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Volume 28 Number 8 Issue 338 January 2016
OASFiS Event Horizon Vol 28, Issue 338, January 2016. 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 $6.00 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 323, Goldenrod, FL 32733-0323. To submit Articles, Artwork or Letters of Comment to the Event Horizon, send them to the Editor's address above or [email protected]. 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
Well it’s a New Year. Congratulations to the new
officers and thanks to the previous ones.
Reminder that memberships are up and dues need to be
paid at the next meeting, sent to the PO Box, or register on the
website.
Contact me if you need the following:
to be removed or added to the OASFIS People box
on page 2
To add a non FL convention to my Convention/
Event listings
If you want your birthday listed in the EH
See you next month.
OASFiS December Christmas Party 12/08/2013
Attendance: Patricia Wheeler, Juan Sanmiguel, Peggy
Stubblefield, Arthur Dykeman, Ed Anthony, Hector Hoghlin,
Ruth Hoghlin, Ken Konkol, Theresa Miller, and Thomas Reed.
No official reports due to the Christmas party, which was a great
deal of fun. Thanks to Patricia for hosting the party. Everyone
brought excellent food, nice gifts and good companionship.
Election results:
President: Peggy Stubblefield
Vice-President: Tom Reed
Treasurer: Kim Darin
Secretary: Juan Sanmiguel
Convention Chair for 2017: Juan Sanmiguel
Events
Tampa Anime Day
January 9
Embassy Suites Tampa-Brandon
10220 Palm River Road
Tampa, FL, 33619
$4 at the door
www.tampa.animeday.net/
DeLand Collectibles Show
January 10
Volusia County Fairgrounds
3150 E. New York Ave.
Deland, FL 32724
$5 admission
Guests: Tommy Castillo (OASIS Artist guest of Honor)
Suzanna :Leigh (actor)
John Martino (Paulie, The Godfather)
Phantasmogoria (Victorian Steampunk group)
More guests listed on website.
cfcollectibles.com/?page_id=27
Magic City Comic Con
January 15-17
Miami Airport Convention Center
711 NW 72nd Avenue
Miami, FL, 33126
$75 at the door
Guests: Jenna Coleman (Clara Oswald, Doctor Who)
Billie Piper (Rose Tyler, Doctor Who)
Peter Davison (5th Doctor, Doctor Who)
Brent Spiner (Data, Star Trek: The Next Gen)
Caroll Spiney (Big Bird, Sesame Street)
Patricia Quinn (Magenta, Rocky Horror)
Little Nell (Columbia, Rocky Horror)
Barry Bostwick (Brad Majors, Rocky Horror)
Dan Slott (comic book writer)
Phil Jemenez (comic writer and artist)
More guests listed on website.
www.magiccitycomiccon.com
(Continued on page 6)
Janaury OASFiS Calendar
OASFiS Business Meeting Sunday, January 10, 1:30 PM, Brick and Fire Pasta and Pizza Parlor (Downtown Orlando, 1621 South Orange Ave Orlando, Florida 32806 407-426-8922). We will discuss The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick. Sci Fi Light TBD check website.
For more info contact Steve Grant
To contact for more info:
OASFiS Business Meeting 407-823-8715
Page two January 2016
OASFiS People
Steve Cole 407-275-5211 [email protected] Susan Cole 407-275-5211 [email protected] Arthur Dykeman 407-328-9565 [email protected] Steve Grant 352 241 0670 [email protected] Mike Pilletere [email protected] David Ratti 407-282-2468 [email protected] Juan Sanmiguel 407-823-8715 [email protected] Patricia Wheeler 407-832-1428 [email protected] Any of these people can give readers information about the club and its functions. To be included in the list call Juan.
