NWSFS News Blog - 05/15/08: Devo fish, Last Starfighter musical, and lots of awsome news!
Category: Writing and Poetry

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NWSFS News:

• May Social - This months social will be on Saturday, May 17, at the home of Yvonne and Eric Pawtowski in Lynnwood.  Details and directions can be found on the NWSFS Socials Page.

• Fandom News & World Report - 5/15: The Wire talks to Karen Joy Fowler about her Nebula-winning story 'Always.' Looks like a film is in the works celebrating Roger Corman. And Gene Colan of Daredevil and Howard the Duck fame is suffering from liver failure; there is a fundraising drive to help cover his medical expenses. More below.
• The Edge of Propinquity - Volume 29, May 2008: Volume 29 of The Edge of Propinquity has been published! If April showers bring May flowers, our garden is filled with carnivorous plants sporting sharp thorns and poisoned petals. This month we have a fight between practitioners of the Old Ways, the leaving behind of an old life, an unexpected fist to the face, trapped people fighting a hidden monster and innocents caught between two hard decisions.  Have you ever looked over the edge and seen something looking back at you?
• Fandom News & World Report - 5/14: Don't forget that the NWSFS social is Saturday the 17th and that nominations open for new officers at the social. We have news about our annual picnic; it is scheduled for June 28th at Woodland Park Zoo. Interesting news bytes on our sister sites and blogdates galore.
• Fandom News & World Report - 5/13:  News, author updates, reviews, book signings, kewl virtual badges and Fraggle Rock the musical? Peek under the cut.
• Fandom News & World Report - 5/10:  Lots news about charity auctions and upcoming books in blogdates, and movie news over at the Wire.
• Fandom News & World Report - 5/8:  An extremely rare showing of films by George Melies, steampunk in the NY Times, Team Sakura at Emeral City Comicon and more about Amazon.
• Fandom News & World Report - 5/7:  Book news galore! Charles de Lint and Charles Saunders have novels coming out, Ink Exchange debuted at 8 on the NY Times list, the Apex subscription drive is getting weirder, lots of movie news and the tallest LEGO tower in England.

• Cascadia News Bytes: May 13th, 2008 - Reports from the 2nd Annual ION Game Conference, recaps from last weekends Emerald City Comic Con, & a new gaming event coming this summer.
• Press Release - Mama's Boy and Other Tales on Mother's Day! - The following Press Release is from Apex Publications - Mama's Boy and Other Tales on Mother's Day!
• Cascadia News Bytes: May 10th, 2008:  There's news about 8th Annual Fairy Congress in Twisp, the Full Moon Horror Show by Charles Band, Emerald City Comic Con,
  a vampire movie is being filmed in Des Moines WA, and even more bytes to nibble on.
• Cascadia News Bytes: May 4th, 2008:  Stumptown coverage, Zompire press release, Crypticon news, and "Who's buying science fiction books"
• 2008 Science Fiction Hall of Fame Ceremony Tickets On Sale May 15
• ConComCon 15:  C-Cubed is the annual Convention Committee Convention held every year in the Pacific Northwest.  Click the link for more details.

• EMP|SFM - Robots: Opens May 16 at EMP|SFM:  An exhibition celebrating humankind's fascination with robots.
• Wayward Coffeehouse - May 16, 2008 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM - Geek Trivia Quiz Night
• Pacific Science Center - There's lots of fun stuff happening at the Pacific Science Center this weekend.  Browse around the site, and see if there's something that piques your interest.
• Monday, May 19,  7:00 PM, Richard Hugo House Cabaret - Fantastic Fiction Salon with Nancy Kress
• Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - Star Trek New Voyages "World Enough and Time" episode with co-writer, director and executive producer Marc Scott Zicree and executive producer Elaine Zicree
• Museum of Flight - Sunday, May 25, William M. Allen Theater - Phoenix Lands on Mars!
• Friday, May 30, 7:00 PM, U District store - Troy Denning, "Legacy of the Force: Invincible", Reading & Book Signing
• Tuesday, June 3, 7:00 PM, U District store - William Gibson, Spook Country, Reading & Book Signing

• ION 2208 Game Conference: May 13 - 15, 2008, Seattle, WA.  
• Otafest 2008:  May 16 - 18, 2008. Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 
• Vancouver International Game Summit: May 21 - 22, 2008, Vancouver, BC. Canada.
• Vidfest: May 21 - 24, 2008, Vancouver, BC. Canada.
• MisCon 22:  May 23 - 26, 2008, Missoula, MT.
• Crypticon Horror Convention:  May 23 - 25, 2008, Doubletree Inn & Conference Center, Seattle, WA.  
• The Pirate Gathering:  May 23 - 26, 2008 Hillsboro, OR
• CONduit XVIII:  May 23 - 25, 2008, Salt Lake City, UT. 
• Enfilade:  May 25 - 27, 2008, Olympia, WA. 
• Vancouver Comicon: May 25, 2008 Vancouver, BC, Canada
• Victoria Toy Show:  May 25, 2008, Victoria, BC, Canada
• Shelby's Collectible Toy Show:  May 31, 2008, Portland, OR
• Go Play Northwest 2008:  May 31-June 1 2008, Seattle WA.

