The COMPLEAT HISTORY of Harry

Harry was founded January, 1977.

One of these days, your webmaster really needs to get something special
written regarding Harry's historical First Meeting. And the origin of
the club's name. Suffice it to say, the Founders erected a monument that
has endured for over 24 years............

To put it musically...
H... A... double-R...Y: that's how we spell Harry's name.
Proud of all the fannish blood that's in us.
Not a fan can say a word again' us: 'cause at
H... A... double-R...Y: it's S.F. we discuss.
Our club discusses Science Fiction (some would say it's our addiction!);
Harry - that's us.

Harry Meetings through the present day....

Except for few memories, the fog of expanding spacetime has engulfed 1977 through 1986...

HARRY'S 1987 MEETINGS (THAT WE REMEMBER)

17JAN87: HARRY BIRTHDAY - Don Pancho's [Mexican] w/24 att.
JAN87: _Merchanters Luck_, C.J. Cherryh.
FEB87: _Code of the Lifemaker_, Hogan. 20 att.
MAR87: _Ender's Game_, Orson Scott Card.
04APR87 Rites of Spring at Beth's
APR87: Open discussion.
MAY87: _Contact_, Carl Sagan.
JUN87: Discussion, book series, "Spider Robinson's Callahan series";
_Callahan's Crosstime Saloon_, _Time Travelers Strictly Cash_, & _Callahan's
Secret_.
JUL87: Open discussion.
AUG87: Discussion, book, L. Ron Hubbard's decalogy "Mission Earth" series'
first book.
22AUG87 Summer frolic at Mike's.
SEP87: Open discussion.
02OCT87: Trek Party

HARRY'S 1988 MEETINGS (THAT WE REMEMBER)

17JAN88: HARRY BIRTHDAY at Mark Pi's [Chinese]
JAN88:
MAR88: Discussion, book, _To Sail Beyond the Sunset_, Robert A. Heinlein.
14MAY88 Rites of Spring.
MAY88: Open discussion.
02JUL88 Summer Frolic I - Kate and Phil's
20AUG88 Summer Frolic II- Tuscora Park
10SEP98 Trek Party
23OCT98 Harry Halloween - Kathie and Jeanne's
SOMETIME88: _Sphere_, Michael Chriton.
DEC88: "the Holodeck"
17DEC88; Harry Xmas, M+D's

HARRY'S 1989 MEETINGS (THAT WE REMEMBER)

21JAN HARRY BIRTHDAY
JAN89: Discussion, Media SF. 22 att.
FEB89: Discussion, _Legacy Of Heorot_, Niven, Pournelle, & Barnes. 17 att.
MAR89: Discussion, book, _Bug Jack Barron_, Norman Spinrad.
JUN89: Presentation, slides, & lecture, Space Camp, Steven Stein.
21OCT: Harry Halloween.
DEC89: Discussion, Media SF (Trek, Beauty and the Beast, etc.). 10 att.
HARRY XMAS PARTY at Kathie and Jeanne's.

HARRY'S 1990 MEETINGS (THAT WE REMEMBER)

20JAN90 - HARRY BIRTHDAY at Kuchenplatz
JAN90: Open discussion.
FEB90: Discussion of Robert A. Heinlein.
Kate's Filk Party!
MAR90: Special Speaker, Dr. Thomas Clareson, on SF and his work on Heinlein.
21APR90 - Spring Fling.
MAY90: Open discussion. 10 att.
JUN90: Open discussion. 8 att.
JUL90: Open discussion. 10 att.
18AUG90 Summer Frolic
02SEP90 Trek Party at Sandi's
20OCT90 Harry Halloween
DEC90: Discussion, book, _Gossamer Axe_, Gael Baudino.
15DEC90 HARRY XMAS at Scott's.

