@@@@@ @ @ @@@@@ @ @ @@@@@@@ @ @ @@@@@ @@@@@ @@@ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @@@@@ @@@@ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @@@@@ @ @ @ @ @@@@@ @@@@@ @@@ Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society Club Notice - 11/25/88 -- Vol. 7, No. 22 MEETINGS UPCOMING: Unless otherwise stated, all meetings are on Wednesdays at noon. LZ meetings are in LZ 2R-158. _D_A_T_E _T_O_P_I_C 11/30 LZ: Book Swap 12/07 MT: Book Swap (MT 4A-217) 12/20 Star Trek in the 20th Century Club: Future Science and Technology *Tuesday* (LZ 2D-305, 6:30 PM) (co-sponsored) 12/21 LZ: TBA 1989: 01/11 LZ: TBA 01/18 MT: "Space Colonies in Fact and Fiction" (video) (room to be announced) _D_A_T_E _E_X_T_E_R_N_A_L _M_E_E_T_I_N_G_S/_C_O_N_V_E_N_T_I_O_N_S/_E_T_C. 12/05 Star Trek in the 20th Century Club: First Annual Intra-Galactic and Inter-Cultural Music Festival *Monday* (HO Auditorium, noon) 12/10 Science Fiction Association of Bergen County: Party (phone 201-933-2724 for details) 12/17 New Jersey Science Fiction Society: TBA (Party?) (phone 201-432-5965 for details) 05/05/89 CONTRAPTION. MI. GoH: Mike Resnick; FGoHs: Mark & Evelyn Leeper. -05/07/89 Info: Diana Harlan Stein, 1325 Key West, Troy MI 48083. 08/31/89 NOREASCON III (47th World SF Con). MA. GoHs: Andre Norton, Ian & Betty -09/04/89 Ballantine; FGoH: The Stranger Club. Info: Noreascon Three, Box 46, MIT Branch P.O., Cambridge, MA 02139. HO Chair: John Jetzt HO 1E-525 834-1563 mtuxo!jetzt LZ Chair: Rob Mitchell LZ 1B-306 576-6106 mtuxo!jrrt MT Chair: Mark Leeper MT 3E-433 957-5619 mtgzz!leeper HO Librarian: Tim Schroeder HO 3M-420 949-5866 homxb!tps LZ Librarian: Lance Larsen LZ 3L-312 576-6142 lzfme!lfl MT Librarian: Will Harmon MT 3C-406 957-5128 mtgzz!wch Factotum: Evelyn Leeper MT 1F-329 957-2070 mtgzy!ecl All material copyright by author unless otherwise noted. 1. Lincroft is having a book swap. Yes, I know some people thought THE MT VOID Page 2 they were having a book swap last meeting, but since no one told me until I got back from Africa (or rather, the mail got sent to me the day I left and I didn't read it until I got back), it was a rather sparsely attended affair. (The only transaction was when Charlie Harris bought three books from himself.) So bring your unwanted books and let someone else enjoy them. Besides, what else are you going to do with them? A recent study came up with the following ideas: - Start a book swap (hey, we've done this for you already!). - Sell them at your next garage sale for $0.25, or $0.01, or whatever you think they're worth/whatever you can get for them. You think they're junk? Remember, one man's slimy fish eggs are another man's caviar. - Donate them to someone else's garage sale. - Donate them to the SF Club Library. (Just don't tell Lance I suggested this!) Of course, they may just end up in the library's next used-book sale (coming soon if we don't get more space). Or they may wind up on the shelves, and hordes of techies will be uplifted by reading about Garion and Ce'nedra instead of PBXs. - Sell them to restaurants that line their walls with books. They don't care if the plotting is weak. - Give them to the cat (or dog, as appropriate) to play with. - Glue them together in large slabs, and make living-room furniture out of them. Large, thin hardbacks are best for this purpose, hence the phrase "coffee-table book." - Cut words and phrases out of them and use them in the construction of ransom notes. - Throw them out. Further suggestions from the membership are hereby solicited. In the mean time, come to the book swap! [-ecl] 2. The following decsription was provided by Newton lee: First Annual Intra-Galactic and Inter-Cultural Music Festival sponsored by Star Trek in the 20th Century Club co-sponsored by American Indian, Chinese Culture, Folk Music, Hellenic, Hispanic, Indian Subcontinent, and Iranian Clubs THE MT VOID Page 3 Date: December 5, 1988 (Monday) Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m. Place: Holmdel Auditorium Twenty-two years ago, at the age of four, little did I know that some of you witnessed the first time on television that three American whites (Kirk, McCoy, Scott), a Black (Uhura), an Asian (Sulu), a Russian (Chekov), and an acting space alien (Spock) all live together peacefully and work side-by-side in the futuristic Star Trek universe. Fourteen years later in college, I was among the many students who were attracted to the television every evening for the re-runs of Star Trek. Today, through the co- operation of various Bell Labs clubs, we are proud to present the first annual intra-galactic and inter-cultural music festival in the undying spirit of Star Trek. Transcending the lovely music from different parts of the world is the concept of I.D.I.C. (Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations) which is a Star Trek belief that beauty, growth, and progress all result from the union of the unlike, i.e. dissimilar cultures, races, sexes, religions, and of course, music. So mark your calendar for this special music festival. Hope to see you there! For more information, please send e-mail to mtund!newton or call 576-3541. 3. November 23 was the 25th anniversary of the first DR. WHO broadcast. Happy quarter-century! [-ecl] 4. Check out pages 40-41 of the October 1988 IEEE POTENTIALS--they have a reprint of Mark's "classic" RETURN OF THE LIVIND DEAD II review. [-ecl] 5. There is a new science fiction group in the Tri-State area, the Tri-State Gaylaxians. Their flyer describes it as "an organization for gay science fiction and fantasy fans and their friends in the New York City, New Jersey, and Connecticut region of the United States. It has a monthly newsletter and holds meetings each month in a restaurant in New York City." Contact Tri-State Gaylaxians, c/o 55 Mercer Street, Jersey City NJ 07302. (Similar groups exist in New England and Albany; contact me for details.) [-ecl] Mark Leeper MT 3E-433 957-5619 ...mtgzz!leeper THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT ALMOST BLANK