Jo Walton has announced the dates for Scintillation 4.
Scintillation 4 will take place on the 9th to the 11th of June, at the Chinatown Holiday Inn in Montreal. Room bookings are now open, Registration closes on May 31, or earlier if capacity is reached.
NOTE: There will be no at door memberships sold.
Read more here: https://www.scintillation.ca/
From Jo Walton:
Progress!
We’re delighted to announce that Scintillation 3 will be taking place on the weekend of 10-12th June 2022, in the Holiday Inn, Montreal, the same one with a pagoda on the roof where Scintillation 1 and 2 took place. We will have program, expeditions, a picnic, and as much fun, friends, and conversation as possible under the circumstances. We may have an outdoor hangout area. We’re doing out best to have Scintillation in a difficult situation. We want to see you! We have missed you all so much. We’re not waiting until the pandemic is over, because we don’t know what over even means any more.
Programme
There will be a fun programme, created by Jo Walton. If you would like to be on programme, or if you have any ideas for program, email programme@scintillation.ca
Debra Doyle Memorial Dumplings
Debra Doyle was a beloved member of the Scintillation community. In one of her last posts to the Scintillation Discord she said how much she was looking forward to eating dumplings at Scintillation. In memory of her, we’d like to give someone doing the con on a budget money to take a friend and have a dumpling lunch. If you qualify, email dumpling@scintillation.ca — we’ll put the names in a hat and draw one at random to enjoy the dumplings Debra would have liked to share.
Pandemic Safety
While the pandemic continues, it seems to us that summer is a safer time for conventions, which is mostly why we’re doing it in June. We will be requiring masks and proof of vaccination, and any other health measures required by the province of Quebec. All attendees must be fully vaccinated.
Coming to Scintillation
We will inform members nearer the time what the situation is for entering Canada — right now the border is open, and it’s possible to fly here from overseas or the US, and to drive here from the US. The train is not presently running across the border, but it may be by then. Via Rail trains are running from other parts of Canada. Canada currently requires a recent PCR test for entry, but this may change. It also requires downloading the ArriveCan app and filling it out, and this is less likely to change.
Hotel
The Holiday Inn has raised prices for function space by more than fifty percent since 2019. Unfortunately this means we will not be able to have the Saturday evening reception or the Games Room — but we will have games in the con suite. We’re hoping to be able to afford the Reading Room in addition to the Big Room. We have also reluctantly raised membership rates for new members, and instituted the Bonus Membership (see below) as a fundraiser. The hotel room rate is still under negotiation, we will put it on the website when we have it.
Existing Members
If you have an attending membership in Scintillation 3, either from the Kickstarter, or purchased online, or bought in person on the Sunday of Scintillation 2, you can either use it to attend Scintillation 3 or, if this timing does not work for you, roll it over to Scintillation 4. (Scintillation 4 will take place in 2023, dates TBA.) Please contact members@scintillation.ca to let us know whether you will be using your membership or rolling it over. We’d really appreciate it if let us know as soon as possible, and definitely by the end of March. The same applies to people who have supporting memberships in Scintillation 3 — you can convert them into attending memberships at any time, but letting us know your intentions before the end of March will help us know how many new memberships we can sell. Between the end of March and the end of May, if we are at capacity and you have not already informed us you are coming you may need to be added to the waitlist, so please let us know.
New Memberships
We are selling new memberships on the website http://www.scintillation.ca New memberships are limited and may sell out. We will stop selling them when we reach capacity. How many we have available depends on how many existing members want to attend. Right now, we have memberships available. New memberships cost $90. Membership sales will close when we are at capacity or at the end of May, whichever happens first. There will be no at door memberships. If there are no memberships available on the website, you can email members@scintillation.ca to be placed on the waitlist.
Benefactor Memberships
Benefactor memberships are bought by those who can afford to pay for both themselves and for another person who will enhance the conversation to come to Scintillation. Benefactor memberships are presently available and are one of the things we love about Scintillation. Benefactor memberships presently cost $160.
