Nic Farey has sent us This Here.
The ish opens with an interesting article about the settlement movement, a friend he shared a settlement flat with and a terrible murder that occurred near there which remains unsolved.
Nic has been diagnosed with a form of leukemia. There is a reasonably effective treatment, he says, but we’ll keep him in our thoughts through what must be a difficult time.
And an update from Bill Burns at e-fanizes
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Bill
Good day,
We have just opened our 2023 Nova competition and would appreciate it if you could pass on the attached information to any aspiring writers you think might be interested
Please find attached information about our 2023 Science Fiction and Fantasy short story competition which closes on the 30th of September 2023. Winning stories will receive cash prizes and be published in our Clubzine PROBE .
For more information please see our website www.sffsa.org.za
Thank you
Gail and Ian Jamieson
From the N3F, Tight beam. Tightbeam344
Table of Contents
Art
Front Cover … Visitor by Jose Sanchez
Back Cover … Boat to Golden Island by Tiffanie Gray
4 … N3F Laureate Awards Nominations
6 … Letter of Comment
Comics
6 … Asterix and the Chieftain’s Daughter … Review by Chris Nuttall
7 … Action Comics #1052 … Review by Heath Row
Con Report
8 … Anime Detour 2023 … Review by Jessi Silver
Films
11 … Paramount’s Scream … Review by Jim McCoy
12 … Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde … Review by Heath Row
12 … Black Panther: Wakanda Forever … Review by Perry Middlemiss
13 … The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant (1971) … Review by Heath Row
Novels
13 … Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner … Review by Perry Middlemiss
Prozine Review
14 … Realms of Fantasy … Review by Heath Row
SerCon
15 … Robert Sheckley Bio-Bibliography by Jon D. Swartz, Ph.D.
Short Stories
17 … From the Reading Pile: Short Stories … Review by Heath Row
17 … Orbit 3 edited by Damon Knight … Review by Perry Middlemiss
Food of Famous Writers
18 … Eat This While You Read That: G. Scott Huggins … Cooking by Cedar Sanderson
We welcome a new to us trade zine from Ahrvid Engholm
E-zine by Ahrvid Engholm, ahrvid@hotmail.com, for EAPA, N’APA and more Homo Fannishus. Follow ed’s newstweets from @SFJournalen. Here are the votes from the Intermission jury: History Corner 8 points, LON Olsson 10 points, Lots of Typos 12 points. Thanks for a wonderful show! Late April 2022.
Garth Spencer has sent us the OBDURATE EYE 27.pdf and the EAPA MEMBERSHIP FORM.docx
Also, a riddle:
Q: When is a duck?
A: Because one of its legs is both the same.
Bill Burns sends us an update to e-fanzines:
Added today at https://efanzines.com are:
Perry Middlemiss’s Perryscope #32
Nic Farey’s This Here…#64
Opuntia #548, edited by Dale Speirs
Christopher J. Garcia’s The Drink Tank #447 and Claims Department #36
J.L. Farey’s JenZine #4
Garth Spencer’s The Obdurate Eye #27
Ethel the Aardvark #218 and archive issues 16, 182
New Zine to share: Alexiad
Table of Contents
Editorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Reviewer’s Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Eclipse News. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
The Joy of High Tech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Nebula Nominees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Puzzle Books. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Worldcon News. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Book Reviews
JTM Bound, The Ship Beneath the Ice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
JTM Lisle, The Dirty Tricks Department . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
JTM The Jack Vance Treasury. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
JTM Yang, Superman Smashes the Klan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Random Jottings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Richard A. Dengrove, Lloyd Penney, AL du Pisani, George W.
Price, Darrell Schweitzer, Garth Spencer, Taras Wolansky
Comments are by JTM or LTM
Trivia: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Art:
Sheryl Birkhead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Alexis A. Gilliland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Trinlay Khadro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Marc Schirmeister . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11
Greetings from Worcester. With this mailing:
An issue of The N3F Review of Books Incorporating Pro Bono
Oh. the near-complete list of Laureate Award nominees. I anticipate having a couple of months to discuss these before we advance to a vote.