29. MAR 19, Mandarin Mini Con (Jacksonville)
30. MAR 19-20, ALT*Con (Tallahassee)
31. MAR 20, Daytona Beach Comic Convention (Daytona
Beach)
32. MAR 26, Hero Hype Con (Miami)
33. MAR 26-27, Geek Fest Florida (Fort Lauderdale)
34. APR 1-2, Hurricane Who (Orlando)
35. APR 1-3, Collective Con (Jacksonville)
36. APR 1-3, Spooky Empire Retro [formerly “May-hem”]
(Orlando)
37. APR 2-3, Miami Hurricon (Miami)
38. APR 16-17, Space Coast Nerd Fest (Melbourne)
39. APR 22-24, Florida Anime Experience (Kissimmee)
40. APR 22-24, OASIS (Orlando)
41. APR 24, North Florida Comic Con (Jacksonville)
42. MAY 26-29, Megacon (Orlando)
43. JUN 4-5, Ocala Comic Con (Ocala)
44. JUL 1-4, Florida Supercon (Miami)
45. JUL 6-10, Dice Tower Gaming Con (Orlando)
46. JUL 15-17. Ancient City Con (Jacksonville)
47. JUL 21-14, Metrocon (Tampa)
48. JUL 29-31, Anime Festival Orlando (Orlando)
49. JUL 29-31, GeekyCon (Orlando)
50. JUL 30-31, LameCon (Land O’ Lakes)
51. AUG 5-7, Megaplex (Orlando)
52. AUG 5-7, Tampa Bay Comic Con (Tampa)
53. AUG 5-7. Wizard World Orlando (Orlando)
54. AUG 19-21, Mizucon (Miami)
55. AUG 12-14, The Grand Brony Gala (Tampa)
56. SEP 16-18, Treasure Coast Comic Con (Port St. Lucie)
57. SEP 17-18, CreativeCon (Panama City)
(Continued on page 6)
2016 Florida Conventions
This list was compiled by Tom Croom of Wasabi Anime.
1. JAN 9, Tampa Anime Day (Tampa)
2. JAN 10, Deland Comics & Collectibles Show (Deland)
3. JAN 10, Floridacon (Miami)
4. JAN 15-17, Supernatural Official Convention (Jacksonville)
5. JAN 15-17, Magic City Comic Con (Miami)
6. JAN 15-18, Otronicon (Orlando)
7. JAN 16-17, The Comic Book Connection Comic Book &
Toy Show (Daytona Beach)
8. JAN 22-23, Auburndale City Con (Auburndale)
9. JAN 23, Orlando Anime Day (Orlando)
10. JAN 30, BTL Collectibles Show (Miami) – happens
monthly
11. JAN 30, Tampa Bay Toy Expo (Tampa)
12. JAN 31, Orlando Toy & Comic Con (Orlando)
13. FEB 4-7, Coastal Magic Convention (Daytona Beach)
14. FEB 5-7, Amelia Con (Amelia Island)
15. FEB 6, Fusion Con (New Port Richey)
16. FEB 6, Jacksonville Anime Day (Jacksonville)
17. FEB 12-14, Rapier Con (Jacksonville)
18. FEB 13, Infinity Toy and Comic Con (Orlando)
19. FEB 13-14, SwampCon (Gainesville)
20. FEB 19-21, Florida Arcade & Pinball Expo (Ft. Lauderdale)
21. FEB 19-21, Pensacon (Pensacola)
22. FEB 20, SyFy Saturday (Bartow)
23. FEB 21, Retr-O-Rama Pop Culture Collectibles Show
(Jacksonville)
24. MAR 4-6, Omni Expo (Orlando)
25. MAR 5-6, CONjure (Orlando)
26. MAR 12-13, Fanboy Expo (Lakeland)
27. MAR 12, Silver-Con (Fort Lauderdale)
28. MAR 17-21, CruiseCon (Jacksonville, Aboard a Cruise
Ship)
Page three January 2016
Top 25 Box Office SF/Fantasy Films for 2015
Source www.boxofficemojo.com
(Includes studio and total box office gross as 1/6/2016)
Studio abbreviations:
BV=Buena Vista (Disney)
FD=Film District
Par=Paramount
LG/S=Lionsgate/Summit Entertainment
Uni=Universal
LGF=Lionsgate
TriS=TriStar
WB =Warner Bros.
