Aust Sf Bullsheet 175 (long)
Marc Ortlieb
A prolegomenous newszine produced for the Australian National
Science Fiction Association by Marc Ortlieb, P.O. Box 215, Forest
Hill, Vict, 3131, AUSTRALIA
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DOWLING & TAN ON WFA LIST
Jeremy Byrne notes "Blackwater Days has just been nominated for a
World Fantasy Award (Collection). One of the stories in it, "The
Saltimbanques" has also been nominated (in Short Story). This year's
nominations also include Shaun Tan for Artist. Only three Australian
works have been nominated in the past, including Jack Dann and
Janeen Webb's Dreaming Down-Under, which won for Anthology in the
1999 WFAs."
IN PRINT
Grant Watson notes " Kate Orman's new novel The Year Of Intelligent
Tigers is now available locally." Jonathan Strahan relays " Sean
McMullen reports, "Catherine McMullen (aged 12) has sold "Errold's
Journey" to the Valdemar Anthology V, edited by Mercedes Lackey and
Martine H. Greenberg (Tekno Books). This is her 6th professional
sale and first US sale."
Orb #2, the third issue, is now available. It features short fiction
by Kaaron Warren, Reilly McCarron, Aidan Doyle, Tracey Rolfe, Claire
McKenna, Adam Browne, Helen Patrice, Stephen dedman, Paul Haines,
Geoffrey Maloney, Andrew Tompkins, Sue Isle and Carolyn Scott.
Copies are available from Sarah Endacott P.O. Box 1621 South Preston
Vic 3072 for $16. Subscription details also available.
NEW MAGAZINE
Robbie Matthews announces plans for a magazine with the working
title of "Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine". The intention is
to publish bimonthly for about $6.95. Robbie needs feedback from as
many people as possible, indicating interest in reading or
subscribing. rjmatt...@yahoo.com.au
BORDERLANDS SHORT STORY COMPETITION
Borderlands is running a competition for short stories between 1,000
and 4,000 words with the theme The World Within. $100 first prize,
the winning story to be published in the con souvenir book. Also up
to ten shortlist prizes - $50.00 prize, and publication.
Competition closes October 12th 2001. Winners announced at the con
November 24th, 2001. 6 Florence Rd Nedlands WA 6009. Electronic
submissions in text or MS Word format only to
comm...@theworldwithin.org. Further details
http://www.theworldwithin.org
NEW ARRIVALS
Chris Lawson beams "Andrea had a baby girl this morning (10:06 to be
precise). Her name is Isobel Angelique. Weight 7lb 4oz. Mother and
babe well." He later adds " Photos of Isobel:
www.ozemail.com.au/~claw/p/isobel-andy.jpg
www.ozemail.com.au/~claw/p/isobel-andy2.jpg
www.ozemail.com.au/~claw/p/isobelcrib.jpg"
WRITING COARSE
Chuck McKenzie brags "The latest Continuing Education course
guide from the University of Sydney includes details of my upcoming
"Writing Science Fiction That Sells" course. Details are as follows:
6.30pm - 8.30pm Thursdays from 11 October 6 meetings - $265 - Course
No. 014 6300 "For decades, science fiction has excited readers with
tales of spaceflight, time travel and aliens. This course teaches
you to write SF through a combination of tutorials and workshops.
Learn about the history and themes of SF. Develop believable
settings and characters. Generate ideas and sell your work. Students
receive a copy of Chuck's novel *Worlds Apart* as class text. This
course is suited to the more experienced writer.""
BULLSHEET MEDIA WATCH
Poul Anderson's death was noted in The Sunday Age 5/8/2001
under the headline "Sci-fi man dead". I guess they at least noted
it. The genre gets a lot of coverage in this issue, with its Agenda
covering J.K. Rowling, Planet of the Apes and including Lucy
Sussex's reviews of Cecelia Dart Thornton's The Ill-Made Mute and
Octavia Butler's Parable of the Talents.. Maria Papadeas, a Sydney
Trekkie and fan club organiser, gets a page and a half in Life Lines
in The Weekend Australian Magazine 4-5/8/2001. The Herald Sun
8/8/2001 also noted Poul Anderson's death, but their obit writer had
him married to the daughter of Greg Bear - a scenario worthy of one
of Anderson's own time travel stories. Damien Broderick reviews
Darwinizing Culture and The Road to Now in The Weekend Australian
Review 11-12/8/2001.
