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Fanzines

Zines to share!

From Bill Burns:

Added today at https://efanzines.com are:

Guy H. Lillian III’s Spartacus #56

Octothorpe #59, a regular fannish podcast by Liz Batty, John Coxon and Alison Scott, is now on line

Guy & Rosy Lillian’s 2022 trip report The Iconic Route UK Parts 1 & 2

Garth Spencer’s The Obdurate Eye #17

From the n3F: Tightbeam333

Table of Contents
Front Cover … In Outer Space by Jose Sanchez
Back Cover … N3F Recruiting Poster by Alan White
Letters of Comment
4 … Will Mayo, Jeffrey Redmond, Jose Sanchez
Anime
4 … Girls’ Frontline by Jessi Silver
Cartoons
6 … Will Mayo Reviews Johnny Quest
Comics
6 … Will Mayo Reviews Alley Oop, The Archies, Richie Rich
Conventions
7 … Convention Report – Anime Central 2022 by Jessi Silver
Movies
11 … Madelines Twists the Time Travel Tropes by Jason P. Hunt
12 … Will Mayo Reviews Swamp Thing, Angelflesh, Maximum Overdrive, Field of Dreams
Radio
13 … Will Mayo Reviews the CBS Mystery Hour
Sercon
13 … Robert W. Lowndes Bio-Bibliography by Jon D. Swartz, Ph.D., N3F Historian
Song
16 … Will Mayo Reviews America’s Sandman, The Rolling Stones’ 2,000 Light Years, Roky Erickson’s If You Have Ghosts, Jimi Hendrix’s Voodoo Child
Verse
17 … Will Mayo Reviews ee cummings’s Pity This Busy Monster, Manunkind
Video
17 … Will Mayo Reviews Tales From The Crypt, Lost In Space, Nimoy’s Mystery Show
Food of Famous Authors
18 … Eat This While You Read That: William Joseph Roberts … Cooking by Cedar Sanderson

Meeting re-caps

MonSFFA Meeting of June 4th

Missed the meeting? Here are the links to all the posts in order. Note that some of the meeting was only on zoom, and this is posted under the members only tab on our website.

Trains figure prominently in SF/F–here are a few. Know of another? Please add to the comments!

Post 1 of 8: Introduction, Trains in SF/F

Post 2 of 8: Live Sci-Fi Improv Poetry!

Post 3 of 8: Show-and-Tell

Post 4 of 8: Time for the Break!

Post 5 of 8: The Terrors of Topanga Canyon—Paul Blaisdell, Monster-Maker (Part II)

Post 6 of 8: Summer Events

What are you reading/watching: the meeting ran late, but please do contribute by posting a comment. Are you watching Strange New Worlds?

Post 7 of 8: What Are You Reading/Watching?

Post 8 of 8: Wrap-Up

Upcoming events:

June 18, visit to the rail museum, Delson

July 9th, BBQ in the park, probably Maisonneuve near the Botanical Gardens

August, probably at the Atwater Library

Corona meetings from home, MonSFFA Website

Post 4 of 8: Time for the Break!

Post 5 of 8: Time for the Break!

Club news, raffle prizes, display table

Get yer bheer & chips, it’s time for the break!
Why do fen spell bheer with an “h”? https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bheer
CLUB NEWS
  • We have a Field trip to the Rail Museum, Delson, on the 18th of June.
  • The Picnic in the Park is scheduled for July 9th.
  • Our return to in-person meetings may happen in August!
  • Danny is looking for your submissions to WARP! Send in your art, stories, photos, puzzles, etc! <warp@monsffa.ca>
  • Got an idea for a future presentation? We need your input!
THE VIRTUAL DISPLAY TABLE

From Mark Burakoff

From Wayne Glover: All 1/72

Starfury MK I, CRF-105C Arrow, Shuttlecrart MK13, RAF B-25C Michell III Medium Bomber, RAF Lancaster MKI Heavy Bomber
PT-109 Torpedio Boat, Hawk MKIX Fighter, Eagle Transport, Runabout USS Rio Grande, US Navy Skipjack Class SSN

1/350 Bird of Prey landed, and also the Bird of Prey along side of Colonial One & the Federation Shuttlecrart

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Daniel Kenney has been creating a diorama for his Blue Dragon. Click the thumbnail to view photos full size.

