March - OASFiS

Volume 27 Number 10 Issue 328
A WORD FROM THE EDITOR
Great Month. Two fannish events and Neil Gaiman and
Amanda Palmer were in Tampa. See Pictures.
Please note that some of the Nebula short fiction
nominees may be available online. Please check Oasfis
Convention on Facebook or OasisCon on Twitter for links to the
stories.
Next month pictures from ICFA. And the picnic.
Events
Jacksonville Anime Day
March 7
Embassy Suites Jacksonville
9300 Baymeadows Road
Jacksonville, Florida, 32256
$5 admission
www.jacksonville.animeday.net/
Comic Book Connection
March 7-8
Ramada Inn
9150 Baymeadows Road
Jacksonville, Florida, 32256
$10Admission
thecomicbookconnection.com
ALT*Con
March 14-15
North Florida Fairgrounds
441 Paul Russell Road
Tallahassee, FL 3201
Guests: Nicholas Brendon (Xander, Buffy)
Theshay West (actor, The Walking Dead)
Patrick Barnitt(actor, Star Trek:Voyager)
Moses Moseley (actor, The Walking Dead)
Greg Crews (actor The Walking Dead)
$10 per day or $15 for the weekend
Students $8 per day or $12 for the weekend
www.altconflorida.com
March 2015
ICFA 36 (professional conference)
March 18-22
Orlando Airport Marriott, Orlando, Florida
Guest of Honor: James Morrow
Guest of Honor: Joan Slonczewski
Guest Scholar: Craig Milburn
Special Guest Emeritus : Brain Aldiss
www.fantastic-arts.org/
Comic Book Connection
March 21-22
Holiday Inn & Suites
5905 Kirkman Road
Orlando, FL
$10 Admission
thecomicbookconnection.com
Geek Fest Florida
March 21-22
Florida Atlantic University
Grand Palm Room
777 Glades Palm Road
Boca Raton, FL 33431
Guests: Gonzalo Mayo (comic book artist)
Cindy Morgan (actress, Tron)
And more
$11 per day, $5 per day
www.geekfestflorida.com
Tampa Anime Day
March 28
Embassy Suites Tampa—Brandon
10220 Palm River Road
Tampa, FL, 33619
$4 admission
www.tampa.animeday.net
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OASFiS People
March OASFiS Calendar
OASFiS Business Meeting
Sunday, March 8, 1:30 PM, , Brick and Fire Pasta and
Pizza Parlor (Downtown Orlando, 1621 South Orange Ave
Orlando, Florida 32806) Come join us as we discuss A
Thousand Words for Stranger by Julie Czerneda
SciFi Light
TBD
Susan Cole
Arthur Dykeman
Steve Grant
OASFiS Picnic
Sunday, March 29 12:30 PM, Lake Downey Park
(10107 Flowers Avenue Orlando, Florida 32825). Pavilion
1 Come and have some fun.
To contact for more info:
OASFiS Business Meeting
Steve Cole
407-823-8715
February 8, 2015
Officers: Peggy Stubblefield, Kim Darin, Juan Sanmiguel
Members: Arthur Dykeman, Tom Reed
Guest: Ken Konkol
Peggy contacted Julie Czerneda about travel arrangements. Jay
contacted Julie at Chattacon.
We will have the meet and greet on Thursday before the
convention.
We will have the picnic. Peggy will get the hamburgers and hot
dogs. Juan will get the ice and ask Susan if he can borrow the
tubs.
We need to update the guest section on the remaining guests.
Juan needs to talk to Jarrod Cooper and Paul Bradford.
We briefly discussed the types of MP3 recorders and how to
handle fleas on pets.
Juan will find out sharing the hotel with that weekend. Juan is
considering inviting anime group to the con.
We considered books for March. We decided to read A
Thousand Words for Stanger by J ulie Czerneda.
Email blast about website updates.
Juan will email will get a feel of how many of con staff are
interested in the Brazilian restaurant for the GOH meet and greet
dinner.
We discussed books for the picnic and charity auction.
Juan will send out email about program plan meeting.
Tom showed a sample of club flyer. He will send Juan a jpg
version of the flyer and send it out to the membership. Juan gave
Mike Pilletere
David Ratti
Juan Sanmiguel
Patricia Wheeler
407-275-5211
stevepcole@hotmail.com
407-275-5211
sacole@mindspring.com
407-328-9565
adykeman@bellsouth.net
352 241 0670
stevegrant@embarqmail.com
mike-sf@2webbedfeet.net
407-282-2468
dratti@eudoramail.com
407-823-8715
sanmiguel@earthlink.net
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.