W/Dim= Weinstein Company
Best SF/Fantasy Books of 2015
From Amazon.com
1 A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (A Song of Ice and
Fire) by George R.R. Martin and Gary Gianni
2 Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
3 Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
4 The Cinder Spires: The Aeronault’s Wilderness by
Jim Butcher
5 Uprooted by Naomi Novik
6 Imperial Handbook: A Commander’s Guide (Star
Wars (Chronicle)) by Daniel Wallace
7 The Shepherd’s Crown (Tiffany Aching) by Pierce
Brown
8 Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits by David Wong
9 The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
10 Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch) by Ann Leckie
11 Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
by Neil Gaiman
12 Alice by Christina Henry
13 Golden Son (The Red Rising Trilogy, Book 2) by
Pierce Brown
14 The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
15 The Mechanical (The Alchemy Wars) by Ian
Tregillis
16 Alive (Book One of the Generations Trilogy) by
Scott Sigler
17 Twelve Kings in Sharakhai: (The Song of Shattered
Sands: Book One) by Bradley P. Beaulieu
18 Magic Shifts (Kate Daniels Novel) by Ilona Andrews
19 Zeroes by Chuck Wendig
20 Letters to Zell by Camille Griep
Rank Movie Studio Gross
1 Star Wars: The Force
Awakens
BV $750M
2 Juriassic World Uni $652M
3 Avengers: Age of Ultron BV $459M
4 Inside Out BV $274M
6 Minions Uni $353M
7 The Hunger Games:
Mockingjay Part 2
LGF $241M
8 The Martian Fox $225M
9 Cinderella BV $201M
10 Spectre Sony $197M
13 Ant-Man BV $180M
14 Home Fox $177M
15 Hotel Transylvania 2 Sony $168M
17 SpongeBob Movie:
Sponge Out of Water
Par $162M
20 Mad Max: Fury Road WB $153M
21 The Divergent Series:
Insurgent
LG/S $168M
22 The Peanuts Movie Fox $129M
23 The Kingsman: The
Secret Service
Fox $128M
24 The Good Dinosaur BV $115M
29 Tomorrowland BV $93M
31 Terminator: Genisys Par $89M
33 The Maze Runner: The
Scorch Trials
Fox $81M
34 Ted 2 Uni $81M
35 Goosebumps Sony $79M
36 Pixels Sony $78M
37 Paddington W/Dim $71M
Page four January 2016
Letters of Comment
1706-24 Eva Rd.
Etobicoke, ON
CANADA M9C 2B2
November 15, 2015
Dear OASFiSians:
Thank you all for Event Horizon 336, and I will try my best to
earn at least some level of my keep by writing a letter of
comment. Let’s see how long it will be this time… (Juan, hope
the injuries are healing forthwith and fast.)
Unfornutaley I re broke my wrist and need to have it look at as I
put this
I actually go to few movies because my interest seems to have
faded over the last few years, but still it is good to know what is
coming out in case there is something we like that suddenly
appears. Then again, our interests have been moving into
steampunk quite a bit.
ContraFlow…Rob Sawyer is always a good guest. It’s hard to
find anyone as erudite as Rob, and he certainly does his
homework when it comes to just about any topic he’s given. I
remember years ago when more scholarly conventions, like
World Fantasy, barred people from entering if they were dressed
in costumes.
World Fantasy is more of a pro event and they like to keep it
that way.
When I downloaded the .pdf from your site, it reported being 12
pages long, but a look reveals that the six-page issue was in
the .pdf twice. No problem, but thought you’d like to know.
Fixed. Thank you.
This coming weekend is SFContario 6, which is also Canvention
35, in downtown Toronto. We will be there for the main event
on the Sunday, which is the Aurora brunch, and the awarding of
those great pointy trophies. Yvonne and I are each nominees, so
our fingers are crossed, and we hope to have some good news.
I saw the results. Great for Julie Czerneda. I hope you are
nominated again next year.
We have a con-running con the weekend after that one, and then,
we shut down for the season, and I don’t think I have another
con to go to until this coming April. Thanks for this issue, and
see you with the next one.
Yours, Lloyd Penney.