RAFFLE PRIZES

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Board game published by Metagaming Concepts in 1982 as MicroGame #21, donated by Brian

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

16 stories by well-known authors, intro by Greg Bear, condition: new

Tentacles, free-standing jigsaw puzzle designed by Judy Peterson, cut by CPL from birdseye maple. About 16 cm long.

Young Miles by Lois McMaster Bujold, hardcover, pages a bit yellowed, Sylvain’s legacy

Sequel to King Kong, being released just nine months after and is the second entry of the King Kong franchise. Sylvain’s collection

Trade paperback, donated by CPL, condition: new

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.

 

 

Reading

LOCUS FORTHCOMING BOOKS JUNE 2022

LOCUS FORTHCOMING BOOKS JUNE 2022

  • ELLEN DATLOW, ED. • Screams From the Dark • Tor Nightfire, Jun 2022 (an, hc, eb)
  • JOE ABERCROMBIE • The Great Change (and Other Lies) • Subterranean Press, Jun 2022 (c, hc)
  • EILEEN GUNN • Night Shift • PM Press, Jun 2022 (c, tp, eb)
  • ROBERT SILVERBERG • Among Strangers • Subterranean Press, Jun 2022 (c, hc)
  • STEPHEN ARYAN • Warrior • Angry Robot, Jun 2022 (eb, tp)
  • KEN LIU • Speaking Bones • Head of Zeus/Ad Astra, Jun 2022 (eb, hc)
  • KATHERINE ADDISON • The Grief of Stones • Tor, Jun 2022 (hc, eb)
  • ROBERT JACKSON BENNETT • Locklands • Penguin Random House/Del Rey, Jun 2022 (hc, eb)
  • JACK CAMPBELL • Resolute • Ace, Jun 2022 (hc, eb)
  • KIM HARRISON • Trouble with the Cursed • Ace, Jun 2022 (hc, eb)
  • ALIX E. HARROW • A Mirror Mended • Tordotcom, Jun 2022 (hc, eb)
  • MAT JOHNSON • Invisible Things • Penguin Random House/One World, Jun 2022 (hc, eb)
  • MERCEDES LACKEY • Into the West • DAW, Jun 2022 (hc, eb)
  • KEN LIU • Speaking Bones • Simon & Schuster/Saga Press, Jun 2022 (hc, eb)
  • HARRY TURTLEDOVE • Three Miles Down • Tor, Jun 2022 (hc, eb)
  • ANTHONY RYAN • The Martyr • Little, Brown UK/Orbit, Jun 2022 (hc)
  • SAMIT BASU • The City Inside • Tordotcom, Jun 2022 (tp, eb)
  • AYIZE JAMA-EVERETT • Heroes of an Unknown World • Small Beer Press, Jun 2022 (tp, eb)
  • GREG KEYES • The Basilisk Throne • Titan Books US, Jun 2022 (tp, eb)
  • JENNIFER ROBERSON • Sword-Bearer • DAW, Jun 2022 (tp, eb)
  • ANTHONY RYAN • The Martyr • Orbit US, Jun 2022 (tp, eb)
  • RACHEL SWIRSKY • January Fifteenth • Tordotcom, Jun 2022 (tp, eb)
  • MIKE BROOKS • The Godbreaker • Little, Brown UK/ Orbit, Jun 2022 (tp)
  • ROBERT JACKSON BENNETT • Locklands • Quercus/Jo Fletcher, Jun 2022 (tp)
  • MILES CAMERON • Against All Gods • Orion/Gollancz, Jun 2022 (tp)
  • GREG KEYES • The Basilisk Throne • Titan, Jun 2022 (tp)
  • V.E. SCHWAB • The Path of Thorns • Titan, Jun 2022 (tp)
  • KALYNN BAYRON • This Wicked Fate • Bloomsbury USA, Jun 2022 (ya, hc, eb)
  • DAVID WEBER & JANE LINDSKOLD • A New Clan • Baen, Jun 2022 (ya, hc, eb)
Upcoming meeting

REMINDER: WE MEET SATURDAY, JUNE 4TH

WE ARE MEETING THIS SATURDAY, JUNE 4TH.