PERIPATETIC FANS
Jean Weber writes from somewhere in outback Queensland that
she and Eric Lindsay have been to Lake Eyre in South Australia "and
it was great! We took two flights over the lake, one from Marree
(over Lake Eyre South) and one from William Creek (over Lake Eyre
North). We saw quite different scenery, so we're really glad we did
both, and we managed to have two nice, non-windy days for the
flights. The days before, between, and after were windy, gusty and
overcast - not good flying weather at all. How we managed such good
luck, we don't know.
All the "tracks" we've been on so far have been more like (in the
words of several locals) "bloody highways". Dirt, yes, and rough in
a few places, but mostly in remarkably good shape. We seem to have
timed our visit for just after the road crews came through, but not
so long after that the road's been damaged again by the traffic."
BACK FROM THE DEAD
One time Melbourne fan Bob Toth notes that, having
rediscovered fandom via Barb dela Hunty's Fannish Pictures Website,
he's planning to be at ConVergence. Gosh, and Barb's site doesn't
even have some of the good photos of Perth Fandom in the 70s...
CONVENTION NEWS
Edwin Scribner notes "Conning Tour has so far failed to
attract a single starter, in the sense that nobody has sent me any
money. Is there some vital information that's missing from the web
page? It will have to be called off if we don't get sufficient
starters to cover costs (mainly the room at Ulladulla Bowling Club)
by the first week in October. All helpful suggestions welcome.
UPCOMING CONVENTIONS
FREECON
August 25 Bankstown Municipal Library, Sydney. Contact Garry
Dalrymple gary-peter...@tafensw.edu.au
http://members.optushome.com.au/aussff/Frcn2202.html
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 $180 until August 19. $200
at the door. 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, Richard Arnold & Marjean Holden $215 GPO Box 1376 Brisbane
Qld 4001 wr...@bigpond.net.au
MULTIVERSE ONE DAY CONVENTION
September 30 2001 Richard Biggs 9:00am till 6:00pm Ella Latham
Theatre, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road Parkville (10
minutes from town) Adults $50, Multiverse Club members $45 (for
current member clubs see bottom of this email), Children $25 (under
15). www.multiverse.org.au
FORCE 3.75
October 13 9.30am to 6.30pm Star Walking Convention The Second
Star Walking Star wars fan film festival. University of Melbourne,
Charles Pearson Theatre, Education Resource Centre $12 Star Walking
members $15 Multiverse members $20 non-members
starw...@starwalking.net http://www.starwalking.net
BOBW 12
October 2001 Stargate SG-1 Convention Tony
Amendola.http://www.bobw.com.au a...@nlc.net.au PO Box 215
Forestville NSW Australia 2087 ph (02) 9453 0290 Fax: +61 2 9975
6043
CONNING TOUR: A RELAXACON.
November 2-5 2001. Topview Motel and Milton-Ulladulla Bowling Club,
Ulladulla NSW. $30 + $30 deposit for accommodation payable by 28
September. Contact Vanessa saxif...@yahoo.com.au or Ted
kre...@optushome.com.au . Web Page:
http://members.optushome.com.au/aussff/ConTour.html
FREECON
November 10 North Sydney Library Contact Garry Dalrymple
gary-peter...@tafensw.edu.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
http://borderlands.murdoch.edu.au/
BOBW 13
November 24 & 25, 2001 Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Earth: Final
Conflict Convention Leni Parker, Anita La Selva, Eugene Roddenberry
Jr http://www.bobw.com.au a...@nlc.net.au PO Box 215 Forestville NSW
Australia 2087 ph (02) 9453 0290 Fax: +61 2 9975 6043
WRITE (C)ON
January 18-20 2002. Guest speakers:Simon Brown, Marilyn Pride and
Lewis Morley Venue: Barker Lodge Motel, Barker St, Kensington
(N.S.W.) Membership: $20 Edwina Harvey e.ha...@unsw.edu.au 12
Flinders St, Matraville, NSW. 2036
http://members.optushome.com.au/aussff/Writecon.html
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/
MUSEUM FREECON
March 16-17 2002 Sydney Garry Dalrymple
gary-peter...@tafensw.edu.au
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
CANBERRA SF CONVENTION
May 2002 Vanessa Jacobsen saxif...@yahoo.com.au
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 October 31 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://www.ericlindsay.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
A$320. (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
EVENT NEWS
Sarah Barker notes "The National Museum in Canberra are
planning a Space Exhibition towards the end of the year."
