THE AUSTRALIAN SCIENCE FICTION BULLSHEET #26 – February 17th 1995
A fast, grubby and 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: Marc_A._Ortlieb@ausom.oz.au. Please note the change).
Postal subscriptions $6-00 for ten issues, the increase due to new format.
(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, the Ausom FC BBS 543 3411 or
Psibaud (03) 804 3205.
ONE RESCUED FROM THE BRINK OF EXTINCTION. ONE GONE.
Encouraged by a recent rumoured sighting of a thylacine in Tasmania,
THYLACON has increased its profile. Their postal address has changed to
P.O. Box 418, Sandy Bay, Tas 7005 and Roy Ferguson has agreed to do the
Ditmar Awards.They have reduced their membership, from $75 to $60 until
the end of March. Group memberships for ten or more club members. There
has been a switch of hotels from Wrest Point Casino to Hadley's.
Meanwhile it appears that VOYAGER has bitten the dust.
DITMAR NOMINATIONS OPEN
Thylacon has called for nominations for the 1995 Australian Science
Fiction Achievement Awards. Categories are Best Australian Long Fiction,
Best Australian Short Fiction, Best Fanzine, Best Fan Writer, Best Fan
Artist, Best Professional Art. In addition, nominations are called for
for the William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or Review. The Australian
Science Fiction Foundation has compiled a list of eligible candidates for
the two fiction Awards. That will appear in Thyme and the Bullsheet.
KRYTEN IN MELBOURNE
Robert Llewellan, the actor who plays Kryten in Red Dwarf, will be at the
ABC Shop on the corner of Bourke St and Elizabeth St on February 24th
between 12:30 and 1:30 pm.
UPCOMING CONVENTIONS
TRI(C)ON Dr Who February 18 Paramatta Travelodge Rosehill NSW GoH Mark
Strickson $25 at the door. 1 Woodberry St Winton Hills 2153
SWANCON '95 W.A. regional April 13-17 Perth Sheraton Hotel. GsoH Pat
Cadigan & Ellen Datlow. Att $70. P.O. Box 318 Nedlands 6009
Ph/Fax 09 367 7236 skribe@iinet.com.au
CONQUEST '95. NZ Nat Con1995. April 14-17, Airport Quality Hotel,
Auckland GsoH: Roger Zelazny, Vonda McIntyre, Richard Taylor, Keith
Smith P.O. Box 26-311 Auckland, NZ. E-Mail: ncates@chenov1.auckland.ac.nz
FORCE ONE (1st Star Wars NatCon) 15-17 April, Melbourne Town House,
GsoH Steve Sansweet, Hugh Fleming, Jon Berg. $110. PO Box 427 Northcote
3070. 03 416 8998
THYLACON 1995 Lit NatCon,June 9-12, Hadley's Hotel, Hobart. GsoH Kim
Stanley Robinson, Peter Nicholls and Grant Stone.$60-00 until March 31.
Sup $20-00. Voting $5-00. P.O. Box 418, Sandy Bay, Tas 7005
(002) 312-560 e-mail cnelson@mariner.amc.edu.au.
ARCON Aussiecon Reunion Convention- celebrating twenty years of Australian
Science Fiction. September 22-24 GsoH Robin Johnson & David Grigg Savoy
Plaza Hotel Melbourne. P.O. Box 215 Forest Hill, Vic 3131 Att $50-00.
CONTINUUM (Conquest 95) September 22-24 Lennon's Hotel GPO Box 1376 Brisbane
4001 (07) 273 6512
CONDIMENT '95 1995 Media Natcon October 14 Melbourne Town Hall
MUTAGEN 96 January 26-29 1996, Dr Who GsoH Peter Davison (O.C.P.) Chris
Barrie (O.C.P.) Paul Cornell. Att $90-00. GPO Box 910G Melbourne 3001.
(03) 534-2752
FESTIVAL OF THE IMAGINATION/ CONFUSION 96/SWANCON 21 Lit/Media NatCon
Easter 1996. Uni of W.A.Supp $15.
