The November 2000 issue of Kronos
The next meeting of the Middle Tennessee SF society will be this Wednesday at 6pm.
At the "new" Green Hills Library.
Located on Benham avenue between Graybar and Glen Echo near Hillsboro Rd.
This is the area to the left of Hillsboro rd from where the old library was.
Coming out of down go to the next light passed where you used
to turn at the CVS pharmacy will be at your right.
Turn left and go passed the Green Hills post office and
turn left at the first street which is Benham.
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Club stuff:
Att the meeting we will be talking about the Holiday party among other things.
The January meeting will feature a tribute to
Edgar Allen Poe.
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The Club Officers:
Anita Feller president
Ray Jones Treasurer
Dan Caldwell and others programming
Debra Hussey as Bemscribe as the pookha
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Want to contact the Bemscribe
or e-mail bemscribe_too@hotmail.com
Check out my web page at
http://www.oocities.org/nashville_sf/
For back issues of the newsletter go to
http://www.oocities.org/nashville_sf/clubs.htm
We have several new people who have dropped by
our e mail list .
We wouls like to welcome to the insanity:
Peggy Stevens
Her intro: My name is Peggy Stevens, I live here in Nashville. I don't know if many
remember me. I was a member of the old club, attended Kubla (worked in the
art show). I sort of dropped out of sight for a while.
I don't remember my first science fiction book.
That' was too long ago.
And I like both science fiction & fantasy so it's
hard to pick a favorite author. I'm also into gaming,
although it's been a
while. I've missed the cons & the people.
I look forward to getting back into things again.
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I liked the following exchange between her and Robert Edwards
on the list:
" The friends I played with spent more time trying to mess
with the DM's mind than anything else, lol" Peggy
"Seems fair - I live for the players in my game to chant
"GAWD YER A WEASEL!!!!" Robert
hmm brings back the memories...
Of course, most DM's are wease;s but every once in a while a ferret slips in.
Robert has an oline line game that he is the GM. Check out:
http://www.egroups.com/messages/Troubleshooters
Another new member is Todd Jones.
Todd is from Fayetteville, TN.
Todd's first book was the Foundation Trilogy and he likes science fiction and fantasy
"media of all forms. "
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You too can join our mail list.
http://www.egroups.com
Register and then go to http://www.egroups.com/group/MidTennSFF
And click on subscribe.
A Calendar http://www.egroups.com/calendar/MidTennSFF?s=2&t=964760400.
In the file area: pictures of some of our members.
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Got a note from Tom feller that he has updated his website at
http://members.aol.com/tomfeller.
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Messed up notes from the September club meeting:
A rather interesting report about Outside con part of it from the Embler himself.
Otherwise known as the con after dark.
The club raised about $ 115 from the fund raiser rummage
and book sale.
Special thanks to Robert Edwards, Pat James,
Tom and Sherry Norris
(especially Tom for the computer equipment,
Tom and Anita Feller for their donations.
We passed around a lot of photos from Rivercon
and Outside con.
There were verbal reopts of Worldcon
(pout pout no written ones)
One of the major gripes was that the hall for the
masquarade and the
Hugos didn’t have enough seats for either event.
Tom and Anita spent a lot of time at Chicon working the Charlotte fan table.
Anita did get to some of the filk and went to parties
with Tom at night.
Dan spent a large portion of the con at the filks.
Charlie noted that the Xerpes party was one of the
best but the Barbarian Wine and Cheese party
was up there with it.
Anita liked the music in the Minneapolis party
and live music at another party.
When I talked to Naomi at Outside Con it appears she spent
a lot of the con shopping for several parties beside
the Boston party.
For instance she did the shopping for the Hugo nominees parties.
Frank had told her about a store by the name of Gordons (?)
one of the favorite things among the fans who went was
the Eisenstein’s art retrospective.
Reading books:
Anita is reading "Starfish", RJ is reading the "Regualtors",
someone mentioned Robert McCammons WW II werewolf story.
Reece was reading a Zenna Henderson collection.
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A fannish tale and a book review from Reece Morehead,
club member and librarian at the Southeast Public Library:
Once upon a time there was a deity named John Wood Campbell, Jr.
He was, in his early career, a writer of Doc Smith-type space operas
(that's "Star Wars" type stuff, to the uninitiated,
except that Smith and Campbell were writing it four decades before George Lucas copied the idea).
Later in his career, he abandoned space opera for subtlerwriting, mood pieces like "Twilight" and "Night,"
and a chiller called "Who goes there?"
His main strength, however, wasn't in his own writing,
it was in the editing of other writers.
In 1937, JWC was made editor of Astounding Stories,
and began a tranformation.
Campbell demanded and got stories more realistic
and thought provoking than the usual run of 30s pulp SF.
By the early 40s, Astounding Science Fiction, as it was now known,
was the unquestioned leader in the field.
Campbell had a stable of writers which included Robert A. Heinlein,Isaac Asimov, L. Sprague de Camp,
Theodore Sturgeon, Lester Del Rey,
Eric Frank Russell, Henry Kuttner,
and many others, who wrote popular fiction unlike any ever
seen in the science fiction market.
If we had to pick the individual who had the most profound influence on 20th century science fiction,
Campbell would be the man.
All of this I learned in the early 1960s, while still in high school.
Unfortunately, fandom in Cookevillle, my home town, was too small to
support even a nanoclub. Conventions and actual writers and artists
might as well have existed in Valhalla. In 1965, my mom approached
me about going with her to the World's Fair in New York City.
I wasn't remotely interested in *that* -- but I reasoned that getting
me to NYC might allow me to visit JWC in his redoubt.
With fear and trembling, I sent him a letter stating my intentions
to visit New York, and might I come to visit him at his office while there?
He replied that I was welcome to visit, just let him know when I arrived
in NYC so he could make allowances in his schedule.
The bus trip seemed to last forever.
Although it took awhile to getthe arrangements set up,
the meeting day finally dawned. I rode the elvator up to
his office and was ushered in by Kay Tarrant, his assistant. Campbell was very tall,
crew-cut, had a hawk-like nose, glasses, and constantly chainsmoked cigarettes
in a holder. Although he was quite busy , phone calls interrupted us frequently
-- he was friendly and willing to talk.
Boy, was he willing to talk! -- argue, really --
as Ifound myself verbally fencing with him about just about everything.
This threw me off somewhat, as I wanted to talk about science fiction
and he seemed to want to talk about everything else --
a common trait in the SF community, I've since learned.
He was willing to autograph my collection of his books, tho when I
showed all of them to him, he said, "Oh, come now, be reasonable.
Pick seven." Deciding WHICH seven was pure torture.
I also got to see the sacred manuscripts:
BOUND editions of every single issue of Astounding,
from January, 1930, to the current, September, 1965, issue.
