Aust SF Bullsheet 171 (Long)
Marc Ortlieb
A posticous newszine produced for the Australian National Science
Fiction Association by Marc Ortlieb, P.O. Box 215, Forest Hill,
Vict, 3131, AUSTRALIA (e-mail: mort...@vicnet.net.au).
Postal subscriptions $6-00 for ten.(Cheques made out to Marc
Ortlieb please. Stamps accepted). Available for items of gossip.
E-mailed direct, a once off $10 fee. Free copy from aus.sf on
Internet or at http://www.vicnet.net.au/~sfoz/bullsheet.htm
ISSN 1445-4319 (for print version)
ISSN 1445-4327 (for online version)
APOLOGY
My apologies to Grant Watson for any bad feeling caused by my
printing of the Rogers Street Door Letter in the previous issue
of the Bullsheet. It seemed funny at the time and I didn't stop
to think through the consequences of printing it.
IN PRINT
Murray MacLachlan notes "Sara Douglass has a short story
in the Australian Women's Weekly June 2001. "St Uncumber" is a
routine fantasy story set in medieval London, where a religious
icon assists downtrodden women. The accompanying "About the
Author" sidebar lists one of my favourite author occupations,
"playing the stock market.""
Simon Haynes notes on the Eidolist "I'm printing a short run of
Hal Spacejock as a perfect-bound paperback. It'll be about
275pp. I've put an order form on my page at
http://www.spacejock.com. I'm still chasing up a firm quote from
overseas, but since it would involve a print run of at least 2000
books I've decided to test the waters first."
SMALL PRESS ALLIANCE
Robbie Matthews writes "I am proposing starting up Camrin
Press, a company for these purposes: We would take and store
copies of your books, put out a regular newsletter/catalogue to
the various bookshops around the place, arrange for on-line
ordering and probably even manage the annoying problems of GST &
ABN no's for those who are not set up to handle it themselves. We
would charge a flat 10% of RRP + freight costs for the privilege.
Is anyone interested in doing business on that basis? I have to
say that our actual distribution network will be very small at
first, notably the specialist bookshops, but we would hope to
expand it once we get properly on our feet. Having a fair-sized
catalogue should assist with the actual marketing effort as well"
BULLSHEET MEDIA WATCH
Lucy Sussex notes "I've been syndicated - the Covernotes column
which I write for the Sunday Age with Mike Shuttleworth has been
picked up by the West Australian. They basically run as many of
our 9 short reviews a week as they want or have space for." Colin
Steele has further reviews in The Canberra Times 22/4/2001 and
26/5/2001, including a review of the Canberra Speculative Fiction
Guild's Nor of Human. Who Weekly 25/6/2001 has a two page
article on Cecilia Dart-Thornton and her The Ill-Made Mute.
I received the following message "My name is Jane Rickards. I am
a writer for the Age. I'm keen to talk to Melburnians who are
Tolkien fans and also very excited about the Lord of the Rings
film coming out. I want to know what kind of websites they get on
to on the internet, what they expect from the film and so on. It
would be great if you know anyone who could help me or who is
really excited about the film. Or if you know of any specific fan
clubs in Melbourne for Lord of the Rings. My mobile number is
0402 420 594."
FAN FUNDS
Irwin Hirsh passes on the following note from Jean Weber "I've
posted several sections of the first draft (or second draft, but
definitely not final) GUFF report on Eric's website, starting at
http://psiphi.server101.com/guff/trip1.htm"
PERIPATETIC FANS
David Russell notes that Les Robertson was released from
prison on May 22nd and is back with his parents in Moe. Les can
be contacted at 12 Coalville Rd Moe 3825.
ANTIFAN FILMS
Mark Loney reports " ScreenSound Australia have let me
know that they expect the video copies of the AntiFan films to be
available in the first half of July.
With the help of Jack Herman and Yvonne Rousseau (who
produced the Foyster Festschrift Timeline), I have also come up
with the following information about production dates for the
AntiFan films. As you will note , we have a much better fix on
the eighties AntiFan than the seventies AntiFan.
