Sept 5, Mn-Stf Meeting, Beth Friedman 4242 Minnehaha Ave, FFI: 721-8800
Sept 6, Full Moon
Sept 6, TAFF-on-a-stick. Fannish group expedition to the State Fair with TAFF winner
Maureen Speller Kincaid. Contact Geri Sullivan at (612) 825-3558 or
Sept 13, Second Foundation Meeting, 2:00 p.m., David Christenson's, 3728
Longfellow Ave. So., Minneapolis. Topic: 1998 BEST SCIENCE FICTION OF THE YEAR
anthologies edited by Gardner Dozois & David G. Hartwell. FFI: David, 722-9764, or
Eric M. Heideman, 825-9353.
Sept 19, Mn-Stf Meeting Blaisdell Polytechnic(DDB, Lydia, Pamela)3721 Blaisdell Ave S.
FFI: 827-6521
Sept 19, Minicon 34 open committee meeting. 1 pm. Dreamhaven Books, 912 West
Lake Street, Minneapolis. FFI: Geri Sullivan at (612) 825-3558 or gfs@toad-hall.com .
Sept 19, Worldbuilding Society, 1 pm. Topic: Melissa Scott's "Conceiving the
Heavens"; and discuss worlds/futures we've designed. Fowl Play, 1301Fourth St. SE,
MPLS MN USA. FFI: dsgood@visi.com , Dan Goodman at (612) 871-5461.
Sept 20, Diversicon 7 meeting, 2:00 p.m., ErinLorenz's, 2990 E. 85th, Inver Grove
Heights. Topics: Special Guest; 2nd Posthumous GOH, if any. FFI: Erin, 455-5636, or
Eric, 825-9353.
Sept 20, New Moon
Sept 26, Tentative Bilbo & Frodo Baggins Birthday Party, Contact: David Lenander 293
Selby Ave. St. Paul, MN 55102-1811 home: (651) 292-8887 work: (612) 626-3375
Rivendell Group web-page: http://www.tc.umn.edu/nlhome/m391/d-lena/RIVENDELL.html
Sept 27, Monthly Filk Circle, Time: 6pm-10pm Host: Filk Singers Location: 3236 Cedar
Avenue South for info call: Laramie Sasseville at 721-6076 0r 348-5599Site-info:
Smoking limited, Cats. FFI-phone: 721-6076 Remarks: refreshments are potluck
Announcements
On May 2 of this year, Jon Knutson, formerly of Tacoma, Washington, and Barbara
Knutson (maiden name lost!, oops) were married in Milwaukee.
Former local Kij Johnson was married on July 4th to Christopher McKitterick.
Publishing News
TALES OF THE UNANTICIPATED #19 (the "Aliens and Accountants Among Us" issue) is
out, including an interview with Maureen F. McHugh, & contributions by
Minnesotans/former Minnesotans Eleanor Arnason, John Calvin Rezmerski, Ruth
Berman, Lyda Morehouse, David J.Hoffman-Dachelet, David Mckeag Cox, Rodger
Gerberding, Suzanne Clarke, Beth Hansen, Laurel Winter, & Eric M. Heideman. $5 at
bookstores/$6 mailorder (Checks to MN-StF) from Tales of the Unantipated, PO Box
8036,Lake Street Station, Minneapolis, MN 55408. The reading period for TOTU#20 is
September 1- October 1, 1998. For guidelines, send a query/SASE to the TOTU PO
box, or contact Eric, 825-9353, eheideman@uswest.net
Short story by Stephen Brust, "Calling Pittsburg,", appears in ACCESSION:
38856276TITLE: Lord of the fantastic :stories in honor of Roger Zelazny /PLACE: New
York :PUBLISHER: Avon Books,YEAR: 1998, ed. by Martin H. Greenberg
Kinky Friedman is autographing at Uncle Edgar's Mystery Bookstore(2864 Chicago Ave.
S. / Minneapolis) on Tuesday, September 29th, from 6:30-8:00 pm.
LOCUS Bestsellers list from August issue includes KOMARR by Lois McMaster Bujold as
#1 hardcover; it's also #2 on the Barnes and Noble/B. Dalton list and #9 on
Waldenbooks list for same month.
Denny Lien has a number of listserv answers reprinted in the book STUMPERS!
ANSWERS TO HUNDREDS OF QUESTIONS THAT STUMPED THE EXPERTS ed. by Fred
R. Shapiro (Random House tp, 1998)
The August LOCUS reported on the Locus Poll Results for calendar year 1997.