Tom all of his pictures on his laptop.
Ken won the raffle a Totoro puzzle. He gave it to Arthur.
We discussed the works of Vonda McIntyre, one of the guest sof
honor at this years Worldcon. Juan talked about The Moon and
Sun. It is about a F rench brother and sister who find a
mermaid. The mermaid will be give to Louis XIV to be eaten
because this will make him immortal. The sister realizes the
mermaid is sentient and tries to free it. Kim talked about
Dreamsnake. It was about a healer who used snakes to heal
people. The time it took place was ambiguous. Juan said it took
place after a nuclear war. Kim remembered some references in
the book that implied a nuclear war. She enjoyed the book. Juan
discussed the Star Trek novels by McIntyre . She gave Sulu a
first name in the novel The Entropy Effect. It would be official in
Star Trek VI. J uan also commented that she added details to
her novelizations of Star Trek II, III and IV notably a
relationship with David Marcus and Saavik.
Meeting adjourned.
Letters
1706-24 Eva Rd.
Etobicoke, ON
CANADA M9C 2B2
February 19, 2015
Dear OASFiSians:
Many thanks for issue 327 of the Event Horizon. Time is short,
so this may have to be a fast loc.
The Lord of the Rings trilogy of movies was marvelous fun, a
great adventure, and a great tale well told. I wish The Hobbit
movie trilogy had been the same. I never saw the last two movies
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The 2013Nebula Awards nominees
(source Locus & SFWA website)
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America announced
the nominees for the 2014 Nebula Awards (presented 2015), the
nominees for the Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic
Presentation, and the nominees for the Andre Norton Award for
Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy Book. The winners
will be announced at SFWA’s 50th Annual Nebula Awards
Weekend, to be held on June 4– 7, 2015 at the Palmer House
Hilton in Chicago, Illinois .
Novel
The Goblin Emperor, Katherine Addison (Tor)
Trial by Fire, Charles E. Gannon (Baen)
Ancillary Sword, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu ( ), translated by Ken Liu
(Tor)
March 2015
“The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family,”
Usman T. Malik (Qualia Nous)
“A Stretch of Highway Two Lanes Wide,” Sarah Pinsker (F&SF
3-4/14)
“Jackalope Wives,” Ursula Vernon (Apex 1/7/14)
“The Fisher Queen,” Alyssa Wong (F&SF 5/14)
Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic
Presentation
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), Written by
Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris,
Jr. & Armando Bo (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Screenplay by
Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely (Walt Disney Studios
Motion Pictures)
Coming Home, Jack McDevitt (Ace)
Edge of Tomorrow, Screenplay by Christopher McQuarrie and
Jez Butterworth and John-Henry Butterworth (Warner Bros.
Pictures)
Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer (FSG Originals; Fourth Estate;
HarperCollins Canada)
Guardians of the Galaxy, Written by J ames Gunn and Nicole
Perlman (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
Novella
Interstellar, Written by J onathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan
(Paramount Pictures)
We Are All Completely Fine, Daryl Gregory (Tachyon)
Yesterday’s Kin, Nancy Kress (Tachyon)
“The Regular,” Ken Liu (Upgraded)
The Lego Movie, Screenplay by Phil Lord & Christopher
Miller (Warner Bros. Pictures)
“The Mothers of Voorhisville,” Mary Rickert (Tor.com 4/30/14)
Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and
Fantasy
Calendrical Regression, Lawrence M. Schoen (NobleF usion)
Unmade, Sarah Rees Brennan (Random House)
“Grand Jeté (The Great Leap),” Rachel Swirsky (Subterranean
Summer ’14)
Salvage, Alexandra Duncan (Greenwillow)
Love Is the Drug, Alaya Dawn Johnson (Levine)
Novelette
Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future, A.S. King (Little,
Brown)
“Sleep Walking Now and Then,” Richard Bowes (Tor.com
7/9/14)
Dirty Wings, Sarah McCarry (St. Martin’s Griffin)
“The Magician and Laplace’s Demon,” Tom Crosshill
(Clarkesworld 12/14)
“A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai’i,” Alaya Dawn Johnson (F&SF
7-8/14)
“The Husband Stitch,” Carmen Maria Machado (Granta #129)
“We Are the Cloud,” Sam J. Miller (Lightspeed 9/14)
“The Devil in America,” Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com 4/2/14)
Short Story
“The Breath of War,” Aliette de Bodard (Beneath Ceaseless
Skies 3/6/14)
“When It Ends, He Catches Her,” Eugie Foster (Daily Science
Fiction 9/26/14)
“The Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye,” Matthew Kressel
(Clarkesworld 5/14)
Greenglass House, Kate Milford (Clarion)
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender, Leslye
Walton (Candlewick)
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of the three, and I don't care to. I always go back to the book,
anyway.
