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Reading

LOCUS FORTHCOMING BOOKS JUNE 2022

LOCUS FORTHCOMING BOOKS JUNE 2022

  • ELLEN DATLOW, ED. • Screams From the Dark • Tor Nightfire, Jun 2022 (an, hc, eb)
  • JOE ABERCROMBIE • The Great Change (and Other Lies) • Subterranean Press, Jun 2022 (c, hc)
  • EILEEN GUNN • Night Shift • PM Press, Jun 2022 (c, tp, eb)
  • ROBERT SILVERBERG • Among Strangers • Subterranean Press, Jun 2022 (c, hc)
  • STEPHEN ARYAN • Warrior • Angry Robot, Jun 2022 (eb, tp)
  • KEN LIU • Speaking Bones • Head of Zeus/Ad Astra, Jun 2022 (eb, hc)
  • KATHERINE ADDISON • The Grief of Stones • Tor, Jun 2022 (hc, eb)
  • ROBERT JACKSON BENNETT • Locklands • Penguin Random House/Del Rey, Jun 2022 (hc, eb)
  • JACK CAMPBELL • Resolute • Ace, Jun 2022 (hc, eb)
  • KIM HARRISON • Trouble with the Cursed • Ace, Jun 2022 (hc, eb)
  • ALIX E. HARROW • A Mirror Mended • Tordotcom, Jun 2022 (hc, eb)
  • MAT JOHNSON • Invisible Things • Penguin Random House/One World, Jun 2022 (hc, eb)
  • MERCEDES LACKEY • Into the West • DAW, Jun 2022 (hc, eb)
  • KEN LIU • Speaking Bones • Simon & Schuster/Saga Press, Jun 2022 (hc, eb)
  • HARRY TURTLEDOVE • Three Miles Down • Tor, Jun 2022 (hc, eb)
  • ANTHONY RYAN • The Martyr • Little, Brown UK/Orbit, Jun 2022 (hc)
  • SAMIT BASU • The City Inside • Tordotcom, Jun 2022 (tp, eb)
  • AYIZE JAMA-EVERETT • Heroes of an Unknown World • Small Beer Press, Jun 2022 (tp, eb)
  • GREG KEYES • The Basilisk Throne • Titan Books US, Jun 2022 (tp, eb)
  • JENNIFER ROBERSON • Sword-Bearer • DAW, Jun 2022 (tp, eb)
  • ANTHONY RYAN • The Martyr • Orbit US, Jun 2022 (tp, eb)
  • RACHEL SWIRSKY • January Fifteenth • Tordotcom, Jun 2022 (tp, eb)
  • MIKE BROOKS • The Godbreaker • Little, Brown UK/ Orbit, Jun 2022 (tp)
  • ROBERT JACKSON BENNETT • Locklands • Quercus/Jo Fletcher, Jun 2022 (tp)
  • MILES CAMERON • Against All Gods • Orion/Gollancz, Jun 2022 (tp)
  • GREG KEYES • The Basilisk Throne • Titan, Jun 2022 (tp)
  • V.E. SCHWAB • The Path of Thorns • Titan, Jun 2022 (tp)
  • KALYNN BAYRON • This Wicked Fate • Bloomsbury USA, Jun 2022 (ya, hc, eb)
  • DAVID WEBER & JANE LINDSKOLD • A New Clan • Baen, Jun 2022 (ya, hc, eb)
Upcoming meeting

REMINDER: WE MEET SATURDAY, JUNE 4TH

WE ARE MEETING THIS SATURDAY, JUNE 4TH.

 On the Menu:

  • Improv poetry, by Kofi
  • Part 2 of Keith’s Terrors of Topanga Canyon (Part 1 is here)

Also:

  • Panning for the field trip to Rail Museum & August meeting
  • Show and tell, What are you reading/watching, Raffle

Untold Scenery, Decoded Imagery

by Kofi

Worlds intertwine

As the words do in these lines

Combine at will

Even if time were to be still

What may occur, who really knows?

Can these words and aura be the hidden device

That brings the surprise to a world never told

Where the colors are smell by the nose

Where the occurrence of the unknown

Is part of the times

Consider it commonplace

Part of being regular,

Actions aren’t seen in singular

Join us in the journey, to see what comes across our face

In this phase

Would it be familiar?

Or a whole different pace

 

Fanzines

Zines to share!

More Zines arrived!

Nic Farey sent us This Here, lots of footy news and lovely art by Ulrika O’Brian. TH 53

