Volume 29 Number 12 Issue 353 May 2017

OASFiS Event Horizon Vol 28 Issue 342 May 2016 Published Monthly by the Orlando Area Science Fiction Society (OASFiS). All rights reserved by original Authors and Artists. Editor: Juan Sanmiguel, 1421 Pon Pon Court, Orlando, FL 32825. Subscriptions are $12.00 per year and entitle the subscriber to membership in the Society. Attending Memberships are $25.00 per year. Extra memberships to family members are $6.00 per year when only one newsletter is sent to the household. To subscribe or join OASFiS, send a check or money order to: OASFiS, PO Box 592905, Orlando, FL 32859-2905. To submit Articles, Artwork or Letters of Comment to the Event Horizon, send them to the Editor's address above or sanmiguel@earthlink.net. For additional information, call our Voice Mail at (407) 823-8715. OASFiS is a state chartered not for profit corporation whose goal is the promotion of Science Fiction in all its forms. All opinions expressed herein are solely those of the Author(s) and in no way

A WORD FROM THE EDITOR

The Florida Film Festival opened after Easter. There

were a fair sample of SFF films. Colossal was about an

alcoholic who has a strange connection to a monster attacking

Seoul. Birdboy: The Forgotten Children (Psiconautas) was a

Spanish animated film about children looking for a new life in

a post apocalyptic world. My Entire High School Sinking Into

The Sea does a surreal take on high school life using a trippy

animation style. Albion: The Enchanted Stallion tells the story

of a young girl who is taken by a mysterious horse to another

world to save a kingdom. This is actress Castile Landon’s first

film and it was a good portal fantasy.

This month is OASIS so we a re get ready for that.

The Nebulas will also be announced during the

convention. Some of the short fiction is online.

Till next time.

Recon 2017

May 4-7

International Palms and Resort

6515 International Drive

Orlando, FL 32819

$15 pre-reg, $25 at the door (HMGS members)

$25 pre-reg, $35 at the door (non HMGS members)

http://www.hmgs-south.com/

Gator Con

May 13

Hilton Airport

150 Australian Avenue

West Palm Beach, FL

$7 pre-reg, $10 at the door

Guests: Chris Doohan (Scotty, Star Trek Continues)

Alison McInnis (Pink Ranger, Poer Rangers)

Mark Sparacio (comic artist)

Jose Delbo (comic artist)

www.gatorcon.net

Megacon

May 25-28

Orange County Convention Center

4-Day-$99 pre-registration , $110 at the door

1-Day (pre)-Thu $20, Fri $35, Sat $45, Sun $35

1-Day (at the door)-Thu $25, Fri $40, Sat $50, Sun $40

Guests: Stan Morrison (OASIS artist)

Bill Hatfield (OASIS panelist)

Stan Lee (comic pioneer)

Gail Simone (comic writer)

Kevin Smith (film writer-director)

Tim Curry (Frank-n-Furter, Rocky Horror)

Barry Bostwick (Brad, Rocky Horror)

Patricia Quinn (Magenta, Rocky Horror)

Meat Loaf (Eddie, Rocky Horror)

Nell Campbell (Columbia, Rocky Horror)

Felicia Day (Kinga Forrester, new MST3K)

Mike Tyson (Heavyweight World Champion)

Norman Reedus (Daryl, The Walking Dead)

and many more

megaconvention.com

OASFiS Meeting 4/9/2017

Officers: Juan Sanmiguel, Tom Reed

Members: Deb Canaday, Steve

Cole, Arthur Dykeman, Ken Konkol, Dave Ratti,

Patty Russell

Guests:

Club Business

Juan wanted to thank everyone at the

picnic, especially griller David Plesic and food

buyer Peggy Stubblefield.

Juan will out for three months (June, July, and

August) on the meeting week due

to the Anime Festival Orlando, NASFiC 17,

and Worldcon 75. Tom will take over the

meetings. Juan will if he can do his Hugo

presentation at Orange County Library.

