NEXT CLUB MEETING: SATURDAY, AUGUST 17!
1:00PM-5:00PM
Le Nouvel Hotel, 1740 Boul. René-Lévesque (corner St-Mathieu), “Salle Maisonneuve” (South Tower)
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MonSFFA’s regular meeting schedule resumes on August 17! We’ll be meeting in our usual hall, “Salle Maisonneuve,” at Le Nouvel Hotel! Le Nouvel is located on a major bus line, and is just a short walk from either Metro Guy/Concordia or Lucien-L’Allier.
Note that our new locale is only one block west of our pre-pandemic meeting place, the Hôtel Espresso (corner Guy and René-Lévesque)! We have returned to our old, familiar neighbourhood, folks! And, as always, we hope to welcome home both current and former club members, and new members, too! Come check us out!
Meeting Theme: MonSFFen are asked to offer their top picks of the genre’s coolest gizmos and gadgets, as seen on TV or in the movies, or within the pages of SF/F literature! For the purposes of this list, we’ll define a gizmo or gadget as a technological or magical device small enough to hold in one’s hands, or carry on one’s person—a Star Trek phaser or tricorder, for example, Thor’s hammer (assuming, of course, you are sufficiently worthy to wield it!), a magic wand, Excalibur, a lightsaber, Batman’s utility belt, or a Bat-a-Rang—you get the idea.
So, as cool a technological marvel as may be the starship Enterprise, the Batmobile, Iron Man’s suit, the Seaview, the Millennium Falcon, Clarke’s Orbital Tower (space elevator) or Niven’s Ringworld, they are too big to qualify for this list!
Which gizmos or gadgets do you think are among sci-fi’s coolest, and why? We ask club members to come prepared to contribute an item or two to our list!
AUGUST’S AGENDA:
1:00PM – Game: Bug-Eye Bet!
We resurrect a game created by our late friend and fellow club member, Sylvain St-Pierre, in which still photographs and video clips from SF/F movies or TV shows are shown to players, who must then answer a series of questions focused on the minute, inconsequential, trivial details of that which they have just seen! Bets are placed on how accurate will be their recall of said details.
1:45PM – Tom Swift and his Science Fiction Book Series
A primer on the numerous Tom Swift sci-fi/adventure books, ranging from the 1910s to the present day. The adventures of the original Tom Swift and later, his descendants, introduced many a young lad to science fiction, and in its nascent years, helped to popularize the genre.
2:45PM – Break!
Raffle, announcements, brief discussion of club business, including preliminary plans for club’s Christmas Dinner and Party 2024.
3:00PM – The Multiverse
We examine the concept of “the Multiverse” in science fiction, including those famously depicted in both Marvel’s and DC’s comic book superhero stories.
4:00PM – Sci-Fi’s Coolest Gizmos and Gadgets!
MonSFFen are asked to offer their top picks of the genre’s coolest gizmos and gadgets, as seen on TV or in the movies, or within the pages of SF/F literature! We define a gizmo or gadget as a technological or magical device small enough to hold in one’s hands, or carry on one’s person—a Star Trek phaser or tricorder, for example. Which gizmos or gadgets do you think are among the coolest, and why? We ask club members to come prepared to contribute an item or two to our list!