My letter...our next convention is Ad Astra 2015 north of
Toronto. We hope to have some spring by that time. In a few
days is the attempt to get tables at two major conventions in our
area, so wish us luck.
I always enjoy the photos of costumes and cosplayers in this
zine. It's great to see such creativity, and it's visible right in front
of you. (I admit I am biased...Yvonne and I used compete in
Worldcon masquerades as far back as the early 80s.)
All for now...I was going to say stay warm, but your part of
Florida has been the only warm part of the entire continent this
winter. See you with the next issue.
Yours, Lloyd Penney.
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for Young Readers
All Those Broken Angels, Peter Adam Salomon (Flux)
Superior Achievement in Long Fiction
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“The Infected“, Taylor Grant (Cemetery Dance #71)
“Dreams of a Little Suicide”, Eric J. Guignard (Hell Comes
to Hollywood II)
“Fishing for Dinosaurs“, Joe R. Lansdale (Limbus, Inc.,
Book II)
“Three Guys Walk Into a Bar“, Jonathan Maberry (Limbus,
Inc., Book II)
“Lost and Found“, Joe McKinney (Limbus, Inc., Book II)
Superior Achievement in Short Fiction
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“Hot Tub“, Hal Bodner (Hell Comes to Hollywood II)
“Baby’s Breath“, Sydney Leigh (Bugs: Tales That Slither,
Creep, and Crawl)
“The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family“,
Usman T. Malik (Qualia Nous)
“Ruminations“, Rena Mason (Qualia Nous)
“Splinterette“, John Palisano (Widowmakers: A Benefit
Anthology of Dark Fiction)
“The Floating Girls: A Documentary“, Damien Angelica
Walters (Jamais V u #3)
The Horror Writers Association (HWA) is pleased to announce
the Final Ballot for the 2014 Bram Stoker Awards®. The HWA
(see www.horror.org ) is the premiere writers organization in the
horror and dark fiction genre, with nearly 1000 members. We
have presented the Bram Stoker Awards in various categories
since 1987 (see http://www.horror.org/stokers.htm ).
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Congratulations yo OASIS GOH David Gerrold and OASIS
guest Bruce Boston and Marge Simon on their nominations.
Superior Achievement in an Anthology
Superior Achievement in a Novel
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Suffer the Children, Cr aig DiLouie (Galler y)
Jade Sky, Patr ick Fr eivald (J our nalStone)
Beautiful You, Chuck Palahniuk (J onathan Cape/
Vintage)
The Vines, Chr istopher Rice (47Nor th)
Blood Kin, Steve Rasnic Tem (Solar is)
Superior Achievement in a First Novel
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Mr. Wicker, Mar ia Alexander (Raw Dog Scr eaming)
Forsaken, J .D. Bar ker (Hampton Cr eek)
Consumed, David Cr onenber g (Scr ibner )
Return of the Mothman, Michael Knost (Woodland)
Bird Box, J osh Maler man (Har per Collins)
Superior Achievement in a YA Novel
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Intentional Haunting, J ake Bible (Per muted)
Phoenix Island, J ohn Dixon (Galler y)
Unmarked, Kami Gar cia (Little, Br own Books for Young
Readers)
Passionaries, Tonya Hur ley (Simon & Schuster Books
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Qualia Nous, Michael Bailey, ed. (Wr itten Backwar ds)
A Darke Phantastique, J ason V Br ock, ed. (Cycatr ix)
Fearful Symmetries, Ellen Datlow, ed. (ChiZine)
Burnt Tongues, Chuck Palahniuk, Richar d Thomas, &
Dennis Widmyer, eds. (Medallion)
Limbus, Inc., Book II, Br ett J . Talley, ed. (J our nalStone)
Superior Achievement in a Collection
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After the People Lights Have Gone Off, Stephen Gr aham
Jones (Dark House)
Little by Little, J ohn R. Little (Bad Moon)
Gifts for the One Who Comes After, Helen Mar shall
(ChiZine)
Soft Apocalypses, Lucy Snyder (Raw Dog Scr eaming)
The End in All Beginnings, J ohn F.D. Taff (Gr ey Matter )
Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction
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Disorders of Magnitude, J ason V Br ock (Rowman &
Littlefield)
Lovecraft and a World in Transition, S.T. J oshi
(Hippocampus)
The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft, Leslie S. Klinger
(Liveright)
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Horror 101: The Way Forward, J oe Mynhar dt & Emma
