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More zines! Probe, e-fanzines, Origin, & Fanac Gazette

From Bill Burns, new zines at e-fanzines:

Just added at https://efanzines.com:

  • Leybl Botwinik’s CyberCozen – June 2022
  • New page for the Octothorpe Podcast transcriptions archive – includes subtitle files.
  • Henry Grynnsten’s Wild Ideas #24
  • David Grigg’s Through the Biblioscope #24 and new title The Megaloscope
  • R Graeme Cameron’s Great Galloping Ghu! #1


    Bill

From South Africa: PROBE192X Stunning cover art!!

June 2022
3. Editorial
4. Chairman’s Note
6. Magazines Received
6. Books Received
6. Blast from the past
7. Book Review
8. 3rd Place Nova 2021 “Contaminated” by
Martinus Stander Conradie
28. Nova 2021 Finalist “Planet of Boulders” by
Gary Kuyper
42. L.O.C Gary Kuyper
43. “Are we dead before we are born?” by
Hubert Haensel & Martin Munsonius
49. “A Reinterpretation of the Milky Way’s
Evolution and nature” – from The Daily
Galaxy.

With this mailing, we are sending you your issues of Origin and of the FanActivity Gazette.

Origin contents ORIGIN 52
Editorial: The Times are Favorable for Increase, by John Thiel, page three
What I Did, by Will Mayo, page five
Jeffrey Redmond, photographs, page seven
David H. Keller, by Jon Swartz, page eight
Overcoming Anxiety and Achieving Hope, by Judy Carroll, page fifteen
Afterthoughts, by John Thiel, page nineteen

Fanactivity Gazette contents FanAct13

Editorial: George Phillies writes.
Letter of Comment (Lloyd Penney)
Science Fiction Club News by Heath Row
Fanzines: Fanfaronade from Justin E. A. Busch
Television: Rabid Ears: Ravings of a TV Fiend by Cathode Ray
FANAC Fan History Project FANAC Newsletter 18
Motion Pictures: Celluloid Sentience By Cathode Ray
Conventions: Forthcoming Conventions by Mindy Hunt
Science Fiction Pro and Fan Birthdays from Heath Row
April 2022 SF Calendar and Cover Illo from Bob Jennings

Zine to Share: CyberCozen

CyberCozen, from Israel CCJune-2022-v02

This month’s roundup:

• More Yiddish-related SF material dedicated to my dear departed father, David Botwinik (o”h – ע”ה )

• Book review: “More Zion’s Fiction” Part 5: Hila Benyovits-Hoffman’s “Five Four Three Two One”

  • Our usual, interesting tidbits from the Web.
  • Readers reacted very well to Sheldon Teitelbaum’s reprinted article in our last issue. We’d love to see more of his articles regarding SF. – Your editor, Leybl Botwinik

Video of yesterday’s CME

Space Weather News for June 13, 2022
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MAGNIFICENT CME: Earlier today, an unusually slow solar flare hurled a magnificent CME into space. The explosion and its afterglow lasted nearly 8 hours. The CME could sideswipe Earth’s magnetosphere later this week, producing minor geomagnetic storms. Full story @ Spaceweather.com.

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Above: Visit Spaceweather.com to watch a movie of today’s CME

 

Zines to share!

From Bill Burns:

Added today at https://efanzines.com are:

Guy H. Lillian III’s Spartacus #56

Octothorpe #59, a regular fannish podcast by Liz Batty, John Coxon and Alison Scott, is now on line

