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Fanzines

Fanzine to share!

A bumper crop of zines arrived while I was away. Enjoy!

from Guy Lillian: Spartacus no. 59

New today at https://efanzines.com:

Leybl Botwinik’s CyberCozen – September 2022

Ray Palm’s The Ray X X-rayer #167

Taral Wayne’s The Baloobius #9

Octothorpe #66, a regular fannish podcast by John Coxon, Alison Scott and Liz Batty, is now on line

Ethel the Aardvark #215 and archive issues 13, 185

Guy & Rosy Lillian’s 2004 archive trip report The Galactic Route

Garth Spencer’s The Obdurate Eye #19.5

David Grigg’s Through the Biblioscope #30

—
Bill

From  Leybl Botwinik in Israel, CyberCozen.

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This month’s roundup: • More Yiddish-related SF material dedicated to my dear departed father, David Botwinik (o”h – ע” ה ): o First 2 chapters of “Kamf-Nign” Yiddish SF short story by Leybl Botwinik (with English translation) • Book review: “More Zion’s Fiction” o Story #07: Dragon Control – by Rami Shalheveth o Story #08: The Word Farmers – by Lili Daie

From Garth Spencer, The Obdurate Eye

ObdurateEye19.5

NEW CORFLU UPDATES!!
VCON 2022 CANCELLED!!!
INTERSTELLAR FAN FUND PROPOSED!!!!

Local News ……. 1
Corflu Pangloss Updates …. 1
VCON: On Again Off Again .. 1
NASFiC 2023 in Winnipeg …. 2
Are These Persons Actually Missing? …… 2
LoCs ……………. 3
Dreaming Is an Art Form …….. 5
Complexity ……. 5
Anglic  7
Spoons ………….. 7
Fanzines Received ……… 8

The N3F sent us:

ORIGIN55September2022

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MT VOID 2237

MT VOID 2238

MT VOID 2239

MT VOID 2240

MT VOID 2241

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Corona meetings from home

Post 4 of 8: The Break!

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

 

 

NEWS

BBQ in Maisonneuve Park: Sadly only 5 of us turned up to enjoy the really nice weather. The park was lovely, even if lacking a pond, and the washrooms in the chalet were clean. Keith brought the new propane BBQ. It was fast and efficient.

In Memoriam: We are grateful to Danny Sichel who arranged to have Maureen Whitelaw and Marc Durocher included in the ceremony at Chicon. Thanks also to Joe for sending the screen shots to our fb group.

 

Have you paid your dues? Please check with Joe! A lot of memberships are overdue!

DISPLAY

Brian Knapp sends us photos of Jiro Horikoshi’s bird plane which appears in the beginning of Hayao Miyazaki’ s anime “The Wind Rises”, also some screenshots from the film and the Paul Valery quote. Watch the YouTube clip.
https://youtu.be/RVsN5H4g5Qw

Click the thumbnails to view full size image.

Keith Braithwaite has sent us the photos of the preliminary work on a new stop motion project.

“The images show, first, the animation armature, then the creature sculpt over the armature, the creature itself, and finally, the creature textured, using aluminium foil, which I expect will reflect the light during the stop-motion process and create an interesting shining, crystaline or energy monster! Next step is to build the animation model, and try some photographic tests to see how it looks on screen.
Click the thumbnails to view full size image.

 RAFFLE PRIZES

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HG Wells: First Men in the Moon, cold cast resin, 5.25 inches long.

Game donated by Brian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fantasy_Trip

1982 – Prix Boréal 1982 – Prix Rosny-Aîné 1982 – Grand Prix de la science-fiction française From Sylvain’s collection

Toy train ornament, design by Keith Fenton, cut by CPL from 1/4 inch cherry, 9cm

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.
Fanzines

Zines to share!