CONSTELLATION NZ Natcon: Queens Birthday Weekend 1996 The Christchurch City
Travelodge, NZ GsoH Michael Moorcock, James Dignan $50.00 during 1994/5
P.O. Box 29-119, Fendalton, Christchurch
NZ. Email: c. brandenburg@lincoln.ac.nz
GoH = Guest of Honour
O.C.P. = Other Commitments Permitting
OTHER EVENTS
N.S.W.
GARGOYLE CLUB First Friday of month 7.00pm, Royal Exhibition Hotel Surrey Hills
FUTURIAN SOCIETY OF SYDNEY 3rd Friday of month 7pm Room 1615 University of
Technology Sydney
SYDNEY DR WHO FAN Club 4th Sunday of month Sefton District Girl Guides Hall.
P.O. Box 381, Chester Hill, 2162 (02) 727-4272
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) 57 5109 (049) 43 2666
VICTORIA
ENTERPRISE February 25 1.005.00 pm Trek Trivia Quiz & Starfleet Exams
Horticultural Society Hall 31 Victoria St P.O. Box 466 World Trade Centre
Melbourne 3005
MSFC February 17 Kurt Russell Film Festival; February 24 Swap Card Night;
7-30pm St David's Church Hall 74 Melville Rd West Brunswick P.O. Box 212
World Trade Centre Melbourne 3005
February 18 11-00 am BBQ near the Yellow Peril. Filming Australia in '99 Video.
February 23 Stargate Premier (phone 5837404 to book)
NOVA MOB March 1 8.00pm Alan Stewart's Place (No current dinner venue. The Erawan
has become a take-away only) Alan Stewart on recent Mars novels. Ph 03 429-8354
TIME-TREKKERS March 3 46 Sternberg Street Bendigo Star Trek:Voyager Bendigo
premier. P.O. Box 934 Bendigo 3550
AUSTREK March 4 2-5pm Hobson's Bay Secondary College 88 Graham Street
Albert Park
STAR TREK MARATHONS The Glasshouse Theatrette, RMIT Union 360 Swanston St
6:30pm first Sat of the month.
AUSTRALIAN BABYLON 5 Fan Club P.O. Box 41 West Brunswick 3055
QLD
CAMP WARRAWEE February 17-19 P.O. Box 10308 Adelaide St Brisbane 4000?
WARP SPEED February 25 GPO Box 2004 Brisbane 4001 (07) 356 5472
COSMIC COTILLION April 1 Irish ClubGPO Box 2004 Brisbane 4001 (07) 356 5472
Conquest 95 March 5 GPO Box 1376 Brisbane 4001 (07) 273 6512
QUEST Star Trek March 12 12noon - 4.00pm Yungaba Community Centre, 100
Mains Rd Kangaroo Point (07) 356 5472
A.C.T.,S.A., Tas, W.A.
No current information
FANZINES
THYME #100 Alan Stewart P.O. Box 222 World Trade Centre Melbourne 3005.
Thyme gets its ton and to celebrate, Alan releases a collection of material
from previous issues. A nice potted history of the last fourteen years of
Australian fandom.
THE CAPTAIN'S LOG # 211 Star Trek Katharine Shade for Austrek GPO Box 5206AA
Melbourne 3001
ULTRAWARP #11 Michael Cloonan & Greg Smith P.O. Box 934 Bendigo 3550
BBS
ECHO BASE HOTH (03) 563-1323.
PSIBAUD, (03) 804 3205, free single line stand-alone science fiction and
education BBS
UNISFA http://www.gu.uwa.edu.au /unisfa/.
Ausom's First Class Bulletin Board has added a science fiction conference
called Sci Fi (03) 543 3411
DAMIEN WARMAN http://smug.student. adelaide.edu.au/damien/home.html
DEADLINES
Duff March 5th 1995.
Ditmar Nominations March 24th 1995
Guff March 31st 1995.