May OASFiS Calendar

OASFiS Business Meeting Sunday, May 14 1:30 PM,Brick and Fire Pasta and Pizza Parlor (Downtown Orlando, 1621 South Orange Ave Orlando, Florida 32806 407-426-8922). Come join us as we discuss what we have been watching and reading and do some con planning SciFi Light TBD. Please check website

To contact for more info: OASFiS Business Meeting 407-823-8715

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OASFiS People

Susan Cole 407-275-5211 sacole@mindspring.com Arthur Dykeman 407-328-9565 adykeman@bellsouth.net Steve Grant 352 241 0670 stevegrant@embarqmail.com Mike Pilletere mike-sf@webbedfeet.com David Ratti 407-282-2468 dratti@eudoramail.com Juan Sanmiguel 407-823-8715 sanmiguel@earthlink.net Patricia Wheeler 407-832-1428 pwheeler11@cfl.rr.com Any of these people can give readers information about the club and its functions. To be included in the list call Juan

Hiscock (self-published)

• “The Tomato Thief”, Ursula Vernon (Apex 1/5/16)

• The Jewel and Her Lapidary, Fran Wilde (Tor.com

Publishing)

• “You’ll Surely Drown Here If You Stay”, Alyssa Wong

(Uncanny 5-6/16)

Best Short Story (1,275)

• “Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies”, Brooke Bolander

(Uncanny 11-12/16)

• “Seasons of Glass and Iron”, Amal El-Mohtar (The Starlit

Wood)

• “The City Born Great”, N.K. Jemisin (Tor.com 9/28/16)

• “That Game We Played During the War”, Carrie Vaughn

(Tor.com 3/16/16)

• “A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers”,

Alyssa Wong (Tor.com 3/2/16)

• “An Unimaginable Light”, John C. Wright (God, Robot)

Best Related Work (1,122)

The Princess Diarist, Carrie Fisher (Blue Rider)

• Women of Harry Potter series of posts, Sarah Gailey

(Tor.com)

• The View from the Cheap Seats, Neil Gaiman (Morrow;

Headline)

• The Geek Feminist Revolution, Kameron Hurley (Tor)

• Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books,

2000-2016, Ursula K. Le Guin (Small Beer)

• Traveler of Worlds: Conversations with Robert Silverberg,

Robert Silverberg & Alvaro Zinos-Amaro (Fairwood)

(Continued on page 3)

Award News

(source Locus website)

2017 Hugo Award Finalist\s

(source Locus website)

Best Novel (2,078 nominating ballots)

• All the Birds in the Sky, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor; Titan

UK)

• A Closed and Common Orbit, Becky Chambers (Hodder &

Stoughton; Harper Voyager US)

• The Obelisk Gate, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

• Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris US; Solaris UK)

• Death’s End, Cixin Liu (Tor; Head of Zeus)

• Too Like the Lightning, Ada Palmer (Tor)

Best Novella (1,410)

• Penric and the Shaman, Lois McMaster Bujold (Spectrum

Literary Agency)

• The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe, Kij Johnson (Tor.com

Publishing)

• The Ballad of Black Tom, Victor LaValle (Tor.com

Publishing)

• Every Heart a Doorway, Seanan McGuire (Tor.com

Publishing)

• This Census-Taker, China Miéville (Del Rey; Picador)

• A Taste of Honey, Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com

Publishing)

Best Novelette (1,097)

• “The Art of Space Travel”, Nina Allan (Tor.com 7/27/16)

• “Touring with the Alien”, Carolyn Ives Gilman

(Clarkesworld 4/16)

• Alien Stripper Boned from Behind by the T-Rex, Stix

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Best Graphic Story (842)

• Black Panther, Volume 1: A Nation Under Our Feet, Ta-

Nehisi Coates, art by Brian Stelfreeze (Marvel)

• The Vision, Volume 1: Little Worse Than A Man, Tom

King, art by Gabriel Hernandez Walta (Marvel)

• Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening, Marjorie Liu, art by

Sana Takeda (Image)

• Paper Girls, Volume 1, Brian K. Vaughan, art by Cliff

Chiang (Image)

• Saga, Volume 6, Brian K. Vaughan, art by Fiona Staples

(Image)

• Ms. Marvel, Volume 5: Super Famous, G. Willow Wilson,

art by Takeshi Miyazawa, Adrian Alphona & Nico Leon

(Marvel)

Best Dramatic Presentation — Long (1,733)

• Arrival

• Deadpool

• Ghostbusters

• Hidden Figures

• Rogue One

• Stranger Things, Season One

Best Dramatic Presentation — Short (1,159)

• Black Mirror: “San Junipero”

• Doctor Who: “The Return of Doctor Mysterio”

• The Expanse: “Leviathan Wakes”

• Game of Thrones: “Battle of the Bastards”

