THE AUSTRALIAN SCIENCE FICTION BULLSHEET #89 – December 5 1997
A parisological newszine 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).
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IN PRINT
Bloodsongs #9 has reached Australia. It includes fiction by Sean
Williams and a historical piece of fiction by Waif Wander, introduced
by Lucy Sussex. Steve Proposch reviews Richard Harland's The Dark
Edge.
BULLSHEET MEDIA WATCH
The Herald/Sun 21/11/97 had an article about Timestorm, including a
photo of Guest of Honour Sophie Aldred.
Jack Herman, in his role as executive secretary to the Australian
Press Council, has a letter dealing with Stuart Littlemore's comments
on the ABC's Lateline (Herald/Sun 26/11/97)
Linnet Hunter reviews Isobelle Carmody's Greylands in The Weekend
Australian November 29-30 1997. In the same issue, Damien Broderick
looks at Lee Smolin's The Life of the Cosmos and David Deutsch's The
Fabric of Reality
AUSSIECON THREE
Nothing new to report.
GUNNY IS A HAM
Ian Gunn provides the following conundrum
" Q: Why is Ian Gunn like a Christmas Ham?
A: Because he's pretty much cured!
Yes, folks after months of hair loss and out-of-stomach experiences,
Dr. Joe says "No more chemotherapy for you!" I'm cancer-free!
Yeehar!
The good doctor says that according to my CAT scan,
all those swollen tumorous glands have reverted to their original
size.
Well, okay there's still a few mysterious spots on the liver,
but Dr.Joe says not to worry about them, probably just harmless
little cysts, we'll have another CAT scan in a couple of months and
see what they're up to.
But generally, the news is good!
Now all I've got to do is grow my hair back, wait for the
tingling sensation in my toes and fingertips to pass and get my taste
buds back to normal.
Thank you all for your kind words and support. Karen and I
are both very happy.
Yours, in something resembling good health, Gunny"
CONVENTION NEWS
James Allen reports "Timestorm was a great little con, we had a lot
of fun and Sophie Aldred was a superb guest of Honour. We even had a
chance to see her husband's showreel at the closing ceremony (He is a
TV presenter in UK), which was fun. All went well and on time, except
for the auction, which over-ran its time (No surprise)"
The 1997 Double Gamma Awards, were presented at Timestorm
Best Fan Artist : Peter Shaw.
Best Fan Writer: Daniel Payne
Best Fan Editor: Sarah J Groenwegen=
Melanie Fitzsimmons=
Best Fanzine: Sonic Screwdriver
Special Fan Achievement Award: Rod Scott
DAMIEN TALKS TO SCIENCE TEACHERS
Damien Broderick reports " Just sproiked (24 November) to the
assembled science educators of Victoria in their many hundreds,
giving the keynote address at their annual conference. I was scared
that my spikish message would alarm the teachers and precipitate
gales of derision, and I'd get the strap; not so. Made cheap fun of
Barry O. Jones (who'd reviewed The Spike poisonously a few weeks
back in a mid-week Oz). Kind applause, people approaching after
with warm smiles, etc. What fun. I really do need to get out more
often..."
(When I approached one of the Hawthorn Secondary College staff -
who'd been at the conference - for her opinion, she said "I couldn't
work out what the hell he was talking about.")
FAN MOVEMENTS
Cheryl Morgan headed back to the U.S. on December 2.
Jeanne Mealy from St Paul notes " Eric Lindsay was here last week
during a mild spell and missed our early dustings of snow. He was
relieved. Nice to see him! He came saling with us one night, in fact
(MN Public Radio catalogue sale)."
FAN FUNDS
Duff administrator Perry Middlemiss sends a correction to the
previous Bullsheet " Just a quick note to let you know that the DUFF
race for 1998 actually hasn't started yet, as implied in your latest
Bullsheet. We've merely extended the nomination period until the end
of December." Rumour has it that Terry Frost intends to stand, but
there are no reports of other nominees. Meanwhile the Deadline for
GUFF nominations has passed with no sign of any contenders. It looks
as though the next GUFF race will bring a European fan to Aussiecon
three. Nothing has been heard of FFANZ.
