From Bill burns at e-fanzines:
I have just added a page for LienZine, a memorial sampler of the late Denny Lien’s writing from fandom and beyond. Edited by Karen Schaffer and Geri Sullivan and produced for the memorial held June 2, 2023 in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Direct link to the page: https://efanzines.com/LienZine/
From the N3F
With this mailing: Our great fan-pro organizing committee zine Ionisphere, followed courtesy of the N3F Franking service with several trade fanzines.
From Bill Burns, updates to e-faniznes. Bill has added our own WARP to his update. Thanks, Bill!
Nic Farey’s This Here…#65
Christopher J. Garcia’s Claims Department #39
Andy Hooper’s CAPTAIN FLASHBACK #54
WARP #113, the official fanzine of MonSFFA, the Montreal Science Fiction and Fantasy Association, edited by Danny Sichel, is now available
Octothorpe #84, a regular fannish podcast by John Coxon, Alison Scott and Liz Batty, is now on line
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Bill
In this newsletter:
The CSFFA 2023 AGM now will occur Sunday, June 25. The 2023 CSFFA AGM materials and motions can be viewed by logged-in members (Home page -> Annual General Meeting). Members can vote now on the motions. Voting ends June 24.
The AGM will begin Sunday June 25, 10 a.m. Pacific/ 11 a.m. Mountain/ noon Central/ 1 p.m. Eastern/ 2 p.m. Atlantic/ and one half-hour later, Newfoundland & Labrador.
The Voters’ Package is now available for the 2023 Aurora Awards. It can be accessed and the files downloaded from https://www.csffa.ca/members-home/. You must be logged into your account to access it.
Good luck to all of the nominees. Voting will begin on June 17th and close six weeks later on July 29th. The awards ceremony will be held online starting at 7pm EDT, August 19th, 2023. The ceremony will be hosted by Mark Leslie Lefebvre and Liz Anderson. Links to both a Facebook and YouTube page for the ceremony will be posted in August.
Nic Farey has sent us This Here.
The ish opens with an interesting article about the settlement movement, a friend he shared a settlement flat with and a terrible murder that occurred near there which remains unsolved.
Nic has been diagnosed with a form of leukemia. There is a reasonably effective treatment, he says, but we’ll keep him in our thoughts through what must be a difficult time.
WARP 113 is now on line for your reading pleasure! Many thanks to Danny & Val for another beautiful issue.
Download from http://www.monsffa.ca/?page_id=20361
Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic rocket plane is back in action after a gap of almost two years.
The Unity vehicle, with two pilots and four passengers aboard, climbed high over the New Mexico desert to the edge of space – before gliding back down.
It was billed as the plane’s final test outing before entering commercial service in June.
Galactic has sold over 800 tickets to individuals who want to ride more than 80km (260,000ft) above Earth.
The company expects to start working through this passenger list with Unity flights initially occurring at the rate of one a month. New rocket planes are being designed for service in 2026 that should each be capable of increasing the cadence to one a week.
Unity is a sub-orbital vehicle. This means it can’t achieve the velocity and altitude necessary to keep it up in space to circle the globe.
The spaceship is designed to give its passengers stunning views at the top of its climb, and allow them a few minutes to experience weightlessness.
Garth is the CUFF recipient for Pemmi-con, the NASFiC in Winnipeg. Click here to read Shooting my CUFFs #2. Shooting My CUFFs #2
He writes:
Dear Fen and Fannes,
Here’s Garth Spencer and his fan fund sales list!! Also a call for fundraising suggestions!!
Yours,
Garth Spencer
Vancouver, BC
One of the World’s Best Comics Events | May 26-28
Come join me and over 200 other creators at the Festival BD de Montréal | Montréal Comic Arts Festival! I may be biased, but I think that the Festival is one of the top events in the world of comics, a huge, FREE event that takes over over a mile of Saint Denis Street, creating a pedestrian-friendly street fair with a vibrant and unique atmosphere.
Officially bilingual, this event should definitely be on the radar of anglophone comics readers… Think of it as a North American Angoulême, but maybe even better! Some of the many publishers present include Drawn & Quarterly, Oni Press, Pow Pow Press, Floating World Comics, Uncivilized Books, La Pastèque, and so many more. Guests this year include Gabriel Ba and Fábio Moon, Nick Drnaso, Aisha Franz, Sarah Anderson, Sourya, Manuele Fior, Dorothée de Monfreid, and so many more!