CLUB NEWS
The Dr Who Club of Australia will celebrate its 25th
Anniversary on Saturday, August 25 11am - 6pm at the Drummoyne RSL
with guests Katy Manning, Steve Cambden and Jonathan Blum.
A.C.T.
CANBERRA SPECULATIVE FICTION GUILD September 19 ACT Writers' Centre
Gorman House, Braddon ACT. les.pe...@detya.gov.au
http://csfg.cumulo-nimbus.com
NEW SOUTH WALES
SYDNEY FUTURIANS August 17 7pm University of Technology, Sydney Room
1615 http://linus.socs.uts.edu.au/~iwoolf/futurians.html
SOUTHERN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY GROUP August 18 Contact
Bradley Row bra...@netspace.net.au
DR WHO CLUB OF AUSTRALIA August 25 11am - 6pm 25th Anniversary
Drummoyne RSL Guests Katy Manning, Steve Cambden and Jonathan Blum.
Contact eve...@dwca.org.au
FRIENDS OF SCIENCE FICTION September 9 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
SKYFORCE SYDNEY October 21 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 September 2 Brisbane City Council GPO Box 1376 Brisbane Qld
4001
SOUTH AUSTRALIA
SFSA August 18 3pm-10pm Adelaide High. Steven Cooke
(don...@chariot.net.au) or P.O. Box 3227 Rundle Mall Adelaide SA
5000
VICTORIA
MSFC August 17 , August 24, August 31 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 August 17 ANZAPA distributed August 24, August 31
6:00-7.30pm. Informal eating and nattering. Myers Cafeteria
Melbourne
F.O.M.E. MASQUERADE BALL August 18 The Moorabbin Masonic Hall For
more details http://sites.theplunge.com/fomeball2001"
DOCTOR WHO CLUB OF VICTORIA August 18 Dark Zone meeting Box Hill
GPO Box 4782UU Melbourne VIC 3001 as...@optusnet.com.au
http://www.vicnet.net.au/~dwcv
MULTIVERSE August 27 Preview Jurassic Park 3 7:00pm Greater Union
Cinemas, 131 Russell Street Melbourn...@multiverse.org.au
AUSTRALIAN BABYLON 5 FAN CLUB September 1 10:00am ScienceworksP.O.
Box 437 Sunshine Vic 3020 chr...@bigpond.com or
mys...@netstra.com.au http://www.vicnet.net.au/~babylon5/
NOVA MOB September 5 Pam McIntyre on Harry Potter 13 Frederick St
Brunswick
ENTERPRISE September 22 1:00-5:00pm What does it mean to be a Star
Trek Fan? Ella Latham Theatre Royal Children's Hospital P.O. Box 466
World Trade Centre Melbourne 3005
http://www.vicnet.net.au/~enterprise/ ente...@vicnet.net.au
AUSTREK October 6 2:00pm 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
SKYFORCE October 13 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
THE AUSTRALIAN COSTUMERS' GUILD November 3 Derby Day Picnic (based
on the 1887 painting "The Lawn at Flemington".) PO Box 322 Bentleigh
Vic 3204 stil...@netspace.net.au http://www.vicnet.net.au/~costume/
W.A.
SWANCON 2002 PROGRAMMING MEETING August 19 1:00 The Captain
Stirling, Nedlands http://www.swancon.com
KSP WRITER'S CENTRE, GREENMOUNT, August 25 1.00-4.00 pm. Dave
Luckett workshop "Once Upon a Universe: Sci-Fi-Fantasy" Cost $13
non-members/$11 members. Bookings essential. Contact Caroline
Horobin 9294 1872 ks...@iinet.net.au
CoAs
Catriona Sparks notes "Agog! Fantastic Fiction has a new postal
address: PO Box U302 University of Wollongong NSW 2500"
ELECTRONIC STUFF
Geoff Markley writes "I have setup a web site for Van
[Ikin] for his magazine and back issues. The URL is
http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~geoffm/sf/sf.shtml"
Danny Yee writes "You list my sf book review URL as
http://www.anatomy.su.oz.au/danny/book-reviews/s/science_fiction.html
That still works, but a better (shorter and permanent) URL is
http://dannyreviews.com/s/science_fiction.html
John Foyster informs us "The 13th issue is now available from
http://efnac.virtualave.net. The web site gives the following
description of the contents: John Bangsund looks back on his life
from the vantage point of 2030, Noel Kerr focuses narrowly on one
day in 1952, John Foyster reports on trans-gender issues at the 1975
AUSSIECON, Bob Smith writes the entire letter-column, and the Allan
Bray Photogallery reports on the 1983 SYNCON, with Harlan Ellison.