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Bonus memberships are new as a fundraiser for 2022 — bonus memberships cost $50, and are an add-on to an existing or new membership. Anyone with a bonus membership is entitled to two free signed Tor books by Jo Walton, your choice of books while supplies last. The books will be delivered at con. The money raised will help pay for a better and safer sound system, and for the Reading Room.
Scintillation Online
Scintillation will never have a virtual convention, or a virtual component to the in person convention. But Scintillation does maintain an active 365 days a year online Discord community where you can hang out and talk with other members of the Scintillation community, listen to and take part in playreadings, our pretend radio program, gift exchanges, Eisteddfodau, etc. No, really! We’ve been doing this ever since March 2020, and all Scintillation people of goodwill are welcome to join us. https://discord.gg/7V3bMzMJ
Come if you Like
You can come if you like, but it is not the best time:
the weather’s uncertain
the trees are still teetering on rust’s edge
we have cake, but it is not the right cake
and we haven’t been cleaning.
But come if you like.
You can come if you like, but it is not the best time:
work is beginning all round
there are things I have to get done
I can’t spare more than fourteen hours a day
and the best of the flowers are over.
Do come if you like.
You can come if you like, but it is not the best time:
I should train the birds to form hieroglyphs
proclaiming your name to the sky
and persuade the city to organise a special festival
and shed three stone and ten years.
Still, come if you like.
You can come if you like, but it is not the best time:
the best time is the enemy of the good time
come now, come in possible time,
come and share some time while we’re breathing,
let weather fall on us.
Come whenever you like.
(10th September 2010)
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We really hope so, and we hear good things about vaccines and so on.
Meanwhile, we have reviewed our contract with the hotel, and fortunately we can get out of it with no penalty up to 30 days ahead. So we will continue to plan for Scintillation happening as intended, and make a final decision depending on the state of the world in September. If we should have to cancel we will run the convention as planned but a year ahead in 2021, all memberships will stay valid for that. If we can’t run it in 2021 then civilization has worse problems than Scintillation.
Meanwhile, stay well, and keep up your spirits as best you can.
I’ve been working on A New Decameron: Stories For a Plague Year .This was Maya Chhabra’s wonderful idea. As you probably know, Boccaccio’s Decameron was written in the 1350s and set during the Black Death of 1498 when seven young womena and three young men go into self-isolation in a villa in the hills and occupy themselves telling storeis. For our New Decameron, I’m writing a frame story and various writer friends are contributing stories — a story every day. This has also inspired Hannah Dorsey, who some of you met at last year’s con, to set up a Discord group for reading Boccaccio’s book one story a day. There’s also a group being set up to read Dante’s Divine Comedy by @danteinquarantine on Twitter. I strongly urge everyone working at home and self-isolating or in quarantine to get involved in something like this with a community or by Scintillation half of us will be gibbering and gnawing the furniture. Learn a language with Duolingo. Work on Zooniverse projects. But do try to have something that’s fun, also involves other people, and with a sense of progress.
And on those lines, I am setting up a Scintillation Discord group, for general hanging out with each other and chatting. If you don’t have Discord it’s free to join. I know we already have a Slack, but Slack crashes my browser and it has ads and it’s slow, while Discord works and has no ads. Fpr those who aren’t familiar with it, it works like usenet but with no threading. (That invitation will expire, if you want a new one, email me.) This group is for past and present or intending future members of Scintillation.
Stay safe, stay in touch.
Aliens did not invade, Scintillation 2 happened, and despite a lot of people being felled at different points by varied ill health, it was a success. Program went well — the last minute substitution of a play by Greer Gilman acted by Greer and Emmet O’Brien in place of Greer’s scheduled interview was such fun we may repeat it next year. The cake all got eaten. The Sassafrass concert was amazing. The pre-con reading at Argo was a lot of fun. Thanks to everyone who came, everyone who supported but couldn’t make it, and especially to our benefactors and philanthropists who help make Scintillation possible.
Scintillation 3 will take place October 23-25th 2020, same hotel. This is NOT Canadian Thanksgiving! We hope to see you there.