HARRY'S 1991 MEETINGS (THAT WE REMEMBER)

26JAN91 HARRY BIRTHDAY
JAN91: Discussion, book, _Chicago Red_, R.M. Meluch
FEB91: Continuing with _Chicago Red_, R.M. Meluch
03MAR: Kate's filk party.
MAR91: Discussion, books, _Stranger In A Strange Land_, cut & uncut versions,
Robert A. Heinlein.
APR91: Discussion, book, _The Madness Season_, C.S.Friedman.
01JUN: Rites of Spring
JUN91: Reading by author. Joe Clifford Faust reads chapters from his work in
progress, _Ferman's Devils_. 18 att.
22JUN: Mark Williams' SF party.
17AUG: Summer Frolic at Tuscora Park.
08SEP: Trek Party at Sandi's
NOV91: Discussion, book, _Slow Freight_, F. M. Busby.
21DEC: HARRY SOLSTICE EVE party

HARRY'S 1992 MEETINGS (THAT WE REMEMBER)

08FEB: HARRY BIRTHDAY at Belgrade Gardens (American)
JUN92: Discussion, book, _Across Realtime_, Vernor Vinge.
04JUL: Harry 4th of July.
12SEP: Trek party at Sandi's.
31OCT: Harry Halloween at Kate's.

HARRY'S 1993 MEETINGS (THAT WE REMEMBER)

30JAN93 HARRY BIRTHDAY at Cibo's (Italian) in Waynesburg.
22MAY: Spring Fling at M+D's.
11SEP: Trek Anniv. at Howard and Jeanne's
SEP93: Discussion, short story, "The Dakna" by Jamil Nash.
OCT93: Discussion, book, _Fallen Angels_, Niven, Pournelle, & Barnes.
30OCT: Harry Halloween at Scott and Kathie's
NOV93: Discussion, book, _A Fire Upon the Deep_, Vernor Vinge.
DEC93: Discussion, short story, "The Nutcracker Coup", Janet Kagan.

HARRY'S 1994 MEETINGS (THAT WE REMEMBER)

JAN94: Discussion, story, "The P.E.R.N. Survey", Anne McCaffrey.
FEB94: Discussion, novel, _Doomsday Book_, Connie Willis
MAR94: Discussion, book, _Mostly Harmless_, Douglas Adams.
APR94:
MAY94: Discussion, book, 2nd novel of the Deathgate Series, Margaret Weis.
JUN94: Discussion, book, _Those Who Hunt the Night_, Barbara Hambly.
JUL94: Discussion, book, _The Difference Engine_, Gibson & Sterling.
OCT94: Discussion, concept, THE MERITS OF A SERIES; Series Of Novels and Short Stories In
Science Fiction.  Attending: 12.
NOV94: Discussion, Alternate Histories.
DEC94: Discussion, Star Trek.

HARRY'S 1995 MEETINGS (THAT WE REMEMBER)

JAN95: Discussion, Alien Races.
Unofficial topics included Tim's unproduced radio series "Starship Antares";
Philip's badger Roger; "Let's all get up and go watch the premiere of Star
Trek: Voyager"; Paramount scheduling Voyager opposite Harry; "First Contact"
by Murray Leinster; "Marching Morons" by C.M. Kornbluth.
Attendance: 10.

FEB95:
MAR95:
APR95:
MAY95: Discussion, series, Heinlein's Future History.
JUN95: Discussion, book, _Summer Of Love_, Lisa Mason.
JUL95: Discussion, book, _Red Mars_, Kim Stanley Robinson.
AUG95: Discussion, series, Glen Cook's fantastic mysteries with metals in
the titles; _Cold Copper Tears_ and so on.
SEP95: Discussion, Hugo nominated short stories and what won.
OCT95:
NOV95:
DEC95: Discussion, Open forum. Joe Clifford Faust announced the sale of his
new novel, _Pembroke Hall_, the 1st of 2 novels in the Ferman's Devils series.
Tim discussed his Navy novel. Harry's web page came forth, and hardcopies were
distributed. Amelia's adventures in Gifu, Japan were described. It was
speculated that, on Babylon 5, that Psi Corps members were crew on the
Shadows' ships & that Bester would be finding this out. Attendance = 11.
SAT, DEC 30: Kate and Philip hosted the Harry Chrristmas party.

