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MonSFFA meeting from home

MARCH e-MEETING, POST 3 of 6: It’s Time for a Break!

Get your Bheer & Chips!
It’s time for the break!
NEWS

WARP: Danny is waiting for your submissions. Reviews, fiction, and letters of comment, art, puzzles, photos of your creations, all are welcome! Otherwise it’s going to be a very thin issue!

Membership: A review of our roster shows we still have a few members whose payments are overdue. We are reviewing our membership rates and benefits, and there may be a few small changes as a result.

Sci-Fi Soundtracks (Vinyl): No takers yet on the SF/F soundtrack LPs  and related records from Sylvain’s collection! Guess nobody owns a working turntable anymore! See the collection here (PDF): Sylvain’s Sci-Fi LPs, Complete List 

Last chance to acquire any of these LPs is today, so act before the end of the meeting if you are interested!

DISPLAY

Dan Kenney is scratch-building a Romulan War Bird.

 Wayne is working on a Klingon Cruiser.

1/536 Kronos 1 1/350 I’thing Boom, Command Pod
RAFFLE PRIZES

Click the thumbnails to view full size image.

Sturmovik Neko Girl, Japanese Capsule Toy, donated by Brian Knapp.

From Sylvain’s collection: The Animated Cerebus, by Dave Sim. A set of 45 colour prints (about 9″ x 12″) making up three flip-card animated stories. The cover sheet is signed by Dave Sim.

Another picture from the Animated Cerberbus

From Sylvain’s collection: 8 movie lobby cards (8″ x 10″) – two from each movie: The Incredible Shrinking Woman with Lily Tomlin – 1980 Battlestar Galactica – 1978 Futureworld – 1976 The Thing – 1982

Alan Dean Foster and Eric Frank Russell: Design for Great-Day Good condition

Boris, series 1, from Sylvain’s legacy, box of 90 cards, each card described on the back

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Obituary

Black Lagoon “Gill Man” dead at 93

Black Lagoon actor dead at 93

  • Regina Leader-Post,

Ricou Browning, who starred as The Gill Man in the 1954 movie Creature from the Black Lagoon, died Monday of natural causes. He was 93. Browning reprised Gill Man for the sequels Revenge of the Creature (1955) and The Creature Walks Among Us (1956). His other acting credits include the 1958 TV show Sea Hunt, and as a stuntman he worked on 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954). Browning was the creative force behind the 1963 Flipper movie and subsequent TV show. He directed on that show and directed scenes in films including Thunderball and Caddyshack.

See trailer for the movie Here: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046876/

READ biography from wikipedia

Reading

Locus: List of March releases

These are the forthcoming “Selected Books by Author” for March from the December 2022 issue of Locus Magazine.