Everyone who backed the Kickstarter and plus everyone who didn’t but who buys a membership in Scintillation 3 by September 1st, will get a copy of the e-book of false starts Alter Reiss is putting together.
Membership for Scintillation 3 is available right now!
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https://www.scintillation.ca/index.php/registration
We are holding the at-con rate of $70 CDN and $140 for Benefactors until the end of October and then it will go up to $80 and $150. Please buy memberships as soon as you can, it really really helps, and besides, they may sell out. If you buy a supporting membership for $15, you will be able to convert to attending at any point up to two weeks before the convention. Full attending memberships will also be available until two weeks before the convention, or until we are full.
We’re still negotiating with the hotel, but will have details about next year’s hotel room rates soon.
It’s getting closer! I’m really looking forward to it now.
Scintillation membership closes next Sunday, 22nd, at midnight Montreal time. If you’ve been waiting to buy a membership, if you have friends who want to come OR if you want to convert from supporting to attending, do it before that. We mean this! We have a proper membership button on the website now. https://scintillation.ca/index.php/registration or email members@scintillation.ca with any queries. We will not do at the door registration.
And now, fun things.
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Friday afternoon expeditions include a tour of the old port, a trip to Jean Talon Market, a trip to the Jardin Botanique and other activities. You don’t have to decide any of them in ahead of time, you can decide at dim sum or at the last minute. But if you want to do the tea tasting with Jon Singer at Camellia Sinensis, you have to pay for it in advance using the website, where it explains how to do it https://scintillation.ca/index.php/registration
Program(me) is done, and up on the website now, including brief panel descriptions. I think it’s OK and fairly self-explanatory, but if you spot errors or want to ask anything reply to this email. This year we’re doing 60 minute panels in 75 minute slots, to give time for bathroom breaks, moving between rooms, and over-run. We’re also doing an “In Conversation” series in the reading room, which I think will be terrific. We’re having a Joy of Reading panel on Sunday morning, and we’d be delighted if you bring along readings you love to share, which must be written by somebody else, not you, and not more than 5-10 monites max. https://scintillation.ca/index.php/programme
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EATING THE FANTASTIC. Scott Edelman offers listeners the chance to join Jo Walton for a seafood lunch in Episode 83 of his Eating the Fantastic podcast:
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I don’t know what you were doing last week on Black Friday, but as for me, I was taking this year’s Chessiecon Guest of Honor Jo Walton out to lunch at the nearby Bluestone Restaurant. And, of course, recording the conversation so you’d be able to join us at the table!
Jo Walton won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2002 and the World Fantasy award for her novel Tooth and Claw in 2004. Her novel Among Others won both the 2011 Nebula Award and the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Novel, and (according to those who keep track of such things) is one of only seven novels to have been nominated for the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, and World Fantasy Award.
Her novel Ha’penny was a co-winner of the 2008 Prometheus Award. Her novel Lifelode won the 2010 Mythopoeic Award. Her incisive nonfiction is collected in What Makes This Book So Great and An Informal History of the Hugos. She’s the founder of International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day, something which we never quite got around to talking about, so if you want to know more about that holiday, well, Google is your friend. Her next book, Lent, a fantasy novel about Savonarola, will be published by Tor Books in May 2019.
We discussed how Harlan Ellison’s fandom-slamming essay “Xenogenesis” caused her to miss three conventions she would otherwise have attended, why Robert Silverberg’s Dying Inside is really a book about menopause, the reason she wishes George Eliot had written science fiction, the ways in which during her younger days she was trying to write like Poul Anderson, her technique for getting unstuck when she’s lost in the middle of writing a novel, why she loathes the plotter vs. pantser dichotomy, how she developed her superstition that printing out manuscripts is bad luck, the complicated legacy of the John W. Campbell Award (which she won in 2002), how she managed to write her upcoming 116,000-word novel Lent in only 42 days, and much, much more.
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An Informal History of the Hugos: A Personal Look Back at the Hugo Awards, 1953-2000, Jo Walton (Tor 978-0765379085, $29.99, 576pp, hc) August 2018.