HARRY'S CANTONIAN SCIENCE FICTION YEAR: 1996

JANUARY 96 HARRY PROGRAM: _ORBITAL DECAY_ by Allen Steele.
Or any work in his universe of biker-deadhead space-station construction
workers.

HARRY ANNIVERSARY BANQUET was at Mozart's for brunch at 12:30 Feb. 11th.

FEBRUARY 96 HARRY PROGRAM: _MORE THAN HUMAN_ by Theodore Sturgeon.
Or "Baby Is Three", the core story of the novel.

Sandi compared Sturgeon's work to _Galactic Troubadors_ by A. M. Lightner.
Philip made points about H. G. Wells' creations, the Eloi and the Morloch, and
the evolution of humanity. Sandi thought the _gestalt_ concept in the novel
reminded one of both the IDIC in Star Trek, and Gordy Dickson's different
societies. All illustrate the need for balance in humanity.

Unofficial topics included a Boskone con report (M+D went), Philip's findings
at the book sale, photos & talk about Alderford, the local SCA marche.

MARCH 96 HARRY PROGRAM:_HALF THE DAY IS NIGHT_ by Maureen F. McHugh.
This is a remarkable novel set in an underwater city so large it has freeways
inside. Jean David Dai must struggle to survive the attacks of terrorists, a
hostile government, and the unforgiving ocean depths.

This book was out in paperback! So everybody was asked to get a copy please.

APRIL 96 HARRY PROGRAM: Maureen F. McHugh visited the meeting.
Harry was quite excited at this and over 30 people turned out to meet her.
The program included a reading of the short story "The Lincoln Train",
and a Q&A period, plus the usual nonsense. "The Lincoln Train", of course,
went on to win the Hugo award for Best Short Story of 1995.

Maureen F. McHugh is the critically acclaimed author of _China Mountain Zhang_,
_Half the Day Is Night_, and a number of shorter works.

MAY 17TH 96 - PAVILIONS OF WONDER, THE ART OF SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY opened at the Canton Museum of Art.

A hyperlink to the museum and a retrospective is on Harry's links page.

This outstanding show featured original works by over thirty of America's
premiere Science Fiction & Fantasy artists, and a costume party.

Harry's meetings that featured a special guest were dubbed as " a literature
program sponsored by Harry".

Special Summer Reading programs were based on Dean Morrisey's _Ship Of Dreams_
and ran throughout the season.

The Museum of Art held family and young artist workships on stf-nal themes;
Alien Masks, Fantasy Land, SFX Photography, Design of Symbols for
Intersellar Communication, Super Heroes, Time Machines, and so on.

The Video Safari tape rental chain did an 88 cent special for SF flicks all
summer.

May 17th - Intergalactic Renaissance Ball was held at the Cultural Center.
Prizes were awarded for best alien, best Renaissance, etc.

MAY 96 HARRY PROGRAM: Joe Clifford Faust visited the meeting!
Mr. Faust is the author of _A Death Of Honor_, _The Company Man_, _Desperate
Measures_, _Precious Cargo_, and _The Essence Of Evil_, the last three being
the Angel's Luck series. He had been to Harry before, to read us samples of
his forthcoming Ferman's Devils series, and his return was greeted with
enthusiasm.

June 7th - Brannon Braga, producer & writer of ST:TNG & ST:Voyager spoke
at Canton Museum of Art. The event was titled "From Canton To the Final
Frontier".
Braga spent his formative years here in Canton. He was a student in the
class of Pavilions of Wonder's Guest Curator, Dr. Sam Vasbinder, and was a
1983 McKinley High School graduate.