Poring over those pages, I felt like Scrooge McDuck swimming
in the extravagant riches of the fabled Seven Cities of Cibola.
Although I was definitely in a state of Industrial Strength Overwhelm,
being all of 19 at the time,
I did score one point with him: I knew that Arthur C. Clarke had been born in 1917.
JWC found it hard to believe that Clarke was that old --
three years older than Isaac Asimov! I was reluctant to leave the office,
but business days do come to an end. I rode down the elevator with Miss Tarrant,
who smiled shyly when I remarked that it must be something to have Campbell for a boss.
When I got back to our hotel room,
my mom said that I looked like I had just stepped out of an El Greco painting,
transfigured and filled with unearthly light.
She got no argument from me!
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Borderlands of Science:
How to think like a scientist (and write science fiction),
by Charles Sheffield. Baen Books. Riverdale,
NY. 1999. ISBN 0-671-578365-7. $22.00.
Here's a good how dunnit book for aspiring writers.
Similar in some respects to L. Sprague de Camp's The Science Fiction Handbook,
from the 1950s, Sheffield attempts to update de Camp's classic.
The book covers the major aspects of physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy,
space flight, SETI, AI, Chaos theory, and futuristic wars, plus specific
"heretical" scientific notions. Funny and thought-provoking,
this will be a useful addition to any writer wishing to avoid
technical bloopersof the Independence Day variety in their stories.
Worth a look. -- Reece Morehead
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Old Conventions
Chicon Worldcon
One piece of business passed was a blanket resolution extending eligibility
by one year for all works published only outside the USA in 1999.
This is supposed to give some works first published overseas a chance
to reach a wider audience before their nomination deadline.
This is not a permanent change; rather an experiment.
1015 memberships were sold at the con starting Tuesday and ending Monday.
5458 members were pre-registered.
The total, minus kids in tow and supporting memberships was 6204.
From -Steven H Silver Chicon 2000 Programming Director
Harry Harrison_'s complete Chicon report appears at .
http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/SF-Archives/Ansible/a159supp.html
Chicon has set up space on their web page with links to other Chicon reports.
http://www.chicon.org/after/conreps.htm
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Convention news
Worldcon news
Japan bids for Worldcon in 2007
http://homepage2.nifty.com/Worldcon-Nippon/
for info on SF cons in Japan:
http://www.mmjp.or.jp/sfmra/db/events/
Bemscribe supports Xerpes in 2010
http://members.xoom.com/Xerps2010/
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Dragoncon will go on despite the arrest of Ed Kramer for alledgly molesting
a teen age son of an aquantiance and for possible possession of child pornography.
I first heard about this from a fannish source and I then found it mentioned on the
ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION web site. Since then world of it has spread through
fandom via email and it has been reported by Locus and File 770.
Some info on the Kramer arrest can be found at:
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/contents.htm
Lonely Planet
Parts of the following is from Locus which picked it up from the Gwinnett Daily post
Ed Kramer one of the original founders of Dragoncon and vp of the
Horror Writer's Association is being held in a Georgia jail
while under suspicion of child molestation .
The charges are still being investigated.
"On Sept. 15 HWA President S.P. Somtow distributed an e-mail letter to fellow members
urging calm and presumption of innocence, especially considering
the potential for the horror or gothic communities to be put on trial,
''misunderstood and blamed for various societal ills''.
A principal piece of evidence is apparently a low-budget,
straight-to-Internet horror video (directed by Kramer,
co-written with Brad Linaweaver, and with music by Somtow)
called ''Terror at Tate Manor'',
- Gwinnett Daily Post
http://www.locusmag.com/2000/News/News09Log.html
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From the DragonCon web site about the future of Dragon Con
The success of Dragon*Con has always depended on the hard work of our volunteers,
who donate massive amounts of their time and skills into the convention.
The temporary or permanent loss of one person will not adversely
affect the day-to-day and year-to-year operation of the convention.
Back in 1987, Ed Kramer was one of seven people who got together
and started Dragon*Con. Of the original seven, five are still active
in the ongoing administration of the convention and that's not going to change.
While Ed sorts out his personal life, the original organizers will go on
as they have every year. With that in mind, the following changes have been formalized:
Pat Henry is the convention Chairman,
Sherry Henry, the current director of S.T.A.R.S.,
will also direct our convention volunteers.
Mark Fingerman will direct our Exhibition Hall ,
David Cody will direct Publications
David Cody(co-founder)for Dragon*Con
The Dragon con hotels for 2001 are the Hyatt Regency Atlanta
and the Atlanta Marriott Marquis.
Of course, some fans are going to have to make the choice for the next
several years of whether to attend World Con on its traditional Labor day date
The room rates for the Hyatt during Dragoncon are:
Single and double $137 ,Triple: $147 .Quad: $157
. The Hyatt phone number is 404-577-1234.
The room rates for the Marriott are not avaliable yet.
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Convention news
I lurk about on a mailing called Smofs. Yes the secret masters of fandom.
Well of course if they have a
E-mail list I can join it can’t be that secret.
I lurk there to find stuff for Kronos the ever hungry.
And because I used to work on conventions and I have friends who still do.
Recently there was a lengthy discussion about the North American SF Convention
that is held often when the WorldCon travels out of North America.
Below is a message I thought was interesting enough to pass along.
The first message was what appeared in Smofs and the second is what I
got after I asked permission to reprint the Smofs letter.
First I need to mention a little about Robert Sacks who died just
before the Worldcon at the very young age of 49. To say that Robert
was a controversial fannish figure is to put it mildly. For years Robert
studied the ins and outs of fannish politics especially those dealing
with the business meeting at the Worldcon.
But he also was well thought of by many. He was finally going to sit
at the head table as an officer at the Chicon business meeting.
Balticon was and is going to honor him has their fan guest in 2001.
One of the things that interested Robert was establishing a possible
National SF convention in the US.
Several countries including Britain and Ireland have them, as does Australia.
Well as I said some of this came up on Smofs and the following is what
Brian Burley had to say about it.
Neither the club nor I have any opinion about this:
I just thought this is interesting info to share.
Who knows maybe some time soon I can find the definitive article about the
Hugo voting system.
Brian Burley
"I just got back from Chicago, (and 3 weeks travel before it.)
so I haven’t read all of the posts, so some of this may have been covered later.
As has been pointed out, Robert and I and others were working on what
was a Continental Convention Group, and then later,
in response to input from the group, a US National Convention Group. (SFUSA)
Neither of these is called NASFiC, though we did want to acquire the rights
to NASFiC from WSFS. It would not be necessary, however."
"I intend to try to keep all of Robert's Groups and Corporations going,
if the other members agree, as part of his legacy. If elected,
I will, however, try to simplify some of the structures."
