Category Archives: MonSFFA meeting from home

Meeting of February 10: The Raffle Prizes

2024-02-04 Cathy Palmer-Lister

RAFFLE PRIZES on offer for the Feb 10 meeting

Click the thumbnails to view full size image.

X-Men set of DVDs	Published January 1, 1981, won the Nebula prize for best non-fiction	Event Leviathan hardcover comic (the whole DC universe)
Awards: British Carnegie Medal, American Newbery Medal, Hugo Award for Best Novel & Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book	Northguard comics #1 and #2 (Mark Shainblum and Gabrielle Morrissette)	Complete Box of 90 cards by Boris, includes the index.
Animated full length film based on novel by HG Wells	Three young survivors of vicious demon attacks dare to step beyond the crumbling safety of the wards, risking everything in a desperate quest to regain the knowledge of the protective wards.	Collaborative novel by George RR Martin & John J Miller., a murder mystery set in the Wild Cards Universe.

MonSFFA meeting from home

MARCH e-MEETING, POST 3 of 6: It’s Time for a Break!

2023-03-11 Cathy Palmer-Lister

Get your Bheer & Chips!
It’s time for the break!

NEWS

WARP: Danny is waiting for your submissions. Reviews, fiction, and letters of comment, art, puzzles, photos of your creations, all are welcome! Otherwise it’s going to be a very thin issue!

Membership: A review of our roster shows we still have a few members whose payments are overdue. We are reviewing our membership rates and benefits, and there may be a few small changes as a result.

Sci-Fi Soundtracks (Vinyl): No takers yet on the SF/F soundtrack LPs and related records from Sylvain’s collection! Guess nobody owns a working turntable anymore! See the collection here (PDF): Sylvain’s Sci-Fi LPs, Complete List

Last chance to acquire any of these LPs is today, so act before the end of the meeting if you are interested!

DISPLAY

Dan Kenney is scratch-building a Romulan War Bird.

Wayne is working on a Klingon Cruiser.

1/536 Kronos 1 1/350 I’thing Boom, Command Pod

RAFFLE PRIZES

Click the thumbnails to view full size image.

Sturmovik Neko Girl, Japanese Capsule Toy, donated by Brian Knapp.
From Sylvain’s collection: The Animated Cerebus, by Dave Sim. A set of 45 colour prints (about 9″ x 12″) making up three flip-card animated stories. The cover sheet is signed by Dave Sim.	Another picture from the Animated Cerberbus	From Sylvain’s collection: 8 movie lobby cards (8″ x 10″) – two from each movie: The Incredible Shrinking Woman with Lily Tomlin – 1980 Battlestar Galactica – 1978 Futureworld – 1976 The Thing – 1982
Alan Dean Foster and Eric Frank Russell: Design for Great-Day Good condition	Boris, series 1, from Sylvain’s legacy, box of 90 cards, each card described on the back

MonSFFA meeting from home

January 2023 Virtual Meeting, Post 4 of 8: The Break

2023-01-14 Cathy Palmer-Lister

Get your Bheer & Chips!
It’s time for the break!

NEWS

Meetings: We are still looking for a home! The current plan we are kicking around is to continue with zoom, but sprinkle a few social events into the mix. Bowling? Butterflies? airplanes?

WARP: Danny is waiting for your submissions! (and mine, too, come to think of it)

DISPLAY

NOTHING? Holidays are over, time to get crafting again! Send us photos of your projects, complete or in progress!

RAFFLE PRIZES

Click the thumbnails to view full size image.

Sturmovik Neko Girl, Japanese Capsule Toy, donated by Brian Knapp.	From Sylvain’s legacy, Starlog Photo Guidebook: Fantastic Worlds	From Sylvain’s Legacy, Star Wars Pop-Up Book
Terminator BluRay, New and sealed, donated by Joe.	The man in the High Castle Pages have yellowed a bit, but otherwise in good shape. donated by MonSFFA	Vernor Vinge: Tatja Grimm’s World, excellent condition. Cover by Tom Kidd
Alan Dean Foster and Eric Frank Russell: Design for Great-Day Good condition	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.