Mr. Braga provided brief previews of (at the time) upcoming _ST:Voyager_
episodes as part of a slide-show and videotape showing. "Basics, Part 2"
would feature the crew reduced to fighting with sticks & stones, while the
killer from the recent "MindMeld" episode & the holographic doctor save
Voyager. Braga promises there will be no more Kazons after this episode.
There will however be a Ferengi episode in the future. The show "Sacred
Ground" will feature Janeway on a great Quest. It will be plotted similarly
to the film "A Man Called Horse", and sounds like it should be full of spirit
guides & suchlike.

Bragga revealed the BIG new episode was plotted to be the Star Trek 30th
Anniversary tribute. Vulcan Tuvok served on Capt. Sulu's ship, and Janeway
experiences it through some means. Both George Takei and Grace Lee Whitney
were revealed to be in the episode.

Mr. Braga also discussed the use of the Paramount Star Trek script submission
hotline.

JUNE 96 HARRY PROGRAM: Dr. Sam Vasbinder visited the meeting.
Dr. Vasbinder was the curator of the awesome and artistically successful
Pavilions Of Wonder art show.

He related Joe DeVito's reaction to his review in the Beacon Journal.
"Artists visualize the worlds writers present to us."
But what if it's not the way I imagined it?
He discusses Whelan from his older stuff up thru Passages.
Whelan's Wave:Malthus needs to be hung a little higher. The wave is like
something from the past.
Artists produce textures, the feel of cloth, the feel of ALIEN objects.
Mattingly does pure invention of forms that have not existed before.

JULY 96 HARRY PROGRAM: R. M. Meluch visited the meeting.
Ms. Meluch is the author of _Sovereign_, _Wind Dancers_, _Wind Child_,
_Jerusalem Fire_, _War Birds_, _Chicago Red,_ and _The Queen's Squadron_. She
is a frequent panel participant (antagonist?) at area SF conventions and is
well-known to many of Harry's members.

Meluch spoke on the topic, "What is SF today?". Most SF today, she suggested,
is to boldly go where everybody and his dog went before. It is a day of
multi-volume serials.

SF should be conceiving of new technologies. On TV, the weapons sights on SF
series need improvement, they're no better than the ones used in _Combat_ or
_Rat Patrol_.

Leaps in communication can be predicted. We have affordable "Star Trek"
communicators now, what will the future bring? The world is shrinking, but
space has not. Instellar distances still seem insurmountable. This makes for
a scientific challenge when writing SF. Meluch designed special space
combat strategies to use when FTL sonar-like tracking devices could "ping"
enemy ships. SF can help one release aggression. Instead, today's SF often
panders to the paranoiac. For example, Michael Crichton is a whore.

As to the future of politics, the balance of freedoms will become an
increasingly important issue. Meluch quoted John Adams on democracy. She
read from one of her works about a race that had 11 fingers, and so saw
equality in a greatly differnt light than Terrans. While SF stirs you up,
modern literary fiction puts you back in the box and tells you to calm down.
Attendance = 14.

July 13th - Harry's Summer Frolic at Sandi's.
July 14th - LAST DAY for PAVILIONS OF WONDER.

AUGUST 96 HARRY PROGRAM: Discussion, Summer TV & Movies.
After several months of guest speakers, we had a lot to talk about.
Independence Day was the top box office movie ever. Babylon 5 had a dynamite
2-part episode, "War Without End". We weren't to see any new Babylon 5
episodes until October, so let's enjoy the reruns! Fox ran the new Dr. Who
episode/pilot, which featured the Doctor smooching some rather unbelievable
heart surgeon. Odo lost his morph powers, at least for the summer hiatus.
And so it goes...

AUG 29-SEP 2 WorldCon/L.A.Con 3, Anaheim, CA

SEPTEMBER 6-8 HOPE CON 96, the Klingon Assault Group International Convention,
at the Newmarket Hilton in downtown Canton, Ohio. Tony Todd (Kurn) is GOH.
The _IKV Night Terror_ was the force behind this one, and Harry wished the
ship & her crew the best of luck with the con.