UPCOMING CONVENTIONS
MULTIVERSE 3 February 13-15 1998 Edmund Barton Centre 488 South Road
Moorabbin Victoria GsoH Claudia Christian, Robert Llewelyn P.O. Box
355 World Trade Centre Melbourne, Victoria 3005 Australia
http://www.vicnet.net.au/~multivrs multivrs@vicnet.net.au
HIGHLANDER DOWNUNDER II March 28-29 1998 Mercure Hotel, Brisbane
GoH Peter Wingfield (O.C.P.) $85 full, $75 concession. Day reg is $50
& $40 concession. 11 Perrett St Bundamba Qld 4304
sonjav@powerup.com.au
CSO (Dr Who NatCon) April 17-19 1998 Brisbane Travelodge Roma Street
Station GsoH Caroline John & Geoffrey Beevers ph Trevor Gensch (07)
5499 0265
SWANCON TWENTY THREE 24th-27th April, 1998 (Anzac Day long weekend )
Orchard Hotel, 707 Wellington St, Perth. GoH: Lois McMaster Bujold
Guests: Tess Williams, Grant Stone, Dave Luckett. Dead GoH: Jules
Verne Fan Guest: Gina Goddard. Membership $60.00 until 31st August
GPO Box 429 Perth WA 6841 http://www.gu.uwa.edu.au/swancon E-mail:
swancon23@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
CONSTRUCTION (New Zealand NatCon) May 30 - June 1 1998 West Plaza
Hotel Wellington GoH Neil Gaiman P.O. Box 11559 Manners St Wellington
New Zealand
THYLACON 2 (1998 Australian National Science Fiction Convention)
June 5-8 1998 Hadley's Hotel, Hobart GoH Leanne Frahm Attending $65
until the end of 1997 Supporting or child-in-tow $20 Thylacon 2, PO
Box 55, Battery Point, TAS 7004.
BUCCONEER 56-th World Science Fiction Convention. August 5 - 9 1998,
Baltimore Convention Center and Inner Harbor hotels, Baltimore,
Maryland, USA. GOHs: C.J. Cherryh, Milt Rothman, Stanley Schmidt, and
Michael Whelan, Special Guest: J. Michael Straczynski, Toastmaster:
Charles Sheffield. Attending $130 Supporting $30 Children 4-12 $65
(Rates apply until 15 June, 1998). BucCONeer, P.O. Box 314, Annapolis
Junction, Maryland 20701 USA. E-mail:
bucconeer@bucconeer.worldcon.org URL:
http://www.bucconeer.worldcon.org.
AUSSIECON THREE 1999 World Science Fiction Convention. September 2-6
1999 World Congress Centre, Melbourne GsoH George Turner, Greg
Benford and Bruce Gillespie. Aussiecon Three, GPO Box 1212K,
Melbourne, 3001, Australia
http://www.maths.uts.edu.au/staff/eric/ain99 email
julian@aussiecon3.worldcon.org
GoH = Guest of Honour
O.C.P. = Other Commitments Permitting
tba= to be announced.
CLUB NEWS
James Allen notes, with reference to the B5Oz club " The club has surrendered it PO Box, our mail to it was bounced with unknown at this address labels and I am told it has
folded. The web site has not been upgraded for over 12 months, but it is still there."
OTHER EVENTS
A.C.T.
CANBERRA S FS ph (06) 288 6391 (ah) PO Box 47, Civic Square ACT
2608
NEXT GEN http://bohm.anu.edu.au/Clubs/Next_Gen/
N.S.W.
