[CircularOfJanus] June 2016 Circular of Janus

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Circle of Janus Science Fiction Club of Indiana
 The Circular Of Janus
 June 2016
 Volume 37, Issue 6

Contents:
   Summary of the May Club Meeting
   Summary of the May Board Meeting
   New Books  from Locus
   June Meeting Agenda
   Mark Your Calendars
   Meeting Info & Club Officers

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Summary of the May Club Meeting
 by Lynette Cowper

The club met on May 7 at Valley Mills Christian Church. All officers
except 2018 ConChair Beckie Margedant were present. There were about 38
people present. We had Judi C. who had also joined us in November and
Larry Ulrey's brother Tim as guests.

The April meeting minutes were approved as published. We got a Treasurer's
Report covering accounts and the progress of the reincorporation, then
moved to convention reports. For 2016, Laura reported we got our big Main
Programming room back, we're a little behind on pre-regs and hotel rooms
compared to last year, and the Charity auction desperately needs
donations. Joe had to leave before his report and Beckie was absent, so we
didn't have a report for 2017 or 2018.

Andy reported on the Board would be meeting May 21. In committees, the
Audit Committee was meeting the next Sunday; Outreach is just waiting for
booth assignment from Pride, which is June 11; Quartermaster had gotten
Fun Police stuff and had sorted out keys; Member Services, Archivist, and
Webmaster had nothing to report.

In Old Business, the silent auction as a club fundraisers will be after
the club meeting in June; Jeremy Murray has the Member Cards; there were
printed copies of the Bylaws available for anyone who wanted them, as well
as being available online, look them over for any issues; and
reincorporation was adequately addressed in the Treasurer's Report.

In New Business, we looked at club activities. For a May non-meeting, we
had a bunch of suggestions, but nothing settled. The June post-meeting
will be the silent auction. For a June non-meeting, we had suggestions of
movies, Indy PopCon, the June 25 Naptown Rollergirls bout, and Pride. For
a July non-meeting, someone suggested a book swap, which might also be a
possibility for the August post-meeting activity, and Karaoke.

In Announcements, Mel mentioned Star Wars: Bloodlines book is out; Wendy
has Folgers cannisters looking for a home; Randy mentioned a Kickstarter
for gamer merit badges; John announced Bat Boy: The Musical at TotS; Anj
is doing Mary Kay and looking for clients; and Gary P said Patrick Stewart
in The Green Room is good. Lynette mentioned VMCC is doing a play, Lost in
Space and the Mortgage Due. It's a melodrama, but scifi. She and Mike will
probably be in it and Ren will most likely be running lights. July 22nd
and 23rd. They're looking for costumes, if anyone has anything they'd
donate or lend. Deb needs actors for the InCon play -- Barney Rubble, Dino
the Dinosaur, and someone to die on stage.

And that was it for May!

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Summary of the May Board Meeting
 by Lynette Cowper

The Board met on May 21 at Valley Mills Christian Church. All officers
were present except President Mel Kocias and Vice President Jeremy Hanna.
Mike Cowper was also in attendance for part of the meeting.

The March Board minutes were approved as corrected. We got a Treasurer's
Report concerning the accounts and the outcome of the Audit Committee
meeting. In con reports, for 2016, Laura reported she had emailed the
Program Book art from Heather Kreiter; GoH travel is being worked on;
she's got another possible sponsor; and the hall tables are all claimed
with the exception of a couple she's holding for some maybes. For 2017,
Joe is still waiting to hear from his selected GoHs, but has back-ups if
they're a no, and got some posts and plastic chain for his own personal
use that he can lend to the con for things like setting off the DIY area.
For 2018, Beckie had nothing new to report.

In Old Business, Outreach is all set for Pride except for volunteers.
Incorporation is moving forward. Who's Yer Con was good, but needs more
buy-in from the other organizations. The issues with the Make-a-Wish
contract are all settled.

In New Business, we discussed what to do with the massage guys and
ConSuite's concerns with having them there. Laura decided to put them in
the Expo Hall and charge them as vendors. We discussed a couple of other
details of incorporation.

And that was it for the May Board meeting!

Next meeting is Sunday, June 12, 12:00 noon, at the Marriott.