SEPTEMBER 96 HARRY PROGRAM: J.R.R. Tolkien's unpublished final chapter of
The Lord Of the Rings. This appears in Sauron Defeated, Vol IX of the History
Of Middle-Earth, Chapter XI, The Epilogue.
Sam Gamgee and his children discuss the events of the Great War, and prepare
for a visit from the King. Also discussed Trek, Sheffield, Asimov.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1996 - PARTY! STAR TREK 30th ANNIVERSARY.
Started at 1:00 PM, the annual Harry Star Trek Anniversary Party was at Mary +
Doug's house. This was a punch & munchies party, not a full meal party.

OCTOBER 4-6 CONTEXT, Harley (by the Continent), Columbus

OCTOBER 96 HARRY PROGRAM: _Guilty Pleasures_ by Laurell K. Hamilton.

OCT 25-27, OVFF - OHIO VALLEY FILK FEST.

NOVEMBER 96 HARRY PROGRAM: _The Diamond Age_ by Neal Stephenson.

DECEMBER 96 HARRY PROGRAM: _ST:TNG_FIRST CONTACT_ (film) discussed. Also
discussed: the publication of _FERMAN'S DEVILS_, part 1 of Pembroke Hall
by Joe Clifford Faust.

HARRY MEETINGS FOR 1997

JANUARY MEETING: _On Basilisk Station_, an Honor Harrington series novel,
by David Weber. This novel was well received! A lot of great action and
interesting plot and characterization.

HARRY ANNIVERSARY PARTY - Held January 26 at Don Pancho's.

FEBRUARY MEETING: _Ferman's Devils_ by Joe Clifford Faust. This was very
well liked by EVERYBODY at Harry. Not everyone raved, but many did. Scott
passed along that it had MADE a weekend for him. He thought it was the
funniest thing he ever read. We discussed a very bad review of the novel
from the P.A.R.S.E.C. fanzine, and decided that reviewer just had no sense
of humor at all. We read some of our favorite commercial scripts out loud
to each other. It was discussed that a lot of the pleasures of the novel
were the same sort one gets from reading Dilbert, like a chance to laugh at
the types one finds in an office that you have to work with on a normal
day. Scott especially mentioned that several types were a perfect match
for characters and policies at his office. It was well remarked how
interesting it was to read a book when parts of it had been enacted for us
at the May '96 meeting. (10 in attendance)

Feb 14, 1997: Star Wars:A New Hope re-released, the 2 sequels followed.

MARCH MEETING: The Worst Science Fiction novel you ever read. 10 att.
We always talk about pretty good SF novels as topics of discussion. For
contrast, the topic of discussion was the WORST. Think science fiction, not
fantasy. Think really BAD. We came ready to talk about why it was bad.
TOWER OF ZANID, DeCamp
BORED OF THE RINGS, Lampoon
TEK, Shatner
Some novel about space yacht racing
NOVA, Delaney
3rd GOR novel and on, Norman
NUMBER OF THE BEAST, Heinlein
CHICAGO RED, Meluch
"Bosom Heavers"
SPACE CAPTIVES OF THE GOLDEN MEN
LORD FOUL'S BANE, Donaldson
PROSTHOS PLUS, Anthony
DUPLICATED MAN, Blish
JOSHUA, SON OF NONE, Nancy Freedman
THE SUNBIRD, Wilbur Smith
Some book by Walinsky

APRIL MEETING:The book for March was the original script of Star
Trek's _City On the Edge Of Forever_ by Harlan Ellison. This was out in
the stores & was available from SF Book Club too. Ellison always spoke out
against the treatment of his script by Trek's producers, this book is
purported to show us what it was he's been grousing about.

Harry's Rites Of Spring Party

MAY MEETING: Forgotten classics. Steven mentioned _Seeds of Change_ by
Thomas Monteleone. Lightner's Galactic Troubadors. Laser Books'
Crash Landing. On Iduna. Farley's THE ISLAND STALLION RACES. FLATLAND.
Anthony's BIO OF A SPACE TYRANT. Somebody cloned Kennedy.

