Programming:

Time for some audience-participation fun! Yes, it’s Game Show Month. We will run two games of Transwarp Trivia – with three teams of three people each. (That’s right – we’ll need 18 players in all for the evening. Plus two assistants – one to keep score and one to reveal the game board.)

Also, time for the Summer issue of ASFacts. [Deadline Sun, July 3]

Newcomers are welcome with a $1.00 contribution to help pay our rent…

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.

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

Join local authors M.J. Locke (Laura J. Mixon) and Pati Nagle 7:00 pm Friday, May 20, as they discuss and sign Locke’s “debut” science-fiction adventure, Up Against It, and Nagle’s fantasy Heart of the Exiled.

Up Against It marks a relaunch of Mixon’s writing career from Tor Books. Meanwhile, Heart of the Exiled is the sequel to Nagle’s 2009 release, The Betrayal.

The Locke & Nagle signing takes place at Alamosa Books, northwest corner of Paseo del Norte and Ventura Street NE (across the plaza parking lot from Trader Joe’s). More info at 505-797-7101.

Programming:

Territory by Emma Bull (Tor mm paperback 2008), “retells the story of the 1881 shootout at Tombstone’s O.K. Corral…blending historical and fictional characters to great effect.”

Meeting Location:

Page One Bookstore
Montgomery & Juan Tabo NE
Albuquerque, NM

Contact Information:

Send us an email.

About Droids & Dragons

1st Albuquerque Comic Expo

The Albuquerque Comic Expo is New Mexico’s premier comic book, pop culture and entertainment event! Sunday, June 26th is the last day at the Albuquerque Convention Center, ACE will feature the absolute best in comic books, movies, television, and more!

Guests include Lloyd Kaufman, Peter Mayhew, Marina Sirtis, LeVar Burton, Richard Hatch, Ben Templesmith, Gene Ha, James O’Barr, Len Wein, Joe Jusko, Ernie Hudson, Scott Phillips, Melinda Snodgrass, Walter Jon Williams, John Jos. Miller, Victor Milan, Andy Kuhn, Aaron Campbell, Robert Vardeman, Michael Golden and more!

Events include a Costume Contest, TromaDance NM film competition, gaming, a Wild Cards panel, a Star Trek retrospective panel, Star Wars Q&A, signing events, photo opportunities, a giant dealers room, and such.

The show floor will be open:
Sunday, June 26th: 10am-6pm

ACE is being held at the Albuquerque Convention Center, located at 401 2nd Street NW (downtown, across from the Civic Plaza). The event will be ticketed. Tickets will be available for the entire weekend, or for individual days. All attendees ages 10 and up are required to have a ticket to enter the event. Children 10 and under are free with a paid adult ticket.

A Sunday-only pass purchased in advance is just $20.00 through June 23.

For more info, check out http://abqcomicexpo.com/.

1st Albuquerque Comic Expo

The Albuquerque Comic Expo is New Mexico’s premier comic book, pop culture and entertainment event! Taking place June 24th-26th at the Albuquerque Convention Center, ACE will feature the absolute best in comic books, movies, television, and more!

Guests include Stan “the Man” Lee (Saturday only), Lloyd Kaufman, Peter Mayhew, Marina Sirtis, LeVar Burton, Richard Hatch, Ben Templesmith, Gene Ha, James O’Barr, Len Wein, Joe Jusko, Ernie Hudson, Scott Phillips, Melinda Snodgrass, Walter Jon Williams, John Jos. Miller, Victor Milan, Andy Kuhn, Aaron Campbell, Robert Vardeman, Michael Golden and more!

Events include a Costume Contest, TromaDance NM film competition, gaming, a Wild Cards panel, a Star Trek retrospective panel, Star Wars Q&A, signing events, photo opportunities, a giant dealers room, and such.

The show floor will be open:
Friday, June 24th: 10am-7pm
Saturday, June 25th: 10am-7pm
Sunday, June 26th: 10am-6pm

ACE is being held at the Albuquerque Convention Center, located at 401 2nd Street NW (downtown, across from the Civic Plaza). The event will be ticketed. Tickets will be available for the entire weekend, or for individual days. All attendees ages 10 and up are required to have a ticket to enter the event. Children 10 and under are free with a paid adult ticket.

