Regarding a move to the Atwater Library: The last I heard, we were to be informed in August about when we could begin renting the auditorium. I wrote to the Atwater Library again, but no response. I’ve no idea what’s going on, and I’m getting discouraged.
Have you paid your dues? Please check with Joe! A lot of memberships are overdue!
DISPLAY
Brian Knapp sends us photos of his latest work.
I finally finished Polar Light’s Robby the Robot from the shelf of doom. The resin base, Robby’s legs, Altaira, & the Fez are all aftermarket from Jimmy Flintstone Studios (https://jimmyflintstonestudios.com/Figurines_c_28.html). Please feel free to start a caption this segment during the next meeting, or if someone wants to write a short story.
RAFFLE PRIZES
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Sturmovik Neko Girl, Japanese Capsule Toy, donated by Brian Knapp.
Cat licking paw, ornament designed by Sue Mey, cut by CPL from canary wood. 8cm diameter.
1982 – Prix Boréal 1982 – Prix Rosny-Aîné 1982 – Grand Prix de la science-fiction française From Sylvain’s collection
Set of 5o cards showing cover art for Astounding Magazines. Descriptions on back. From Sylvain’s legacy.
Young Miles by Lois McMaster Bujold, hardcover, pages a bit yellowed, Sylvain’s legacy
Vernor Vinge: Tatja Grimm’s World, excellent condition. Cover by Tom Kidd
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
First of a duology by Ben Bova & A J Austin, dust jacket a bit scuffed, otherwise looks unread.
This month’s roundup: • More Yiddish-related SF material dedicated to my dear departed father, David Botwinik (o”h – ע”ה ): o Chapter C of “Kamf-Nign” Yiddish SF short story by Leybl Botwinik (with English translation) • Book review: “More Zion’s Fiction” o Story #09: “The Thirteenth Fairy” – by Nadav Almog Our usual tidbits from the Web – in our next issue.
– Your editor, Leybl Botwinik
From Nic Farey
Beam17r3 Has a totally gorgeous cover from Alan White.
Passed on to us by the N3F, Mt Void from the Leepers.
J.L. Farey’s JenZine #2
Archive issues of Heath Row’s Telegraphs & Tar Pits #31-34, Faculae & Filigree #15, and new title Explosion Containment Umbrella #1 & 2
Christopher J. Garcia’s The Drink Tank #441
David Grigg’s The Megaloscope #3 Opuntia #535, edited by Dale Speirs
Leybl Botwinik’s CyberCozen – October 2022
Robert Madle, 1968, photo by Jay Kay Klein, UC Riverside Libraries
Fan, collector, and bookseller Robert A. Madle, 102, died peacefully in his sleep on October 8, 2022. Madle was a founder and the first president of First Fandom (and the last survivor of the original membership), and was a warm and familiar presence in the field since the 1930s.
Robert Albert Madle was born June 2, 1920 in Philadelphia PA. He enlisted in the Army in July 1942, serving three-and-a-half years, working as a truck driver and teletype operator. He met his wife Billie in the latter job, while she was a switchboard operator. He also worked in the Army’s public relations office. He was married during the war, then attended college and went for his MBA. He worked for the government in the Navy Department, doing personnel research, and later became a research psychologist studying human/machine interfaces. He was also a book collector and dealer, continuing to sell by mail order even in his later years.
Madle began reading SF as 13-year-old in 1933 with Tom Swift and Edgar Rice Burroughs, then discovered the pulp magazines and became active in fandom soon after. An organizer from the first, he formed the Boys’ Science Fiction Club with a few friends in 1934. He attended the 1936 gathering in Philadelphia that Donald A. Wollheim dubbed “The first science fiction convention,” was active in the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society, and was generally a pillar of Philly fandom. He spread his love for organizing wherever he went, serving as a trustee of Washington Science Fiction Association, and founding the Carolina SF Society in North Carolina in the ’50s.
He attended the first Worldcon in 1939 and was the 1957 TAFF winner, writing trip report “A Fake Fan in London” afterward. He was Fan Guest of Honor at SunCon, the 1977 Worldcon and was a frequent guest at other conventions. He helped organize Worldcons and was involved in the creation of the Hugo Awards.
Madle was active in fanzine circles, where he was best known for Fantascience Digest (1937-41). His first fanzine was one issue of The Science Fiction Fan (1935) with John V. Baltadonis. They started Imaginative Fiction in 1935, continuing it intermittently until 1938. He also worked on Fantasy Fiction Telegram and wrote a column, “Fantaglimmerings”, for The Science Fiction Collector. He was a founder of New Era Publishers with Jack Agnew and Al Pepper, publishing David H. Keller’s Solitary Hunters and the Abyss (1946). He wrote many letters to SF magazines, his first appearing in Pirate Stories (July 1935), with others in Astounding Stories, Amazing Stories, Weird Tales, and more.
An occasional SF writer, his story “Devolution” appeared in his own Imaginative Fiction (1936). Other stories include “Brain, the Creator” (1936, with Corwin F. Stickney), “Black Adventure” (1937), and “The Infinite Vision” (2006).
Madle won the Big Heart Award in 1974, the First Fandom Hall of Fame Award in 1990, and the Moskowitz Archive Award in 2002. He was a nominee for the Best Feature Writer Hugo Award in 1956. His Fantascience Digest was a Retro Hugo Award finalist in 2014. He is survived by his daughter Jane.
The Corflu Pangloss fanzine auction catalog and bid sheet may be viewed on Andy Hooper’s page. The auction will be held at Corflu over the weekend of October 21-23 2022
Rich Lynch’s My Back Pages #27
Ethel the Aardvark #216 and archive issues 14, 184
Octothorpe #67, a regular fannish podcast by John Coxon, Alison Scott and Liz Batty, is now on line
Fiction
2 … A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine … Review by Perry Middlemiss
2 … All the Myriad Ways by Larry Niven … Review by Perry Middlemiss
2 … All the Sounds of Fear by Harlan Ellison … Review by Perry Middlemiss
3 … The Book Club by J.H. Nadler … Review by Jason P. Hunt
5 … The Butlerian Jihad by Kevin J. Anderson and Brian Herbert … Review by Graham Bradley
6 … Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi … Review by Chris Nuttall
8 … The Dragon Proofed House by L.E. Henderson … Review by Jim McCoy
10 … Dangerous Visions #1 edited by Harlan Ellison … Review by Heath Row
11 … Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky … Review by Perry Middlemiss
12 … Hail Mary Project by Andy Weir … Review by Perry Middlemiss
12 … If It Bleeds by Stephen King … Review by Jon D. Swartz
14 … Imaginary Friends by Arlene F. Marks … Reviewed by Robert Runté
15 … Lisey’s Story by Stephen King … Review by Perry Middlemiss
15 … Me, Myself, and Bob by Phil Vischer … Review by Pat Patterson
17 … Metaphysical Machines/Maquinas Metafisicas by Heinzy Cruz … Review by Heath Row
18 … Other Rhodes by Sarah A. Hoyt … Review by Pat Patterson
19 … The Past is Red by Catherynne M. Valente … Review by Perry Middlemiss
19 … Penance by Paula Richey … Review by Declan Finn
21 … The Seance by John Harwood … Review by Perry Middlemiss
23 … Semper Paratus: An Anthology of the Apocalypse edited by Jamie Ibson and Chris Kennedy
… Review by Pat Patterson
24 … The Shadowed Sun by N.K. Jemisin … Review by Chris Nuttall
27 … Sleepless Hollow by Graham Bradley … Review by Michael Gallagher
29 … Songs That the Astral Crickets Shall Sing by Luis G. Abbadie … Review by Heath Row
30 … A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow … Review by Perry Middlemiss
Non-Fiction
31 … The Life & Art of Dave Cockrum by Glen Cadigan … Review by Heath Row
32 … The Story of Batman by Charles Lee Jackson II … Review by Heath Row
32 … The Story of Superman by Charles Lee Jackson II … Review by Heath Row
33 … What Is Dungeons and Dragons? by John Butterfield, Philip Parker, and David Honigmann
… Review by Heath Row
Literary Criticism
35 … The 2022 Hugos: How I Voted and Why by Tom Feller, with reviews of:
Novels
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir—
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers—
A Master of Djinn by P. Djeli Clark—
A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine—
Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki—
She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan—
Novellas
Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire—
Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky—
Fireheart Tiger by Aliette de Bodard—
The Past is Red by Catherynne M. Valente—
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers—
A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow—
Novelettes
Bots of the Lost Ark by Suzanne Palmer—
Colors of the Immortal Palette by Caroline M. Yoachim—
L’Esprit de L’Escalier by Catherynne M. Valente—
O2 Arena by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki—
That Story Isn’t the Story by John Wiswell—
Unseelie Brothers, Ltd. By Fran Wilde—
Short Stories
Mr. Death by Alix E. Harrow—
Proof by Induction by Jose Pablo Iriate—
The Sin of America by Catherynne M. Valente—
Tangles by Seanan McGuire—
Unknown Number by Blue Neustifter—
Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather by Sarah Pinsker—
Lodestar Award for Young Adult Novel (Not a Hugo)
Chaos on Catnet by Naomi Kritzer—
Victories Greater Than Death by Charlie Jane Anders—
Prose Bono
46 … How To Anthology: Part 1 by Cedar Sanderson
48 … Work vs. Writing by Becky Jones
49 … Style vs. Knowledge A. C. Cargill
A BIG DANGEROUS SUNSPOT: One of the biggest sunspots in years has just rotated over the sun’s northeastern limb. AR3112 has a mixed-polarity magnetic field that harbors energy for strong X-class solar flares. The appearance of this dangerous sunspot could herald two weeks of high solar activity as it transits the Earth-facing side of the sun. Full story @ Spaceweather.com
Don’t miss the next solar flare: Subscribers to our Space Weather Alert Service receive instant text messages when strong solar flares are underway. Above: A white-light photo of sunspot group AR3112 is inset atop a magnetic map of the sun from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory.
The most recent edition of Films Fantastic, courtesy of the N3F, has a very comprehensive review of the life and work of Ed Wood. Some bug has corrupted part of the file but luckily this article is OK, and I have permission to share the zine with the corrupted pages deleted.
Post 3 of 6: The Break
Get your Bheer & Chips!
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