This is the first of seven related posts constituting this afternoon’s MonSFFA e-meeting.

1) INTRODUCTION

This is our 23rd virtual MonSFFA get-together. The afternoon’s get-together will unfold both on Zoom and right here on the club’s Web site over the course of the next few hours, beginning with this first post, and followed by subsequent posts at 1:30PM, 3:00PM, 3:05PM, 3:30PM, and 3:45PM, with a final post at 4:45PM. All posts will also be available concurrently on MonSFFA’s Facebook page (www.facebook.com/MonSFFA), however, note that the interface best suited for taking in this meeting is this very Web site.

As we cannot yet, with reasonable safety for all, assemble in larger numbers indoors, this February 2022 virtual meeting has been prepared especially for you, MonSFFA’s membership. Sit back, check out each of the afternoon’s posts, scroll down leisurely through the proffered content, and enjoy!

Don’t forget to comment on what we’ve presented. Let us know what you think of specific topics or the meeting overall. Your input helps us to tailor these virtual meetings for maximum interest and enjoyment.

And, of course, you can participate, as well, on Zoom!

2) JOIN THIS AFTERNOON’S VIDEO-CHAT ON ZOOM!

To join our Zoom video-chat, which will run throughout the course of the meeting in tandem with the Web site-based content presented, simply click here and follow the prompts: This Afternoon’s MonSFFA e-Meeting on Zoom

If you’re not fully equipped to Zoom by computer, you can also join in by phone (voice only); in the Montreal area, the toll-free number to call is: 1-438-809-7799. If you’re from out of town, find your Zoom call-in number here: International Call-In Numbers

Also, have this information on hand as you may be asked to enter it:

Meeting ID: 837 4176 2830
Passcode: 873301

3) MEETING AGENDA 

In This Afternoon’s Virtual Meeting:

4) A WRITING CHALLENGE

Barring the emergence of another dangerous variant, Public Health restrictions will finally be lifted for good at some point soon, and with most of us having been largely relegated to our homes for almost two years, now, we’ll be itching to travel as winter recedes and with it, we hope, COVID-19. Here are a dozen possible destinations for your consideration, singular, curious, and unusual places likely to appeal in some way to SF/F fans.

We’ve added a little something extra, too, to the mix, here, in the form of a writing challenge to occupy you during the remaining weeks of winter. We’re looking for original short stories or works of fan-fiction, between roughly a thousand and three thousand words—science fiction, fantasy, or horror; your choice! With the weird and wonderful destinations below, we hope to inspire you to author a fantastic, fanciful, frightening, or funny tale. Each entry includes a story prompt designed to get your creative juices flowing, but feel free to ignore our suggestions and go your way.

So have fun with it, and we look forward to reading your stories in a future issue of Warp!

A DOZEN OTHERWORLDLY SITES AND ATTRACTIONS TO VISIT IN CANADA

Devon Island and the Haughton Impact Crater, Nunavut 

Devon Island is the world’s largest uninhabited island and part of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. It is located in Baffin Bay north of Baffin Island. So otherworldly is Devon Island’s landscape that the Mars Society there established the Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station in order that scientists may simulate missions to the Red Planet.

Formed some 39 million years ago when a meteor about two kilometers in diameter slammed into what was then a forest, the Haughton Impact Crater adjacent the station is considered the best Mars analog on Earth. NASA’s complementary Haughton-Mars Project is also in operation at the crater during the summer months.

This landscape may well inspire a science fiction story about a mission to Mars, or another planet having a similarly hostile environment. What might the explorers from Earth find there, and what perils might they face?

The Cheltenham Badlands, Caledon, Ontario

Situated between the villages of Inglewood and Cheltenham in the primarily rural municipality of Caledon, the Cheltenham Badlands are an exposed and greatly eroded section of the Queenston Formation, which formed during the mid- and late-Ordovician Period, between roughly 470 and 443 million years ago. Characterized by rounded hills and gullies, this terrain is composed chiefly of brick-red shale, interlaced with layers of green shale, sandstone, and limestone. Representing probably the best example of badlands topography in Ontario, the area easily suggests the strange landscape of an alien world on which a tale of the far-flung future might be set.

The story could begin with the crash-landing of a spaceship on this world and detail the efforts of the crew to survive until a rescue mission arrives from distant Earth. Having salvaged from their wrecked craft what equipment and stores were not irreparably damaged or destroyed in the crash, they are faced with a dearth of vital supplies. Their first priority is to locate a source of water and find a way to farm the harsh soil, perhaps employing vegetable scraps and seeds derived from their remaining onboard food supply to cultivate fresh and progressively more produce. They spy in the distance a herd of large, centipede-like animals foraging on the scant indigenous flora. These beasts may well offer a supply of protein-rich meat.

But there’s something else out there, amid the knolls and furrows; something primordial and predatory, lying in wait, still and patient, the natural colouring and texture of its skin perfect camouflage for these surroundings, rendering the enormous, snake-like creature effectively invisible—until it moves to strike!

Hopewell Rocks, Hopewell Cape, New Brunswick

The Hopewell Rocks, also called the Flowerpot Rocks, are the principal tourist attraction of the village of Hopewell Cape on Shepody Bay, part of the greater Bay of Fundy. A geological formation composed largely of dark sedimentary conglomerate and sandstone, the Rocks have been eroded by the famous Fundy tides. With glacial retreat after the Ice Age, surface water seeping through cracks in the shoreline bluffs, over time, separated the Rocks from the cliff face. Further, tidal waters, rising—by up to 16 metres—and falling twice a day, have worn down this collection of towering pillars, most acutely at their base. Visitors are able to descend to the beach at low tide for a closer look.

A fantasy story is evoked by this landscape, perhaps involving a local fisherman assisting a beautiful mermaid who has come ashore one morning to escape a ravenous sea serpent. Not a one of his family or friends believe his yarn, of course, known as he is for spinning such tall tales over a pint or two!

