[CircularOfJanus] February 2014 Circular of Janus

[Lynette R. F. Cowper]

Circle of Janus Science Fiction Club of Indiana
 The Circular of Janus
 February 2014
 Volume 35, Issue 2

Contents:
   Summary of the January Club Meeting - Lynette Cowper
   Summary of the January Board Meeting - Lynette Cowper
   New Books - from Locus
   Meeting Agenda
   Mark Your Calendars
   Meeting Info & Club Officers

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Summary of the January Club Meeting
 by Lynette Cowper

The club met on January 4 at VMCC. All the officers except
Sergeant-at-Arms Ricky Lile and InConJunction 34 ConChair Drew Happli were
there. We had around 34 people there. We approved the November minutes as
published. Kent gave a very brief Treasurer's report. Jeff reported for
Drew that there are still a couple departments looking for assistants. For
2015, Jeff is still contacting GoH possibilities. He hasn't gotten any
yeses yet. Andy gave a brief summary of the November Board meeting. In
Outreach, Laura is planning on doing the early-bird registration for Indy
Pride.

In Old Business, we didn't have anyone offering to do the January
non-meeting and made no plans for the after-meeting time in February. We
had elections interspersed with announcements. Go to the bottom of the
Circular to see who won! In New Business, we're considering taking over
hosting the New Year's Eve party in cooperation with the USS Quantum,
since the Thompsons aren't interested in organizing it anymore, but we
tabled discussion till February.

We had a bunch of announcements. The still-relevant ones-- Mel: Circle
City Aerodrome is doing a steampunk immersion event on Valentine's Day
weekend at the Columbia Club. It is free, but some programming costs
money. Chris C: There is a new Twilight Zone comic by J. Michael
Straczynski. Hack/Slash is also good. Larry and Leigh are going to some
upcoming cons and looking for room-shares and booth help. They also need
help with the load-in and load-out at Indy Comic Con. Randy recommended
The President's Vampire audiobook by Chris Farley. Mike S: Two new shows
coming out that look interesting-- Intelligence and Helix. Kat is looking
for a home health care office job. Kai has moved out and is living in her
own apartment now. Jeff: Pratchett's Raising Steam is long, but good. John
recommended Neil Gaiman's Ocean at the End of the Lane. Kat has been
reading a lot of books by Deborah Geary, paranormal romance mysteries, and
has enjoyed them. Chris C: There is a Babylon 5 rewatch podcast that he's
been enjoying. It's an episode every week or two. Randy: Welcome to
Nightvale. It's a podcast that feels like Garrison Keillor meets HP
Lovecraft. Highly recommended. Robert Price is also doing a Lovecraft
podcast that's very good. Jeff: For anyone who hasn't seen it yet, The
Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug is good, and Steven Colbert has a cameo in it.

And that was it for January!

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Summary of the January Board Meeting
 by Lynette Cowper

The Board met on the 18th at VMCC. All officers were there except Jeff
Thompson. We approved the November minutes as published and had a
Treasurer's report.

For this year's con, we're doing an ad and fliers for Who's Yer Con and a
pair of passes to raffle off. We discussed the play, using the email list,
advertising, and getting more teenagers attendees. We need to get
contracts out to some of the GoHs. Drew is debating between a local young
adult genre author GoH and a non-local prop guy.

For 2016, Laura has contacted some of her GoH hopefuls and is considering
others. She wants to look at previous budgets and actual income/outgo to
make her budget.

We talked about needing to double the meat for the Anniversary Party, buy
a new VP tote, get incorporation papers filed, reimburse Mike for domain
registrations, move the storage unit to our name, and get good convention
swag. We hashed out signage and came up with Board meeting dates. We
discussed doing a Zombie Fried card to promote the club and/or convention.
And we talked about making people CoJ/InCon Ambassadors to other local
cons and clubs, and having those clubs and cons come and talk about what
they do for after-meeting  events.

And that was it for the Board meeting.