STAR TREK: THE EXHIBIT September 26 1997 to February 3 1998 The
Powerhouse Museum
SYDNEY SKYFORCE December 6 1-5pm Sydney University Contact Hector
- 0411 363 5021 PO Box 804 Kensington NSW 2033 Email
hbocaz@mail.usyd.edu.au
SOUTHERN SCIENCE FICTION GROUP December 13 Christmas meeting 15 Shade
Place Lugarno (02) 534-3595.
SYDNEY DW SF FAN CLUB 20 December Something Christmassy - perhaps "K9
and Company" (aargh!!!) GPO Box 2870 Sydney 2001
neelix@eagle.asstdc.com.au
AUSTRALIAN SF ASSOCIATION GPO Box 4440 Sydney 2000 Babylon 5 OZ Fan
Club shadow@scorch.hna.com.au
DR WHO FAN CLUB OF AUSTRALIA PO Box 4 Epping NSW 2121 email:
neelix@eagle.asstdc.com.au $9 per year
FUTURIAN SOCIETY OF SYDNEY Room 1615 University of Technology
Broadway http://tanelorn.socs.uts.edu.au/~iwoolf/writings.html
FRIENDS OF SCIENCE FICTION Star Trek, The X-Files, Babylon 5, Doctor
Who P O Box 797 Fairfield NSW 2165 Email fsf@nlc.net.au
http://www.nlc.net.au/~fsf/Fanzine Friends of Science Fiction
Newsletter
LOST IN SPACE AUSTRALIA P.O. Box N9 Petersham North NSW 2049
NSW UNI SF CLUB zine Sub Space Relay (02) 481-9419
NEWCASTLE SCIENCE-FICTION CLUB First Sunday of every month, Alice
Ferguson Community Hall 30 Caldwell St, Merewether. Call Craig 049
871413 for more details.
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
PARRAMATTA SF DISCUSSION GROUP 1st Thursday of the month 7pm
Infinitas Bookshop, 5/1 Horwood Place, Parramatta. (02 633 5682)
ianm@mpx.com.au
PENRITH SF GROUP (047) 322-179 or (047) 301-073
TAVERN Monthly booze-up for Doctor Who fans in Sydney. First Friday
of month, 6 pm. Museum Hotel.
THE THURSDAY NIGHT GROUP Informal eating and nattering. 5-7pm
Thursday Nights. Maloney's 614 George St, City
THE OTHER THURSDAY NIGHT GROUP The Elysee Coffee Lounge (corner Pitt
and Bathurst Streets) followed by dinner.
QUEENSLAND
CONQUEST December 7 Metro Arts 109 Edward St Brisbane GPO Box 13676
Brisbane Qld 4001
NEW ALLIANCE December 7 P.O. Box 7446 East Brisbane Qld 4169
HYPERION December 13 Metro Arts 109 Edward St Brisbane (07) 3341 0307
QUEENSLAND STAR TREKKERS (Quest) December 14 12.00 to 4.00 pm Metro
Arts 109 Edward St Brisbane GPO Box 2084 Brisbane 4001 West Hill QLD
4101 Email water@thehub.com.au
BRISBANE DR WHO FAN CLUB Queensland Rail Institute Center, Brisbane
Central Station PO Box 10308, Adelaide Street, Brisbane QLD 4000.
email timelord@closer.brisnet.org.au
http://www.cth.com.au/usr/timelord/bdwfc.htm
BRISBANE SKYFORCE Contact Nick - (07) 3369 9744, PO Box 5732 West
Hill QLD 4101
FSFSA C/O Leela Cosgrove 3 Sollis St. Geebung Brisbane Q 4034
HIGHLANDER Newsletter The Buzz
THE SPACE RANGER FAN CLUB Dinners at least once a month 104 Muir
Street, Labrador 4215 (07)55322812
TERMINAL PYRAMIDS The Wide Bay DW and B7 Fan Club 51 Rocky St
Maryborough QLD 4650 (071) 215 180 (Daniel Pattell)
UQTREK The University of Queensland's first and only club for the
Appreciation of Star Trek contact Perryn Fowler
cs324423@student.uq.edu.au
VORTEX G.P.O. Box 2084 Brisbane 4001
S.A.
