Garth is the CUFF recipient for Pemmi-con, the NASFiC in Winnipeg. Click here to read Shooting my CUFFs #2. Shooting My CUFFs #2
He writes:
Dear Fen and Fannes,
Here’s Garth Spencer and his fan fund sales list!! Also a call for fundraising suggestions!!
Yours,
Garth Spencer
Vancouver, BC
One of the World’s Best Comics Events | May 26-28
Come join me and over 200 other creators at the Festival BD de Montréal | Montréal Comic Arts Festival! I may be biased, but I think that the Festival is one of the top events in the world of comics, a huge, FREE event that takes over over a mile of Saint Denis Street, creating a pedestrian-friendly street fair with a vibrant and unique atmosphere.
Officially bilingual, this event should definitely be on the radar of anglophone comics readers… Think of it as a North American Angoulême, but maybe even better! Some of the many publishers present include Drawn & Quarterly, Oni Press, Pow Pow Press, Floating World Comics, Uncivilized Books, La Pastèque, and so many more. Guests this year include Gabriel Ba and Fábio Moon, Nick Drnaso, Aisha Franz, Sarah Anderson, Sourya, Manuele Fior, Dorothée de Monfreid, and so many more!
This ballot is for works originally done in 2022 by Canadians. The Aurora Awards are nominated by members of the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association. The top five nominated works were selected. Additional works were included where there was a tie for fifth place. An online awards ceremony will be held on August 19th, 2023, at 5pm EDT, with hosts Mark Leslie Lefebvre and Liz Anderson. Details at www.csffa.ca
Best Novel
All the Seas of the World, Guy Gavriel Kay, Penguin Canada
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Del Rey
The Embroidered Book, Kate Heartfield, HarperVoyager
Sea of Tranquility, Emily St. John Mandel, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
The Void Ascendant, Premee Mohamed, Solaris Books
Best Young Adult Novel
Black Hole Radio – Ka’Azula, Ann Birdgenaw, DartFrog Books
Ghostlight, Kenneth Oppel, Puffin Canada
The Hollow Boys: The Dream Rider Saga, Book 1, Douglas Smith, Spiral Path Books
Night of the Raven, Dawn of the Dove, Rati Mehrotra, Wednesday Books
Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor, Xiran Jay Zhao, Margaret K. McElderry Books
Best Novelette/Novella
Even Though I Knew the End, C.L. Polk, Tordotcom
High Times in the Low Parliament, Kelly Robson, TordotCom
The Jade Setter of Janloon, Fonda Lee, Subterranean Press
“A Sky and a Heaven”, Eric Choi, Just Like Being There, Springer Nature
The Tiger Came to the Mountains, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Amazon Original Stories
Best Short Story
“Big Trouble in Droidtown”, Hayden Trenholm, The Astronaut Always Rings Twice, Tyche Books
“Broken Vow: The Adventures of Flick Gibson, Intergalactic Videographer”, Peter G. Reynolds, On Spec Magazine, Issue 120
“Douen”, Suzan Palumbo, The Dark, Issue 82
“The Five Rules of Supernova Surfing, or A For Real Solution to the Fermi Paradox, Bro”, Geoffrey W. Cole, Clarkesworld, Issue 184
“Green Witch”, Elizabeth Whitton, Prairie Witch, Prairie Soul Press
“A New Brave World”, Eric Choi, Brave New Worlds, Zombies Need Brains
“Schrödinger’s Cats”, Wayne Cusack, Polar Borealis Magazine, Issue #22
“We Are the Thing That Lives on the Moon”, Gillian Secord, Fireside Magazine, Issue 101, March
Best Graphic Novel/Comic
Birds of Maine, Michael deForge, Drawn and Quarterly
Cupcake War Machine, Marika Kapogeorgakis, webcomic
Goblins, Ellipsis Hana Stephens, webcomic
It Never Rains, Kari Maaren, webcomic
Mistress of the Winds, Michèle Laframboise, Echofictions
Questionable Content, Jeph Jacques, webcomic
Wychwood, Ally Rom Colthoff, webcomic
Best Poem/Song
“After the Apocalypse”, Colleen Anderson, NewMyths, Vol 16, issue 61
“Ghost Stories”, James Grotkowski, Polar Starlight Magazine, Issue 6
“In Stock Images of the Future, Everything is White”, Terese Mason Pierre, Uncanny Magazine, Issue Forty-Six
