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Upcoming meeting

May 31st Meeting

Book sale 2May 31st meeting starts EARLY–we begin setting up the book sale at 10 AM, and sales begin by noon. Volunteers get first crack at the books. Also, if you have a few items you would like to sell or auction, bring them in, too. We’ll be glad to help you de-clutter for a small cut of the profits, 😉

Check our photo galleries for images of previous book sales.

Scroll down a bit for details regarding the book sale.

Click here, for details regarding the rest of the meeting day which is open to the public. Bring your friends!  We will be discussing Glen Larson and there will be a presentation on some of the wilder predictions of the future.

 

Upcoming meeting

May 31 Meeting

Book & Garage Sale, starts at noon  Prices for books start at 3 paperbacks for a dollar, special deals on series and bulk purchases.

Book sale 2

Also, a chance to de-clutter your home — bring in SFF stuff you would like to see off to a good home. Set a price, or silent auction, make  some money to buy more books…. 

flying carThose Early Futures, Sylvain St-Pierre & Danny Sichel:  We know that predictions about future living are often off the mark, but that is to be expected and should not be judged too harshly. Still some of the earliest forecasts were REALLY weird by our standards.

Tribute to Glen Larson: A discussion of Glen Larson’s works Battlestar(Battlestar Galactica, Knight Rider, Magnum, P.I., etc)  and his legacy, moderated by Keith Braithwaite.

There is a nice audio tribute here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcpBuuAZgf0

Charges of plagiarism have been made against him, justified or not? For a less than glowing review of Larson’s work, click https://www.sfsite.com/gary/lars01.htm

Montreal Area Event / Convention

Congrès Boréal May 8-10

Boreal 2Congrès Boréal is at the Espresso hotel this weekend.

GoH are: Natasha Beaulieu, Patrice Cazeault, Sébastien Chartrand, Esther Rochon, Patrick Senécal, Jo Walton

Panellists include a veritable who’s who of Québec authors, editors, artists, and publishers.

The Aurora Award for best novel written in French is awarded in conjunction with the Prix Boréal.

The following events are FREE:

Vendredi : ouverture en soirée à la Maison des écrivains de l’UNEQ (3492, avenue Laval) de 18 h 30 à 21 h
 Samedi : lecture de Sébastien Chartrand (salle Gatineau, hôtel Espresso, 1005, rue Guy) de 11 h à 12 h (avec le soutien de l’UNEQ)

Concours de la meilleure formule (salle Saint-François, hôtel Espresso, 1005, rue Guy) de 13 h à 14 h (dans le cadre des 24 heures de science)

Lecture d’Esther Rochon (salle Nicolet, hôtel Espresso, 1005, rue Guy) de 19 h à 20 h (avec le soutien de l’UNEQ)

Dimanche : lecture de Natasha Beaulieu (salle Gatineau), hôtel Espresso, 1005, rue Guy) de 11 h à 12 h (avec le soutien de l’UNEQ)

Nota Bene : Les activités en accès libre ne donnent pas accès au reste du congrès.

Promotion

100 Talents looking for artists

If this interests you, please contact Adeline directly. Don’t contact MonSFFA, we’re just the messengers!

Name: Adeline Lamarre
Email: ecarlate50@hotmail.com
Website: http://100talents.blogspot.ca/p/blog-page_6.html

I’m contacting you because we are making a collective art exhibition with outer space thematic. We are looking for artists who would have some pieces to submit related to science-fiction.
We thought there might be such artists among you.

We would highly appreciate if you could spread the word around you or publish our call for submission on your blog.

Meeting re-caps

Meeting recap, some news of interest to members

April 26 Meeting

Early birds arriving around 11 O’clock were entertained by a series of clips compiled by Sylvain st-Pierre: ATTACK OF THE SPONSORS FROM MARS. These often hilarious TV adverts were mostly new to us.

Giant antThe SF Cinema Matinée, hosted by Keith Braithwaite, featured BUGS. Five movie titles were on offer, the winner was THEM!. The audience was impressed especially by the strong  dialogue and reasonably sound science. It holds up well.

Paleo Art,Archaeopteryx again presented by Keith Braithwaite, Jurassic Art–Painting the Prehistoric Past, proved very interesting especially as he showed the evolution of our interpretation of the fossils.

News: Danny Sichel gave a brief presentation on The SCP Foundation and also advised us of a sale of used library books. The sale is Saturday, second of May, to Sunday 10th of May, from 13h to 19, at  l’Aréna Etienne-Desmarteau, 3430, rue de Bellechasse. Bring lots of bags–apparently the entire floor of the arena is packed with books discarded from several Montreal libraries. almost 11 thousand books and magazines in fact, and every day books are added to replace those sold. WEBSITE with map, pictures, poster.

 computer-condomSwimming with Cyber Sharks–-Tips on Protecting Your Computer From Attack:  Steven Janssen gave an interesting presentation on protecting our computers. The main lesson learned was to create strong Pa$$Words. Common phishing tactics and frauds were also discussed.

Supper was at La Cage, where we were bombarded by noise as the restaurant was packed to the rafters with hockey fans. Ah, well, at least we got seats, and service was reasonably quick in spite of the crowd.

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Promotion

Promotion–and a chance to win free movie tickets!

image002    In Theatres In 3D May 1st

 

Poster

©2015 MARVEL  http://marvel.com/  Click to view full size image

Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Don Cheadle, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, Cobie Smulders, Stellan Skarsgård with James Spader and Samuel L. Jackson

Writer/Director: Joss Whedon

We have been offered FIVE DOUBLE PASSES to an advanced screening of MARVEL’S AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON in 3D

Wed April 29,  19h00,  Forum

In a day or two, I will send our members a skill-testing question, and we’ll draw 5 names from the correct responses.

Click here to read the official synopsis!  

Upcoming meeting

April Showers Bring —?

umbrellaApril showers bring May flowers–unless you’re a SF/F fan of course! Then who knows what those showers may bring you? It might not be raining cats and dogs!

Bring your umbrella to the MonSFFA meeting on April 26th, there will be a prize for the most creative!

Upcoming meeting

SF Cinema Matinee to feature BUGS! GIANT BUGS!

Giant ant
Take me to your picnic!

A sub-genre of ’50s monster movies was the “Big Bug” film. And, of course, along with April showers comes the reemergence of insects as Spring takes hold of the environment. So with all of this in mind, Keith has chosen the following movies for us to choose from, all featuring giant insects of one kind or another:

Them! (1954)
The Black Scorpion (1957)
The Fly (1958, and set in the quiet, unassuming little town of Montreal, Quebec!)
The Deadly Mantis (1957)
Beginning of the End (1957)

And so we have giant, mutated ants and grasshoppers (locusts), prehistoric scorpions and a praying mantis, as well as a human-fly hybrid, the victim of his own mad science!

Montreal Science Fiction and Fantasy Association