Volume 29 Number 10 Issue 351 March 2017

OASFiS Event Horizon Vol 29 Issue 351 March 2017. 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 represent the opinions of the Society or its members as a whole.

Events

Infinity Con

March 3-4

Florida Gateway College

Howard Conference Center

149 SE College Place

Lake City, FL 32025

Guests: Martin Pierro (Indie Publisher)

Michael Koske (actor, The Walking Dead)

501st Legion

and others.

$15 for the weekend, $10 per day

infinityconfl.com

Omni Expo

March 3-5

Florida Hotel and Convention Center

1500 Sand Lake Road

Orlando, FL 32809

Guests: Chris Rager (voice actor)

Josh Martin (voice actor)

Leslie Wilkerson (voice actor)

Paul St. Peter (voice actor)

Brian Muir (Film Industry Sculptor)

Rob Sims (voice actor)

Tiffany Ciper (webcomic artist)

And others

$50 at the door for weekend

www.omniexpo.com

A WORD FROM THE EDITOR

Great Month. I went to SyFy Bartow and saw friends

from Stone Hill.

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 with luck a

review.

Infinity Toy and Comic Con

March 4

Holiday Inn

1724 N. Alafaya Trail

Orlando, Florida 32826

Guests: Chuck Dixon (comic book writer)

Roland Mann (comic book writer)

Barry Gregory (comic book writer)

Javier Lugo (comic book artist)

Dimitri Diatchenko (actor)

$8 admission

www.infinitytoyandcomicon.com

Ultracon

March 4

Universal Palms Hotel

4900 Powerline Road

Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309

$10 admission

www.ultraconofsouthflorida.com/

Florida Anime Experience

March 10-12

Park Inn by Radisson Resort and Conference Center

3011 Maingate Lane

Kissimmee, Florida

Guests: Amanda Miller (voice actor)

Cherami Leight (voice actor)

Christina Vee (voice actor)

Kate Higgins (voice actor)

Stephanie Sheh (voice actor)

$45 for 3 days at the door, $20 Fri and Sun, $25 Sat

www.floridaanime.com

Hero Hype

March 11

Miami Airport Convention Center

711 NW 72nd Ave

Miami, FL 33126

$10 admission

www.herohype.com

March OASFiS Calendar

OASFiS Business Meeting Sunday, March 12, 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 Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson SciFi Light

TBD

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@2webbedfeet.net 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. Any of these people can give readers information about the club and its functions. To be included in the list call Juan.

medical attention.

Treasurer’s Report

(Numbers are rounded off).

Primary checking: $7300

PayPal account: $4400

Money in for 2017 $194

Hotel has deposit.

We need to get GOH of tickets and per diem.

Convention

Juan has asked David Plesic to do Dealers room

layout.

Juan sent out invites to guests. Needs to contact two

more.

We need to do a new email blast.

Juan is asking someone to run the Chili Cook off.

The next Con Com meeting is Feb 26.

Peggy recommended ice cream for the end of the con.

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OASFiS Meeting 2/12/2017

Officers: Juan Sanmiguel, Tom Reed, Peggy

Stubblefield

Members: Ed Anthony, Arthur Dykeman, Ed Meskys,

Sandra Meskys

Club Business

We are looking at dates for spring picnic. April has a

lot of cons. April 2 and the April 30 are open. We

decided on April 2. Juan will check by email with the

other members. If it looks good we will reserve our

traditional pavilion.

Juan said we will met at Brick and Fire at least till

June. Peggy and Juan discussed possible more

meetings in the library. Our library contact Sarah Fisk

says that as long our meetings are public, we can get

the room for free.

Gods and Monsters is opening in its new location on

February 25. Juan will be there to hand out

newsletters and flyers.

SyFy Bartow and Time Lord Fest will be going on

February 18 & February 19 respectively.

Swampcon was smaller but interesting. There were

some talks on writing and cosplay.

The Last Starfighter will be at the Enzian on last

Sunday February 26.

ICFA is next month and the GOHs are N.K Jemisin

and Steven Erikson.

