March/April 1998

Forthcoming SF, Fantasy, & Gaming Cons

AggieCon XXIX is being held in College Station this weekend March
26-29. If you missed it, look for two cons coming up in May - -
RocKon 22 (Little Rock, AR) May 1-3 and Project A-kon
(Dallas/Metroplex area) May 29-31. Then, we have three cons coming up
the SAME WEEKEND in June!! I Think Therefore I Con (Houston, TX),
Conestoga '98 (Tulsa, OK), and San Con 5 (Pasadena, TX) all June
26-28! Check out the details on our What's Happening list at
http://clever.net/cam/concalendar.html .

Forthcoming SF&Fantasy Books

According to Locus Magazine's quarterly Forthcoming Books list, Robert
Jordan's next Wheel of Time book (#8) will be Path of Daggers, due in
Oct. 1998. Timothy Zahn (Star Wars) will be back with Visions of the
Future (his sequel to the Spectre of the Past) in Nov. 1998. (These
two Zahn books comprise the Hand of Thrawn adventure.) Lois McMaster
Bujold will return with her newest Miles Vorkosigan book (called
Komarr) in June 1998. Anne McCaffrey's Catteni trilogy will be
completed with Freedom's Challenge in May 1998. For more listings
(updated monthly), see http://clever.net/cam/forthcomingsf.html .

Houston-area and Texas Science Fiction Organizations

Newly added to our list are the SCA and Amtgard. If you have any
interest in live role-playing gaming, try out the historical SCA or
the fantasy Amtgard groups! For more information, see our listing at
http://clever.net/cam/clubslist.html .

Science Fiction on TV

TNT will be broadcasting the 100th episode of Babylon 5 on April 8,
1998 at its NEW
time (7 PM CDT). And "they" said it would never last five seasons!!
For more information, see our listing at
http://clever.net/cam/sftv.html . (And BE SURE to click on the TNT
schedule changes announcement link for how TNT is going to handle
showing B5 during the upcoming NBA Playoffs, also on TNT this May.)

For now, send any email comments or suggestions regarding fannish
activities/events in the greater Houston area (or within Texas) or
regarding this Info Alert to cam@clever.net . If you received this
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Be seeing you!

Margaret A. Fincannon, Friends of Fandom &
Clifton B. Davis, Friends of Fandom Vice Pres. of Publications

http://clever.net/cam/fof.html