Leybl Botwinik has sent us CyberCozen. Nice tribute to our own Sylvain St-Pierre, and an article on Yiddish SF including Leybl’s own forays in the genre.
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This month’s roundup:
– Yiddish SF&F 101 – Part 3 [*** POSTPONED TO NEXT ISSUE ***]
Due to unforeseen circumstances, this month’s installment about Yiddish SF&F has been postponed until next month. In
the meantime, we’ve put together a list of interesting links about the newly translated – from English into Yiddish –
“Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” and all about the translation process by the young multi-talented, multilingual
English-to-Yiddish translator Arun Visvanath.
– In addition, as ‘compensation’, our usual, interesting tidbits from various websites, contains various links about SF
pertaining to Jews, Israel, and Jewish and Israeli SF. Hope you enjoy them.
– Your editor, Leybl Botwinik
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From our friend Leybl in Israel, CyberCozen.
Of special interest is Part II of Leybl’s article on Yiddish science fiction.
He also reminds us that the FAAN Awards will be given out on March 28th. You do not have to be a member of Corflu to vote.
And btw, WARP is eligible in the genzine category. <wink>
The FAAn Awards guide and ballot are in Nic Farey’s The Incompleat Register 2020. Voting deadline is midnight (PDT) Friday March 12 2021.
Fanzine updated!
From Leybl in Israel, an improved version of CyberCozin. He writes:
SO SORRY TO INTRUDE AGAIN …
but there were a few typos in the original January issue that I couldn’t let by,
and so I also decided to spruce up the article with some relevant images and more web-links.
Enjoy this new and improved version.
Leybl
!! Happy NewYear 2021 !!
- !!! May it be a BETTER Year !!!
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Leybl has sent us CyberCozen. He has a very interesting article on science fiction in Yiddish. It’s not very long, I recommend it. In this part, he writes about the sources that influenced Yiddish writers, the Bible being one of them. Lots of fantastic stories in there that fascinated me as a child, but I never thought about Eve being possibly a sort of clone of Adam! I was more inclined to consider the real world implications of stopping the sun, ie, the Earth’s rotation. 
This month’s roundup:
– New series: Yiddish SF&F 101* – Part 1
– Update and yearly wrap-up from Israel’s Space Agency “SpaceIL”
Our usual, interesting tidbits from various websites.
– Your editor, Leybl Botwinik
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From Joseph Major, Alexiad
Table of Contents
Editorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Reviewer’s Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Eclipse News. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
“The Hildebrand Rarity” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
In Memory of Digger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
The Joy of High Tech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Six Degrees of Cleopatra. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Worldcon News. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Book Reviews
JTM Barden, Echoes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
JTM Barden, Shades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
JTM Barden, Speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
JTM Turtledove, Salamis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
JTM Macintyre, Agent Sonya. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
JTM Viesturs/Roberts, No Shortcuts to the Top. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
TV Reviews
TW Away . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
TW The Queen’s Gambit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Random Jottings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Richard A. Dengrove, Tom Feller, Robert S. Kennedy, Timothy
Lane, Lloyd Penney, AL du Pisani, George W. Price, John Purcell,
Darrell Schweitzer, Taras Wolansky
Comments are by JTM or LTM
Trivia: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Art:
Sheryl Birkhead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Alexis A. Gilliland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Trinlay Khadro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Marc Schirmeister . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3, 4, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13
From Israel, CyberCozen. CCDecember2020-v01
Lybl writes: Happy Holidays to One and ALL
Table of Contents:
– Updates on Moon and other space exploration.
– SF great Ben Bova passes.
– Super-short review of a non-SF book “Deception Point” by Dan Brown
Our usual, interesting tidbits from various websites.
Sent to us via National Fantasy Fan Federation, 2 issues of Mount Void.
Speed (comments by Mark R. Leeper)
THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (1951) (film retrospective by Mark R. Leeper)
BEYOND THE VISIBLE–HILMA AF KLINT (film review by Evelyn C. Leeper)
The Utah Monolith (Possibly) Explained (and Other Comments)
(comments by Evelyn C. Leeper and letters of comment by Joy Beeson,
Keith F. Lynch, Gary McGath, and Dorothy J. Heydt)
Edward Gibbon and China (letter of comment by Joseph T. Major)
This Week’s Reading (THE GREAT KOSHER MEAT WAR OF 1902)
(book comments by Evelyn C. Leeper)
Quote of the Week
Alan Dean Foster and STAR WARS (comments by Mark R. Leeper)
THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (letter of comment by Gary McGath):
This Week’s Reading (science fiction of Rudyard Kipling)
(book comments by Evelyn C. Leeper)
Quote of the Week
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From Lyebl in Israel, CyberCozen
Download CyberCozen CCNovember2020-v01
Lots of links to interesting finds on the Internet.