 On the Menu:

  • Improv poetry, by Kofi
  • Part 2 of Keith’s Terrors of Topanga Canyon (Part 1 is here)

Also:

  • Panning for the field trip to Rail Museum & August meeting
  • Show and tell, What are you reading/watching, Raffle

Untold Scenery, Decoded Imagery

by Kofi

Worlds intertwine

As the words do in these lines

Combine at will

Even if time were to be still

What may occur, who really knows?

Can these words and aura be the hidden device

That brings the surprise to a world never told

Where the colors are smell by the nose

Where the occurrence of the unknown

Is part of the times

Consider it commonplace

Part of being regular,

Actions aren’t seen in singular

Join us in the journey, to see what comes across our face

In this phase

Would it be familiar?

Or a whole different pace

 

Fanzines

Zines to share!

More Zines arrived!

Nic Farey sent us This Here, lots of footy news and lovely art by Ulrika O’Brian. TH 53

From the N3F, the N3F Review of Books Incorporating Prose Bono

N3FReview202205

Fiction

2 … A Long Time Until Now by Michael Z. Williamson … Review by Trevor Denning
3 … A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs … Review by Caroline Furlong
5 … A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher (Ursula Vernon) … Review by Tom Feller
6 … Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire … Review by Perry Middlemiss
6 … Alexis Carew series by J.A. Sutherland … Review by Jim McCoy
8 … Beat The Devils by Josh Weiss … Review by Jason P. Hunt
9 … Chaos on Catnet by Naomi Kritzer … Review by Tom Feller
9 … Dark Sojourns by Beth H. Adams … Review by Heath Row
10 … Doctor Who and the Deadly Assassin by Terrance Dicks … Review by Heath Row
11 … Drosselmeyer: Curse of the Rat King … Review by Trevor Denning
13 … The Einstein Intersection by Samuel R. Delaney … Review by Perry Middlemiss
13 … Escape From the Future by Paul Clayton … Review by Michael Gallagher
16 … Fireheart Tiger by Aliette de Bodard … Review by Perry Middlemiss
16 … Five Hard and Crunchy SF Tales by Michèle Laframboise … Review by Robert Runté
17 … Foundation by Isaac Asimov … Review by Heath Row
19 … Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov … Review by Heath Row
19 … The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood … Review by Heath Row
21 … Jaguar Rising by Amanda S. Green … Review by Pat Patterson
22 … Light Chaser by Peter F. Hamilton and Gareth L. Powell … Review by Perry Middlemiss
22 … Light Unto Another World by Yakov Merkin … Review by Caroline Furlong
24 … Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny … Review by Perry Middlemiss
24 … Magnetic Brain by Volsted Gridban … Review by Heath Row
25 … Marymae and the Nightmare Man by A. M. Freeman … Review by Caroline Furlong
27 … Mission: Interplanetary by A.E. van Vogt … Review by Heath Row
28 … Monster Hunter International by Larry Correia … Review by Declan Finn
30 … The Mummy of Monte Cristo … Review by Trevor Denning
32 … My Luck by Mel Todd … Review by Declan Finn
34 … The Necessity of Stars by E. Catherine Tobler … Review by Perry Middlemiss
34 … A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers … Review by Perry Middlemiss
35 … Responsibility of the Crown by G. Scott Huggins … Review by Pat Patterson
36 … The Ruin of Kings by Jenn Lyons … Review by Tom Feller
36 … Servants of War by Larry Correia and Steve Diamond … Review by JE Tabor
38 … The Star Beast by Robert Heinlein … Review by Chris Nuttall
42 … Thunder God of Mars: A Superhero Prose Novel … Review by Trevor Denning
43 … We Dare: Semper Paratus: An Anthology of the Apocalypse edited by Jamie Ibson … Review by Pat Patterson
45 … When Valor Must Hold Edited by Rob Howell and Chris Kennedy … Review by Pat Patterson
46 … Year of the Unicorn by Andre Norton … Review by Caroline Furlong

Non-Fiction

49 … Fandom: Confidential by Ron Frantz … Review by Heath Row
50 … My Memoirs of the Dark Shadows Conventions by Anthony Taylor … Review by Heath Row
51 … The Politics of Fandom by Hannah Mueller … Review by Heath Row

Prose Bono

53 … Character Analysis: A Tale of Two People by Chris Nuttall
54 … Trimming Out the Story by Cedar Sanderson

FINIS … 55