• Game of Thrones: “The Door”

• Splendor & Misery

Best Professional Editor Short Form (951)

• John Joseph Adams

• Neil Clarke

• Ellen Datlow

• Jonathan Strahan

• Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas

• Sheila Williams

Best Professional Editor Long Form (752)

• Vox Day

• Sheila E. Gilbert

• Liz Gorinsky

• Devi Pillai

• Miriam Weinberg

• Navah Wolfe

Best Professional Artist (817)

• Galen Dara

• Julie Dillon

• Chris McGrath

• Victo Ngai

• John Picacio

• Sana Takeda

Best Semiprozine (857)

• Beneath Ceaseless Skies

• Cirsova Heroic Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine

• GigaNotoSaurus

• Strange Horizons

• Uncanny Magazine

• The Book Smugglers

Best Fanzine (610)

• Castalia House Blog

• Journey Planet

• Lady Business

• nerds of a feather, flock together

• Rocket Stack Rank

• SF Bluestocking

Best Fancast (690)

• The Coode Street Podcast

• Ditch Diggers

• Fangirl Happy Hour

• Galactic Suburbia

• The Rageaholic

• Tea & Jeopardy

Best Fan Writer (802)

• Mike Glyer

• Jeffro Johnson

• Natalie Luhrs

• Foz Meadows

• Abigail Nussbaum

• Chuck Tingle

Best Fan Artist (528)

• Ninni Aalto

• Vesa Lehtimäki

(Continued on page 4)

• Likhain (M. Sereno)

• Spring Schoenhuth

• Steve Stiles

• Mansik Yang

Best Series (1,393)

• The Craft Sequence, Max Gladstone (Tor)

• The Expanse, James S.A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

• The October Daye Books, Seanan McGuire (DAW; Corsair)

• The Peter Grant/Rivers of London series, Ben Aaronovitch

(Gollancz; Del Rey; DAW; Subterranean)

• The Temeraire series, Naomi Novik (Del Rey; Harper

Voyager UK)

• The Vorkosigan Saga, Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen)

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer [Not a Hugo

Award] (933)

• Sarah Gailey

• J. Mulrooney

• *Malka Older

• Ada Palmer

• *Laurie Penny

• *Kelly Robson

• Finalists in their 2nd year of eligibility.

The awards will be presented at Worldcon 75 in Helsenki,

Finland.

Final voting for the Hugo Awards will close on July 15, 2017.

The Bram Stoker Awards

The Horror Writers Association announced the winners of the

2016 Bram Stoker Awards® on April 29 at StokerCon in Long

Beach, CA.

Superior Achievement in a Novel

• John Langan, – The Fisherman (Word Horde)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel

• Tom Deady – Haven (Cemetery Dance Publications)

(Continued from page 3)

Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel

• Maria Alexander – Snowed (Raw Dog Screaming Press)

Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel

• James Chambers, – Kolchak the Night Stalker: The

Forgotten Lore of Edgar Allan Poe (Moonstone)

Superior Achievement in Long Fiction

• Tim Waggoner, Tim – The Winter Box (DarkFuse)

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction

• Joyce Carol Oates – The Crawl Space (Ellery Queen Mystery

Magazine Volume #2016/Issue#8) (Dell Magazines)

Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection

• Joyce Carol Oates – The Doll-Master and Other Tales of

Terror (Mysterious Press)

Superior Achievement in a Screenplay

• Robert Eggers – The VVitch (Parts and Labor, RT Features,

Rooks Nest Entertainment, Code Red Productions, Scythia

Films, Maiden Voyage Pictures, Mott Street Pictures, Pulse

Films, and Very Special Projects)

Superior Achievement in an Anthology

• Thomas F. Monteleone, and Olivia Monteleone,. –

Borderlands 6 (Samhain Publishing, Ltd.)

Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction

• Ruth Franklin – Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life

(Liveright Publishing Corporation)

Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection

• Stephanie M. Wytovich, – Brothel (Raw Dog Screaming

Press)

Other HWA Awards

Mentor of the Year Award

• Linda Addison

Silver Hammer Award

• James Chambers

Specialty Press Award

• Kate Jonez of Omnium Gatherum

Lifetime Achievement Award

• Dennis Etchison

• Thomas F. Monteleone

(Continued on page 6)

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the steampunk writer Gail Carriger’s book series.

Her newest is Poison and Protect.