The Crooked Bush, Alticane, Saskatchewan

Also called the “Twisted Trees” or the “Crooked Tress of Alticane,” this copse of hideously deformed aspens can be found near the abandoned village of Alticane, Saskatchewan, today considered a ghost town. Prominent in the province’s folklore, the existence of the trees is sometimes attributed to paranormal forces.

Genetic mutation is offered as the scientific explanation for this botanical anomaly, the aberration likely originating with a single tree as aspen’s propagate through a shared root system to form large, clonal groves. A cordon surrounds the warped thicket for purposes of protection, and to contain any further spread of the malformation to other, bordering aspens, which stand straight and tall.

A Lovercraftian horror story, perhaps, may emerge from the fevered dream provoked simply by having gained knowledge of these accursed aspens, for one can scarcely comprehend what blasphemous monstrosity long ago may have marred this small patch of wood, leaving trunks and branches gnarled and bent. Ever are these blighted trees a reminder to the multitude and variety of life which teems over this inconsequential globe of the paltry place we denizens of planet Earth hold within a universe ravaged by outrages evil, dark, and unimaginable!

Le Grand rassemblement, Sainte-Flavie, Québec

On a rock-strewn beach overlooking the St. Lawrence River stand some hundred strange stone and wooden figures, arrayed so as to appear a column of people wading ashore. The creation of Quebec artist Marcel Gagnon, these figures are simple in design, carved heads atop a post or pillar, some hunched, exuding a haunting quality, all worn by the weather and tides, those farthest out on the beach disappearing and reappearing with the ebb and flow of the great river.

The artist initially began carving the effigies as figure studies for his vivid impressionistic paintings but eventually repurposed them as an art installation, which can be viewed at his Centre d’Art Marcel Gagnon in Ste-Flavie, a small town on the Gaspé Peninsula.

Some kind of ghost story, perhaps, or dark fantasy involving a curse long ago cast upon the local townspeople suggests itself, here.
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The Enchanted Forest, Revelstoke, British Columbia

A family-friendly roadside attraction in the Monashee Mountains some 30 kilometres west of Revelstoke, The Enchanted Forest places over 350 kitschy, handcrafted figurines of faerie folk and storybook characters amongst the towering cedars of an old-growth forest. The roster includes Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, the Three Little Pigs, Winnie-the-Pooh and Friends, Humpty Dumpty, the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe, the Tooth Faerie, the Pied Piper, along with mermaids, gnomes, a dragon, and many more!

Folk-art sculptor Doris Needham and her husband, Ernest, built the attraction largely by hand as a retirement project, opening their wonderland to the public on July 1, 1960. The Enchanted Forest has since expanded to encompass eight acres of fun for the whole family.

Faerie folk and the like can make for an inviting fantasy tale, maybe involving the many characters, here, magically coming to life so as to uplift the spirits of a traumatized and forlorn child.

UFO Landing Pad, St. Paul, Alberta

The east-central Alberta town of St. Paul built the world’s first UFO landing pad in 1967 as part of Canada’s nationwide Centennial Celebrations. Paul Hellyer, then Canada’s defense minister, flew in by helicopter to officially inaugurate the structure.

A plaque put up beside the pad reads:

The area under the World’s First UFO Landing Pad was designated international by the Town of St. Paul as a symbol of our faith that mankind will maintain the outer universe free from national wars and strife. That future travel in space will be safe for all intergalactic beings, all visitors from earth or otherwise are welcome to this territory and to the Town of St. Paul.

Hellyer, who died last year at age 98, publicly announced in 2005 that he believed in the existence of extraterrestrials, that he and his wife had once seen a UFO, and that at least four species of aliens from other star systems have been visiting Earth for thousands of years, some of them now based on Mars, Venus, and the moons of Saturn! He also urged governments around the world to help solve the global climate crisis by employing the alien technology they have secreted away all these years.

So what if a UFO actually touched down in St. Paul one day? What would be the reaction of local, national, and foreign governments, the military, the scientific community, religious leaders, and the ordinary people of the town? And would the extraterrestrials share the sentiments inscribed on that plaque?

The Moonbeam Flying Saucer, Moonbeam, Ontario

Speaking of UFOs, the small northern Ontario town of Moonbeam has erected a flying saucer monument next to the town’s visitor centre. With the National Transcontinental Railway providing access to the agricultural land and natural resources of the environs, the town was founded and settled by Quebecers from the Laurentians and Montreal in the early 1910s and ’20s. French is spoken by almost 80 percent of townspeople.

The slogan “Where the moonbeams blend in with the Northern Lights” is used to promote tourism and while no documentation exists as confirmation, the town’s name is attributed to early pioneers who often reported flashing lights falling from the sky near area creeks and ponds. They called these mysterious lights “moonbeams.” That’s a potential sci-fi story right there!

Spotted Lake, Osoyoos, British Columbia

Northwest of the Okanagan town of Osoyoos in B.C.’s Similkameen Valley, the endorheic Spotted Lake, rich in salt and various minerals, was historically and is still revered by the territory’s First Nations people as a sacred site thought to proffer therapeutic waters.

In the summer, evaporation exposes concentrated deposits of calcium, magnesium sulfate, and other elements and compounds, which, combined with seasonal precipitation, form small, colourful pools of water, lending the lake its distinctive spots. Also formed around and between these spots are natural hardened-mineral pathways.

A medieval fantasy story could be conjured up around such a lake, the waters of which an evil sorceress might exploit to brew her magical potions.

Abraham Lake, Kootenay Plains, Alberta

When the Bighorn Dam was built in 1972, a sizeable tract of land was flooded to create Abraham Lake, Alberta’s largest reservoir, situated on the North Saskatchewan River in the Kootenay Plains area of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Tourists and nature photographers are drawn to the site by a bizarre phenomenon.

Rotting vegetation at the bottom of the lake releases methane gas which coalesces into bubbles that, in winter, become trapped in ice as they rise towards the surface, creating weirdly beautiful columns of globules beneath the frozen lake surface.

