MonSFFA Meets May 15th

If you were baffled by the dinosaur quiz, you are not alone! The answers appear in this month’s Impulse now available on line. Thanks, Keith Braithwaite! Please check if your membership is up to date–quite a few are due this month.

MEETING THEME: Bring in a favourite genre-themed board or card game to share with your fellow MonSFFen!

PROGRAMME

CITIES OF DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES: From Metropolis, The Emerald City, Kandor, and Trantor, to Diaspor, Stratos, Coruscant, and King’s Landing, we explore the cities of SF/F depicted in our favourite genre stories of page and screen. How prophetic were past prognosticators in foreseeing urban life in a future that has become our present? And what will the cities of our future look like?

DO WE VIEW THE GOLDEN AGE THROUGH ROSE-TINTED GLASSES?: Open discussion on the topic of the memorable sci-fi books, comics, and screen adventures of our youth. Were they really that good? Is our nostalgic fondness for them justified? Do they still hold up, or now seem quaint and pedestrian?

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THE GAME IS AFOOT!: Talk and demonstrations of your favourite SF/F-themed board and card games.

And while the games play on, Keith and François will be filming more of our stop motion project.

Supper will probably be at the 3 Brasseurs on Ste-Catherine, unless the weather is so nice we choose to mosey on down to La Cage at the Bell Centre.  Or maybe to the Belle et la Boeuf…. we’ll take a  vote!

 

Royal Mint honours Star Trek

With thanks to Marc Nadeau for this story

On May 12th, the Royal Mint is unveiling a special coin honouring 50 years of Star Trek.

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The new coin will probably appear on the website of the Royal Mint soon after.

NASA’s Kepler Mission Announces Largest Collection of Planets Ever Discovered

NASA’s Kepler mission has verified 1,284 new planets – the single largest finding of planets to date. READ ORIGINAL  DOCUMENT

“This announcement more than doubles the number of confirmed planets from Kepler,” said Ellen Stofan, chief scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “This gives us hope that somewhere out there, around a star much like ours, we can eventually discover another Earth.”  ……

…Thanks to Kepler and the research community, we now know there could be more planets than stars,” said Paul Hertz, Astrophysics Division director at NASA Headquarters. “…

…In the newly-validated batch of planets, nearly 550 could be rocky planets like Earth, based on their size. Nine of these orbit in their sun’s habitable zone, which is the distance from a star where orbiting planets can have surface temperatures that allow liquid water to pool. With the addition of these nine, 21 exoplanets now are known to be members of this exclusive group. …

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Asimov to Zelazny! SCI-FI BOOK SALE!

June MonSFFA meeting–Clear your bookshelves before the big Moving Day! Buy new ones, already boxed!

Amazing BARGAINS on Thousands of Amazing Stories!… by Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors from Asimov to Zelazny!

Paperbacks:50¢ each, 3 for S1.00, 7 for $2.00!
Trade Paperbacks: $2.00 each
Hardcovers: $3.00 each

Big Bulk Bargains: $10.00/Box

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Open to the Public! Bring a Friend! Buy Your Beach Books for Summer!

Sunday, June 12, 2016; 12:00PM-4:00PM
Hôtel Espresso (2nd Floor, St-François Room)
1005 rue Guy, corner Boul. René-Lévesque
(Metro Guy/Concordia or Lucien L’Allier)