Dinosaur remains found in remote B.C. mountains
Dinosaur remains found in remote B.C. mountains
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Fanzine Roundup!
We’ve received a few zines to share!
From the N3F:
Update from Bill Burns on e-fanzines
New today at https://efanzines.com are:
- Alexiad #135 edited by Lisa & Joseph Major
- Henry Grynnsten’s Wild Ideas #51
- Leigh Edmonds’ Ornithopter Mk.IV
- Ray Palm’s The Ray X X-rayer #180
Bill
Fandom mourns two voices
Fandom mourns two voices, both named James
James Darren
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Darren
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0201626/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
Fandom will mostly remember James Darren as Vic Fontaine in DS9, but I’m just old enough to remember the teen idol of Goodbye Cruel World. I don’t remember ever seeing Gidget but certainly remember knowing about it. There was a time when there was no way to escape the beach movies.
James Earl Jones
Known to fandom as the voice of Darth Vader, James Earl Jones had a long career in movies https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000469/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
Famous for his strong authoritative voice, it’s interesting to know he took acting lessons to control his stammer.
Zines to share!
We have received a number of zines to share!
From Garth: ObdurateEye43
From the N3F: Tightbeam360
And an update from Bill Burns:
New today at https://efanzines.com are:
- Opuntia #581 , edited by Dale Speirs
- Octothorpe #117 the Hugo-winning fannish podcast by John Coxon, Alison Scott and Liz Batty, is now on line
- Heath Row’s The Stf Amateur, September 2024 (apazine bundle)
- Kat Templeton’s Rhyme & Paradox #6
- Garth Spencer’s The Obdurate Eye #43
- Guy H. Lillian III’s Spartacus #75
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Bill
Locus Forthcoming Books: September 2024
Locus Forthcoming Books: September 2024
- STEPHEN BAXTER • Fortress Sol • Orion UK/Gollancz, Sep 2024 (hc, eb)
ELIZABETH BEAR • The Folded Sky • Orion UK/Gollancz, Sep 2024 (tp, eb)- DAVID EDISON • Sandymancer • Tor, Sep 2024 (tp)
- JON EVANS • Exadelic • Tor, Sep 2024 (tp)
- CHLOE GONG • Vilest Things • Simon & Schuster/Saga Press, Sep 2024 (hc, eb)
- CHARLIE N. HOLMBERG • Still the Sun • Amazon/47North, Sep 2024 (v, tp, eb)
- TJ KLUNE • Somewhere Beyond the Sea • Mac¬millan/Tor UK, Sep 2024 (hc, eb)
- TJ KLUNE • Somewhere Beyond the Sea • Tor, Sep 2024 (hc, eb)
- KIM NEWMAN • Model Actress Whatever • Titan Books UK, Sep 2024 (tp, eb)
- NAOMI NOVIK • Buried Deep and Other Stories • Pen¬guin Random House UK/Del Rey UK, Sep 2024 (c, hc, eb)
- SUZAN PALUMBO • Countess • ECW Press, Sep 2024 (c, tp, eb)
- SARAH PINSKER • Haunt Sweet Home • Tordotcom, Sep 2024 (hc, eb)
- CAT RAMBO • Rumor Has It • Tor, Sep 2024 (hc, eb)
- NEAL STEPHENSON • Polostan • HarperCollins/Morrow, Sep 2024 (hc, eb)
- NGHI VO • The City in Glass • Tordotcom, Sep 2024 (na, hc, eb)
Future Worldcon and bid news
Future Worldcon and bid news
From Smofnews
Next year’s Seattle Worldcon 2025 (August 13-17) announced that its optional special Hugo category will be Best Poetry. An eligible poem is “within the speculative, science fiction, and fantasy genres, published in 2024, that is at least three lines.”
The Seattle Worldcon has also announced a Community Fund, starting with $30,000 in seed money, to assist four groups in attending: first-timers from the Pacific Northwest; LGBTQIA+ fans; BIPOC/AANHPI fans; and fans from anywhere in the Global South. Applications have not yet opened. Those wishing to donate to the fund can do so through the con’s registration portal.
