THE AUSTRALIAN SCIENCE FICTION BULLSHEET #51 – March 29th 1996
A slack but frequent little science fiction newsletter
produced for the Australian National Science Fiction
Association by Marc Ortlieb, P.O. Box 215, Forest Hill, Vict,
3131, AUSTRALIA (e-mail: mortlieb@vicnet.net.au).
Postal subscriptions $6-00 for ten.(Cheques made out to Marc
Ortlieb please. Stamps accepted). Available for items of
gossip. E-mail copies free. Ask to be put on the mailing list,
or grab it from aus.sf on Internet.
http://www.vicnet.net.au/~vicvol/sfoz/bullsheet.htm
IN PRINT
Dave Luckett's third children's novel THE BEST BATSMAN IN THE
WORLD (Omnibus) is now available in the shops. He has also
sold a short piece, THE WIZARD AND ME which is due out in
May.
AUREALIS
Dirk Strasser's EQUINOX and AUREALIS #16 were launched at
Slow Glass Books on March 22nd. This coincided with the
announcement of the winners of the Aurealis Awards for 1995.
This issue contains "The Embargo Traders" by Geoffrey Maloney,
"The Unspoken Puppet" by Kynan Hale, "Ice Harvest" by Sue
Isle, "Saint Angelen" by Ashlei Kellings and "The Poison Gods"
by Aidan Doyle.
AWARDS SPECIAL
AUREALIS AWARDS
These are panel awards given for excellence in Australian
Speculative Fiction and run by Chimaera Publications.
Science Fiction
Best Novel
DISTRESS Greg Egan (Millenium)
Runners Up:-
MIRRORSUN RISING Sean McMullen (Aphelion)
SET PIECE Kate Orman (Virgin)
THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER Sean Williams & Shane Dix (Aphelion)
Best Short Story
"Luminous" Greg Egan (Asimov's September 1995)
Runners Up:-
"From Whom All Blessings Flow" Stephen Dedman (Asimov's April 1995)
"Mr Volition" Greg Egan (Interzone #100)
"Wang's Carpets" Greg Egan (New Legends Legend/Random House)
"A Map of the Mines of Barnath" Sean Williams (Eidolon #16)
Panel: Martin Livings, Graham South, Jonathan Strahan
Fantasy
Best Novel
SABRIEL Garth Nix (Moonstone/Harper Collins)
Runners Up:-
The House of Balthus David Brookes (Allen & Unwin)
Battle Axe Sara Douglass (Harper Collins)
Mus of Kerbridge Paul Kidd (TSR)
The Last Wizard Tony Shiltoe (Pan Macmillan)
Best Short Story
"Harvest Bay" Karen Attard (Eidolon #19 )
Runners Up:-
"Angel Thing" Petrina Smith (She's Fantastical Sybylla)
"Sail On, Sail On" John T. Stolarczyk (Aurealis #15)
"The Blue Stream" Kaaron Warren (Aurealis #15)
"On the Other Side of Paradise" Andrew Whitmore (Eidolon #17/18)
Panel: Bill Congreve, Martin Livings, Sean Williams
Horror
Best Novel
An Intimate Knowledge of the Night Terry Dowling (Aphelion)
Runners Up:-
My Beautiful Friend Venero Armanno (Arrow/Random House)
The House of Balthus David Brookes (Allen & Unwin)
The White Garden Carmel Bird (UQP)
The River Ophelia Justine ettler (Picador/Pan Macmillan)
Best Short Story
"Olympia" Francis Payne (Olympia, Bambada Press )
Runners Up:-
"Scaring the Train" Terry Dowling (The Man Who Lost Red MirrorDanse)
"Entropy" Leanne Frahm (She's Fantastical Sybylla)
"Rock and Roll Has to Die" Philip Nielsen (Dark House, Mammoth/Reed)
"Skin Holes" Kaaron Warren (Strange Fruit, Penguin)
Panel: Leigh Blackmore, Bill Congreve, Steve Proposch
Young Adult
Best Novel (tie)
Sabriel Garth Nix (Moonstone/Harper Collins)
Deucalion Brian Caswell (UQP)
Runners Up:-
Witch Bank Cathy Jinks (Puffin/Penguin)
The Third Day, the Frost John Marsden (Pan Macmillan)
Ashling Isobelle Carmody (Viking Penguin)
Best Short Story
No Award
Panel: Pam MacIntyre, Sean McMullen, Lucy Sussex
FAAN AWARDS
At the Corflu banquet on March 17th the Fanzine Activity
Achievement Awards were presented to:
Best Fan Artist: D. West
Runners-up: Ian Gunn, Teddy Harvia, Dan Steffan.