"I am very much intrigued by the idea of letting other established cons bid
for a NASFiC, rather than having separate convention called NASFiC.
This is actually very much in tune with Robert's ideas on the
subject, and he had several discussions with various committees to attempt
to persuade them to accept the Continental Convention/SFUSA designation.
And, whatever you may think of Dragon Con, that is the precedent.
Anyway, That lets WSFA keep the name (maybe franchising it out to SFUSA, maybe not)
but to delegate most of the administration.
If other countries/continents wanted WSFAs help,
that would then be just help, and not administration"
This is the message I got back from Brian:
"You can feel free to quote the material from SMOFS.
As I reviewed the material from Robert's
files, it became clear that while he would have liked to have the
NASFiC designation, he didn't need it. He had set up an activity under METRO,
called SFUSA, with Kathleen Meyer, as president.
Kathleen was the most interested person the last time the subject came up in
the board of directors, and she wanted to limit the scope of the NASFiC"
to being purely a US national convention.
I haven't had a chance to talk to her lately, so I don't know her status is now.
(After the annual meeting in November, when we elect officers)
we will have to sort thru all of the activities and see which ones are operating,
and which ones were just Robert's runaway imagination.)"
"At this point I intend to suggest to her that she plan to hold
"US National Convention number 1" sometime in early 2005 (assuming a UK victory),
at such a time as to not interfere with any major convention.
As part of the publicity for that con, it should also be announced that a
business meeting will consider bids from groups and established conventions
for the right to use the designation "US National Convention #2" plus, of course,
any other name they wish to stick on it.) I am further going to very strongly suggest
that any use of the designation "NASFiC" be completely avoided.
If there happens to be a NASFiC that year, that won't be a problem.
And we will see what happens after that. Perhaps later, an established
USNatCon could bid for the NASFiC"
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Worldcon news
Japan bids for Worldcon in 2007
http://homepage2.nifty.com/Worldcon-Nippon/
for info on SF cons in Japan:
http://www.mmjp.or.jp/sfmra/db/events/
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Fan news:
Bowling Green fan Annette Carrico is now back at home still recuperating
from her surgery.
Sometime soon she will be going through the radiation and chemo treatments.
She still has a very good long term prognosis.
To send cards and good wishes:
Annette Carrico
2720 Apache Drive
Bowling Green, KY 42104-4320
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Fannish marriages:
Janet Ward married Glenn Baggott last Saturday in Hendersonville, Tn.
And Susan Stockell attended the wedding of Mike Pendlton and Sue Triplett
On October 21st.
According to Susan the wedding took place at the Otter Creek Park a city park
in Louisville on a bluff overlooking the Ohio near a bend in the river close
to Ft. Knox . The wedding was held outdoors and a relative of Mike’s performed
the ceremony.
His best man was his brother Phil. Sue was given away by her teenage son..
Afterwards they went inside for dinner and Susan saw some of Mike’s Evansville
friends including
Chris and Julee Johnson Tate and a lot of Mike’s family.
Mike’s other brother Chris and his wife are expecting their second child soon.
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Fannish birtdays..
Both Mark Edwards and Robert Edwards (no known relationship )
both had recent birthdays.
Mark celebrated the big fifty year one.
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Fan births
Deb, a little fresh news for you.Steve and Sue Francis wish to announce
the birth of our 15th (but not last)grandchild this morning Sept 14th, at 11:40AM.
This little girl is the firstfor David and Holly Francis and all three are doing
very well. Her name isRachel Elizabeth Francis, weight 7 lb-10 oz and she is 21" long.
The newfamily expects to be home by Saturday so that the little one can take up
esidence in her own room. I hope this sheds some light on the gloom of someof the
sad stories in this month's Kronos.Steve and Sue
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Fan deaths
Nancy Tucker Shaw the widow of Bob Shaw passed away on September 17.
According to her obituary she was born Nancy Ellen Jung in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin on September 20, 1928.
She is survived by a brother and siter and law, sons and daughters in
law plus seve grandchildren.
She had a Phd from the University og Michigan were she later founded
, organized, andran the University's first audio-visual department
.She also was a founding member and long time president of the
Science Fiction Oral History society.
member and long-time president of the, For more information contact
Misti Anslin Tucker,manslin@earthlink.net
or Larry Tucker at (734) 434-0599 or at 2523 Torrey
Charitbale contributions to Nancy's memory can be sent to either
.American Foundation for AIDS Research (AMFAR)120 Wall Street,
13th FloorNew York, NY 10005 American Diabetes Association
P.O. Box 96911Washington, D.C. 20090-6911
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Sad but not unexpcted news:
L Sprague de Camp died this week on the sixth of November.
Later this month would have seen his 93rd birthday.
His wife of many , many years , Catherine Crook de Camp, died earlier this year.
If someone said elegant gentleman an image of L Spraque would jump immedately to mind.
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Anime
Sugoi Con
PO Box 31131
Mt Healthy, Ohio 45231
loner9@mail.idt.net
Holiday Inn Cincinnati Airport
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Fanzines:
http://www.kittywompus.com/fanzines/reviews/
Kittywompus Tracks Fanzines
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http://jophan.org/1960s/
Richard Lynch's PRELIMINARY OUTLINE FOR A PROPOSED FAN HISTORY BOOK
OF THE 1960s
Comments on this outline-in-progress are requested.
e-mail: jophan@zdnetonebox.com
P.O. Box 3120, Gaithersburg, MD 20885 USA
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Bob Tucker revives the Zombie.
Tucker has revived " LE ZOMBIE " as an ezine.
Contact Bob at
btucker@davesworld.net
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Roger Sims sometime back raided Margaret Keifer's basement and took
away boxes filled with Don Ford's fanzines that
Date from 1938 to the 60's.
The fanzines will be auctioned off sometime in the future.
I will be bring a list fo the fanzines to the club meeting.
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Various fanzines I have received or seen:
Emerald City an online fanzine edited by Cheryl Morgan :
http://www.emcit.com/
File 770 edited by Mike Glyer
705 Valley View Monrovia, CA 91016
Mimosa edited by Nicki and Richard Lynch,
P.O. Box 3120, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20885, U.S.A.
The The NASFA Shuttle the club newsletter of the
NASFA: The North Alabama Science Fiction Association
http://www.con-stellation.org/nasfa/index.html
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Fan History Project :http://fanac.org/NewStuff.html.
About 300 fanzines are now available on the site.
Classic Fanzines (http://fanac.org/fanzines/Classic_Fanzines.html):
Lee Hoffman's Quandry #14 (10/51), Frank Dietz and Art Rapp's Cinvention Daily #1
Walt Willis' Slant #3 (Spr/50) and Hyphen #5 (11/53), #34 (9/63) & #36 (1965).