From the N3F, the N3F Review of Books Incorporating Prose Bono

N3FReview202205

Fiction

2 … A Long Time Until Now by Michael Z. Williamson … Review by Trevor Denning
3 … A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs … Review by Caroline Furlong
5 … A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher (Ursula Vernon) … Review by Tom Feller
6 … Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire … Review by Perry Middlemiss
6 … Alexis Carew series by J.A. Sutherland … Review by Jim McCoy
8 … Beat The Devils by Josh Weiss … Review by Jason P. Hunt
9 … Chaos on Catnet by Naomi Kritzer … Review by Tom Feller
9 … Dark Sojourns by Beth H. Adams … Review by Heath Row
10 … Doctor Who and the Deadly Assassin by Terrance Dicks … Review by Heath Row
11 … Drosselmeyer: Curse of the Rat King … Review by Trevor Denning
13 … The Einstein Intersection by Samuel R. Delaney … Review by Perry Middlemiss
13 … Escape From the Future by Paul Clayton … Review by Michael Gallagher
16 … Fireheart Tiger by Aliette de Bodard … Review by Perry Middlemiss
16 … Five Hard and Crunchy SF Tales by Michèle Laframboise … Review by Robert Runté
17 … Foundation by Isaac Asimov … Review by Heath Row
19 … Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov … Review by Heath Row
19 … The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood … Review by Heath Row
21 … Jaguar Rising by Amanda S. Green … Review by Pat Patterson
22 … Light Chaser by Peter F. Hamilton and Gareth L. Powell … Review by Perry Middlemiss
22 … Light Unto Another World by Yakov Merkin … Review by Caroline Furlong
24 … Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny … Review by Perry Middlemiss
24 … Magnetic Brain by Volsted Gridban … Review by Heath Row
25 … Marymae and the Nightmare Man by A. M. Freeman … Review by Caroline Furlong
27 … Mission: Interplanetary by A.E. van Vogt … Review by Heath Row
28 … Monster Hunter International by Larry Correia … Review by Declan Finn
30 … The Mummy of Monte Cristo … Review by Trevor Denning
32 … My Luck by Mel Todd … Review by Declan Finn
34 … The Necessity of Stars by E. Catherine Tobler … Review by Perry Middlemiss
34 … A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers … Review by Perry Middlemiss
35 … Responsibility of the Crown by G. Scott Huggins … Review by Pat Patterson
36 … The Ruin of Kings by Jenn Lyons … Review by Tom Feller
36 … Servants of War by Larry Correia and Steve Diamond … Review by JE Tabor
38 … The Star Beast by Robert Heinlein … Review by Chris Nuttall
42 … Thunder God of Mars: A Superhero Prose Novel … Review by Trevor Denning
43 … We Dare: Semper Paratus: An Anthology of the Apocalypse edited by Jamie Ibson … Review by Pat Patterson
45 … When Valor Must Hold Edited by Rob Howell and Chris Kennedy … Review by Pat Patterson
46 … Year of the Unicorn by Andre Norton … Review by Caroline Furlong

Non-Fiction

49 … Fandom: Confidential by Ron Frantz … Review by Heath Row
50 … My Memoirs of the Dark Shadows Conventions by Anthony Taylor … Review by Heath Row
51 … The Politics of Fandom by Hannah Mueller … Review by Heath Row

Prose Bono

53 … Character Analysis: A Tale of Two People by Chris Nuttall
54 … Trimming Out the Story by Cedar Sanderson

FINIS … 55

Astronomy News

METEOR OUTBURST POSSIBLE MAY 31

Space Weather News for May 24, 2022
https://spaceweather.com
https://www.spaceweatheralerts.com

METEOR OUTBURST POSSIBLE NEXT WEEK: Debris from a shattered comet is approaching Earth, and it could cause a meteor outburst on May 31st. Experts caution that this is an uncertain forecast. The shower could be a great storm, a complete dud, or almost anything in between. Whatever happens, sky watchers in North America will be in the right place to see it; the shower is expected to peak almost directly above southern California. Sky maps and more @ Spaceweather.com.

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Above: Broken Comet 7P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3, the source of next week’s possible meteor outburst.

 

Tributes

Colin Cantwell, designer of ‘Star Wars’ ships

Colin Cantwell, designer of ‘Star Wars’ Death Star, dies aged 90

Cantwell was best known for designing and constructing prototypes of the X-Wing, Star Destroyer, TIE Fighter, Death Star and other ships for “Star Wars: A New Hope,” the first movie in the blockbuster sci-fi franchise.
According to his website, he designed the spaceships used in the 1977 movie two years earlier, building the models and photographing them when they were completed.
Cantwell’s website also noted that he was UCLA’s first animation graduate, after persuading the university to add an animation major.
Upcoming meeting

Improv Poetry at our June meeting!

Don’t forget: Our June meeting is scheduled for the 4th, a week earlier than usual,  in order to avoid conflicting with Scintillation. Our newest MonSFFAn will regale us with a session of improve poetry! Asked to send us a blurb to describe his presentation, Kofi sent us a poem!  This meeting is going to be so much fun! –cpl

Untold Scenery, Decoded Imagery


Worlds intertwine

As the words do in these lines

Combine at will

Even if time were to be still

What may occur, who really knows?

Can these words and aura be the hidden device

That brings the surprise to a world never told

Where the colors are smell by the nose

Where the occurrence of the unknown

Is part of the times

Consider it commonplace

Part of being regular,

Actions aren’t seen in singular

Join us in the journey, to see what comes across our face

In this phase

Would it be familiar?

Or a whole different pace

–Kofi

 

 

Movies

Star Wars: Millennium Falcon Pembrokeshire exhibition to open

See the pictures and video  here. —cpl

It is the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy and capable of completing the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs.

What is less well known about the Millennium Falcon is it truly was the last ship to be built at the Royal Pembroke Dockyard.

The life-size model was built in Pembroke Dock in 1979 before being shipped to movie studios

Now an exhibition will tell the story of how Han Solo’s beloved spaceship was built in an aircraft hangar in the Pembrokeshire town in spring 1979.

It will tell the story with photographs, film, models and costumes.

The project was so secret it was codenamed The Magic Roundabout, but eventually word of the “UFO” being built in the western hangar got out.

A BBC Wales crew even paid a visit to the team at Marcon Fabrications who were tasked with building the gigantic intergalactic cruiser.

The engineers normally worked for petrochemical and oil companies.

It took three months to build before being transported to Elstree Studios for production of the Oscar-winning The Empire Strikes Back.

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