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New Books
 From locusmag.com

June 2016
   Aaronovitch, Ben  The Hanging Tree  (DAW)
   Afsharirad, David, ed.  The Year's Best Military & Adventure SF 2015 
(Baen, anth, tpb)
   Arnason, Eleanor  Hwarhath Stories: Twelve Transgressive Tales by
Aliens (Aqueduct Press, cln, tpb)
   Baxter, Stephen, & Alastair Reynolds  The Medusa Chronicles  (Simon &
Schuster/Saga Press, hc)
   Bishop, Michael, & Orion Zangara  Joel-Brock the Brave and the
Valorous Smalls  (Fairwood Press/Kudzu Planet Productions, nvl-ya, hc)
   Charlton, Blake  Spellbreaker  (Tor, hc)
   Clarke, Neil, ed.  The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume One
(Skyhorse/Night Shade Books, anth, tpb)
   Coles, Bennett R.  Ghosts of War  (Titan US, tpb)
   Cooper, Brenda  Spear of Light  (Prometheus/Pyr, tpb)
   Corey, James S. A.  Babylon's Ashes  (Orbit US, hc)
   Cushman, Karen  Grayling's Song  (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Clarion,
nvl-ya, hc)
   Datlow, Ellen, ed.  The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Eight 
(Skyhorse/Night Shade Books, anth, tpb)
   Dozois, Gardner, ed.  Mash Up  (Titan US, anth, tpb)
   Drake, David  Death's Bright Day  (Baen, hc)
   Grant, Mira  Rise: A Newsflesh Collection  (Orbit US, cln, hc)
   Hairston, Andrea  Will Do Magic for Small Change  (Aqueduct Press, tpb)
   Horton, Rich, ed.  The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2016
Edition (Prime Books, anth, tpb)
   Kadrey, Richard  The Perdition Score  (Harper Voyager US, hc)
   King, Stephen  End of Watch  (Simon & Schuster/Scribner, hc)
   Lackey, Mercedes  A Study in Sable  (DAW, hc)
   Lawrence, Mark  The Wheel of Osheim  (Ace, hc)
   Lee, Sharon, & Steve Miller  Alliance of Equals  (Baen, hc)
   Lee, Yoon Ha  Ninefox Gambit  (Rebellion/Solaris US, tpb)
   Niven, Larry  The Seascape Tattoo  (Tor, hc)
   Powers, Tim  Down and Out in Purgatory  (Subterranean Press, hc)
   Pratchett, Terry, & Stephen Baxter  The Long Cosmos  (Harper, hc)
   Rakunas, Adam  Like a Boss  (Angry Robot US)
   Reynolds, Alastair  The Best of Alastair Reynolds  (Subterranean
Press, cln, hc)
   Sanderson, Brandon  The Dark Talent  (Tor/Starscape, nvl-ya, hc)
   Stross, Charles  The Nightmare Stacks  (Ace, hc)
   Valentine, Genevieve  Icon  (Simon & Schuster/Saga Press, hc)
   Wallace, Matt  Pride's Spell  (Tor. com, tpb)
   Wright, John C.  Mechanical Failure  (Simon & Schuster/Saga Press, hc)