Best Fan Writer: Andrew P. Hooper
Runners-up: Sharon Farber, Dave Langford, Simon Ounsley.
Best Fanzine: Apparatchik
Runners-up: Attitude, BLAT!, Mimosa.
As far as I am aware, this is the first time an Australian has
appeared in the final count.
AUSTRALIAN SCIENCE FICTION ACHIEVEMENT AWARD (DITMARS) NOMINATIONS
These will be voted on by members of the Festival of the
Imagination, the 1996 Natcon in Perth. A $10 voting membership
is available. The deadline is 6.00pm April 6. Postal votes
must be postmarked on or before 31 March 1996 and received by
last mail on Thursday, 4 April 1996.
Those who look at it closely will note that Ian Gunn has only
been nominated in four categories. This is inexcusable. It's
time Ian got off his arse and wrote a novel and published a
book of post-semiotic deconstructionalist analysis of Thomas
the Tank Engine. (The failure of Artychoke to make the Best
Fanzine ballot can only be ascribed to Alan Stewart's placing
of the zine at the very end of Thyme. )
BEST LONG FICTION
AN INTIMATE KNOWLEDGE OF THE NIGHT Terry Dowling (Aphelion);
MIRRORSUN RISING Sean McMullen (Aphelion);
SABRIEL Garth Nix (Moonstone/Harper Collins);
SHE'S FANTASTICAL Lucy Sussex & Judith Buckrich (Sybylla);
THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER Sean Williams & Shane Dix (Aphelion)
BEST SHORT FICTION
"Entropy" Leanne Frahm (She's Fantastical Sybylla);
"Schrodinger's Fridge" Ian Gunn (Aurealis #15);
"A Sky Full of Ravens" Sue Isle (She's Fantastical Sybylla);
"Angel Thing" Petrina Smith (She's Fantastical Sybylla);
"A Map of the Mines of Barnath" Sean Williams (Eidolon #16
February 1995);
"The Perfect Gun" Sean Williams (Eidolon #17/18, June 1995)
BEST PUBLICATION/FANZINE (Periodical)
Eidolon (J. Byrne, R Scriven & J Strahan);
Ethel the Aardvark Paul Ewins;
The Metaphysical Review Bruce Gillespie;
Pinkette Karen Pender-Gunn;
Thyme Alan Stewart
BEST ARTWORK
Thyme 106 (Cover) Ian Gunn;
An Intimate Knowledge of the Night (Cover) Nick Stathopoulos;
Eidolon 19 (Cover) Shaun Tan
BEST NON-PROFESSIONAL/FAN WRITER
Terry Frost; Ian Gunn; Cheryl Morgan; Alan Stewart
BEST NON-PROFESSIONAL/FAN ARTIST
Ian Gunn; Steve Scholz; Kerri Valkova
WILLIAM ATHELING JNR AWARD
Reading by Starlight Damien Broderick (Rutledge);
"The Hunt for Australian Horror Fiction" Bill Congreve, Sean
McMullen & Steven Paulsen (The Scream Factory 16 November 1995)
AUSTRALIAN SCIENCE FICTION MEDIA ACHIEVEMENT AWARD NOMINATIONS
These will be voted on by members of the Festival of the
Imagination, the 1996 Natcon in Perth. A $10 voting membership
is available. The deadline is 6.00pm April 6. Postal votes
must be post-marked on or before 31 March 1996 and received by
last mail on Thursday, 4 April 1996.
What? Ian Gunn has only been nominated in three categories here.
He must be descenting into mainstream bofdom. (Note, should
you detect the flavour of sour grapes in any references to Ian
Gunn and awards....you could be right.)
BEST AUSTRALASIAN FAN FICTION ZINE
Ethel the Aardvark Paul Ewins,
Ka Farag Gatri ?,
The Mentor Ron Clarke,
Strange Matter Sian O'Neale
BEST AUSTRALASIAN FAN NEWSLETTER
Gallifreyan Graffiti ?