CoAs
Thylacon P.O. Box 418, Sandy Bay, Tas 7005
Marc Ortlieb Marc_A._Ortlieb@ausom.oz.au
SOURCES
Warp Speed, Carey Handfield, Black Light, The Captain's Log, David Tongs,
David Richardson, Roy Ferguson, Chris Nelson, Keith Curtis, Ultrawarp
JOVE NODS, BULLSHEET HAPPENS
Oops. Sorry to those who turned up at 10.00am, for the Dr Who Club Foot
Rally. It wasn't due to start until 12.00 noon.
DEADLINE FOR #27
Tuesday February 28th. Distribution Friday March 3rd.
AUSTRALIAN FANZINES OF 1994
The following is a list of fanzines that I've seen or had mentioned to me
as appearing in 1994. Please feel free to send me evidence of any I've
missed. I'm not counting Aurealis, Eidolon or Bloodsongs as fanzines.
I don't know whether or not Roy Ferguson will. The definition of fanzine
specifies "non-professional". These fanzines will, by definition, contain
work by people eligible in the Fan Writer and Fan Artist categories.
ARTICHOKE Ian Gunn
AUSTRALIAN SF NEWS Merv Binns
AUSTRALIAN SF WRITER'S NEWS THE Dirk Strasser & Steven Paulsen
BLACK LIGHT Sean-Paul Smith & Damian Christie
BUSSWARBLE Michael Hailstone
CAPTAIN'S LOG THE Katharine Shade
COMMUNICATOR THE Derek Screen
DAG SPEAKETH THE Anonymous
DAN WANKETH THE Danny Heap
ETHEL THE AARDVARK Paul Ewins
FNAC John Foyster
FROG ON A CASHBOX Anonymous
ICEWORLD Damian Christie
INSTRUMENTALITY THE Donna Heenan
MENTOR THE Ron Clark
METAPHYSICAL REVIEW THE Bruce Gillespie
MUMBLINGS FROM MUNCHKINLAND Chris Nelson
NEMESIS Ausfa
OR SO YOU SAY Shayne McCormack
RON'S THE ONE John Foyster
SCARAMOUCHE Terry Frost
SKRIBE Paul Branch & Celine Zhu
SONIC SCREWDRIVER David Richardson
STEVE ALBINI'S LOVEGUN Lucy Sussex and Julian Warner
SYDNEY FUTURIAN Ron Clarke
THYME Alan Stewart
TOTAL ANIMAL SOUP OF TIME THE Terry Frost
ULTRAWARP Michael Cloonan
WEBER WOMAN'S WREVENGE Jean Weber
ZINE THE Stephen Smith
This does not include the myriad of Anzapazine titles that has appeared in
ANZAPA over the year. Nor does it include Ian Gunn& Kerri Valkova's
AUSTRALIAN FAN DIARY or Ali Kayn's SCIENCE FICTION FAN RESOURCE BOOK.
THYLACON INFORMATION
THYLACON : the 1995 National Science Fiction Convention
Hobart, 9-12 June 1995
An old style National convention with an emphasis on all fields of SF,
reading, writing, viewing and fandom. It has a major strand devoted to the
emergence of "young adult" themes in recent SF and another on terraforming
-- both this planet and others. It will also have a games program,
including a Magic (TM) tournament, a masquerade, a hucksters area, auctions,
literary and mdeia panels and a fanroom.
Our Guests of Honour are:
INTERNATIONAL
Kim Stanley Robinson
Hugo and Nebula Award Winner
Red Mars (novel), Green Mars (novel)
Escape from Kathmandu (short)
and other works
AUSTRALIAN
Peter Nicholls
Hugo Award Winner
Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
Grant Stone
The Culture Vulture (7ZR)
Weird News (5AN, 6WF)
Faster Than Light Radio Show (RTR-FM, Perth)
Membership Rates
$60 until the end of March, then $75, or a day rate of $25 (subject to
revision), or for a club group of 10 or more (non-transferable, etc.) $40
until the end of March and then $55. Supporting membership $20.
Accomodation available in a variety of price ranges.
Queries & cheques to Thylacon, PO Box 418, Sandy Bay, Tas. 7005
ph 002 - 312560
THE AUSTRALIAN SCIENCE FICTION ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS (DITMARS)
The 1995 Ditmars for work in Science Fiction and Fantasy during 1994 will
be awarded at Thylacon, the 34th Australian National SF Convention, to be
held in Hobart from June 9-12, 1995.
