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LOCUS FORTHCOMING BOOKS: APRIL 2022

LOCUS FORTHCOMING BOOKS: APRIL 2022

  • JOHN KESSEL • The Dark Ride • Subterranean Press, Apr 2022 (c, hc)
  • BRANDON SANDERSON • Skyward Flight • Orion/Gollancz, Apr 2022 (c, eb, hc)
  • JAMES BARCLAY • The Queen’s Assassin • Orion/ Gollancz, Apr 2022 (eb, tp)
  • MARY GENTLE • The Landing • Orion/Gollancz, Apr 2022 (eb, tp)
  • JENN LYONS • The Discord of Gods • Macmillan/Tor UK, Apr 2022 (eb, hc)
  • TIM PRATT • Prison of Sleep • Angry Robot, Apr 2022 (eb, tp)
  • ADRIAN TCHAIKOVSKY • Eyes of the Void • Macmillan/Tor UK, Apr 2022 (eb, hc)
  • JOHN CROWLEY • Flint and Mirror • Tor, Apr 2022 (hc, eb)
  • JENNIFER EGAN • The Candy House • Simon & Schuster/Scribner, Apr 2022 (hc, eb)
  • JOHN M. FORD • Aspects • Tor, Apr 2022 (hc, eb)
  • W. MICHAEL GEAR • Implacable Alpha • DAW, Apr 2022 (hc, eb)
  • NICOLA GRIFFITH • Spear • Tordotcom, Apr 2022 (hc, eb)
  • T. KINGFISHER • Nettle & Bone • Tor, Apr 2022 (hc, eb)
  • MARK LAWRENCE • The Girl and the Moon • Ace, Apr 2022 (hc, eb)
  • JENN LYONS • The Discord of Gods • Tor, Apr 2022 (hc, eb)
  • EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL • Sea of Tranquility • Penguin Random House/Knopf, Apr 2022 (hc, eb)
  • ADAM OYEBANJI • Braking Day • DAW, Apr 2022 (hc, eb)
  • REBECCA ROANHORSE • Fevered Star • Simon & Schuster/Saga Press, Apr 2022 (hc, eb)
  • WEN SPENCER • Harbinger • Baen, Apr 2022 (hc, eb)
  • T. KINGFISHER • Nettle & Bone • Titan, Apr 2022 (hc)
  • MARK LAWRENCE • The Girl and the Moon • Harper Voyager, Apr 2022 (hc)
  • PAUL CORNELL • Rosebud • Tordotcom, Apr 2022 (na, tp, eb)
  • FONDA LEE • The Jade Setter of Janloon • Subterranean Press, Apr 2022 (na, hc, eb)
  • JANE LINDSKOLD • Aurora Borealis Bridge • Baen, Apr 2022 (tp, eb)
  • TIM PRATT • Prison of Sleep • Angry Robot US, Apr 2022 (tp, eb)
  • CHARLIE JANE ANDERS • Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak • Titan, Apr 2022 (tp)
  • PETER McLEAN • Priest of Crowns • Quercus/Jo Fletcher, Apr 2022 (tp)
  • ALASTAIR REYNOLDS • Inhibitor Phase • Orion/Gollancz, Apr 2022 (tp)
  • REBECCA ROANHORSE • Fevered Star • Rebellion/Solaris, Apr 2022 (tp)
  • GWENDA BOND • The Date from Hell • St. Martin’s Griffin, Apr 2022 (v, hc, eb)
  • CHARLIE JANE ANDERS • Dreams Bigger than Heartbreak • Tor Teen, Apr 2022 (ya, hc, eb)
  • DANIEL PINKWATER • Crazy in Poughkeepsie • Tachyon Publications, Apr 2022 (ya, hc, eb)
  • NEIL GAIMAN & P. CRAIG RUSSELL • Norse Mythology • Volume 2, Dark Horse Books, Apr 2022 (gn, art, hc, eb)
  • DAVID DALGLISH • The Bladed Faith • Little, Brown UK/ Orbit, Apr 2022 (tp)
  • LUKE ARNOLD • One Foot in the Fade • Little, Brown UK/Orbit, Apr 2022 (tp)
Astronomy News

Class X1.3 Flare causes shortwave radio blackout

Space Weather News for March 30, 2022
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https://www.spaceweatheralerts.com

X-CLASS SOLAR FLARE: Earth-orbiting satellites have just detected a powerful explosion on the sun. The X1.3-class flare on March 30th (1737 UT) caused a shortwave radio blackout over the Americas and has almost certainly hurled a CME toward Earth. Follow this developing story @ Spaceweather.com.

Don’t miss another solar flare: Subscribers to our Space Weather Alert Service received a text message about this X-flare while it was happening. Such prompt notifications allow ham radio operators, amateur astronomers and others to react to flares before they fade away.
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Above: The extreme ultraviolet flash from today’s X-flare. Credit: NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory

Astronomy News

A ‘CANNIBAL CME’ IS APPROACHING EARTH

Space Weather News for March 29, 2022
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A ‘CANNIBAL CME’ IS APPROACHING EARTH: A strong G3-class geomagnetic storm is possible later this week when a ‘Cannibal CME’ hits Earth’s magnetic field. It’s a ‘cannibal’ because it ate one of its own kind en route to our planet. The mash-up of two CMEs could spark naked-eye auroras visible from northern-tier US states. Full story @ Spaceweather.com.

