MonSFFA meets in-person on the 12th of August, 13:00h, at the Lachine Royal Canadian Legion.
With a bit of luck, we will be able to also live stream via zoom for out -of-town members.
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Zines to share
From the N3F, zines to share:
Also, an experiment, a free sample issue of a fiction zine. If you want to see more, you need to subscribe to it. I hope you like them.
F-302 Countdown: The Unreleased Stargate Model Is About To Land
F-302 Countdown: The Unreleased Stargate Model Is About To Land
Master Replicas will sell the previously unreleased ship model, in limited quantities, starting this Friday. Here’s everything you need to know.
Stargate’s F-302 Fighter Interceptor is finally going up for sale this Friday, and we now have the first clear look at the model itself.
The model was originally designed by Eaglemoss for its “Hero Collector” line, but cancelled when the company went bankrupt last year. Master Replicas then stepped in and acquired all of Eaglemoss’s remaining stock, and has been selling them in weekly drops at MasterReplicas.com.
The hotly anticipated model is for a fan-favorite. The F-302 was to be the fourth ship in the Stargate line, following the Daedalus (BC-304), Ha’tak-class Goa’uld mothership, and the Death Glider.
The F-302 was first introduced in the sixth season premiere of Stargate SG-1, as the “X-302” experimental fighter. The craft is built by Earth engineers utilizing alien technologies acquired through the Stargate program. It was used to help save Earth from an attack by Anubis, and subsequently became a staple of Earth’s defense forces.
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The 302 was featured throughout the remainder of SG-1‘s run, as well as on Stargate Atlantis and in the premiere episode of Stargate Universe.
Master Replicas’ screen-accurate model will be similar in size to the previously released Death Glider model, which had a 7.8-inch (20-centimeter) wingspan. Like the others we expect it is made of die-cast metal and ABS plastic. It features the ship’s familiar three-engine design (two standard thrusters flanking a larger booster rocket in the center), as well as four air-to-air missiles on the ventral side.
HOW TO BUY
Stargate fans who are interested in adding the F-302 to their collection will have a narrow window to pick one up before the ship is sold out. The drop goes live at MasterReplicas.com
READ MORE https://www.gateworld.net/news/2023/07/f302-countdown-unreleased-stargate-model-about-land/
A COMET SHAPED LIKE THE MILLENNIUM FALCON
Space Weather News for July 25, 2023
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A COMET SHAPED LIKE THE MILLENNIUM FALCON: Astronomers are monitoring a very unusual comet. A few days ago, Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks explosively brightened, spewing plumes of debris into space that now resemble a famous spaceship. No one knows for sure what happened, but it could be the eruption of an ice volcano on the comet’s surface. Full story @ Spaceweather.com.
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Above: A backyard telescope image of Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks on July 24, 2023. Credit: David Strange of Salcombe Regis, East Devon, UK
Zines to share!
More zines to share, enjoy!
Added today at https://efanzines.com are:
Bruce Gillespie’s SF Commentary #112
Ray Palm’s The Ray X X-rayer #171
Leybl Botwinik’s CyberCozen – Jul 2023
Henry Grynnsten’s Wild Ideas #37
Garth Spencer’s The Obdurate Eye #29
Christopher J. Garcia’s Claims Department #47
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Just a brief update on CUFF 2023 before Pemmi-Con! – Garth Shooting My CUFFs #4
Be pleased to learn that Mindy Hunt will be the new editor of Fanactivity Gazette. She takes over for the August issue.
This weekend I will be bringing out the next issue of the National Fantasy Fan. Please have your club news in by Saturday.
The deadline for Laureate Award ballots is July 31. Please have your votes to me before then. FanAct202307
Small mammal preyed on dinosaurs
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/mammal-dinosaur-fossilized-pompeii-1.6909666
Preserved animals provide rare direct glimpse into ancient interactions
A badger-like mammal died while chomping into the ribs of a hapless horned plant-eating dinosaur struggling to escape more than 100 million years ago. The pair were perfectly preserved, still locked in combat, in “China’s dinosaur Pompeii,” researchers report.
Dating to the Cretaceous Period, the dramatic fossil unearthed in northeastern China shows the four-legged mammal Repenomamus robustus — the size of a domestic cat — ferociously entangled with the beaked two-legged dinosaur Psittacosaurus lujiatunensis, as big as a medium-sized dog.
Scientists suspect they were suddenly engulfed in a volcanic mudflow and buried alive during mortal combat.
“Dinosaurs nearly always outsized their mammal contemporaries, so traditional belief has been that their interactions were unilateral — the bigger dinosaurs always ate the smaller mammals,” said paleobiologist Jordan Mallon of the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa, who helped lead the study published in the journal Scientific Reports.
“Here, we have good evidence for a smaller mammal preying on a larger dinosaur, which is not something we would have guessed without this fossil,” Mallon said.
like at their moment of death, 125 million years ago, based on the fossils. (Michael Skrepnick)
READ MORE: https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/mammal-dinosaur-fossilized-pompeii-1.6909666
A SIGNIFICANT EXPLOSION ON THE SUN
Space Weather News for July 18, 2023
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A SIGNIFICANT EXPLOSION ON THE SUN: Giant sunspot AR3363 finally blew its top. An hours-long explosion on July 18th hurled a massive CME into space and triggered a radiation storm around Earth. The CME might graze our planet later this week. Full story @ Spaceweather.com.
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Above: Debris from today’s M6-class explosion. Credit: NASA/Solar Dynamics Observatory.
Zines to share!
Two more zines have arrived in our mailbox. Enjoy!
THE OBDURATE EYE #29, July 2023, a personalzine from Garth Spencer Obdurate Eye 29
From the N3F, Origin for July & the re-issue of Eldritch Science #10 which needed a correction. ORIGIN202307 and ES2023061
A look at potential new meeting place
Joe sends us these pictures of our probable new meeting place. We have a trial run scheduled for August 12, two presentations. Fingers crossed that the Zoom works for us here!
Royal Canadian Legion
3015, rue Henri-Dunant,
Lachine, Qc,
H8S 1R5
It’s 37 minutes travel time (including a short walk) from the Lionel Groulx Metro: 191 bus.
Zines to share!
This week’s new issues at https://efanzines.com:
John Purcell’s Askance #55
Opuntia #553, edited by Dale Speirs
Rich Lynch’s My Back Pages #28
Christopher J. Garcia’s Claims Department #46
Octothorpe #87, a regular fannish podcast by John Coxon, Alison Scott and Liz Batty, is now on line
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From Lebyl in Israel:CCJuly2023-v01
From the N3F, Tightbeam
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Table of Contents
Art
Front Cover… Armada by Jose Sanchez
12… Tigana Dragon by Artist Fish
Back Cover… Big Splash by Tiffanie Gray
Letter of Comment
4… Lloyd Penney
Anime
4… Action Heroine Cheer Fruits… Review by Jessi Silver
Poetry
7… The 2019 Rhysling Anthology Edited by David C. Kopaska-Merkel…Review by Jean-Paul Garnier
ProZines of Years Past
8… Review by Heath Row
SerCon
10… H. Beam Piper Bio-Bibliography by Jon D. Swartz, Ph.D.
Television
13… Musings on Picard and the Star Trek Franchise by Chris Nuttall
Short Stories
15… F&SF May/June 2023… Review by Heath Row
Television
16… Fantastic Television: Travelers Review by Heath Row
Food of Famous Authors
18… Eat This While You Read That: Margaret Ball… Cooking by Cedar Sanderson