July 2016
   Bond, Gwenda  Girl in the Shadows  (Amazon/Skyscape, tpb)
   Bova, Ben  The Best of Bova, Vol. 2  (Baen, cln, tpb)
   Carriger, Gail  Imprudence  (Orbit US, hc)
   Chu, Wesley  Time Siege  (Tor, hc)
   Craft, Kinuko  Beauty and the Beast  (HarperCollins, art, hc)
   Daniel, Tony  The Dragon Hammer  (Baen, tpb)
   Davidson, Rjurik  The Stars Askew  (Tor, hc)
   Dozois, Gardner, ed.  The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-third
Annual Collection  (St. Martin's Griffin, anth, hc)
   Ford, Jeffrey  A Natural History of Hell  (Small Beer Press, cln, tpb)
   Gladstone, Max  Four Roads Cross  (Tor, hc)
   Guran, Paula, ed.  The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2016 Edition
(Prime Books, anth, tpb)
   + Jones, Stephen, ed.  In the Shadow of Frankenstein: Tales of the
Modern Prometheus  (Pegasus, anth, hc)
   Kowal, Mary Robinette  Ghost Talkers  (Tor, hc)
   Lain, Douglas, ed.  Deserts of Fire: Speculative Fiction and the
Modern War (Skyhorse/Night Shade Books, anth, tpb)
   Levine, David D.  Arabella of Mars  (Tor, hc)
   Priest, Cherie  The Family Plot  (Tor, hc)
   Snodgrass, Melinda  The High Ground  (Titan US, tpb)
   Strahan, Jonathan, ed.  Drowned Worlds  (Rebellion/Solaris US, anth,
tpb)
   Strugatsky, Arkady, & Boris Strugatsky  The Doomed City  (Chicago
Review Press, tpb)
   Turtledove, Harry  Fallout  (Ballantine Del Rey, hc)
   VanderMeer, Jeff, & Ann VanderMeer, eds.  The Big Book of Science
Fiction (Random House/Vintage, anth, tpb)
   Weisman, Jacob A., ed.  Invaders  (Tachyon Publications, anth, tpb)
   Wilson, F. Paul  Panacea  (Tor, hc)

June Meeting Agenda

 The Circle of Janus
 June 4, 2016

 Opening of Meeting (7:00pm)
    Introduction of guests & member attendance
    May meeting minutes
 Communications
    Treasurer's Report
    Convention Report, InConJunction 36
    Convention Report, InConJunction 37
    Convention Report, InConJunction 38
    Board Report
       May meeting report
       Upcoming meeting: June 12
    Committee Reports, if needed
       Archivist
       Audit Committee
       Member Services Report
       Outreach Coordinator
       Quartermaster
    Other Communications
 Old Business
    Club Funds
    Member Cards
    Bylaws Changes
    Reincorporation
 New Business
    Pride
       June 11
    August meeting is the 13th
    Activities
       June Non-meeting
          Previous suggestions: June 25: Naptown Rollergirls; Indy PopCon;
Game night at Central Library on Mondays; Volleyball or outdoor
activity; Drive-Ins
          Anything else?
       July Non-Meeting
          Previous suggestions: Book swap (possibly better as
post-meeting); Karaoke
          Anything?
       August Post-Meeting
          Book swap?
          Anything?
       August Non-meeting
          Anything?
 Announcements
 Close of meeting  Chaos

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Mark Your Calendars

June 2016

   2: Laura Terhune's birthday
   2-5: Colossalcon - Sandusky, OH
   2-5: Wizard World - Philadelphia, PA

   3: Andy Andrews's birthday
   3: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
   3: Whoosier Network Mtg - LifeJourney Church
   3: Saturn at Opposition - Look, up in the sky!
   3-5: 2D Con - Bloomington, MN
   3-5: Arch Anime - Collinsville, IL
   3-5: Awesome Con D.C. - Washington, DC
   3-5: ConCarolinas - Concord, NC
   3-5: Wonderfest - Louisville, KY

   4: CoJ Meeting - VMCC
   4: Michelle Head Rhiannon's birthday

   5: Mercury at Greatest Western Elongation - Look, up in the sky!
   5: Ash Comic Book Show - Caribbean Cove Hotel & Conf Ctr

   8-14: ShowMeCon - St. Louis, MO

   10: Chuck Budreau's birthday
   10: The Conjuring 2
   10: Warcraft
   10-12: AnimeNEXT - Atlantic City, NJ
   10-12: Omg!Con  Owensboro, Ky
   10-12: Sausomecon - Kansas City, MO
   10-12: SciFi Summer Con - Atlanta, GA
   10-12: Sci-Fi Valley Con - Altoona, PA
   10-12: Southern-Fried Gameroom Expo  Atlanta, GA
   10-12: YetiCon - The Blue Mountains, ON

   11-12: Magma Con - Pigeon Forge, TN
   11-18: Epic Nerd Camp  Thompson, PA

   12: CoJ Board Meeting - Marriott, 12-4 (This is a Sunday)
   12: IAC Meeting - Glendale Branch Library
   12: Tessa Greene's birthday
   12: David Lee Pancake's birthday