FREEDOM AND NECESSITY by Steven Brust and Emma Bullwas voted #7 and
DOGLAND by Will Shetterly #13 on Best Fantasy Novel list. EXORCISMS AND
ECSTASIES by Karl Edward Wagner, from local publisher Fedogan & Bremer, was #16
on the Best Collectionlist, and THE ARBITRARY PLACEMENT OF WALLS by Martha
Soukup from local publisher Dreamhaven tied for #17.
This year's LOCUS ballot also collected votes on "Best SF Novel( Before 1990)" with
Clifford D. Simak's WAY STATION finishing #31 and his CITY tied for #38. LOCUS also
produced "Best Novelist" lists by counting all book nominations by author: here Simak
tied for #18th place as "All-Time Best Novelist--SF" and Lois McMaster Bujold appeared
in 29th place. When SF and Fantasy lists were combined, Simak tied for 30th.
The forthcoming STARLIGHT 2 ed. Patrick Nielsen Hayden (anthology), TOR hc Nov.
1999 (Smile Patrick!)
Conventions
Sept 3-6, DragonCon, Atlanta, GA, http://www.dragoncon.org
Sept 4-7, Coppercon 18, Phoenix, AZ. GOHs: Stephen R. Donaldson, Mitchell
Davidson Bentley, Mojo, JeffreyHitchin http://www.casfs.org/cucon
Sept 4-6, ConFluence '98, Pittsburgh, PA. GOH: Nancy Kress
http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~roboman/confluence.html
Sept 25-27, Mad Media, Madison, WI. GOHs: Harlan Ellison, Stephen Furst
http://www.madmedia.org
Sept 25-27, Contact 16, Evansville, IN. GOHs: Frederik Pohl, Laura Reynolds, Dr Bill
Breuer http://members.aol.com/ContactSF/home.html
Sept 25-27, Arcana 29, St Paul, MN. GOH: Joe Lansdale
http://www.inergy.com/JBROWER
Sept 25-27, inCONsequential, Fredericton, NB Canada. GOHs: David Feintuch,
Christian J. Ready, K.V. Johansen http://gateway.surfcity.nb.ca/breeze/incon
Sept 25-28, Albacon '98, Glasgow. GOHs: Kim Newman, Ray Harryhausen, Rodney
Matthews, Jim Byrnes, Valentine Pelka
http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/bizarre.imagery/albacon
Oct 2-4, Congenial 9, Merrimac, WI. GOHs: Neil Rest, Barry Gehm & Bill Higgins
http://www.tezcat.com/~norton1/congenial
Oct 2-4, Archon 22, Collinsville, IL. GOHs: James P Hogan, John Sies, John Novak &
Shannon Ware, Glen Cook http://www.stlf.org/archon
Oct 2-4, Context XI, Columbus, OH. GOHs: Larry Niven, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Dean
Wesley Smith http://www.contextcon.com
Oct 2-4, Viable Paradise II, Martha's Vineyard. GOHs: Lawrence Watt-Evans, Jael,
Patrick & Teresa Nielsen Hayden http://www.tiac.net/users/rmontor/paradise/index.shtml
Oct 2-4, Con-Cept '98, Montreal, Quebec. GOHs: Robert Sawyer, Yves Meynard,
Forrest J Ackerman, Mario Giguere http://afm.infinit.net/concept
Oct 16-18, ICON 23, Iowa City, IA. GOHs: Charles De Lint, Forrest J Ackerman, Ed
Heil, Rusty Hevelin http://www.sflis.org/icon
Oct 29 -Nov1, 1998 World Fantasy Convention. Monterey, CA. FFI:
http://www.farrsite.com/wfc/wfc5.html, '98 World Fantasy Con, c/o Bryan Barrett, 1707
13th Ave. SE, Olympia WA 98501; 360-943-9483.
Oct 30-Nov 1, Flashback, Mpls, MN. GOHs: Steven Brust, Gordon R. Dickson
http://www.visi.com/~romm/flash.html, FFI: Rick Gellman 612-825-8010, Reserve your
room in the Mn-Stf block by Oct. 1, 612-566-8855.
