For signings at the Flights of Fantasy Bookstore, 488 Albany Shaker Rd, Loudonville, NY: check http://www.lastsfa.org/lastsfa_calendar.html

Please drop by the LASTSFA web site: http://www.lastsfa.org . It has lots of good stuff on it, including a number of neat links & a calendar. Please join LASTSFA and help support our efforts to bring in speakers. Your financial support helps make these speakers possible. Talk to us! Send us money! Don't just sit there! Make it happen! Full Membership - $10; Student - $5; Family - $25 LASTSFA, P.O. Box 2085, Albany, NY 12220-0085, USA.

Drop by the ALBACON web site. http://www.albacon.org . You can see some pictures taken at ALBACON 97, 98, 99, Y2K, 01 & 02. Get a look at the great happenings that went on. SF cons are not a spectator sport. Participate in one of the best cons running. Have you joined ALBACON 03? If not, why not? You can go to our web site http://www.albacon.org and register there. DO IT TODAY!!! ALBACON 03 can't succeed without your involvement. ALBACON 03 registration is currently only $30 thru 23 MAR 03. Such a deal! Get a friend to come with you! If you are going to a con, bring the ALBACON 03 registration form with you and get someone to join.

Are you a gamer? Well, join us and help with the gaming portion of ALBACON, fcs@klink.net You can join ALBACON 03 for a reduced rate if all you wish to do is game.

NYCAP WRITERS WORKSHOP: Amy Sisson & Greg Woolhouse are trying to start a local SF&F writer's group along Clarion lines. An organizational meeting is tentatively scheduled for Wed. Feb. 19th. No prior workshop experience is necessary. Please contact Amy if you are interested for time & location: 518-237-4669; amysisson@prodigy.net.

Prydonians of Princeton, meeting in Lawrenceville, NJ, will have on Saturday, 1 March, Keith R. A. DeCandido; on Saturday, 5 April, Lawrence Watt-Evans; on Saturday, on Saturday, 10 May, Bob Walters; on Saturday, 7 June, Ian Randal Strock as their guest speakers. For more info contact the Pydonians at prydonians@aol.com or call 609-448-9062.

Middle-earth Travel Alert: Dear Hobbits, Elves & Wizards, This is a Middle-earth Travel Alert: Janet Coyle of Pacific Pathways Tours, www.pacificpathways.com , & a native New Zealander, is arranging a tour of Peter Jackson's New Zealand over 7-25 January 2004. Michael Stanton will be the tour scholar. He is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Vermont. Among the courses he taught was one on "The Lord of the Rings." He is the author of "Hobbits, Elves & Wizards" from Palgrave/Macmillan. [This service brought to you by the Numenorean Travel Agency. Please reference NTA when booking your reservations. Thank you. Yours sincerely, Numenorean Travel Agency, ATTN: Thain Peregrin Took II, 1 Minas Tirith Blvd., Osgiliath, C.o.t.S. 100002, Gondor, R.K.]

wombat@sff.net

ALBACON 03, 10-12 October 2003, Schenectady, NY, USA; committee@albacon.org The SF Con!

Save the Yaminon! http://www.yaminon.org

If you are interested, you can find a summary of my travels in Australia up thru its end on 4 FEB 2000 at http://www.lastsfa.org/finder/wombats_wanderings.html