Dave Ratti is feeling better, though he needs to further

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‘‘Things With Beards’’, Sam J. Miller (Clarkesworld 6/16)

‘‘This Is Not a Wardrobe Door’’, A. Merc Rustad (Fireside

Magazine 1/16)

‘‘A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers’’,

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

‘‘Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay

Station│Hours Since the Last Patient Death: 0’’, Caroline

M. Yoachim (Lightspeed 3/16)

Bradbury

Arrival

Doctor Strange

Kubo and the Two Strings

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Westworld: ‘‘The Bicameral Mind’’

Zootopia

Norton

The Girl Who Drank the Moon, Kelly Barnhill

(Algonquin)

The Star-Touched Queen, Roshani Chokshi (St.

Martin’s)

The Lie Tree, Frances Hardinge (Macmillan UK;

Abrams)

Arabella of Mars, David D. Levine (Tor )

Railhead, Philip Reeve (Oxford University Press; Switch)

Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies, Lindsay Ribar (Dawson)

The Evil Wizard Smallbone, Delia Sher man

(Candlewick)

The 2016 Nebula Awards nominees

(source Locus & SFWA website)

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America announced

the nominees for the 2016 Nebula Awards (presented 2017), 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 51th Annual Nebula Awards

Weekend, to be held on May 18– 21, 2017 at the Pittsbirgh

Marriott City Center in Pittsburgh, PA.

Novel

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

Borderline, Mishell Baker (Saga)

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

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

Everfair, Nisi Shawl (Tor)

Novella

Runtime, S.B. Divya (Tor.com Publishing)

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)

‘‘The Liar’’, John P. Murphy (F&SF 3-4/16)

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

Publishing)

Novelette

‘‘The Long Fall Up’’, William Ledbetter (F&SF 5-6/16)

‘‘Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea’’, Sarah

Pinsker (Lightspeed 2/16)

‘‘Blood Grains Speak Through Memories’’, Jason Sanford

(Beneath Ceaseless Skies 3/17/16)

“The Orangery“, Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam (Beneath Ceaseless

Skies 12/8/16)

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

Publishing)

‘‘You’ll Surely Drown Here If You Stay’’, Alyssa Wong

(Uncanny 5-6/16)

Short Story

‘‘Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies’’, Brooke Bolander

(Uncanny 11-12/16)

‘‘Seasons of Glass and Iron’’, Amal El-Mohtar (The Starlit

Wood)

‘‘Sabbath Wine’’, Barbara Krasnoff (Clockwork Phoenix 5)

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2017 Stoker Award Nominees

(source Locus)

Superior Achievement in a Novel

Hard Light, Elizabeth Hand (Minotaur)

Mongrels, Stephen Graham Jones (William Morrow)

The Fisherman, John Langan (Word Horde)

Stranded, Bracken MacLeod (Tor)

Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, Paul Tremblay (William

Morrow)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel

The Apothecary’s Curse, Barbara Barnett (Pyr)

Hollow House, Greg Chapman (Omnium Gatherum)

Haven, Tom Deady (Cemetery Dance)

Mayan Blue, Michelle Garza & Melissa Lason (Sinister

Grin)

The Eighth, Stephanie M. Wytovich (Dark Regions)

Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel

Snowed, Maria Alexander (Raw Dog Screaming)

Last Days of Ston alAcademy, J ennifer Brozek (Ragnarok)

Holding Smoke, Elle Cosimano (Disney-Hyperion)

When They Fade, J eyn Roberts (Knopf)

The Telling, Alexandra Sirowy (Simon & Schuster)

Superior Achievement in Long Fiction

The Sadist’s Bible, Nicole Cushing (01Publishing)

“That Perilous Stuff”, Scott Edelman (Chiral Mad 3)

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

Publishing)

“The Jupiter Drop”, Josh Malerman (You, Human)

The Winter Box, Tim Waggoner (Darkfuse)

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction

“Time is a Face on the Water”, Michael Bailey (Borderlands

6)

“A Rift in Reflection”, Hal Bodner (Chiral Mad 3)

“The Bad Hour”, Christopher Golden (What the #@&% Is

That?)

“Arbeit Macht Frei”, Lisa Mannetti (Gutted: Beautiful

Horror Stories)

“The Crawl Space”, Joyce Carol Oates (Ellery Queen 9-

10/16)

Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection

Swift to Chase, Laird Barron (JournalStone)

A Long December, Richard Chizmar (Subterranean)

The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror, Joyce

Carol Oates (Mysterious)

Lethal Birds, Gene O’Neill (Omnium Gatherum)

American Nocturne, Hank Schwaeble (Cohesion)

Superior Achievement in an Anthology

Chiral Mad 3, Michael Bailey, ed. (Written Backwards)

The Beauty of Death, Alessandro Manzetti, ed.

