Kronos April ’99 (still a non-ytk compliant document) Newsletter of the Middle Tennessee Science Fiction Society The next meeting is April 14th, 1999(this Wednesday) This month planning for Parthecon Next month special guest Sharon Web the place is the Green Hills Public Library which is located at Green Hills Mall but not in the Mall. At Hillsboro Rd & Crestmoor (a Krystal is on the corner) Turn right and go down Crestmoor and look for the library sign Or call the library at: 615 - 862- 5863 Who we fear..Anita Feller president ( well sometimes.. tell us about the Dogwood Anita..>> Who gives us money for the newsletter .. Ray Jones Treasurer Who helps us out in a bind and makes great salsa and brownies. Robert Edwards, Pat James programming, and cast of ones.. Bemscribe as the pookha Want to contact the bemscribe Call 292 - 1306 or e-mail bemscribe_too@hotmail.com Yes Robot Virginia there will be a fanzine at Parthecon And maybe another one for Rivercon Check out my web page at http://www.oocities.org/area51/dimension/4242/ For back issues of the newsletter go to http://www.oocities.org/area51/dimension/4242/clubs.html (Ps as always Bem is a bug-eyed monster and a name of one of the former SF clubs here. Parthecon is April 23 – 25 At the Days Inn at International Plz off of Briley Pkwy between I 24 and I 40 east / near the airport and Opryland home of the dead park. Hotel rooms are $ 58 per night. Bad news ( see more about this below) Andy Offutt will not be at the podium due to suffering a heart attack several weeks ago. ( He is a lot better and at home after bypass surgery) Sharon Green very generously has agreed to step in as toast master ( toast mistress) And speaking of Parthecon.. I am sort of in charge of the hospitality suite and I am looking for Volunteers.. And so is our beermeister Dan Caldwell We are looking for people to help keep things stocked And to help keep an eye on the beer ------------------------------------ We now have our own list serve The Middle Tennessee Science Fiction and Fantasy List is for discussion of genre literature and media, and for SFF clubs, conventions, and groups administration and news. Announcements are welcome, advertising is not. ( ie do not make us unleash nasty little things with teeth at you) You can join this list by going to the following web page: http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/MidTennSFF Robert Edwards is the list owner and you reach him at: robert.edwards@nashville.com Betsy Hirst sent in this interesting news from Bowling Green , Ky. "John Carpenter will be in Bowling Green, KY on April 17 & 18 for the So. Ky. Festival of Books at BG/WC Convention Center. Not sure what he will be doing -- I am guessing book signing and panel discussion. Also R.L. Stine, Goosebumps Author, 90 authors in all. Just thought there may be a fan or 2 there that may want to meet him. Betsy" ---- The convention center is located near Scottsville Highway. 1021 Wilkinson Trace, Bowling Green, KY 42103 April 17 - 9:00am-5:00 pm Book Signings & Special Activities/Programs April 18 - Noon-5:00 pm Book Signings & Special Activities/Programs Free and open to the public http://www.sokybookfest.org/ Southern Kentucky festival of books 502-745-2592 or Earlene Chelf-Kentucky Musuem (502/745-5263) And speaking of Book festivals.. Want to put in your two pennies worth on the next Southern Festival of Books here in Nashville. If you want them to consider an author you can call and/or send a letter and a copy of the book or books you would like to discuss to: Galyn Martin, Coordinator, Southern Festival of Books Tennessee Humanities Council 1003 18th Avenue South Nashville, TN 37212-2104 or call us at [615] 320-7001, ext. 15, fax your question to [615] 321-4586, or e-mail us at galyn@tn-humanities.org. ------------------------------------------------------ Every Monday night here in Nashville.. Cumberland Computer Club 7pm at 3023 Nolensville Rd 831 -- 9424 11th FOSFA picnic will be in Tyler Park, Louisville, on Sunday, August 11 beginning at 1:30 P.M. Eastern time. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12th WestSide Writers at the Bellevue Middle School ------------------------------------------------ 14th Middle Tennessee SF Club Meeting 15th Inconjunction membership $20 until today $25 until June 1,99. Inconjunction will be July 2 – 4. PO Box 19776, Indianapolis, IN 46219 incon@indy.net. 15th The Barnard-Seyfert Astronomical Society Dyer Observatory 15th membership for Marcon $ 35 , after today goes up to $40 at the door the con will be May 7 – 9 MARCON 33 P O Box 141414 Columbus, OH 43214 The Marcon Hotline: 1-614-470-5448 ------------------------------ April 15th Science Fiction Readers Club meets at Davis Kidd Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman is the book 16-17 another leg of the David Weber tour Galaticon Ramada Inn South, 6639 Capehart Ln., Chattanooga, TN; 423-894-6110; rms: $54 sngl-quad. Guests: Elizabeth Moon, David Weber, P.M. Griffin. $30 at the door. Info: 6636 Shallowford Rd., Chattanooga, TN; 423-344-9465; GALACTIC01@aol.com. April 23-25, 1999 Parthecon _Days Inn Hotel Airport David Weber, Sharon Green ( replacing the recuperating Andrew J Offutt), Michael Sinclair guests _____________________________________- April 24th Astronomy Day Cumberland Science Museum Dave Van Hoven, will share his experiences at the Mauna Kea observatory complex in Hawaii. Dr. Drew Gaffney, a leading cardiologist at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, will talk about his heart research and experiences as a payload specialist aboard the space shuttle, Plus members of The Barnard-Seyfert Astronomical Society have planned presentations on a variety of astronomy-related topics. Call (615) 862-5160 for more info May 1st Chicon World Con Rates go up ============================== May 7 – 9 Marcon Columbus Oh Room rates $99.00 a night Hyatt Regency Columbus Hyatt at 1-614-463-1234 and ask for the reservations department 7 – 9th May Tourney Big Ridge State Park, Maynardville, TN ================== May 8th Libertycon prereg goes up to $35 from $ 25 after today. For registration info contact: bspraker@cdc.net A parent or legal guardian to attend must accompany children under 18. ------------------------------------- 12th Club Meeting 20th Space Shuttle Discovery launches or maybe the 24th May 22nd Sherlock Holmes The Scholars of the Three Pipe Problem DAVIS-KIDD BOOKSELLERS 2:45 - 5:00 PM | Buy food from 2nd Story Cafe Story: The Engineer's Thumb With Special Guest Lecturer: Annette Sisson, PhD, Victorian Specialist Belmont University Dr. Sission earned her PhD from Indiana University with a major in Victorian Studies, and has taught a course at Belmont University on Arthur Conan Doyle. --------------------------------------------------------- 22 Spring Hunt IV An Dun Theine Huntsville , AL Ld. Dani of Raven's Nest's Castle Site ----------------------------------------------------------------- 28-30 -- LibertyCon 13 -- Chattanooga, Tennessee Ramada Inn South, East Ridge, TN 37412; 423-894-6110; rms: $52 sngl-quad. $35 after; Children under 12 half price Parent or guardian must accompany children under 18. Info: LibertyCon 13, PO Box 695, Hixson, TN 37343-0695; 423-842-4363; libcon@cdc.net. 28 – 30th Star Trek Convention at Cumberland Science Museum The Star Trek: Federation Science TM features interactive programs for Children and adults, props and costumes from the Star Trek series, and hands-on experiments in astronomy, physics, and other sciences. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------June 1st Reservations must be made by today for hotel rooms at the Blue Ash Hotel in Cincinnati, Oh for Mid West Con. 1-800-528-1234 or 1-513-793-4500 $85 1 –4 plus taxes.. also after today the MidWest prereg goes up to $ 30 from $ 20 reservations and info Pat Sims 34 Creekwood Sq Glendale, Oh. 45246-3811 June 9th Middle Tn SF Society meeting TNT will premiere the first episode of "Crusade" 24-27 MIDWESTCON 50. The premier relaxicon. Blue Ash Hotel & Conference Center, 5901 Pfeiffer Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45242; 513-793-4500, Pat Sims, 34 Creekwood Square, Glendale, OH 45246. From their web site: "Midwestcon 50 will mark the approximate half-centennial of Cincinnati's first (and very possibly last) Worldcon -- Cinvention, the 7th World SF Convention To help celebrate, Fanhistoricon will be running a little programming in conjunction with the con. (But Midwestcon has its relaxish tradition to uphold, so let's be perfectly clear: it's their programming, not ours. We never program)" ====================== July 1-4th DRAGON*CON. Atlanta Apparel Mart and Hyatt Regenc Atlanta, GA ================== 2 –4th INCONJUNCTION XIX. Indianapolis Marriott, 7202 East 21st St., Indianapolis, IN; 317-352-1231; 5th The rates for Conucopia 1999 this years North Americon go up after today. They announced on their web site that the Marriott lowered the convention rate to just $99 a night (plus tax), for singles, doubles, triples, and quads. Attending membership: $100 and will be higher at the door $ 125 for full attending and $ 65 for one day. E-mail: info@99.nasfic.org Conucopia, c/o S.C.I.F.I., Inc. P. O. Box 844Van Nuys CA 91409 ============================= 9th Space Shuttle Columbia on STS-93 with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory 15th Membership for Rivercon $25 and $ 35 hereafter and at the door July 23-25, Space Con