Joss Whedon’s Serenity is at the Guild Cinema 12 Noon Saturday & Sunday, July 14 & 15, for special charity screenings!

The Albuquerque Browncoats are presenting these benefit-party screenings of trailblazing TV producer Joss Whedon’s Serenity, which grew out of his cult series canceled by FOX before its first season ended.
This “Can’t Stop The Serenity” event will benefit Equality Now and the UNM Children’s Hospital. There will be door prizes, raffles (including items signed by Adam Baldwin at ACE 2012) and costume contests!

Showtime Each Day: 12:00 Noon.
All Seats for this special presentation are $9.00 – cash only.
(Advance tickets available from www.AlbuquerqueBrowncoats.com)

Directed by Joss Whedon. 2005 – 120 minutes, color. In the future, mankind consumes our planet Earth, called “Earth-that-was”, and moves to other planets and satellites. A new order is established with the totalitarian government of the Alliance, which fights and wins a war against their opponents, the independents.
When Dr. Simon rescues his teenager telepathic sister River Tam from the claws of the Alliance, they are sheltered by a group of mercenaries and smugglers in the spacecraft Serenity, leaded by the former war hero Captain Malcolm ‘Mal’ Reynolds. The Alliance sends an assassin to bring River Tam back – while Mal and his crew find out how powerful she is, the truth about the hidden planet Miranda, and the origin of the cannibalistic Reavers.

The Guild Cinemas is located at 3405 Central Ave NE in the Nob Hill area (across the street from Flying Star Cafe and Starbucks).

More information: http://guildcinema.com/
Also check out: www.AlbuquerqueBrowncoats.com

Joss Whedon’s Serenity is at the Guild Cinema 12 Noon Saturday & Sunday, July 14 & 15, for special charity screenings!

The Albuquerque Browncoats are presenting these benefit-party screenings of trailblazing TV producer Joss Whedon’s Serenity, which grew out of his cult series canceled by FOX before its first season ended.
This “Can’t Stop The Serenity” event will benefit Equality Now and the UNM Children’s Hospital. There will be door prizes, raffles (including items signed by Adam Baldwin at ACE 2012) and costume contests!

Showtime Each Day: 12:00 Noon.
All Seats for this special presentation are $9.00 – cash only.
(Advance tickets available from www.AlbuquerqueBrowncoats.com)

Directed by Joss Whedon. 2005 – 120 minutes, color. In the future, mankind consumes our planet Earth, called “Earth-that-was”, and moves to other planets and satellites. A new order is established with the totalitarian government of the Alliance, which fights and wins a war against their opponents, the independents.
When Dr. Simon rescues his teenager telepathic sister River Tam from the claws of the Alliance, they are sheltered by a group of mercenaries and smugglers in the spacecraft Serenity, leaded by the former war hero Captain Malcolm ‘Mal’ Reynolds. The Alliance sends an assassin to bring River Tam back – while Mal and his crew find out how powerful she is, the truth about the hidden planet Miranda, and the origin of the cannibalistic Reavers.

The Guild Cinemas is located at 3405 Central Ave NE in the Nob Hill area (across the street from Flying Star Cafe and Starbucks).

More information: http://guildcinema.com/
Also check out: www.AlbuquerqueBrowncoats.com

Time for Bubonicon 44’s Gofers (volunteer workers) to get organized!
7:30 PM Friday, August 17, in the Activity Room of St. Andrew Presbyterian Church, 5301 Ponderosa Ave NE (home of the Albuq SF Society)
If you would like to donate 2-12 hours during the Bubonicon 44 weekend to help with set-up, teardown, registration, the art show, the con suite or our dealers table, this is the meeting for you!
We will go over the highlights of the Bubonicon 44 schedule, discuss responsibilities, and then have gofers sign up for the hours they’d like to work. We also hope to have some nifty movie/book swag to distribute to our volunteers!
All volunteers and donated time are greatly appreciated!

Don’t Forget – We Need You! Bubonicon Is A Community Event, So Come Join The Family!

For more information, please email Gofer Coordinator Julie Pascal.