(special note Judy Bemis did most of the transcribing of the fanzines)
Articles & Con Reports: Additional articles by Walt Willis added to complete
The Willis Papers
The Fan History Project will be at Tropicon 19/FanHistoricon 10, Nov. 10-12,
Hollywood, FL, and SMOFcon 18,
Dec. 1-3, Cocoa Beach, FL. to collect and scan your photos and accept donations
to the Fan History Archives. If you have photos, publications,
or other memorabilia that you might be interested in donating
to the Fan History Project collection,
contact Joe Siclari at jsiclari@bellsouth.net
Your donations may be tax-deductible.
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Fan Funds
Fan Funds are used to bring fans to conventions.
Mostly to conventions they wouldn't get to attend otherwise.
Interfilk (http://www.interfilk.org/whatis.htm)
it mostly transports fans to different Filk conventions
within the US though sometimes filkers have traveled abroad.
Taff the Trans Atlantic Fan Fund was founded in the early 1950’s
to send one year a fan from the US to Europe and the next a fan
from Europe to the America’s.
(now for a little disclaimer.. the below isn’t the view point of the club)
Taff for various reasons (including the impression that fanzine fans have
a better chance of winning than fans that are primarily convention fans).
has fallen out of favor with some fans in the Midwest and south.
But then again Taff is attempting to send well known and very well
liked Midwest fan Bill Bowers as the Silver Anniversary delegate on
a Taff trip he didn't get to take twenty five years ago.
Back in 1976 the Taff race ended in a tie.
Roy Tackett the co winner made his trip to England but Bill wasn't able to travel.
This is dependent on his health since he was in the hospital about a
month ago with pulmonary edema. But the last I heard he was out of
the hospital and doing much well. Hopefully he will be able to make
the trip to Britain.
Taff will also be sending the winner of this year’s race to Paragon,
the 52nd annual British National Science Fiction Convention
(Eastercon), to be held 13-16 April 2001 in Hinckley, Leicestershire
(http://www.keepsake-web.co.uk/paragon/).
The voting deadline for Taff is January 31, 2001.
So far Victor Gonzalez and Tom Springer have announced their candidacy.
By the way Bill's "FanBasic 101," has now been updated at:
http://www.galaxy-7.net/squib/links3.html
Dave Langford has a very informative but unofficial site about Taff at:
http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/SF-Archives/Taff/>.
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Duff the Down under Fan Fund (http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/SF-Archives/Taff/#duff )
is considered to be the more "fair" in that it sometimes been awarded to
fans who are primarily considered convention fans even though they also might
be involved in apa publishing or other fannish writing.
Duff sends fans between Australia and North America.
The Duff race 2001 race to send a candidate from North America
to the Australian national convention
is now underway and the nominees are:
Steven Silver :Chicon 2000 Programming Director and Hugo Nominee, Best Fan Writer
Jeopardy champ from June 13-14, 2000
http://www.sfsite.com/~silverag
and a couple of people the majority of us know:
Naomi Fisher and Patrick Molloy.
Ballots and the latest newsletter are available at
http://home.pacbell.net/jgelb/duff2k.html.
The deadline for ballots to be received is
January 15, 2001.
North American Administrator
Janice Gelb
1070 Mercedes Ave. #2
Los Altos, CA 94022 USA
j_gelb@yahoo.com
Oh yes, It is required that a trip report is published for Taff,
Guff and Duff. And most of the time there is.
Janice already has published her trip report:
Just contact Janice at the above address and send $6.50
(one of the ways the funds are financed is through the trip reports
. Auctions are also held.
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Guff (Get Up-and-over Fan Fund) is a fan fund that transports
fans between Europe and Australia.
http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/SF-Archives/Taff/#guff
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Filk News
Pegasus Awards for Filking given out at the Ohio Valley Filk Fest.
Some of the winners included:
Best Writer/Composer: Bob Kanefsky
Best Performer: Ookla the Mok
Best Filksong: Sam's Song
What is interesting about the Pegasus awards unlike the Hugo's
(where it is mandated) is that they do not announce vote totals for the Pegasus.
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Science Songs panel at Boskone:
Wanted nominations for favorite science songs and musicians to perform them.
Paul Ciszek
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Gaming news
From Robert Edward’s:
Mike Nunn has a new d20 (D&D) module coming out: http://www.teamfrog.com/d20.htm
Robert> There's an on-line club for RPG and other gamers "In
Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia" at: http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/taggg
Not a lot of activity, (according to Robert) but some discussion of
Memphis game shops, Outside Con, and Con*stellation.
Mostly a place to meet people. One member was impressed by
the Nashville club members he met at Outside con,
which I find quite frightening. (GRIN).
Publishing news
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction has been
sold. Gordon Van Gelder is the new publisher.
Galaxy On line is off-line for now.
Amazing Stories as an electric zine is taking its place.
http://www.dm.net/~bahwolf/dexter.htm
Dexter's Funny World
An interactive art experience featuring the art of
Alan M. Clark as interpreted by authors
Alan M. Clark, Randy Fox, Brian A. Hopkins, and Ray Vukcevich,
Randy Fox has a book: Not Broken, Not Belonging
(Roadkill Press No ISBN, Mar '94, $6.00, 27pp, ph, cover by Alan Clark)
Horror story based on a series of six paintings by Alan.
Clark included here along with related sketches.
This is a 300-copy limited edition signed by both author and artist.
Available from Little Bookshop of Horrors, 10380 Ralston Rd., Arvada CO 80004
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This originally appeared in Uncle Timmy’s
The Revenge of Hump Day:
. From: Sharon Green
You asked me to keep you informed on my books, well here goes.
The first book of the new Blending trilogy, The Blending Enthroned,
Intrigues, will be out next month, with the second, Deceptions,
scheduled for April and the third already done but not yet scheduled.
Some time in November the reprint of the second Warrior book,
The Warrior Enchained, should be available.
In December is To Die For, my newest Harlequin Intrigue,
and right now the next Diana Santee novel, Tildor,
is available for download from my website.
If I have any more *good* news, I'll certainly pass it on.
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Awards
http://www.mythsoc.org/awards.html
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
Tamsin by Peter S. Beagle
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Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature :T
he Folk Keeper by Franny Billingsle
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World Fantasy Awards 2000 from Ansible:
. some of the awards include:
NOVEL Martin Scott, Thraxas
NOVELLA (tie) Jeff VanderMeer, `The Transformation of Martin Lake' (_Palace Corbie
, and Laurel Winter, `Sky Eyes'
SHORT Ian R.MacLeod, `The Chop Girl'
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If you would like to check some more of Dave Langford’s fan writing check out:
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Misc:
Most SF fans being the intelligent beings that we are
(well except for Bemscribe who sorta has a muddling brain)
probably will not need this but here it is anyway:
The guide to Dennis Miller on Monday night football.
http://britannica.com/bcom/original/article/0,5744,13745,00.html
Of course, Nashville, the Titans and our latest victim the Dallas Cowboys
on Christmas night.