Laureate Award Nominations To Date
Best Novel:
The Other Side Of Night by Adam Hamdy
Ordinary Monsters by J. M. Miro
Fairy Tale by Stephen King
The Janus File by David Weber and Jacob Holo
Lords of Uncreation by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Ashes of Man by Christopher Ruocchio
Best Shorter Work or Anthology:
Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman
Return to Glory by Jack McDevitt
The Moonday Letters by Emmi Itaranta
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited by Rebecca Roanhorse
Stellar Instinct by Jonathan Nevair
Best anime/comic book/graphic novel:
Monstress by Marjorie Lie & Sana Takeda
New Think Volume 1.0 an anthology
Mindset by Zack Kaplan and John J. Peterson
Best anime: Chainsaw Man
Best manga:
EVOL by Atsushi Kaneko
Mindset
Best Fan Writer :
John Thiel
Martin Lock
Robin Rose Graves, the Book Wormhole
Best fan editor:
Jefferson Swycaffer
George Phillies
Gideon Marcus
Best Book Editor:
Lisa Kaits
Toni Weisskopf
Best fan website:
SciFi4Me from Jason Hunt and Mindy Hunt
Fanac.org and the Fancyclopedia from Joe Siclari, Edie Stern, and Mark Olson
efanzines.com from Bill Burns
Galactic Journey
Best Non-N3F Fanzine:
Portable Storage from William Beeding
Beam from Nic Farey and Ulrika O’Brien
Pablo Lennis
Simultaneous Times Newsletter
Best N3F Fanzine:
Eldritch Science
Tightbeam
Ionisphere
Best Fan Artist:
Brad Foster
Alan White
Jose Sanchez
Best Book Editor:
Lisa Kaits
Toni Weisskopf
Best Pro Artist:
Stephen Youll
Jim Burns
Austin Arthur Hart
Best Television Show, Film, or Video:
Star Wars : Mandalorian
Heath Row’s productions
Avenue 5
Best None Of The Above:
Best SF Poet, Michael Butterworth
The effort by Manuscript Press (Rick Norwood) and aruffo.com (I dunno the company name or the person responsible) for publishing the series of trade paperbacks that are reprinting the entire run of the Alley Oop daily comic strip beginning with the very first V.T. Hamlin strip and running all the way to the end of the 20th century. This is a monumental effort, making available a wonderful comic strip that is clearly science fiction/fantasy and has been recognized as one of the most important comics strips ever published. The original Comic Book Achievement Awards created by comic book fandom in the early 1960s were named the Alley Awards, with a pic/statue of Alley Oop as the symbol. Finally, a chance to read everything, the entire run, all shot from the original syndicate stats, published in affordable format. This deserves much wider recognition, and an award or two on its own.
Best Podcast – Simultaneous Times
From Bill Burns at e-Fanzines:
Catching up after our trip to Corflu and Eastercon, I’ve added these new issues at https://efanzines.com
More tomorrow!
From the N3F:
With This mailing:
The National Fantasy Fan for April 2023 TNFF202304
FanActivity Gazette for April 2023. FanAct202304
Reminder: You have another week to make nominations for the N3F Laureate Awards. Se the latest issue of The National Fantasy Fan for details.
This is the Corflu progress report 1. Corflu is scheduled for Feb 29 — March 3, 2024 in Las Vegas.
Added today at https://efanzines.com:
Nic Farey’s The Incompleat Register 2023 Results. Full details of the FAAn Awards presented at Corflu Craic, 2 April 2023.
Opuntia #546, edited by Dale Speirs
Octothorpe #80, a regular fannish podcast by John Coxon, Alison Scott and Liz Batty, is now on line
Christopher J. Garcia’s The Drink Tank #446
Garth Spencer’s The Obdurate Eye #26
David Grigg’s The Megaloscope #6
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Bill
With this mailing, you are being sent the March 2023 issues of Ionisphere and of The N3F Review of Books Incorporating Prose Bono.
And note our new feature in the N3F Review of Books. On the second page, these authors have agreed to send you one of their ebooks, for free, in exchange for your promising to write a review of the book and posting it on Amazon, Goodreads, or social media sites, and sending The N3F Review a copy.
Other news from the awards given at Corflu Craic in Belfast, NI earlier today:
fwa (fanzine writers’ association) Past President election:
2022 Past Presidents: Nigel Rowe, John D. Berry
1959 Past President: Keith Freeman
Corflu Lifetime Achievement Award: Rob Hansen
Corfu 41 awarded to Las Vegas, NV and will take place at the Gold Coast hotel and Casion, February 29 – March 3 2024.
FAAn winners summary:
FANZINE CATEGORIES
Best Genzine: Portable Storage (ed. William Breiding)
Best Perzine: This Here… (ed. Nic Farey)
Best Special Publication: 1957: The First British Worldcon (ed. Rob Hansen)
INDIVIDUAL CATEGORIES
Best Letterhack (Harry Warner Jr. Memorial Award): Jerry Kaufman
Best Fanartist: Ulrika O’Brien
Best Fanwriter: (TIE) Justin E.A. Busch, Nic Farey
Best Fanzine Cover: BEAM 17 (Alan White)
For a breakdown of voting, click Incompleat2023results