A three-day advance pass is $50.00 through June 23. Friday or Saturday-only passes in advance are $25.00 per day. Sunday-only in advance is just $20.00.

For more info, check out http://abqcomicexpo.com/.

The Great Muppet Caper at the Guild Cinema

Saturday & Sunday, May 28-29, 11:00 am & 1:00 pm

Dir. Jim Henson – 1981 – 95m
MOM’S MATINEE CONTINUES! – All Seats just $5

Stop the presses! The crime of the century has occurred, and investigative reporters Kermit, Fozzie and Gonzo are out to crack the case in this song-filled, star-studded extravaganza directed by the legendary Jim Henson. Our heroes arrive in London to interview Lady Holiday (Diana Rigg), a high-fashion designer whose priceless diamond necklace has just been stolen. When Kermit mistakes lovely receptionist/would-be model Miss Piggy for her aristocratic employer, it’s love at first sight.
Unfortunately, Lady Holiday’s scheming brother (Charles Grodin) is also wooing the sultry swine – so he can frame her for another brazen jewel heist! Now it’s up to Kermit and his Muppet pals to clear Piggy’s name and catch the real culprits. Packed with music, remarkable production numbers and hilarious cameo performances (including John Cleese, Peter Falk, Jack Warden, Robert Morley and Peter Ustinov).

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

Stake Land at the Guild Cinema

Friday & Saturday, May 27-28, 10:00 pm & Midnight

Directed by Jim Mickle – 2011 – 98m.
An ALIBI MIDNIGHT MOVIE MADNESS PRESENTATION
All seats $7 – Burning Paradise Video members $5

In a fierce, alternative vision of America’s bleak future, a young boy is about to learn how cruel the world can be. Martin was a normal teenage boy before the country collapsed in an empty pit of economic and political disaster.  And from the ashes rose a new breed of terror. A vampire epidemic has swept across what is left of the nation’s abandoned towns and cities, and it’s up to Mister, a death-dealing, rogue vampire hunter, to get Martin safely north to Canada, the continent’s New Eden.  Welcome to Stake Land, kid…

“One of the best vampire films I’ve ever seen” – Bloody Good Horror

“The American horror movie of the year” – Todd Brown, TwitchFilm

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

Programming:

Visits from one of our newer NM authors and one of the organizers of this month’s 1st Albuquerque Comic Expo (ACE).
Doranna Durgin, author of more than 30 novels, will talk about her career through SF, fantasy and the paranormal. And Greg Derrick, event coordinator of ACE, will give us a preview of the June 24-26 convention.

Newcomers are welcome with a $1.00 contribution to help pay our rent…

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.

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:

Consider Phlebas (Culture book 1) by Iain M. Banks (Orbit 2008, trade softcover).

Meeting Location:

Page One Bookstore
Montgomery & Juan Tabo NE
Albuquerque, NM

Contact Information:

Send us an email.

About Droids & Dragons

2011 SubPop Culture Expo

Takes place 11:00 am-6:00 pm at Marketplace New Mexico, 800 Louisiana NE (the old K-Mart at Lomas & Louisiana).  Presented by Sugar Zombies, the show focuses on “where the worlds of Sub & Pop Culture collide.” The event promises comic artists, alternative artists, comic & toy vendors, a costume contest, Cosplay, live local music, a punk/cyber-punk/steampunk fashion show, and a film festival.
For more info, check out sugarzombies.net.

Programming – Private Party:

Our first meeting at St. Andrew Presbyterian Church is an Engagement Party for Kevin Hewett & Randi Tinkham, who will marry in early June. They will be serving cake and punch, and probably some other snack items. Plus providing plates, cups, napkins and plasticware.

Because Kevin & Randi will be paying the rent on the meeting space for the month, no monthly dues will be collected. Also, because it is an engagement party for their friends, newcomers are not welcome this meeting only. Please do not bring new people who do not know the engaged couple…

Remember, no outside food is allowed at St. Andrew – other than what Kevin and Randi provide. Please be discreet with any candy. Water/soda bottles and lidded beverage cups are permitted, and there is a water fountain in our meeting space.