24MAY _ RITES OF SPRING at Howard and Jeanne's.

JUNE MEETING: Discussion, series, the Discworld books, by Terry Pratchett.

JULY MEETING: _Green Mars_ by Kim Stanley Robinson. It was
compared to Ayn Rand for amount of political and economic dialog. Roberta
& others mentioned that you got to know Mars real well. It was described
as like RAH's _Moon Is a Harsh Mistress_, in that _Green Mars_ did for Mars
what the Heinlein novel did for Luna. A.C. Clarke's _The Sands Of Mars_
was cited for terraforming similarities.
ALSO DISCUSSED: The flicks _Men In Black__ (thumbs up) and _Contact_ (mixed
reviews).

AUGUST 1 - Harry's Summer Frolic Party at Sandi's.

AUGUST MEETING: Mars, any novel about Mars. Only 4 attending.
A general discussion meeting.

AUG 28-SEP 1, 1997 WorldCon/LoneStarCon 2, San Antonio, TX.

SEPTEMBER MEETING: Any STAR WARS novel. Star TREK novels are BETTER than
Star WARS novels. Norma reads them to find out what happened to the
characters. Sandi says Lucas' restrictions tie the authors down too far.
Roberta complains that things in Solo's life change but Solo doesn't.

OCTOBER MEETING: Anne Rice's _Memnoch The Devil_.

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 1ST - Harry Halloween Party at M+D's.

Oct 31-Nov 2: OVFF - Ohio Valley Filk Fest, Columbus.

NOVEMBER MEETING: Hugo Award Winning "Bicycle Repairman" by Bruce Sterling.

DECEMBER MEETING:Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein vs. Starship Troopers, 
the new film.

HARRY MEETINGS FOR 1998....

• Harry Holidays Party.... combined with....
• Babylon 5 Prequel & Pilot Night - January 4th, M+D's. The Holiday and Babylon 5 Party started at 7:00 PM! This was a snack & pop kind of party. The new B5 prequel, "IN THE BEGINNING" aired at 8:00 PM on TNT.
• JANUARY MEETING: The Postman, the Kevin Costner movie Vs. The Postman, the David Brin novel.
• Jan. 24th, 1998 - Harry Anniversary Party Our anniversary is traditionally celebrated at a different local restaurant every year. This year 13 members celebrated Harry's 21st anniversary at Hartville Kitchen.
• FEBRUARY MEETING: The Golden Key, a novel by Melanie Rawn, Jennifer Roberson, and Kate Elliott. This is a BIG novel, 889 pages, so plan a little time ... this one may carry over into March.
• Harry's First WINTER BLAST!
  DATE: Saturday, February 28th
  PLACE: Howard & Jeanne's
• MARCH MEETING: The "Funniest" Science Fiction or Fantasy work you've ever read.
• APRIL MEETING: Any of the novels in the Pandora sequence by Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom - DESTINATION:VOID, THE JESUS INCIDENT, THE LAZARUS EFFECT, THE ASCENSION FACTOR.
• Harry Rites of Spring Party
• Marcon was May 1-3 in Columbus.
• MAY MEETING: ST. LEIBOWITZ AND THE WILD HORSE WOMAN by Walter M. Miller Jr. and Terry Bisson (the sequel to A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ).
• JUNE MEETING: TRAVELING WITH THE DEAD by Barbara Hambly (the sequel to THOSE WHO HUNT THE NIGHT).
• JULY MEETING: BLUE MARS, by Kim Stanley Robinson.
• HARRY'S SUMMER FROLIC was 25JUL98 at Sandi's. 15 att.
• AUG 5-10, 1998 WORLDCON/BUCCONEER: Baltimore Link here.
• AUGUST MEETING: Starship Titanic, the novel by Douglas Adams and Tony Jones.
• SEPTEMBER 5-7, 1998 ConFluence is Labor Day Weekend! Link here.
• SEPTEMBER MEETING: The Year In Film and Television.
• Sat.September 26th - Harry's Annual Star Trek Anniversary Party! @ M+D's house.
• OCT 9th-11th: OVFF / Ohio Valley Filk Fest! Wyndham Dublin Hotel, in NW Columbus Area. Black Book Band.
• OCTOBER MEETING: "We Will Drink A Fish Together..." by Bill Johnson.
• OCT 31st - HARRY HALLOWEEN PARTY - at Howard and Jeanne's.
• NOVEMBER MEETING: Inhuman Beings by Jerry Jay Carroll.
• DECEMBER MEETING: BABYLON 5 - the series and the final episode.
• Sunday December 27th, 1:30PM - HARRY YULE PARTY at M+D's! M+D served Sandy's Sandwiches (Hot Ham and Swiss).