Arthur is also watching Agents of SHIELD but has

not started watching the new arc. He did like the last

arc, the Life Model Decoy. The new Doctor Who

will start next week, as well as its spin-off, Class.

Tom mentioned the new MST3K. An Orlando

International Fringe Festival puppeteer is working

on the show. He says the production and writing

values are up.

Ken saw Ghost in the Shell and Power Rangers and

gave them good reviews.

Patty saw Silent Sky, a play at Rollins Theater. It

was about an American female astronomer who

discovered how to measure the distance between the

stars. Patty also read One Damn Thing After

Another by Jodi Taylor. It was funny and clever.

Dave Ratti recommended The Amazing Race

television series.

Book Discussion The book was Rampage by Michele Cook and John

Sandford

Ken summarized the book: a company is developing

cybernetically muscle to help wounded veterans.

The company is also transferring minds into

unwilling subjects. A performance artist is fighting

this company. The artist runs a hotel for wayward

teens. They are fighting against the company any

way they can.

Steve thought it was not SF, but more a near- future

thriller. Characters were not well defined.and there

was too much coincidence for the plot to work, he

said.

There was some confusion about which book to

read, but Juan also read the third book of the series,

which begins with Uncaged and continues with

Outrage. It was easy to get into the book, he

thought, and the writers did a good job summing up

(Continued on page 6)

Ken offered his place for a future meeting. Juan said

they will consider it after OASIS 29.

Problems with the website are being looked into.

Announcement

Worldcon 75 announced Hugo finalists on April 4.

Juan mentioned some of the finalists. All the

finalists will be listed in the next Event Horizon.

Becky Chambers, a 2017 Hugo Finalist for Best

Novel, will be at the Waterford Barnes and Noble

on Friday April 14.

Treasurer’s Report

(Numbers are rounded off).

?Is there a report?

Convention

Juan asked that Convention attendees please book

hotel rooms by April 29th.

He is working on the schedule and hopes to have a

draft by the end of the week.

He will ask Peggy Dave’s questions about rooms

near the Con Suite.

Juan ask for recommendations for t-shirt colors with

Tom’s Con insignia. Meeting members agreed on a

heathered gray.

Arthur is working on theVideo Room schedule.

Juan will try to get the Program Book material to

Tom by the end of April.

Culture Consumed

Juan liked the movies your name, Get Out, Ghost in

the Shell, and Iron Fist. He also recommended the

novels Everfair by Nisi Shawl and The Stars are

Legion.by Kameron Hurley.

Steve is watching the television shows Time After

Time and Agents of SHIELD. He also recommended

Letters of Comment

06-24 Eva Rd.

Etobicoke, ON

CANADA M9C 2B2

April 16, 2017

Dear OASFiSians:

Thanks kindly for Event Horizon 352. This will

probably be a fast letter, seeing as the three-day Easter

weekend is drawing to a close. Let’s see what I can

do…

Hugos…still pleased that Steve Stiles won the Hugo

for Best Fan Artist. He’s been drawing in fanzines and

comics for decades, and he was one of the few names

I recognized on the ballot. I guess we will see the next

Hugo ballot soon, but I expect not to know anyone on

it. Time marches on, and I simply have not been able

to keep up with all the changes going on.

One way with keeping with literary fandom is

podcasts. The Coode Street Podcast, The Fangirl

Happy Hour, The Skiffy and Fanty Show, and

Galactic Suburbia are shows that discuss issues in the

literary science fiction world. The all mention what

books and writers to look out for.

My letter…only recently have downloads been

available for reading for the Best Novel Aurora. I

rarely have the time to read to vote, so I usually only

vote in the Fan Aurora categories. My love of reading

is fading somewhat, and I find more and more I need

things to do at conventions. I won’t just pay my way

in, sit down, shut up and listen to the readings, there

has to be more than that for me. I prefer to participate,

and if I can’t, I just socialize.

Next weekend is the first of the big conventions this

season in the Toronto area, CostumeCon 35, in the

next-door city of Mississauga. It’s a five-day

convention, but the real convention is in the middle

three days. It will also be three full days of the dealers

room for us. Anyone from Orlando and area coming

up, or did everyone spend their money at the Star

Wars event?

I was not able to make Star Wars Celebration because

of the Easter holiday. I did it a few years ago and

there were some good fan run and non-actor panels. It

was packed from what I hear. They also have great

badge art.

