Science and technology, Space Travel / Exploration

Anniversary of the Moon Landing

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On the 20th of July, MonSFFA will be celebrating the anniversary of the moon landing fifty years ago! Here are some interesting sites to explore.

The Canadian Mint: Two new coins released, one in pure gold, the other in pure silver.

” While the United States launched and landed the spacecraft, Canadians also have every reason to celebrate. In fact, many don’t know that the landing gear for the Apollo 11 Lunar Module was designed by the Canadian company, Héroux-Devtek. Technically, Canadian technology was the first object of Apollo 11’s mission to touch the Moon! “

NASA Celebrates 50th Anniversary of Historic Moon Landing with Live TV Broadcast, Events

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Apollo 50th Logo full color at 300 DPI
Credits: NASA

NASA will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 Moon mission and look to the future of exploration on the Moon and Mars with a live, two-hour television broadcast Friday, July 19, and partner-led events taking place across the country from July 16 through July 20.  List of special events includes a reunion of Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins at the historic launch pad where Apollo 11 began its mission. READ ALL ABOUT events around the country.

To the Moon in 11 years: A photographic timeline of Apollo

In just over a decade, NASA’s Apollo program overcame tragedy and pioneered new technologies to reach the Moon. http://astronomy.com/galleries/news/to-the-moon-in-11-years-a-photographic-timeline-of-apollo?

APOLLO 11 IN REAL TIME

A real-time journey through the first landing on the Moon:  This website consists entirely of original historical mission material.

https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/

Included real-time elements:

  • All mission control film footage
  • All TV transmissions and onboard film footage
  • 2,000 photographs
  • 11,000 hours of Mission Control audio
  • 240 hours of space-to-ground audio
  • All onboard recorder audio
  • 15,000 searchable utterances
  • Post-mission commentary
  • Astromaterials sample data

Lunar tales: The first (imaginative) Moon landings

Although humans didn’t really reach the Moon until a half century ago, we’ve ventured there in our minds for millennia.
By Joel Davis  |  Published: Friday, June 07, 2019
RELATED TOPICS: APOLLO | THE MOON
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This iconic shot from the 1902 film A Trip to the Moon shows the fabled Man in the Moon embedded with a massive, bullet-like spacecraft that was launched from Earth by a giant cannon.
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It’s been 50 years since humans first landed on the Moon. But for how long have we rehearsed those first steps in our imaginations? This we do know: We’ve been telling each other tales about our Moon-landing dreams for nearly 2,000 years.
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Nearly 2,000 years ago, Lucian of Samosata wrote a tale about a boat that was blasted all the way to the Moon by a powerful waterspout.
Ruth Cobb from Chatterbox Children’s Annual, 1926 (Image from Lady Meerkat)
The earliest known written story about people traveling to the Moon was by Lucian of Samosata, a Syrian-Greek writer born around 125 AD. His travels throughout the Mediterranean world were the basis for the fictional tales in his True Stories, an often bawdy satire of Homer’s revered epic the Odyssey.

One such story tells of the journey Lucian and 50 companions take on a boat carried to the Moon by a giant waterspout. When they arrive on the lunar surface, they’re greeted by a race of three-headed vultures and soon find themselves in the middle of a war with another species. Eventually they make their way back to Earth and experience more fantastic adventures. Lucian’s lunar tale is the earliest known piece of fiction that depicts space travel, a Moon landing, aliens, and interplanetary war.

Some 15 centuries later, three people changed our view of our place in the universe forever. Nicolas Copernicus published his heliocentric theory of the universe, which replaced the Earth with the Sun at the center of the solar system; Galileo Galilei spotted sunspots, the phases of Venus, and moons circling Jupiter; and Johannes Kepler showed us that the planets circle the Sun in ellipses.

But Kepler also wrote a novel about landing on the Moon. Entitled Somnium (A Dream), he began writing it when he was still a teenager. Although it took him about two decades to complete, he eventually finished it in 1608. However, it wasn’t published until 1634 — four years after his death.  Continue reading ! More great tales that led the way to the future!

Fanzines

Fanzines to share!

A lot of zines to share!