Meeting Location:

ACTIVITY ROOM (west end of building, by the gated courtyard)
St. Andrew Presbyterian Church
5301 Ponderosa Ave NE
Albuquerque, NM

(First street north of Erna Ferguson Library on San Mateo. Ponderosa is the northern border of Montgomery Park, and intersects with both San Mateo and San Pedro. The street is north of Comanche and south of Montgomery)

Programming:

Three Days To Never by Tim Powers (mass market, Harper 2007). Powers is a co-GoH for Bubonicon 45 in 2013.

Meeting Location:

Page One Bookstore
Montgomery & Juan Tabo NE
Albuquerque, NM

Contact Information:

Send us an email.

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Horror Bites: Dark Matters Film Fest at the Guild Cinema

Saturday, June 30 – 2:00, 4:00, 6:00 & 8:00 pm

Directed by Various.
All Day Passes $15 / $6 Students / $8 General.  Cash only.
Co-presented by Bubonicon 44 and KUNM-FM.

Dark Matters, the Southwest’s newest film festival dedicated entirely to horror, science-fiction and dark fantasy is set to rise from the lab table in 2013. Organizers provide audiences with a spine-tingling sneak preview of things to come with this day-long collection of specially selected short shockers from around the globe. Monsters, madmen and things that go bump in the night abound in four, thematically linked blocks of short films.

Check Out The Full Lineup By Clicking HERE!  Each of the four blocks includes a featured short.

The Guild Cinema is located at 3405 Central Avenue NE, in the Nob Hill area.
Website: www.guildcinema.com

ACE 2 Ends On Sunday!

The 2nd Albuq Comic Expo ends its three-day run at the Albuquerque Convention Center, downtown. Sunday is Kids Day with the Kids Costume Contest (12 and under), balloon animals and more. Plus talks from Kevin Sorbo (Hercules), Len Wein and Stan Lee, and Melinda Snodgrass & Daniel Abraham (“Scripting in the Worlds of GRR Martin”).

The show floor will be open 10 am-6 pm Sunday. A Sunday-only pass is $20.00 at the door.

AbqComicExpo.com.

Tales from the Darkside: The Movie at the Guild Cinema

Friday & Saturday, June 29-30, 10:30 pm only

Directed by John Harrison – 1990 – 93m. $6.00 Students with ids / $8.00 General – Cash only. An Alibi Midnight Movie Madness presentation.

From Stephen King, Michael McDowell (Creator of Beetlejuice), George A. Romero (Night Of The Living Dead) and Arthur Conan Doyle (creator of Sherlock Holmes) comes this all-star horror anthology packed with fun and fright. “The Wraparound Story” concerns a little boy who spins all the tales… to distract a modern-day witch who wants to pop him in the oven!

Lot 249 – In the first segment, Michael McDowell adapts Arthur Conan Doyle’s short story, “Lot No. 249”. A graduate student, Bellingham (played by Steve Buscemi), reanimates a mummy and uses it to take revenge on a pair of crooked college students, Susan (played by Julianne Moore), and Lee (played by Robert Sedgwick) who conspired to cheat Bellingham out of a scholarship.

Cat from Hell – In the second tale, George A. Romero adapts a Stephen King short story (of the same name). It is the story of Drogan, a wealthy elderly man (played by William Hickey), who uses a wheelchair, and hires a hitman, Halston (played by David Johansen), for one of the strangest jobs of his career: kill a black cat, which Drogan believes is murderously evil.

Lover’s Vow – The third and final segment is written by Michael McDowell and based on yuki-onna, a spirit or yōkai in Japanese folklore or more specifically Lafcadio Hearn’s version in Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things. In the story, a despondent artist named Preston (played by James Remar) witnesses a gruesome murder by a gargoyle-like monster.

I Heart U at the Guild Cinema

Friday & Saturday, June 8-9, 10:00 pm & Midnight

Directed by Billy Garberina – 2012 – 90m.
All Seats $8.00 – Cash only. Cast & crew in person! Presented in association with ACE 2012.

From the writer & director team of Stiffed and the director of Necroville! How well do you know your spouse? Trapped in a dead end job and lukewarm marriage, building inspection engineer Walter Fletcher (Billy Garberina, Gimme Skelter, Feeding The Masses) turns to an old hobby to release tensions; strangling and mutilating prostitutes! Little does he know his blushing bride Liz (international scream queen Raine Brown! Braincell, Psycho Holocaust) has her own secret double life courting scumbag bar flies and making them pay with a pound of flesh for their crimes on womankind. When an intrepid reporter (Devin O’Leary, Gimme Skelter, The Stink Of Flesh) starts writing in the local paper about the city’s rival serial killers, he inadvertently sets off an obsessive blood soaked comedy of errors that leads Walter and Liz’s secret selves on a collision course of epic proportions.