Aurora Alerts: Sign up for Space Weather Alerts and get instant text notifications when geomagnetic storms are underway.
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Above: This frame from a NASA animation shows one CME overtaking another. The resulting merger is called a ‘Cannibal CME.’

Astronomy News

SOLAR FLARE, TSUNAMI, AND RADIATION STORM

Space Weather News for March 28, 2022
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SOLAR FLARE, TSUNAMI, AND RADIATION STORM: A strong flare on the sun this morning kicked off a remarkable sequence of events: a solar tsunami, a solar radio burst, a solar proton storm, a terrestrial radio blackout and a polar cap absorption event. The explosion also (almost certainly) hurled a CME toward Earth. Developing story @ Spaceweather.com.

Solar Flare Alerts: Sign up for Space Weather Alerts and get instant text notifications when solar flares are underway.
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Above: An M4-class solar flare and shortwave radio blackout (inset) on March 28, 2022.

Astronomy News

GEOMAGNETIC STORM WATCH (G1-CLASS)

Space Weather News for March 26, 2022
https://spaceweather.com
https://www.spaceweatheralerts.com

GEOMAGNETIC STORM WATCH (G1-CLASS): Yesterday, the sun launched a coronal mass ejection (CME) toward Earth. Forecasters are divided on when it might arrive–sometime between midday on March 27th and early March 28th. The impact could spark minor G1-class geomagnetic storms with equinox auroras boosted by the “Russell-McPherron effect.” Full story @ Spaceweather.com.

Solar Flare Alerts: Sign up for Space Weather Alerts and get instant text notifications when solar flares are underway.
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Above: Equinox auroras over Norway on March 20, 2022. Photo credit: Sirpa Pursiainen. For the latest sightings, check out Spaceweather.com’s real time Aurora Photo Gallery.

Corona meetings from home

Guest Speaker at our April 9th meeting

Guest Speaker, Lonny Buinis, to present “Virtual Reality Planets” April 9th MonSFFA Meeting

Virtual Reality objects have been around on websites for a while, helping to market everything from jewelry to automobiles. Lonny Buinis will take us on a tour of the solar system and beyond in “VR'”. We’ll compare century-old and modern maps of the planets Mercury, Mars, and Saturn by transforming them into 3D globes. Our tour will include modern space art superimposed on a Hubble map of Jupiter, exoplanets, and more. Lonny will demonstrate how you can use your fingers or any pointing device to “Hold a planet in your hands!”

Bio:Lonny Buinis is one of 200 space artists worldwide in the International Association of Astronomical Artists. He has degrees from Stevens Institute of Technology in physics and computer science. In 2016, the United Astronomy Clubs of New Jersey named one of its observatories after him for his decades of volunteer work there.

link: https://www.astronomyinmotion.com/bioLB.html

Websites:
https://www.astronomyinmotion.com
https://marsatyourfingertips.com

Corona meetings from home, MonSFFA Website

Visions of the Future: Expo 67

April 9th, a Joe Aspler presentation: Expo 67, reminisces on its 55th anniversary

This month marks the 55th anniversary of the opening of Expo 67, still remembered as Montreal’s finest moment. The centrepiece of Canada’s Centennial celebration, Expo is constantly ranked among the greatest World’s Fairs.

Rather than pavilions conforming to cookie-cutter designs, the finest architects provided their imagination. Designers, filmmakers, and others put together a 1,000-acre showplace and playground. Anyone who was anyone was in Montreal that summer, from performers to world leaders.

Expo showed us the future. Computers would examine problems that today, a 12-year-old could carry out on their smartphones. We could use the videotelephone. We could see a model of Air Canada’s supersonic transport, already on order for service in the far-off year of 1980. We could ride on the new-fangled Hovercraft. We could take a monorail, although it was called the “minirail”, this was the 60s after all. We could stand in line for hours to see the Labyrinth: the forerunner of IMAX. In the pavilion of the Indians of Canada, the First Nations told their story, which was different (to say the least) from patronizing, romanticized displays of earlier World’s Fairs.

Some of the future came true, some … not so much.  In Joe’s presentation, we’ll see photos from his personal collection, taken as a budding young photographer, completed by images and videos from the Internet.

Don’t miss this presentation by Joe Aspler, April 9th, on Zoom and on our website.

MonSFFA Website

More Zines on line!

More zines on line, enjoy!

Now available at https://efanzines.com:

Opuntia #521, edited by Dale Speirs

Christopher J. Garcia’s The Drink Tank #438

Nic Farey’s The Incompleat Register 2022 Results – FAAn Award results for work published in 2021

From the N3F: TNFF202203

Neffys — Nominations are open
Presidential Notes
Club Activities
Treasurer — Eldritch Science — Fan-Pro Coordinating Bureau
Games Bureau — Correspondence Bureau — Pro Bureau
Welcommittee — Writer’s Exchange Bureau — Round Robins Bureau
View from the Directorate
Letters of Comment
Lloyd Penney — Kevin Trainor — Heath Row — Bob Jennings
SerCon: Mystery In Space
2022 N3F Amateur Short Story Contest
Story Contest Rules and Entry Blank