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

Six New Mexico authors will be celebrating the release of a new solo fantasy novel (The Dragon’s Path: The Dagger and the Coin 1) from Orbit and a fiction/non-fiction anthology (A Career Guide to Your Job in Hell) from Frantic Tentacles Press with a mass discussion and signing!

Attending the Dragon’s Path/Job in Hell Event are fantasy novelist Daniel Abraham, anthology editors Robert E. Vardeman & Scott S. Phillips, plus story authors Scott Denning, Victor Milan and John Jos. Miller.

The Dragon’s Path opens in a fairly standard fashion: an orphaned girl and a once great general escape from a city under siege with the help of a traveling theater troupe. But that’s where the clichés end, for Marcus Wester would far rather guard humble caravans than cruel kings, and Cithrin bel Sarcour’s loyalty is not to her long-dead noble parents but to the Medean Bank that took her in.

A Career Guide to Your Job in Hell is a collection of nine entries, seven fictional and two nonfiction, giving humorous to horrific glimpses at jobs no one would ever want. The fiction ranges from horror to science fiction, whimsical to horrendous. The nonfiction stories are light in tone. Introduction by indie film director Don Adams.

Come join this local crew 2:30 pm Saturday, April 9, as they sign various books at Page One Bookstore, southwest corner of Montgomery and Juan Tabo NE.
For more information, check out www.page1book.com…

Super at the Guild Cinema

Friday, April 29-Thursday, May 5, 3:45 pm, 5:45 pm & 8:00 pm

Directed by James Gunn – 2011 – 96m.

From the director of Slither comes Super! An average guy (Rainn Wilson) takes on the pseudo-superhero alter ego of The Crimson Bolt, after watching his wife (Liv Tyler) fall under the spell of a charming drug dealer. Lacking super powers, he compensates by swinging a trusty wrench.

As The Crimson Bolt hones his hero character, he takes on the requisite sidekick (Ellen Page), a psychopathic teen who works at the local comic book store. Armed with deadly ideas, she becomes Boltie, and aids The Crimson Bolt as he tries to take down the drug dealer that destroyed his marriage.

With Kevin Bacon as Jacques, Nathan Fillion as the Holy Avenger, William Katt as Sgt. Fitzgibbon, Lloyd Kaufman as 911 Man.

“Super is an awesome film, and one whose dark humour never truly overtakes it. Wilson and Page are amazing in their roles, and the rest of the supporting cast does a great job backing them up. I just hope everyone can experience and have as much fun as I did.” – Don Fishies

$7.00 General Admission – cash only. $5.00 Bargain Matinee first show each day!

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

Super at the Guild Cinema

Friday, April 29-Thursday, May 5, 3:45 pm, 5:45 pm & 8:00 pm

Directed by James Gunn – 2011 – 96m.

From the director of Slither comes Super! An average guy (Rainn Wilson) takes on the pseudo-superhero alter ego of The Crimson Bolt, after watching his wife (Liv Tyler) fall under the spell of a charming drug dealer. Lacking super powers, he compensates by swinging a trusty wrench.

As The Crimson Bolt hones his hero character, he takes on the requisite sidekick (Ellen Page), a psychopathic teen who works at the local comic book store. Armed with deadly ideas, she becomes Boltie, and aids The Crimson Bolt as he tries to take down the drug dealer that destroyed his marriage.

With Kevin Bacon as Jacques, Nathan Fillion as the Holy Avenger, William Katt as Sgt. Fitzgibbon, Lloyd Kaufman as 911 Man.

“Super is an awesome film, and one whose dark humour never truly overtakes it. Wilson and Page are amazing in their roles, and the rest of the supporting cast does a great job backing them up. I just hope everyone can experience and have as much fun as I did.” – Don Fishies

$7.00 General Admission – cash only. $5.00 Bargain Matinee first show each day!