“Poltergeist”, Rhonda Parrish, Star*Line, Vol 45, Issue 2
“Rapunzel in the Desert”, Melissa Yuan-Innes, On Spec Magazine, Issue 122
“a sinkhole invites a street to consider its future”, Dominik Parisien, Uncanny Magazine, Issue Forty-Four
“Three Herons”, Geoffrey W. Cole, Polar Starlight Magazine, Issue 5
“The Wolf of Your Passions”, Lynne Sargent, Augur Magazine, Issue 5.2
Best Related Work
The Astronaut Always Rings Twice, edited by Shannon Allen and JR Campbell, Tyche Books
Nothing Without Us Too, edited by Cait Gordon and Talia C. Johnson, Renaissance
On Spec Magazine, Issues 119, 120, and 121, managing editor Diane Walton, The Copper Pig Writers’ Society
Prairie Witch, edited by Stacey Kondla, Prairie Soul Press
Strange Wars: Speculative Fiction of Coalitions in Conflict, edited by Don Miasek, TDotSpec
Best Cover Art/Interior Illustration
Arboreality, cover art, Rachel Yu Lobbenberg, Stelliform Press
The Astronaut Always Rings Twice, cover art, Kayla Kowalyk, Tyche Books
Birthday of the Unicorn, cover art, Marco Marin, TdotSpec
Weird Fishes, cover art, Julia Louise Pereira, Stelliform Press
The World We Left Behind, Swati Chavda, On Spec Magazine, Issue 119
Best Fan Writing and Publication
JenEric Movie Reviews, Éric Desmarais, JenEric Designs
Polar Borealis Magazine, Issues: 21, 22, and 23, edited by R. Graeme Cameron
Polar Starlight Magazine, Issues: 5, 6, and 7, edited by Rhea E. Rose
The Travelling TARDIS, Jennifer Desmarais, JenEric Designs
Young People Read Old SFF, edited by James Davis Nicoll, online
Best Fan Related Work
Augurcon, Terese Mason Pierre and Kerry C. Byrne, co-directors, Toria Liao, operations director, online
Can*Con, Marie Bilodeau and Derek Künsken, co-chairs, Ottawa
ephemera Reading Series, KT Bryski and Jen R. Albert, co-chairs, online
When Words Collide, Randy McCharles, chair, online
The Worldshapers Podcast, Edward Willett, online
And an update from Bill Burns at e-fanizes
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Bill
2023 Aurora Awards Ballot
The 2023 ballot is out. The top five works in all ten categories have been determined from the nominations by CSFFA members. It can be viewed on our website. It contains the most up to date listing.
Good luck to all of the nominees. Voting will begin on June 17th and close six weeks later on July 29th. Before you vote make sure to download the voters package so you can read the works on the ballot.
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.
Aurora Award Voter’s Package
We are hard at work compiling the Voter’s package for the 2023 Aurora Awards. We are happy to say that there has been a wonderful response from all the nominees which will make for a wonderful package for you to enjoy. It is our hope to have the package into member’s hands by May 22, 2023 so watch the website!
This year has an amazing list of nominated works. Take your time, read everything in the package and vote for what YOU like, what moves YOU. Your participation makes all the difference.
Time for a break! News, displays, & raffle prizes! |
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In case you missed it, here is the map of the Metro that was posted on May 4th. Thanks to Josée who sent in a pic.
Our June meeting will be on the THIRD Saturday, June 17th, to avoid a schedule conflict with Scintillation and MonSFFA member Phyllis’ birthday party, to which all our members are invited. The party will be June 10 at the same hall where we had our Christmas party.
You won’t want to miss our June 17th meeting–we have a writer guest appearing via Zoom. Our thanks to Danny for arranging her appearance.
Olivia Atwater writes whimsical historical fantasy with a hint of satire. She lives in Montreal, Quebec with her fantastic, prose-inspiring husband and her two cats. She has been, at various times, a historical re-enactor, a professional witch at a metaphysical supply store, a web developer, and a vending machine repairperson.
