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Who Are We? MonSFFA is the Montreal Science Fiction and Fantasy Association, a club for fans of the science fiction and fantasy genres. We are your connection to the SF/F community, local, national and international. We have been active since 1987. What Are We Into? Our areas of interest span the full spectrum of the SF/F universe: literature, movies, television, comics, gaming, art, animation, scale-model building, costuming, memorabilia collecting, film/video production and more!
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Star Wars

Mark Hamill interview

“10 minutes of Mark Hamill being HONEST about The Last Jedi.”

 

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The upcoming Han Solo movie will, no doubt, make all sorts of changes to Star Wars canon, but a just-released book about Han and Lando’s adventures quietly revealed that Ewoks are actually renown coffee farmers. Yep, those cute little Imperial-killing teddy bears are responsible for the best cup of java you’ll find outside of Dex’s Diner.

The book, Last Shot: A Han and Lando Novel, came out earlier this week, and it follows the two coolest characters in the galaxy across three distinct time periods. In one of them, set after Return of the Jedi but well before The Force Awakens, baby Ben Solo kicks his dad in the face. Later in that scene, Han’s culinary droid, BX-778, brews up a mean cup of Endorian caf. (Coffee is called “caf” in the book because, well, that’s how Star Wars rolls).

Here’s an excerpt:

“Coagulating the finest Endorian caf beans,” he chirped jauntily as one of his appendages swung open a floor hatch and another plunged into the crawl space below, appearing moments later with a scoop of the dark-brown beans. “Ah! Picked from the cliggs of the Campalan mountain range on the southeastern peninsula of the forest moon by well-compensated, humanely treated Ewok caf farmers!”

Caf actually has a fairly well-documented history in Star Wars canon. Kanan Jarrus and Hera Syndulla drank Spiran caf in Star Wars Rebels, for instance. But, this new revelation that Ewoks are coffee farmers is surprising and, to be honest, kind of unsettling.

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Table of Contents
Editorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Reviewer’s Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Eclipse News. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Historical Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Hugo Award Nominees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
The Little Emperors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Nebula Award Nominees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Reading Matters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Vision Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Worldcon Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Book Reviews
JTM Bernhard, Empire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
LGD Burke, Semiosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
JTM Kahn, Seizing the Enigma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
JTM Kupari, Her Brother’s Keeper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
JTM Kupari, Sins of Her Father . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
JTM Hanson, The Second World Wars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
TW Strike, Furry Nation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
JTM Ward, Storming the Compound of a Rich Man . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Con Reports
SB Capricon 38 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
JTM ConGlomeration 2018 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Random Jottings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
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Upcoming meeting

Meeting today: SATURDAY APRIL 14

SATURDAY APRIL 14

Theme: Capes and Masks

NOON: SF/F Cinema Matinee– Click here for preview of the movies on offer:  http://www.monsffa.ca/?p=6559

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The Art of the Comics: Presentation by Keith Braithwaite

Montreal Area Event / Convention

Montreal ToyCon Sunday, April 15th

The next Montreal ToyCon will be happening on Sunday, April 15th, 2018 from 10am to 4pm at the Courtyard Marriott Hotel in Ville St Laurent.

If you’ve enjoyed the previous conventions and are looking for the best and brightest toys for your collection, be sure to check it out! There will be comic book and toy dealers selling GI-Joe, DC, Marvel, Transformers, Star Wars, Funko Pop, Lego and tons more.  We also invited the Lego Club and several different Cosplay clubs (501st Star Wars).  We’d love to see you there. For more details, visit our website.

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APRIL MonSFFA Meeting: SUPERHEROES!

MonSFFA’s April 14 Meeting is all about SUPERHEROES! So wear your favourite champion’s logo on your T-shirt, hat, or even underwear! (We’ll take your word for it!)

In keeping with the meeting’s theme, our Saturday Sci-Fi Cinema Matinée this month offers five superhero movies from which to choose! Early-birds will collectively choose one to be reviewed! We begin at noon sharp!

The movies are:

WONDER WOMAN (1975): The TV movie that launched Lynda Carter’s 1970s Wonder Woman series! We imagine it must be somewhat embarrassing to be fighting for our rights in those satin tights, so show the girl some respect, please, people!

SUPERMAN AND THE MOLE-MEN (1951): The first theatrical feature to star Superman, played here by George Reeves! The film was trimmed and recycled as a two-part episode of Reeves’ later Adventures of Superman TV show.

 

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CAPTAIN AMERICA (1990): Cap battles classic foe Red Skull, who has designs on the president’s brain, in this cheesy romp starring Matt Salinger (no, we’ve never heard of him, either)!

BATMAN (1966): Holy flickering film frames! The classic Adam West-Burt Ward movie version of their hip, hit 1960s TV show! Sock! Pow! Whamm! The Dark Knight romances Catwoman (unbeknownst to him), and drives the coolest Batmobile ever!

 

 

 

 

Fanzines, Writing

On-line Zine from Jeffrey Allan Boman, a long-time Montreal fan I first met at a Con*Cept waaaay back when…

Jeff is a writer; I find his updates on learning the craft very interesting.

Click this link to view the zine in original format.

–CPL

Talk of a writer’s voice and many updates  Hello, cats

Here’s how devoted I am to getting this on track: Feb. 4th was my last day of a month-long Writing Challenge on Medium (more on that later), and now that I’m finished, I started this newsletter in earnest.

I said the last issue that I wanted to get this list back on track, and I meant it. Now to produce it quicker.