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Another zine landed in the MonSFFA mailbox! This one is from Leybl in Israel. Download CyberCozen
There are a lot of links to interesting sites, well worth having a look. They’re all very different, so it’s likely you will find something you will want to read. For instance, here are the first few, just to give you an idea:
How to debate a flat-Earther
https://www.space.com/how-to-debate-flat-earther.html
Build your own space agency with ‘Mars Horizon’ + a free demo (exclusive video)
https://www.space.com/mars-horizon-space-agency-game-features-video
Every Arnold Schwarzenegger sci-fi movie, ranked from worst to best:
https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/arnold-schwarzenegger-sci-fi-movies-ranked-terminator-predator
Women in Sci-Fi movies:
https://www.syfy.com/
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From Leybl in Israel: CyberCozen September Issue
This month’s roundup:
– Part XIV of the Time-Space series: Review of Stephen Baxter’s “Anti-Ice”
– ETs STAY HOME! (Part 2) “Occupation” – Reviewing some movies about invasions from outer space.
Our usual, interesting tidbits from various websites.
From Joe Major, Alexiad
Table of Contents
Editorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Reviewer’s Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Back to Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Cat Watching. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Dragon Awards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
The Joy of High Tech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Hugo Awards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Retro-Hugo Awards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Rocks and Fossils . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
What Isobel Deserves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Worldcons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Book Reviews
JTM Buettner, My Enemy’s Enemy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
JTM Close, Trinity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
JTM Dali/Franks, Giraffes on Horseback Salad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
JTM Moore, Great War 1898 Crisis to Quagmire. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
JTM O’Brady, The Impossible First . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
JTM Silver, After Hastings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
JTM Zakon, Sealion Drowning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
TV Reviews
TW The Big Bang Theory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Random Jottings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Letters ……………..9
Tightbeam, edited by George Phillies and Jon Swartz, who wrote:
We also introduce something a new subgenre PolSciFi — Political (propaganda) Science Fiction, material where the author(s) want to send a political message. I expect that many readers are thoroughly sick of politics at this point, so PolSciFi appears at the very end of the issue, after Cedar Sanderson’s delectable Food of Famous Writers, so as not to spoil your appetite. Download Tightbeam
Table of Contents
Art
Front Cover …Woman of the Wild…Angela K. Scott
7 … Little Fairy … Angela K. Scott
12 … Mask and Rose … Angela K. Scott
20 … Moon Keeper … Angela K. Scott
26 … It’s Just One of Those Days … Angela K. Scott
Back Cover … FutureScape…Jose Sanchez
Editorial PolSciFi … George Phillies
Letter of Comment
4 … Richard Dengrove
Anime
5 … Giving It Another Try … Jessi Silver
FanAc
7 … Announcing a New Fan Experience … Cedar Sanderson
8 … FANAC Fan History Project UPDATE 13 … Joe Siclari
Fanzines
11 … Fanfaronade … Justin E. A. Busch
Games
13 … Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery … Jim McCoy
Hugo Awards
16 … The Hugos, continued … Tom Feller
Novels and Anthologies
18 … Bentley Little’s The Ignored … Will Mayo
19 … Existence by David Brin … Sam Lubell
Sercon
19 … Anthony Boucher Bio-Bibliography … Jon D. Swartz, Ph.D., N3F Historian
23 … An Interview with Cedar Sanderson … Tamara Wilhite
Video
25 … Doctor Whom? An Analysis from Several Years Ago … Chris Nuttall
27 … Rabid Ears: Ravings of a TV Fiend … by Cathode Ray
Food of Famous Writers
29 … The Creamy Fish Chowder of Nathan Lowell … Cedar Sanderson
PolSciFi
30 … Alternate Truths Edited by Phyllis Irene Radford and Bob Brown … Chris Nuttall
George Phillies from The National Fantasy Fan Federation has passed on these zines:
MT VOID 2129-2136, edited by Mark and Evelyn Leeper
MT VOID 2129 MT VOID 2130 MT VOID 2131
MT VOID 2132 MT VOID 2133 MT VOID 2135
MT VOID 2136 (We don’t have #34)
Spartacus-38, Edited by Guy Lillian III
This Here! 32 Edited by Nic Farey
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From Lebyl in Israel:
This month’s roundup:
– Part XII of the Time-Space series: Review of Hugh Howey’s trilogy of books: Wool + Shift + Dust
Our usual, interesting tidbits from various websites – En masse!
– Your editor, Leybl Botwinik