(But then you never know...
after last Sunday when Del Greco's kick was pulled to the right by
the wind I was starting to think it was time to sacrifice the goat.
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It came in through the ether:
Heard from Bruce Pelz who commented on this part of the newsletter:
George read Obsidian, which is an Anton Blake Vampire hunter book.
Bruce Pelz reported that: "Obsidian Butterfly"_ is the book;
Anita Blake is the main character
Bruce continued: "I've read the first two of Laurell Hamilton's Anita Blake books
-- Guilty Pleasures is the first, Obsidian Butterfly the 9th -- and enjoyed them.
The first six are available 3-in-1 volumes from the Book Club,
or in individual paperbacks. The 7th and 8th (Burnt Offerings, Blue Moon)
are only in individual paperbacks, and Obsidian Butterfly is, so far,
only in hardcover.
Later Bruce had this to say about the Rivercon slide show:
I have a photo of two of the Thud Brothers together,
(in reference to Meade Frierson) taken at Rivercon. Thud is in reference to the "third'.
So you have Meade Frierson Thud and Donald Eastlake Thud.
Brother Guy Lillian thud missed Rivercon.
And on the early days of fandom panel at Rivercon:
"The original WorldCon was inspired by the World's fair
and in the beginning everyone knew everyone else since
the fans had been corresponding with each other a long time
even if they had never met in person. It was noted that the
first Worldcon to go over a 1,ooo fans was in 1956.
The First World Science Fiction Convention was originally planned
to be held on the grounds of the 1939 New York World's Fair,
but they moved it because not all of the fans wanting to attend
could afford the extra dollar to get into the Fair.
According to the "Long List" published in the Worldcon program books,
the first official break of 1000 fans attending a Worldcon wasn't until
New York in 1967. The 1956 Worldcon, also in New York, was officially only 850.
(But that _was_ Dave Kyle on the panel, wasn't it? He chaired 1956.) Chicago
(1952) claimed over 1000 at the time, according to FANTASY TIMES, _
The newsletter of the era.
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From Tom Feller on the name of the Saturday morning cartoon of the past that had animation with real lips.
"I think the name of the cartoon you describe was "Clutch Cargo".
He was a pilot who owned a one-engine plane and flew around the
world having adventures. The same animation technique was used with
another cartoon called "SpaceAngel" which I think was a Saturday morning show"
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Joe Major also chimed in with the info that the name of the Cartoon was "Clutch Cargo".
He also noted among other things that Ray Milland in the Man with the X-Ray Eyes
finally tore out his eyes and he still could see.
That Julius Schwartz couldn't make Rivercon at all due to all the travel problems.
Forrest Ackerman, Dave Kyle, Joe Hensley, Hal Clement, and Rusty Hevlin were the
panelists on the Early Days of Fandom panel.
And, it was Joe Hensley who told the Claude Degler stories including the time
that Tucker told Joe to tell members of a con that Degler had sent him.
Joe also noted that his hotel experience at Chicon was different than some:
" The nickel-and-diming seems to have gone the other way with us.
We got a room on the Regency Club floor, which normally costs $40 extra,
for nothing above the rack rate. "
He also asked about whether there were other hotels instead of the
Philadelphia Marriott for the Philadelphia Worldcon.
------------------------------------------------
Checked the web site and found the Hilton Garden Inn at Philadelphia Center City
1100 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107
215/923-0100, Fax:1/215/925-0800
The online flyer mentions they will be posting info on more hotels soon.
And on their site is an explanation about the rates:
The rates for the single room are higher than we expected them to be.
Our option letter from the hotel stated
that the single room would be $119.00 in 1998 "with no more than a 5% increase."
We believed this to mean that there would be a maximum cap of 5% while the hotel
interpreted this to mean 5% per year. Although the hotel was relatively
firm during negotiations on this point, (while still compromising by
reducing the rate by $3 from its figure),
its willingness to agree to other terms of major importance to the convention
and its members led us to sign the contract without obtaining all we
wished in the way of reducing the rates. We do expect to have contracts
with other nearby hotels, some of which will be offering rates less than
those stated above.
Among the provisions that the hotel did agree to are:
A complete waiver of all corkage for food, beverage and alcohol
for all private rooms in the hotel (i.e., off the function room floor).
The right of convention members to reserve a room at any time up to
and including the convention at the convention rate if any rooms are left
in the block, including availability based on canceled reservations
after the room reservation release date, subject to the Hotel's ability
to also sell those rooms to non-members. A discount at the Hotel's
restaurants for all convention attendees,
whether or not they are staying in the hotel.
From http://www.all-hotels.com/usa/philly.htm
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A little fannish story I first heard about on the Charlotte 2004
mail list from Tracy Edlund.
A fan by name of Cecil Caudel was the
Con-coordinator for a SF Fan Faire convention in the Carolina’s
. Well to put it mildly the hotel was having some problems.
Cecil was able to solve the problems by becoming the general manager of the hotel.
He started work as a manager on Saturday morning while still working for the con.
Cecil had been a hotel manager in the past.
But the problems with the hotel extended to the owner and Cecil has since left.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
SCA
The newsletter for the Nashville SCA group is now online
http://www.oocities.org/glaedenfeld/goodkeepkeeping.htm
The Lyons Mountain group for now is on hiatus.
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Space
Middle Tennessee Space Society Region 5
Chuck Schlemm
508 Beechgrove Way
Burns, TN 37029
615/441-1024
robert.tonini@nashville.com
--------------------------
Interesting Space Links
Main Shuttle Status page
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/status/stsstat/current.htm
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http://comets.amsmeteors.org/index.html
Comets & Meteor Showers
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http://www.astrobiology.com
Astrobiology
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http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/
NASA's Main Shuttle Page
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http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/schedule/schedule.htm
Upcoming Space Shuttle Launches - NASA Kennedy Space Center
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http://science.msfc.nasa.gov/
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
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http://vesuvius.jsc.nasa.gov/er/seh/scifi.html
Science Fiction \ Space Technology: Tools for Learning
----------------------------
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar/
JPL's Space Calendar Page
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http://vesuvius.jsc.nasa.gov/er/seh/
SPACE EDUCATORS' HANDBOOK :An Aeronautics and Space Resource for Education
----------------------------------------
http://www2.satellite.eu.org/sat/vsohp/satintro.html
Visual Satellite Observer's Home Page
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http://www2.satellite.eu.org/sat/vsohp/issnews.html
International Space Station
News and Rumors
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http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/RealTime/JTrack/Spacecraft.html
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http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/RealTime/JPass/
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Cumberland Science Museum's
For current night sky information, call Astroline: (615) 401-5092.