The Constitution of the Australian National SF Convention states, re awards:
The Convention Committee will, by a vote of the Conventions members, after
a nominating process involving Australian Fandom generally, award up to five
Australian Science Fiction Awards (of which, at least one must be for
fannish endeavours) and the William Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism and
Review.For this purpose the Thylacon committee has appointed a sub-committee.
The following nominating form may be filled out by any member of Australian
Fandom. The Sub-Committee will accept up to five nominations in each
category from each nominator.
Following a tradition established in two previous National SF conventions
Thylacon is taking nominations in six categories plus the William Atheling
Jr. Award.
Voting forms compiled from these nominations will then be sent to all
members of Thylacon.
Completed forms must be sent to:Ditmar Sub-CommitteePO Box 12096 A'Beckett
St Melbourne 3000
NOMINATIONS CLOSE: 24th March 1995
DEFINITIONS OF CATEGORIES
1. BEST AUSTRALIAN LONG FICTION:
A science fiction or fantasy story of 17,500 words or more, written by
an Australian citizen or permanent resident of Australia and which was
published for the first time, and distributed in Australia by an Australian
book publisher or distributor during the 1994 calendar year.
2. BEST AUSTRALIAN SHORT FICTION:
A science fiction or fantasy story of less than 17,500 words, written by
an Australian citizen or permanent resident of Australia and which was
first published in Australia during the 1994 calendar year.
3. BEST FANZINE:
A non-professional publication devoted to science fiction,fantasy or
related subjects, produced by an Australian citizen or permanent resident
of Australia which was produced and generally available in 1994.
4. BEST FAN WRITER:
An Australian citizen or permanent resident of Australia who wrote material
which appeared in a fanzine produced and generally available in 1994.
5. BEST FAN ARTIST:
An Australian citizen or permanent resident of Australia whose artwork
(of whatever description) appeared in a generally available fanzine or
through other public display in 1994. An artist does not qualify for this
award for any artwork which they were paid to produce. Artwork for public
display must have as its theme, science fiction, fantasy or related subjects.
6. BEST PROFESSIONAL ARTWORK:
An Australian citizen or permanent resident of Australia whose original
artwork was produced by commission or for sale in 1994. The artwork must
have as its theme, science fiction, fantasy or related subjects and have
been publically visible in 1994 eg by display or as a magazine or book
cover.
THE WILLIAM ATHELING JR. AWARD FOR CRITICISM OR REVIEW:
For a particular piece of criticism or review of science fiction or fantasy,
or a body of shorter items, where the work or works first appeared in
Australia in 1994.
For further information on Thylacon,
please write toThylacon, PO Box 418, Sandy Bay, Tasmania 7006
Internet email address: cnelson@mariner.amc.edu.au
NOMINATION FORM
1. BEST AUSTRALIAN LONG FICTION (title, author, publisher)
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2. BEST AUSTRALIAN SHORT FICTION (title, author, publication)
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3. BEST FANZINE (title,editor/publisher, address)
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4. BEST FAN WRITER (name, published examples)
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5. BEST FAN ARTIST (name, published examples)
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6. BEST PROFESSIONAL ARTWORK (name of artist, artwork and when/how displayed)
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WILLIAM ATHELING JR. AWARD FOR CRITICISM OR REVIEW (Please supply the
source of nominees in this category)
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NAME: ____________________________
ADDRESS:
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SIGNATURE:
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Thylacon Membership No: _________(if known)If you are not a Thylacon member
and may be unknown to the Sub-Committee please supply the name of a fan or
fan organization to whom/which you are known:
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NOTE: The Sub-Committee is the final arbiter on the eligibility of a nominee.
NOMINATIONS CLOSE: 24TH MARCH 1995
SEND NOMINATIONS TO:
PO BOX 12096, A'BECKETT ST, MELBOURNE 3000
1995 AUSTRALIAN SCIENCE FICTION (DITMAR) AWARDS
REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS ENCOURAGED PROVIDED IT IS VERBATIM