AUSFA, c/- Clubs Association, University of Adelaide, North Terrace,
Adelaide SA 5001.
CRITICAL MASS Contact Damien Warman PO Box 3355, Rundle Mall Adelaide
SA 5000 dmw@pobox.com (note change of email address)
CRITICAL MASS XMAS PARTY contact Allan or Leslie Bray on (08) 8445
2772
SASTREK P.O. Box 369 North Adelaide S.A. 5006 (08 337 8759).
Sastrek@bigfoot.com
SOUTH AUSTRALIAN DOCTOR WHO FAN CLUB PO Box 3227, Adelaide, SA, 5000
(08) 294 8337 (Jeremia Boddey, president) Monthly meetings. Fanzine
Chameleon Factor ; newsletter Wall of Lies, annual fanzine Jethryk
VICTORIA
MSFC December 5, December 12, December 17 Coffee & Conversation
8.00pm St David's Church Hall 74 Melville Rd West Brunswick P.O. Box
212 World Trade Centre Melbourne 3005
SARA DOUGLASS READING AND SIGNING December 5 5:30pm Slow Glass Books
305 Swanston Walk Melbourne
PHRYNE FISHER CLUB December 6, 12 noon, Cafe Hotel 480 Victoria
Street North Melbourne XMas do.P.O. Box 41 West Brunswick 3055
AUSTREK December 6 6:00pm to 10:00pm Quark's Casino Evening St
Mark's Church Hall, cnr Canterbury and Burke Roads, Camberwell GPO
Box 5206AA Melbourne 3001 austrek@dc.com.au
http://www.dc.com.au/austrek
DANDENONG SCIENCE FICTION SOCIETY December 10 Xmas Party & Quiz Night
Ann McGann P.O. Box 706 Frankston Vic 3199 015 510 159
luddite@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
ALIEN RESURRECTION PREVIEW December 11 7:00 Contact Multiverse P.O.
Box 355 World Trade Centre Melbourne, Victoria 3005 Australia
http://www.vicnet.net.au/~multivrs
SKYFORCE (Star Wars) December 13 Christmas in the Stars party St
Marks Church Hall, corner of Burke Rd and Canterbury Rd Camberwell.
6pm-11:30pm P.O. Box 427 Northcote 3070 Email Address:
darren.maxwell@tmca.com.au www.xavier.vic.edu.au/starwalking
WESTGARTH'S 24 HOUR SF MOVIE MARATHON December 13 $30 7:00am
breakfast start
ENTERPRISE Christmas Party December 13 1:00pm to 6:00pm Wattle Park,
Riversdale Road entrance, Burwood.P.O. Box 466 World Trade Centre
Melbourne 3005 (03) 9583 7404 enterprise@minerals.csiro.au
AUSTRALIAN BABYLON 5 FAN CLUB December 14 12 Noon, Christmas BBQ, at
the electric BBQs in Edwardes Lake reserve, Reservoir. BYO meat,
salads. Club will provide soft drinks, some food.P.O. Box 41 West
Brunswick 3055 Fanzine Babbling On Email JamesAllen@vut.edu.au
GOULBURN VALLEY SCI-FI CLUB December 28 Willowmere Receptions
Kyabram.c/o 41 Grutzner Ave , Shepparton , 3630
ENTERPRISE January 23-26 Galaxy exploration trip to the Buchan Caves
P.O. Box 466 World Trade Centre Melbourne 3005 (03) 9583 7404
enterprise@minerals.csiro.au
AUSTRALIAN COSTUMERS GUILD Telephone (03)9557 7088 P.O. Box 322
Bentleigh Vic 3204 email stilskin@netspace.net.au
http://www.vicnet.net.au/~costume/
AUSTRALIAN HORROR WRITERS P.O. Box 7545 St Kilda Rd Melb. 3004.