The first Anti-Fan film was made to promote the Australia in 1975
bid for the World Science Fiction Convention (the actual
convention in 1975 was called Aussiecon). In the seventies,
Worldcon locations were voted for two years in advance of the
convention. So the first film could not have been made any later
than August 1973 (when the site selection vote was held). The
bid was not officially launched until January 1971 so the window
for production for the first AntiFan film is sometime in
1971-1973. (Irwin Hirsh added that, according to Lesleigh
Luttrell's DUFF report, the film was premiered at Syncon in
1972.)
The second Anti-Fan film was made to promote a bid for a
Worldcon in Australia in 1983. That bid was unsuccessful but a
later bid for 1985 was successful (the actual convention in 1985
was called Aussiecon Two). Again, at that time, Worldcon
locations were selected two years in advance. The film was made
in and around Sydney in early to mid 1980. The planning was done
at the 1980 Melbourne Eastercon, the filming in May or June and
the film was shown at the Syncon, in August 1980."
UPCOMING CONVENTIONS
BOBW XII EARTH:FINAL CONFLICT
July 20-22 2001 The Southern Cross Hotel, corner Goulburn &
Elizabeth Streets Sydney Guests: Leni Parker, Anita La Silva
Richard Chevolleau Eugene Roddenberry Jr. Convention Day 1 $99.00
Convention Day 2 $99.00 More Information: http://www.bobw.com.au
Email: a...@nlc.net.au (02) 9453 0290
MANIFEST 2001
August 11-12 2001 Old Arts Building Melbourne University 10:00am
to 9:00pm each day Contact mani...@metva.com.au P.O. Box 14191
Melbourne 8001
THE MILLENNIUM PHILCON
The 59th World Science Fiction Convention August 30 to September
3, 2001 The Pennsylvania Convention Center & Philadelphia
Marriott Hotel GsoH Greg Bear, Stephen Youll, Gardner Dozois,
George Scithers Toastmaster: Esther Friesner. Attending $170
Supporting $US40 Millennium Philcon Post Office Box 310
Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006-0310 U.S.A. phil...@unix3.netaxs.com
http://www.milphil.org
ARMAGEDDON PULP CULTURE EXPO
September 15-16 The Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington New Zealand
Guests include Richard Biggs, Marjean Holden, Gigi Edgley, Wayne
Pygram, Sean Schemmel, John Romita Jr, Richard Arnold. entry
only $10nzd www.pulpexpo.com
CONQUEST
September 21-23 Quest Hotel Brisbane GsoH Richard Hatch & Richard
Biggs $200 GPO Box 1376 Brisbane Qld 4001 wr...@bigpond.net.au
BORDERLANDS: THE WORLD WITHIN
November 24-25 2001 Emerald Hotel, Mount Street, Perth GsoH Chris
Lawson, Jeremy Byrne and Tess Williams Memberships: $55, $45 conc
Contact sox...@central.murdoch.edu.au
WRITE (C)ON
January 18-20 2002. Guest speakers: tba Proposed venue: Barker
Lodge Motel, Barker St, Kensington (N.S.W.) Membership: $20
e.ha...@unsw.edu.au 12 Flinders St, Matraville, NSW. 2036
COSTUME CON 20
February 15-18 2002 Melbourne LaTrobe University $A130 Jan 1st
2001 - Dec 31st 2001 $160 Jan 1st 2002 - Feb 15th 2002 $A50 Daily
Admission The Australian Costumers' Guild PO Box 322 Bentleigh
Vic 3204 stil...@netspace.net.au
http://www.vicnet.net.au/~costume/
SWANCON 2002
March 28 - April 1 2002 The Kings Perth Hotel Fan GoH John
McDouall others tba $80 until June 30 2001. $110 thereafter. P.O.
Box G429 Perth WA 6841 20...@sf.org.au http://www.swancon.com
AUCKLAND ARMAGEDDON PULP CULTURE EXPO
April 12 -14 2002 Aotea Centre www.pulpexpo.com
CON WITH THE WIND 2002 New Zealand NatCon
May 31 to June 3 West Plaza Hotel Wellington GsoH Joe and Gay
Haldeman Dan Hennah Lucy Sussex Yvonne Harrison Alan Robson CON
With The Wind PO Box 11-559 Manners St Wellington Attending $80
Supporting $30 Wellington. enqu...@con-with-the-wind.sf.org.nz
http://con-with-the-wind.sf.org.nz/
CONVERGENCE
41st Australian National Science Fiction Convention June 7 - 10
2002 GsoH Joe Haldeman, Sean Williams Lucy Sussex, Gay
Haldeman and Race Mathews Toastmaster Jack Dann Cato Conference
Centre Melbourne. Full Membership until June 2001 $130. Student
(13-16 years) $80. Child (5-12) $25. Supporting $25. GPO Box
1212k Melbourne Vic 3001 Web:-
http://www.vicnet.net.au/~converge/ email:-
contact-c...@egroups.com.
RELAXA CON
14-17 June 2002, Whitsunday Terraces Resort, Airlie Beach,
Queensland. Run by Eric Lindsay and Jean Weber. For more
information, see http://psiphi.server101.com/relaxa.con/
CON JOSE
The 60th World Science Fiction Convention August 29 to September
2, 2002 San Jos McEnery Convention Centre GsoH Vernor Vinge,
David Cherry, Bjo & John Trimble, Ferdinand Feghoot Toastmaster
Tad Williams. P.O. Box 61363 Sunnyvale CA 94088-1363 U.S.A.
Con...@sfsfc.org http://www.conjose.org/ Attending membership
rate goes up to A$320 on July 10 (Supporting A$60). Australian
agent: Terry Frost, 4/8 Walker St, West Brunswick, VIC 3055.
Cheques payable to "60th World Science Fiction Convention."
EMOTICON 2003 NEW ZEALAND NATCON
Easter Auckland. enqu...@emoticon.sf.org.nz
TORCON III
The 61st World Science Fiction Convention August 28-September 1,
2003 Metro Toronto Convention Centre GsoH George R. R. Martin
Frank Kelly Freas Mike Glyer with Toastmaster: Spider Robinson
and GoHst of Honour:Robert Bloch the spirit of Toronto Worldcons
P.O. Box 3, Station A, Toronto, Ontario Canada M5W 1A2
Supporting Membership $US40; Attending Membership $US115. Email:
in...@torcon3.on.ca Website: http://www.torcon3.on.ca
CONTOUR 2004
May 31 to June 3 2004 Proposed as New Zealand's 25th National
Science Fiction Convention Rotorua, enqu...@contour.sf.org.nz
GoH = Guest of Honour
O.C.P. = Other Commitments Permitting
tba= to be announced.
EVENTS
There is an annual calendar available on the Vicnet SF
web site at http://www.vicnet.net.au/~sfoz/2001cal.htm
CLUB NEWS
Sue Ann Barber notes how far I am behind the times. "Just a quick
note to let you know that Westrek in your WA club list doesn't
exist anymore. They closed down about 2 years ago." Sigh! The
newszine editor is always the last to know...
A.C.T.
CANBERRA SPECULATIVE FICTION GUILD July 18 ACT Writers' Centre
Gorman House, Braddon ACT. les.pe...@detya.gov.au
http://csfg.cumulo-nimbus.com
NEW SOUTH WALES
SYDNEY FUTURIANS June 22 7pm University of Technology, Sydney
Room 1615 http://linus.socs.uts.edu.au/~iwoolf/futurians.html
FRIENDS OF SCIENCE FICTION July 8 10:30am to 7:00pm Lidcombe
Catholic Club, 24 John St Lidcombe P.O Box 797 Fairfield NSW 1860
membe...@fsf.com.au http://www.fsf.com.au
SOUTHERN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY GROUP July 21 Contact
Bradley Row bra...@netspace.net.au Skyforce Sydney July 29
Lidcombe Catholic Workmen's Club, 24 John Street, Lidcombe
(Opposite Lidcombe Railway Station) P.O. Box 427 Northcote Vic
3070 Phone 05 005 53347 (05 055 JEDIS)
QUEENSLAND
CONQUEST July 1 Brisbane City Council GPO Box 1376 Brisbane Qld
4001
SOUTH AUSTRALIA
SFSA July 21 3pm-10pm Adelaide High. Steven Cooke
(don...@chariot.net.au) or P.O. Box 3227 Rundle Mall Adelaide
SA 5000
VICTORIA
MSFC June 22 Communist SF with Joe Szakmary June 29 Mega Trivia
Night July 6 Food Night Casserole and Collectors' Fair #7 8:00
pm St. David's Uniting Church Hall, 74 Melville Road, West
Brunswick P.O. Box 212 World Trade Centre Melbourne 3005
http://www.vicnet.net.au/~msfc/ M_S...@yahoogroups.com
FRIDAY NIGHT MOB June 22 June 29 July 6 6:00-7.30pm. Informal
eating and nattering. Myers Cafeteria Melbourne
ENTERPRISE June 23 2001 Annual Winter Olympics P.O. Box 466
World Trade Centre Melbourne 3005
http://www.vicnet.net.au/~enterprise/ ente...@vicnet.net.au
NOVA MOB July 4 Hoa Pham 13 Frederick St Brunswick
AUSTRALIAN BABYLON 5 FAN CLUB July 28 1:00pm Bowling Day
Chadstone AMF P.O. Box 437 Sunshine Vic 3020 chr...@bigpond.com
or mys...@netstra.com.au http://www.vicnet.net.au/~babylon5/
AUSTREK August 4 2001 Annual Austrek Art Show 2 pm St Mark's
Church Hall Cnr Canterbury & Burke Rds, Camberwell GPO Box
5206AA Melbourne 3001 http://www.vicnet.net.au/~austrek/
aus...@vicnet.net.au
THE AUSTRALIAN COSTUMERS' GUILD August 11 Annual Australian
Costumers' Guild Ball The Centre, Ivanhoe PO Box 322 Bentleigh
Vic 3204 stil...@netspace.net.au
http://www.vicnet.net.au/~costume/
SKYFORCE August 11 1:00 to 5:00pm Charles Pearson Theatre
Education Resource Centre University of Melbourne P.O. Box 427
Northcote Vic 3070 starw...@starwalking.net
http://www.starwalking.net
W.A.
DIRK GENTLY'S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY 19- 23 and 26-30 8.00pm
The Rechabites Hall 224 William Street Northbridge WA$18 Full /
$15 Concession Booking Through BOCS - 08 9484 1133.
THE GAMERS GUILD YALP (yet another lan party). July 15 Midnight
to 6:00pm 122 Shepperton Rd.St. Joachims Hall $2.50 for members,
$5.00 for non.If you want to attend, email me with a subject of
"GooGoL Registration", with your details :
http://www.gamersguild.org.au g...@gamersguild.org.aun
ELECTRONIC STUFF
Edwin Scribner notes that, to send to eastcoastsf group
you have to join at Yahoo! Groups.The group is on Yahoo
http://groups.yahoo.com/mygroups. To learn more about the
eastcoastsf group, please visit
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eastcoastsf. John Foyster writes "
I didn't make it clear enough in my eFNAC email that people
should write to ME for the password to retrieve eFNAC. This
allows me to know who is reading it but more importantly lets me
mail advice about when the next issue has been posted. This
approach has already produced results - Alan Sandercock has been
a furtive reader but has now sent me a long email bringing me up
to date on what he has been doing. So Erika has changed the
password from that you published in BULLSHEET." Bean and Medge
note : "Our trip diary is up:
http://www.senet.com.au/~medge/metrip/mecont.html"
New
Chris Gregory's Homepagery:
http://www.chrisgregory.com
FANZINE NEWS
ne...@lavalink.com.au notes that he(she) has started a
new newsletter "I am hoping to use the newsletter as a means of
communication across Australia and NZ so we all find out about
conventions etc, as well as giving a venue for the authors among
us. No. 2 is almost ready to go, if you would like to receive a
copy drop me a line"
FANZINES
ANZAPA 201 236pp Sue Grigg 11 Ellendale St North Balwyn Vic 3104
AUSTRALIA anz...@hotmail.com http://www.rightword.com.au/anzapa
VANAMONDE 398 to 402 2pp ea John Hertz 236 S. Coronado St No 409
Los Angeles CA 90057 USA
DIVERSE UNIVERSE 8 12pp Geoff & Miriam for Space Out P.O. Box 363
Preston Vic 3072 Australia spaced...@hotmail.com
http://www.vicnet.net.au/~spaceout/
BABBLING ON 21 24pp Karen Scott P.O. Box 437 Sunshine Vic 3020
AUSTRALIA chr...@bigpond.com http://www.vicnet.net.au/~babylon5/
ETHEL THE AARDVARK 97 24pp Sean-Paul Smith P.O. Box 212 World
Trade Centre Melbourne Vic 3005 AUSTRALIA MSFC_...@eGroups.com
http://www.vicnet.net.au/~msfc/
FELINE MEWSINGS 4 12pp R-Laurraine Tutihasi 29217 Stonecrest Rd
Rolling Hills Estates CA 90275-4936 USA ltut...@aol.com
http://members.aol.com/ltutihasi
DROPPING THE SHORTS 2 10pp Marc Ortlieb P.O. Box 215 Forest Hill
Vic 3131 Australia mort...@vicnet.net.au
ELECTRONIC FANZINES
ANSIBLE 167 DaveLangford 94 London RoadReading Berkshire RG1 5AU
U.K.a...@cix.co.uk http://www.ansible.co.uk
CC20 NEWSLETTER 2.1 Chris Ballis stil...@netspace.net.au
DEADLINES
Bullsheet #172 July 3 2001.