Fantasy as Satire: Though you can write a satire in just about any genre, fantasy lends itself particularly well to the idea for reasons both structural and psychological. Olivia Atwater discusses a few well-known examples of satire within the fantasy genre, and elaborates on why they succeed so well at their aims.
MonSFFA is saddened to learn of the passing of member John Mansfield and MonSFFriend, Jaime Yip.
Danny and Val have WARP113 just about ready to hit the presses! The next issue, 114, will need your input! Write a review, a short story, draw a cartoon or create a puzzle! Don’t wait for the deadline.
Wayne is working on the HMS Victory.
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MonSFFA meets on line and on zoom on the 13th of May. All are invited to attend. The link to the zoom invitation will be in our first post of the meeting which appears on this website right at 13:00h. Or, you can request the link by contacting <president@monsffa.ca>
There will be two presentations. Kofi will be speaking on math and magic, and Danny Sichel will speak on everyone’s favourite detective, Sherlock Holmes.
Good day,
We have just opened our 2023 Nova competition and would appreciate it if you could pass on the attached information to any aspiring writers you think might be interested
Please find attached information about our 2023 Science Fiction and Fantasy short story competition which closes on the 30th of September 2023. Winning stories will receive cash prizes and be published in our Clubzine PROBE .
For more information please see our website www.sffsa.org.za
Thank you
Gail and Ian Jamieson
From the N3F, Tight beam. Tightbeam344
Table of Contents
Art
Front Cover … Visitor by Jose Sanchez
Back Cover … Boat to Golden Island by Tiffanie Gray
4 … N3F Laureate Awards Nominations
6 … Letter of Comment
Comics
6 … Asterix and the Chieftain’s Daughter … Review by Chris Nuttall
7 … Action Comics #1052 … Review by Heath Row
Con Report
8 … Anime Detour 2023 … Review by Jessi Silver
Films
11 … Paramount’s Scream … Review by Jim McCoy
12 … Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde … Review by Heath Row
12 … Black Panther: Wakanda Forever … Review by Perry Middlemiss
13 … The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant (1971) … Review by Heath Row
Novels
13 … Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner … Review by Perry Middlemiss
Prozine Review
14 … Realms of Fantasy … Review by Heath Row
SerCon
15 … Robert Sheckley Bio-Bibliography by Jon D. Swartz, Ph.D.
Short Stories
17 … From the Reading Pile: Short Stories … Review by Heath Row
17 … Orbit 3 edited by Damon Knight … Review by Perry Middlemiss
Food of Famous Writers
18 … Eat This While You Read That: G. Scott Huggins … Cooking by Cedar Sanderson
We welcome a new to us trade zine from Ahrvid Engholm
E-zine by Ahrvid Engholm, ahrvid@hotmail.com, for EAPA, N’APA and more Homo Fannishus. Follow ed’s newstweets from @SFJournalen. Here are the votes from the Intermission jury: History Corner 8 points, LON Olsson 10 points, Lots of Typos 12 points. Thanks for a wonderful show! Late April 2022.
Garth Spencer has sent us the OBDURATE EYE 27.pdf and the EAPA MEMBERSHIP FORM.docx
Also, a riddle:
Q: When is a duck?
A: Because one of its legs is both the same.
Bill Burns sends us an update to e-fanzines:
Added today at https://efanzines.com are:
Perry Middlemiss’s Perryscope #32
Nic Farey’s This Here…#64
Opuntia #548, edited by Dale Speirs
Christopher J. Garcia’s The Drink Tank #447 and Claims Department #36
J.L. Farey’s JenZine #4
Garth Spencer’s The Obdurate Eye #27
Ethel the Aardvark #218 and archive issues 16, 182
GEOMAGNETIC STORM WATCH: Earth’s magnetic field is reverberating from an unexpected CME impact on May 6th, which sparked a G2-class geomagnetic storm. Another CME is following close on its heels. A second impact expected on May 7th or 8th could bring renewed geomagnetic storming with auroras across parts of Europe, Canada, and northern-tier US States. Full story @ Spaceweather.com.
CME alerts: Sign up for Space Weather Alerts to receive instant text messages when CMEs strike Earth.
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Above: Auroras over Gayford Pond (near Calgary, Alberta) following a CME strike on May 6th. Credit: Harlan Thomas