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New Books
 From locusmag.com

February 2014
   + Aaronovitch, Ben • Broken Homes • (DAW)
   Anderson, Poul • The Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson, Volume 6:
A Bicycle Built for Brew • (NESFA Press, cln, hc)
   Block, Francesca Lia • Teen Spirit • (HarperTeen, nvl-ya, hc)
   Forstchen, William R. • Pillar to the Sky • (Tor, hc)
   Friedman, C. S. • Dreamwalker • (DAW, hc)
   Lee, Sharon • Carousel Sun • (Baen, tpb)
   + McDonald, Ian • Empress of the Sun • (Prometheus/Pyr, nvl-ya, hc)
   Mcguire, Seanan • Letters to the Pumpkin King • (NESFA Press, nf, hc)
   McKiernan, Dennis L. • Stolen Crown • (Penguin/Roc, hc)
   Peek, Ben • Dead Americans • (ChiZine Publications, cln, tpb)
   Steele, Allen • V-S Day • (Ace, hc)
   Tierney, Kathleen • Red Delicious • (Penguin/Roc, tpb)
   VanderMeer, Jeff • Annihilation • (Farrar Straus Giroux/FSG Originals,
tpb)
   Weber, David • Like a Mighty Army • (Tor, hc)
   Wright, John C. • The Judge of Ages • (Tor, hc)

March 2014
   Bishop, Anne • Murder of Crows • (Penguin/Roc, hc)
   Briggs, Patricia • Night Broken • (Ace, hc)
   Brooks, Terry • The High Druid's Blade • (Ballantine Del Rey, hc)
   Cook, Glen • Working God's Mischief • (Tor, hc)
   + Cooper, Elspeth • The Raven's Shadow • (Tor, hc)
   + Egan, Greg • The Arrows of Time • (Skyhorse/Night Shade Books, hc)
   + Elliott, Will • The Pilgrims • (Tor, hc)
   Gabaldon, Diana • Written in My Heart's Own Blood • (Random
House/Delacorte, hc)
   Gunn, Eileen • Questionable Practices • (Small Beer Press, cln, tpb)
   Harrison, Kim • The Undead Pool • (Harper Voyager US, hc)
   Herbert, Brian, & Kevin J. Anderson • Mentats of Dune • (Tor, hc)
   Jones, Stephen Graham, & Paul Tremblay • The Floating Boy and the Girl
Who Couldn't Fly • (ChiZine Publications/ChiTeen, nvl-ya, tpb)
   Lafferty, Mur • Ghost Train to New Orleans • (Orbit US, tpb)
   Lord, Karen • The Galaxy Game • (Ballantine Del Rey, tpb)
   Mcguire, Seanan • Half-Off Ragnarok • (DAW)
   + Pratchett, Terry • Raising Steam • (Random House/Doubleday, hc)
   Sanderson, Brandon • Words of Radiance • (Tor, hc)
   Schroeder, Karl • Lockstep • (Tor, hc)
   Sweet, Caitlin • The Door in the Mountain • (ChiZine
Publications/ChiTeen, nvl-ya, tpb)
   Tem, Steve Rasnic • Blood Kin • (Rebellion/Solaris US)
   + VanderMeer, Ann, & Jeff VanderMeer, eds. • The Time Traveler's
Almanac • (Tor, anth, hc)

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February Meeting Agenda

 The Circle of Janus
 February Meeting
 February 1, 2014

 Opening of Meeting (7:00pm)
    Introduction of guests and member attendance
    January meeting minutes
 Communications
    Treasurer's Report
    Convention Report, InConJunction 34
    Convention Report, InConJunction 35
    Convention Report, InConJunction 36
    Board Report
    Committee Reports, if needed
       Member Services
       Audit Committee
       Archivist
       Quartermaster
       Outreach Coordinator
          Indy Pride
          Pagan Pride
    Other Communications
 Old Business
    Member Activities
    New Year's Eve Party
    Anything else?
 New Business
    Appointments
       Board Appointments
          Audit Committee
          Club and Convention Archivist
          Webmaster
       Presidential Appointments
          Member Activities Committee
          Member Services Committee
          Welcoming Committee or Coordinator
          Newsletter Editor(s)
          Club Quartermaster
    Anything else?
 Announcements - one per person please
 Close of meeting - Chaos