MonSFFA has received Tightbeam, 5 issues of Mt Void, Alexiad, PurMew, and Ionisphere

Tightbeam has lots of reviews! And a couple of recipes. Edited by George Phillies & Jon Swartz

Table of Contents
Art
Front Cover…Angela K. Scott…Sci-Fi Space Dragon
Back Cover…Jose Sanchez…Land of the Rising Suns
Editorial
4…Discussion letters are moving to TNFF
Anime
4…Jessi Silver…Planet With
6…Jessi Silver…Revue Starlight
10…Jessi Silver…Aggressive Retsuko (Aggretsuko)
Novels
12…Pat Patterson…A Pillar of Fire by Night by Tom Kratman
14…Jim McCoy…Hell Spawn by Declan Finn
15…Pat Patterson…Dark Moon Arisen by Chris Kennedy and Mark Wandrey
17…Declan Finn…Night’s Black Agents by Daniel Humphreys
19…Jim McCoy…Come, Seeling Night by Daniel Humphreys
21…Jim McCoy…Radioactive Evolution by Richard Hummel
23…John Thiel…11/22/63 by Stephen King
24…Pat Patterson…Blood Moon Eclipse by Lloyd Behm II
25…Jim McCoy…The World Asunder by Kacey Ezell
27…Pat Patterson…The World Asunder by Kacey Ezell
29…Pat Patterson…Possum Creek Massacre by Cedar Sanderson
30…Pat Patterson…Guardsman by Pam Uphoff
31…Pat Patterson…Lay of the Legionnaire by Chris Sommerkorn
33…Pat Patterson…CASPer Alamo
Comics
35…Jim McCoy…Deadworld: Requiem for the Dead
SerCon
37…Jon D. Swartz, Ph.D….Miriam Allen deFord: Science Fiction-Writing Feminist
41…Jon D. Swartz, Ph.D….The Whitman Penny Books
Food of Famous Authors
44…Cedar Sanderson…Daniel Hoyt’s Thai Chicken Satay
45…Cedar Sanderson…44Leo Champion’s Cassoulet

Mt Void is edited by Mark and Evelyn Leeper, Mt Void is the newsletter for the Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society.

Since there are 5 issues, I won’t copy over the ToCs, but they are a mix of reviews, comments, etc.

MT VOID 2073

MT VOID 2072

MT VOID 2071

MT VOID 2070

MT VOID 2069

Alexiad is edited by Joe Major and always has lots of interesting articles about all sorts of things like royalty & horse racing.

Table of Contents
Editorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Reviewer’s Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Best Short Story Hugo Nominees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Eclipse News. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
The Fountains of Paradise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Mice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Murder In Little Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Nebula Award Winners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Triple Crown News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Worldcon News. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Book Reviews
SB Anderson, The Best of Poul Anderson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
JTM Arbel, Operation Flash: Episode 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
JTM van den Boom, Kaiserkrieger 8: Der Kaiser . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
JTM Carey, Swords Against the Moon Men. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
JTM Carr, The Transtemporal Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
SB Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Movie Reviews
TW Christopher Robin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
TW How the Grinch Stole Christmas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Con Reports
Random Jottings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Martha Berry, Sue Burke, Robert S. Kennedy, TimothyLane, Lloyd
Penney, AL du Pisani, George W. Price, John Purcell, Joy V.
Smith, Taras Wolansky
Comments are by JTM or LTM
Trivia: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Art:
Sheryl Birkhead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Paul Gadzikowski . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Alexis A. Gilliland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3, 5, 12, 13, 16
Trinlay Khadro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Purrsonal Mewsings (PurMew) is edited by R-Laurraine Tutihasi who lives in AZ and has great astronomy photos by her husband, Mike, who also took a picture of a rattlesnake! Seems Arizona is interesting place to live.

Editorial / Introduction—p. 2
Kritter Korner—p. 2
Astronomy—p. 3
Worldcon 2018 report—p. 4
Reviews—p. 11
StippleAPA—p. 13
Letters—p. 16
Closing Remarks—p. 22

Ionisphere is edited by John Thiel for National Fantasy Fan Federation Fan-Pro Coordinating Bureau.

The purpose of Ionisphere and of the Fan-Pro Coordinating Bureau is bringing science fiction fandom into a close relationship and maintaining good possibilities for interrelating among fans, writers, editors, publishers, and artists specializing in fantasy and science fiction.

CONTENTS

  • Editorial, John Thiel, page three
  • Author Interview, James Van Pelt, page five
  • Behind the Scenes, Elements for Writing Science Fiction, Jeffrey Redmond, page fourteen
  • A Personal Convention Review: Norwescon 42 (Sea Tac, WA, April 19-22, 2019), Steve Fahnestalk, page twenty-one

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Astronomy News

NUKE SENSORS DETECT ASTEROID EXPLOSION

Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization sensors have detected an explosion near Puerto Rico. It was not, however, a nuclear bomb.

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Space Weather News for June 25, 2019
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NUKE SENSORS DETECT ASTEROID EXPLOSION: On June 22nd, sensors operated by the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization detected an explosion south of Puerto Rico.  It was not, however, a nuclear bomb. A small asteroid entered Earth’s atmosphere and exploded in the air like 3 to 5 kilotons of TNT. Weather satellites caught the space rock’s fragmentation. Movies and analysis are featured on today’s edition of Spaceweather.com.