(Independent Legions)

Borderlands 6, Oliva F . Monteleone & Thomas F.

Monteleone, eds. (Samhain)

Fright Mare – Women Write Horror, Billie Sue Mosiman,

ed. (self-published)

Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories, Doug Murano & D.

Alexander Ward, eds. (Crystal Lake)

Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction

Haunted, Leo Braudy (Yale University Press)

Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, Ruth Franklin

(Liveright)

Guillermo del Toro’s “The Devil’s Backbone” and “Pan’s

Labyrinth”, Danel P. Olson (Centipede)

In the Mountains of Madness, W. Scott Poole (Soft Skull)

Something in the Blood, David J . Skal (Liveright)

The Gothic Worlds of Peter Straub, John Tibbetts

(McFarland)

Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection

Sacrificial Nights, Bruce Boston & Alessandro Manzetti

(Kipple Officina Libraria)

Corona Obscura, Michael R. Collings (self-published)

Field Guide to the End of the World, J eannine Hall Gailey

(Moon City)

Small Spirits, Marge Simon (self-published)

Brothel, Stephanie M. Wytovich (Raw Dog Screaming)

Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel

Blood Feud, Cullen Bunn (Oni)

Kolchak the Night Stalker: The Forgotten Lore of Edgar

Allan Poe, J ames Chambers (Moonstone)

No Mercy: Volume 2, Alex de Campi (Image)

Outcast: Volume 3: This Little Light, Robert Kirkman

(Image)

The Steam Man, Mark Alan Miller & Joe R. Lansdale

(Dark Horse)

Providence: Act 1, Alan Moore (Avatar)

Superior Achievement in a Screenplay

Penny Dreadful: “A Blade of Grass”

Stranger Things: “The Upside Down”

Stranger Things: “The Vanishing of Will Byers”

10 Cloverfield Lane

The Witch

Active and lifetime HWA members are eligible to vote for

winners.

Winners will be honored April 29, 2017 at a gala held aboard

the Queen Mary in Long Beach CA during StokerCon. For more

information, see the HWA website..

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SyFy Bartow

Clockwise Starting on the upper left: Black Canary from DC Comics,

Mrs. Emma Peel, John Steed, and Batman 66, Steampunk soldier,

Starfleet officer from Star Trek, Gambit from the X-Men, The Time

Traveller and his machine from the 1960’s film The Time Machine, a

group of Power Rangers, The Eleventh Doctor, Rose Tyler, and Amy

Pond.

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Letters of Comment

1706-24 Eva Rd.

Etobicoke, ON

CANADA M9C 2B2

February 8, 2017

Dear OASFiSians:

Many thanks for issues 350 and 351 of the Event Horizon; time

to comment on all, and get myself caught up!

350…Juan, you are getting so busy! Editing this newsletter,

being the president of the club, and chairing the annual

convention next year. Don’t burn yourself out! It’s so easy to do.

That’s an impressive list of conventions coming up in Florida.

We don’t have as many up here, but some of us wonder aloud if

we have too many cons in Ontario. I’d wonder if some

conrunners and con attendees in Florida think the same thing.

My letter…cons may be reacting to inflation, but where once the

money for going to cons came out of your pocket, now we have

to save for them. Just this past weekend, we vended at a

convention in the town of Guelph, just to the northwest of

Toronto, and sales were very poor. Makes me wonder if for us,

cons are not the way to go, but craft shows are. We have costume

jewelry that the average person has never seen, but the average

con-goer may have seen too much of. I hope there will be another

Worldcon for us to go to, but where we are, and given how

Worldcon cities certainly are now around the world, I doubt it

will happen.

351…please give Pat Sims a hug for us. It’s been a long time

since we’ve seen her. For me, something strange has happened…

Peter Capaldi, the current Doctor Who, who said as a child, he

always wanted to be the Doctor, has announced he will be

leaving the show. Can anyone explain to me why? He made a

dream come true, why would he want to leave? Perhaps dreams

are better dreamt then realized?

It seems three years is right now the average for an actor playing

the Doctor. I get the impression in Britain, as an actor you move

on after a certain point rather stay with something for a long

time. I could be wrong about this.

