Aust SF Bullsheet 170 (long)
Marc Ortlieb
A pococurante 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)
IN PRINT
The Slow Glass Books Catalogue 149 lists the following
Australian new releases: Robert Hood Night Beast (Hodder &
Stoughton); Garth Nix Dark Revelation (Scholastic); Gillian
Rubinstein Terra Farma (Viking); Michael Stephens Blat Magic
(Harper Collins). Robbie Matthews notes "Hot and steaming,
straight from the presses, the second printing of the Canberra
Speculative Fiction Guild's anthology, Nor of Human... is now
available. Details here:
http://www.austarmetro.com.au/~robbiem/anthology.htm "
Benjamin Payne reports "Just a quick note to let people
know that new Australian scifi/ fantasy magazine Potato Monkey
has just released its first issue. It contains the following
Australian stories: "In the Mist" by Robert N Stephenson
"Psychology" by Robbie Matthews "Calapaya" by Trent Jamieson
"Sleight of Hand" by Simon Haynes "Generation Next, the Real
Thing" by Shane Griffin and "Akira and the Dolphin Children" by
Alison Venugoban For details, visit Monkey central:
http://server3005.freeyellow.com/potatomonkey/issues.html"
IN ELECTRONS
Antipodean SF 39 is available and features the following
Australian pieces: "Personal Space" Tom Dullemond; "The Perfect
Mate" Carol Ryles; "The Deal" Grant Watson; "Survival" Sian
Eldridge; "Connection" Richard Spurling.
Chuck McKenzie notes "Worlds Apart has just been
re-released through US e-publisher Abby The Troll. You can
purchase the novel online via the Abby The Troll website
(<http://www.thetroll.net/trollpublications.htm>
www.thetroll.net/trollpublications.htm), in html, pdf or POD.
Cost is $3.50US for an e-file, or $9.50US on CD-Rom."
BULLSHEET MEDIA WATCH
Cecilia Dart-Thornton made the front page of The Herald
Sun 29/5/2001 with a piece about her almost $500,000 contract
for The Ill-Made Mute and the rest of the Bitterbynde trilogy.
Dennis Callegari, having proved that he wasn't greedy enough for
the quiz show Greed has proved that he knows the answer to the
question "Who wants to be a Millionaire?" which is "I don't".
Dennis was eliminated early in his recent appearance on the
show.
REDSINE READING DATES
Garry Nurrish notes that Redsine will have three
reading periods each year: 1st June - 31st August; 1st October -
31st December and 1st February - 30th April. Stories submitted
outside these times will be returned. Submissions should be sent
to Redsine Magazine PO Box 1287 Toowong Qld 4066 Australia
LOST AUTHOR
Gerbil <ja...@bleckly.com> noted on the Eidolist "I
picked up a copy of an old SF magazine today and it has an
Australian author in it who I don't know anything about. I was
hoping someone on the list would know some more about them.
They're not listed in the MUP Oz SF Encyclopedia. The author is
R. Whitfield Young his(?) story 'The Locusts' appears in Science
Fantasy magazine Vol 10 No 28 1958 edited by John Carnell. If
anyone knows any more about this author I'd be interested to
know. "
FAN FUNDS
Jean Weber reports "Eric Lindsay and Jean Weber
finished the official portion of their GUFF trip on 14 May when
they flew out of the UK after a 6-week visit. They then attended
Jean's mother's 80th birthday celebrations in Lacey, near
Seattle, on 21 May, and will be attending Wiscon in Madison on
the last weekend in May. After that, Eric returns to Australia
while Jean spends another 3 weeks with her mother, returning at
the end of June.
Eric and Jean's GUFF website already includes early
versions of several instalments of their trip report. Revisions,
including photographs, will be posted as soon as possible
(probably in June). Several chapters (probably quite different
from the Web version, after Jean edits and revises Eric's
drafts) will appear in UK fanzines, and eventually a collected,
printed edition will also be available. Donations to GUFF can
also be made through the Website.
http://psiphi.server101.com/guff/
Calls for nominations for a Europe-Australasia race will
be announced soon by Paul Kincaid, the UK administrator, with
the winner to attend the 2002 NatCon in either Australia or New
Zealand or preferably both. "
AUSTRALIAN TREK FOUNDER DIES
Susan Batho reports "Just letting people know that Jenny
Kentwell, one of the founding members of DUSK Star Trek Club in
1969, then ASTREX in 1973, also founding editor of Beyond
Antares (which is still in existence) died in her sleep on the
20th of May"
SITENEWS STUFF
Eidolon's Sitenews http://eidolon.net notes, among other
things, the following: " Paul Collins has sold young adult
science fiction novel The Earthborn to Tor in the US, for a
September 2002 publication. Collins has also sold young adult
fantasy novel Dragonlinks to Penguin Australia.