• "The X-Files: I Want to Believe Trailer Has Arrived!" - Check out the trailer for the new X-Files movie over at FirstShowing.Net.
• Are We Alone - Put on your thinking hat: new episode

• io9:  Rapid Deevolution Creates a Lake of Fully-Armored Fish in Just 50 Years (Lake Washington), Smallville Will Be Lois And Clark... Plus Chloe, Marvin the Martian Makes His Debut, 1948 [Retro Futurism], First Look Inside Joss Whedon's Dollhouse, Goosebumps' Mutant Plant Clones Take To The Big Screen, Read England's Secret UFO Documents, & Scott Lobdell Tells io9 The Fates of the Galaxy Quest Crew,
• Locus Online:  Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
• RevolutionSF:  Moonlight Cancelled; Fans To Feast on Blood of Mortals (News)
• Science Fiction Awards Watch:  Mountains of Books, & The Eagles Have Landed
• Science Fiction Buzz:  Robert Picardo's Annual Charity Auction Benefit Dinner
• SF Signal:  UK Releases UFO Archives, REVIEW: Implied Spaces by Walter Jon Williams, Thursday YouTube: The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot, SF Tidbits for 5/15/08, Tube Bits for 05/15/2008, MIND MELD: Young Adult SF/F Books That Adults Will Like, Too, & SF Tidbits for 5/14/08,
• SFScope:  Realms of Fantasy's newest purchases, Jay Lake is on the mend, Michael Jasper now represented by FinePrint, Del Rey Book of SF Launched at NYRSF Reading, Actor John Phillip Law Dies, Dark Horse publishing retrospective of the Workshop of Filthy Creations, Heliotrope's Spring 2008 issue available, Richard Kadrey sells three to Eos via auction, & P.N. Elrod sells new Vampire Files novel
• The Website at the End of the Universe:  Science fiction and the architecture of tomorrow, & Science fiction movies can actually be educational

• Alethea Kontis - "Interact: Children's Book Week ", "Unwarranted Serendipity ", & "Why I'm a Writer "
• BELL CON 2008 - "Forms now available! "
• bevhale - "A whole new me... "
• Cynthia Leitich Smith - "Author Interview: Rick Riordan on Demigods and Monsters ", & "Author Interview: Herbie Brennan on Through the Wardrobe "
• Dark Horse Comics - "An Unexpected Party - A Special Message from Peter Jackson "
• David Louis Edelman  - "Dr. Seuss, Political Scientist ", & "State of Technological Dissatisfaction "
• David Thorpe - "Writing for children "
• Echelon Press, LLC - "The eBook Hullabaloo "
• Fantagraphics Books - "Now in stock: The Comics Journal No. 290 (Charles M. Schulz) "
• Grendels Den Design Studio - "New Artwork - AGELESS", "Another Convention Added", &  "Busy Bee! Work'n Here! "
• HARPER PERENNIAL - "Head Case Video "
• Harry Shannon - "DEAD AND GONE novel & movie updates "
• Horror Library Blog-O-Rama - "Cramming It All In by Erik Smetana "
• Jenna Black - "Interview with Jeri Smith-Ready "
• Joshua Palmatier - "Signing and Meet & Greet! "
• Karina L. Fabian - "Cats and Lolcatz "
• Little Brother by Cory Doctorow - "What to do if the police stop you ", & "Cory Doctorow: Show us your Little Brother HOWTO videos, and Dumpster-Diving Philosopher."  ( also posted in the Tor Books & Tor Teen blogs)
• Louise Bohmer - Lachesis Publishing - "World Horror Convention 2009 -- The debut of The Black Act and Tormentor "
• Melissa Marr - "both books on NYT "
• Mike Corriero - "Community Mentoring - Creature Lessons "
• Nicola Griffith - "awesomer than that awesomest thing that ever did awesome! "
• PLANET LOVECRAFT - "Finally! "
• Robert J Sawyer's Blog - Coming this fall: a new Gorn figure!, McNally Robinson loves Identity Theft, More e-ink devices announced, & Stan Schmidt for the Hugo!
• Robin Hobb - "Dorkness Rising "
• Rosemary Jones - "Last Starfighter The Musical "
• Sherrilyn Kenyon - "FC Update "
• Thomas Saint McReynolds - "Body of A Horse, Heart of A Man (Review) "
• Yasmine Galenorn  - "New interview with me from Falcata Times ", "Writing Inspirations ", & "So HOW many months till Season 4??? "

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NWSFS News Blog - 05/13/08: Updated - Steamcon meeting tonight
Category: Writing and Poetry

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NWSFS News:

• May Social - This months social will be on Saturday, May 17, at the home of Yvonne and Eric Pawtowski in Lynnwood.  Details and directions can be found on the NWSFS Socials Page.