Since their inception in 1953, the Hugo Awards have been SF’s most unignorable elephant in the room, providing generations of readers with a de facto canon and reading list, despite an often wild inconsistency and occasional tendency to reward beloved authors simply because they’re beloved. For those reasons and others, it’s a fairly easy game to spot oddball or undeserving winners – Mark Clifton & Frank Riley’s They’d Rather be Right, which won the second novel Hugo in 1955, is the favorite whipping boy – but quite another to look at other books published in the same year, whether or not among the nominees, and show just how many now-canonical works inexplicably seemed invisible to Hugo voters. This is essentially what Jo Walton has set out to do in An Informal History of the Hugos: A Personal Look Back at the Hugo Awards, 1953-2000, a series of columns written for Tor.com beginning in 2010 and now collected in book form. In the case of They’d Rather be Right, she points out that overlooked novels included Clement’s Mission of Gravity, Pangborn’s A Mirror for Observers, Asimov’s The Caves of Steel, Anderson’s Brain Wave, Matheson’s I Am Legend, and even Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring (although it would be quite a few years before Hugo voters began giving serious consideration to fantasy). By the same token, we could find such oddball misses among almost any list of awards, in or out of genre; in 1961, certifiable classics like Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird and Updike’s Rabbit, Run lost the National Book Award to a now-forgotten Conrad Richter novel, The Waters of Kronos.
So the value of Walton’s book – in some ways a companion piece to her other collection of Tor.com columns, What Makes This Book So Great – lies not in identifying such howlers – in fact, she concludes that Hugo voters got it more or less right some 69% of the time – but in the lively and opinionated discussions of the winners and losers, of which books have lasted and which haven’t, and why. Walton includes not only her original columns, but selections from the online comments, and the comments, especially from Locus contributors Gardner Dozois and Rich Horton, are so extensive and thoughtful as to make the book virtually a collaboration. (It also, sadly, becomes another reminder of Dozois’s encyclopedic knowledge of the field, and the degree to which he, as much as anyone, shaped the evolution of short fiction from the 1980s on.)
Head on over to the Locus Magazine site to read more of Gary K. Wolfe’s review.
MonSFFA’s March 10 meeting will welcome two special guests on the topic of women in SF/F. Who are the Genre’s most notable women writers, and why don’t we hear about them quite as much as we hear about their male counterparts?
What obstacles have and do women writers face in a Genre long
dominated by men? Are female writers finally making their mark on SF/F, or have they already done so, and long been recognized for
their contributions? Do the characters, worlds, aliens, of speculative stories penned by women differ greatly, broadly speaking, from those of male authors?
What constitutes a “Feminist” SF/F story, and can only a female writer truly write one? What of female characters in SF/F?
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Come meet Jo and Su at MonSFFA’s March 10 gathering.
Hugo Nominations: It is time to start filling in your nomination ballots for the 2016 Hugo Awards and the 1941 Retro Hugo Awards! Read More
Radio Imagination celebrates the life and work of Pasadena science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler (1947–2006). Organized by Clockshop, the program centers on ten contemporary art and literary commissions that explore Butler’s archive at the Huntington Library. New work will premiere alongside performances, film screenings, and literary events throughout the year. Read More
Jo Walton Seminar: Over the next several days, as promised last year, we’ll be running a seminar on Jo Walton’s books, The Just City and The Philosopher Kings (the third book, Necessity, comes out in June). Read More
My Own Kind of Freedom: Steven Brust writes a Firefly novel: My Firefly novel, released under a creative commons license. You are free to download it and share it with your friends as long as it is not used for commercial purposes. The novel is currently available in multiple formats. Click here for download sites.
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The World Fantasy Awards Ballot for works published in 2014 has been announced. The awards will be presented during the World Fantasy Convention, November 5-8, 2015 in Saratoga Springs NY. The Lifetime Achievement Awards, presented annually to individuals who have demonstrated outstanding service to the fantasy field, will go to Ramsey Campbell and Sheri S. Tepper, and were announced earlier this month.
The World Fantasy Awards finalists are:
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Novella: