Volume 25 Number 4 Issue 298 September 2012

OASFiS Event Horizon Vol 25 Issue 297, September 2012. Published Monthly by the Orlando Area Science Fiction Society (OASFiS). All rights reserved by original Authors and Artists. Editor: Juan Sanmiguel, 1421 Pon Pon Court, Orlando, FL 32825. Subscriptions are $12.00 per year and entitle the subscriber to membership in the Society. Attending Memberships are $25.00 per year. Extra memberships to family members are $7.00 per year when only one newsletter is sent to the household. To subscribe or join OASFiS, send a check or money order to: OASFiS, PO Box 592905, Orlando, FL 32859-2905. To submit Articles, Artwork or Letters of Comment to the Event Horizon, send them to the Editor's address above or sanmiguel@earthlink.net. For additional information, call our Voice Mail at (407) 823-8715. OASFiS is a state chartered not for profit corporation whose goal is the promotion of Science Fiction in all its forms. All opinions expressed herein are solely those of the Author(s) and in no way represent the opinions of the Society or its members as a whole.

A WORD FROM THE EDITOR

It was a busy August. First there was the Olympics,

Anime Festival Orlando, Star Wars Celebration VI, and then

Chicon 7, the 70th Worldcon that came right after.

I will be working on my Star Wars Celebration VI

report next month and my Worldcon report for the month after

that. There may even be some material from Dragoncon.

On Spetember 25, the Enizain will be showing

Farenheit 451 directed by Francois Truffaut and based on sthe

story by Ray Bradbury. The showing is part of the cult movie

series.

As always I am willing to take submissions.

See you next month.

Penscaola Para Con

September 22-23

Pensacola Interstate Fair Grounds

6655 Mobile Hwy

Pensacola, FL 32526

Guests: Blake Wilkie (comic artist)

Brian Woods (writer)

Morgan Andrew Beall (UFO investigator)

Cassidy Rae (actress)

Scott Tepperman (Ghost Hunters International)

$20 for the weekend or $10 perday

pensacolaparacon.webs.com/

Orlando Comic Expo

September 23

5555 Hazeltine National Drive

Orlando, FL 32812

Guests: Richard Livingston (OASIS 23 artist GOH)

Ron Wilson (comic artist)

Bob Camp (artist Ren and Stimpy)

Christian Slade (artist)

Ben Templesmith (artist)

Nalini Krishan (actress)

Richard LeParmentier (actor)

$10 admission

orlandocomicexpo.com/

Hurricon 2012

September 27-30

International Palms Resort & Conference Center

6515 International Dr

Orlando, FL 32819

Sponsoring club: Historical Miniature

Gaming Society (HMGS)

HMGS members: $15 (pre-reg) / $25 (at the door)

Non-members: $25 (pre-reg) / $35 (at the door)

www.hmgs-south.com/hmgs/ (click Hurricon link)

Birthdays

Susan Cole - Sept. 3

Colleen O’Brien Sept. 26

Events

Umicon

September 7-9

Plaza Resort &Spa

600 N. Atlantic Avenue

Daytona Beach, FL 32118

Guests: Christina Vee (voice actress)

Mega-Ran (musician)

$30 for three day, $20 for Fri and Sun, $30 for Sat

at the door

www.umicondaytona.com

September OASFiS Calendar

OASFiS Business Meeting Sunday, September 9 1:30 PM, , Brick and Fire Pasta and Pizza Parlor (Downtown Orlando, 1621 South Orange Ave Orlando, Florida 32806) The Newsfelsh series by Mira Grant SciFi Light Saturday September 15, 6PM Polonia Polish

Restaurant (750 South US17-92 Longwood, FL). The book

Silverlock by John Meyer Meyer will be discussed. For

more info contact Steve Grant.

To contact for more info: OASFiS Business Meeting 407-823-8715

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Anime Festival Orlando 13

Anime Festival Orlando took place on August 3-5, 2012

at Wyndham Resort Orlando on International Drive. The Guests

of Honor were Grey DeLisle (Mandy, Grim Adventures of Billy

and Mandy), DC Douglas (Albert Wesker, Resident Evil series),

Richard Epcar (Vince Grant, Robotech) , Jason David Frank

(Green and White Ranger, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers),

Kyle Hebert (Aizen, Bleach), Jason Andrew Narvy (Skull,

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers), Dan Southworth (Eric Mey-

ers, Power Rangers:Time Force), Ellyn Stern (Haraway, Ghost

in the Shell 2:Innocence),Sonny Strait (Krillian, Dragonball Z),

and Tara Strong (Barbara Gordon, Batman:The Animated Se-

ries).

Larry Furry examined the The Robotech Legacy. The

bulk of the panel was a presentation of a documentary included

on the last DVD release of Robotech. It contained interviews

from the voice actors and the production team. It was done after

Robotech creator and producer Carl Macek’s death, and was ded-

icated to him. During the talk Richard Epcar and Ellyn Stern

dropped by. Epcar was in the original show and two of the se-

quel shows. Stern, Epcar’s wife, also worked on Robotech

providing the voices for the background characters. They ex-

plained that they had to do their recording sessions late at night

since that was the only time the studio could fit them in. This

was especially difficult for them since they had just had a baby.

They enjoy going to conventions and hoped to see the audience at

their own talk the next day. Furry then showed a clip of Ro-

botech: Love Live Alive, an adaptation of Genesis Climber

Mospeada: Love Live Alive Original Animation Video (OAV).

I then did a presentation of Legend of the Galactic He-

roes. This is an OAV series which consists of 162 episodes, 2

specials and one feature film. It is a space opera about the con-

flict between the Galactic Empire and the Free Planet Alliance.

The drivers of the story are Reinhard von Logengram, admiral of

Galactic Empire and Yang Wen-li, admiral of Free Planet Al-

laince. The show was based on a 10 volume novel series by Yo-

shi Tanaka. The story concentrates on politics and logistics as

well as action. Due to licensing issues there is no legal English

translation available. After the presentation I answered some

questions from the audience. The big question was will there

ever be a legal English release of the anime or book series. There

is still hope that both may happen.

The Daytona College anime club did a presentation on

the 20 best anime opening credit sequences ever. I missed the

first one but below is list of 1-19:

Pokeman (both Japanese and English version)

Dragonball Z

Outlaw Star

Tenjho Tenge

Digimon

Angel Beats

High School of the Dead

Darker than Black Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (first

season)

Gurren Lagann

Eden of the East Inu Yasha (fourth opening)

Future Diary (tie) Bleach (third opening) & Naruto (second

opening)

Fate Stay the Night

Trigun

Cowboy Bebop

Neon Genesis Evangelion

Gundam G Tom Croom and Ken Nabbe gave their Dare!The

Transformers Panel. Croom had taken some screen shots of the

original classic show, revealing some amusing signage among the

buildings. Many had misspellings and most them were a bare

descriptions of the businesses in those buildings. Then they

showed the openings of the other Japanese Transformers series

not released in the US. After years of doing their presentation no

one has ever guessed who the lamest Transformer is according to

Croom and Nabbe. They say it is Cosmos because his alternate

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OASFiS People

Steve Cole 407-275-5211 stevepcole@hotmail.com Susan Cole 407-275-5211 sacole@mindspring.com Arthur Dykeman 407-328-9565 adykeman@bellsouth.net Steve Grant 352 241 0670 stevegrant@embarqmail.com Mike Pilletere mike-sf@webbedfeet.com David Ratti 407-282-2468 dratti@eudoramail.com Juan Sanmiguel 407-823-8715 sanmiguel@earthlink.net Patricia Wheeler pwheeler11@cfl.rr.com Any of these people can give readers information about the club and its functions. To be included in the list call Juan.

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Anime Festival Orlando 13

Counterclockwise starting on the upper left.

Black Canary and Zatanna,

A new version of Barbara Gordon’s Batgirl,

Some Tetris pieces,

Witch Hunter Robin,

Gundam and Emeraldas,

A member of the Yamato’s Science and Engi-

neering team,

Merida from Pixar’s Brave

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Penguin Memories – Mike is a Vietnam War veter-

an dealing with his past. All the characters in

the story including Mike are penguins.

There were 25 entries in the Anime Music Video Con-

test this year. It is under new management. My only complaint

is that the info card before the entries only had the creator and

title of the video and not the song and source of the footage.

Some of the videos can be found on animevideos.org and on

YouTube.

Best Action – Michael Leber (Dexter): The trailer

of Quantum of Solace to the footage of Black

Cat Best Comedy – Michelle Bureau

(HiddenWhiteFang Studios): The trailer of The

Amazing Spider-Man to the footage of Naruto

Best Drama – Richard Hart: “Hold Me” by Jaime

Grant to the footage of K-On!

Honorable Mention- Travis Mitchell: “Rich Girl”

by Hall and Oates to the footage from Inu X

Boku SS Fan Favorite- Karlene Ramirez: “Safe and Sound”

by Taylor Swift to the footage from the Samu-

rai X: Trust and Betrayal and Samurai X:

Reflections Best in Show – Amanda Selfridge: “Can’t Hug

Every Cat” (based on an eHarmony video,

turned into song by the Gregory Brothers) to

the footage of Nyan Koi

I did a presentation on Japanese science fiction novels.

I started with brief history of translations of Japanese books and

then discussed the new book line at Viz called Haiksaru. The

books I discussed were as follows:

Yukikaze by Choei Kambayashi – Earth is at war

with aliens. A pilot with his plane Yukikaze

fly dangerous missions to gather information

on the enemy.

The Ouroboros Wave by Jyouji Hayashi – A black

hole is discovered at the edge of the solar sys-

tem and mankind tries to harness its power.

Slum Online by Hiroshi Sakurazaka – A young

man tries to become the champion in an online

game and questions his goal.

Harmony by Project Itoh – The world has em-

braced a form of interactive health care. Is the

world better for it? Can the system be mis-

used?

Book of Heroes by Miyuki Miyabe – A young girl

searches for her brother in a world influenced

by stories.

Rocket Girls by Housuke Nojiri – An independent

space program may get off the ground by using

young teenage girls as their astronaunts.

I checked out the following films at the video room.

Interstella 5555 – A music video done to the

music of Daft Punk’s “Discovery” album.

The story is about an alien rock band kid-

napped to Earth by nefarious forces. The

animation was done by the legendary Leiji

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form is a flying saucer and this goes against the idea that Trans-

formers use their ability to change forms to blend into the back-

ground. I was always fond of Cosmos because he is a spaceship

and I like his saucer design.

Clarissa Graffeo gave a presentation on JoJo’s Bizarre

Adventures. JoJo’s Bizarre Adventures is a manga series by

Hirohiko Araki. The series follows the Joestar family dealings

with the supernatural starting in the 1800s. There are over 100

manga volumes to the series. Graffeo described each part of the

series describing their characters and plot. There will be an Eng-

lish release for the third manga story arc as well as for the new

anime series being produced.

Kent Ward of Propeller Anime (a local anime club)

discussed Anime Directors You Should Know. Ward believed

there are some great directors that do not get the attention they

deserve. Ward gave some background on each director, show

clips of their work and if possible, an interview. The directors

Ward mentioned were:

Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell features and

Metropolis)

Yoshiaki Kawajiri (Lensman, Ninja Scroll, Vam-

pire Hunter D: Bloodlust)

Hideki Anno (Neon Genesis Evangelion)

Satashi Kon (Paprika, Millenium Actress, Para-

noia Agent)

Daryl Surat, Clarissa Graffeo and Gerald Rathkolb of

the Anime World Order podcast showed Ten Anime You Have

Never Seen Before. Most of the anime shown in this presenta-

tion were from the 1980s. They were:

Future Police Urashima – A man from 1980s finds

himself in 2050 and a big chunk of his memory

missing. He joins the police force and tries to

figure out his past.