HARRY PARTIED LIKE IT WAS 1999...

• JANUARY MEETING:The film Star Trek: Insurrection.
• January 24th - 2 PM - Harry's 21st Anniversary Brunch, Country Kitchen.
• FEBRUARY MEETING: The novel Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman.
• MARCH MEETING: The novel Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm.
• March 19-21 - Millenicon Minus 2,Cincinnati. M+D attended and met several First Fandom members.
• APRIL MEETING: Topic: Non-SF books by primarily SF authors.
• MAY 7-8-9 MARCON, the Midwestern regional at The Hyatt, Columbus Ohio.
• MAY MEETING: Nebula-award winning novel THE MOON AND THE SUN by Vonda McIntyre. This book may be straight-up SF, may be alternate history, may be fantasy, may be a historical.
• The Rites of Spring at the Storms' in late May. HOT TUB!!!
• May 19th: STAR WARS EPISODE 1 RELEASED
• JUNE MEETING: Had to be Star Wars!
• JULY MEETING: The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell.
• Harry's Summer Frolic! Saturday, July 31st, 7 PM, at Sandi Lang's.
• AUGUST MEETING: The Matter Of Britain was the discussion topic. Anything related to King Arthur and the Knights of The Round Table was on-topic.
• Star Trek Anniversary Party! Saturday Sept 11th at 6-ish - at Howard and Jeanne's place.
• SEPTEMBER MEETING: Vacuum Diagrams by Stephen Baxter.
• OCT 8-10: CONTEXT, a reader-oriented con in Columbus. M+D went, and had a great time with R.M. Meluch, Maureen McHugh, and GOH Robert J. Sawyer. Their room at the non-con hotel kept catching on fire however, and they left early.
• OCTOBER MEETING: Camp Concentration by Thomas Disch.
• OCT 29-31: Ohio Valley Filk Fest, Columbus
• NOVEMBER MEETING: To Say Nothing Of The Dog, by Connie Willis. This year's Hugo-winning novel.
• HARRY HOLIDAYS PARTY, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18th, 6-ISH PM at Tim and Helena's.
• DECEMBER MEETING: "Cosmic Corkscrew" by Michael A. Burstein.

HARRY MEETINGS FOR THE YEAR 2000... SO FAR....