ObdurateEye19 from Garth Spencer

In the Fannish World …………….. 1
Getting There …………………….. 1
Robert Sawyer Online Interview by the Worcester Library SF Book Club …………………………………… 1
And the Awards Went to… ……………….. 1
2022 Inductees – CSFFA Hall of Fame……. 3
Of Possible Interest ….. 3
On Self-Publishing: ………………………………………………. 3
From the Journal of Hrothgar Weems ………………….. 3
Loc (1) …………….. 6
Eccentrica ………………………………………………………. 6
News from the Kingdom of Talossa ………… 6
News from the Universal Life Church ……….. 7
Zines Received……………….. 7
Art Credits
Brad Foster, “Gumdrop Family” …………… cover

SPARTACUS 58 by Guy Lillian

New today at https://efanzines.com:

Guy H. Lillian III’s Spartacus #58

Archive issues of Heath Row’s Telegraphs & Tar Pits #28-30 and Snow Poster Township #6

Octothorpe #65, a regular fannish podcast by John Coxon, Alison Scott and Liz Batty, is now on line

Christopher J. Garcia’s Claims Department #34

Garth Spencer’s The Obdurate Eye #19

David Grigg’s Through the Biblioscope #29

Opuntia #533, edited by Dale Speirs

—
Bill

 

 

Reading

Locus Forthcoming Books September

Locus Forthcoming Books September

SEP 2022

  • ALIETTE DE BODARD • The Red Scholar’s Wake • Orion/Gollancz, Sep 2022 (eb, hc)
  • ANTHONY RYAN • To Blackfyre Keep • Subterranean Press, Sep 2022 (na, hc, eb)
  • BRANDON SANDERSON • Bastille vs. the Evil Librarians • Tor/Starscape, Sep 2022 (ya, hc, eb)
  • BRIAN TRENT • Redspace Rising • Flame Tree Press, Sep 2022 (tp, hc)
  • CHARLES VESS • The Queen of Summer’s Twilight • NewCon Press, Sep 2022 (hc, eb, tp)
  • CHARLIE N. HOLMBERG • Keeper of Enchanted Rooms • Amazon/47North, Sep 2022 (tp, eb)
  • CHRISTOPHER PRIEST • Expect Me Tomorrow • Orion/Gollancz, Sep 2022 (eb, hc)
  • CLAIRE NORTH • Ithaca • Little Brown UK/Orbit, Sep 2022 (hc)
  • CLAIRE NORTH • Ithaca • Orbit US/Redhook, Sep 2022 (hc, eb)
  • FRANCES HARDINGE • Unraveller • Macmillan, Sep 2022 (ya, hc)
  • GRANT MORRISON • Luda • Penguin Random House/Del Rey, Sep 2022 (hc, eb)
  • JOSH MALERMAN • Daphne • Penguin Random House/Del Rey, Sep 2022 (hc, eb)
  • M. RICKERT • Lucky Girl • How I Became a Horror Writer, Tordotcom, Sep 2022 (na, h, tp, eb)
  • MERCEDES LACKEY • Into the West • DAW, Sep 2022 (1st US, hc, eb)
  • NAOMI NOVIK • The Golden Enclaves • Penguin Random House UK/Del Rey UK, Sep 2022 (eb, hc)
  • NAOMI NOVIK • The Golden Enclaves • Penguin Random House/Del Rey, Sep 2022 (hc, eb)
  • NEON YANG • The Genesis of Misery • Tor, Sep 2022 (hc, eb)
  • PATRICE CALDWELL, ED. • Eternally Yours • Penguin Random House/Viking, Sep 2022 (oa, ya, hc, eb)
  • PAUL McAULEY • Beyond the Burn Line • Orion/Gollancz, Sep 2022 (eb, tp)
  • R.B. LEMBERG • The Unbalancing • Tachyon Publications, Sep 2022 (tp, eb)
  • RAMSEY CAMPBELL • Fellstones • Flame Tree Press US, Sep 2022 (h, hc, tp, eb)
  • RAMSEY CAMPBELL • Fellstones • Flame Tree Press, Sep 2022 (h, tp, hc)
  • RANSOM RIGGS • Miss Peregrine’s Museum of Wonders • Penguin Random House/Dutton, Sep 2022 (nf, hc, eb)
  • ROB WILKINS • Terry Pratchett: A Life with Footnotes • Penguin Random House UK/Transworld/Doubleday UK, Sep 2022 (nf, eb, hc)
  • SEANAN MCGUIRE • Be the Serpent • DAW, Sep 2022 (hc, eb)
  • STEPHEN BAXTER • The Thousand Earths • Orion/Gollancz, Sep 2022 (eb, hc)
  • STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES • Don’t Fear the Reaper • Titan, Sep 2022 (h, tp)
  • STEPHEN KING • Fairy Tale • Hodder & Stoughton, Sep 2022 (hc)
  • STEPHEN KING • Fairy Tale • Simon & Schuster/Scribner, Sep 2022 (hc, eb)
  • TAMSYN MUIR • Nona the Ninth • Tordotcom, Sep 2022 (hc, eb)
  • WALTER JON WILLIAMS • Imperium Restored • Harper Voyager US, Sep 2022 (tp, eb)
Montreal Area Event / Convention, Stop Motion