Take care, all…see you next issue.

Yours, Lloyd Penney.

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The Arthur C. Clarke Award

The six shortlisted books for the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best

science fiction novel of the year published in 2016 are:

A Closed and Common Orbit – Becky Chambers (Hodder &

Stoughton)

Ninefox Gambit – Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris)

After Atlas – Emma Newman (Roc)

Occupy Me – Tricia Sullivan (Gollancz)

Central Station – Lavie Tidhar (PS Publishing)

The Underground Railroad – Colson Whitehead (Fleet)

(Continued from page 4)

the previous novels.

Meeting adjourned at 3PM.

Next month’s meeting, we will focus on the

Convention.

(Continued from page 5)

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40 Years of Star Wars

Star Wars was always fun. It was a story of good

versus evil with some depth. Good had to face the darkness in

themselves and deal with it. That was mixed in with space battles

and alien worlds. You had the films and you could get stuff from

the films whether they be action figures, models, or mock-up of

the props. You could always have a part of Star Wars.

Star Wars came out of the theater and into the home for

first time via the Marvel comic adaptation. Every month you got

to go galaxy far far away. At the time, I realized the comic could

not deal with the big plot points like Vader’s identity, but you got

to have some adventures until the next movie came out. One my

favorite stories was called “The Last Jedi”. I thought we were

going to get some information of what happen to the Jedi. The

story was not that but a compelling tale of an alien who passed up

the chance to be Jedi to protect a prince of a planetary kingdom.

While protecting the prince this would-be Jedi was injured, but

continued to serve his prince as best he could and later helped

Luke and Leia. This story really felt like Star Wars.

If you were a kid at the time, The Star Wars Holiday

Special was fun. It was Star Wars on TV. You did not realize

how goofy the variety show acts were and you saw a Star Wars

cartoon. You hoped there would be more or that it would be

shown again. Instead the show was wiped from history. Looking

at it again as an adult you saw the problems with it. Its attempts

of comedy were cringe worthy and they should have picked

better names for Chewbacca’s son and father (Itchy and

Lumpy!!!!???). The TV producers should have focused on an

adventure on the Wookie homeworld.

The next time Star Wars left the theater was a success,

the NPR radio adaptation. The first film was made into a 13-part

(half hour) radio show. Mixed in with the movie’s story you got

hear what Luke’s life on Tattoine was like, Leia’s involvement in

the Rebellion on Alderaan, and Han’s dealings with Jabba. The

show had the music and sound effects from the film. NPR then

adapted The Empire Strikes Back into a 10-part series. Sadly,

due to funding cuts there was no adaptation of Return of the

Jedi, but it was fun to have Star Wars in my home on regular

basis.

After the Marvel comic was cancelled in 1987, the next

big Star Wars item were the novels. There were novels before

based on the adventures of Han Solo, and Lando Calrissain. The

Splinter of the Mind’s Eye came out after the first film. There

something different when Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn

came out in 1991. It was a continuation of the saga after Return

of the Jedi. Zahn introduced new characters and the Galactic

capital planet Coruscant. The tale of our old friends in the New

Republic facing the complex plans of Grand Admiral Thrawn

was gripping. Star Wars had come back.

When the prequels came back I was excited. They were

not perfect. They should have developed Padme a bit more in the

films particularly the third one and maybe tone down some Jar

Jar’s annoying behavior. The films felt like Star Wars, though a

different type. I think the disappointment some people felt was

that these films were never as good as those we made in our

heads. The films set the stage for Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

This animated television show filled in the gap between Episodes

II and III and gave people what they felt the prequels were

lacking. They added depth to the characters and did stories you

would not expect in the Star Wars universe. There were political

thrillers, mystery, horror, and war stories that focused on toll the

conflict takes on those are fighting it. The prequels gave us this a

new look into the universe.

We now live in an era of abundance. With Disney

owning Star Wars, there will be a film every year. The makers of

Star Wars: The Clone Wars are working on the successful Star

Wars: Rebels series. Established science fiction writers like

Chuck Wendig are writing new novels. Marvel, also owned by

Disney, is making the comics again. These new projects provide

what we expect from Star Wars. They give us interesting

characters with some depth mixed with harrowing adventures.

Thank you, Star Wars, for all the fun you have given us

these 40 years. May the Force be with you.

OASFiS

P.O. Box 592905

ORLANDO, FL 32859-2905

Joe Fan

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