Guy & Rosy Lillian’s 2022 trip report The Iconic Route UK Parts 1 & 2

Garth Spencer’s The Obdurate Eye #17

From the n3F: Tightbeam333

Table of Contents
Front Cover … In Outer Space by Jose Sanchez
Back Cover … N3F Recruiting Poster by Alan White
Letters of Comment
4 … Will Mayo, Jeffrey Redmond, Jose Sanchez
Anime
4 … Girls’ Frontline by Jessi Silver
Cartoons
6 … Will Mayo Reviews Johnny Quest
Comics
6 … Will Mayo Reviews Alley Oop, The Archies, Richie Rich
Conventions
7 … Convention Report – Anime Central 2022 by Jessi Silver
Movies
11 … Madelines Twists the Time Travel Tropes by Jason P. Hunt
12 … Will Mayo Reviews Swamp Thing, Angelflesh, Maximum Overdrive, Field of Dreams
Radio
13 … Will Mayo Reviews the CBS Mystery Hour
Sercon
13 … Robert W. Lowndes Bio-Bibliography by Jon D. Swartz, Ph.D., N3F Historian
Song
16 … Will Mayo Reviews America’s Sandman, The Rolling Stones’ 2,000 Light Years, Roky Erickson’s If You Have Ghosts, Jimi Hendrix’s Voodoo Child
Verse
17 … Will Mayo Reviews ee cummings’s Pity This Busy Monster, Manunkind
Video
17 … Will Mayo Reviews Tales From The Crypt, Lost In Space, Nimoy’s Mystery Show
Food of Famous Authors
18 … Eat This While You Read That: William Joseph Roberts … Cooking by Cedar Sanderson

MonSFFA Meeting of June 4th

Missed the meeting? Here are the links to all the posts in order. Note that some of the meeting was only on zoom, and this is posted under the members only tab on our website.

Trains figure prominently in SF/F–here are a few. Know of another? Please add to the comments!

Post 1 of 8: Introduction, Trains in SF/F

Post 2 of 8: Live Sci-Fi Improv Poetry!

Post 3 of 8: Show-and-Tell

Post 4 of 8: Time for the Break!

Post 5 of 8: The Terrors of Topanga Canyon—Paul Blaisdell, Monster-Maker (Part II)

Post 6 of 8: Summer Events

What are you reading/watching: the meeting ran late, but please do contribute by posting a comment. Are you watching Strange New Worlds?

Post 7 of 8: What Are You Reading/Watching?

Post 8 of 8: Wrap-Up

Upcoming events:

June 18, visit to the rail museum, Delson

July 9th, BBQ in the park, probably Maisonneuve near the Botanical Gardens

August, probably at the Atwater Library

Post 4 of 8: Time for the Break!

Post 5 of 8: Time for the Break!

Club news, raffle prizes, display table

Get yer bheer & chips, it’s time for the break!

Why do fen spell bheer with an “h”? https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bheer

CLUB NEWS
  • We have a Field trip to the Rail Museum, Delson, on the 18th of June.
  • The Picnic in the Park is scheduled for July 9th.
  • Our return to in-person meetings may happen in August!
  • Danny is looking for your submissions to WARP! Send in your art, stories, photos, puzzles, etc! <warp@monsffa.ca>
  • Got an idea for a future presentation? We need your input!

THE VIRTUAL DISPLAY TABLE

From Mark Burakoff

From Wayne Glover: All 1/72

Starfury MK I, CRF-105C Arrow, Shuttlecrart MK13, RAF B-25C Michell III Medium Bomber, RAF Lancaster MKI Heavy Bomber
PT-109 Torpedio Boat, Hawk MKIX Fighter, Eagle Transport, Runabout USS Rio Grande, US Navy Skipjack Class SSN

1/350 Bird of Prey landed, and also the Bird of Prey along side of Colonial One & the Federation Shuttlecrart

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Daniel Kenney has been creating a diorama for his Blue Dragon. Click the thumbnail to view photos full size.


RAFFLE PRIZES

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Board game published by Metagaming Concepts in 1982 as MicroGame #21, donated by Brian

Game donated by Brian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fantasy_Trip

16 stories by well-known authors, intro by Greg Bear, condition: new

Tentacles, free-standing jigsaw puzzle designed by Judy Peterson, cut by CPL from birdseye maple. About 16 cm long.

Young Miles by Lois McMaster Bujold, hardcover, pages a bit yellowed, Sylvain’s legacy

Sequel to King Kong, being released just nine months after and is the second entry of the King Kong franchise. Sylvain’s collection

Trade paperback, donated by CPL, condition: new

Boris, series 1, from Sylvain’s legacy, box of 90 cards, each card described on the back

First of a duology by Ben Bova & A J Austin, dust jacket a bit scuffed, otherwise looks unread.