Consider a story that serves as an allegory for climate change: on an icy planet or moon in some distant solar system, perhaps a similar wonder occurs, and maybe within each ice-encased pocket of gas thrives a completely alien civilization populated by exotic miniature beings! But what would happen to those beings if that frozen world began to warm?

Bear Rock and the Bear Rock Sinkhole, Sahtu Region, Northwest Territories

The Sahtu Region includes Bear Rock, an outcropping considered hallowed ground by the Dene people. It is said that in ancient days, when giants roamed the Earth, fabled Dene law-giver Yamoria slew a trio of enormous beavers that had been drowning hunters, and that Bear Rock was the mountain over which he draped their gargantuan pelts, leaving the dark, reddish stains which distinguish the rock to this day—a bit of Beavra fan-fiction can certainly spring out of all of that!

Characterized by underground waterways and the gradual dissolution of soluble rock like limestone and dolomite, the karst landforms of Bear Rock and the vast surrounding domain include numerous pinnacles, poljes, turloughs, caves, and sinkholes.

Of the many sinkholes pitting this pristine and remote wilderness, the largest and most remarkable is the Bear Rock Sinkhole, likely the result of a cave-in and one of North America’s finest examples of a vertical cover-collapse event. Inaccessible by road or trail, the ovate Bear Rock Sinkhole lies between the towns of Tulita and Norman Wells and is roughly the length and width of a football field, its vertical walls plunging some 40 metres to the pool of cerulean blue water below.

But what if beneath the surface of that water was discovered a portal to the past, or to another dimension? Or, if supernatural satanic horror is your groove, a portal to hell?

Akshayuk Pass, Baffin Island, Nunavut

Appropriately dubbed Land of the Gods, Akshayuk Pass is an ancient river bed and traditional Inuit travel corridor bordered by towering granite peaks, among them imposing Mount Odin, arrowhead-shaped Mount Loki, and other summits the names of which derive from Norse mythology—though unverified, it is believed that the earliest European exploration of the region was by Norse adventurers in the 11th century. The area, today within Canada’s Auyuittuq National Park in northeastern Baffin Island, draws first-class mountaineers from around the world.

Of note is Thor Peak, also called Mount Thor, dramatically thrusting skyward, a sheer precipice, offering rock climbers one of the world’s highest vertical drops! The spectacular vista surrounding Thor inspires a fantastical winter realm populated by Ijirait (shape-shifters), Chenoos (cannibalistic ice giants), the Qiqirn (a dog spirit), and other mythological creatures of the north to be found in aboriginal legend. One imagines a hero embarking on a precarious trek to the mountain in search of his or her destiny.

If a work of fan-fiction is your fancy, meanwhile, Mount Asgard is a twin-towered, flat-topped mountain of the type suitable for hollowing out by a Bond villain as his secret lair, or by the Rebel Alliance as a hidden base.

Our next post will be up at 1:30PM; we’ll be exploring the “science” of cartoons!

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MonSFFA held its elections earlier today as part of the club’s January 2022 e-meeting. We can report that the 2021 Executive ran unopposed and as such, was reinstated for another term by acclamation.

Therefore, no further action as to submitting votes electronically is required on the part of members who could not be present for this afternoon’s meeting. The club’s 2022 online elections are now concluded.

Congratulations to our 2022 Executive Committee: Cathy Palmer-Lister, president; Keith Braithwaite, vice-president; and sharing the position as co-treasurers, Joe Aspler and L. E. Moir.

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And thanks to our Chief Returning Officer, Josée Bellemare, for overseeing procedures.

The club meets online again on Saturday, February 12.

This is Post 6 of 6, the final post of our January 2022 virtual meeting.

12) PLANNING SESSION FOR 2022 MEETING PROGRAMMING

We’ll be talking 2022 e-meeting programming on Zoom here in the final stretch. All are welcome to participate, whether on Zoom or by submitting your ideas via this post’s “Leave a Comment” option. Your input is welcome and valued. Which SF/F subjects are you especially knowledgeable regarding about which your fellow MonSFFen might enjoy learning more? And, let us know what you’d like to see at an e-meeting in the coming months!

More precisely, we are in search of suggestions for presentation and discussion topics, debate moderators, creator/presenters of A/V Web and Zoom dissertations, hosts to prepare and run fun and challenging trivia quizzes and other games, instructors for show-and-tell “fancraft” demonstrations, and other such content.

13) ANSWERS TO NEW YEAR TRIVIA CHALLENGE

Before we sign off, here are the answers to the New Year Trivia Challenge we put up in Post 1 of 6. How many did you correctly answer without resorting to Google?

1) As we all know, Hugo Gernsback was the founding publisher of Amazing Stories, the world’s first magazine entirely devoted to what he termed “Scientifiction,” but who founded the competing Astounding Stories of Super-Science?

ANSWER: William Clayton, who launched his magazine in 1930, a few years after Gernsback’s. The publication soon became foremost of the nascent science fiction pulps of the day and the title was later shortened to Astounding Stories, eventually becoming Astounding Science Fiction, then, finally, Analog Science Fiction & Fact.

2) Who was the first editor of Astounding?

ANSWER: Harry Bates, perhaps best known for his 1940 short story “Farewell to the Master,” upon which was based the 1951 sci-fi film classic The Day the Earth Stood Still.

3) In The Book of Boba Fett, one-time flashdancer Jennifer Beals plays Garsa Fwip, a Twi’lek who manages a cantina in Mos Espa on the familiar planet Tatooine. What is the name of this cantina?

ANSWER: the Sanctuary

4) Boba Fett, the Star Wars franchise’s most famous bounty hunter, is a cloned human. What species is Greedo, whose career ended inauspiciously when he cornered Han Solo in a Mos Eisley cantina?

ANSWER: Rodian

5) Which comic book archer debuted first, Marvel’s Hawkeye or DC’s Green Arrow?