• Fandom News & World Report - 5/13:  News, author updates, reviews, book signings, kewl virtual badges and Fraggle Rock the musical? Peek under the cut.
• Fandom News & World Report - 5/10:  Lots news about charity auctions and upcoming books in blogdates, and movie news over at the Wire.
• Fandom News & World Report - 5/8:  An extremely rare showing of films by George Melies, steampunk in the NY Times, Team Sakura at Emeral City Comicon and more about Amazon.
• Fandom News & World Report - 5/7:  Book news galore! Charles de Lint and Charles Saunders have novels coming out, Ink Exchange debuted at 8 on the NY Times list, the Apex subscription drive is getting weirder, lots of movie news and the tallest LEGO tower in England.
• News Addendum - 5/6: An informal poll about the use of RFID tags at conventions, and news regarding Death Note.
• Fandom News & World Report - 5/6: News from Ellen Datlow, Melissa Writing, Janrae Frank, and over at the Wire, we have updates galore.
• Fandom News & World Report - 5/4:  There's an MFR in the south end coming up. Updates galore with news about Smallville, a sequel to The Descent, Ninja Assassin as well as a subsciption drive over at Apex (cool prize alert!) and a new wiki about northwest convention history and much, much more!

• Northwest Science Fiction Society: Upcomming Events - News from our Vice Chair regarding upcoming events including our picnic in June.
  
• Cascadia News Bytes: May 13th, 2008 - Reports from the 2nd Annual ION Game Conference, recaps from last weekends Emerald City Comic Con, & a new gaming event coming this summer.
• Press Release - Mama's Boy and Other Tales on Mother's Day! - The following Press Release is from Apex Publications - Mama's Boy and Other Tales on Mother's Day!
• Cascadia News Bytes: May 10th, 2008:  There's news about 8th Annual Fairy Congress in Twisp, the Full Moon Horror Show by Charles Band, Emerald City Comic Con,
  a vampire movie is being filmed in Des Moines WA, and even more bytes to nibble on.
• Cascadia News Bytes: May 4th, 2008:  Stumptown coverage, Zompire press release, Crypticon news, and "Who's buying science fiction books"
• 2008 Science Fiction Hall of Fame Ceremony Tickets On Sale May 15
• Cascadia News Bytes: April 27th, 2008:  Picture gallery of the Victoria Ultimate Hobby & Toy Expo, one last note about Sakura-Con last month, Cinemablend.com column about Star Wars, Word that an official Harry Potter Exhibition
• Cascadia News Bytes: April 26th, 2008:  Jet City Retro reports, news about Stumptown Comics Show, Geek Girls Gone Wild in Calgary For Comic Expo (hmmm?).  A roundup of various news reports on this past weekends New York Comic Con. A video profile of Something Weird Video, which is based in Lynnwood, WA., and more.
• ConComCon 15:  C-Cubed is the annual Convention Committee Convention held every year in the Pacific Northwest.  Click the link for more details.

• Steamcon's next meeting will be May 15th at 6:30 P.M. at the Capitol Hill branch of the Public Library. 425 Harvard Ave. E.  Seattle, WA.
  
• Thursday, May 15, 7:30 PM, Town Hall Seattle, Downstairs - George Johnson, "The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments", Reading & Book Signing
• EMP|SFM - Robots: Opens May 16 at EMP|SFM:  An exhibition celebrating humankind's fascination with robots.
• Wayward Coffeehouse - May 16, 2008 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM - Geek Trivia Quiz Night
• Monday, May 19,  7:00 PM, Richard Hugo House Cabaret - Fantastic Fiction Salon with Nancy Kress
• Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - Star Trek New Voyages "World Enough and Time" episode with co-writer, director and executive producer Marc Scott Zicree and executive producer Elaine Zicree
• Museum of Flight - Sunday, May 25, William M. Allen Theater - Phoenix Lands on Mars!
• Friday, May 30, 7:00 PM, U District store - Troy Denning, "Legacy of the Force: Invincible", Reading & Book Signing
• Tuesday, June 3, 7:00 PM, U District store - William Gibson, Spook Country, Reading & Book Signing

• ION 2208 Game Conference: May 13 - 15, 2008, Seattle, WA.  
• Otafest 2008:  May 16 - 18, 2008. Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 
• Vancouver International Game Summit: May 21 - 22, 2008, Vancouver, BC. Canada.
• Vidfest: May 21 - 24, 2008, Vancouver, BC. Canada.
• MisCon 22:  May 23 - 26, 2008, Missoula, MT.
• Crypticon Horror Convention:  May 23 - 25, 2008, Doubletree Inn & Conference Center, Seattle, WA.  
• The Pirate Gathering:  May 23 - 26, 2008 Hillsboro, OR
• CONduit XVIII:  May 23 - 25, 2008, Salt Lake City, UT. 
• Enfilade:  May 25 - 27, 2008, Olympia, WA. 
• Vancouver Comicon: May 25, 2008 Vancouver, BC, Canada
• Victoria Toy Show:  May 25, 2008, Victoria, BC, Canada
• Shelby's Collectible Toy Show:  May 31, 2008, Portland, OR
• Go Play Northwest 2008:  May 31-June 1 2008, Seattle WA.