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Best resource for SF Conventions
SF-Lovers Conventions Listing
compiled and updated by Saul Jaffe
http://sflovers.rutgers.edu/Reference/fandom/conlist/cons.html
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To find conventions in the South check out
Southern Fandom Resource Guide Convention List : http://www.scenic-city.com/sfrg/
The best science fiction fandom resource on the web:
SF Lovers-Science Fiction Resource Guide
http://http://sflovers.rutgers.edu/Web/SFRG/
SGRG is maintained and updated by Chaz Boston Baden
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IKAV Dragon's Heart Modified Negh'Var Class Heavy Carrier ( Klingons)
Outer Limits Comics The first Sunday of each Month
5:00pm
http://earth.vol.com/~sundell/index1.htm
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. Scholars of the Three Pipe Problem web site
http://www.thehawk.net/3pp.htm
The site has a Canonical Calendar plus their newsletter
Plugs and Dottles edited by Gael Stahl.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
http://users.rcn.com/rosvicl/rassef-faq.html
Frequently asked questions for rec.arts.sf.fandom
This HTML version of the FAQ has been very slightly reformatted from
the version posted Vicki Rosenzweig. First of all, science fiction fandom.
That includes conventions, fanzines, fan funds, and other matters related to fandom.
Second of all, almost anything else people want to talk about.
The true subject of this newsgroup appears to be food, but politics,
gardening, religion, and almost anything else is grist for the mill.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
The calendar…
early November
reserve your SMOFcon 18 in Cocoa Beach hotel room now. The shuttle launch is still on schedule for Thursday night.(yes there are packages available to go and watch the launch)
Holiday Inn Cocoa Beach Oceanfront Resort
1300 N. Atlantic Ave.
Cocoa Beach, FL 32931
ROOM RATE:
$69.00 plus tax per night, single through quad occupancy.
Contact Joe Siclari if you want to reserve a suite.
jsiclari@bellsouth.net (note new email address)
or
Joe Siclari
Phone: 914-962-9624
RESERVATIONS:
(800) 20-OASIS
(800) 206-2747
(321) 783-2271 -- Direct to hotel.
(321) 784-8878 FAX
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November 8
Middle Tennessee Science Fiction Club meeting
at the new Green Hills Library
on Benham avenue between Graybar and Glen Echo near Hillsboro Rd.
This is the area to the left of Hillsboro rd from where theold library was.
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November 10-12
Tropicon XIX - , 2000
Guest of Honor Vernor Vinge
Artist Guest of Honor David A. Cherry
http://sfsfs.org/Tropicon/Tropicon19.html
$28.00 to October 30, 2000
$33.00 at the door
4000 South Ocean Drive
Hollywood, FL 33019-3010
(954) 458-1900
(800) 329-9019
(954) 458-7222 (FAX)
TROPICON XIX
c/o SFSFS
PO Box 70143
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33307-0143
Phone: (561) 844-6336
tropicon@sfsfs.org
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10 - 12
Windycon, Hyatt Regency Woodfield. Schaumburg, Il.
GoH: Terry Brooks.
Artist GoH: Lubov. Editor GoH's: Patrick & Teresa Nielsen Hayden.
Fan GoHs: Sally Kobee & Larry Smith. TM: Phyllis Eisenstein.
$30 to 10/14/00, $40 at door.
Info: WindyCon 0027, Box 184, Palatine IL 60078-0184
www.windycon.org
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November 11
Second Saturday Book Sale
Donelson Branch Library, 2315 Lebanon Rd
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November 12
Ravens Nevermore
Baltimore Ravens vs. Tennessee Titans at the delph
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14-20
Leonids meteors showers
http://comets.amsmeteors.org/meteors/showers/leonids.html
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15th
Prereg deadline Smofcon. $50.00
also pre reg dealine for Chambananacon
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November 17 - 19
Philcon http://www.netaxs.com/~philcon/
. Adam's Mark Hotel, City Ave. & Monument Rd
GoH: Vernor Vinge,
Artist GoH: Bob Walters, Special GoH: Poul Anderson.
Membership: $40 until 10/25/00,
$45 after. Info: Philcon 2000,
PO Box 8303, Philadelphia PA 19101-8303;
215-604-3980; info@philcon.org.
Philcon has a couple of interesting policies including one that will be
interesting to enforce unless they booked the whole hotel.
It is :
"Philcon membership is required to host or attend a party.
If your group intends to host an open party at Philcon, you must:
contact the Party Czar in advance!" Also they are only allowing alcohol
to se served at only private/ invitation only parties.
( hmm I wonder how different their policies for parties at the Worldcon will be?
hmm need to check the web page.)
Ahh more on the Philcon parties...
Parties that are not registered with the Party Czar or that don't have
a Philcon member registered to the room are subject to normal hotel
policies and prices. And one we heard elsewhere... Cooking in rooms is forbidden.
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November 24-26
Loscon 27 Burbank Airport Hilton
http://www.loscon.org/
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November
24 - 26
ConCat Knoxville, Tennessee
http://www.vic.com/~chloiea/ConCat.html
Hyatt Regency at 500 Hill Ave in Knoxville.
Room rates are 1-4 $66 plus tax. Call 865-637-1234 to make your reservations.
316 E. Scott Ave., Knoxville, TN 37917
865- 523-6986 e-mail : chloiea@mailexcite.com
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Also Thanksgiving weekend.. Chambananacon
http://www.chambanacon.org/
Guest of Honor: Andrew Offutt
( Andy retires as GoH for Chambananacon after this year)
Fan Guest of Honor: Kim Williams (Chair of Marcon)
Featuring Toastmaster Wilson " Bob" Tucker
( someone is going to drive him to just about the only
con near his home)
pluts lots of filk in Clarion Hotel (it has been in
the same place for ever... the name just changes)
(Though the last I heard this year is the
last on the hotel contract.)
1501 South Neil, Champaign, IL.
62801
(217) 352-7891 or (800) 257-6667
M. David Brim 's last year as a chair or rather co - chair.
The other co chair is Phread who will be taking over next year.