Oscillation Overthruster Sue Ann Barber,
Thyme Alan Stewart
BEST AUSTRALASIAN MEDIA FAN WRITER
Terry Frost, Ian Gunn, Cheryl Morgan, Karen Pender-Gunn, Grant Watson
BEST AUSTRALASIAN MEDIA ARTIST
Ian Gunn, Tracy Hamilton, Darren Reid, Colin Sharpe, Kerri Valkova
BEST AUSTRALASIAN AMATEUR AUDIO/VISUAL PRODUCTION
Basicon Opening Ceremony Ian & Karen Pender-Gunn
(E.B.H. [Channel 31])
Opening/Closing Ceremonies: Force One (D.Heap & H Gibbens))
The Dalek Tapes (Albert Q.)
UPCOMING CONVENTIONS
THE FESTIVAL OF THE IMAGINATION '96.
Lit/Media NatCon April 4-8. Kings Hotel Perth. GsoH Storm
Constantine, Neil Gaiman, Jack Dann, Janeen Webb. .GPO Box
G429, Perth, 6001 Ph:(09) 361 8210 or (09) 381 7534. E-mail
richards@iinet.net.au.
http://www.iinet.net.au/~mjl/festival/
THE REUNION #4
April 20-22 Susan Clarke 6 Bellevue Road Faulconbridge NSW 2776
PARLIAMENT OF DREAMS
May 3-5 (Babylon 5) GsoH Jerry Doyle (Garibaldi) (O.C.P)
Andrea Thompson (Talia). Carindale Hotel, Carindale, North
Quay, Brisbane (07) 3266-4040 or (07) 3375-1775 PO Box 492,
Corinda, QLD 4075
CONQUEST 96
September 27-29 GsoH Marina Sertis, Majel Barrett & Richard
Arnold. Mecure Hotel Brisbane. GPO Box 1376 Brisbane Qld 4001.
WHOVENTION III - Continuity 13th National Dr Who Convention
October 4-7 GsoH Elisabeth Sladen, Tony Howe. Rydges North
Sydney$100. P.O. Box 148 Gladesville NSW 2111
Dallas.Jones@sydpcug.org.au
MUTAGEN
tba GPO Box 910G Melbourne 3001
CONSTELLATION NZ Natcon:
Queen's Birthday Weekend 1996 The Christchurch City
Travelodge, NZ GsoH Michael Moorcock, Peter Jackson, James
Dignan P.O. Box 29-119, Fendalton, Christchurch NZ.
Email: c.brandenburg@lincoln.ac.nz
MEDTREK V
January 25-27 1997 UWS Hawkesbury Richmond NSW GsoH Marilyn
Pride & Lewis Morley $50 until June 30. Susan Clarke 6
Bellevue Road Faulconbridge NSW 2776
BASICON 2 1997 Media NatCon
venue tba $20. Date and other details tba. P.O. Box 567 Blackburn 3130
CONSPIRACY 1997 18th New Zealand National Science Fiction
Convention
March 28 to 31 1997. Airport Hotel Wellington N.Z.
GsoH: Pat Cadigan (confirmed) Danny John-Jules & Robert
Llewellyn (O.C.P). Dan McCarthy. Australian address PO Box
1044, Bundoora, Victoria 3083. Full NZ$55 / AU$50 until
3/6/96, thereafter NZ$60 / AU$54. Supp NZ$15 / AU$14. PO Box
10104, Wellington, New Zealand.Email: concom@sans.vuw.ac.nz
FORCE 2 (Star Wars)
June 7-9 1997 Edmund Barton Conference Centre 488 South Rd
Moorabbin Vic P.O. Box 427 Northcote 3070
AUSTRALIA IN '99
Bid for the 1999 World Science Fiction Convention. $10
pre-supporting rate. P.O. Box 99 Bayswater 3153.
GoH = Guest of Honour
O.C.P. = Other Commitments Permitting
tba= to be announced.
OTHER EVENTS
N.S.W.
FUTURIAN SOCIETY OF SYDNEY
http://ftoomsh.progsoc.uts.edu.au/~ian/writings.html
SOUTHERN SCIENCE FICTION GROUP
April 20 (book crawl and lunch) 15 Shade Place Lugarno (02)
534-3595.
SKYFORCE SYDNEY
June 1 The Faculty of Nursing, 88 Mallet Street Camperdown.