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Mark Your Calendars

February 2014

   1: CoJ Meeting - VMCC

   5: Indy Knights meeting - Athenaeum

   6: Ren Cowper's birthday
   6-9: Capricon - Wheeling, IL

   7: Whoosier Network - Life Journey Church
   7: Vampire Academy
   7-9: AlmaCon - Alma, MI
   7-9: Kawa Kon - St. Louis, MO
   7-9: Marmalade Dog - Kalamazoo, MI

   8: Lynette R. F. Cowper's birthday
   8: Steve Horton signing -  Downtown Comics

   9: Kyle Casteel's birthday

   12: RoboCop

   14-16: Anime Milwaukee - Milwaukee, WI
   14-16: Boskone - Boston, MA
   14-16: Con of the North - Minneapolis, MN
   14-16: Farpoint - Timonium, MD
   14-16: Kami-Con - Birmingham, AL
   14-16: Katsucon - National Harbor, MD

   16: IAC Meeting - Glendale Library

   20-23: Dreamation – Morristown, NJ

   21-23: Con-G - Guelph, Ontario
   21-23: ConNooga - Chattanooga, TN
   21-23: FASFAC's UD CON - Dayton, OH
   21-23: MystiCon - Roanoke, VA
   21-23: No Such Convention - Poughkeepsie, NY
   21-23: Who's Yer Con - Clarion Waterfront Hotel

   22: Fort Wayne Comic Book Con - Ft. Wayne, IN

   23: Ash Comic Book Show - Ramada Inn at E 21st
   23: NWI Comic-Con - Schererville, IN

   26: Samantha Crawford's birthday

   27 -3/2: Intercon - Boston, MA

   28(29): Howard Tayler's birthday
   28-3/2: GeneriCon - Troy, NY
   28-3/2: Plattecon - Platteville, WI
   28-3/2: Ring of Fire Con - Virginia Beach, VA
   28-3/2: Visioncon - Springfield, MO

March 2014

   1: CoJ Meeting - VMCC
   1-2: ETSUCon - Johnson City, TN

   5: Indy Knights meeting - Athenaeum

   7: Whoosier Network - Life Journey Church
   7-9: Fire & Ice - Manitowoc, WI
   7-9: MarsCon - Bloomington, MN

   8: Tomkat Conventions March 2014 Show - Hammond FOP 51
   8-9: Tora-Con - Rochester, NY

   9: IAC Meeting - Glendale Library

   12: Randy Porter's birthday

   13: Cathy Dailey's birthday
   13: Janet Dailey's birthday

   14-15: Naka-Kon - Overland Park, KS
   14-16: Indiana Comic Con - Indpls Convention Center
   14-16: JoeLanta - Atlanta, GA
   14-16: Lexington Comic and Toy Con - Lexington, KY
   14-16: Lunacon - Rye Brook, NY
   14-16: Millennicon - Cincinnati, OH
   14-16: Planet Comicon - Kansas City, MO
   14-16: Triad Anime Convention - Winston-Salem, NC
   14-16: Walker Stalker Con - Rosemont, IL

   15: Arabella Rollison's birthday
   15-16: Middle Georgia Comic Con - Macon, GA
   15-16: SpringFestNY - Brooklyn, NY

   17: Amanda Dailey-Weaver's birthday
   17: Dee Ann Moore's birthday

   20-23: Furry Weekend Atlanta - Atlanta, GA

   21: Mike & Lynette Cowper's anniversary
   21: Divergent
   21-23: Anime Boston - Boston, MA
   21-23: CincyCon – Cincinnati, OH
   21-23: FantaSciCon - Dalton, GA
   21-23: Kitsune Kon - Appleton, WI
   21-23: MidSouthCon - Memphis, TN
   21-23: TwisterCon – Oklahoma City, OK
   21-23: Vericon - Cambridge, MA
   25: Neil Thompson's birthday

