1992 - 03/1992 Meeting

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SUSAN PALWICK

Novels:

The Fate of Mice

Flying in Place

The Necessary Beggar

Shelter

The author's blog is: http://improbableoptimisms.blogspot.com/.

MEETING SUMMARY:

Meeting Date: March 12, 1992.

Meeting Site: Yeager Residence, Paramus, New Jersey.

Official Attendance: 30.

Meeting Program: Talk and reading by science fiction author.

Notes:

Meeting Memories:

Newsletter Account:

Robert Yeager and family were again kind enough to host a meeting of the Science Fiction Association of Bergen County on Saturday, March 14, 1992. The first gathering of the original writers' group was held in the Spanish Room of stately Yeager Manor at 2:30 PM. Group members Philip De Parto, Charles Garofalo, Elizabeth Grout, Cindy Henry, Patricia Nash and Andrew Thorpe were present, as were non-members Marylou Hopper, Jeanette Kappler, Maxine Kappler and Joel Ryerson.

Elizabeth Grout read "Party Line on the Communications Net," a new story by Patricia Nash featuring Michael Mc Carthy. Pat, in turn, read the beginning of a story by Cindy Henry. Philip De Parto brought and passed around the guidelines and a catalog for Pulphouse for the perusal of one and all. The Yeagers laid out a generous spread, and Pat, Chuck, and Phil also brought contributions of food or drink.

Guest speaker Susan Palwick was joined at the Fireside Inn for dinner by Philip De Parto, Charles Garofalo, Marylou Hopper, the Kapplers, and Joel Ryerson. The principal topic of dinnertime conversation was ghosts and hauntings experienced by the dinees. By the end of the evening, Philip De Parto was heard complaining about being "ectoplasmically challanged."

We returned to the Yeager's to find about a dozen of the club watching STAR TREK, THE NEXT GENERATION. A couple of people left things behind. Please call Phil or the Yeagers if you are missing anything you had with you that evening.

After TREK was over, Robert Yeager led two separate tours of the house, each one limited to about ten people. The first tour was set aside for firsttimers to Yeagermanse. The second tour was a bit briefer, and focused on some of the more obscure stories and items connected with the house.

There were the usual batch of announcements made at the start of the session, and then Susan Palwick was introduced.

Ms Palwick read a story originally published in the November 1987 issue of ISAAC ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINE and subsequently reprinted several times. The story is "Ever After" and is, among other things, a vampire tale, a feminist fable, and a retelling of a faerie tale.

Because the story was such a long and demanding piece, there was much less formal interaction with our guest in the form of questions and answers, biographical information, and the like than usual. A fair number of us kept her busy with conversation before, after, and during the break midway through her reading.

A meeting at the Yeagers' is guaranteed to drag out some of our less regularly attending members. Among those present were Philip Duran, Ben Ellison, Steve Gold, and Melinda Richards. The Association welcomes newcomers Steve Ehrenworth, Maxine Kappler, and Robert Kappler.

After the meeting was over, twenty of us shuttled over to the Forum Diner on Route 4.