Volume 21 Number 10 Issue 257 March 2009 Events A WORD FROM THE EDITOR March is opening like lion this year with Megacon. I hope to have a con report next month report. The Nebulas ICFA 30 (professional conference) nominees should available online. March 19-23 A sad note, SF Grandmaster Philip Jose Farmer has Orlando Airport Marriott, Orlando, Florida passed away. His story “The Lovers” was one of the first science Guest of Honor: Robert Charles Wilson fiction story to deal with sexual themes. Farmer’s novel To the Scattered Bodies Go and his biographies of Tarzan and Doc Guest of Honor: Guy Gavriel Kay Savage were great. Guest Scholar: Maria Nikolajeva Special Guest Emeritus : Brain Aldiss Award news www.iafa.org Academy Awards (aka Oscars) Anime Express XI Fantasy and Science Fiction Winners March 13-15 (source Internet Movie Database website, imdb.com) Willie Miller Instructional Center at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University , Daytona Beach, FL Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role Heath Ledger for The Dark Knight Cost: $25 for weekend clubs.db.erau.edu/dbanime/Conventionmain.html Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Naruto Star Trek Con Previously Produced or Published March 27-29 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Eric Roth, Sheraton Suites Cypress Creek Ft. Lauderdale Robin Swicord 555 N.W. 62nd Street,Fort Lauderdale, Florida $15 for three day ($25 at the door), Best Achievement in Art Direction $10 for one day ($15 at the door) The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Donald Guests: Malie Flanagan (voice of Naruto) Graham Burt, Victor J. Zolfo Kate Higgins (voice of Sakura) Yuri Lowenthal (voice of Sasuke) Best Achievement in Makeup www.narutotrek.com The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Greg Cannom Best Achievement in Sound The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce, Mark Weingarten (Continued on page 2) OASFiS Event Horizon Vol 21, Issue 257, March 2009. Published Monthly by the Orlando Area Science Fiction Society (OASFiS). All rights reserved by original Authors and Artists. Editor: Juan Sanmiguel, 1421 Pon Pon Court, Orlando, FL 32825. Subscriptions are $12.00 per year and entitle the subscriber to membership in the Society. Attending Memberships are $20.00 per year. Extra memberships to family members are $6.00 per year when only one newsletter is sent to the household. To subscribe or join OASFiS, send a check or money order to: OASFiS, PO Box 592905, Orlando, FL 32859-2905. To submit Articles, Artwork or Letters of Comment to the Event Horizon, send them to the Editor's address above or [email protected]. For additional information, call our Voice Mail at (407) 823-8715. OASFiS is a state chartered not for profit corporation whose goal is the promotion of Science Fiction in all its forms. All opinions expressed herein are solely those of the Author(s) and in no way represent the opinions of the Society or its members as a whole. Page two March 2009 March OASFiS Calendar OASFiS People OASFiS Business Meeting Sunday, March 8, 1:30 PM, Stardust Video 1842 Steve Cole 407-275-5211 Winter Park Road, Winter Park, FL 32801(407-623-3393). [email protected] Come join us as we hear Chris Berman discuss his latest Susan Cole 407-275-5211 work [email protected] Arthur Dykeman 407-328-9565 SciFi Light [email protected] Saturday March 21, 6 PM, Place and subject to be Steve Grant 352 241 0670 [email protected] announced on the website. For more info contact Steve Mike Pilletere [email protected] Grant David Ratti 407-282-2468 [email protected] To contact for more info: Juan Sanmiguel 407-823-8715 OASFiS Business Meeting 407-823-8715 [email protected] Patricia Wheeler 407-832-1428 [email protected] Best Achievement in Sound Editing The Dark Knight: Richard King Any of these people can give readers information about the club and its functions. To be included in the list call Juan. Best Achievement in Visual Effects Pfister The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton, Craig Barron ORIGINAL SCORE: The Dark Knight, James Newton Howard & Hans Zimmer Best Animated Feature Film of the Year WALL-E: Andrew Stanton BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE: Lina Leandersson, Let the Right One In Online Film Critic Society Awards (source MT VOID 02/20/09 -- Vol. 27, No. 34, Whole BREAKTHROUGH FILMMAKER: Tomas Number 1533) Alfredson, Let the Right One In Fantasy and Science Fiction Winners Philip K. Dick Awards PICTURE: WALL-E (source philipkdickawards.org) DIRECTOR: Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight First prize and any special citations will be announced on Friday, April 10, 2009 at Norwescon 32 at the SUPPORTING ACTOR: Heath Ledger, The Dark Doubletree Seattle Airport Hotel, SeaTac, Knight Washington. ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: WALL-E, Andrew Emissaries From the Dead by Adam-Troy Castro Stanton & Jim Reardon (Eos Books) (OASIS guest) ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Let the Right One In, Fast Forward 2 edited by Lou Anders (Pyr) John Ajvide Lindqvist Judge by Karen Traviss (Eos Books) ANIMATED FEATURE: WALL-E Plague War by Jeff Carlson (Ace Books) FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: Let the Right One In(Sweden) Terminal Mind by David Walton (Meadowhawk Press) CINEMATOGRAPHY: The Dark Knight, Wally (Continued on page 3) Page three March 2009 Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait by K. A. Short Stories Bedford (EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy “The Button Bin” - Mike Allen, (Helix: A Speculative Publishing) Fiction Quarterly, Oct07) “The Dreaming Wind” - Jeffrey Ford, (The Coyote Nebula Awards Nomniees Road: Trickster Tales, ed. Ellen Datlow and Terri This will presented at Nebula Weekend April 24-26 in Windling, Viking, Jul07) Los Angeles, CA. “Trophy Wives” - Nina Kiriki Hoffman, (Fellowship Fantastic, ed. Greenberg and Hughes, DAW Books, Jan08) Novels “26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss”- Kij Johnson, (Asimov’s, Jul08) Little Brother - Cory Doctorow, (Tor, Apr08) “The Tomb Wife”- Gwyneth Jones, (F&SF, Aug07) Powers - Ursula K. Le Guin, (Harcourt, Sep07) “Don’t Stop” - James Patrick Kelly, (Asimov’s, Jun07) Cauldron - Jack McDevitt, (Ace, Nov07) "Mars: A Traveler's Guide", Ruth Nestvold (F&SF Brasyl - Ian McDonald (Pyr, May07) 1/08) Making Money - Terry Pratchett, (Harper, Sep07) Superpowers - David J. Schwartz (Three Rivers Press, Scripts Jun08) The Dark Knight - Johnathan Nolan, Christopher Novellas Nolan, David S. Goyer, (Warner Bros., Jul08) WALL-E” Screenplay - Andrew Stanton, Jim “The Spacetime Pool” - Catherine Asaro, (Analog, Reardon, Original story by Andrew Stanton, Pete Mar08) Docter (Walt Disney June 2008) “Dark Heaven” - Gregory Benford (Alien Crimes, ed. The Shrine - Wright, Brad (Stargate Atlantis, Aug08) Mike Resnick, SFBC, Jan07) “Dangerous Space” - Kelley Eskridge, (Dangerous Norton (YA works) Space, Aqueduct Press, Jun07) “The Political Prisoner” - Charles Coleman Finlay, Graceling - Kristin Cashore, (Harcourt, Oct08) (F&SF, Aug08) Lamplighter - D.M. Cornish, (Monster Blood Tattoo, “The Duke in His Castle” - Vera Nazarian, (Norilana Book 2, Putnam Juvenile, May08)) Books, Jun08) Savvy - Ingrid Law, (Dial, May08) The Adoration of Jenna Fox - Mary E Pearson, Novelettes (Henry Holt and Company, Apr08) Flora’s Dare: How a Girl of Spirit Gambles All to “If Angels Fight” - Richard Bowes, (F&SF, Feb08) Expand Her Vocabulary, Confront a Bouncing Boy “The Ray-Gun: A Love Story”, James Alan Gardner Terror, and Try to Save Califa from a Shaky Doom (Asimov’s 2/08) (Despite Being Confined to Her Room) - Ysabeau “Dark Rooms” - Goldstein, Lisa (Asimov’s, Oct/Nov S. Wilce, (Harcourt, Sep08) 07) “Pride and Prometheus” - John Kessel, (F&SF, Bradbury Award: Jan08) Joss Whedon “Night Wind” - Mary Rosenblum, Mary (Lace and Blade, ed. Deborah J. Ross, Norilana Books, Feb08) Solsitice Awards: “Baby Doll” - Johanna Sinisalo, Johanna (The SFWA Algis Budrys, Martin H. Greenberg, and Kate Wilhem European Hall of Fame, ed. James Morrow & Kathryn Morrow, Tor, Jun07 ) Author Emerita “Kaleidoscope” - K.D. Wentworth, (F&SF, May07) M.J. Engh Damon Knight Grandmaster Award Harry Harrison Page three March 2009 Page three March 2009 The Graveyard Book Fanboys by It is Halloween 1998 in Ohio. Four friends reunite for the first time since high school. Eric (Sam Huntington) has Neil Gaiman drifted apart from the rest of the group. Eric gave up his dreams of being a comic book artist with his friend Linus (Chris Neil Gaiman’s latest book is illustrated by his longtime Marquette) to work at his father’s car dealership. Hutch (Dan collaborator Dave McKean. It is a twist on Kipling’s The Jungle Folger), the wild man of the group, dreams of starting an auto Book, where a young boy is raised by the inhabitants of a detailing shop and lives in his mom’s carriage house (garage). graveyard rather than the animals of the Indian Jungle. Windows (Jay Baruchel) runs a comic shop with his friend, the The story opens up with the murder of a family. The media-knowledgeable and beautiful Zoe (Kristen Bell). Hutch baby of the family had climbed out of his crib, thus avoiding and Windows tells Eric that Linus has cancer and will be dead in being killed. The baby find his way to a nearby graveyard on hill a few months. Eric, for Linus’ sake, decides to break into the in an English city. The ghosts in the graveyard decide to raise Skywalker Ranch and watch Star Wars- Episode One: The the boy. One resident of the graveyard, Silas, lives in between Phantom Menace. They will take Hutch’s Star Wars custom the world of the living and the dead. Silas acts as the boy’s van, complete with R2 unit on the roof. On the way to guardian. The boy is given the name Nobody Owens (aka Bod Skywalker Ranch, they encounter hostile Trek fans, bikers, a Owens).