Welcome to new readers, and welcome back to returning ones.

Voice (Not the TV Show)

I’ve heard this term mentioned a lot lately. It’s something that all writers work to achieve in their writing. Some writers achieve theirs quickly, some take longer. I *hope* that I’ve found mine; readers will tell me if I haven’t.

At its base, achieving a voice means that when a reader sees your words, they can recognize the uniqueness in them. I read examples from Neil Stephenson and Nalo Hopkinson, but I first noticed them in the words from Mark Twain.

Note that I’m not talking about style. That’s a separate thing. I notice a different style in the words written by Spider Robinson (called a literary descendant of Robert Heinlein), but his voice in his text is a different thing altogether.

The challenge that I see is for a writer to vary their voice between different series so that they don’t end up sounding the same — but that’s where the difference between style and voice come into play… and the skill of the writer in question.

That’s a Wrap

I hope this issue came out earlier due to me starting it when I said.

Please share this newsletter with friends who you think will be interested in it. Better yet, invite them to join this newsletter themselves. The “they tell a friend, and they tell a friend” thing applies.  If they want their own subscription they could sign up here: http://is.gd/oIOj2o

Thanks to my friend ‘Heartburn Kid’ Patrick Emond for helping me to proofread this. That nickname differentiates him from another friend, Ninja Pat.

I’m open to suggestions for other stuff for future issues. I’m learning as I go here.

If you want other updates on my writing I have a Facebook Page as well: https://www.facebook.com/JaBWriter/. I’d love to connect.

You can send letters to bosulliman@jabwriter.com with the subject line ‘Letter’ and ‘Suggestion’ for… well, you get it.

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I’m trying this out now. The notion is that I could run my mailing list and newsletter directly through my blog. I would no longer deal with hosting fees separate from it.

It doesn’t seem likely that I’ll do that, as it doesn’t seem to have capabilities for HTML newsletters yet… maybe a future version will.

Writing Challenge

I took part in a month-long competition on Medium. It helped to reconstruct my habit to write daily. As a result, I also have many more entries to share on that platform.

One other benefit: I worked on my writing ‘voice’. You can read all of my posts and immediately tell that I was the author. There’s always room for improvement, but readers could always know that I wrote it, and I came up with original, non-cliche examples. This is good! I’m not Mark Twain, but if I get to be even a fraction of what he achieved, I’ll be happy.

One negative: my viewing stats shot up during the month. They’re now dropping at a big rate.

I’m Back in RPG Writing

I contacted my former publisher recently. I was working on a project with him years ago, but other forces made me vanish. I’m back now to complete the project.

This will give me the funds I need to get my novel edited and to pay a cover artist.

Short Story

Now that the Challenge is over I’m back to Ninja Writing the story.

Blog Posts

October

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With this, I began an overview of my novel inspirations.

December
MY FINAL POST OF 2016: REFLECTIONS
http://www.jabwriter.com/2016/12/30/final-post-2016-reflections/

2017

January

WHY I’M AN INDIE AUTHOR RE-VISITED
http://www.jabwriter.com/2017/01/24/im-indie-author-re-visited/

This is an older post with some updates.

February

HOW I’M GETTING BACK INTO REGULAR WRITING
http://www.jabwriter.com/2017/02/26/how-im-getting-back-into-regular-writing/

I wasn’t updating this blog a lot for a long time. I’m still not, because I’ve been posting on Medium instead, but I hoped to post more here. So: I am writing more, just not on this site.

Medium Posts

Speaking of which:

Stubborn for my Craft (May 2, 2017)
https://medium.com/@jeffreyallanboman/stubborn-for-my-craft-1c5b13f246a6

Nearly my manifesto.

MY ROLEPLAY PAST (May 3, 2017)
https://medium.com/@jeffreyallanboman/my-roleplay-past-fdd22c60237e

Some of my ‘backstory’.

May the 4th is bittersweet for me (May 4, 2017)
https://medium.com/@jeffreyallanboman/may-the-4th-is-bittersweet-for-me-bb08829d38db

My memories of this day.

Similarities and Differences Between Writing for RPGs and Prose (May 5, 2017)
https://medium.com/@jeffreyallanboman/similarities-and-differences-between-writing-for-rpgs-and-prose-318eed056220

Years ago, another writer that I knew didn’t think I could comment on his publishing, because mine is in a different field than his. Here are my thoughts on this.

FCBD 2017 and a Movie (May 7, 2017)
https://medium.com/@jeffreyallanboman/fcbd-2017-and-a-movie-1a62a6ab9af4

A more pleasant day.

The RPG Roots of My Current Novel (May 8, 2017)
https://medium.com/@jeffreyallanboman/the-rpg-roots-of-my-current-novel-4e177bd95254

This one is pretty self-explanatory.

It seems that I post more personal stories on Medium and more technical ones on my blog.

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A lot of interesting news on File 770 that I know will interest our members: Tolkien and the Fall of Gondolin, Harry Potter, Neil Gaiman on Big Bang, SF art vault,  and Dr Who.

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Astronomy News, Awards

Northern Lights sighted as far south as the Dakotas in the USA

A minor G1-class geomagnetic storm is in progress on April 11th as Earth moves through a high speed stream of solar wind.

Space Weather News for April 11, 2018
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Above: First contact with the solar wind stream produced this outburst of auroras over Tromsö, Norway, photographed by Marcus Åhlund, a tour guide for Explore the Arctic.

 

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