MAR 2023

  • ADRIAN TCHAIKOVSKY  • And Put Away Childish Things • Rebellion/Solaris UK, Mar 2023 (hc, eb)
  • ANNE BISHOP • The Queen’s Price • Ace, Mar 2023 (hc, eb)
  • ARKADY MARTINE • Rose/House • Subterranean Press, Mar 2023 (na, hc, eb)
  • C.L. CLARK • The Faithless • Orbit UK, Mar 2023 (tp, eb)
  • C.L. CLARK • The Faithless • Orbit US, Mar 2023 (tp, eb)
  • GARTH NIX  • The Sinister Booksellers of Bath • HarperCollins/Tegen Books, Mar 2023 (ya, hc, eb)
  • GARTH NIX  • The Sinister Booksellers of Bath • Orion UK/Gollancz, Mar 2023 (ya, hc, eb)
  • GWENDA BOND • Mr. and Mrs. Witch • St. Martin’s Griffin, Mar 2023 (v, tp, eb)
  • IAN WATSON  • The Chinese Time Machine • NewCon Press UK, Mar 2023 (c, tp, hc, eb)
  • K.J. PARKER  • Under My Skin • Subterranean Press, Mar 2023 (c, hc, eb)
  • KATE ELLIOTT • Furious Heaven • Bloomsbury UK/Head of Zeus/Ad Astra, Mar 2023 (hc, eb)
  • KELLY LINK • White Cat, Black Dog, Blooms­bury UK/Head of Zeus, Mar 2023 (c, hc, eb)
  • KELLY LINK • White Cat, Black Dog, Penguin Random House/Random House, Mar 2023 (c, hc, eb)
  • LAURELL K. HAMILTON • Smolder • Penguin Random House/Berkley, Mar 2023 (v, hc, eb)
  • LEE MANDELO • Feed Them Silence • Tordotcom, Mar 2023 (na, hc, eb)
  • LIZ WILLIAMS  • Salt on the Midnight Fire • New­Con Press UK, Mar 2023 (tp, hc, eb)
  • M.R. CAREY • Infinity Gate • Orbit UK, Mar 2023 (tp, eb)
  • M.R. CAREY • Infinity Gate • Orbit US, Mar 2023 (tp, eb)
  • MALKA OLDER  • The Mimicking of Known Suc­cesses • Tordotcom, Mar 2023 (na, hc, eb)
  • MARGARET ATWOOD • Old Babes in the Wood • Penguin Random House UK/Chatto & Win­dus, Mar 2023 (c, hc, eb)
  • MARGARET ATWOOD • Old Babes in the Wood • Penguin Random House/Doubleday, Mar 2023 (c, hc, eb)
  • MARINA DYACHENKO & SERGEY DYACHENKO • Assassin of Reality • Harper Voy­ager US, Mar 2023 (hc, eb)
  • MAX GLADSTONE • Dead Country • Tordotcom, Mar 2023 (tp, eb)
  • NADIA AFIFI • The Transcendent • Flame Tree Press UK, Mar 2023 (tp, hc, eb)
  • NATHAN BALLINGRUD • The Strange • Simon & Schuster/Saga Press, Mar 2023 (h, hc, eb)
  • NATHAN BALLINGRUD • The Strange • Titan Books UK, Mar 2023 (h, tp)
  • NISI SHAWL, ED.  • New Suns 2: Original Specula­tive Fiction by People of Color • Rebellion/Solaris UK, Mar 2023 (oa, tp, eb)
  • OWEN KING • The Curator • Hodder & Stoughton UK, Mar 2023 (hc, eb)
  • OWEN KING • The Curator • Simon & Schuster/Scribner, Mar 2023 (hc, eb)
  • SARAH PINSKER  • Lost Places • Small Beer Press, Mar 2023 (c, tp, eb)
  • SEANAN MCGUIRE • Backpacking Through Bedlam • Astra House/DAW, Mar 2023 (tp, eb)
  • SHANNON CHAKRABORTY • The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi • Harper Voyager US, Mar 2023 (hc, eb)
  • STINA LEICHT • Loki’s Ring • Simon & Schuster/Saga Press, Mar 2023 (tp, eb)
  • T. KINGFISHER • A House With Good Bones • Titan Books UK, Mar 2023 (h, hc, eb)
  • T. KINGFISHER • A House With Good Bones • Tor Nightfire, Mar 2023 (h, hc, eb)
  • TJ KLUNE • In the Lives of Puppets • Macmil­lan/Tor UK, Mar 2023 (hc, eb)
  • VICTOR LAVALLE • Lone Women • Penguin Random House/One World, Mar 2023 (h, hc, eb)
Reading

Rediscovered Terry Pratchett stories to be published

Rediscovered Terry Pratchett stories to be published

A collection of newly rediscovered short stories by Terry Pratchett, originally written under a pseudonym, are to be published later this year.

Mon 27 Feb 2023 14.52 GMT

The 20 tales in A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories were written by Pratchett in the 1970s and 1980s for a regional newspaper, mostly under the pseudonym Patrick Kearns. They have never been previously attributed to Pratchett, who died in 2015 aged 66, eight years after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.

The collection was bought by Pratchett’s longtime publisher Transworld for a six-figure sum, and will be published on 5 October.

The discovery of the stories is down to a group of Pratchett’s fans. One of the longer stories in the collection, The Quest for the Keys, had been framed on Pratchett fan Chris Lawrence’s wall for more than 40 years. When he alerted the Pratchett estate to its existence, the rest of the stories were unearthed by fans Pat and Jan Harkin, who went through decades’ worth of old newspapers to rediscover the lost treasures.

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Fanzines

New zines at e-fanzines

With the FAAn Awards coming up, it’s a good idea to browse a few recent zines. Bill Burns keeps an archive on e-fanznes. These are the latest additions.

New today at https://efanzines.com:

Nic Farey’s This Here…#62

Guy Lillian’s The Zine Dump #57

Andy Hooper’s CAPTAIN FLASHBACK #51

Guy H. Lillian III’s Spartacus #63

John Thiel’s Meteor #4

Octothorpe #77, a regular fannish podcast by John Coxon, Alison Scott and Liz Batty, is now on line

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Bill

Astronomy News

Possible Aurora on the 27th

Space Weather News for Feb. 25, 2023
https://spaceweather.com
https://www.spaceweatheralerts.com

“CHAIN REACTION” EXPLOSION: Yesterday, a magnetic filament on the sun erupted, setting off a chain reaction that included a solar flare, two types of radio blackout, and a potentially Earth-directed CME. Minor to moderate geomagnetic storms are possible on Feb. 27th. Full story @ Spaceweather.com.

 
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Above: A magnetic filaments lifts off on Feb. 24th, the first step in a chain reaction of space weather events.