Nov 6-8, Sci-Con 20, Virginia Beach, VA. GOHs: Emma Bull & Will Shetterly, Colleen
Doran, Margaret Cubberly http://www.scicon.org
Nov 13-15, WindyCon XXV, Schaumburg, IL. GOHs: Allen Steele, Phil Foglio, Barry &
Marcy Lyn-Waitsman, Christian Ready, Frederick Pohl, Joe Haldeman, Kristine Kathryn
Rusch & Dean Wesley Smith http://www.windycon.org
Nov 13-15, Tropicon XVII, Sheraton Guest Suites, Cypress Creek, FL. GoHs Neil
Gaiman, Charles Vess. Membership, $25 to 10/31/98, then $28. FFI:
www.scifi.squawk.com/tropicon.html, prawlik@concentric.net , 539 37th St., West Palm
Beach FL 33407.
Feb 26-28, 1999 ,MarsCon at the Radisson South Hotel. New convention.
Apr 2-4, 1999, Minicon 34 at the Radisson South Hotel, Minneapolis. GoHs: Octavia
E. Butler, Mark & Priscilla Olson, Dave Nee. Reg. $30 till Oct. 31, 1998 FFI:
http://www.mnstf.org/minicon, request@minicon34.mnstf.org , PO Box 8297 Lake Street
Station, Mpls MN 55408.
July 2-4, 1999 CONvergence, Minneapolis MN. New convention. FFI:
http://www.convergence-con.org/, converge99@aol.com ,
July 30-Aug. 2, 1999. Mythcon XXX(30)--combined with Bree Moot 4--, Milwaukee,
WI. $35 till 9/15/98. At-the-door is about $60. FFI: David Lenander or Jo Ann Johnson
( 651) 292-8887, 293 Selby Ave. St. Paul 55102-1811.
Aug 6-8, 1999: Diversicon 7, Holiday Inn Express, 1010 Bandana Blvd., St. Paul.
Guests of Honor: "L.A. Graf"--Julia Ecklar & KarenRose Circone. Posthumous GOH:
William Shakespeare. $22 Adult, $17 Child (ages 2-12) through October 31, 1998;
$27 Adult, $22 Child through July 4, 1999. FFI: diversicon@scc.net Eric, 825-9353.
Editor's Note
Birthdays
Sept: 5: Sharon Kahn; 6: Greg Foss; 7: Michael A. Zalar; 8: Louie Spooner Trainor; 12:
Jean Mornard; 16: Jane Hausfeld; Kris Jensen; 17: Barbara Geraud; Kathy Routliffe; 19:
Laramie Sasseville; 21: David Dyer-Bennet; 22: Dave Wixon; 23: Matthew B. Tepper;
26: Michael Flowers; Lon Levy; Denny Lien; Mark Richards; 27: Jeanne Mealy; 29:
Kurt Griesemer; Eileen Lufkin; Anne Miller; 30: Jon Singer
Ongoing Info
Board of Directors: Margo Bratton, Dean Gahlon, Polly Peterson, Martin Schafer, and
Geri Sullivan. Email board@mnstf.org . Subject to verification at the previous meeting,
the board meets the 3rd Thursday of the month at Courts of Chaos, Mn-Stf meetings are
held the 1st and 3rd Saturday every month.
Minn-STF Hotline: Provides latest information and accepts messages: (612) 824-5559;
web site at: http://www.mnstf.org/mnstf/. Minicon web site at:
http://www.mnstf.org/minicon/.
Einblatt is posted on Usenet groups rec.arts.sf.fandom (and) alt.fandom.misc (and)
mn.general // Einblatt from July 95 to date is on the web at
http://www.mnstf.org/einblatt/.
This Einblatt was edited by Kurt & Carrie Griesemer with the assistance of Denny Lien
(publishing news and conventions).
Einblatt is a monthly publication of the Minnesota Science Fiction Society, devoted to
news of the local SF community. E-mail same to einblatt@mnstf.org , or send to Kurt and
Carrie Griesemer, 4833 Madison St. NE, Columbia Heights MN 55421; or call them at
(612)571-4283. Email submissions most preferred, no phone calls after 10pm. // Next
Einblatt! Deadline: midnight September 25, 1998 sharp!
Eric M. Heideman is now the children's librarian at Southeast Public Library in
Dinkytown.
pb=mass market paperback. hc=hardcover. tp=trade paperback nf=nonfiction.
coll=collection. anth=anthology. r=reissue.
996-9224.
d-lena@tc.umn.edu . Several Mpls/StP folks working on concom.
http://www.tc.umn.edu/nlhome/m391/d-lena/BreeMoot.html
If you are listing a meeting, please start with the date, time and name of your
group contact info, and a brief description of the meeting. If you want to list a Con,
please include some way of contacting that Con for information.
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