ACE Volunteers:

The 2nd Albuquerque Comic Expo needs your assistance, and it’s time for their 2nd Volunteers Meeting! Please help Bubonicon’s sister convention by signing up to volunteer at their website – www.abqcomicexpo.com – and by attending this 7:00 pm Thursday meeting. Get assignments for the con weekend, and help stuff membership bags!

Time & Date:
7:00 pm Thursday, May 31

Location:
Heights Community Center
823 Buena Vista SE (Coal & Buena Vista), Albuquerque, NM 87106.
Heights Community Center is located near Central New Mexico College (formerly Albuq TVI) and the University of New Mexico.

Albuquerque’s own James S.A. Corey (Daniel Abraham & Ty Franck) will be celebrating the release of Caliban’s War: Book 2 of the Expanse with a talk and signing June 23!

Come join Corey 2:00 pm Saturday, June 23, at Alamosa Books, northwest corner of Paseo Del Norte and Ventura NE.  Caliban’s War is the sequel to the Hugo-nominated Leviathan Wakes.

For more information, check out http://www.alamosabooks.com/…

ACE Volunteers:

The 2nd Albuquerque Comic Expo needs your assistance, and it’s time for their first Volunteers Meeting! Please help Bubonicon’s sister convention by signing up to volunteer at their website – www.abqcomicexpo.com – and by attending this 7:00 pm Thursday meeting.

Time & Date:
7:00 pm Thursday, May 24

Location:
Heights Community Center
823 Buena Vista SE (Coal & Buena Vista), Albuquerque, NM 87106.
Heights Community Center is located near Central New Mexico College (formerly Albuq TVI) and the University of New Mexico.

Programming:

Body, Inc: Tipping Point Trilogy by Alan Dean Foster (trade softcover, Del Rey 2012).

Meeting Location:

Page One Bookstore
Montgomery & Juan Tabo NE
Albuquerque, NM

Contact Information:

Send us an email.

About Droids & Dragons

New Mexico authors Daniel Abraham and Ian Tregillis will be celebrating the release of three new books – The King’s Blood: The Dagger and the Coin 2, The Coldest War and Caliban’s War: The Expanse 2 (by James S.A. Corey) with a talk and signing July 28!

All three books are sequels for the Sci-Fi Boys of Summer! The King’s Blood is the sequel to The Dragon’s Path; The Coldest War is Tregillis’ follow-up to Bitter Seeds, and Caliban’s War is the sequel to the Hugo-nominated Leviathan Wakes.

Come join Abraham, Tregillis and 1/2 of Corey 3:00 pm Saturday, July 28, at Page One Bookstore, southwest corner of Montgomery and Juan Tabo NE.
For more information, check out www.page1book.com…

7000 BC Presents:

2nd Annual Mini-Comics Day Celebration all afternoon Saturday, May 26.

Meeting Location:

Page One Bookstore
Montgomery & Juan Tabo NE
Albuquerque, NM

Information:

From 1:00 to 5:00 pm, participating cartoonists will write, draw, and print copies of their own mini-comics. Wildly varying in both form and content, mini-comics are a wonderful synthesis of cartooning and hand-made art objects.

Comics creators from 7000 BC will will be on hand throughout the event to answer questions and give guidance. They’ll provide some art supplies, or bring your own. They’ll even help you print, fold and staple your mini-comics as you complete them.

1:00-2:00 pm – For those who would like some guidance, a short lesson on making mini-comics and comics in general will be presented.

About 7000 BC

Texas author Taylor Anderson will be celebrating the release of Iron Gray Sea with a talk and signing July 9!