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

Rubber at the Guild Cinema

Friday & Saturday, April 29-30, 10:00 pm & Midnight

Directed by Quentin Dupieux – 2010 – 85m – France
An ALIBI MIDNIGHT MOVIE MADNESS PRESENTATION – All Seats $7 – Burning Paradise Video Members $5

RUBBER is the story of Robert, an inanimate tire that has been abandoned in the desert, and suddenly and inexplicably comes to life. As Robert roams the bleak landscape, he discovers that he possesses terrifying telepathic powers that give him the ability to destroy anything he wishes without having to move. At first content to prey on small desert creatures and various discarded objects, his attention soon turns to humans, especially a beautiful and mysterious woman who crosses his path. Leaving a swath of destruction across the desert landscape, Robert becomes a chaotic force to be reckoned with, and truly a movie villain for the ages. Directed by legendary electro musician Quentin Dupieux (Steak, Nonfilm), aka Mr. Oizo, RUBBER is a smart, funny and wholly original tribute to the cinematic concept of “no reason.”

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

Programming:

The Sorcerer’s House by Gene Wolfe (Tor 2011, trade softcover).

Meeting Location:

Page One Bookstore
Montgomery & Juan Tabo NE
Albuquerque, NM

Contact Information:

Send us an email.

About Droids & Dragons

Programming:

Local authors Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck will visit to talk about their collaborative book effort as James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes!

Leviathan Wakes is set in the far future where humanity has colonized the solar system, and spaceships of all sorts clog the lanes from Earth to Jupiter. When a derelict ship is found, it sets off a chain of events that threatens the stability of the whole system.

Also, the Spring issue of ASFacts will be produced. (Deadline for submissions is Sunday, April 3.)

Remember, no outside food or drink is allowed in the function space of the Sheraton. They will have a water station for us, and we ask that folks be discreet with any candy.
Newcomers are welcome – attendance fee is $1.00 to help us pay our rent…

Meeting Location:

GRAN QUIVERA 1 (south end of building, convention area – Gaming during Bubonicon)
Sheraton Albuq Airport Hotel
2910 Yale Blvd SE
Albuquerque, NM

(South of Gibson, north of the Albuquerque International Airport – this is the Bubonicon hotel)

Club Contacts:

Craig C. at 266-8905 or Kevin H

About ASFS

Friday, April 1, at Eastern NM University in Portales, NM.
Theme: “Six Minutes into the Future: SF in Film and TV”
Special Guests are Michael Cassutt and Melinda Snodgrass, with Connie Willis as Mistress of Ceremonies. Also expected to attend are Steven Gould, Darynda Jones, Laura J. Mixon, Walter Jon Williams and more.

Festivities include classroom visits, readings, a luncheon, panel discussions, short films, and a visit to the (Jack) Williamson Collection in ENMU’s Golden Library.

LUNCHEON: 11:45 am in the upstairs Ballroom of the Campus Union at ENMU. Cost is $8.00, payable at the door. Reservations are required by Friday, March 25! Please call Patrice Caldwell at 505-562-2315 or email her at Patrice.Caldwell@enmu.edu.

PANEL DISCUSSIONS: 3:30-6:00 pm in the Williamson Special Collections Room 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 and will acknowledge the Lectureship with a screening of Universe in 1/10 of an Hour on April 1, and screenings of SF-themed films on Saturday, April 2. 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

Weird Science Weekend at the Guild Cinema
David Cronenberg Double Feature

Saturday & Sunday, March 26-27

THE FLY – directed by David Cronenberg, 1986, 96 minutes.
Co-Presented with Bubonicon 43.
Showtimes are 3:15 pm and 7:00 pm

David Cronenberg’s 1986 remake of the science fiction classic about a scientist who accidentally swaps body parts with a fly is both smart and terrifying: an allegory for the awful processes of slow death and a monster movie with a tragic spin. Jeff Goldblum gives a masterful performance as a sweet, nerdy scientist whose romance with a writer (Geena Davis) makes him more fully alive. Next thing you know, a tiny oversight in an experiment causes him to transmogrify, gradually, into something more like an insect than a human. This is Cronenberg (Scanners, Videodrome) country, so expect The Fly to be a gross-out, but in the way that disease corrupts the body and can make a loved one unrecognizable on every level. This is one of Cronenberg’s best films, and maybe one of the important movies of the 1980s.