Hm, what else can I add? Oh well, back on March 15 my daughter and
her partner appeared on a national TV program to discuss the
philosophy of the house they have built over the past few years (it
has subsequently won a prize). There's a web site with a couple of
photos, as follows:
http://www.abc.net.au/artshow/s259022.htm"
NEW
Marije Feddema
http://www.geocities.com/sfrwriter.
FANZINES
THYME 131 21pp Alan Stewart P.O. Box 222 World Trade Centre
Melbourne Vic 8005 Australia fia...@netspace.net.au
AUSTRALIAN SF NEWS 91 14pp Alan Stewart & Merv Binns P.O. Box 222
World Trade Centre Vic 8005 Australia fia...@netspace.net.au
ELECTRONIC FANZINES
COMM CENTRE THE July 30 2001 August 3 2001 August 12 2001
Multiverse PO Box 355 World Trade Centre Melbourne Vic 3005
Australia multi...@multiverse.org.au http://www.multiverse.org.au/
ANSIBLE 169 Dave Langford 94 London Road Reading Berkshire RG1 5AU
U.K. ans...@cix.co.uk http://www.ansible.co.uk/
FANS ACROSS THE WORLD NEWSLETTER 112 B. Wilkinson 2 Hobbs Close
Abingdon Oxon OX14 3UX Great Britain faw...@bjw.cix.co.uk
DEADLINES
Bullsheet #176 August 27 2001.
NAFF nominations October 1 2001
GUFF nominations September 30 2001
This Fanzine Supports The Minneapolis in '73 WorldCon Bid and the
next Australian WorldCon Bid.
LETTERATURE
Dave Langford notes that The Millennium Philcon has
increased its rates "It's up to $180 now, with advance registration
closing on 19 August, and $200 at the door. " He also notes that
Diana Wynne Jones doesn't have a hyphen. I'm sure that, if fandom
banded to gether, we could get her one.
Dirk Strasser writes "I'm confused a little about your comment that
there's no clear statement about whether Aurealis has actually been
sold. We say in the press release that "Chimaera Publications will
continue to publish the magazine". I don't quite see where the
ambiguity is.
Keith's offer came out of left field, and we had to weigh it up
against the several offers that we had. The arrangement we've
worked out isn't something we anticipated as an option when we put
Aurealis up for sale. In the end, we wanted to make sure Aurealis
was in good hands. As you'd expect, the exact details are
confidential, but everyone associated with Aurealis is extremely
satisfied with the arrangement."
Jonathan Strahan kindly sent the complete World fantasy award
Shortlist.
NOVEL
Kay, Guy Gavriel - Lord of Emperors (HarperPrism; Viking Canada;
Simon & Schuster); Miville, China - Perdido Street Station
(Macmillan UK); Powers, Tim - Declare (Subterranean Press); Pullman,
Philip - His Dark Materials 3: The Amber Spyglass (Random
House/Knopf); Stewart, Sean - Galveston (Ace); Volsky, Paula - The
Grand Ellipse (Bantam Spectra)
NOVELLA
Bishop, Michael - "Blue Kansas Sky" (Blue Kansas Sky); Case, David -
"Pelican Cay" (Dark Terrors 5); Chiang, Ted - "Seventy-two Letters"
(Vanishing Acts); Clarke, Susanna "Mr. Simonelli, or the Fairy
Widower" (Black Heart, Ivory Bones); Hand, Elizabeth - "Chip
Crockett's Christmas Carol" (SciFiction, 12.06.00); Hirshberg, Glen
- "Mr Dark's Carnival" (Shadows and Whispers); Tem, Steve Rasnic &
Melanie Tem - The Man On The Ceiling (American Fantasy Press)
SHORT FICTION
Dowling, Terry - "The Saltimbanques" (Blackwater Days); Duncan, Andy
- "Lincoln In Frogmore" (Beluthahatchie And Other Stories); Duncan,
Andy - "The Pottawatomie Giant" (SciFiction, 11.01.00); Link, Kelly
- "Shoe and Marriage" (4 Stories); Newman, Kim - "Is Anybody There?"
(The New English Library Book of Internet Stories); Swanwick,
Michael "The Raggle Taggle Gypsy-O" (Tales of Old Earth); Travis,
Tia V. - "Down Here in the Garden" (Horror Garage #1, May 2000)
ANTHOLOGY
Datlow, Ellen & Terri Windling, eds. The Year's Best Fantasy and
Horror: Thirteenth Annual Collection (St. Martin's Griffin); Datlow,
Ellen ed., Vanishing Acts (Tor); Hopkinson, Nalo ed. whispers from
the cotton tree root: caribbean fabulist fiction (Invisible Cities
Press); Jones, Stephen & David Sutton, eds. Dark Terrors 5
(Orion/Gollancz); Roden, Barbara & Christoper Roden eds. Shadows and
Whispers (Ash-Tree Press); Thomas, Sheree R. ed. Dark Matter: A
Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora (Warner
Aspect)
COLLECTION
Barrett Jr., Neal - Perpetuity Blues and Other Stories (Golden
Gryphon Press); Dowling, Terry - Blackwater Days (Eidolon Books);
Duncan, Andy - Beluthahatchie and Other Stories (Golden Gryphon
Press); Harrison, M. John - Travel Arrangements: Short Stories
(Orion/Gollancz); Straub, Peter - Magic Terror: 7 Tales (Random
House); Wilson, Robert Charles - The Perseids and Other Stories
(Tor)
ARTIST
Burns, Jim; Craft, Kinuko Y.; Edwards, Les; Merriam, Daniel;
Palencar, John Jude; Tan, Shaun
SPECIAL AWARD, PROFESSIONAL
Datlow, Ellen for editing SciFiction and anthologies; Fenner, Cathy
& Arnie Fenner for Spectrum 7 : The Best In Contemporary Fantastic
Art (Underwood Books); Schaeffer, William for Subterranean Press;
Shippey, Tom for J.R.R Tolkien: Author Of The Century
(HarperCollins); Turner, Gary & Marty Halpern for Golden Gryphon
Press
SPECIAL AWARD, NON-PROFESSIONAL
Cossel, Benjamin & Jeremy Lassen & Jason Williams for Nightshade
Press; Crowther, Peter for PS Publishing; Rahman, Philip J. & Dennis
E. Weiler for Fedogan & Bremer; Roden, Barbara & Christopher Roden
for Ash-Tree Press; Russell, Raymond & Rosalie Parker for Tartarus
Press; Sheehan, Bill for At The Foot Of The Story Tree: An Inquiry
into the Fiction of Peter Straub (Subterranean Press)
Rose Mitchell laments " I have recently been appointed as the
Australian Agent for the UK in 2005 Worldcon Bid like I need to
undertake more fanac!
UK in 2005 is a bid to bring the Worldcon back to Europe,
specifically Glasgow, Scotland, in 2005 at the Scottish Exhibition
& Conference Centre. The bid proposes to hold the convention from
the 4th to the 8th of August, 2005, slightly earlier in the year
than are usual for the Worldcon. There are many advantages for doing
so, such as the overlap with the European school summer holidays
and the opportunity to visit the Edinburgh Festival and the
Military Tattoo. Site selection voting will happen at ConJose
(California, USA), the 2002 Worldcon.
Australians can support the bid by becoming pre-supporting members
either as a Pre-supporter $35 or Friend $165. Should the bid
prevail, a presupporting membership gets you a small discount when
you buy a full or supporting membership in the con itself. And if
you vote in the site selection in 2002, a Friend membership in the
bid will be automatically converted into a full attending
membership in the Worldcon. If you don't vote in 2002, the fee for
converting a Friend membership into a full membership will be
fairly close to what the voting fee at ConJos will be, typically USD
35-40. All pre-supporters are listed on our web site and in our
publications.
Extensive information about the UK in 2005 Worldcon bid can be found
at www.uk2005.org.uk The bid is running unopposed at the moment, so
becoming a Presupporter looks like a pretty good deal and a dead
cert for a cheapie membership to the Worldcon in 2005.
Get your presupporting membership from the Aussie Agent - Rose
Mitchell, 553 Victoria Street, Brunswick West 3055.
Mitc...@vicnet.net.au
UK in 2005 379 Myrtle Road,Sheffield,South Yorkshire,S2 3HQ,UK or
by email at UK2...@hotmail.com. http://www.uk2005.org.uk