Greg Egan's "Oracle" has won the Asimov's Readers'
Award for Best Novella, and both "Oracle" and Egan's Teranesia
are finalists in the gay-friendly Spectrum Awards."
Eidolon has also added a new "Books in Print" section
http://eidolon.net/booksinprint.html
CONVENTION NEWS
Edwina Harvey reports on Write (C)on "It proposes to be a
laid-back, relaxed weekend with two main aims: (1) To produce
an anthology with a view to entering this anthology into the
Victorian Fellowship of Australian Writers awards held later in
2002. (Submission to the anthology is voluntary). (2) To discuss
various aspects of the writing industry including independent
publishing, booksellers and distribution, writing courses,
markets etc within Australia. Guest speakers are currently being
approached. If you would like to be invited to speak at this
event, please contact Edwina. Date 18-20 January, 2002.
Membership $20. For this you will receive a con pack and a copy
of the anthology when it is edited after the convention.
e-mail: e.ha...@unsw.edu.au. Snail mail: E. Harvey 12 Flinders
St, Matraville, 2036)
UPCOMING CONVENTIONS
MULTIVERSE 4
June 8th - 11th 2001 Melbourne Edmund Barton Centre, South Road
Moorabbin GsoH Anthony Daniels,Virginia Hey, Brian Thompson and
John Cook Rates after 15/05/01 $150/$175. (The cheaper rates
are for members of clubs affiliated with Multiverse.)
multi...@multiverse.org.au http://www.multiverse.org.au/
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
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
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.
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
A.C.T.
CANBERRA SPECULATIVE FICTION GUILD June 20 ACT Writers' Centre
Gorman House, Braddon ACT. les.pe...@detya.gov.au
http://csfg.cumulo-nimbus.com
NEW SOUTH WALES
SYDNEY FUTURIANS June 15 7pm University of Technology, Sydney
Room 1615 http://linus.socs.uts.edu.au/~iwoolf/futurians.html
SOUTHERN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY GROUP June 16 Contact
Bradley Row bra...@netspace.net.au
FRIENDS OF SCIENCE FICTION June 17 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 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 June 16 SFSA's Dune in June annual general meeting
3pm-10pm Adelaide High. Steven Cooke (don...@chariot.net.au)
or P.O. Box 3227 Rundle Mall Adelaide SA 5000
VICTORIA
MSFC June 8 Multiverse no planned activities June 15 Art of the
short story June 22 Communist SF with Joe Szakmary 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 8 ANZAPA Collection June 15 ANZAPA
distributed June 22 6:00-7.30pm. Informal eating and nattering.
Myers Cafeteria Melbourne
SLOW GLASS BOOKS Kate Forsyth Signing June 15 5:00pm onward 305
Swanston St Melbourne 3000
MULTIVERSE June 21 Opening night screening of Tomb Raider
tic...@multiverse.org.au
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 details tba13 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 June 15-17, 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
John Foyster reports "It's been a few months since eFNAC
appeared, and some changes have happened. First, although copies
will still be available directly by email from me, I'm not
sending the 3 issues noted below out that way immediately. If
you want your copies by email, let me know and I'll email 'em to
you, as before. The reason for this emerges from what follows,
in part. Second, there's a "security" element now in place at
http://efnac.virtualave.net which is where you can download the
three latest issues. The "security" is that when you try to
download a file, you need to enter a username and a password,
which are "efnac" and "scrambledeggs". The security has been put
there to make eFNAC a private fanzine that is nevertheless
publicly available. Recently search engines have begun to read
and index PDF files and that makes the contents of a PDF fanzine
on the web much more public. That's not the traditional way
fanzines have been available. I've gone for this approach -
actually, Erika Lacey does all the work, as usual - because it
looks like it might be a simple way to distribute my illustrated
GUFF report and still raise some money for GUFF. I suppose I
should consult the GUFF administrators about this... Any moment
now!
Next issue, July, will re-new my attempts to review a
few e-zines and a return to Allan Bray's photos."
Vanessa Jacobsen notes the founding of the eastcoastsf
group at Yahoo! Groups.To start sending messages to members of
this group, simply send email to eastc...@yahoogroups.com.