THE WINTER BALL
August 31 1996 7.00pm Elim House Burwood NSW Susan Clarke 6
Bellevue Road Faulconbridge NSW 2776
NEWCASTLE DOCTOR WHO SCIENCE FICTION CLUB
3rd Sunday of the month, Alice Ferguson Community Centre, 30
Caldwell St Merewether P.O. Box 140, Kotara Fair 2289, ph
(049) 543 603 (049) 43 2666
e-mail shadow@scorch.hna.com.au
BABYLON 5 OZ FAN CLUB
PO Box 161 Adamstown NSW 2289. Fanzines The Babble-on
Babylon 5 and Gold Channel e-mail shadow@scorch.hna.com.au
PENRITH SF GROUP (047) 322-179 or (047) 301-073
AUSTRALIAN SF ASSOCIATION GPO Box 4440 Sydney 2000
DR WHO FAN CLUB OF AUSTRALIA PO Box 4 Epping NSW 2121
email: neelix@eagle.asstdc.com.au $9 per year
GARGOYLE CLUB
First Friday of month 7.00pm, Royal Exhibition Hotel Surrey Hills
THE THURSDAY NIGHT GROUP
Informal eating and nattering. 5-7pm Thursday Nights. Ali
Baba Caf on George St. (Contact Graham Batho (Wk)(02)
213-8641 for details)
TAVERN
Monthly booze-up for Doctor Who fans in Sydney. First Friday
of month, 6 pm. Museum Hotel.
PARRAMATTA SF DISCUSSION GROUP
1st Thursday of the month 7pm Infinitas Bookshop, 5/1 Horwood
Place, Parramatta. (02 633 5682) ianm@mpx.com.au
SYDNEY DW SF FAN CLUB
Anglican Church Hall 2 Rochford St Erskinville GPO Box 2870
Sydney 2001 neelix@eagle.asstdc.com.au
VICTORIA
MSFC
March 29 Babylon 5 , April 12 Cards, April 19 Food April 26
Comics 7.30 pm St David's Church Hall 74 Melville Rd West
Brunswick P.O. Box 212 World Trade Centre Melbourne 3005
TIME TREKKERS
April 12 7.30pm46 Sternberg Street Bendigo P.O. Box 934
Bendigo 3550.
NOVA MOB
April 3 Lucy Sussex "Aurealis Awards" 13 Frederick St
Brunswick. (Note change of venue.)
AUSTREK
GPO Box 5206AA Melbourne 3001 e-mail austrek@tbsa.com.au
DANDENONG VALLEY SCIENCE FICTION SOCIETY
April 10 SF as Religion. 8.00pm, Dandenong Library. Ann
McGann 63 Woodside Ave, Frankston, 3199. 05971-3645.
ENTERPRISE
April 27 AGM & Quark's L&F Emporium P.O. Box 466 World Trade Centre
Melbourne 3005 (03) 9583 7404
SKYFORCE
(Star Wars) April 13 St Mark's Church Hall, cnr Burke Rd &
Canterbury Rd Camberwell. 1.00 to 5.00pm P.O. Box 427
Northcote 3070
THE FIRST ANNUAL COSTUMER'S BALL
June 22 6.30pm Dallas Brooks Hall 300 Albert St East
Melbourne. $42/head ($38 for members) P.O. Box 322 Bentleigh
Vic 3205 (03) 9557-7088
FRIDAY NIGHT MOB
Friday Nights 6-7.30pm. Informal eating and nattering. K&Ms,
Myer Arcade Melbourne
GAMMA QUADRANT OUTPOST
A local chapter of the U.S. based Bajoran Alliance, (Deep
Space Nine) P.O. Box 567 Blackburn 3130
k.pender-gunn@latrobe.edu.au
AUSTRALIAN BABYLON 5 FAN CLUB
P.O. Box 41 West Brunswick 3055 Fanzine Babbling On
THE X-FILES FAN CLUB OF AUSTRALIA
P.O. Box 402, Niddrie 3042., Fanzine The Field Journal.
DOCTOR WHO CLUB OF VICTORIA
GPO Box 4782UU Melbourne VIC 3001. $12 per year. Fanzine Sonic
Screwdriver. Meetings Second Saturday of the month.
email: borad@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
AUSTRALIAN HORROR SOCIETY
1st Thursday of the month, 7.30 pm back room Maori Chieftan
Hotel, Moray St Sth Melbourne. P.O. Box 7545 St Kilda Rd Melb.
3004.
THE QUANTUM LEAP FAN CLUB
Newsletter The Leaper PO Box 315, Northcote VIC 3070
QUEENSLAND
11:21 (QLD X-FILES CLUB)
Contact Flat 2, 10 Roseglen St Greenslopes 4120
WARP SPEED
April 27 6.00pm Brisbane Wesley Central Mission Hall
THE RETURN OF THE COSMIC COTILLION
March 30 7.00pm. The Irish Club Brisbane $20
RICHARD ARNOLD DAY
March 31 10.30am The Hotel Mercure, Brisbane $35
S.A.