• "Man dressed as Darth Vader spared jail for attack on founder of Jedi church" - Words just fail me on this little tidbit that was posted on KOMO TV's site. 
• "The X-Files: I Want to Believe Trailer Has Arrived!" - Check out the trailer for the new X-Files movie over at FirstShowing.Net.
• ConQuesT 39:  May 23 - 25, 2008, Kansas City Airport Hilton, Kansas City, MO
• Rosemary Jones - Book Publishers Northwest May Meeting
• Are We Alone - Put on your thinking hat: new episode

• io9:  Kaguya Satellite Shoots Stunning Earthrise and Earthset Videos, NASA Engineers Prep for Phoenix Lander Rendezvous with Martian Arctic, Outer Space Gets Its First Lawyer, & Now You Can Have the Real Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• RevolutionSF:  Sci Fi TV Not Cancelled / Cancelled : Reaper, Cavemen (News)
• Science Fiction Awards Watch:  Eagles News, More Anime Awards, Missing in Flight?, & Prix Boréal
• Science Fiction Buzz:  Review: BATTLESTAR GALACTICA - SEASON FOUR - 'Faith', & Eric Stoltz for SciFi's Triangle Series Joins BSG Caprica cast
• SF Signal:  Tuesday YouTube: Stanislaw Lem, SF Tidbits for 5/13/08, REVIEW: Little Brother by Cory Doctorow, Tube Bits For 05/12/2008, SF Tidbits for 5/12/08, & POLL RESULTS: Marketing Young Adult SF/F
• SFScope:  Jim Baen's Universe open to submissions, Helix SF has nearly filled its fiction inventory, John Scalzi delivers Hate Mail and announces German Colony, Lost Roger Zelazny novel to be published in February 2009, Dean Koontz's "Odd Thomas" in mini-movie to presage new novel, Eugie Foster sells collection to Norilana, New author Daniel Wells sells trilogy to Tor, Orbit Books confirms coming expansions, Tor's freebies for this week, & L. Timmel Duchamp's Marq'ssan Cycle concludes with a pre-release discount
• The Website at the End of the Universe:  Does Star Wars have a future?, & Science fiction movies can actually be educational

• Alethea Kontis - "Interact: Barbara Walters Interview ", & "Travel Goddess "
• bevhale - "Happy News "
• Bret Jordan - "BLOGTALKRADIO "
• Cynthia Leitich Smith - "Librarian Interview: Brazos Price on Second Chance Books ", & "Agent Interview: Erin Murphy on Erin Murphy Literary Agency "
• David Louis Edelman  - "State of Technological Dissatisfaction  "
• David Thorpe - "Ribbon cutting and techno-addictions "
• Di Francis - "today in the life "
• Erica Spindler - "Tuesdays with Erica "
• Fran Friel - "Are You Mad Enough? Mama's Boy and Other Dark Tales Pre-Order is Open! "
• HARPER PERENNIAL - "Candy is now on-sale! ", "Video Killed the Radio Star, Part Deux ", & "Video Killed the Radio Star "
• Horror Library Blog-O-Rama - "A Tree is Born - by John R. Little, Guest Blogger ", & "A Year of Firsts - by Dan Naden "
• JAMES AND DADDY - "Update 12th May 2008 "
• Jeff Carlson - "Be very, very afraid of... Mind Plague! "
• Karina L. Fabian - "Catholic Writers Conference Online a Hit "
• Little Brother by Cory Doctorow - "How to locate pinhole cameras "
• Louise Bohmer - Lachesis Publishing - "Leftovers by Steve Vernon / Upcoming from Lachesis "
• Paul Halpern - "The Way of Science in the Labyrinth of Culture "
• Robert J Sawyer's Blog - Sacremento News & Review loves Rollback, & Free public event in Winnipeg!
• Robin Hobb - My Schedule for France this May
• SF Reviews.Net - "Reviews added 5/12/08 "
• Sherrilyn Kenyon - "Kids: Gotta Love Them ", & "Launch Party Addendum "
• Spectra Pulse - "The Gadgey - A short story by Alan Campbell ", & "The Refutation of Rosemont - A short story by Barth Anderson "
• Spokane Comicon - "Spokane Comicon exclusive giveaway "
• TRIAD Publishing Group - Check out The New Amazon Kindle Releases From These Exciting TRIAD Authors!
• Tor Books - "5/13 Releases from Tor Books "
• Willie Meikle - "New Story audi-visual preview "
• Word Weavers - "Guest Blog: Writer Moms by: Karen Harrington "
• Yasmine Galenorn  - "If you want to read about my signing on Saturday... ", "Posting at the Witchy Chicks tomorrow (well, today)... ", "WOOHOO...copyedits of Night Huntress done! ", & "The Sub-Q Battle with Keeter, and another review of Dragon Wytch "