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
Garry Nurrish adds "Redsine Issue 6 is now online at
http://www.redsine.com. This issue includes brothers Jeffrey &
Scott Thomas as featured authors. We're showing two stories from
each of them plus a wonderful interview."
leela notes "Could you please add our site to your
list.this one is for the girls. Female Science Fiction Society
of Australia. www.angelfire.com/scifi/fsfsa/index.html thankyou
FANZINES
LOBSTERS VOICE, THE Vol 3 #3 12pp Deborah Caputo for the Lewis
Carroll Society of Australia 39 Sackvile St Bexley NSW 2207
Australia pig...@bigpond.com.au
http://www.thereadersvine.com/TheBellman_Carroll/Carroll.html
SOUTHERN FANDOM CONFEDERATION BULLETIN Vol 7 No 9 22pp Julie
Wall 470 Ridge Rd Birmingham AL 35206 USA jlw...@usit.net
AZTEC BLUE 3 22pp Murray Moore 1065 Henley Rd Mississauga ON L4Y
1C8 Canada mmo...@pathcom.com
SLOW GLASS BOOKS CATALOGUE 149 28pp Cheryl Louch Slow Glass
Books GPO Box 2708X Melbourne Vic 3001 Australia
http://www.slowglass.com.au
CONSCRIPT June 2001 6pp Conquest GPO Box 1376 Brisbane Qld 4001
Australia http://conquest2000.tsx.org
ELECTRONIC FANZINES
EMERALD CITY 69 Cheryl Morgan che...@emcit.com
http://www.emcit.com
SITENEWS May 24 2001 & May 31 2001 Jeremy Byrne
site...@eidolon.net http://eidolon.net
DEADLINES
Bullsheet #171 June 19 2001.
ANZAPA 201 June 8 2001
This Fanzine Supports The Minneapolis in '73 WorldCon Bid and the next
Australian WorldCon Bid.
LETTERATURE
After a long retirement, the Rogers Street Laundry Door
has opened again to send the following missive
"Enthusiasts of the life and works of prominent Western
Australian fan Grant "Tugger" Watson were disappointed in his
performance in the 2001 Ditmars.
"Tugger" was the winner only in the Best Fan Artist and
Best Fan Production categories, and a co-winner of the William
Atheling Award. He failed to get a clean sweep of the fan awards
when he lost out to Robin Pen in the Fan Writer category
(probably some hanging chads in there somewhere). Those left
struggling in his foaming wake: DUFF winner Cathy Cupitt, Bruce
Gillespie, Russell Blackford, Damien Broderick, etc. etc.
Readers temporarily unfamiliar with the name "Grant
Watson" and his works may recall the following passage in Paper
Snarl 12 in which Yvonne Rousseau noted, concerning the
activities of the administrator of the 2000 Ditmars:
"The unlikely secret students of Thomas Aquinas,
perhaps, they took their stand on Invincible Ignorance
(impossible for them to know about tedious "fannish traditions")
-- but ultimately they were unable to ward off enlightenment
about the ethical position of a DitSubCom accepting nominations
for his own work."
where, of course, "his" = "Grant Watson's". Curiously
enough, "Tugger" was not nominated this time around for his
efforts in handling the 2000 Ditmars.
Rogers S. L. Door.
CLIVE NEWALL <cli...@optushome.com.au> points out my typo in
the previous Bullsheet regarding the World Costuming Convention
in Australia which is, of course in 2002, not in 2001. He
continues "reBroderick on "Aftershock": Damien didn't note that
while his co-panelists were identified by what they did for a
crust (Director of something & computer programmer) he was
identified only as "Melbourne University". I guess "SF author"
would have damaged any credibility he might have had. :-)"
OTHER STUFF
Steven H Silver reports "The judges for the Sidewise Awards
for Alternate History are pleased to announce the finalists for
the 2000 Sidewise Awards. The awards will be presented at
Millennium Philcon, the 59th World Science Fiction Convention,
held from August 30 - September 3. For more information, please
contact Steven Silver or see our website at
http://www.uchronia.net/sidewise/.
LONG FORM: Suzanne Alls Blom, Inca, Tor/Forge; Mary Gentle,
Ash: A Secret History, (published in US as A Secret History,
Carthage Ascendant, The Wild Machines, and Lost Burgundy),
Victor Gollancz ; Avon/Eos; S.M. Stirling, "The Nantucket
Trilogy," Island in the Sea of Time, Against the Tide of Years,
On the Oceans of Eternity, NAL/Roc
SHORT FORM: Eugene Byrne, "HMS Habakkuk," Interzone 155 (5/00);
Ted Chiang, "Seventy-Two Letters," Vanishing Acts, edited by
Ellen Datlow, Tor; Paul J. McAuley, "A Very British History,"
Interzone 157 (7/00); Kim Newman, "The Other Side of Midnight:
Anno Dracula 1981," The Vampire Sextette, edited by Marvin Kaye,
Science Fiction Book Club; Carla Pereira, "Xochiquetzal," Altair
6/7, translated by David Alan Prescott. Originally appeared as
"Xochiquetzal e a Esquandra da Vingana," in Pecar a Sete, edited
by Antnio de Macedo and Silvana de Menezes, Simetria 1999.
The Sidewise Awards, founded in 1995 to recognise
excellence in alternate history, are named for Murray Leinster's
short story "Sidewise in Time."
Nominations are currently being accepted for the 2001 Sidewise
Awards. Contact information for the judges may be found on the
Sidewise Award website."