AUSFA,
c/- Clubs Association, University of Adelaide, North Terrace,
Adelaide SA 5001.
SASTREK
Star Trek P.O. Box 369 North Adelaide S.A. 5006 (08 337 8759). (Please note the correction)
CRITICAL MASS
April 3 Writers Centre dwarman@maths.adelaide.edu.au PO Box
3355, Rundle Mall, Adelaide, SA 5000
W.A.
UniSFA -
University of Western Australia Science Fiction
Association.See Web page or e-mail
(nulsmurf@tartarus.uwa.edu.au)
THE WEST LODGE
Doctor Who Fan Club. First Saturday of the month at the
Collins Street Centre, South Perth. P.O. Box 190 Mt Lawley
6050
E-Mail : nulsmurf@tartarus.uwa.edu.au
WESTREK
Star Trek Club of Western Australia Inc. Last Friday of month
6:45pm. (except December second Friday) Labour Centre
Building, 82 Beaufort Street Perth. Hall . P.O. Box 307
Bentley WA 6102 Phone: (09) 356 1757
Email: evans@pf.adied.oz.au
THE NEUTRAL ZONE
Star Trek Last Friday of every month. 6.30pm. Murdoch
University, ECL Lecture Theatres 1 and 4. PO Box 1169, Bibra
Lake, WA, 6163. Phone (09) 434 4167, email: nzone@iinet.net.au
A.C.T.
CANBERRA S FS
April 4 7:30pm Woden Library. April 18 7pm Reid TAFE
Restaurant (numbers by 7 March).ph (06) 288 6391 (ah) PO Box
47, Civic Square ACT 2608
FANZINES
THYME #108 Alan Stewart P.O. Box 222 World Trade Centre,
Melbourne 3004. Includes AUSTRALIAN SF NEWS # 68 Merv Binns
and ARTICHOKE #15 Ian Gunn.
EMERALD CITY #8 Cheryl Morgan100610.3413@compuserve.com
WEB PAGES
AFR
http://www.peg.apc.org/~roman/afr/afr_1/afr_1.htm
Australia in '99
http://www.maths.uts.edu.au/staff/eric/ain99
Kathryn Andersen
http://connexus.apana.org.au/~kat/refract.html
Australasian Fannish Email Directory
http://ncc1701.apana.org.au/~larrikin/sfandom/fandom/directry.html
Babylon 5 OZ Fan Club
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~bab5oz/bab5oz.html
Sara Douglass
http://www.quake.net/~autopen/saradoug.html
David Grigg
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~drgrigg
Doctor Who Club of Victoria
http://www.yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au/~borad/dwcv-home.html
Dr Who Fan Club of Australia
http://www.ocs.mq.edu.au:80/~korman/dwfca.html
Eidolon
http://www.midnight.com.au/eidolon
Festival of the Imagination 1996
http://www.iinet.net.au/~mjl/festival/
Futurians
http://ftoomsh.progsoc.uts.edu.au/~ian/writings.html
Ibn Qirtaiba
http://odyssey.apana.org.au/~terminus.
Ithorians (Star Wars)
http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~eydc/ITHOR/
Eric Lindsay
http://www.maths.uts.edu.au/eric/sf.html
MedTrek 5
http://www.ar.com.au/~medtrek
Perry Middlemiss
http://ncc1701.apana.org.au/~larrikin/welcome.html
The Neutral Zone
http://www.iinet.net.au/~nzone/
Kate Orman
http://www.ocs.mq.edu.au:80/~korman
Ozsf
http://pyromania.apana.org.au/~coljac/ozsf.html
Quantum Leap
http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~eydc
Quantum Leap push server animation
http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~eydc/push.html
SF Times
http://www.spirit.com.au/acm/sftimes.html
Star Wars
http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/~saxton/starwars
UniSFA
http://www.gu.uwa.edu.au/clubs/unisfa
VicNet
http://www.vicnet.net.au/~vicvol/sfoz/sfpage.htm
X-Files
http://www.iinet.net.au/~brianp/xfiles/
DEADLINES
FotI Short Story Competition March 30
Ditmar Voting 6.00pm April 6
ASFMA Voting 6.00pm April 6
1996 DUFF Voting April 15 1996
SOURCES
Alan Stewart, Aurealis, FotI, Sally Beasley,
DEADLINE FOR #52
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