ChamBanaCon
PO Box 199016
Indianapolis, IN 46219-9016
turkey@chambanacon.org
The registration fee is $25 until Nov 15th, $30 at the door
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November 24-26
Loscon 27
http://www.loscon.org/
The Hilton Burbank Airport, Burbank, California
Loscon 27
c/o The Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society
11513 Burbank Boulevard, North Hollywood, CA 91601
LASFS Website: www.lasfs.org
loscon27@lasfs.org
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November 24 - 26
DARKOVER GRAND COUNCIL MEETING XXIII
http://www.darkovercon.com/
Timonium, Maryland
ARMIDA COUNCIL // PO BOX 7203 // SILVER SPRING, MD 20907
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November 30
Early prereg cut off for Mid South Con; March 23 - 25
$20 till 11/30/00
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November 30
STS-97 (101)Endeavour
http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-97/mission-sts-97.html
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December
1-3
SMOFcon 18 in Cocoa Beach Florida, ,
$65.00 at the door. Holiday Inn Cocoa Beach Oceanfront Resort
. SFSFS, P. O. Box 70143, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309.
http://sfsfs.org/SMOFcon
Even through Smofcon enquiries still go to the Florida address Joe has moved up north.
His new address is:
Joe Siclari & Edie Stern
661 Hanover St.
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598-5901
Phone: 914-962-9624
++++++++++++++++
December
1st
Capricon pre reg deadline
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2nd
Christmas Tourney ( SCA) {Barony of the Flame}
http://members.home.net/barony-of-the-flame/barony1.html
Louisville, KY
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21st
Winter Solstice
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25th
Partial Solar Eclipse
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December
31st
pre reg cutoff for DSC 39 Birmingham
Tenacity 279 Cheshire Rd. Harpersville, Al.
35078 paulette.baker@mindsring.com
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December 31st
Cutoff for the 40th DSC to be held June 14 - 16 2002 in Huntsville Al.
Huntsville Hilton
Memberships $25 through December 31st, 2000
GoH Allen Steele
Toastmistress Connie Willis
Artist GoH Bob Eggleton
Fan GoH Nicki and Dicki Lynch
DSC 40
POB 4857
Huntsville, Al 35815-4857
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2001
January
5 - 7
Ga Filk : Atlanta, Georgia
Guest of Honor - Tom Smith
Toastmaster - Robert Cooke
Ramada Inn Atlanta Airport - South
http://www.gafilk.org/
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January 5 - 7
Twelfth Night from the Shire of Glaedenfeld (SCA)
http://www.oocities.org/glaedenfeld/12thnight2001/twelfth_night.htm
Henry Horton State Park, Chapel Hill, TN
Autocrat: Lady Angharad ferch Anarawd
Mka: Melissa Cheran anarawd@mindspring.com
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12-14
Chattacon
information Mike Dillson or Zanny Leach
at (770) 578-8461. No collect calls please
info@chattacon.org or chattacon.info@mindspring.com.
Chattacon 25
PO Box 23908
Chattanooga, TN 37422-3908
Guest of Honor David Brin,.
Guest of Honor S. M. Sterling,
.Artist Guest Jill Bauman,
Special Guest James Patrick Kelly .
, Master of Toast Charles L. Grant,
Regional Artist Guest David Mathews
Clarion Hotel in downtown Chattanooga, Tennessee.
room rates will be $70 per night, flat rate.
The hotel only has 200 rooms and they are
almost already gone by sometime in November.
So consider getting your room now.
hotel reservations is: (423) 756-5150
Prices will be $30 until December 15, 1999,
$35 until January 1, 2000 and $40 at the door.
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January 12-14, 2001
Arisia '01
http://www.arisia.org/
Boston Park Plaza Hotel and Towers
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January 18, 2001
STS-98 Atlantis
http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-98/mission-sts-98.html
http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/
Call 321-867-4636 for recorded launch information
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19-21, 2001
http://www.stilyagi.org/cons/confusion/
AASFA/ConFusion
P.O.Box 8284, Ann Arbor, MI 48107 :
Van Dyke Park Suites, Warren, MI
http://www.stilyagi.org/cons/confusion/workshops.html
Writer's Workshops at ConFusion
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January
24th Chinese New Year
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February 3
Candlemas (SCA) Lexington, Ky
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February 8-11, 2001
Capricon / http://www.enteract.com/~deb/capricon21/
Chicago ,Il.
Arlington Park Sheraton
(847) 394-2000
Guest of Honor: Allen Steele,Fan GoH: Geri Sullivan
Pre-registration...$35.00 At the door...$60.00
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February
16 - 18
Boskone 38
http://www.nesfa.org/boskone/
P.O. Box 809
Framingham, MA 01701
FAX 617-776-3243.
boskone@nesfa.org.
Guest of Honor: George R. R. Martin,
Featured Filker: Juanita Coulson
Sheraton Framingham Hotel
Framingham, Massachusetts / 508-879-7200
(do not use the 800 number)
$36 until January 17, 2001, and will be higher at the door.
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23 - 25
Concave 22
Park Mammoth Resort
Park City Kentucky
As usual enter the room lottery to reserve a roon.
All room lottery entries must be in during December.
Do not contact hotel about making reservations
Janice Gelb GoH
Concave c/o Gary Robe
POB 3221 Kingsport, Tn. 37664
$20 before 2/13/00 grrobe@preferred.com
$30 at the door
room rate
$47 single doubel
$57 triple/quad
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March 12 - 18
Gulf Wars X (SCA)
http://www.gulfwars.org/
King's Arrow Ranch; Lumberton, MS
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March 16 -18
Stellarcon 2001/Greensboro, NC, Hilton,
Fulbright, jkf1965@aol.com
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March 16-18
Coast Con
http://www.coastcon.org/
March 16-18
Mississippi Coast Convention Center
2350 Beach Boulevard
Biloxi, MS 39531
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23 - 25
Mid Southcon
Memphis, Tn.
Guests of Honor - Laurell K. Hamilton
Guest Artist - Alan Clark
Toastmaster - Cullen Johnson
Holiday Inn Select.
2240 Democrat (at Airways) In Memphis, TN. The phone # is (901) 332-1130
The rooms are priced at a flat rate of $78 per night (up to four people)
. You must reserve your room by February 23 2001 to ensure rate and availability.
Memberships $20 till 11/30/00, $25 until 3/1/01, and $30 at the door.
children under 12 half price
Children in-tow (under 5) free
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March 23 - 25
Galaticon at Ramada Inn South/in East Ridge/Chattanooga, Tn.
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March 31st
Last preg cut off for the DSC Birmingham
$25 and $30 thereafter and at the door.
The DSC will be May 4 - 6
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March 30-April 1, 2001
Shire of Glynn Rhe Convivium Collegialis II
Camp Arnold, Cullman, Alabama
Metalworking.
Lady Genevie d'Marsailles
(256)308-0189
TyDyPirate@aol.com
or
Master Allan of Moffat
(256)353-5819
MasterDags@yahoo.com
---------------------------------------------
30 March -1 April.
Corflu 2001
The MidTown Hotel,
220 Huntington Avenue,
Boston, Massachusetts 02115
VOX: +1 617 262 1000
FAX: +1 617 262 8739
US Toll Free: 1-800-343-1177
Room rates are $129/$139/$149/$159 Single/Double/Triple/Quad
If you need more than 2 beds in a room, an additional charge
of $10/night/bed will apply.
