{"id":31793,"date":"2024-08-16T06:00:39","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T10:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=31793"},"modified":"2024-08-05T10:52:58","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T14:52:58","slug":"next-club-meeting-in-one-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=31793","title":{"rendered":"MonSFFA Meeting Tomorrow!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>NEXT MonSFFA<\/strong> MEETING SET FOR TOMORROW, SATURDAY, AUGUST 17!<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

1:00PM-5:00PM<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Le Nouvel Hotel, <\/strong>1740 Boul. Ren\u00e9-L\u00e9vesque (corner St-Mathieu), <\/strong>\u201cSalle Maisonneuve\u201d (South Tower)<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2026and concurrently on <\/em>ZOOM! –\u00a0www.MonSFFA.ca<\/a><\/h4>\n

MonSFFA\u2019s regular meeting schedule resumes tomorrow afternoon, on Saturday, August 17! We\u2019ll be meeting in our usual hall, \u201cSalle Maisonneuve,\u201d at Le Nouvel Hotel! Le Nouvel is located on a major bus line, and is just a short walk from either Metro Guy\/Concordia or Lucien-L\u2019Allier.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Note that our new locale is only one block west of our pre-pandemic meeting place, the H\u00f4tel Espresso (corner Guy and Ren\u00e9-L\u00e9vesque)! We have returned to our old, familiar neighbourhood, folks! And, as always, we hope to welcome home both current and former club members, and new members, too! Come check us out!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Meeting <\/em><\/strong>Theme: <\/em><\/strong>MonSFFen offer their top picks of the genre\u2019s coolest gizmos and gadgets, as seen on TV or in the movies, or within the pages of SF\/F literature! For the purposes of this list, we\u2019ll define a gizmo or gadget as a technological or magical device small enough to hold in one\u2019s hands, or carry on one\u2019s person\u2014a Star Trek<\/em> phaser or tricorder, for example, Thor\u2019s hammer (assuming, of course, you are sufficiently worthy to wield it!), a magic wand, Excalibur, a lightsaber, Batman\u2019s utility belt, or a Bat-a-Rang\u2014you get the idea.<\/p>\n

So, as cool a technological marvel as may be the starship Enterprise<\/em>, the Batmobile, Iron Man\u2019s suit, the Seaview<\/em>, the Millennium Falcon<\/em>, Clarke\u2019s Orbital Tower (space elevator) or Niven\u2019s Ringworld, they are too big to qualify for this list!<\/p>\n

Which gizmos or gadgets do you think are among the coolest, and why? We ask club members to come prepared to contribute an item or two to our list!<\/p>\n

AUGUST\u2019S AGENDA:<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

\u00a0<\/em>1:00PM<\/strong> – Game: Bug-Eye Bet!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

We resurrect a game created by our late friend and fellow club member, Sylvain St-Pierre, in which still photographs and video clips from SF\/F movies or TV shows are shown to players, who must then answer a series of questions focused on the minute, inconsequential, trivial<\/em> details of that which they have just seen! Bets are placed on how accurate will be their recall of said details.<\/p>\n

1:45PM<\/strong> – Tom Swift and his Science Fiction Book Series<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

A primer on the numerous Tom Swift sci-fi\/adventure books, ranging from the 1910s to the present day. The adventures of the original Tom Swift and later, his descendants, introduced many a young lad to science fiction, and in its nascent years, helped to popularize the genre.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

2:45PM<\/strong> – <\/span>Break!<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n

Raffle, announcements, brief discussion of club business, including preliminary plans for club\u2019s Christmas Dinner and Party 2024.<\/p>\n

3:00PM <\/strong>– The Multiverse<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

We examine the concept of \u201cthe Multiverse\u201d in science fiction, including those famously depicted in both Marvel\u2019s and DC\u2019s comic book superhero stories.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

4:00PM<\/strong> \u2013 Sci-Fi\u2019s Coolest Gizmos and Gadgets!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

MonSFFen are asked to offer their top picks of the genre\u2019s coolest gizmos and gadgets, as seen on TV or in the movies, or within the pages of SF\/F literature! We define a gizmo or gadget as a technological or magical device small enough to hold in one\u2019s hands, or carry on one\u2019s person\u2014a Star Trek<\/em> phaser or tricorder, for example. Which gizmos or gadgets do you think are among the coolest, and why? We ask club members to come prepared to contribute an item or two to our list!<\/p>\n

Following Meeting: <\/em><\/strong>Saturday, September 14<\/em><\/strong><\/h1>\n

then\u2026Coming in the Fall\u2026\"\"<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Saturday, October 19: <\/em><\/strong><\/span>RETURN OF THE<\/span> SUPER<\/span> SCI-FI<\/span> BOOK SALE<\/span>!<\/strong><\/h1>\n
With the pandemic behind us, MonSFFA is pleased to re-launch our popular, fund-raising SF&F used book sale!<\/h5>\n
Amazing prices on thousands of amazing<\/em> stories<\/em> by science fiction<\/em> and fantasy<\/em> authors from A<\/u>simov<\/em> to Z<\/u>elazny<\/em>!<\/h5>\n
We\u2019ve got plenty of inventory left over from past sales, plus lots of fresh stock, including from the legacy of our late friend, collector, and club member Sylvain St-Pierre! And we\u2019re clearing it all at our astonishingly low prices!<\/h5>\n
Piles of Paperbacks! Boxes of Books! An Astounding Assortment Available, Including\u2026<\/em><\/h5>\n
Trade Paperbacks and Hardcovers! Anthologies and Specialty Books! MAGAZINES and COMICS! Plus DVDs! UNIMAGINABLE, UNBELIEVEABLE, UNBEATABLE BARGAINS!<\/h5>\n
Publications en Fran\u00e7ais Aussi!<\/em><\/strong><\/h5>\n
The Lowest Prices In the Galaxy! The More you Buy, the More you Save! (Cash-only sales, please.)<\/h5>\n
EVERYTHING! MUST! GO!<\/strong> Open to the Public!\"\"<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NEXT MonSFFA MEETING SET FOR TOMORROW, SATURDAY, AUGUST 17! 1:00PM-5:00PM Le Nouvel Hotel, 1740 Boul. Ren\u00e9-L\u00e9vesque (corner St-Mathieu), \u201cSalle Maisonneuve\u201d (South Tower) \u2026and concurrently on ZOOM! –\u00a0www.MonSFFA.ca MonSFFA\u2019s regular meeting schedule resumes tomorrow afternoon, on Saturday, August 17! We\u2019ll be meeting in our usual hall, \u201cSalle Maisonneuve,\u201d at Le Nouvel Hotel! Le Nouvel is located … Continue reading MonSFFA Meeting Tomorrow!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":435,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/435"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31793"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31796,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31793\/revisions\/31796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}