June 1998

New Arrivals.

Greetings and thanks to new arrivals Gaylord Teague and Douglas
Warren. Also to the mystery person identifying themselves only as
lord_budda. Douglas hails from Houston suburb, Katy. Gaylord hails
from Houston suburb, Las Cruces, New Mexico. We can only assume
that lord_budda hails from Houston suburb, New Nirvana. Welcome
aboard everyone.

Forthcoming SF&Fantasy Books

New books by Marion Zimmer Bradley, David Brin, C.J. Cherryh, Gordon
R. Dickson, Terry Goodkind, Barbara Hambly, Mercedes Lackey, Anne
McCaffrey, L.E.Modesitt, Jr., Elizabeth Moon, and Dan Simmons (among
still MORE authors) were announced in the Locus June quarterly
Forthcoming Books section.
For more listings (updated monthly), see
http://clever.net/cam/forthcomingsf.html .

Random News

As of April, James Cameron, director of "Titanic", has optioned Kim
Stanley Robinson's Hugo and Nebula award winning Mars Trilogy
(_Red Mars_, _Green Mars_, _Blue Mars_). There is many a slip
between an option and a film, but can you imagine a high budget
production of the Mars books with the same loving detail as
mega-blockbuster "Titanic"?
(_Red Mars_ was the '93 Nebula, _Green Mars_ the '94 Hugo and _Blue
Mars_ the '97 Hugo winner at the Texas Worldcon, LoneStarCon 2)

Forthcoming SF, Fantasy, & Gaming Cons

Houston-area Gamers will want to circle June 26-28 on their calendars
for I Think Therefore I Con, with more gaming to come July 10-12 in
Pasadena, TX at San Con 5. SF fans will also be gathering in Tulsa,
OK June 26-28 for Conestoga '98. Check out the details on our What's
Happening list at http://clever.net/cam/concalendar.html .

Science Fiction on TV

Lots of science fiction favorites will be returning this fall, with
some new shows debuting as well. Highlander has left TV for the
movies while Babylon 5 will be showing its last few episodes this
fall. (Spin-offs are in the works for both series.) Liked ER? How
about a hospital on a deep space station? Give UPN's new Mercy Point
series a try when it debuts this fall! For more information, see our
listing at http://clever.net/cam/sftv.html .

Fannish Disasters

Our friends at the Austin specialty bookstore, Adventures in Crime
& Space, had their Internet Service Provider, eden.com, suffer a hard
disk crash during the weekend of May 31. They are still not back up
on the Web well into June. Reportedly their email is currently
undependable as well as a result of the disk crash.
If you find yourself in Austin, don't pass up the opportunity for
a MAJOR browse through SF, old and new. Call (512) 473-2665 and ask
for instructions on how to reach the store. When they return to
the web you can find them at http://www.eden.com/~acs/ .

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 friends_of_fandom@iname.com . If you
received this Info Alert as a sample and would be interested in
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listed above (where it says LISTBOT).

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

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