ANSWER: Green Arrow, first appearing in More Fun Comics #73, published November 1941. Hawkeye’s first appearance was as a reluctant criminal in Tales of Suspense #57, published September 1964. After witnessing Iron Man in action, he is inspired to become a costumed hero and is soon accepted as a member of the Avengers in The Avengers #16, published May 1965.

6) What is Clint “Hawkeye” Barton’s middle name?

ANSWER: Francis; his full name is Clinton Francis Barton.

7) Overseen by a giant, motion-sensing, death-dealing robot doll, what was the first of the six games played by the despondent contestants in the hit Netflix series Squid Game?

ANSWER: Red Light, Green Light

8) What is the player number of Squid Game’s lead protagonist, Seong Gi-hun, played by Lee Jung-jae?

ANSWER: 456

9) Clint Barton mentors young Katherine Elizabeth “Kate” Bishop to succeed him as Hawkeye, but she is, chronologically, the third Marvel character to carry the Hawkeye codename. Who was the second?

ANSWER: In Marvel’s Earth-712 alternate universe, Wyatt McDonald sported the Hawkeye moniker. He was introduced in 1971, Kate Bishop in 2005. A master archer equipped with a number of trick arrows whose civilian guise is that of cab driver, he and romantic interest Linda Lewis—a.k.a. Lady Lark; later, Skylark—fight crime together in the city of New Babylon, eventually drawing the attention of the Squadron Supreme superhero team, who invite them to enlist. McDonald subsequently adopted the moniker Golden Archer but as his relationship with Lewis faltered, he resorted to mind modification to secure her undivided affections. For this he was ultimately expelled from the Squadron, thereafter becoming the Black Archer and joining rival unit the Redeemers, who were dedicated to challenging the Squadron’s well-intentioned but increasingly totalitarian dominance of America. He was killed in the epic battle between the two teams.

10) ConCept ’92 Guest of Honour Roger Zelazny’s …And Call Me Conrad, more commonly published as This Immortal, shares its Hugo for Best Novel with which other book?

ANSWER: Dune, by Frank Herbert

11) Recently adapted as an HBO Max series, Canadian writer Emily St. John Mandel’s 2014 book Station Eleven, is the post-apocalyptic tale of a plague-ravaged world in which all is risked to ensure that art and culture survive. Her upcoming Sea of Tranquility is described as a novel of “time travel and metaphysics” but Mandel does not consider herself a science fiction writer, per se. Indeed, her first book, published in 2009, was more mystery than science fiction; what was it called?
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ANSWER: Last Night in Montreal

13) What species is Star Wars bounty hunter Bossk?

ANSWER: Trandoshan

14) In what Canadian sitcom was Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings star Simu Liu feature before his casting as the MCU’s new martial arts-adept superhero?

ANSWER: Kim’s Convenience, an award-winning comedy about a Korean-Canadian family who own and operate a convenience store in Toronto.

15) Who won the inaugural Nebula Award for best novel?

ANSWER: Frank Herbert for Dune. The first Nebulas were handed out at Tricon, the 24th World Science Fiction Convention, held in Cleveland in 1966. Herbert also shared the Best Novel Hugo with Roger Zelazny, whose …And Call Me Conrad, retitled This Immortal, tied with Dune for the top prize that year.

16) South Korean model and actress HoYeon Jung portrays Kang Sae-byeok in Squid Game, a North Korean defector desperate to win the prize money so that she can smuggle her parents across the border, rescue her little brother from an orphanage, and reunite her family. What was her player number?

ANSWER: 067

17) What species is Star Wars bounty hunter Aurra Sing?

ANSWER: Palliduvan

18) Which of the squad members in 2021’s The Suicide Squad is now the star of his or her own new HBO Max series?

ANSWER: Christopher Smith, alias Peacemaker, played with gusto by John Cena.

19) Which character in Squid Game created the bizarre and deadly contest in order to entertain bored, mega-rich people such as he?

ANSWER: Revealed in the final episode, the creator of the contest is none other than player number 001, Oh Il-nam, the old man slowly dying of a brain tumor who is befriended by main character Seong Gi-hun in the first episode. Il-nam explains that he prefers playing the game over waiting for death in the outside world. He was portrayed by O Yeong-su.

20) What comic-book superheroine has variously been called, among numerous other sobriquets, “Taskmistress,” “Weapon Woman,” and “The Adorable Archer”?

ANSWER: Clint Barton’s successor as Hawkeye, Kate Bishop, who has also been dubbed, or has considered the names “Lady Hawk,” “Hawkingbird,” “Hawkette,” and “Lady Hawkeye.”

21) Name the leader of the Federation colony the ensemble of which have somehow survived years of exposure to lethal Berthold rays in the original Star Trek episode “This Side of Paradise.”

ANSWER: Elias Sandoval

22) On which planet do Captain Kirk and company find this colony?

ANSWER: Ceti Omicron III

14) THANK YOU!

We hope you have enjoyed your time with us this afternoon, we thank you for dropping in, and we ask all of you to check in regularly here at www.MonSFFA.ca for additional content during this continuing pandemic, and for any updates as to when the club expects a return to regular, face-to-face meetings. Thank you for your interest and attention, and don’t forget to comment on today’s e-meeting!

We’d like to especially thank today’s presenters and moderators, Joe Aspler, Josée Bellemare, Keith Braithwaite, and Cathy Palmer-Lister for their invaluable contributions to our meeting. Without the efforts of our programming people, these online gatherings would not be possible. And, we thank, of course, all of our supporting contributors, as well.

15) SIGN-OFF 

And so, until we meet again right here at www.MonSFFA.ca on Saturday, February 12, keep safe, keep healthy, and keep watching the skies!

This is Post 5 of 6 this afternoon; books you’re reading, TV series or movies you’re watching, and films set in 2022 are the topic, here!

Exclusively on Zoom, we’ll be asking “What Are You Reading (or Watching)?” Give us your quick book report, or your brief review of a film or TV show you’ve recently been enjoying!

And for those not taking part on Zoom today, we list the following handful of genre movies set in 2022! How many have you seen?