LA in 2026, now LAcon V, won the vote easily to hold the 84th Worldcon on August 27-31, 2026 in Anaheim, California. Fears of a stealth write-in campaign were unrealized. Guests of Honor will be Barbara Hambly, Ronald D. Moore, Colleen Doran, Dr. Anita Sengupta, Tim Kirk, Geri Sullivan, Stan Sakai, and Ursula Vernon.
The bid for Kampala, Uganda in 2028 has changed its proposed location to Kigali, Rwanda.
The Brisbane in 2028 bid is reconsidering its dates for the convenience of those travelling to Australia for the 2028 solar eclipse.
Zines to share!
We have zines to share!
From Nic Farey, TH 78
An update to efanzines from Bill Burns:
Added today at https://efanzines.com are:
- League of Fan Funds Newsletter 2024: “Well, that was Amazeballs!”
- Opuntia #580, edited by Dale Speirs
- Nic Farey’s This Here…#78
- Andy Hooper’s CAPTAIN FLASHBACK #69
- Christopher J. Garcia’s Claims Department #75 & 76
- WOOF #49 (2024), Christina Lake, Official Editor
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Bill
Zine to share!
The N3F sends us TNFF202408 and a letter from the president, George Phillies, copied below. -CPL
Greetings from your President!
I attached yet another issue of The National Fantasy Fan. There’s a great deal in it. I hope you enjoy the contents. Note in particular the Round-Robin Bureau. The project uses a lot of Judy Carroll’s time, but if round-robin’s are becoming something of the past we should maybe try something different. Your opinions to me or her (Judy Carroll <blueshadows2012@gmail.com>) will be most welcome.
Mentioning projects that have gone on for a while, I’ve been President of our club for close to a decade now. I’m happy to continue for the foreseeable future, but I just had my seventy-seventh birthday and would certainly be happy to start passing off aspects of this job to other people. At some point, matters will come to a stop, hopefully a smooth stop rather than something chaotic.
I currently edit this magazine, Eldritch Science, Tightbeam, and The N3f Review of Books. We just had a guest editor for Eldritch Science and could certainly use more. The magazine that’s actually the least work, though it doesn’t look that way, is The N3f Review. It’s long, but it’s all cut-and-paste, the only complicated part being to insert the cuts and pastes so the books are reviewed in alphabetical order by title. I have a list of sources, so all I do every month is go to those sources, see if they have produced book reviews for me, and put the reviews together. I also have wonderful people like Robert Runte and Tom Feller who send me reviews spontaneously. Those are most appreciated. Sending me more book reviews would also be appreciated. I confess that as I am myself an author I would certainly not complain if people would send me reviews of my own novels, but that’s too much to ask.
On a different note, we are two thirds of the way through the year. Once again, next January will launch the process that lets us create the annual N3F Laureate awards. If you see things that are Laureate-worthy, please jot down the nomination and send it to me. I’m perfectly happy to keep a file of those and put everything together at the end of the year. More nominations are good. Nominations in obscure categories like motion pictures, television, shorter fiction, and the like are certainly of great interest. If you see a fan writer or fan artist or fan poet you like, please consider nominating them to.
As always, I am phillies@4liberty.net.
Zines to share!
Update from Bill Burns:
First site update after my return from Worldcon, and the following new issues are at https://efanzines.com
David Grigg’s The Megaloscope #13
Leybl Botwinik’s CyberCozen – August 2024
Henry Grynnsten’s Wild Ideas #50
Garth Spencer’s The Obdurate Eye #42
Opuntia #579 , edited by Dale Speirs
Octothorpe #116 the Hugo-winning fannish podcast by John Coxon, Alison Scott and Liz Batty
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Bill
Star Wars: A New Hope, under the stars
https://westmount.org/en/event/movie-in-the-park/
Movie in the Park
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…
Join us in Westmount Park for a screening of Star Wars: A New Hope (1977) under the stars.
Prizes will be given for best themed costumed.
Don’t forget to bring your chair or blanket!
Info: 514 989-5226