Cut-off date for the room block is 28 February, 2001
Corflu 18
P.O. Box 724
Mountain View CA 94042
Bob Webber
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April 1st
Hotel registration cut off for the DSC
Birmingham. Radisson Hotel
808 20th St south. Birmingham, Al 35205
205- 933- 9000
$81 for 1 to 4 people.
The party floor is the 14th floor.
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April 2001
20 - 22nd
Kubla Khan Primus
Days Inn Airport
http://www.telalink.net/~badger/kubla30.html
Guest of Honor, Rick Shelley,
Toastmaster, Andrew J. Offutt
,Andy FemFan, Jody Offutt
Days Inn Airport/Opryland Area,
Briley Parkway #1 International Plaza,
Nashville, TN. 37217. (615) 361-7666 or Fax (615) 399-0283.
For 1-4 occupancy the rate is $58 per night.
http://www.the.daysinn.com/nashville02468
Cost is $25 till April 1st
and $35 at the door.
Send your registration to:
KublaKhan 30
C/o Tom and Anita Feller
P.O. Box 68203
Nashville, TN 37206
Ken Moore
647 Devon Dr.
Nashville, TN 37220-1910
Phone: 615-832-8402
Co-Chair:
Bill Payne
6329 Valley View Rd.
Goodlettsville, TN 37072
Comments or enquiry's? EMAIL ONLY rkrimini@aol.com
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May 2001
4 - 6
Tenacity: The Birmingham Deep South Con
Radisson Hotel
Queen of the Universe : Sharon Green
Ned Brooks Fan GoH
Tenacity 279 Cheshire Rd. Harpersville, Al.
35078 paulette.baker@mindsring.com
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4 - 6
DurDemarion Beltaine
http://hometown.aol.com/drdemarion/ddwebsite.htm
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May 11 - 13
MarsCon
Radisson South Hotel, Bloomington, MN
http://marscon.org/m01/goh.html
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May 25 - 27 (Memorial Day weekend)
Libertycon at the Ramada Inn South, East Ridge)
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May 25 - 28, 2001
Balticon
http://www.balticon.org
Baltimore Omni Inner Harbor Hotel
Hotel rates: $119+tax Single/double/triple/quad
Omni 1-410-752-1100
Memberships till
03/15/01 $35; 04/30/01 $40;
At the door $45
BALTICON 35
PO BOX 686
Baltimore, MD 21203-0686
(410) JOE-BSFS (563-2737)
e-mail: bsfs@balticon.org
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Memorial Day Weekend
May 25 -27
Marcon
Hyatt Regency
Columbus, OH
http://209.235.59.71/marcon1/index.htm
$30 until Dec. 31, 2000
$35 until May 14, 2001
$40 at the door
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May 25th to 28th
Costume-Con
http://www.msight.com/cc19/
Westin hotel in Calgary, AB Canada.
Co-Chairs for the convention are:
- Katherine Jepson
- Eileen Capes - capsam@nucleus.com
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May 25 - 28
http://www.whc2001.org/
11th Annual World Horror Convention.
Seattle, Washington. Seattle Marriott Sea-Tac Airport.
Guests of Honor include Richard Laymon, Simon Clark,
Jessica Amanda Salmonson, Barbara & Christopher Roden,
Attending memberships are $90.00 US until January 15th, 2001.
Supporting memberships are $25.00 US.
Please make checks in US funds to World Horror Convention.
WHC 2001
PO Box 5171
Bellingham, WA, 98227
USA
whc2001@uswest.net
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May 25 - 27
ConQuest
http://www.kcsciencefiction.org/con31.htm
Kansas City, Missouri
Park Place Hotel,
(816) 483-9900 or (800) 821-8532.
ConQuesT 32, P. O. Box 36212, Kansas City MO 64171-6212
info Lyn Halama at halliams@swbell.net
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July 5-8, 2001
Westercon 54
The Doubletree Jantzen Beach and Doubletree Columbia River
Portland, Oregon.
http://www.osfci.org/w2001/
deaner@pacifier.com
Westercon 54, P.O. Box 5901, Portland, OR 97228-5901
(360) 993-2001
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July 13 - 15, 2001
Inconjunction
http://www.inconjunction.org/
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August 2 - 5, 2001
GenCon 2001
http://www.wizards.com/conventions/Welcome.asp
Midwest Express Center
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August 3 - 6
Mythcon 32
David L. Dodds and Peter S. Beagle as Guests of Honor
Clark Kerr Conference Center in Berkeley, California.
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August 10 - 12, 2001
Con Glomeration.
http://www.members.iglou.com/shadowr/conglomeration.htm
Holiday Inn Lakeview in Clarksville,In
1-800-544-7075
Con Glomeration.
POB 32095 Louisville, Ky 40232
Memberships are $25 until July 25,
And $35 thereafter and at the door.
Science fiction and fantasy multimedia
GoH Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell
Fan GoH Steve and Sue Francis
Holiday Inn Lakeview at 1-800-544-7075
Or Email us at Shadowr@iglou.com
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August 30, 2001 - September 3, 2001
The Millennium Philcon® Philadelphia, PA
The 59th World Science Fiction Convention
P.O. Box 310
Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006-0310
email: phil2001@netaxs.com
http://www.netaxs.com/~phil2001/
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http://www.dragoncon.org/
Dragon*Con 2001
Hyatt Regency Atlanta and the Atlanta Marriott Marquis
Writer Guest of the Millennium is Harlan Ellison.
Master of Ceremonies is Anthony Daniels.
Ditto #14 Fall 2001 in Bloomington, IL
ConCom: Bob & Fern Tucker, Henry & Lrtha Welsch, Dick & Leah Smith
CONTACT Dick Smith for details: rhes@enteract.com
http://www.circlenk.com/ditto/index.htm
The Web of Ditto
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last weekend of September 2001
The Washington Science Fiction Association
Sheraton College Park in Beltsville, Maryland.
A new convention
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October 2001
World Fantasy Convention
Montreal, Quebec,
2001 WFC, c/o Bruce Farr
7002 North Sixth Avenue
Phoenix, Arizona 85021, USA
or email at: brucex.farr@intel.com
or call: (602) 395-1945
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2002
June 14-16
DSC 40 in Huntsville Al.
Huntsville Hilton
Memberships $25 through December 31st, 2000
GoH Allen Steele
Toastmistress Connie Willis
Artist GoH Bob Eggleton
Fan GoH Nicki and Dicki Lynch
DSC 40
POB 4857
Huntsville, Al 35815-4857