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AMAFSR Newsletter for May, 2006-Star Wars Special Edition
Our Featured Member's Of The Month
This month, we honor and celebrate the Star Wars phenomenon! This is a webpage honoring all our Esteemed Members who have Star Wars sites. May the Force be with you...and all of us! URL: amafsriii.bravehost.com/AMAFSRSWMembers2006.html
The Hutt's Den : this is a site just for the scum of Star Wars! its got Jabba, Boba -- all of em! you can win awards -- all the good stuff! if you're a scum fan, this is the place for you! URL: thehutsden.piczo.com/?cr=4&rfm=y
Editorials, Opinions and Special Interest Articles
Gmail Verses Any Other Email by Amy Lynn
I am left wondering why people who have a gmail account continue to send me invites when my signature shows I have one for Google Talk as well as the fact that I own my own domain. Why would I want to use a free account if I have a real account? I realize people are just trying to be nice but once again it shows how very few actually read.
If you haven't ever used a Gmail account don't worry you aren't missing anything, after all its beta. I don't even use mine and I get just as much spam in it as I do my unused Hotmail accounts. It's plain, and somewhat hard to understand as it's not made like any other free email account. Not that I have really logged into a webpage for email in the past five years to really know. But I guess that's because it's beta. As much as Google is making and the rate their stock is raising, you'd think they'd pay the beta testers like every other company out there that does. Maybe when and if it takes that step is when I will 'test' it myself. Till then I wish those limited number of invites gmail users get to pass out were a little more limited.
Don't get me wrong, I do tend to agree if it's Google it's gotta be good. But I've seen too many scam sites now popping up for all sorts of things using Google's name and I know they aren't Google.
AmyLynn is a regular contributor to this Newsletter. Would you like to see your opinion in print, or do you have an activity or an event sponsored by your website? Your information could be in the next Admiral Mudd and Friends Site Ring Newsletter. To read more interesting articles, go to groups.msn.com/Annikas/
Captain k'alaa's Corner
Our Science Fiction Fan Interview Project
As many of our readers may know, when I write an article I always ask questions of the readers. This project is an attempt to get as many answers as possible from as wide a range of science fiction fans as possible, to get results that will not only help our newsletter in the future, but will also help other scifi fans who wish to set up their own communities. This is all done on a not-for-profit basis, unlike other so-called "online research" companies, who are looking for information to tweak their money-making ability in advertising.
When we complete this research, we will freely and openly share all information with anyone who wishes to see it. If you or your group would like to be a part of this Project, please copy and paste the following questions into an email, answer them, and email them to kinda@msn.com, using as the subject heading Science Fiction Fan Interview Project. Also, let us know where you read this article.
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Interview Questions
Name you wish to be known as online?
Town and Country?
Kind of fandom you represent?
Your favorite activities as a fan?
Did your fandom influence your career or what you wish to become? Yes or no?
What would you most like to see on television, in the movies, on video/computer games, or in books that best represents your favorite science fiction story?
Male or female?
How old were you when you began to watch or read your favorite science fiction?
Do you believe that science fiction on television or in the movies is too juvenile, or has too many adult themes?
How many hours each week do you devote to science fiction?
If you were in charge of all television programming, would there be more or less science fiction per week than there is now?
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A Word From The Founder
What future has Star Wars?
Now the movie saga is complete, what future have we to look forward to in Star Wars?
Well, of course we have the continuing novels, the new animated series, and more recently, we have a "supposed" live action television series to come (in the next two to three years). But apart from some of the books, these other segments of Star Wars deal with the past, and the untold adventures between the movies. Is this enough for most fans?
The only novel that is considered "canonical" by George Lucas deals with the death of Chewbacca. How many of us would like to see the storylines of our SW heroes continue through more movies?
Obviously, the classic actors are getting a bit too far gone to play their original roles convincingly, but does that leave us only to continue the stories of the "new" films, or to start a completely new storyline in the Star Wars universe? What about their offspring? Some of the books deal with these characters, but can these stories go on to be made into interesting movies?