I know that CostumeCon has been in Florida at least several

times, but this year, it’s our turn, again! CostumeCon 35 comes

up April 20-24 in nearby Mississauga, Ontario. Anyone planning

to come up and join us? Penney’s Steampunk General Store will

be in the dealers’ room.

Time to go, get this going, and get on to the long list of things to

do. I like making these long lists, but I’ve got to find someone to

do the things on the list while I relax… Take care, and see you

next issue.

Yours, Lloyd Penney.

Melbourne Toy and Comic Con

March 19

Melbourne Auditorium

625 E. Hibiscus Blvd

Melbourne, FL 32901

Guest: Roland Mann (comic book writer)

Barry Gregory (comic book writer)

$10 Admission

www.melbournetoyandcomiccon.com

ICFA 38 (professional conference)

March 22-26

Orlando Airport Marriott,

Orlando, Florida

Guest of Honor: Steven Erickson

Guest of Honor: N.K. Jemisin

Guest Scholar: Edward James

Special Guest Emeritus : Brain Aldiss

www.fantastic-arts.org/

Collective Con

March 24-26

Morocco Shrine Auditorium

3800 St. Johns Bluff Road

Jacksonville, Florida

Guest: Millie Bobby Brown (Elle, Stranger Things)

Noah Schapp (Will, Stranger Things)

Margot Kidder (Lois Lane, Superman I-IV)

Johnny Yong Bosch (voce actor)

Graham McTavish (actor)

Jessica Lucas (actor)

Steve Cardenas (actor)

Eric Vale (voice actor)

Kari Wahlgren (voice actor)

Andy Miller (actor)

Steve Dash (actor)

Bob Layton (comic book writer)

John Beatty (comic book artist)

Seth Mann (comic book artist)

Jeremy Clark (comic book artist)

Mitsuhiro Arita (game artist)

and others

$45 3 Day Pass

www.collectivecon.com

Crucible 6

March 31-April 2

Radisson Hotel and Conference Center Orlando

3011 Maingate Lane

Kissimmee, FL 34747

Gaming Con

$50 for the weekend (basic)

crucibleorlando.com

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Academy Awards

(source Wikipedia entry)

Speculative Fiction winners

Best Animated Feature Film

Zootopia –Byron Howard, Rich Moore, and Clark Spencer

Best Animated Short

Piper—Alan Barillaro, and Marc Sondheimer

Best Sound Editing

Arrival—Sylvain Bellemare

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Suicide Squad—Alessandro Bertolazzi, Giorgio Gregorini, and Christopher Nelson

Best Costume Design

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them - Colleen Atwood

Best Visual Effects

The Jungle Book – Robert Legato, Adam Valdez, Andrew R. Jones, and Dan Lemmon

Juan had some reservations on that.

Panels ideas were discussed.

Arthur discussed Video Room Ideas. He is planning to

show Arrival and new version of Metropolis.

Culture Consumed

Tom discussed Westworld.

Tom recently saw Luke Cage. He thought it was a

very good rendition of the character.

Arthur, Juan, and Ed enjoyed Rogue One. Arthur liked

Alec Tudyk’s voice performance of K-2SO.

Arthur caught up on the CW’s DC shows. He enjoyed

the more single episode stories rather those episodes

that are part of a bigger story arc. Arthur also liked the

Supergirl episode directed by film director Kevin

Smith.

Arthur saw Powerless on NBC. It is set the DC

Universe and it is lighter in tone. It is about surviving

in a super hero world.

Arthur wants to see DC’s direct to DVD film Justice

League Dark. Doctor Strange will be released on

DVD.

Tom saw Legion based on the X-Men line comics. Its

about a mutant who is in a mental hospital. Tom did

not connect with the series. Juan like some of the

shows innovative story telling.

Juan saw the following anime features in a movie

theater: Princess Mononoke, One Piece: Gold, and

Ghost in the Shell.

Book Discussion

Skinwalker by Faith Hunter

Peggy introduced the book. Jane Yellowrock is a skin

walker, a shape shifter from Native American legends.

She uses her abilities to hunt rogue vampires for

bounties. She keeps her skinwalking abilities secret.

She sets up shop in New Orleans in a world were

vampires are known to exist. It is the first of a series.

Ed Mesyks discussed Tanya Huff vampire series and

its similarities with the Jane Yellowrock series.

Juan liked the world, characters, and action.

Next month Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo

Hopkinson, one of this year’s Worldcon Guest of

Honor.

Meeting adjourned at 3PM.

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