Clermont Comic Con
Raphael from the Teenage Mutant
Ninja Turtles
Page five January 2016
Clermont Comic Con
Top row (left to right): Apes from the classic Planet of the Apes, local fan Lyn Adams as Marvel’s Jessica Jones,
Snape and McGonagall from Harry Potter, C1-10P aka CHOPPER from Star Wars: Rebels
Bottom Row: The Mgeacon Match Game
Page six January 2016
Supernatural Official Convention
January 15-17
Hyatt Regency Jacksonville
225 E. Coastline Dr.
Jacksonville, Fl.
3-Day $175 General Admission
Guests: Jensen Ackles (Dean Winchester)
Jared Padalecki (Sam Winchester)
Misha Collins (Castiel)
Mark Shepard (Crowley)
More guests listed on website.
www.creationent.com/cal/supernatural_jax.htm
Auburndale Comic City Con
January 22-23
Auburndale Civic Center
115 W Park St,
Auburndale, FL 33823
Guests: Chuck Dixon (comic book writer)
Anime Sushi (fan club)
USS Haven (fanclub)
More guests listed on website.
$15 for 2 days
auburndalefl.com/citycon/
Tampa Anime Day
January 23
The International Palms Resort and Conference Center
6515 International Drive, Orlando FL 32819
$5 at the door
www.orlando.animeday.net/
Orlando Toy and Comic Con
January 31
Holiday Inn
5905 S. Kirkman Road
Orlando, FL 32819
$5 admission
Guests: Darwym Cooke (comic writer and artist)
Tony S. Daniel (comic writer and artist)
Billy Tucci (comic writer and artist)
John Layman(comic writer)
Amanda Conner (comic writer and artist)
Jimmy Palmiotti (comic writer and artist)
orlandotoyandcomiccon.com
(Continued from page 1)
Best SF/Fantasy Books of 2015
From io9.com
By Andrew Liptak
1 The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
2 Fallout (Lois Lane) by Gwenda Bond
3 The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky
Chambers
4 Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho
5 Ghost Fleet by August Cole and P.W. Singer
6 Nemesis Games (The Expanse) by James S.A. Corey
7 Gene Mapper by Taiyo Fujji
8 Dark Orbit by Carolyn Ives Gilman
9 Crooked by Austin Grossman
10 Lightless by C.A. Higgins
11 Dragon Heart by Cecelia Holland
12 The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth) by N.K. Jemisin
13 Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch) by Ann Leckie
14 Get In Trouble by Kelly Link
15 The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin (translated by Joel
Martinsen)
16 The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu
17 Luna: New Moon by Ian McDonald
18 A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (A Song of Ice and
Fire) by George R.R. Martin and Gary Gianni
19 Signal to Noise by Sylvia Moreno-Garcia
20 The Red Trilogy by Linda Nagata
21 Uprooted by Naomi Novik
22 The Beautiful Bureaucrat by Helen Phillips
23 The Child Eater by Rachel Pollack
24 Morte by Robert Reppino
25 Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson
26 A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab
27 The Providence of Fire (Chronicle of the Unhewn
Throne) by Brian Stavely
28 Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
29 Vermillion by Molly Tanzer
30 The Mechanical (The Alchemy Wars) by Ian Tregillis
(Continued on page 7)
58. OCT 9, North Florida Comic Show (Jacksonville)
59. OCT 28-30, Necronomicon (Tampa)
60. NOV 11, FANdom Con (Fort Walton Beach)
61. NOV 20, Clermont Comic Con (Clermont)
62. DEC 9-11, The Vampire Diaries Official Convention
(Orlando)
There are 29 events that have not been confirmed.
(Continued from page 2)
Page seven January 2016
Holiday Matsuri
(Continued from page 6)
Top row (left to right): Lydia from Beetlejuice, Bumblebee from Transformers, Two missionaries from The Book of
Mormon musical, Wednesday Addams from The Addams Show, Holiday Groot from The Guardians of the Galaxy
Bottom Row: Edward Scissorhands, Rey from Star Wars: The Force Awakens, A young woman and friend
31 Gold Fame Citrus by Clair Vaye Watkins
32 Updraft by Fran Wilde
33 Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Kai Wilson
34 Radiance by Catheryn Valente
OASFiS
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