We would like to read your opinions on Star Wars and its future. Do you have an opinion you want others to read? We welcome your comments. Please email them to kinda@msn.com, with the subject heading "What Future Has Star Wars?", and please include in your email where you read this article. Your comments could be in the next Admiral Mudd and Friends Site Ring Newsletter.
Member's Announcements
Lwaxanna (aka SysOp, our Sylvia Frier) Passed Away
It is with great sadness that we wish to announce the passing of Sylvia Frier, long-time Star Trek fan, and one of the main moderators at the old StarTrek.com PDE chat forums. She was the driving force behind the chat, and encouraged many online fans to meet, communicate, and learn positive ways to be a fan. Her wonderful presence will be sorely missed by all of us. We Lounge Lizards salute you! (To read her Tribute thread, please go to: p220.ezboard.com/floungelizardsiifrm2.showMessage?topicID=943.topic . To read what has been said at the StarTrek.com message forums, please go here: boards.startrek.com/community/messages.html?s=4779135ab4d165ada8dea84e801c27df;act=ST;f=13;t=33252015
This month, at The Action Figure Theatre :
DOCTOR WHO
The much promised meeting between the 9th Doctor, Rose and the Cybermen begins on the AFT this month! TIN SOLDIERS sees the Doctor and Rose aboard a crashed Cyberman ship where things are not what they might appear...
STAR WARS
Our ongoing adventure THE INSIDIOUS THREAT hots up this month as the Jedi take on the hidden Separatist ship.
PLUS!
TORCHWOOD
A new bi-monthly series starring the popular AFT character Thadius Torchwood. Long before the BBC talked about spinoffs and anagrams of Doctor Who, our intrepid Victorian explorer was travelling time and space. And now he gets his own series. Part One: Return To The Grave is online now!
What fun! Three great stories and more to come! Check it out at: www.actionfiguretheatre.co.uk/
May Group Read at Science Fiction
Join us this May at Science Fiction as we mourn the passing of the great Polish author Stanislaw Lem by reading his most well known novel Solaris.
As our last group read in March 2006 inadvertantly turned into a memorial when the author we had chosen months before, Octavia Butler, was suddenly killed in a freak accident, we debated whether to make this next group read yet another memorial. In the end, we decided that there is no more fitting way to give an artist the little bit of immortality they crave than to experience their art after they have left us, and in addition, this was a book many of us had been meaning to read for many year as it is. Hopefully our July book will feature an author who is still among us, but for this month this seemed entirely appropriate.
To join in the group read, you need merely pick up a copy of Solaris and read it in May, posting about it in the Stanislaw Lem topic in our p090.ezboard.com/fsciencefictionfrm2]Books and Authors forum. Some of us will also watch either or both of the movie adaptations of the book and discuss those as well, but this is just another possible option, not required to do the group read. We hope you join us!
The Spam Continuum is well on its way to being one of the message boards with the largest number of links to other sites, EVER! This month, TSC has added a new forum, called In Memory... a place to remember well-loved actors and public figures who have passed on to the great Beyond. If you have any news regarding the recent demise of a celebrity, please send us the information and a confirmation news story (or link to one), to kinda@msn.com. Please include the name of the site or the link where you read this article.
The Doctor Who Group continues to grow. We have added a large selection of games, puzzles and fun facts! Whether you've hid behind the sofa with the first Doctor or if The Christmas Invasion was your first glimpse of Who, our group has something for you. Why not take a look? URL: groups.msn.com/TheDoctorWhoGroup.
   
Supreme Chancellor: [to the Senate] In order to ensure our security and continuing stability, the Republic will be reorganized into the first Galactic Empire, for a safe and secure society which I assure you will last for ten thousand years.
[Senate fills with enormous applause]
Senator Amidala: [to Bail Organa] So this is how liberty dies - with thunderous applause. -- Ian McDiarmid, Natalie Portman and Jimmy Smits, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
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