10) SCI-FI MOVIES SET IN 2022

The Purge (2013)

Ethan Hawke, Lena Headey, Max Burkholder, Adelaide Kane, Arija Bareikis, Edwin Hodge; James DeMonaco, director

We begin with the most recent of our listed films, an action/horror/thriller about an affluent family equipping themselves to wait out “The Purge,” an annual government-sanctioned night of lawlessness. During the overnight hours in which the Purge is in effect, all crime is legal, including murder, and emergency services are suspended.

We learn that in 2014, the New Founding Fathers, a novel authoritarian political party, come to power in America in the wake of an economic collapse. The Fathers institute the Purge, and because of this and other of their policies, by 2022, the year in which the film is set, America is said to be practically free of crime and posting an unemployment rate of merely one percent.

The film details their travails throughout the night, beginning with the arrival on their doorstep of a bloodied black man seeking refuge and culminating with this same man saving them from their own neighbours, who had intended to execute the family. In between, there’s a lot bloodshed, a gang of masked Purgers threatening from outside, and more bloodshed!

The Purge comes to an end the following morning and those who survived return to their normal lives as television newscasters tout this as the most successful Purge to date, reporting on a stock market boom due to increased sales of weapons and security systems. A man’s voice is heard poignantly speaking of the loss of his sons, and his own loss of patriotism as a result.

The Purge scored well at the box office and spawned a successful film franchise but many critics found the movie implausible, a clichéd slasher flick attempting thoughtful social allegory, and merely a political screed disguised as a bloody home-invasion thriller.

Really? Well, just you snooty critics wait until next year’s Purge!

No Escape (1994)

Ray Liotta, Lance Henriksen, Stuart Wilson, Kevin Dillon, Ernie Hudson; Martin Campbell, director

In a dystopian 2022, corrupt corporations run a global penal system, from which there is no escape save death. Former marine captain J. T. Robbins is serving a life sentence for killing his commanding officer, who had ordered him to murder innocent civilians in Benghazi, an order Robbins refused.

After locking horns with the warden, a rebellious Robbins finds himself transferred to the notorious Absolom, a remote island penal colony reserved for the worst of the worst. There are no walls or guards or rules on Absolom; prisoners are left to fend for themselves. On this island, it’s the Law of the Jungle; survive or die!

Robbins soon learns of the two tribes of convicts inhabiting the island: the Outsiders, savage, cruel, and led by a tyrannical, thuggish chief; and the Insiders, a cooperative group who have established something resembling a civilized society within their fortified compound, and who hope to tap Robbins’ expertise in defending their encampment against Outsider attack. Caught between the two warring factions, Robbins has his own agenda: escape from Absolom, a feat no inmate has ever managed.

Lance Henriksen plays the Father, leader of the Insiders, and SF film fans will certainly recognize him as Vukovich, one of the LAPD cops in Terminator (1984), and as the android Bishop in Aliens (1986), both of these films written and directed by James Cameron. Ernie Hudson, meanwhile, is instantly identifiable as a ghostbuster!

No Escape garnered mixed reviews and was released in some jurisdictions under the titles Escape from Absolom, and Absolom 2022.

Alien Intruder (1993)

Billy Dee Williams, Jeff Conaway, Maxwell Caulfield, Tracy Scoggins; Ricardo Jacques Gale, director

Convicts are promised commuted sentences should they agree to join a mission to find a lost spaceship aboard which an astronaut has inexplicably slaughtered his crewmates, but they fall victim to a virtual-reality femme fatale who sets the men against each other. Apparently, a sexy alien temptress has infiltrated their ship’s VR entertainment system… Or something.

Amounting to a poorly executed, soft-core sci-fi skin flick, too much of what could have been an interesting space-age update of Ulysses’ encounter with the sirens in Homer’s Odyssey comes across as silly and stupid. The special effects are pretty clunky, too. We’ve included Alien Intruder, here, because it’s set in 2022!

Billy Dee “Lando Calrissian” Williams was slumming.
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Time Runner (1993)

Mark Hamill, Rae Dawn Chong, Brion James, Mark Baur; Michael Mazo, director

With Earth under alien attack in 2022, fighter pilot Michael Raynor is humanity’s last hope for survival. Blasted through a time warp, he emerges in the year 1992. His mission: change the past and save the future. But alien sleeper agents are waiting there to prevent him from succeeding and ensure their victory in 2022, among them Karen Donaldson, the scientist in whom Raynor had placed his trust!

Upon release, this flick was near-universally panned by critics and fans, alike. “Plenty of gunfire and what-are-we-gonna-do-now?” dialogue fills up the movie’s runtime, said EW.com.

It seems, then, that 1993 was not a good year for Star Wars actors to appear in sci-fi movies outside of the franchise that made them famous.

Mark “Luke Skywalker” Hamill was slumming.

The Dark Side of the Moon (1990)

Robert Sampson, Will Bledsoe, Joe Turkel, Camilla More, John Diehl, Wendy MacDonald; D. J. Webster, director

In the year 2022, a maintenance vessel engaged in the repair of an orbital weapons platform suddenly experiences a baffling power failure and the crew find themselves drifting towards the dark side of moon. With oxygen running out, the stricken ship comes across an old, derelict NASA space shuttle, Discovery, which we learn splashed down in the Bermuda Triangle and disappeared years ago! Hoping to salvage supplies which might help extricate them from their predicament, the crew board the shuttle, only to face a murderously malevolent force—none other than the devil himself!

The film, a low-budget, straight-to-video release—often a red flag—nevertheless received generally favourable reviews, praised for its atmospherically spooky moments and excellent cast, but cited for throwing a tad too much jetsam into the plot, from the Book of Revelation to the Bermuda Triangle.

Screenwriting brothers Carey and Chad Hayes, who went on to script the House of Wax remake (2005) and The Conjuring (2013), can be credited, we suppose, for anticipating that by 2022, the space shuttle program would have concluded, but they did overestimate the degree to which space flight would advance.