Iron Gray Sea is the 7th book in Anderson’s Destroyermen time-traveling military SF series. The first book is described as such: Pressed into service when World War II breaks out in the Pacific, the USS Walker—a Great-War vintage “four-stacker” destroyer—finds itself in full retreat from pursuit by Japanese battleships, and heads into a squall for possible cover. It emerges somewhere else. Familiar landmarks appear, but the water teems with monstrous, vicious fish. And there appear to be dinosaurs grazing on the plains of Bali. Gradually the crew must accept the fact that they are in an alternate world.

Come join Anderson 7:00 pm Monday, July 9, at Page One Bookstore, southwest corner of Montgomery and Juan Tabo NE.
For more information, check out www.page1book.com…

Multiple award-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi of Colorado will be celebrating the release of The Drowned Cities with a talk and signing June 3!

The Drowned Cities is a young-adult science fiction novel set in the same universe as Ship Breaker, which was a National Book Award finalist. Other Bacigalupi books, such as The Windup Girl also will be available.

Come join Bacigalupi 6:00 pm Sunday, June 3, at the UNM Continuing Education Auditorium, 1634 University Blvd NE (near Indian School Road).

Tickets Required: $5.00 students at Bookworks or the event ONLY (must show ID). All others are $17 for book and single admission, $23 for book and two admissions.

For more information, check out www.bkwrks.com.

Albuquerque’s own Daniel Abraham will be celebrating the release of The King’s Blood: Book 2 of The Dagger and the Coin with a talk and signing May 25!

Come join Abraham 7:00 pm Friday, May 25, at Alamosa Books, northwest corner of Paseo Del Norte and Ventura NE.
For more information, check out http://www.alamosabooks.com/…

Two-Part Programming – A Visit from Richard E. Peck -plus- an ACE 2 Preview!

Meeting is one week early in June – the first Friday of the month!

Richard E. Peck, former UNM president who wrote SF before joining academia, returns to ASFS to talk about his new short story collection.
Plus, a preview of the 2nd Albuq Comic Expo from organizers Greg Derrick and Craig A. Butler (possibly with more of the ACE staff).

Remember, no outside food is allowed at St. Andrew. Please be discreet with any candy. Water/soda bottles and lidded beverage cups are permitted (until we have a clean-up issue), and there is a water fountain in our meeting space.
Newcomers are welcome with a $1.00 contribution to help pay our rent…

DOORS OPEN AT 7:15 PM. Please do not arrive before this time. We have to set up the room ourselves, and straighten/clean-up at the end.

Meeting Location:

ACTIVITY ROOM (west end of building, by the gated courtyard)
St. Andrew Presbyterian Church
5301 Ponderosa Ave NE
Albuquerque, NM

(First street north of Erna Ferguson Library on San Mateo. Ponderosa is the northern border of Montgomery Park, and intersects with both San Mateo and San Pedro. The street is north of Comanche and south of Montgomery)

Club Contacts:

Craig C. at 266-8905 or Kevin H

About ASFS

ACE 2 Starts Three Days of Comic & Media Fun!

The 2nd Albuq Comic Expo starts its three-day run at the Albuquerque Convention Center, downtown. Guests such as Kevin Smith, Jason Mewes, Stan Lee, Adam Baldwin, Jewel Staite, Kevin Sorbo, Peter Mayhew, Billy Dee Williams, Len Wein, Lloyd Kaufman, Joe Jusko, Aaron Campbell, Andy Kuhn, Jim Kelly, Melinda Snodgrass, Robert Vardeman, Scott Phillips, Victor Milan, John Jos. Miller and many more.

The show floor will be open 2-8 pm Friday, 10 am-7 pm Saturday, and 10 am-6 pm Sunday. A three-day pass is $45.00 at the door, with dailies at $20.00 per day.

9th Tromadance NM Film Festival, Costume Contest, panel discussions, presentations, signings and more. AbqComicExpo.com.

Programming – A “Bad Science” Post-Apocalyptic Film!

All we’ll say is this SF flick has a New Mexico connection, and it’s kind of infamous. Plus full of cheesy goodness…
And we probably will set up a Table for Gaming in the smaller room for which we have access. Those not interested in the movie should bring a boardgame or a deck of cards…

Remember, no outside food is allowed at St. Andrew. Please be discreet with any candy. Water/soda bottles and lidded beverage cups are permitted (until we have a clean-up issue), and there is a water fountain in our meeting space.
Newcomers are welcome with a $1.00 contribution to help pay our rent…

DOORS OPEN AT 7:15 PM. Please do not arrive before this time. We have to set up the room ourselves, and straighten/clean-up at the end.