Sign up for Space Weather Alerts and get an instant text message when auroras appear in your area.

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list of forthcoming books for July

This is the list of forthcoming books for July, as listed by Locus magazine.

The full list for the year is listed here, but be aware that the listing becomes increasingly tentative toward end of the year.

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 Unless otherwise noted, books are originals. (r) reprint, (h) horror, (ya) young adult, (nf) non-fiction, (c) collection, (oc) original collection, (na) novella, (a) associational, (om) omnibus, (eb) ebook, (an) anthology, (pi) pictoral and other, (art) art and others, (gn) graphic novel, (x) media tie-in, (nv) novelette, (ss) short story, (hc) hardcover, (tp) trade paperback, (ph) pamphlet, (pb) paperback, (oa) original anthology, (b) biography, (v) paranormal romance, (pm) poetry.

  • BAOSHU • The Redemption of Time • Tor, Jul 2019 (hc, eb)
  • BAOSHU • The Redemption of Time • Head of Zeus, Jul 2019 (hc)
  • WAYNE BARLOWE • The Heart of Hell • Tor, Jul 2019 (h, hc, eb)
  • BRADLEY P. BEAULIEU • Beneath the Twisted Trees • DAW, Jul 2019 (hc, eb)
  • BRADLEY BEAULIEU • Beneath the Twisted Trees • Orion/Gollancz, Jul 2019 (tp)
  • BEN BOVA • Earth • Tor, Jul 2019 (hc, eb)
  • DAMIEN BRODERICK • The Time Machine Hypothesis • Springer, Jul 2019 (nf, tp, eb)
  • PIERCE BROWN • Dark Age • Penguin Random House/Del Rey, Jul 2019 (hc, eb)
  • ERIC BROWN • The Disciples of Apollo and Other Stories • PS Publishing, Jul 2019 (c, hc)
  • ERIC BROWN • The Telemass Series • PS Publishing/Drugstore Indian Press, Jul 2019 (c, na, tp)
  • PIERCE BROWN • Dark Age • Hodder & Stoughton, Jul 2019 (hc)
  • NEIL CLARKE, ED. • The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 4 • Skyhorse/Night Shade Books, Jul 2019 (an, tp, hc, eb)
  • NEIL CLARKE, ED. • The Eagle Has Landed • Skyhorse/Night Shade Books, Jul 2019 (an, tp, hc, eb)
  • C.S.E. COONEY • Desdemona and the Deep • Tor.com Publishing, Jul 2019 (na, tp, eb)
  • ALIETTE DE BODARD • The House of Sundering Flames • Orion/Gollancz, Jul 2019 (tp)
  • AMAL EL-MOHTAR & MAX GLADSTONE • This Is How You Lose the Time War • Simon & Schuster/Saga Press, Jul 2019 (hc, eb)
  • GARY GIANNI • Art of Gary Gianni: George R.R. Martin’s Seven Kingdoms • Flesk Publications, Jul 2019 (art, hc)
  • MOLLY GLOSS • Unforeseen • Simon & Schuster/Saga Press, Jul 2019 (c, hc, eb)
  • MARIA DAHVANA HEADLEY • Beowulf • Macmillan/MCD X FSG Originals, Jul 2019 (pm, a, tp, eb)
  • RICH HORTON, ED. • The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2019 Edition • Prime Books, Jul 2019 (an, tp, eb)
  • S.L. HUANG • Null Set • Tor, Jul 2019 (hc, eb)
  • KAMERON HURLEY • Meet Me in the Future • Tachyon Publications, Jul 2019 (c, tp, eb)
  • MARKO KLOOS • Aftershocks • Amazon/47North, Jul 2019 (hc, tp, eb)
  • MERCEDES LACKEY • Eye Spy • DAW, Jul 2019 (hc, eb)
  • MERCEDES LACKEY • Eye Spy • Titan, Jul 2019 (tp)
  • TIM LEBBON • Relics: The Edge • Titan US, Jul 2019 (h, tp, eb)
  • FONDA LEE • Jade War • Orbit US, Jul 2019 (hc, eb)
  • FONDA LEE • Jade War • Little, Brown UK/Orbit, Jul 2019 (tp)
  • SAM J. MILLER • Destroy All Monsters • HarperTeen, Jul 2019 (ya, hc, eb)
  • CHERIE PRIEST • The Toll • Tor, Jul 2019 (h, tp, eb)
  • CHRISTOPHER PRIEST • Episodes • Orion/Gollancz, Jul 2019 (hc)
  • CHRISTOPHER RUOCCHIO • Howling Dark • DAW, Jul 2019 (hc, eb)
  • CHRISTOPHER RUOCCHIO • Howling Dark • Orion/Gollancz, Jul 2019 (tp)
  • ANTHONY RYAN • The Wolf’s Call • Ace, Jul 2019 (hc, eb)
  • DARRELL SCHWEITZER • The Best of Darrell Schweitzer, Volumes 1 and 2 • PS Publishing, Jul 2019 (c, hc)
  • DARRELL SCHWEITZER, ed. • The Mountains of Madness Revealed • PS Publishing, Jul 2019 (hc)
  • NEAL STEPHENSON • Atmosphaera Incognita • Subterranean Press, Jul 2019 (na, hc, eb)
  • JONATHAN STRAHAN, ED. • Mission Critical • Rebellion/Solaris, Jul 2019 (pb, eb)
  • JONATHAN STRAHAN, ED. • Mission Critical • Rebellion/Solaris US, Jul 2019 (oa, tp, eb)
  • TRICIA SULLIVAN • Sweet Dreams • Titan US, Jul 2019 (1st US, tp, eb)
  • TADE THOMPSON • The Survival of Molly Southbourne • Tor.com Publishing, Jul 2019 (na, h, tp, eb)
  • PAUL TREMBLAY • Growing Things and Other Stories • HarperCollins/Morrow, Jul 2019 (c, hc, eb)
  • PAUL TREMBLAY • Growing Things and Other Stories • Titan, Jul 2019 (c, tp)
  • HARRY TURTLEDOVE • Alpha and Omega • Penguin Random House/Del Rey, Jul 2019 (hc, eb)
  • ANN VANDERMEER & JEFF VANDERMEER, EDS. • The Big Book of Classic Fantasy • Penguin Random House/Vintage, Jul 2019 (an, tp, eb)
  • DAVID WELLINGTON • The Last Astronaut • Orbit US, Jul 2019 (tp, eb)
  • DAVID WELLINGTON • The Last Astronaut • Little, Brown UK/Orbit, Jul 2019 (tp)
  • CHUCK WENDIG • Wanderers • Penguin Random House/Del Rey, Jul 2019 (h, hc, eb)
  • COLSON WHITEHEAD • The Nickel Boys • Penguin Random House/Doubleday, Jul 2019 (a, hc, eb)
  • JY YANG • The Ascent to Godhood • Tor.com Publishing, Jul 2019 (na, tp, eb)

Movies, Reading, Television

Lost in Adaptation?

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  • War of the Worlds:

 

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Zines to share!

Fanzines received from The National Fantasy Fan Federation

The National Fantasy Fan Volume 78 Number 6

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And from Leybl in Israel, CyberCozen, June issue.

In this issue of TNFF

  • Pro Bureau — Correspondence Bureau
  • Neffy Nominations
  • Writers Exchange Bureau—Welcommittee
  • Recruiting Bureau—History and Research Bureau
  • Games Bureau—Fan-Pro Coordinating Bureau—Birthday Card Bureau
  • Letters of Comment (Trainor, Penney, Weitendorf)
  • N3F Founding Members: Bob Jones
  • Comic Book Clubs of the 1940s: The Captain Marvel Club
  • Book Review: Uncompromising Honor
  • 2019 Short Story Contest

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Movies

Toy Story 4 tugs at the heartstrings

One important word of advice: don’t leave the theatre until the film is over…really over. There is a great gag that comes at the very end when most moviegoers will already be in their cars heading home. They will be missing out on a hilarious coda to a delightful film.

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 TOY STORY 4: A SUMMERTIME TREAT

Leonard Maltin Reviews

 

I was dubious about the first sequel to Pixar’s wonderful Toy Story, which turned out to be terrific. But a fourth go-round for Woody, Buzz and company? I harbored doubts but I should have had more faith in the Pixar team. This is a highly enjoyable film with laugh-out-loud gags, ingenious plotting, and endearing new characters. By the closing scene I found myself marveling at how my emotions were stirred by these innately inanimate objects.

The movie deals with the passage of time in clever ways, showing how Andy’s toys have made a series of transitions, acknowledging that this is to be expected in any toy’s “lifetime.” A little girl named Bonnie is the latest child to hold these characters close to her, literally and figuratively. Then she goes to kindergarten orientation and crafts a new “toy” out of a plastic spork. She calls him Forky and he means the world to her, completely eclipsing Woody and his pals. Their feelings are hurt, but they also want what’s best for Bonnie. That’s when the story begins in earnest.