This ballot is for works originally done in 2022 by Canadians. The Aurora Awards are nominated by members of the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association. The top five nominated works were selected. Additional works were included where there was a tie for fifth place. An online awards ceremony will be held on August 19th, 2023, at 5pm EDT, with hosts Mark Leslie Lefebvre and Liz Anderson. Details at www.csffa.ca
Best Novel
All the Seas of the World, Guy Gavriel Kay, Penguin Canada
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Del Rey
The Embroidered Book, Kate Heartfield, HarperVoyager
Sea of Tranquility, Emily St. John Mandel, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
The Void Ascendant, Premee Mohamed, Solaris Books
Best Young Adult Novel
Black Hole Radio – Ka’Azula, Ann Birdgenaw, DartFrog Books
Ghostlight, Kenneth Oppel, Puffin Canada
The Hollow Boys: The Dream Rider Saga, Book 1, Douglas Smith, Spiral Path Books
Night of the Raven, Dawn of the Dove, Rati Mehrotra, Wednesday Books
Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor, Xiran Jay Zhao, Margaret K. McElderry Books
Best Novelette/Novella
Even Though I Knew the End, C.L. Polk, Tordotcom
High Times in the Low Parliament, Kelly Robson, TordotCom
The Jade Setter of Janloon, Fonda Lee, Subterranean Press
“A Sky and a Heaven”, Eric Choi, Just Like Being There, Springer Nature
The Tiger Came to the Mountains, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Amazon Original Stories
Best Short Story
“Big Trouble in Droidtown”, Hayden Trenholm, The Astronaut Always Rings Twice, Tyche Books
“Broken Vow: The Adventures of Flick Gibson, Intergalactic Videographer”, Peter G. Reynolds, On Spec Magazine, Issue 120
“Douen”, Suzan Palumbo, The Dark, Issue 82
“The Five Rules of Supernova Surfing, or A For Real Solution to the Fermi Paradox, Bro”, Geoffrey W. Cole, Clarkesworld, Issue 184
“Green Witch”, Elizabeth Whitton, Prairie Witch, Prairie Soul Press
“A New Brave World”, Eric Choi, Brave New Worlds, Zombies Need Brains
“Schrödinger’s Cats”, Wayne Cusack, Polar Borealis Magazine, Issue #22
“We Are the Thing That Lives on the Moon”, Gillian Secord, Fireside Magazine, Issue 101, March
Best Graphic Novel/Comic
Birds of Maine, Michael deForge, Drawn and Quarterly
Cupcake War Machine, Marika Kapogeorgakis, webcomic
Goblins, Ellipsis Hana Stephens, webcomic
It Never Rains, Kari Maaren, webcomic
Mistress of the Winds, Michèle Laframboise, Echofictions
Questionable Content, Jeph Jacques, webcomic
Wychwood, Ally Rom Colthoff, webcomic
Best Poem/Song
“After the Apocalypse”, Colleen Anderson, NewMyths, Vol 16, issue 61
“Ghost Stories”, James Grotkowski, Polar Starlight Magazine, Issue 6
“In Stock Images of the Future, Everything is White”, Terese Mason Pierre, Uncanny Magazine, Issue Forty-Six
“Poltergeist”, Rhonda Parrish, Star*Line, Vol 45, Issue 2
“Rapunzel in the Desert”, Melissa Yuan-Innes, On Spec Magazine, Issue 122
“a sinkhole invites a street to consider its future”, Dominik Parisien, Uncanny Magazine, Issue Forty-Four
“Three Herons”, Geoffrey W. Cole, Polar Starlight Magazine, Issue 5
“The Wolf of Your Passions”, Lynne Sargent, Augur Magazine, Issue 5.2
Best Related Work
The Astronaut Always Rings Twice, edited by Shannon Allen and JR Campbell, Tyche Books
Nothing Without Us Too, edited by Cait Gordon and Talia C. Johnson, Renaissance
On Spec Magazine, Issues 119, 120, and 121, managing editor Diane Walton, The Copper Pig Writers’ Society
Prairie Witch, edited by Stacey Kondla, Prairie Soul Press
Strange Wars: Speculative Fiction of Coalitions in Conflict, edited by Don Miasek, TDotSpec
Best Cover Art/Interior Illustration
Arboreality, cover art, Rachel Yu Lobbenberg, Stelliform Press
The Astronaut Always Rings Twice, cover art, Kayla Kowalyk, Tyche Books
Birthday of the Unicorn, cover art, Marco Marin, TdotSpec
Weird Fishes, cover art, Julia Louise Pereira, Stelliform Press
The World We Left Behind, Swati Chavda, On Spec Magazine, Issue 119
Best Fan Writing and Publication
JenEric Movie Reviews, Éric Desmarais, JenEric Designs
Polar Borealis Magazine, Issues: 21, 22, and 23, edited by R. Graeme Cameron
Polar Starlight Magazine, Issues: 5, 6, and 7, edited by Rhea E. Rose
The Travelling TARDIS, Jennifer Desmarais, JenEric Designs
Young People Read Old SFF, edited by James Davis Nicoll, online
Best Fan Related Work
Augurcon, Terese Mason Pierre and Kerry C. Byrne, co-directors, Toria Liao, operations director, online
Can*Con, Marie Bilodeau and Derek Künsken, co-chairs, Ottawa
ephemera Reading Series, KT Bryski and Jen R. Albert, co-chairs, online
When Words Collide, Randy McCharles, chair, online
The Worldshapers Podcast, Edward Willett, online