Meeting Location:

ACTIVITY ROOM (west end of building, by the gated courtyard)
St. Andrew Presbyterian Church
5301 Ponderosa Ave NE
Albuquerque, NM

(First street north of Erna Ferguson Library on San Mateo. Ponderosa is the northern border of Montgomery Park, and intersects with both San Mateo and San Pedro. The street is north of Comanche and south of Montgomery)

Club Contacts:

Craig C. at 266-8905 or Kevin H

About ASFS

Programming:

The Strange Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack by Mark Hodder (trade softcover, Pyr 2010).

Meeting Location:

Page One Bookstore
Montgomery & Juan Tabo NE
Albuquerque, NM

Contact Information:

Send us an email.

About Droids & Dragons

Programming – A Visit from Santa Fe author Ian Tregillis!

ASFS friend/Santa Fe author Ian Tregillis will talk about The Coldest War, the second book of his Milkweed Triptych trilogy (the first book came out in 2010), his various short stories in anthologies, his Wild Cards work, and other upcoming projects…

Remember, no outside food is allowed at St. Andrew. Please be discreet with any candy. Water/soda bottles and lidded beverage cups are permitted (until we have a clean-up issue), and there is a water fountain in our meeting space.
Newcomers are welcome with a $1.00 contribution to help pay our rent…

DOORS OPEN AT 7:15 PM. Please do not arrive before this time. We have to set up the room ourselves, and straighten/clean-up at the end.

Meeting Location:

ACTIVITY ROOM (west end of building, by the gated courtyard)
St. Andrew Presbyterian Church
5301 Ponderosa Ave NE
Albuquerque, NM

(First street north of Erna Ferguson Library on San Mateo. Ponderosa is the northern border of Montgomery Park, and intersects with both San Mateo and San Pedro. The street is north of Comanche and south of Montgomery)

Club Contacts:

Craig C. at 266-8905 or Kevin H

About ASFS

Programming:

This Is Not A Game by New Mexico author Walter Jon Williams (mass market paperback).

Meeting Location:

Page One Bookstore
Montgomery & Juan Tabo NE
Albuquerque, NM

Contact Information:

Send us an email.

About Droids & Dragons

Nominations for Bubonicon 45 Special Guests (2013) will take place 3:00 pm Sunday, April 1 (Palm Sunday), in the Community Room of Page One Bookstore, 11018 Montgomery Blvd NE (southwest corner of Montgomery & Juan Tabo).
Mark your calendar if you’re interested. This meeting is open to everyone! You need not be a member of ASFS or a past attendee of Bubonicon to come and suggest possible guests. (However, a little research can be helpful in talking about why your nominee would be a great Bubonicon guest – titles of published work, where he/she lives, experiences at other cons.)

If you cannot attend but have suggestions, please get your nominations to Kristen or Craig by the end of Friday, March 30.

Friday, March 30, at Eastern NM University in Portales, NM.
Theme: “Urban Fantasy”
Special Guests are Daniel Abraham and Carrie Vaughn, with Connie Willis as Mistress of Ceremonies. Also expected to attend are Steven Gould, Darynda Jones, Melinda Snodgrass, Joan Saberhagen, Ian Tregillis, Walter Jon Williams and more.

Festivities include informal Q&A sessions 9:00-11:00 am Friday, readings, a luncheon, panel discussions, and a visit to the (Jack) Williamson Collection in ENMU’s Golden Library.

LUNCHEON: 11:30 am in the upstairs Ballroom of the Campus Union at ENMU. Cost is $10.00, payable at the door. Reservations are required by Friday, March 23! Please call Patrice Caldwell at 505-562-2315 or email her at Patrice.Caldwell@enmu.edu.

PANEL DISCUSSIONS: 3:00-6:00 pm in the Williamson Special Collections Area of Golden Library. There is no fee to attend these panels. The exact topics still are pending.

HIGH PLAINS FILM FESTIVAL: Being held the same weekend with screenings 1:00-5:00 pm Saturday, March 31. These screenings also are free and open to the public.

For more information, check out this ENMU website – www.enmu.edu/academics/williamson/lectureship.shtml