Blazing Transfer Student – Takizawa Noburo is

sent to a school where all disputes are settled

through fighting.

Natsuki Crisis – A young martial artist helps out

one of her classmates

Yatterman – Two friends with mecha fight an evil

gang in this light-hearted adventure.

The Flying Phantom Ship – The Phantom ship

sends the robot which killed a young man’s

parents; now he seeks revenge against the own-

er of the ship.

Gosenzo-sama Banbanzai! – A young woman vis-

its a family and claims to be a descendant of

their seventeen-year-old son.

Bagi, The Mighty Monster of Nature – A woman

with cat-like powers and her friend set out to

find the truth behind her origins. (directed by

anime and manga legend Osamu Tezuka )

Queen Millenia – Humans face invaders from a

planet entering the Solar System. (based on a

manga written by Leiji Matsumoto who also co

-created Space Battleship Yamato)

Crystal Triangle – An archeologist is looking for

the Message of God and has to confront those

who are also trying to find the message.

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Matsumoto (designer and co-writer of Space Battleship Yamato and creator of Captain Harlock and

Galaxy Express 999)

From Up on Poppy Hill – The latest from Studio Ghibli. It is an adaptation of a manga drawn by Chizuru

Takahashi and written by Tetsurō Sayama. It was directed by Goro Miyazaki, son of Hayao Miyazaki.

It is set in 1963 in Japan. A teenage girl helps save the school clubhouse from demolition. At the

same time she deals with the loss of her father and her feelings to a fellow student.

I also went to hear Tara Strong and Grey Delisle talk, spent a little time in a trivia contest led by the crew from the

Practical Futilities table from the Dealers Room, and saw a panel tracing the history of Kamen Rider.

It was a great AFO. Next year AFO will be at the Wyndham which will be going through some major renovations.

It will be interesting to see how the facility will changes.

Anime Festival Orlando 13

Counterclockwise starting on the

upper left. People listed left to

right.

Larry Furry, Ellyn Stern, and

Richard Epcar,

Tom Croom and Ken Nabbe,

Clarissa Graffeo, Gerald

Rathkolb, and Daryl Surat of the

Anime World Order podcast,

Tara Strong and Grey Delisle,

Kent Ward

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Award News

Hugo Awards and John W. Campbell Award

(Source Locus website)

Winners for the Hugo Awards and for the John W. Campbell

Award for Best New Writer were announced at a ceremony

during Chicon 7, the 70th World Science Fiction Convention,

held in Chicago, Illinois, August 30-September 3, 2012.

BEST NOVEL

Among Others, Jo Walton (Tor)

BEST NOVELLA

‘‘The Man Who Bridged the Mist’’, Kij Johnson (Asimov’s 10-

11/11)

BEST NOVELETTE

‘‘Six Months, Three Days’’, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor.com

6/8/11)

BEST SHORT STORY

‘‘The Paper Menagerie’’, Ken Liu (F&SF 3-4/11)

‘BEST RELATED WORK

The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, Third Edition, John

Clute, David Langford, Peter Nicholls & Graham Sleight,

eds. (Gollancz)

BEST GRAPHIC STORY

Digger, Ursula Vernon (www.diggercomic.com)

BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION – LONG

Game of Thrones: Season 1

BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION – SHORT

Doctor Who: ‘‘The Doctor’s Wife’’

BEST PROFESSIONAL EDITOR LONG FORM

Betsy Wollheim

BEST PROFESSIONAL EDITOR SHORT FORM

Sheila Williams

BEST PROFESSIONAL ARTIST

John Picacio

BEST SEMIPROZINE

Locus

BEST FANZINE

SF Signal

BEST FANCAST

SF Squeecast

BEST FAN WRITER

Jim C. Hines

BEST FAN ARTIST

Maurine Starkey

JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARD FOR BEST NEW

WRITER [NOT A HUGO AWARD]

E. Lily Yu

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