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NWSFS News Blog - 05/11/08: Updated with Press Release from Apex Publishing
Category: Writing and Poetry

EXTERNAL LINK ALERT NOTICE:  Please note that many of the links are this page are subject to MySpace's External Link Alert.  Please be assured that all links on this page are legitimate and are safe to visit.  If you have any questions regarding these links, please contact me ~ Jim Cox / NWSFS on MySpace


Sunday Funnies:

Boxcar Astronaut -  Diogee Visits the Butcher's Shop!

Greetings, Fellow Astronauts! While Ben, Devin, and Robot have been having their adventures in the past few episodes, many wondered where Diogee and Caveman have been. Well, at long last we present to you Diogee adventure inspired by early comedy classics like the Little Rascals and Popeye. Our favorite little mutt goes for a visit to the butcher's shop and hits a snag.  Lucky for him, Caveman is ready to help! Check out the zany canine antics in this week's All New Boxcar Astronaut!


NWSFS News:

• May Social - This months social will be on Saturday, May 17, at the home of Yvonne and Eric Pawtowski in Lynnwood.  Details and directions can be found on the NWSFS Socials Page.

• Fandom News & World Report - 5/10:  Lots news about charity auctions and upcoming books in blogdates, and movie news over at the Wire.
• Fandom News & World Report - 5/8:  An extremely rare showing of films by George Melies, steampunk in the NY Times, Team Sakura at Emeral City Comicon and more about Amazon.
• Fandom News & World Report - 5/7:  Book news galore! Charles de Lint and Charles Saunders have novels coming out, Ink Exchange debuted at 8 on the NY Times list, the Apex subscription drive is getting weirder, lots of movie news and the tallest LEGO tower in England.
• News Addendum - 5/6: An informal poll about the use of RFID tags at conventions, and news regarding Death Note.
• Fandom News & World Report - 5/6: News from Ellen Datlow, Melissa Writing, Janrae Frank, and over at the Wire, we have updates galore.
• Fandom News & World Report - 5/4:  There's an MFR in the south end coming up. Updates galore with news about Smallville, a sequel to The Descent, Ninja Assassin as well as a subsciption drive over at Apex (cool prize alert!) and a new wiki about northwest convention history and much, much more!
• Fandom News & World Report - 5/2:  Nicola Griffith will be doing a reading at Hugo House on May 6th, Lisa Mantchev will be in an upcoming issue of Fantasy Magazine, and there's interesting stuff going on in the blogs!

• Cascadia News Bytes: May 10th, 2008:  There's news about 8th Annual Fairy Congress in Twisp, the Full Moon Horror Show by Charles Band, Emerald City Comic Con,
  a vampire movie is being filmed in Des Moines WA, and even more bytes to nibble on.
• Cascadia News Bytes: May 4th, 2008:  Stumptown coverage, Zompire press release, Crypticon news, and "Who's buying science fiction books"
• 2008 Science Fiction Hall of Fame Ceremony Tickets On Sale May 15
• Cascadia News Bytes: April 27th, 2008:  Picture gallery of the Victoria Ultimate Hobby & Toy Expo, one last note about Sakura-Con last month, Cinemablend.com column about Star Wars, Word that an official Harry Potter Exhibition
• Cascadia News Bytes: April 26th, 2008:  Jet City Retro reports, news about Stumptown Comics Show, Geek Girls Gone Wild in Calgary For Comic Expo (hmmm?).  A roundup of various news reports on this past weekends New York Comic Con. A video profile of Something Weird Video, which is based in Lynnwood, WA., and more.
• ConComCon 15:  C-Cubed is the annual Convention Committee Convention held every year in the Pacific Northwest.  Click the link for more details.

• Tuesday, May 13, 7:00 PM, U District store (café and fireside) - Matthew Sharpe, "Jamestown", Reading & Book Signing
• Thursday, May 15, 7:30 PM, Town Hall Seattle, Downstairs - George Johnson, "The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments", Reading & Book Signing
• EMP|SFM - Robots: Opens May 16 at EMP|SFM:  An exhibition celebrating humankind's fascination with robots.
• Wayward Coffeehouse - May 16, 2008 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM - Geek Trivia Quiz Night
• Monday, May 19,  7:00 PM, Richard Hugo House Cabaret - Fantastic Fiction Salon with Nancy Kress
• Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - Star Trek New Voyages "World Enough and Time" episode with co-writer, director and executive producer Marc Scott Zicree and executive producer Elaine Zicree
• Museum of Flight - Sunday, May 25, William M. Allen Theater - Phoenix Lands on Mars!
• Friday, May 30, 7:00 PM, U District store - Troy Denning, "Legacy of the Force: Invincible", Reading & Book Signing
• Tuesday, June 3, 7:00 PM, U District store - William Gibson, Spook Country, Reading & Book Signing

• ION 2208 Game Conference: May 13 - 15, 2008, Seattle, WA.  
• Otafest 2008:  May 16 - 18, 2008. Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 
• Vancouver International Game Summit: May 21 - 22, 2008, Vancouver, BC. Canada.
• Vidfest: May 21 - 24, 2008, Vancouver, BC. Canada.
• MisCon 22:  May 23 - 26, 2008, Missoula, MT.
• Crypticon Horror Convention:  May 23 - 25, 2008, Doubletree Inn & Conference Center, Seattle, WA.  
• The Pirate Gathering:  May 23 - 26, 2008 Hillsboro, OR
• CONduit XVIII:  May 23 - 25, 2008, Salt Lake City, UT. 
• Enfilade:  May 25 - 27, 2008, Olympia, WA. 
• Vancouver Comicon: May 25, 2008 Vancouver, BC, Canada
• Victoria Toy Show:  May 25, 2008, Victoria, BC, Canada
• Shelby's Collectible Toy Show:  May 31, 2008, Portland, OR
• Go Play Northwest 2008:  May 31-June 1 2008, Seattle WA.

• Are We Alone - Next show available May12, 2008: "Here's an Idea!"

• io9:  See The Future Of Star Trek, Will Phoenix Mars Rover Disappear Like the Last Mars Polar Lander?, & Vendetta Director To Work On Alien Conspiracies [Revelation]
• Locus Online:  Monitor: New Books: second week May, Monitor: Other Magazines, early May, Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers, & Locus Magazine: Cory Doctorow Commentary
• RevolutionSF:  Sci-Fi Moms Vol. 4, & RevolutionSF Newsblast : Donnie Darko 2, Smallville, BioShock, Buck Rogers,
• Science Fiction Awards Watch:  Eagles in Progress?, & Japan Cartoonist Awards
• SF Signal:  Sunday YouTube: Joe Haldeman @ Google, SF Tidbits for 5/11/08, SF Tidbits for 5/10/08, This Week's Freebies from Tor, Arthur C. Clarke Reads From 2001: A Space Odyssey, Tube Bits for 05/09/2008, & SF Tidbits for 5/9/08
• SFScope:  Updates to Previously Published Articles (4-10 May 2008), Magazine of Speculative Poetry's 31st issue now available, Jay Lake recovering from cancer surgery, D.D. Barant sells urban fantasy trilogy to St. Martin's, Abyss & Apex 26 now available, Apex subscription drive includes prizes, & Copyright Office seeking to change method of registration
• The Website at the End of the Universe:  Earth braces for invasion of the space Nazis

• Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest -  "Mama's Boy and Other Tales on Mother's Day! "
• bevhale - "My new book cover ", & "Sunny day update "
• Boxcar Astronaut - "Diogee Visits the Butcher's Shop! "
• Bret Jordan - "CROP FROG "
• Cynthia Leitich Smith - "YA Book & Writer News "
• David Louis Edelman  - "'MultiReal' Podcast Chapters 1-5 Now Available  "
• Di Francis - "not a snippet Saturday "
• Djibril - "TFFcon (London, June 14th) "
• Ephemeris-Science Fiction Role Playing Game - "A Problem in Translation"
• Geralyn Beauchamp - "TIME MASTERS IS AWARD FINALIST IN INDIE EXCELLENCE!"
• HARPER PERENNIAL - "Rave People Magazine review for Island of Lost Girls "
• Horror Library Blog-O-Rama - "Friday Photo Prompt (Saturday Style): 5/10/08 " & "When Did the Rules Change? BY AJ Brown "
• Maria V. Snyder - "Researching an utter farrago of nonsense "
• Mark Rainey - "Orpheus With a Heart "
• Mike Corriero - "Attention: Concerning All Artists: Oppose the Orphan Work Bill - please read. "
• Newcon - "Celebrating Short Fiction - A Review "
• Nicola Griffith - "Awards Are Good"
• Paul Halpern - "London Calling "
• Planet Pride - "Laser Help for Terrestrial Planet Search ", "South on Rhea ", "Inside Mercury, Is It Snowing Iron? ", & "Moons that Pass in the Night "
• Robert J Sawyer's Blog - "Orthopedic Horseshoes", "Keycon Schedule", "Bewitched theme song lyrics", "As It Happens", "Debating Hal", "Are science fiction ebook sales declining?", & "Book launch tomorrow!"
• Scott Nicholson - "readers are gold "
• Spectra Pulse - "Jeff VanderMeer on 'The Unsung Heroes of Science Fiction,", & "Author Notes: Alan Campbell "
• Sylvia Engdahl's "Toward Tomorrow" Blog - "Semifinalist for the IPPY Award!"
• TRIAD Publishing Group - "Tangled Minds - Now a Screenplay"
• Willie Meikle - "Audio Short Story Sale "
• Writers Together - "Change is coming...I give you the AMAZING "M"", & "Enter the world of TRIAD PUBLISHING GROUP"
• Yasmine Galenorn  - "Do Writers Really Think About *THAT*??? And your weekly teaser from Dragon Wytch ", "For Those Of You Who've Lost Your Mothers... ", "Umm...more Book Signing Info... ",  & "Blogging at Witchy Chicks; Book Signings; Being a Fangirl; and Other Stuff "