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KEEPING THE MAGIC ALIVE

  • Montreal Gazette, CHRIS KNIGHT

PHOTOS: DISNEY/PIXaR Actor Tony Hale voices Forky, left, a new member of the Toy Story crew, which is once again led by Tom Hanks’ beautifully nuanced character, Woody.

For three amazing Toy Story films spread over 15 years, one group was consistently marginalized. When I go to the movies, they make up at least half the audience. But they barely existed alongside Woody, Buzz, Mr. Potato Head and the rest of the boys.

I’m talking of course about Canadians, and the franchise has righted this historical wrong in a huge way with the addition of Duke Caboom, voiced by the suddenly everywhere Keanu Reeves. When Disney started making noise about this new character, I thought he was merely diversity stunt-casting. Turns out only the stunt part is true: Canada’s answer to Evel Knievel (apologies to the late Ken Carter) is an integral part of this new chapter, which finds Woody trying to safeguard a new toy named Forky.

Patriotic joking aside, there’s a whole lot happening in Toy Story 4, the most amazing thing being how first-time feature director Josh Cooley manages to keep the overstuffed 100 minutes moving so fast and feeling so nimble. The film’s eight writers must have been working overtime.

First there’s Forky, a new toy crafted by kindergarten-aged Bonnie from a spork, a pipe cleaner, a Popsicle stick, Plasticine and two mismatched googly eyes. The great comedian Marty Feldman being no longer with us, the voice goes to Tony Hale, who nails this Frankenstein’s-monster’s existential angst. Viewers of a certain philosophical bent, prepare to ponder whether cutlery has a soul. (Detractors of single-use plastic utensils will tell you they are almost eternal.)

Forky, convinced that trash he is and unto trash shall he return, leaps out of the Bonnie’s family vehicle seeking oblivion. Woody (Tom Hanks) follows on a rescue mission, with Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen) not far behind. This sets up a series of zippy adventures, many of them taking place in and around a fairground, others in an antiques store.

Continue reading Toy Story 4 tugs at the heartstrings →

Comics / Graphic Novels

Future of the X-Men

Just a month before the highly-anticipated debut of House of X and Powers of X, Marvel released an all-new episode of X-Men: The Seminal Moments featuring series writer Jonathan Hickman and other legendary Marvel creators as they shed light on what the future holds for mutants across the universe!

“When Jonathan set out to tell this story, he set out to change the way people think about the Marvel mutants forever…it really shakes things up,” said X-Men Editor Jordan D. White. “The first time he told it to me, I was upset. I was like, ‘We can’t do that. We CAN’T do that.’ The more I thought about it, the more I went, ‘Wait hang on, what if we did…’”

 Hickman revealed what fans might expect from the series:

“There’s no alternate universe version of the X-Men that we’re doing – time travel, or any of that kind of stuff. This is a very cause and effect, very linear narratively straightforward story,” said Hickman. “I think the most important thing about X-Men is obviously the way that individual readers identify with the characters…my obligation is to be true to the character even though you’re putting them in new circumstances and be true to the spirit of what it means to write an X-Men book.”

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If you’re going to New York, and love Batman…

BATMAN AT 80. The Society of Illustrators is opening several momentous Batman exhibits at its New York museum.

Join us for a celebration of three momentous exhibits:

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Movies, Television

Batman & GoT in the news

Three stories appeared in today’s Montreal Gazette which are of interest to fandom:

  • The Evolution of Batman
  • Overreaction to casting of Pattinson may be premature, given Keaton history
  • Thrones actor no longer strongest man

THE EVOLUTION OF BATMAN

Tim Burton’s film about crime fighter changed the superhero landscape
  • Montreal Gazette, MICHAEL CAVNA

WARNER BROS. Tim Burton’s Batman, which starred Michael Keaton, turns 30 this year and Warner Bros. has announced a new franchise beginning in the summer of 2021.

Michael E. Uslan was a wideeyed, 28-year-old comics fan when he improbably scooped up the film rights to a character Hollywood had kicked to the curb. Brimming with belief, he bought Batman. Problem was, no one else in town was buying.

It was the late ’70s, the era of The Deer Hunter and Apocalypse Now, when Uslan, a comics scholar turned aspiring producer, pitched the major studios on his idea for a Bat-project. He was met with rejection after rejection. One industry executive told him Batman was “as dead as the dodo.”

“It can’t be comprehended today,” Uslan says. “There was no respect for superheroes or their creators.”

The film industry, like much of society at large, still viewed comic books as simply kid stuff. But Uslan saw a path forward: “If we do it as a dark and serious movie, it will almost be like a brand new form of entertainment.”

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