Genre fans might recognize prolific character actor Joe Turkel, who played Dr. Eldon Tyrell in Blade Runner (1982) and ghostly bartender Lloyd in The Shining (1980). He retired in 1998; Dark Side of the Moon was his last feature film.

Discovery, meanwhile, the most travelled of the shuttle fleet, after 27 illustrious years of service, was decommissioned in 2011 and today is on display at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum. Not lost somewhere in the churning fog of the Bermuda Triangle!

Soylent Green (1973)

Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Connors, Joseph Cotton, Brock Peters, Paula Kelly, Edward G. Robinson; Richard Fleischer, director

Based on Make Room, Make Room, Harry Harrison’s 1966 novel of overpopulation and depleted resources, this fusion of police procedural with science fiction is the oldest and most prestigious of the films we’ve listed, here.

In 2022, overpopulation, pollution, and a climate catastrophe have cumulatively left the world short of food, clean water, and housing—not so far off the mark on the prescience scale for a film produced just shy of 50 years ago!

Only society’s wealthy elite can afford natural foodstuffs and spacious apartments high above the teeming and dangerous streets of an overcrowded New York City. In one memorable scene, we learn that strawberry jam is a luxury at $150 per jar!

NYPD detective Frank Thorn investigates the case of a high-placed business executive’s apparent murder. The deceased had been on the board of the Soylent Corporation, producers of half the world’s food supply in the form of tiny wafers, including Soylent Red, Soylent Yellow, and their latest, Soylent Green, said to be made from ocean plankton and advertised as the most nutritious of the line. But Soylent Green is in short supply and rioting often breaks out in the streets when local stocks run out due to distribution bottlenecks and famished multitudes are turned away.

Thorn suspects not a simple murder, however, but an assassination and doggedly pursues the case, aided by his elderly roommate, Sol Roth, a former college professor and police analyst. The mystery is unraveled over the course of the film, culminating in a discovery so shocking that a shaken Roth opts for assisted suicide at a government clinic and Thorn witnesses, first hand, the horrifying secret behind Soylent Green. His closing utterance is one of science fiction cinema’s most unforgettable lines.

Soylent Green was conferred a Saturn Award as the year’s best science fiction film, and a Nebula for its script.

The picture was Edward G. Robinson’s 101st and final film. The ailing Hollywood legend died of bladder cancer just a couple of weeks after filming wrapped. Roth’s death scene was the last he filmed.

This is the first of six related posts constituting this afternoon’s MonSFFA e-meeting. On the agenda: Classical Music in F&SF and our look at cameo’s in genre TV and film, which producers often include as an inside joke for especially avid fans. We’ve also prepared a New Year trivia challenge, and more! Welcome, then, MonSFFen and friends, to the club’s first e-meeting of the amazing, astonishing, futuristic year 2022!

1) INTRODUCTION

 This is our 22nd virtual MonSFFA get-together, and our first of 2022. The afternoon’s get-together will unfold both on Zoom and right here on the club’s Web site over the course of the next few hours, beginning with this first post, and followed by subsequent posts at 1:30PM, 2:30PM, 3:00PM, and 4:00PM, with a concluding post at 4:30PM. All posts will also be available concurrently on MonSFFA’s Facebook page (www.facebook.com/MonSFFA), however, note that the interface best suited for taking in this meeting is this very Web site.

As we cannot yet, with reasonable safety for all, assemble in larger numbers indoors, this January 2022 virtual meeting has been prepared especially for you, MonSFFA’s membership. Sit back, check out each of the afternoon’s posts, scroll down leisurely through the proffered content, and enjoy!

Don’t forget to comment on what we’ve presented. Let us know what you think of specific topics or the meeting overall. Your input helps us to tailor these virtual meetings for maximum interest and enjoyment. And, of course, you can participate, as well, on Zoom!

2) JOIN THIS AFTERNOON’S VIDEO-CHAT ON ZOOM!

To join our Zoom video-chat, which will run throughout the course of the meeting in tandem with the Web site-based content presented, simply click here and follow the prompts: This Afternoon’s MonSFFA e-Meeting on Zoom

If you’re not fully equipped to Zoom by computer, you can also join in by phone (voice only); in the Montreal area, the toll-free number to call is: 1-438-809-7799. If you’re from out of town, find your Zoom call-in number here: International Call-In Numbers

Also, have this information on hand as you may be asked to enter it:

Meeting ID: 885 7938 5015
Passcode: 1246463

3) MEETING AGENDA 

In This Afternoon’s Virtual Meeting:

1:00PM, Post 1 of 6 (We Embark Upon Another Year of MonSFFActivities!)

1) Introduction

2) Join this Afternoon’s Video-Chat on Zoom

3) Meeting Agenda

4) Welcome to 2022!

5) New Year Trivia Challenge

6) Preamble: Club Elections Online

1:30PM, Post 2 of 6 (Maestro, Please…)

7) Presentation: Classical Music in F&SF!

2:30PM Post 3 of 6 (Break!)

8) Mid-Meeting Break (Club Elections, Reports and Announcements, Display Table, Today’s Raffle Prizes, Video-Chat: Cool SF&F Christmas Gifts Received)

3:00PM, Post 4 of 6 (Très Meta!)

9) Special Cameos in Sci-Fi TV and Film

4:00PM, Post 5 of 6 (Movies and Books)

10) Sci-Fi Movies Set in 2022

11) “What Are You Reading (or Watching)?” (Exclusively on Zoom)

4:30PM, Post 6 of 6 (Wrap-Up)

12) Preliminary Planning Session for 2022 e-Meeting Programming (Exclusively on Zoom)

13) Answers to New Year Trivia Challenge

14) Thank-You!

15) Sign-Off, Until We Met Again Next Month

4) WELCOME TO 2022!

Yes, it’s the astounding year 2022, but watch your step! We’re not exactly living in the World of Tomorrow that mid-20th century youngsters read about in sci-fi books, magazines, and comics. Then was the promise of a shining, tail-finned future of flying cars and robots! But what we got were exorbitantly-priced electric cars in want of an adequate number of recharging stations, and robocalls.

