Online Club Meeting Tomorrow!
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM
New zines to share!
From Garth Spencer, The Obdurate Eye
From the N3F, Tightbeam 338.
New on e-Fanzines:
Added today at https://efanzines.com:
Archive issues of Heath Row’s Telegraphs & Tar Pits #35-38, Explosion Containment Umbrella #3, Snow Poster City #7, and new title Brass Hat Mind #1
Andy Hooper’s CAPTAIN FLASHBACK #47
Bill Plott’s Sporadic #68
Garth Spencer’s The Obdurate Eye #21
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Bill
JOIN US THIS SATURDAY FOR THE CLUB’S NOVEMBER 2022 ONLINE GET-TOGETHER!
To take part, visit this very Web Site on Saturday afternoon, November 12, beginning at 1:00PM. At that time, instructions will be posted for those wishing to join the meeting on ZOOM!
We hope to see you Saturday!
Meeting on Saturday, 12 of November
Wear your poppy!
Model show this weekend
Model Contest/Concours Modèles réduits:
November 5, 2022 – 5 novembre 2022
Expo Modèlistes Rive Nord
Centre Culturel du Complexe Du Val D’Espoir
17700 rue du Val D’Espoir
St. Janvier(Mirabel) Qc
de 9:00 a 16:00
Admission $ 5.00 plus
$ 2.00 per model entry
Entrée Exposants: $ 5.00 plus
$2.00 par modèle enscrit au concour
Zines to share
Zines to share
New posts on e-fanzines, Purrmews, and This Here
Catching up after a week away for Corflu, here are today’s updates at https://efanzines.com
New page for Philippa and Helen Ryder’s Through Space and Time
Perry Middlemiss’s Perryscope #27
Ray Palm’s The Ray X X-rayer #168
Bill Plott’s Sporadic #71 & 72
Nic Farey’s This Here…#58
Opuntia #536, edited by Dale Speirs
Octothorpe #69, a regular fannish podcast by John Coxon, Alison Scott and Liz Batty, is now on line
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Bill
Next Online Club Meeting: Saturday, November 12
Mark your calendars, sci-fi/fantasy fans!
MonSFFA next meets online in less than two weeks, on Saturday, November 12, at 1:00PM, right here at: www.MonSFFA.ca
Watch this space in the coming two weeks for more information. And on Friday, November 11, take a minute to honour the service of our veterans, and to remember the fallen.
Locus Forthcoming Books November
Locus Forthcoming Books November
NOV 2022
- BRANDON SANDERSON • The Lost Metal • Orion/Gollancz, Nov 2022 (eb, hc)
- BRANDON SANDERSON • The Lost Metal • Tor, Nov 2022 (hc, eb)
- C.L. POLK • Even Though I Knew the End • Tor¬dotcom, Nov 2022 (na, hc, eb)
- CHARLAINE HARRIS • The Serpent in Heaven • Little Brown UK/Piatkus, Nov 2022 (tp)
- CHARLAINE HARRIS • The Serpent in Heaven • Simon & Schuster/Saga Press, Nov 2022 (hc, eb)
- CHERIE PRIEST • Flight Risk • Simon & Schuster/Atria, Nov 2022 (hc, eb)
- CHUCK WENDIG • Wayward • Penguin Random House UK/Del Rey UK, Nov 2022 (h, eb, hc)
- CHUCK WENDIG • Wayward • Penguin Random House/Del Rey, Nov 2022 (h, hc, eb)
- DAVID SANDNER & JACOB WEIS¬MAN • Hellhounds • Fairwood Press, Nov 2022 (nt, ph, eb)
- FRAN WILDE • The Book of Gems • Tordotcom, Nov 2022 (na, tp, eb)
- GARRY KILWORTH • Wild Hunt • NewCon Press, Nov 2022 (hc, eb, tp)
- IAN WATSON • The Chinese Time Machine • NewCon Press, Nov 2022 (c, hc, eb, tp)
- JAMES P. BLAYLOCK • Pennies from Heaven • PS Publishing, Nov 2022 (a, hc)
- JULIE E. CZERNEDA • To Each this World • DAW, Nov 2022 (tp, eb)
- K.J. PARKER • Pulling the Wings Off Angels • Tor¬dotcom, Nov 2022 (na, tp, eb)
- KAREN HEULER • A Slice of the Dark • Fairwood Press, Nov 2022 (c, tp, eb)
- KATHLEEN O’NEAL GEAR • The Ice Orphan • DAW, Nov 2022 (hc, eb)
- KEVIN J. ANDERSON • Double-Booked • WordFire Press, Nov 2022 (om, tp, hc, eb)
- LAVIE TIDHAR • Neom • Tachyon Publications, Nov 2022 (tp, eb)
- LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD • Penric’s Labors • Baen, Nov 2022 (c, hc, eb)
- MARSHALL RYAN MARESCA • The Quarrygate Gambit • DAW, Nov 2022 (eb)
- N.K. JEMISIN • The World We Make • Little Brown UK/Orbit, Nov 2022 (eb, hc)
- N.K. JEMISIN • The World We Make • Orbit US, Nov 2022 (hc, eb)
- NA’AMEN GOBERT TILAHUN • The Fruit • Skyhorse/Night Shade Books, Nov 2022 (tp, eb)
- NAOMI NOVIK • The Golden Enclaves • Penguin Random House/Del Rey, Sep 2022 (hc, eb)
- NISI SHAWL • Fruiting Bodies • Aqueduct Press, Nov 2022 (c, tp, eb)
- R.B. LEMBERG • Geometries of Belonging and Other Stories • Fairwood Press, Nov 2022 (c, tp, eb)
- REBECCA ROANHORSE • Tread of Angels • Simon & Schuster/Saga Press, Nov 2022 (a, hc, eb)
- SEAN WILLIAMS • The Sky Inside • PS Publishing, Nov 2022 (c, hc)
- SHARON SHINN • The Shuddering City • Fairwood Press, Nov 2022 (c, tp, eb)
- SHEREE RENÉE THOMAS & OCHENECHOVWE DONALD EK¬PEKI, ET AL., EDS. • Africa Risen: A New Era of Specu¬lative Fiction • Tordotcom, Nov 2022 (oa, hc, eb)
- STEPHEN DONALDSON • The Killing God • Orion/Gollancz, Nov 2022 (eb, hc)
- STEPHEN R. DONALDSON • The Killing God • Penguin Random House/Berkley, Nov 2022 (hc, eb)
The Mystery of T-Rex and its tiny arms
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20221025-why-did-t-rex-have-such-puny-arms
T. rex is almost as famous for its withered little arms as for its enormous teeth – they’re so totally out of proportion, they almost look like they’ve been plucked from another species and simply stuck on, in a throwback to the hilarious blunders of bone assembly from the 19th Century (such as the time Stegosaurus‘ signature diamond-shaped back plates were added to its tail instead).
“You can look at his arms and say, well, these are ridiculous. They’re so different than anything around today, what is the point,” says L J Krumenacker, a palaeontologist at Idaho State University.
With arms that might measure just 3ft (0.9m) long on a 45-ft (13.7m) individual, this formidable carnivore’s hilariously small appendages have been a source of intense speculation ever since they were discovered – despite decades of studying them, to this day no one has any idea what they’re for.