Dear Gentle Being, 1 March 2003

Welcome to the latest update for events occurring at the SF Discussion Group.

[***This will my last one for a few months. Chris Ford will be taking over as I head off at the end of March to do my 003 tour of NA. J ***]

On Wednesday, 12 February 2003 we welcomed Walter H. Hunt, who joined us for dinner & a topical discussion of his books. Good food, good company & great conversation summed up the evening.

At Noon on Sunday, 9 March 2003 the ALBACON concom will hold its March meeting at the home of jan howard finder, 164 Williamsburg Court, Albany, NY 12203; 518-456-5242; wombat@sff.net . Everyone is welcome. For directions, if needed, please call or email jan

On Wednesday, 12 March 2003 we will meet at 7:00 PM over at FoF for a general discussion on <gasp> Science Fiction.

On Thursday, 10 April 2003 we shall have a return visit by Walter H. Hunt. The reading & signing is at 7:00 PM. Not sure about any dinner plans. Check with FoF.

Julie Czerneda will be in town in APRIL. Please check with Maria at FoF for details.

For signings at the Flights of Fantasy Bookstore, 488 Albany Shaker Rd, Loudonville, NY 12211; +1-800-300-READ; fof@nycap.rr.com & www.fof.net . Also 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. ***The cost of Registration goes up shortly!***

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

Prydonians of Princeton, meeting in Lawrenceville, NJ, will have 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.]

Nota Bene: In order to save some costs I need your help. If you are getting this via snail mail, please let me know if you have an eddress. I will send updates to you via the net. On the other hand if you don't wish to receive this at all, please let me know.

Looking forward to seeing you at the meetings.

Ciao & teggeddizzi! May the Ghreat Wombat smile on you!

Yours sincerely,

 

jan howard finder

164 Williamsburg Court

Albany, NY 12203-5506, USA

+1-518-456-5242

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 [Listen to the music, see the pics!]

When the Information Superhighway slows to a crawl or stops, you are experiencing "BYTELOCK!" I coined BYTELOCK on 17 July 1997. Please use BYTELOCK but DO cite the source. I would like to get into the dictionary.

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