• JANUARY MEETING: The Stephen King novel from LEGENDS by Robert Silverberg, published by Tor. This short Novel is named The Little Sisters of Euleria.
• Harry Anniversary dinner was held at the Fighter Group and Bomber Squadron on Sunday, Jan.23.
• FEBRUARY 21st MEETING:HELD AT THE NORTH BRANCH LIBRARY.
  TOPIC FOR DICUSSION:Recent SF films, Bicentennial Man, and Galaxy Quest.
• MARCH 20th MEETING: HELD AT THE DOWNTOWN LIBRARY BOARDROOM.
  TOPIC FOR DICUSSION: Boddekker's Demons, by Joe Clifford Faust. Joe is a fine author of several science fiction novels. Link here. This novel was published as the sequel to Ferman's Devils. It is available in the Science Fiction Book Club's omnibus edition, Handling It: How I Got Rich and Famous, Made Media Stars Out Of Common Street Scum and Almost Got the Girl.
• April 10th, 2000 - RAY BRADBURY WEEK begins in Akron, Ohio.
• April 13, 2000 - Free Ray Bradbury lecture at EJ Thomas Hall in Akron. Doors open at 7PM. Seating is first come, first serve. EJ Thomas Hall is at 330-972-7570.
• APRIL 17th MEETING: TO BE HELD AT THE DOWNTOWN LIBRARY BOARDROOM.
  TOPIC FOR DICUSSION: The short novel, The Seventh Shrine, by Robert Silverberg. This novel appears in the anthology Legends, edited by Robert Silverberg. The novel is set in Silverberg's Majipoor Universe, home of the award-winning novel, Lord Valentine's Castle.
• MAY 15th MEETING: MEETING PLACE TO BE DETERMINED.
  TOPIC FOR DICUSSION:TBD.
• May 26th-28th, 2000 - MARCON in Columbus moves to May. Link here.
• May 26th-28th, 2000 - CostumeCon 18 in Hartford CT.
• JUNE 19th MEETING: MEETING PLACE TO BE DETERMINED.
• June 28th thru July 2, 2000: SFRA (The Science Fiction Research Association Annual Conference) is to be held in Cleveland; Dick Lupoff is GOH.
• INDEPENDENCE DAY - Summer Frolic 2000! A pool party, at 2pm onwards, July 4th, at Hugh and Norma's place. (In case of rain, we'll try again on Saturday the 8th).
• JULY 17th MEETING: LOUISVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY IS THE MEETING PLACE. The topic for discussion is A Deepness In The Sky, a novel by Vernor Vinge. This book is the prequel to A Fire On The Deep. The novel is also a nominee for the Hugo for Best Novel.
• AUGUST 21st MEETING: LOUISVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. The topic was the Hugo-nominated short story "Ancient Engines" by Michael Swanwick. The last regular meeting before Chicon 2000.
• Aug 31st-Sept 4th,2000 - WORLDCON: Chicon 2000 in Chicago. Link here.
• SEPTEMBER MEETING: "The Wood Boy" by Raymond E. Feist. Thumbs Up=0, Thumbs Down=5.
  This story is found in the anthology Legends, edited by Robert Silverberg. "The Wood Boy" is set in Feist's Riftwar Saga world.
• OCTOBER 16th MEETING: LOUISVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. The topic is the Hugo-nominee novel Darwin's Radio, by Greg Bear. This is a fascinating book about genetics, little children, medicine, an auto trip across southern Ohio, Big Science and the fate of the human race. It's a thick fella, so you better be reading it already. (grin)
• HARRY HALLOWEEN party was at M+D's. About 20 people came in costume to eat hot ham and swiss sandwiches, watch the movie Gattaca, get their tarot read by Sandi, and otherwise commingle.
• NOVEMBER 20th MEETING: LOUISVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. Harry discussed Echoes In Time, by Andre Norton and Sherwood Smith. Echoes In Time is the 1999 novel in Norton's "Ross Murdock (Time War)" series. The novels of the "Time Trader" series are The Time Traders, Galactic Derelict, The Defiant Agents, Key Out Of Time, Firehand, and Echoes In Time.
• HARRY HOLIDAYS party was Dec 2nd 2000 at Howard and Jeanne's. A nice group of members sat and shot the breeze over various topics late into the night. A great party!
• DECEMBER 18th 2000: PERRY BRANCH (STARK COUNTY DIST LIBRARY). The Harry Time Capsule was opened at this meeting! Some years ago, Mike Rembert convinced us all to write a fanzine, with each contribution being a prediction of life in the new millenium. As the millenial year came to a close, we at last read the zine, and celebrated the beginning of the 21st century. For more details, see the January 2001 entry below.