Wapakoneta, OH. July 30-August 1 RIVERCON XXIV. Executive West Hotel, Louisville, KY; 800-626-2708; rms: $62. GoH: Esther Friesner; AGoH: Gary Williams; FGoHs: Pat & Roger Sims; Toast Master : Lawrence Watt-Evans. :RiverCon, PO Box 58009, Louisville, KY 40268-0009; _____________________ August 6th - 9th DSC /Crescent City Con Best Western Landmark Hotel 2601 Severn Ave., Metairie, LA 70002 504-888-9500 Room rate is $69.00 (You MUST mention you're with Crescent City Con.) Mike Resnick - Author Guest of Honor, Steve Jackson - Gaming Guest of Honor Toni Weisskopf - Fan Guest of Honor George Alec Effinger = Toastmaster, Barbara Hambly - Special Guest Call, E-Mail or Write: Robert Neagle 504-488-0489 CCCNO@AOL.COM Crescent City Con P.O. Box 52622 New Orleans, LA. 70150-2622 Crescent City con http://www.fatsnake.com/ccc/index.html#Links This was part of a note from Jodie to Patricia Clements co chair of Parthecon "Andy had a heart attack on Tuesday, March 16, spent two days in the hospital in Morehead where they did tests, was sent to Lexington on Thursday, the 18th. On Friday, March 19, he had quadruple by-pass surgery. There was no damage to the heart. The arteries were pretty much clogged. He had to return to ICU when his lungs retained fluids. We were ready to leave last Thursday and his heart began beating irregularly, not unusual, but he had to stay until they got it regular. We came home Saturday, the 27th, and expect a full recovery. Andy's walking outside every day and I'm learning sodium-free cooking. I stayed in Lexington for a week. Our daughter Scotty was with me/us most of that time. We will not be at Parthecon. I don't know what else to tell you. Andy was a surprisingly good patient and his--and my--spirits are good. Jodie PS - I'd appreciate no phone calls. It's all I can do to handle family and local calls. Thanks Jodie" And Jodie sent this message.. Our mailing address is: 70 Sesame Street Morehead KY 40351 I prefer no blanket e-mailings and no phone calls. Thanks. We'll miss being in Nashville. Jodie ________________________________________________--- Fan News Tired old mid-Tennessee fans Bill Bridget and A.J. Barker (Bridget) will have celebrated 20 years of marriage on April 15th, 1999. Somehow Chattanooga seems to have survived the impact. Davida Stephens davidatn@yahoo.com wants to know if anyone from here will be attending Dragon Con and would be willing to share in splitting the cost of a room Hope you get to come to a meeting soon Davida. Future Convention news ConCat 11 has news. We are still on Nov. 26-28, but have a new hotel. The Hyatt Regency. For more info check our website: http://www.vic.com/~chloiea/ConCat.html or e-mail me, chloiea@mailexcite.com Thanks, Chloie In July 1979: Rusty Hevelin & Bill Bowers with the help of some of the CFG, held the first Spacecon -- to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the Lunar Landing. On the 30th anniversary (give or take a few days) in celebration of Apollo 11's lunar landing – will come the return of Space Con [Fair Warning, though: We need at least 30 room deposits at the Holiday Inn by May 15, 1999, or we'll have to abort the (re)launch.] All hotel reservations must be made through Rusty. And Rusty not only doesn't "take" Visa, he doesn't take MasterCard, Discover, Amex, etc., either. Which means if you don’t preregister and reserve a room you better call Rusty to make sure there is a con. Room Rates: $59.00 [including tax] per night Memberships: $15.00 Send All Monies to: Rusty Hevelin / PO Box 1332 / Dayton OH 45401 For more info : Rusty Hevelin [937] 223-2144Bill Bowers [513] 251-0806 Roger Sims [513] 771-7587 / <73473.2247@compuserve.com> July 23-25, Wapakoneta, OH. Which is the birthplace of Neil Armstrong -- and the Holiday Inn is located adjacent to the Neil Armstrong Air & Space Museum. Off of con news to club news.. but in some ways really both The web meister of the Mid West and CFG site Scott Street (ScottSt@ix.netcom.com) is looking for photos and memories of past Mid West cons.. Hmm there was that time that Ken Moore and Cliff Amos were flouncing around in the bikini bathing suits complete with dress cummerbunds in the middle of the Holidome.. -------------------------------------------------------- More convention news/// Got this news from Robert Edwards via our list serv And he got it from usenet.. Which some times isn’t to reliable but yes Virginia it is true.. What follows are some excerpts of what he mailed and my commentary. The San Francisco bid for the 2002 wold con is running a bid not only for San Fran but also for San Jose (will they throw competing room parties .. would be fun) The bid has the same date (well not quite.. the San Francisco in 2002 bid is for Friday