BIG SF (Star Trek/ general SF) Ballarat P.O. Box 178 Wendouree 3355
THE DAEMONIACS CLUB P.O. Box 1528 Collingwood Vic 3066
DOCTOR WHO CLUB OF VICTORIA GPO Box 4782UU Melbourne 3001 email:
borad@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
DRINKIES Last Thursday of the each month, Dickens on Collins, from
6:00pm. (Contact Bev Hope at the MSFC for more details)
FELLOWSHIP OF MIDDLE EARTH Monash University FOME c/o The Union,
Monash University, Clayton Victoria 3168 fome@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
or eleni@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au http://yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au/~fome/
FRIDAY NIGHT MOB Friday Nights 6-7.30pm. Informal eating and
nattering. Myers Cafeteria Melbourne
GALLIFREY GPO Box 910G Melbourne 3001 Daniel Klein 0419 379 842,
AH:(03) 9850 7275
MELBOURNE ANIME SOCIETY every 2nd & 4th Saturday, 1-4pm at Oakleigh
Mechanics Institute Hall, Lvl 1, 142 Drummond St, Oakleigh. Stephen
Porritt (sec) 2/20 Florence Road, Surrey Hills, 3127 Ph 9889 3829
email porritt@minyos.its.rmit.edu.au.
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Flats/1129/
NOVA MOB 13 Frederick St Brunswick.
RED DWARF FAN CLUB P.O. Box 1044 Bundoora 3083
TIME TREKKERS P.O. Box 334 Bendigo 3550.
THE X-FILES FAN CLUB OF AUSTRALIA Locked Bag 1013, Flemington, 3031.
Fanzine The Field Journal.
W.A.
JUMP POINT December 13 UWA The Babylon 5 club of W.A. Email
info@jumppoint.net.au http://www.jumppoint.net.au/
THE NEUTRAL ZONE PO Box 1169, Bibra Lake, WA, 6965.. Phone (09)
434 4167, email: nzone@iinet.net.au Fanzine The Final Frontier
UNISFA - UNIVERSITY OF W. A. SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION. Rebecca
Kirkman gidget@tartarus.uwa.edu.au. Box 59 c/o Guild of
Undergraduates, University of Western Australia Nedlands 6907.
THE WEST LODGE Doctor Who Fan Club. P.O. Box 190 Mt Lawley 6050
E-Mail : null@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
http://www.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/~null/WestLodge/WestLodge.html
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 nexus1@iinet.com.au
FANZINES
Cathy Cupitt reports that she has plans for a new fanzine next year.
Further details from her at
http://www.cowan.edu.au/~ccupitt/rhizome/home.html
BUSSWARBLE #35 Michael Hailstone 14 Cecil Road Blackheath NSW 2785.
MIMEZINE OVERDOSE (MIMEZINE FLASHBACK 12) Terry Frost 5 Temple St
West Brunswick 3055 hlector@netspace.net.au
WEB PAGES
For a full listing,
http://www.vicnet.net.au/~sfoz/zines.htm
Move/Addition
Cathy Cupitt
http://www.cowan.edu.au/~ccupitt/rhizome/home.html
DEADLINES
ANZAPA 180 December 8 1997
DUFF NOMINATIONS December 31
GEORGE TURNER AWARD January 30 1998
SOURCES
Alan Stewart, Vortex, James Allen ,Ian Gunn, Cathy Cupitt
DEADLINE FOR #90
Tuesday December 16th. Distribution Friday December 19th.
(#90 will be the last Bullsheet until February 1998)
BULLSHEET UNCLASSIFIEDS
Lara Armellin (laraa@eisa.net.au) 03-9331-0160
"I was wondering whether someone would be kind enough to help me? I
am selling a few of my Star Trek items to subsidise my move to
Canada. " Items include New Generation, DS9 and Voyager novels; New
Gen, DS9 and Voyager videos;The Star Trek New Generation Companion;
2 watches- New Gen and DS9; New Gen gravity alarm clock; two stamps-
Live Long and Prosper and Counsellour Troi.