ANZAPA 202 August 10 2001
This Fanzine Supports The Minneapolis in '73 WorldCon Bid and the
next Australian WorldCon Bid.
OTHER STUFF
TOLKIEN 2005
"Tolkien 2005 -- The Ring Goes Ever On Celebrating 50 years of
The Lord of the Rings
A conference to celebrate 50 years of The Lord of the Rings
organised by The Tolkien Society is to be held in August 2005. We
wish to involve as many of the other Tolkien Societies of the
world as are interested. The conference will be held between the
11th and the 15th of August in Birmingham, England, the town
where Tolkien spent most of his childhood. The venue will be
Aston University. It is timed so as to start a few days after
the end (the 8th) of the proposed Glasgow Worldcon (there are
currently no other Worldcon bids for 2005). We are currently
planning for around 300 delegates."
For more details, contact Michael Kennedy
xken...@ozemail.com.au.
BROAD UNIVERSE KICKS OFF
Amy Hanson notes "Broad Universe got off to a grand start
with a kick-off panel and party at Wiscon, the feminist sf/f
convention in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. The festivities marked
the growth of a good idea last year into a real organization that
will promote the writing and artwork of women within science
fiction, fantasy, and horror. An international companion group
to Sisters in Crime and Women Writing the West, Broad Universe is
located at www.BroadUniverse.org and has an online newsletter,
book catalog, listserv, FAQ, statistics page, links, and other
great features.
The celebration party at Wiscon soon grew to
standing-room only, and was attended by both guests of honor,
Nancy Kress and Elizabeth Vonarburg. Molly Gloss donated a cake
frosted with a replica of her book cover that she'd been given as
part of the Tiptree Award -- the first time many in the crowd had
ever eaten an award. The audience at the Broad Universe panel
earlier in the day had spontaneously passed the hat, netting $US
101 -- an auspicious number, as the group had been proposed the
year before at a panel entitled "World Domination 101.""
CONJOSE ANNOUNCES EVENTS VENUE
ConJose, the 2002 Worldcon, has announced that it will be
using San Jose's Civic Auditorium for its major evening events,
including (but not necessarily limited to) the Hugo Awards
Ceremony and Masquerade. The Civic Auditorium is a charming venue
built in the classic Mission style. Zorro costumes would be
entirely appropriate.
FIRST CORDWAINER SMITH REDISCOVERY AWARD TO BE PRESENTED ON SEPTEMBER 2 AT
PHILCON
The first annual Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award will be
presented on Sunday, September 2, 2001, at the 59th World
Science Fiction Convention, "Philcon," in Philadelphia, PA.
Noted science fiction author Robert Silverberg will be presenting
the Award on behalf of the Cordwainer Smith Awards Committee and
the Cordwainer Smith Foundation. "The Cordwainer," as the award
has been nicknamed, will go to to a science fiction or fantasy
writer whose work displays unusual originality, embodies the
spirit of Cordwainer Smith's fiction, and deserves renewed
attention or 'Rediscovery.' The prize is an engraved crystal
tetrahedron which can be seen at www.cordwainersmith.com/pr.htm.
Jurors for this year's Award are four of the most distinguished
and encyclopedic minds in contemporary science fiction, all Hugo
winners themselves: Robert Silverberg, Gardner Dozois, John
Clute, and Scott Edelman. They were free to choose any writer,
living or dead, for the Award.