VIDEODROME – directed by David Cronenberg, 1983, 87 minutes.
Co-Presented with Bubonicon 43.
Showtimes are 5:15 pm and 9:00 pm

When Max Renn goes looking for edgy new shows for his sleazy cable TV station, he stumbles across the pirate broadcast of a hyperviolent torture show called Videodrome. As he unearths the origins of the program, he embarks on a hallucinatory journey into a shadow world of right-wing conspiracies, sadomasochistic sex games, and bodily transformation. Renn’s ordinary life dissolves around him, and he finds himself at the center of a conflict between opposing factions in the struggle to control the truth behind the radical human future of “the New Flesh.” Starring James Woods and Deborah Harry in one of her first film roles, this is one of writer/director David Cronenberg’s most original and provocative works, fusing social commentary with shocking elements of sex and violence. With groundbreaking special effects makeup by Academy Award-winner Rick Baker, it has come to be regarded as one of the most influential and mind-bending science fiction films of the 1980s.

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

Weird Science Weekend at the Guild Cinema
David Cronenberg Double Feature

Saturday & Sunday, March 26-27

THE FLY – directed by David Cronenberg, 1986, 96 minutes.
Co-Presented with Bubonicon 43.
Showtimes are 3:15 pm and 7:00 pm

David Cronenberg’s 1986 remake of the science fiction classic about a scientist who accidentally swaps body parts with a fly is both smart and terrifying: an allegory for the awful processes of slow death and a monster movie with a tragic spin. Jeff Goldblum gives a masterful performance as a sweet, nerdy scientist whose romance with a writer (Geena Davis) makes him more fully alive. Next thing you know, a tiny oversight in an experiment causes him to transmogrify, gradually, into something more like an insect than a human. This is Cronenberg (Scanners, Videodrome) country, so expect The Fly to be a gross-out, but in the way that disease corrupts the body and can make a loved one unrecognizable on every level. This is one of Cronenberg’s best films, and maybe one of the important movies of the 1980s.

VIDEODROME – directed by David Cronenberg, 1983, 87 minutes.
Co-Presented with Bubonicon 43.
Showtimes are 5:15 pm and 9:00 pm

When Max Renn goes looking for edgy new shows for his sleazy cable TV station, he stumbles across the pirate broadcast of a hyperviolent torture show called Videodrome. As he unearths the origins of the program, he embarks on a hallucinatory journey into a shadow world of right-wing conspiracies, sadomasochistic sex games, and bodily transformation. Renn’s ordinary life dissolves around him, and he finds himself at the center of a conflict between opposing factions in the struggle to control the truth behind the radical human future of “the New Flesh.” Starring James Woods and Deborah Harry in one of her first film roles, this is one of writer/director David Cronenberg’s most original and provocative works, fusing social commentary with shocking elements of sex and violence. With groundbreaking special effects makeup by Academy Award-winner Rick Baker, it has come to be regarded as one of the most influential and mind-bending science fiction films of the 1980s.

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

Weird Science Weekend at the Guild Cinema
John Carpenter Double Feature

Saturday & Sunday, March 19-20

STARMAN – directed by John Carpenter, 1984, 115 minutes.
Co-Presented with Bubonicon 43.
Showtimes are 2:00 pm and 6:00 pm

One of Carpenter’s warmest and most beguiling film, and the only one that ever earned an Oscar nomination (Best Actor nominee Jeff Bridges). Bridges plays an alien visitor to Earth who is knocked off course and must take an interstate road trip to rendezvous with a mothership from his home planet. To complete this journey he assumes the physical form of the dead husband of a Wisconsin widow (Karen Allen) who responds first with fear, then sympathy, and finally love. Carpenter’s graceful strategy is to switch the focus of this E.T.-like film from science fiction to a gentle road-movie love story, made believable by the memorable performances of Bridges and Allen. With the conflict of tenacious government agents who view the Starman as an alien threat, Carpenter handles the action with intelligent flair, sensitivity, and lighthearted humor.