Audsley (Crystal Lake)
Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A
Writer’s Survival Guide, Lucy Snyder (Post Mortem)
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Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection
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Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel
Fearworms: Selected Poems, Rober t Payne Cabeen
(Fanboy Comics)
Venus Intervention, Cor r inne De Winter & Alessandr o
Manzetti (Kipple Officina Libraria)
Forgiving Judas, Tom Piccir illi (Cr ossr oad)
Sweet Poison, Mar ge Simon & Mar y Tur zillo (Dar k
Renaissance)
Mourning Jewelry, Stephanie Wytovich (Raw Dog
Screaming)
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Through the Woods, Emily Car r oll (McElder r y)
Locke and Key: Vol. 6: Alpha and Omega, J oe Hill &
Gabrielle Rodriguez (IDW)
I Tell You It’s Love, J oe R. Lansdale & Daniele Ser r a
(Short, Scary Tales)
Bad Blood, Jonathan Maberry & Tyler Crook (Dark Horse)
The Witcher, Paul Tobin (Dar k Hor se)
Superior Achievement in a Screenplay
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American Horror Story: Coven: “The Magical Delights of
Stevie Nicks”
The Babadook
Doctor Who: “Listen”
Penny Dreadful: “Séance”
The Walking Dead: “The Grove”
Swampcon
Clockwise starting on the upper left . Jean Louis Jabouin and Shane Morawski of Propeller Anime,
The Cosplay Empowerment Panel, OASIS Fan GOH Michael Hinman discussing Star Trek, Catwoman,
San from the anime film Princess Mononoke, REO Speedwagon, a character I do not know (from a future
iteration from the show) and Kakyoin from manga/anime series Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure, a female droog
inspired from A Clockwork Orange
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Leonard Nimoy
question asked was what was Nimoy's favorite color.
He was great in other roles. In the remake of The Outer Limits
episode "I, Robot" (based on a short story by Otto Binder), he
played the lead role of a lawyer defending a robot accused of
Trek was probably my first fandom. As I have said
murdering its creator. Nimoy was in the original episode in
before, when I heard Star Trek won a Hugo Award, I looked up
other things that won Hugos. Star Trek was my gateway to wider another role. He was brillantly snarky in that role. It must have
been cool since he was directed by his son, Adam. He was fun to
world of Science Fiction and Fantasy. The show would not be
around if it was not for the character of Spock. Leonard Nimoy watch as William Bell in Fringe. When he was acting with John
Noble, it was magic. I listened to a recording of Nimoy reading
made an alien role a believable character. Spock told us we
Robert A. Heinlein's "Gentlemen, Please Be Seated". He
were in space and the future. He taught us that the other does
conveyed the sense of wonder that story contained.
not need to be feared.
I got to see him speak twice. The first time I asked him
a question. It was at Vulkon in Orlando. I asked why did he not
hire James Horner for Star Trek IV. He just said Horner was
unavilable and said sometimes they change the score
composer. I was a bit disappointed since I always thought the
score for Star Trek IV was lacking and hoping for a better
explaination. In 2009, Nimoy was at FX. I wanted to ask him if
he a favorite episode of Mission: Impossible, but I lost my
nerve. I thought it was a frivolous question despite the first
This is a downer. We have lost a great man. I was hoping to see
him with the rest of the surviving original cast celebrating the
50th Anniversary of Star Trek next year.
Thank you sir for the all the joy you brought me and the
incredible world you introduced to me.
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Academy Awards
(source W ikipedia entry)
Speculative Fiction winners
Editor’s Note
I did not include Birdman (or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) awards
since the speculative nature of the film is questionable.
Best Animated Feature Film
Big Hero 6
Best Animated Short
Feast
Best Visual Effects
Interstellar
Around Florida
Left to Right:
Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer at the Tampa Theater
A Phantom Stranger (DC Comics) cosplay at Sci-Fi Day in Bartow
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