through Tuesday, August 30 through September 3, due to a scheduling conflict with the convention center.. The San Jose is for Thursday through Monday, August 29 through September 2,) ., the same people, just different locations.. It is the same old story.. They started having problems with their primary hotel in this case a Marriott. According to Kevin Standlee, the chair of the bid. " .. they wrote to us demanding a number of concessions, both financial and organizational, which would prevent us from being able to offer the type of Worldcon that fans expect." "While we were prepared to continue negotiating with the Marriott, they have made it clear that we are not going to be able to reach an acceptable compromise," continued Standlee. "Instead, we are preparing a package similar to that used in San Francisco in 1993, although the convention would not be as spread out as ConFrancisco was. This would involve other hotels in the area of the San Francisco Moscone Convention Center, some of which are actually closer to the Moscone Center than the Marriott. “ Well while all of this is going on the San Jose convention and visitor bureau People show up and want to make a deal. Supposedly the facilities would be just as good but cheaper. San Jose is only 50 miles away and is connected to San Fran by rail so fans could still jaunt off and play tourist. Why aren’t they just dropping the San Fran bid in favor of the San Jose bid.. Well they are still trying to works things out in San Fran with the Marriott but they say they want to present the fans with the info about both venues and let the chose. The membership levels and prices are the same for both bids. The head of the bid is promising to treat both bids equally but is this really going to be possible. What if the financial advantages is so great for San Jose they subconsciously start to subvert the San Fran bid. And can one committee really to two bids up right. Yes, they are only competing against themselves since their only real competition Seattle bowed out several months ago, but world con bids are expensive, and consume the lives of those involved. No instead of putting some excitement in the race we may just see a halfing of the bid effort.. throwing parties at a fewer number of conventions ,,ect. It will be interesting to see this Bay Area in 2002 unfold. Even more interesting will be the reaction of fandom especially those of other bids who either had to chose to bid a new site and those who had to let them dreams die because of similar problems and felt they couldn’t do the World Con justice with the alternative sites they had available. Well anyway it all will be settled at this years world con in Australia.. I know it is too late but what would really make things interesting would to see a real competing bid come forth. Check out their web site at http://www.sfsfc.org/worldcon available. Representatives of the bids plan to be at_ and you can e mail them at info@sfsfc.org or by snail mail at: PO Box 61363, Sunnyvale CA 94088-1363 USA._ Some other news from the lisr serv.. Tom Feller says he reads, "voraciously" is Harry Turtledove. Robert Edwards recommends "Sex And Zen and A Bullet Through the Head" The Essential Guide to Hong Kong's Mind Bending Films By Stefan Hammond & Mike Wilkins ISBN 0-684-80341-0 Trade paperback 272 pages US $12 And also from Robert.. "What's the author of Snow Crash and Diamond age been up to? I don't know, as far as SF writing. But he's written a delightful essay on his experiences with computers "In the Beginning was the Command Line" available at: http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning_print.html He doesn't use Macs no more. This is a long but very well written and rewarding piece." And he also talks about something Dan Caldwell and a couple of others have mentioned.. The Fortean Times a monthly magazine full of research about strange news and phenomena. http://www.forteantimes.com/index3.html The filker Turnia@aol.com is still looking for other filkers since moving to Nashville. From: RiverConSF@aol.com >Reply-To: RiverConSF@aol.com >To: dah2@hotmail.com >Subject: Re: april kronos >Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 10:17:08 EDT > >Debbie, Here is some news about the tornado that hit the Cincinnati area. >Everyone we know in that area is OK. The tornado hit just north of the main >populated areas. Mike Resnick said a couple of his favorite restaurants were >heavily damaged (He wasn't there at the time). The tornado also touched down >in Blue Ash where it did extensive damage, however the MidWestCon hotel was >not damaged. >Please forward this to all of your readers, as I'm sure many of them have >friends in the Cincinnati area. > >Steve Francis >