Bill Burns informs us that these issues have been added to his site. Opuntia and Obdurate Eye are Canadian.
Added today at https://efanzines.com are:
John Nielsen Hall’s Vita Transplantare #25 & 26
Kurt Erichsen’s Endeavor #15
Perry Middlemiss’s Perryscope #22
Garth Spencer’s The Obdurate Eye #16
Ray Palm’s The Ray X X-rayer #164
Opuntia #524, edited by Dale Speirs
The N3F has sent us their latest Tightbeam, and a few issues of other people’s fanzines. I recommend MarkTime 139.
From the BBC:
Actor Ncuti Gatwa will take over from Jodie Whittaker as the star of Doctor Who, the BBC has announced.
The 29-year-old will become the 14th Time Lord on the popular science fiction show, and the first non-white performer to play the lead role.
Scottish actor Gatwa, who was born in Rwanda, is best known for starring in Netflix’s sitcom Sex Education.
He told BBC News: “It feels really amazing. It’s a true honour. This role is an institution and it’s so iconic.”
Speaking on the red carpet before Sunday’s Bafta TV Awards, where he is nominated for Sex Education, Gatwa said the role of the Doctor “means a lot to so many people, including myself”.
He added: “I feel very grateful to have had the baton handed over and I’m going to try to do my best.”
Gatwa will make his debut as the Time Lord in 2023.
GET READY FOR MORE FLARES: A new and potentially very active sunspot group emerged today. It announced itself with an X1-class solar flare, which caused a strong shortwave radio blackout over the Atlantic Ocean and Europe. More flares may be in the offing as the sunspot turns toward Earth. Developing story @ Spaceweather.com.
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Above: The extreme ultraviolet flash from today’s X-class solar flare. Credit: NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory
Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889) was not the first time travel story. However, it was probably the first in the subgenre of the person transported to an earlier era, who decides to bring his new home “up to date” as part of his survival plan. 21st century inflation has brought us from one individual to entire islands, fleets, and towns.
We invite people to discuss their favourite time travel stories of this genre. We’ll begin with the following.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, by Mark Twain (1889)
Lest Darkness Fall, by L. Sprague de Camp (1939)
Nantucket, series, by S.M. Stirling (1998 – 2000)
Axis of Time, series (aka World War 2.0) by John Birmingham (2004 – 2007, plus short fiction)
1632 series (aka Ring of Fire), started by Eric Flint; expanded into a shared universe with many contributors, many novels, much short fiction. Their online magazine also features non-fiction articles and discussions of how to adapt 21st century technology to the 17th century. And it’s still going strong.
Artist and sculptor Paul Blaisdell is fondly remembered by fans of mid-century sci-fi cinema for his memorably outlandish B-movie creatures.
In the mid-1950s, Blaisdell earned a reputation among independent genre film producers like Roger Corman for quickly designing and cheaply fabricating movie monsters, leading to his rapid rise and brief reign as the go-to monster-maker among Hollywood’s low-budget sci-fi/horror filmmakers. Often donning his monster suits to play the beasts on screen, Blaisdell’s special effects work was too frequently uncredited, and just as quickly as he rose within the industry, the rapacious nature and changing fortunes of the movie business conspired to drive a disillusioned Blaisdell entirely out of the entertainment field by the early 1960s, never to return.
Today, his then-largely unsung contributions to the field are acknowledged and heralded by modern Hollywood.
Members will be sent an invitation to the zoom session on the 14th of May. visitors are welcome, please contact <president@monsffa.ca> for the link to zoom.
Edited by Garth Spencer
Table of Contents
Pandemic Measures in BC Now
Locs .
From How Do We Human (in preparation)
Fanzines and their Titles
Pages and Groups I administer
News from Bree
This Here, edited by Nic Farey, has a most interesting article about defining “fanzine”. You’d think it would be obvious, but nooooo–when fans start splitting hairs, they don’t know when to stop.
From George Philies, the N3F Review of Books N3FReview202204
From Bill Burns over at e-fanzines
Catching up with site updates after returning from my UK Eastercon trip, I’ve added these new issues at https://efanzines.com
Michael Dobson’s Random Jottings #2, 3 & 21
Opuntia #523, edited by Dale Speirs
Octothorpe #56, a regular fannish podcast by Liz Batty, John Coxon and Alison Scott
Andy Hooper’s CAPTAIN FLASHBACK #41
Christopher J. Garcia’s Claims Department #33
Nic Farey’s This Here…#52
William Breiding’s Portable Storage #7
I also have some new pages to add to the site, which I will do soon.
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Bill
LOCUS FORTHCOMING BOOKS: MAY 2022