We had anticipated a future of clean energy and an environment free of toxic pollutants! Instead, we lap up sugar-laden energy drinks and toxic social media.

We were hopeful of a path to the countless stars in our galaxy! But rather, our hospitals are hopelessly inundated by countless cases of Omicron.

We were confident of regularly scheduled rocket trips to exotic planets! Instead, we got to watch a live-stream of William Shatner rocketing skyward on an eleven-minute suborbital flight aboard a billionaire’s phallic symbol.

By now, we were supposed to be zooming off to work by jetpack and planning a vacation on the moon at a luxury hotel overlooking the Sea of Tranquility! Turns out, we’re sitting on our living room couches taking meetings with co-workers on Zoom, and planning another summer vacation in our backyards overlooking the inflatable pool we bought at Canadian Tire last year.

We were supposed to be darting back and forth through time by now! These days, we’re just loosing track of time because every day in government-imposed isolation at home seems to meld into the next.

The 2022 of science fiction excited and thrilled, instilling in us that Sense of Wonder. The reality of 2022 has us wondering, does a curfew make any sense?

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Even in the wake of that most wonderful time of the year, it’s difficult to be cheery and optimistic about the coming months, given the recent Omicron surge—no, “surge” doesn’t really cut it; better word: tsunami! We find ourselves experiencing something of a Groundhog Day scenario. Once again, as we did last winter, we are isolating in our homes and here in Quebec, living under a nightly curfew, a mitigation measure that doesn’t seem to most particularly efficacious at preventing the spread of this latest variant of the COVID-19 virus.

The hyper-transmissible Omicron bug is more resistant to our vaccines and multiplying at an unprecedented rate. It seems almost certain that, sooner or later, pretty much everyone will become infected, even some of those fully vaccinated! As daily briefings report case numbers not in the hundreds, but in the thousands, a third vaccine “booster shot”—and in some countries, a fourth!—is now deemed by authorities as essential to staving off severe illness. Because many, many more people are becoming infected, hospitals are now, more than ever, completely overwhelmed dealing with fresh cases incoming. Patient care has been hobbled by exhausted, overworked doctors and nurses facing a shortage of beds and fellow staff, the latter cohort having been reduced in number by sickness, themselves. Police and fire departments across the land, as well as other essential services, are also experiencing pandemic-related staff shortages. Governments are vexed with squaring the interests of many a struggling small business, a sector often described as the backbone of our economy, with those of the besieged healthcare system, not to mention addressing the dire state of affairs in our schools. At odds are the very real need for in-person teaching with the immediate health risks inherent, for students and staff, of spending many hours indoors in poorly ventilated buildings, and in close proximity to each other. This whole public health conflagration offers but a Sofie’s Choice of options to those officials who must make the hard decisions.

In nations like Canada, one of the most vaccinated jurisdictions in the world, there remain enough unvaccinated individuals to allow the virus to continue flourishing, and sufficient instances of ineffective virus-abatement half-measures and blunders to permit COVID-19 to evade extinction. We have failed in too many ways to properly attack this plague! Recently, governments appear to have given up entirely on vanquishing the virus and are now talking about learning to live with COVID-19. Were all of our dutiful mitigation efforts over the past 20 months, then, for naught? Omicron remains in the air, commerce is again constrained, society is crippled, and people are increasingly anxious, fearful, frustrated, angry, and weary of the fight.

Yes, it is, indeed, difficult to be cheery and optimistic when faced with all of this. But if we take a Vulcan approach to the circumstances and supress our emotional response to Delta, and now Omicron—admittedly, a daunting exercise—we come to the conclusion that while it may seem as if we are reliving the winter of a year ago, objectively, we are in a better position today than we were then.

In January 2021, the vaccines had yet to arrive in large number. Today, a high proportion of the Canadian population has received both shots, and folk are lining up to get that third in a quintessentially Canadian hankering to score a hat trick. In addition, vaccine hesitancy is trending downwards, if slowly. Those of us who rolled up our sleeves and got our shots, and followed the obligatory Public Health safety rules should know that our compliance was not in vain, for unquestionably, the situation today would be orders of magnitude worse had we not.

We’ll have important work to do when the pandemic is over, and it will end, if science and history teach us anything. When that day comes, we must not countenance our elected representatives sidestepping their responsibilities regarding that vital work. Canada will have to return to a level of self-sufficiency when it comes to manufacturing vaccines and supplying quality PPE. With other first-world countries, we will need to accelerate the program to supply poorer nations with vaccines, for until the all the world is vaccinated, COVID-19 remains a threat. Our healthcare system will require a dramatic overhaul; improvements must be instituted so that we are better prepared for such major Public Health emergencies in future. These and other upgrades to our preparedness for a future pandemic, among other large-scale disasters, are a must if we are to survive the 21st century as a nation.

Perhaps most importantly, anti-vaxxer, and anti-science sentiment in general, will require alleviatory action of some kind, maybe a sweeping educational campaign, so that in future, citizens fully understand and appreciate the responsibilities that come with the exercise of personal freedoms. Never again should we allow a few self-centred individuals to endanger not only themselves, but their families, friends, and we, their neighbours, in the name of a misguided interpretation of freedom. You may have a right to refuse a vaccine or eschew Public Health safety protocols, but you most definitely do not have a right, by such inaction, to knowingly facilitate the spread of dangerous disease to others. Even a free and democratic society imposes certain reasonable limitations on the individual citizen in the greater interests of the whole. Not to do so results in anarchy.

Finally, this dark cloud’s silver lining may be that Omicron, which quickly supplanted Delta as the dominant form of COVID-19, while extremely transmissible, appears to result in rather less severe illness in most cases. We don’t yet have all the data to absolutely confirm that conjecture, but initial studies are encouraging. Also, Omicron seems to rise and decline in less time than previous variants, which, if true, might see peak infection occur before the end of this month or early next. And in that it has replaced Delta as the dominant form of the virus, ironically, Omicron may end up infecting enough people to, in combination with the vaccines, provide us that desired but elusive herd immunity.