Stop Motion Festival: Short film screening calendar released!

Festival Stop Motion Montréal

Short film screening calendar released!

A selection of 75 films made using stop motion techniques will grace the big screen in 10 different curated short film competition screening programs, from September 16-18, 2022 at Concordia University’s J.A. De Sève Theatre. Fifty-eight animated works will premiere in Montreal for the first time. The Festival is delighted to have a number of local productions coming out of the pandemic pause, which includes a dozen Canadian shorts directed mostly by female filmmakers and emerging filmmakers. The upcoming event will make sure to celebrate this production boom.

Refer to the event page, so you don’t miss anything!
Calendrier des projections de courts métrage en ligne!

Une sélection de 75 films en stop motion seront portés à l’écran grâce à une dizaine de programmes en compétition, du 16 au 18 septembre 2022, au Théâtre J.A. de Sève de l’Université Concordia. Cinquante-huit oeuvres seront présentées à Montréal pour la première fois, dont une dizaine de projets canadiens réalisés majoritairement par des femmes cinéastes et de la relève. La Direction du Festival se réjouit du nombre de productions locales, au sortant de la pandémie, et compte célébrer cette vive activités le moi prochain.

Référez-vous à l’événement pour ne rien manquer !!

TICKETS & VIP PASS SALE

Festival VIP Passes presented by TONIC DNA offer priority access to the best in stop motion cinema with more than 10 hours of film screenings spread over seven regular short film competition programs, two family-friendly youth film programs, and one TNT program -Terrifying, Naked, and Twisted, for mature audiences.

Festival-goers can secure their VIP Passes at the Festival’s online box office for $65+tx.
Individual activities tickets aslo available. bit.ly/stopmobxo

BILLETS ET LAISSEZ-PASSER EN VENTE 

Les laissez-passer VIP du Festival, présentés par TONIC DNA, sont en vente et permettront d’accéder au meilleur du cinéma en stop motion via sept programmes réguliers de courts métrages en compétition, deux programmes de films jeunesse et un programmes TNT – Terrifiant, Nu et Tordu (pour public averti). Au total, plus de 10 heures de projections seront offertes au public.

Les festivaliers peuvent se procurer le laissez-passer VIP sur la boutique en ligne du Festival au coût de 65$+tx. Billets individuels également disponibles.  bit.ly/bilstopmo

Call for volunteers

Festival Stop Motion Montréal could use some extra helping hands for its upcoming 14th edition – check out the available volunteer opportunities here and fill out the form to get in touch!  FORM LINK

Appel à bénévoles 

Le Festival Stop Motion Montréal est à la recherche de bénévoles pour sa 14e édition! Consultez les opportunités de bénévolat disponibles et remplissez le formulaire pour nous contacted! FORMULAIRE

Movies, Stop Motion

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

Post-production
Expected December 2022
A darker version of the classic children's fairy tale of a wooden puppet that transforms into a real living boy.

