Comment ........................................................7 Deadline for the August 2003 issue of The NASFA Shuttle is Friday, 1 August 2003. 1 25 BD: Marie McCormack. NASFA Calendar 30Ð02 World Fantasy Convention 2003 Ñ Washington DC. 31 Halloween. JULY OoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoO 01 Canada Day. 02 BD: Deb Stone. The North Alabama Science Fiction Association meets on 04 Independence Day. the third Saturday of each month. (Unless there is a large 06 Con Stellation Con Committee Meeting Ñ Mike nearby convention being held that weekend Ñ in which case KennedyÕs house. we usually hold the meeting on the second or fourth weekend.) 19* NASFA Meeting Ñ 6P Business Meeting at Book- The regular meeting location is the upstairs meeting room at Mark. The Program will be a trip to the Huntsville BookMark on South Memorial Parkway. The Executive Stars baseball game. This will probably serve as the Committee meeting (if scheduled) is at 5P. The business ATMM, too. meeting is at 6P. The program is at 7P. Anyone is welcome to 24 BD: Jay Johns. attend any of the meetings. There is usually an after-the- 25Ð27 DeepSouthCon 41/LibertyCon 16 Ñ East Ridge meeting meeting with directions available at the program. (Chattanooga) TN. 25Ð28 MythCon XXXIV Ñ Nashville TN. 27 ParentsÕ Day. 29 BD: Mark Paulk. June Minutes by Samuel A. Smith, June-Bugged AUGUST 03 Con Stellation Con Committee Meeting Ñ Mike The June meeting of the North Alabama Science Fiction KennedyÕs house. Association was called to order on Saturday, June 21, 2003 in 08 BD: Jim Woosley. the upstairs meeting room at BookMark at 6:17:14P by Presi- 08Ð10 Conglomeration Ñ Louisville KY. dent Mary Ortwerth and the Crickets. 14 BD: Edward Kenny. OLD BUSINESS 16* NASFA Meeting Ñ 6P Business, 7P Program, at We need a 2004 con chair! BookMark. ATMM Russell McNuttÕs house. After much discussion, it was decided to have nomina- 17 Con Stellation Con Committee Meeting Ñ Mike tions for 2004 con chair at the June and July meetings, and KennedyÕs house. elections at the July meeting. The nominations so far are: Mike 21 BD: Deborah Denton. Kennedy, Doug Lampert, and Mary Ortwerth. Sam Smith, 28Ð01 Torcon 3/Worldcon 61 Ñ Toronto ONT Canada. doing his best ÒRadarÓ OÕReilly impersonation, declared that 29Ð01 DragonCon Ñ Atlanta GA. there will be co-chairs. (Tune in next month to see if heÕs right!) NEW BUSINESS SEPTEMBER Mitzi Adams of NASA has contacted us (via Jack Lundy) 01 Labor Day. to see if we would be interested in co-sponsoring (along with 07 Con Stellation Con Committee Meeting Ñ Mike the Von Braun Astronomical Society, and possibly others) a KennedyÕs house. talk by Larry Nemecek (Star Trek: The Next Generation 07 GrandparentÕs Day. Companion, et.al.) and Dr. Chip Meegan about the science (or 09 BD: Mike Cothran. lack thereof) associated with several of the planetary systems 11 BD: Ray Pietruszka. visited by Star Trek. Said talk is tentatively planned for August 17 Citizenship Day. 28 at the Chan Auditorium at UAH. 20* NASFA Meeting Ñ 6P Business, 7P Program, at After much discussion, a motion was made, seconded, BookMark. ATMM TBD. voted, and passed, to authorize up to $50 to be spent for this 21 Con Stellation Con Committee Meeting Ñ Mike purpose. Mary Ortwerth will likely coordinate from our end. KennedyÕs house. There was additional discussion of the publicity angle on 23 Autumn begins. our end. 26 BD: Jenna Victoria Stone. CONVENTION BUSINESS 27 Rosh Hashanah. Mike Kennedy: The next con committee meeting will be Sunday, July 6, with a cookout afterwards [now past]. OCTOBER Sam Smith reported that the Con Stellation web site 02Ð05 Archon 27 Ñ Collinsville IN. received 786 visitors in May, and the NASFA web site re- 05 Con Stellation Con Committee Meeting Ñ Mike ceived 175 visitors in the same time period. KennedyÕs house. Mike Cothran has made a request for suggestions for 09 Con Stellation Con Committee Meeting Ñ at the offset printing shops that could do our program book for us this hotel. year. 10Ð12 Con Stellation XXII Ñ Huntsville AL. Mike Cothran further requested that stuff for this yearÕs 12 Columbus Day (Traditional). Mass Mailing be turned in no later than August 6th. He 13 Columbus Day (Observed). suggested looking on the web site for last yearÕs Mass Mailing 15 BD: Robert Buelow. information and sending him corrections based on that. 18* NASFA Meeting Ñ 6P Business, 7P Program, at The meeting was adjourned at 6:50:37P. The program was BookMark. ATMM TBD. our own little ÒCow Parade.Ó (See <atlanta.cowparade.net> if 24 United Nations Day. you donÕt know what that is.) The After-The-Meeting Meeting 24Ð26 Hallowcon Õ03 Ñ Chattanooga TN. was held at Russell McNuttÕs place. 2 Collection..........................Stories of Your Life and Others, Capsule Book Review Ted Chiang (Tor) by Jim Woosley Anthology ........................The YearÕs Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, by J. K. Rowling, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. MartinÕs) Scholastic, 21 June 2003, hardback, 870pp, ISBN: 043935806X, Nonfiction .......................Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the $29.99 (available at major booksellers for about $16+) Next Fifty Years, Bruce Sterling (Random House) Art Book ........................................Spectrum 9: The Best in 17.6 hours of elapsed time from purchase to completion, Contemporary Fantastic Art, Cathy Fenner approximately 13 hours reading time. and Arnie Fenner, eds. (Underwood Books) Fastest paced, most tightly plotted, best written book yet Editor .........................................................Gardner Dozois in the series. Certainly by the standards of the previous novel, Magazine.................................The Magazine of Fantasy & this novel should have been at Science Fiction least 25% longer. Ms. Rowling Book Publisher ...............................................................Tor has hit her stride as a mature Artist ..............................................................Bob Eggleton author. In addition to the Locus Award themselves, several Spe- Adolescent angst, of both the cial Awards were also given this year. They went to: alienation (ÒIÕm alone in the Tom Doherty, for winning the Locus Award 15 years in a row worldÓ) and romantic variety. A Eileen Gunn, best acceptor First Kiss. Ample humor, both Bob Eggleton, for artistic contributions to Locus adult and juvenile, sophisticated Connie Willis, best toastmaster and straightforward, light and dark. WeasleyÕs Wizarding Wheezes. New Defense against the Dark Arts teacher described Chesley Awards on jacket as having Òa personality like poisoned honey.Ó WeÕre talk- Nominations ing strychnine here, folks, in fatal doses per false smile; youÕll cringe Nominations for the 18th annual Association of Science when you see her detention punishment. Severe trials for the Fiction and Fantasy Artists Awards have been announced. The Gryffindor Quiddich Team in the aftermath of last yearÕs stand Chesleys are awarded for SF and Fantasy art (individual works down due to the Triwizard Tournament. The wizard equivalent and achievements) during a given year. Art works and achieve- of ÒmachineÓ-run newspapers and tabloid newspapers Ñ and ments by non-ASFA members are eligible for the Chesley faithless politicians. Boggles and Centaurs and Giants, Oh my. Awards, but one must be an ASFA member to vote. More info Several