NOCTILUCENT CLOUDS ARE BACK
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NOCTILUCENT CLOUDS ARE BACK: Last night, bright clouds of frosted meteor smoke drifted over Europe, signalling the start of the summer season for noctilucent clouds. The electric-blue forms were sighted in at least 7 countries, a number that could grow in the nights ahead as the clouds continue to spill across the Arctic Circle. Full story @ Spaceweather.com.
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Above: Noctilucent clouds (NLCs) over Denmark on June 5, 2023. Photo credit: Valther Jørgensen
And yet another zine!
From the N3F, Tightbeam.
What is Tightbeam? We are the N3F literary fanzine, not the novel and anthology fanzine, but the fanzine that tries to cover all tastes in fandom, such as anime, comics, cosplay, films, novels, biographies, poetry, music, short stories, food, …
The Editors are: George Phillies phillies@4liberty.net and .Jon Swartz judgeswartz@gmail.com
Art Editors are Angela K. Scott and Jose Sanchez.
Art Contributors are Tiffanie Gray, Alan White, Cedar Sanderson, and ArtistFish.
Anime Reviews are courtesy Jessi Silver and her site www.s1e1.com. Ms. Silver writes of her site “S1E1 is primarily an outlet for views and reviews on Japanese animated media, and occasionally video games and other entertainment.” Cedar Sanderson’s reviews and other interesting articles appear on her site www.cedarwrites.wordpress.com/ and its culinary extension. Jason P. Hunt’s reviews appear on SciFi4Me.Com
Yet another zine to share!
Yet another zine to share! This one is from Garth in British Columbia. OBDURATE EYE 28
There are two classical ways to make a decision. Most residents of the Classical era got drunk together first to talk over an idea. Then, when they sobered up, they talked it over again. The Classical Persians, allegedly, did it the other way around.
Locus: new books for June
These are the forthcoming “Selected Books by Author” for June from the December 2022 issue of Locus Magazine.
JUNE 2023
- ALLAN KASTER, ED. • The Year’s Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 7 • AudioText/Infinivox, Jun 2023 (an, tp, eb)
- ANN LECKIE • Translation State • Orbit US, Jun 2023 (hc, eb)
- CONNIE WILLIS • The Road to Roswell • Penguin Random House/Del Rey, Jun 2023 (hc, eb)
- EUGEN BACON • Danged Black Thing • Apex Book Company, Jun 2023 (1st US, c, tp, eb)
- FRAN WILDE • The Book of Gems • Tordotcom, Jun 2023 (na, tp, eb)
- GENE WOLFE • The Dead Man and Other Horror Stories • Subterranean Press, Jun 2023 (c, hc, eb)
- GREGORY FROST • Rhymer • Baen, Jun 2023 (hc, eb)
- HOWARD WALDROP • H’ard Starts: The Early Waldrop • Subterranean Press, Jun 2023 (c, hc, eb)
- JOHN BIRMINGHAM • The Forever Dead • Bloomsbury UK/Head of Zeus/Ad Astra, Jun 2023 (hc, eb)
- JOHN SCALZI • Starter Villain • Macmillan/Tor UK, Jun 2023 (hc, eb)
- JOHN SHIRLEY • SubOrbital 7 • Titan Books UK, Jun 2023 (tp, eb)
- JUNO DAWSON • The Shadow Cabinet • Harper Voyager UK, Jun 2023 (hc, eb)
- KIM HARRISON • Demons of Good and Evil • Ace, Jun 2023 (hc, eb)
- MERCEDES LACKEY & LARRY DIXON • Gryphon in Light • Astra House/DAW, Jun 2023 (hc, eb)
- MICHAEL MOORCOCK • The Woods of Arcady • Tor, Jun 2023 (hc, eb)
- TANANARIVE DUE & STEVEN BARNES • The Reformatory • Simon & Schuster/Saga Press, Jun 2023 (h, hc, eb
More zines to share!
From Bill burns at e-fanzines:
I have just added a page for LienZine, a memorial sampler of the late Denny Lien’s writing from fandom and beyond. Edited by Karen Schaffer and Geri Sullivan and produced for the memorial held June 2, 2023 in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Direct link to the page: https://efanzines.com/LienZine/
From the N3F
With this mailing: Our great fan-pro organizing committee zine Ionisphere, followed courtesy of the N3F Franking service with several trade fanzines.
New Zines to share!
From LASFS, DE PROFUNDIS #586 De Profundis 586 – June 2023
From Bill Burns, updates to e-faniznes. Bill has added our own WARP to his update. Thanks, Bill!
Just added at https://efanzines.com
Nic Farey’s This Here…#65
Christopher J. Garcia’s Claims Department #39
Andy Hooper’s CAPTAIN FLASHBACK #54
WARP #113, the official fanzine of MonSFFA, the Montreal Science Fiction and Fantasy Association, edited by Danny Sichel, is now available
Octothorpe #84, a regular fannish podcast by John Coxon, Alison Scott and Liz Batty, is now on line
—
Bill
Next Club e-Meeting: Saturday, June 17!
CSFFA Special Update: AGM Date Changed, Voters Package Ready
Membership in CSFFA is really worth the price if you enjoy reading, and there is a lot of reading in the awards package! https://www.csffa.ca/ CPL
In this newsletter:
- Change of Date for CSFFA AGM
- Aurora Awards Voters’ Package
The CSFFA AGM has a new date: June 25, 2023
The CSFFA 2023 AGM now will occur Sunday, June 25. The 2023 CSFFA AGM materials and motions can be viewed by logged-in members (Home page -> Annual General Meeting). Members can vote now on the motions. Voting ends June 24.
The AGM will begin Sunday June 25, 10 a.m. Pacific/ 11 a.m. Mountain/ noon Central/ 1 p.m. Eastern/ 2 p.m. Atlantic/ and one half-hour later, Newfoundland & Labrador.
2023 Aurora Awards Voters’ Package
The Voters’ Package is now available for the 2023 Aurora Awards. It can be accessed and the files downloaded from https://www.csffa.ca/members-home/. You must be logged into your account to access it.
Good luck to all of the nominees. Voting will begin on June 17th and close six weeks later on July 29th. The awards ceremony will be held online starting at 7pm EDT, August 19th, 2023. The ceremony will be hosted by Mark Leslie Lefebvre and Liz Anderson. Links to both a Facebook and YouTube page for the ceremony will be posted in August.
Zine to share!
Nic Farey has sent us This Here.
The ish opens with an interesting article about the settlement movement, a friend he shared a settlement flat with and a terrible murder that occurred near there which remains unsolved.
Nic has been diagnosed with a form of leukemia. There is a reasonably effective treatment, he says, but we’ll keep him in our thoughts through what must be a difficult time.