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NWSFS News Blog - 05/08/08: Emerald City ComiCon, Iron Sky links, and as usual blog updates

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NWSFS News:

• May Social - This months social will be on Saturday, May 17, at the home of Yvonne and Eric Pawtowski in Lynnwood.  Details and directions can be found on the NWSFS Socials Page.

• Fandom News & World Report - 5/8:  An extremely rare showing of films by George Melies, steampunk in the NY Times, Team Sakura at Emeral City Comicon and more about Amazon.
• Fandom News & World Report - 5/7:  Book news galore! Charles de Lint and Charles Saunders have novels coming out, Ink Exchange debuted at 8 on the NY Times list, the Apex subscription drive is getting weirder, lots of movie news and the tallest LEGO tower in England.
• News Addendum - 5/6: An informal poll about the use of RFID tags at conventions, and news regarding Death Note.
• Fandom News & World Report - 5/6: News from Ellen Datlow, Melissa Writing, Janrae Frank, and over at the Wire, we have updates galore.
• Fandom News & World Report - 5/4:  There's an MFR in the south end coming up. Updates galore with news about Smallville, a sequel to The Descent, Ninja Assassin as well as a subsciption drive over at Apex (cool prize alert!) and a new wiki about northwest convention history and much, much more!
• Fandom News & World Report - 5/2:  Nicola Griffith will be doing a reading at Hugo House on May 6th, Lisa Mantchev will be in an upcoming issue of Fantasy Magazine, and there's interesting stuff going on in the blogs!
• Fandom News & World Report - 5/1:  Ellen Datlow has lists the finalists. News from Kate Elliott, Locus Magazine, SF Site, and The Wire.

• Cascadia News Bytes: May 4th, 2008:  Stumptown coverage, Zompire press release, Crypticon news, and "Who's buying science fiction books"
• 2008 Science Fiction Hall of Fame Ceremony Tickets On Sale May 15
• Cascadia News Bytes: April 27th, 2008:  Picture gallery of the Victoria Ultimate Hobby & Toy Expo, one last note about Sakura-Con last month, Cinemablend.com column about Star Wars, Word that an official Harry Potter Exhibition
• Cascadia News Bytes: April 26th, 2008:  Jet City Retro reports, news about Stumptown Comics Show, Geek Girls Gone Wild in Calgary For Comic Expo (hmmm?).  A roundup of various news reports on this past weekends New York Comic Con. A video profile of Something Weird Video, which is based in Lynnwood, WA., and more.
• ConComCon 15:  C-Cubed is the annual Convention Committee Convention held every year in the Pacific Northwest.  Click the link for more details.

• IKV T'Mar Meeting - May 10, 2008 at the Chine Star in Kent, WA.
• Tuesday, May 13, 7:00 PM, U District store (café and fireside) - Matthew Sharpe, "Jamestown", Reading & Book Signing
• Thursday, May 15, 7:30 PM, Town Hall Seattle, Downstairs - George Johnson, "The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments", Reading & Book Signing
• EMP|SFM - Robots: Opens May 16 at EMP|SFM:  An exhibition celebrating humankind's fascination with robots.
• Wayward Coffeehouse - May 16, 2008 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM - Geek Trivia Quiz Night
• Monday, May 19,  7:00 PM, Richard Hugo House Cabaret - Fantastic Fiction Salon with Nancy Kress
• Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - Star Trek New Voyages "World Enough and Time" episode with co-writer, director and executive producer Marc Scott Zicree and executive producer Elaine Zicree