   26: Chris Canary's birthday

   27-30: Gary Con - Lake Geneva, WI

   28-30: Anime Punch - Columbus, OH
   28-30: CaesarCon – Montpelier, Ohio
   28-30: Conbust - Northampton, MA
   28-30: DLux Entertainment Expo - Mt Clemens, MI
   28-30: EvilleCon - Evansville, IN
   28-30: Wizard World Louisville Comic Con - Louisville, KY

   29-30: Jaycon - Elizabethtown, PA
   29-30: LI-CON - Rockville Centre, NY
   29-30: Midoricon 2.5 - West Portsmouth, OH
   29-30: MiraiCon - Wayne, NJ

April 2014

   1: Judy Eudaly's birthday

   4: Whoosier Network Meeting - LifeJourney
   4: Mark Bischoff's birthday
   4: Captain America: The Winter Soldier
   4-6: A&G - Covington, KY
   4-6: Ad Astra - Toronto, ON
   4-6: Anime Detour - Minneapolis, MN
   4-6: JohnCon - Baltimore, MD
   4-6: Shuto Con - Lansing, MI
   4-6: Tekkoshocon - Pittsburgh, PA
   4-6: Wizard World St. Louis Comic Con - St. Louis, MO

   5: CoJ Meeting - VMCC

   9: Indy Knights Meeting - Athenaeum

   10: Kyra Shidler's birthday
   10-13: Shinboku Con - Huron, OH

   11: Kim Richey's birthday
   11: Oculus
   11-13: Anime St. Louis - Collinsville, IL
   11-13: ConGlomeration - Louisville, KY
   11-13: PAX East – Boston, Massachusetts

   12-13: Asbury Park Comicon - Asbury Park, NJ
   12-13: Midwest Gaming Classic – Brookfield, Wisconsin

   13: IAC Meeting - Glendale Library

   15: Melissa Kocias's birthday
   15: Total Lunar Eclipse - Look, up in the sky!

   17: Transcendence
   17-20: Minicon - Minneapolis, MN

   18: A Haunted House 2
   18-20: Awesome Con DC - Washington, DC
   18-20: Middle Tennessee Anime Convention - Murfreesboro, TN

   19: Jessica Carrico's birthday
   19: River-Con – South Bend, IN
   19-20: NashiCon - Columbia, SC

   22: Mark Racop's birthday
   22-23: Lyrids Meteor Shower- Look, up in the sky!

   23: Jeff Thompson's birthday

   24: Susan Parker's birthday

   25: Earth to Echo
   25: The Quiet Ones
   25-27: FilKONtario - Missisauga, ON
   25-27: No Brand Con - Eau Claire, WI
   25-27: TrekTrax Atlanta – Atlanta, Georgia
   25-27: Zenkaikon - Lancaster, PA

   26-27: Knoxville Comic & Anime Con - Knoxville, TN

   28: Brian Davidson's birthday

   29: Theresa Shidler's birthday
   29: Harry Bunn's birthday

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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 Saturday, February 1, 2014,
at Valley Mills Christian Church, 5555 Kentucky Avenue, Indianapolis,
IN, starting at 7:00 pm. There is a ConCom meeting preceding it at
5:30.

Officers
   Board Chairman - Andy Andrews
   President - Mike Cowper
   Vice-President - Lynette Cowper
   Secretary - Beckie Margedant
   Treasurer - Stephen Kendall
   Sergeant at Arms - Reed Hartman
   InConJunction 34 ConChair - Andrew Happli
   InConJunction 35 ConChair - Jeff Thompson
   InConJunction 36 ConChair - Laura Edwards

The Circular of Janus is a publication of the Circle of Janus Science
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 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