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As Stan Lee would say, welcome true believers and new-comers alike! Welcome to the Sci-Fi Society (or SFS for short)! A club dedicated to sharing and celebrating anything and everything sci-fi!

MONTHLY NEWS

First off, gotta’ give a big shoutout to all our new members who joined up this past October (you know who you are ), as well as all the awesome artwork we’ve received from you guys! We’ve gotten a lot of submissions every day, so we apologize in advance if it takes a while for us to upload your work. But no worries, we’re uploading new stuff every day.

And secondly, we must reiterate; PLEASE, do NOT fave anything here at the club! Follow the links in the comments to the original pieces and fave them there so the actual artist gets the credit!

And now, onto our themes and recommendations section for the month of November!

This month's theme: Thanksgiving

Trade out your space helmets for pilgrim hats and Indian feathers; it’s Turkey Day! Let’s see our favorite characters celebrating the holiday of giving thanks for all that we cherish.

Book recommendation: Anne McCaffrey’s “The Dragonriders of Pern”

McCaffrey's most famous works are the Dragonriders of Pern series. These are set on a planet known as Pern (an acronym for "Parallels Earth, Resources Negligible"), settled by colonists from Earth. The technology has been lost and the people have reverted to a society similar to Earth's medieval times; but have also produced genetically engineered dragons. These dragons are flown by elite "dragonriders" who communicate telepathically with their dragons, and defend Pern against pernicious "threads" which cross space periodically from a nearby Oort Cloud and threaten to destroy all vegetation on Pern. The short story "Weyr Search" (published in 1967 in Analog Science Fiction and Fact), the initial story in the Dragonriders of Pern series, won a Hugo Award for Best Novella. McCaffrey thus became the first woman to win a Hugo for fiction. Well done, Anne!

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Recent TV show recommendation: Dead Like Me/Heroes

We have a double feature this time. First up is Dead Like Me; a comedy-drama about grim reapers who "live" and work in Seattle, Washington. Eighteen-year-old Georgia "George" Lass is the show's protagonist and narrator. George dies early in the pilot episode and becomes one of the "undead," a grim reaper. George soon learns that a Reaper's job is to remove the souls of people, preferably right before they die, and escort them until they move on into their afterlife. The show explores the "lives" and experiences of a small team of such Reapers, as well as the post-mortem changes in George and her family.

And now, a series that needs no introduction, Heroes is a science fiction drama series, which tells the stories of ordinary people who discover superhuman abilities, and how these abilities take effect in the characters' lives. The series emulates the style and storytelling of American comic books, using short, multi-episode story arcs that build upon a larger, more encompassing arc. The critically acclaimed first season's run garnered the highest rating for any NBC drama premiere in five years. A digital-internet extension of the series, Heroes 360 Experience, later rebranded as Heroes Evolutions, was created to explore the Heroes universe and provides insight into the show's mythology. Other official Heroes media include magazines, action figures, tie-in and interactive websites, a mobile game, a novel, clothing and other merchandise. It’s hard to believe that all that started with the tagline, “Save the cheerleader, save the world.”

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Classic TV show recommendation: Star Trek

What HASN’T been said about this show? Although, every so often, you DO find someone who hasn’t given the franchise much of a look, so if there’s ANYthing to show a potential fan, it’s the show that started it all. Plus, we’ve gotten a lot of Trek-art lately, so it seemed appropriate. Thank you Gene Roddenberry, for creating, what’s arguably, the biggest (but still positive) beast that can’t be fed. Live long and prosper!

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Recent movie recommendation: Monsters vs. Aliens

Now out on DVD, in a send off of all things sci-fi; particularly B-movies from the 1950s, Monsters vs. Aliens tells the story of a woman named Susan, who is hit by a meteorite on the day of her wedding, absorbing a substance called quantonium and growing into a giantess. Alerted to the meteorite crash, the military arrive and capture Susan. She’s labeled a monster, renamed "Ginormica" by the government, and sent to a top-secret prison facility headed by General W.R. Monger and containing other monsters: B.O.B., a brainless, indestructible gelatinous blob; Dr. Cockroach, a mad scientist with the head and abilities of a cockroach; the Missing Link, an amphibious fish-ape hybrid; and Insectosaurus, a colossal grub that is even larger than Susan. The monsters are forbidden to have any contact with the outside world; while the other monsters have been living contentedly with this lifestyle for the past 50 years, Susan feels incredibly isolated and wishes to return to her old life. But when an alien named Gallaxhar threatens to destroy the world, General Monger convinces the President to use the monsters to fight the aliens instead. The monsters accept the mission with the promise of freedom if they succeed. No matter what type of sci-fi fan you are, there’s something in this movie for you; a definate must see.

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Classic movie recommendation: Forbidden Planet

What’s highly regarded as the best sci-fi movie of all time, as well as Gene Roddenberry’s main inspiration for Star Trek, Forbidden Planet is about a crew of space explorers who are sent to the planet Altair IV to investigate the disappearance of a colony expedition sent 20 years earlier. There, they meet the colony’s only survivors, Dr. Edward Morbius and his daughter Altaira (along with their robot servant, Robby the Robot). Soon enough, the crew is in a fight for their lives as they battle the mysterious “Monster from the ID”, and uncover the mysterious and deadly secrets of the lost civilization of the Krell. For sci-fi lovers and enthusiasts, this is one movie that has to be seen, if anything, for the mark it made on sci-fi forever (as well as Robby being the first robot to get star billing in a movie). See it now!

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Got suggestions for any of the above topics? Or do you have some news to share? Let us know!

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CONTESTS

Okay everyone! Our costume contest is now over. A big thank you to everyone who entered! It’s now time to start the judging! You get one vote, so make it count! Use either the journal comments or notes to cast your vote!

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The Prize--> The winner will get a requested gift art from one of our moderators.

Due Date--> Judging will end at the end of the month.

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