   13-14: ShowMeCon - St. Louis, MO

   15-19: Origins Game Fair - Columbus, OH

   17: Clown
   17-19: 4th Street Fantasy Con - Minneapolis, MN
   17-19: Anime Mid-Atlantic - Chesapeake, VA
   17-19: Contamination - St. Louis, MO
   17-19: Hamacon - Huntsville, AL
   17-19: HeroesCon - Charlotte, NC
   17-19: Hypericon - Nashville, TN
   17-19: Indy PopCon - Indiana Convention Center
   17-19: Trekonderoga - Ticonderoga, NY

   18: Greg Dunn's birthday
   18: Riley McConnell's birthday
   18-19: Ann Arbor Comic Arts Festival - Ann Arbor, MI
   18-19: Brickworld  Schaumburg, IL

   19: Katherine L. Locke's birthday
   19: Kevin Spencer's birthday
   19: Mike Suess's birthday

   23: Tom Smith's birthday
   23-26: Midwestcon - Cincinnati, OH

   24: Roxy Dragus's birthday
   24: Independence Day: Resurgence
   24-26: Days of the Dead - Wyndham Indianapolis West
   24-26: Fanboy Expo - Knoxville, TN
   24-26: JAFAX - Grand Rapids, MI
   24-26: Locus Awards Weekend - Seattle WA
   24-26: Soonercon - Midwest City, OK

   25: IAS General Meeting - Link Observatory
   25-26: Con Kasterborous - Huntsville, AL
   25-26: Walker Stalker Con - Charlotte, NC

   26: Kevin Harris's birthday
   26-27: Derby City Comic Con - Louisville, KY

   27: Reed Hartman's birthday

   30: Ian Albers's birthday
   30: Doug Rollison's birthday
   30-7/3: CONvergence - Bloomington, MN

July 2016

   1: The BFG
   1: The Purge: Election Year
   1-3: InConJunction - Indianapolis, IN
   1-3: Anime Blues Con - Memphis, TN
   1-3: Counterpoint - Baltimore, MD
   1-3: Escape Velocity - Washington, DC
   1-3: NEFilk (Conterpoint) - Timonium, MD

   2: Ellen Schuck Patterson's birthday
   2-3: Heroes & Villains Fan Fest - Secaucus, NJ

   4: Juno at Jupiter - NASA

   6: Dillan Dick's birthday

   7-10: ConnectiCon - Hartford, CT
   7-10: Readercon - Burlington, MA

   8-10: Anime Festival Wichita - Wichita, KS
   8-10: Anime Midwest - Rosemont, IL
   8-10: BronyCon - Baltimore, MD
   8-10: Ikasucon - Grand Wayne Convention Center
   8-10: LibertyCon - Chattanooga, TN

   9-10: Garden State Comic Fest - Morristown, NJ
   9-10: ValhallaCon - Columbia, SC

   10: Kristin Looney's birthday
   10: IAC Meeting - email tatsuhoshi dot akira at gmail dot com for location

   11: Beckie Margedant's birthday

   13-16: North American Jules Verne Society AGM - Philadelphia, PA

   15: Ghostbusters
   15: Phantom Boy
   15-17: Congregate - High Point, NC
   15-17: G-Fest - Rosemont, IL
   15-17: Greenville Comic Con - Greenville, SC
   15-17: Hoshicon - Charlotte, NC
   15-17: Shore Leave - Hunt Valley, MD
   15-17: TFcon Toronto - Mississauga, Ontario

   16: Pavla Liska's birthday
   16-17: Glass City Con - Toledo, OH

   21: Sylvia Dick's birthday
   21-24: PulpFest - Columbus, OH

   22: Stephen Kendall's birthday
   22: Ice Age: Collision Course
   22: Lights Out
   22: Star Trek Beyond
   22-24: KitsuneKon - Green Bay, WI
   22-24: NatsuCon - Collinsville, IL

   23: CoJ Board Meeting - VMCC
   23: Ron Hawkins's birthday
   23: Ricky Lile's birthday
   23-24: Ultimate Comic Book Trade Show and Expo - Poughkeepsie, NY

   25: Amanda Erwin's birthday
   25: Kathie Thompson's birthday

   28-29: Delta Aquarids Meteor Shower - Look, up in the sky!

   29-31: ConBravo! - Hamilton, Ontario
   29-31: Confluence - Pittsburgh, PA
   29-31: Diversicon - Saint Paul, MN
   29-31: Louisville Anime Weekend - Louisville, KY
   29-31: Tatsu-Con - Buffalo, NY
   29-31: Wizard World - Columbus - Columbus, OH

   30-31: Fantasy Gamer's Conclave  Cary, NC
   30-31: Rob-Con - Bristol, TN
   30-31: StarQuest - Frederick, MD
   30-31: Walker Stalker Con - Boston - Boston, MA

   31: Kim Huff's birthday

August 2016

   1: Susan Rati Lane's birthday

   3: Kent Raquet's birthday

   4: Dennis Ciurej's birthday
   4-7: Gen Con  Indianapolis Convention Center

   5: Nine Lives
   5: Suicide Squad
   5?: Whoosier Network Mtg - LifeJourney Church
   5-7: GoDaikoCon - Pontiac, MI

   12: Roseann Packer's birthday
   12: Pete's Dragon
   12: Spectral
   12-13: Perseids Meteor Shower - Look, up in the sky!
   12-14: Otakon - Baltimore, MD

   13: CoJ Meeting - VMCC (Note the date change!)

   14: IAC Meeting - Glendale Branch Library

   16: Mercury at Greatest Eastern Elongation - Look, up in the sky!

   17-21: MidAmeriCon (WorldCon) -- Kansas City, MO

   19: Kubo and the Two Strings
   19: The Space Between Us
   19-21: Liberty City Anime Con - New York, NY
   19-21: Matsuricon - Columbus, OH

   20-21: PopCult Anime Con - Framingham, MA

   22: Keith Chike's birthday
   22: Chris Miller's birthday

   25: Scott Picha's birthday

   26: Andrew Happli's birthday
   26-28: AkaiCon - Nashville, TN
   26-28: Fan World  Niagara Falls, NY
   26-28: Fillycon  Philadelphia, PA
   26-28: Kentokyocon - Lexington, KY
   26-28: OmegaCon - Charlottesville, VA
   26-28: SaikouCon - Lake Harmony, PA

   27: IAS General Meeting - Link Observatory
   27: Conjunction of Venus and Jupiter - Look, up in the sky!

   28: Indiana Toy & Comic Expo (ITCE) - Bloomington Monroe County Conv Ctr

   31: Deidre Rynard's birthday

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Fantastic Worlds: Science and Fiction, 1780-1910 is the first exhibition
to debut in the newly renovated Smithsonian Libraries Exhibition Gallery
in the National Museum of American History. Travel with us to the surface
of the moon, the center of the earth, and the depths of the ocean  to the
fantastic worlds of fiction inspired by 19th century discovery and
invention.
Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Washington DC, through
February 26, 2017

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Have something for the newsletter? We welcome announcements, news items,
reviews, and artwork. Email it to circularfile at circleofjanus dot org by
the Thursday before the last Saturday of the month for inclusion.

Meeting Info
   The next meeting of the Circle of Janus is on Saturday, June 4, 2016,
at Valley Mills Christian Church, 5555 Kentucky Avenue, Indianapolis,
IN, starting at 7:00 pm. There is a Convention Committee meeting
preceding it at 5:30 pm. Our after-meeting activity will be a silent
auction fundraiser. Bring those geeky things taking up space that
you're not really using or enjoying anymore, and give them some new
life!

Officers
   Board Chairman  Andy Andrews
   President  Melissa Kocias
   Vice-President  Jeremy Hanna
   Secretary  Lynette Cowper
   Treasurer  Jeremy Murray
   Sergeant at Arms  Ricky Lile
   InConJunction 36 ConChair  Laura Edwards
   InConJunction 37 ConChair  Joe Greene
   InConJunction 38 ConChair  Beckie Margedant

The Circular of Janus is a publication of the Circle of Janus Science
Fiction Club of Central Indiana. Subscription is included with membership,
$15.00/year. For information write to Circle of Janus, P.O. Box 68514,
Indianapolis, IN 46268-0514.
   Lynette R. F. Cowper, Editor

-- 
Lynette R. F. Cowper

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us
with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and
by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them." --
Galileo