Welcome to the Denver Area Science Fiction Association

Aug 1 2009

DASFA is a science fiction and fantasy fan club that has been meeting continuously in the Denver area since the early 1970s.

We meet on the third Saturday of each month in the community room of the Whole Foods Market at 1111 South Washington Street in Denver. Meeting time is at 7:00 PM. There are two exceptions to this schedule -- the August picnic on the third Saturday of August, and the annual Christmas party in December.

Most Influential SF Film of all Time - Restored

Check out the details at http://www.thelocal.de/society/20100121-24721.html:

"The Complete Metropolis" will be held at the Deutsche Kinemathek museum for film and television at Potsdamer Platz, where many of the Berlinale red carpet events take place.

"It will be sort of a Making Of," said curator Kristina Jaspers.

MileHiCon: A New Guest of Honor Joins the Lineup!

From the MileHiCon mailing list, we get this news:

Author Rachel Caine has just accepted our invitation to be one of our Guests Of Honor at MileHiCon42 in 2010!

She is the author of more than twenty-five novels, including the popular Weather Warden series, the NY-Times bestselling Morganville Vampires series, the Red Letter Days series, and the Outcast Season series.

Check out her website at http://www.rachelcaine.com for more info on her books!

2009 Hugo Nominations Have Begun

Picked up a post from Charles Stross at http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/01/2009-hugo-nomination..., which discusses the fact that Hugo Nominations are now open for the 2009 Hugo awards.

Dan O'Bannon, Science Fiction Screenwriter, has Died at 63

Happy 80th Birthday, Science Fiction Fandom!

A bit of news reported on Tor.com:

On December 11, 1929, the world’s first club devoted to science fiction met for the first time. They called themselves the Scienceers. Years later, in 1961, one of their original number recalled those days in a fanzine article which, through the magic of the World Wide Web, can be read here.

Happy Birthday Everyone!

'NASA ART' opens at Fine Arts Center in Springs

The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center will present NASA | ART: 50 Years of Exploration, Dec. 19 – March 7, 2010, organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in cooperation with the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.

Flying Pen Press having Holiday Sale

Also off of the twitter feed, Flying Pen Press is having a sale:

I will be putting all Flying Pen Press fiction, including #scifi, on sale this weekend for $6 each. #poker book for $9. Will tweet codes.

Flying Pen Press seeking SciFi Editor

Coming off of the Twitter feed is this tidbit by local David Rozansky, who runs Flying Pen Press

I need a senior #scifi #editor to run the Flying Pen Press Science Fiction imprint. Pays inprofit shares.

Requests for more information can probably be sent to Publisher@flyingpenpress.com.

ODYSSEY WRITING WORKSHOP ANNOUNCES ITS 15th SUMMER SESSION

Nov 20 2009

Webhost note: I got this notice in the email, and thought someone might want to have a look at it.

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