Fanzines

A whole lot of zines to share!

A whole lot of zines to share!

From Nic Farey: This Here 56

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Interesting article about ancestry as Nic,  who was adopted, learns about his birth family. Footy column with the ubiquitous pictures of female soccer player waving her shirt around (It’s a sports bra, guys,  get over it), and lovely art by Ulrika. Lots of letters, including one from me.

From Joe Major, Alexiad 124.

Sad to hear of another fan-run convention dying due to lack of fans to work at it.

Alex124

 Table of Contents
Editorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Reviewer’s Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
FAAN Awards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
The Joy of High Tech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
O City of Byzantium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Unintended Consequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Worldcon News. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Book Reviews
JTM Frankos, Broadway Revival . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
JTM Campbell, Resolute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
JTM Turtledove, Three Miles Down . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Con Reports
LK InConJunction XLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Random Jottings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
From the N3F:

The review of books (ToC below), and Mt Void

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Fiction
2 … Absolution by Rick Partlow … Review by Graham Bradley
3 … The Breakroom of a Thousand Nightmares by Roy Griffis … Review by Michael Gallagher
5 … Body and Blood by Michael Gallagher … Review by Declan Finn
6 … Captain Trader Helmsman Spy by Karl Gallagher … Review by Declan Finn
8 … Cold As Hell by Rhett C. Bruno and Jaime Castle … Review by Graham Bradley
10 … Driven to the Hilt 1: The Deepest Cut by D.G. Lamb … Review by Jim McCoy
12 … Dusklight by NR LaPoint … Review by Declan Finn
14 … Ghost of a Chance by Dan Willis … Review by Jwstepanek
15 … Gun Magus by NR LaPoint … Review by Declan Finn
17 … In Another World I Must Defeat the Demon King by Miles English …
Review by Graham Bradley
18 … The Killing Moon by NK Jemisin … Review by Chris Nuttall
21 … The Mask Shop of Doctor Blaack by Steve Rasnic Tem … Review by Jim McCoy
23 … Ordinary Monsters: A Novel by J. M. Miro … Review by Bob Jennings
24 … Stand Against the Dark by Denton Salle … Review by Declan Finn
26 … Ten Thousand Skies Above You by Claudia Gray … Review by Mindy Hunt
28 … This Is Not a Game by Walter Jon Williams … Review by Graham Bradley
30 … Titan by Robert Kroese … Review by JE Tabor
Prose Bono
31 … Writer’s Groups Grouped by Type by Cedar Sanderson
32 … Inspirations by A.C. Cargill
Letters to the Editor
33 … Keven Trainor, Melody Friedenthal, Heath Row
FINIS

Astronomy News

AURORAS ON JUPITER

Space Weather News for August 23, 2022
https://spaceweather.com
https://www.spaceweatheralerts.com

AURORAS ON JUPITER: Yesterday, NASA released gorgeous new photos of auroras on Jupiter taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. Today’s edition of Spaceweather.com takes a deeper dive into the photos, explaining why Jupiter’s auroras are so much more than just oversized versions of our own. Spoiler alert: Volcanoes are involved. 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.
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Above: Infrared auroras on Jupiter. Image credit: NASA/JWST

Fanzines

Zine to share

From the N3F:

TNFF202208

The sercon article is very interesting, being about Fawcett Publications beyond superhero comics.  The author, Jon D. Swartz,  puts to focus their limited runs and one-offs, such as Destination Moon, When Worlds Collide and Captain Video.

ToC

Laureate Awards
Swag!
President Reports — Your Volunteer Team
Letters of Comment
John Thiel —Bob Jennings
Treasury
Bureaus
Art Bureau — History and Research Bureau — Round Robins Bureau
Fan-Pro Coordinating Bureau — Correspondence Bureau — Anime & Manga Bureau
Pro Bureau — Writers Exchange — Book Review Bureau — Welcommittee
SerCon
Fawcett Science Fiction Comics
Nichelle Nichols
The Magazine of Fantasy
September Calendar