THEY LIVE – directed by John Carpenter, 1988, 93 minutes.
Co-Presented with Bubonicon 43.
Showtimes are 4:15 pm and 8:15 pm

An economic crisis brings unemployed Nada (Roddy Piper) to L.A. in search of work. What he finds instead is that the ruling elite of the world are aliens in disguise – their aim being to keep humans in a state of mindless consumerism. His discovery comes when he dons a pair of special sunglasses made by a resistance group and sees for the first time reality unadorned. Billboards, store signs, magazine covers–all bear subliminal messages to OBEY, to CONSUME, to have NO INDEPENDENT THOUGHT. Money itself says THIS IS YOUR GOD. But worst of all, with these glasses you see which of us are really hideous, bug-eyed aliens. The conceptual breakthrough is hilarious while keeping its roots in darker matters. The ending has a great payoff. And the direction by John Carpenter is handled with superb workmanlike aplomb. One of the most subversive films ever made in Hollywood, They Live was released on the eve of the 1988 elections.

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

Weird Science Weekend at the Guild Cinema
John Carpenter Double Feature

Saturday & Sunday, March 19-20

STARMAN – directed by John Carpenter, 1984, 115 minutes.
Co-Presented with Bubonicon 43.
Showtimes are 2:00 pm and 6:00 pm

One of Carpenter’s warmest and most beguiling film, and the only one that ever earned an Oscar nomination (Best Actor nominee Jeff Bridges). Bridges plays an alien visitor to Earth who is knocked off course and must take an interstate road trip to rendezvous with a mothership from his home planet. To complete this journey he assumes the physical form of the dead husband of a Wisconsin widow (Karen Allen) who responds first with fear, then sympathy, and finally love. Carpenter’s graceful strategy is to switch the focus of this E.T.-like film from science fiction to a gentle road-movie love story, made believable by the memorable performances of Bridges and Allen. With the conflict of tenacious government agents who view the Starman as an alien threat, Carpenter handles the action with intelligent flair, sensitivity, and lighthearted humor.

THEY LIVE – directed by John Carpenter, 1988, 93 minutes.
Co-Presented with Bubonicon 43.
Showtimes are 4:15 pm and 8:15 pm

An economic crisis brings unemployed Nada (Roddy Piper) to L.A. in search of work. What he finds instead is that the ruling elite of the world are aliens in disguise – their aim being to keep humans in a state of mindless consumerism. His discovery comes when he dons a pair of special sunglasses made by a resistance group and sees for the first time reality unadorned. Billboards, store signs, magazine covers–all bear subliminal messages to OBEY, to CONSUME, to have NO INDEPENDENT THOUGHT. Money itself says THIS IS YOUR GOD. But worst of all, with these glasses you see which of us are really hideous, bug-eyed aliens. The conceptual breakthrough is hilarious while keeping its roots in darker matters. The ending has a great payoff. And the direction by John Carpenter is handled with superb workmanlike aplomb. One of the most subversive films ever made in Hollywood, They Live was released on the eve of the 1988 elections.

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

Join local authors Pati Nagle & M.J. Locke (Laura J. Mixon) 7:00 pm Tuesday, March 15, as they discuss and sign Nagle’s fantasy Heart of the Exiled, and Locke’s science-fiction adventure Up Against It.

Heart of the Exiled is the sequel to Nagle’s 2009 release, The Betrayal. Meanwhile, Up Against It marks a relaunch of Mixon’s writing career from Tor Books.

The Nagle & Locke signing takes place at Page One Bookstore, 11018 Montgomery Blvd NE (southwest corner of Montgomery & Juan Tabo). Check out their website at www.page1book.com

Programming:

Nymphos of Rocky Flats (the first Felix Gomez book) by Mario Acevedo.

Meeting Location:

Page One Bookstore
Montgomery & Juan Tabo NE
Albuquerque, NM

Contact Information:

Send us an email.

About Droids & Dragons

Nominations for Bubonicon 44 Special Guests (2012) will take place 7:30 pm Friday, March 25, 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 Wednesday, March 23.