• Zompire The Undead Film Festival: May 9-10, 2008, Hollywood Theater Portland, OR
• Emerald City ComiCon:  May 10-11, 2008, Washington State Convention and Trade Center, Seattle, WA.
• ION 2208 Game Conference: May 13 - 15, 2008, Seattle, WA.  
• Otafest 2008:  May 16 - 18, 2008. Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 
• Vancouver International Game Summit: May 21 - 22, 2008, Vancouver, BC. Canada.
• Vidfest: May 21 - 24, 2008, Vancouver, BC. Canada.
• MisCon 22:  May 23 - 26, 2008, Missoula, MT.
• Crypticon Horror Convention:  May 23 - 25, 2008, Doubletree Inn & Conference Center, Seattle, WA.  
• The Pirate Gathering:  May 23 - 26, 2008 Hillsboro, OR
• CONduit XVIII:  May 23 - 25, 2008, Salt Lake City, UT. 
• Enfilade:  May 25 - 27, 2008, Olympia, WA. 
• Vancouver Comicon: May 25, 2008 Vancouver, BC, Canada
• Victoria Toy Show:  May 25, 2008, Victoria, BC, Canada

• Geralyn Beauchamp's book Time Masters Book One; The Call is a finalist for Best New Fiction in the Indie Excellence Book Awards.
• Are We Alone - Live from AbSciCon!

• io9:  Computers Will Put Us All Out of Work! 1957 [Retro Futurism], & Nazi Moonbase Launches Stealth Attack [Iron Sky]
• Science Fiction Awards Watch:  Interzone Readers' Poll, & More YA Success
• SF Signal:  MIND MELD: Stories Hollywood Should Film, REVIEW: An Idle King by J.W. Benford, Thursday YouTube: Iron Sky Trailer, SF Tidbits for 5/8/08, Free eBook: The Serpent Bride By Sara Douglass, Wednesday YouTube: Kevin Pollak Does Star Trek, Tube Bits for 05/07/2008, & SF Tidbits for 5/7/08,
• SFScope:  Cory Doctorow linking up librarians in need with generous readers, Sara Douglass's The Serpent Bride available as free e-book, Robert Silverberg sells two classics to Tor, F&SF's August Issue, & Postscripts Spring 2008 issue,
• The Website at the End of the Universe:  Kessel, McHugh offering new antholgies for download

• Cynthia Leitich Smith - "Author Interview: S. A. Bodeen on The Compound ", & "Publisher Interview: Kira Lynn on Kane/Miller "
• David Louis Edelman  - "More Newfound Reviews ", "Pat on "Infoquake : 'One of the Very Best SF Debuts I Have Ever Read'", "Infoquake" Giveaway on Pat's Fantasy Hotlist ", & "New 'Infoquake' and 'MultiReal' Audio Podcasts  "
• Erica Spindler - "Next Big Event "
• Fantagraphics Books - "Now in stock: Bottomless Belly Button, Rebel Visions (New Ed.) ", "Exclusive 20%-Off Coupon for MySpace Friends! ", "Announcing the 2nd Annual Fantagraphics Online Friends Appreciation Sale! ", "Weirdos: Seattle's Alternative Comics Culture in the Context of R. Crumb's Underground ", & "Bagge'd & boarded "
• Fran Friel - "FREE Subscription to APEX? Yuppers...plus AJ "
• HARPER PERENNIAL - "Barbara Kingsolver's brand new paperback "
• Horror Library Blog-O-Rama - "FREE Subscription to APEX? Yuppers...plus AJ - by Fran Friel ", & "Writing A Story In 26 Easy Steps by Erik Smetana "
• JAMES AND DADDY - "Update 8th May 2008 "
• Jodi Lee - "Braggin' Rights", & "Catching up - news!"
• Kevin J Anderson - "AUDIOBOOKS "
• Lisa Mantchev - "It's Never Just A Fairy Tale "
• Louise Bohmer - Lachesis Publishing - "Interview and a Review -- David Hough and Mike McCarty "
• Maria V. Snyder - "Brenda Novak's online auction ", & "Has anyone seen April? "
• Minnette Meador - "ECATA Romance Delurking Day - Thursday "
• NexGen Pulp Magazine - "Special Sale $2 Single Full Color Issues!!!! "
• Overcast Publications - "NEW SHORT STORY: ""STRANGERS ON A MOUNTAIN"" "
• Paul Halpern - "Remembering John Wheeler "
• Payseur & Schmidt - "Cosmocopia "
• Phoebe Matthews - "Wow, another new cover "
• Robert J Sawyer's Blog - Clearing my plate, Debating Hal, RJS e-Mail Newsletter, The Terminal Experiment at Audible.com, & much more.
• Scott Nicholson - "Parable of the roadkill "
• Spokane Comicon - "Check out this event: Spokane Comicon ", & "Directions
• Tor Books - "Book Trailer for Patti O'Shea's In Twilight's Shadow ", & "New Tor Paranormal Romance Facebook Fan Page "
• Weird Tales - "Neil Gaiman, Bill Plympton & WEIRD TALES! "
• Willie Meikle - "World Building Part 1: Glaisc, a maritime city "
• Yasmine Galenorn  - "*snorts* Me and a day off.... ", "Made a few banners for your use... ", & "DONE DONE DONE she screams... "