5)

It’s 2022, so here are 22 SF/F trivia questions for you to ponder. We’ll run the answers in our final Post 6 of 6 at 4:30PM. Good luck.

1) As we all know, Hugo Gernsback was the founding publisher of Amazing Stories, the world’s first magazine entirely devoted to what he termed “Scientifiction,” but who founded the competing Astounding Stories of Super-Science?

2) Who was the first editor of Astounding?

3) In The Book of Boba Fett, one-time flashdancer Jennifer Beals plays Garsa Fwip, a Twi’lek who manages a cantina in Mos Espa on the familiar planet Tatooine. What is the name of this cantina?

4) Boba Fett, the Star Wars franchise’s most famous bounty hunter, is a cloned human. What species is Greedo, whose career ended inauspiciously when he cornered Han Solo in a Mos Eisley cantina?

5) Which comic book archer debuted first, Marvel’s Hawkeye or DC’s Green Arrow?

6) What is Clint “Hawkeye” Barton’s middle name?

7) Overseen by a giant, motion-sensing, death-dealing robot doll, what was the first of the six games played by the despondent contestants in the hit Netflix series Squid Game?

8) What is the player number of Squid Game’s lead protagonist, Seong Gi-hun, played by Lee Jung-jae?

9) Clint Barton mentors young Katherine Elizabeth “Kate” Bishop to succeed him as Hawkeye, but she is, chronologically, the third Marvel character to carry the Hawkeye codename. Who was the second?

10) ConCept ’92 Guest of Honour Roger Zelazny’s …And Call Me Conrad, more commonly published as This Immortal, shares its Hugo for Best Novel with which other book?

11) Recently adapted as an HBO Max series, Canadian writer Emily St. John Mandel’s 2014 book Station Eleven, is the post-apocalyptic tale of a plague-ravaged world in which all is risked to ensure that art and culture survive. Her upcoming Sea of Tranquility is described as a novel of “time travel and metaphysics” but Mandel does not consider herself a science fiction writer, per se. Indeed, her first book, published in 2009, was more mystery than science fiction; what was it called?

13) What species is Star Wars bounty hunter Bossk?

14) In what Canadian sitcom was Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings star Simu Liu feature before his casting as the MCU’s new martial arts-adept superhero?

15) Who won the inaugural Nebula Award for best novel?

16) South Korean model and actress HoYeon Jung portrays Kang Sae-byeok in Squid Game, a North Korean defector desperate to win the prize money so that she can smuggle her parents across the border, rescue her little brother from an orphanage, and reunite her family. What was her player number?

17) What species is Star Wars bounty hunter Aurra Sing?

18) Which of the squad members in 2021’s The Suicide Squad is now the star of his or her own new HBO Max series?

19) Which character in Squid Game created the bizarre and deadly contest in order to entertain bored, mega-rich people such as he?

20) What comic-book superheroine has variously been called, among numerous other sobriquets, “Taskmistress,” “Weapon Woman,” and “The Adorable Archer”?

21) Name the leader of the Federation colony the ensemble of which have somehow survived years of exposure to lethal Berthold rays in the original Star Trek episode “This Side of Paradise.”

22) On which planet do Captain Kirk and company find this colony?

6) PREAMBLE: CLUB ELECTIONS ONLINE

For the benefit of MonSFFen and in accordance with our practice, we outline here information concerning, and procedures for the election of the club’s Executive Committee, which will take place during the mid-meeting break, a little later on.

MonSFFA begins each year with the election of its Executive Committee for that upcoming 12 months. These elections always take place at our first meeting of the year, in January, and are confirmed and officially announced at the following meeting, in February. All MonSFFA members in good standing are encouraged to attend the January meeting and participate.

All club members in good standing, having paid in full their annual membership fees, are eligible to cast a ballot. Normally, members are asked to be present at the designated place and time in order to exercise their right to vote. Proxy voting is not permitted, except under special circumstance and by approval of the chief returning officer (CRO). Out-of-town members unable to attend the vote in person, for example, may have their ballots cast by the CRO in their absence. Potential candidates are encouraged to advise the CRO of their intention to run for one of the three specified offices as soon as possible in advance of the election.

Our 2022 Executive will be selected during today’s Zoom session by those club members present online, and by any who later submit their ballots via the club’s Web site. The Zoom vote will be conducted by a show of hands, excepting those participating via a non-visual connection, who will be able to either verbalize or indicate in the text/comments field their choices.

MonSFFA elects annually a president, vice-president, and treasurer—who together form the Executive Committee—and charges them with the responsibility of running the club on behalf of the membership. These executives recruit advisors and appoint officers to assist them in carrying out this responsibility.

Our sitting Executive is as follows: Cathy Palmer-Lister, president; Keith Braithwaite, vice-president; Joseph Aspler, treasurer.

Any MonSFFA member in good standing who is responsibly and reliably able to carry out the duties of office may run for any one of the Executive posts. Candidates may nominate themselves, or accept nomination from another member in good standing. Nominations are received by the CRO, usually just before the commencement of voting on Election Day.

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Note that our originally announced January 2022 meeting date of January 8—tomorrow!—was changed to January 15 in order to allow our programming team a little more time to prepare, the Holidays having just recently concluded.

This is Post 3 of 3 and officially signals the close of our e-gathering, today. Folk are free, however, to continue the conversation on Zoom, should they wish.

THANK YOU!

We hope you have enjoyed your time with us this afternoon, and we ask all of you to check in regularly here at www.MonSFFA.ca for additional content during this continuing pandemic, and for any updates as to when the club expects a return to regular, face-to-face meetings. Thank you for your interest and attention, and don’t forget to comment on today’s e-party!

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Merry Christmas to All, and to All, a Good Night… See You in the New Year!