THE AUSTRALIAN SCIENCE FICTION BULLSHEET #52 – April 26 1996
An unassuming 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.
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1996 HUGO NOMINATIONS
Greg Egan has scored two Hugo nominations in the Best Novelette
category for "Luminous" (Asimov's, September 1995) and "TAP"
(Asimov's, November 1995). Ian Gunn has been nominated in the
best Fan Artist category. In addition "Giant Killer", by A.
Bertram Chandler (Astounding, October 1945) has been nominated
for Best Novella in the 1946 Retro-Hugo Awards. (Past DUFF
winner Bill Rotsler made it onto both the 1996 and 1946 ballots
in the Best Fan Artist category)
WHAT ARE THEY DOING NOW?
The Channel 9 news noted that a pilot named Jack Herman banked
up traffic by landing his plane on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. I
guess there was nothing in the rules against it. Kim Huett's
grand tour of the U.S. went well. He appears to have enjoyed
himself at Corflu and in Seattle and Minneapolis. Meanwhile
Melbourne had a few visitors of late, including Tim & Narelle
Harris and FFANZ winner Evan MacArthy. David Hodson turned 40
and might have gotten away with it unnoticed had he not turned
up at Michael Ortlieb's birthday party and discovered a cake
with the number 40 on it. (Michael was seven.) David's ex-wife
Mandy Herriot made sure that everyone else was aware of this
milestone. Paul Voermanns will be the science fiction reviewer
on Radio National's "Books & Writing"
SUVIN FOR ANU
Damien Broderick reports that "Prof Darko Suvin, regarded by
many as the world's most important living sf theorist/critic,
will be a Visiting Fellow in 1997 at the Humanities Research
Centre at the Australian National University? Due to ANU
Librarian Colin Steele's sterling efforts, no doubt." Damian
also notes that an interview with him appears in Ibn Qirtaiba #14
http://www.netrunners.com/Ibn_Qirtaiba/iq-14.html
http://odyssey.apana.org.au/~terminus/iq-14.html.
IN PRINT
Futurist Science Fiction & Science Fact , a new magazine,
distributed by Gordan & Gotch has appeared in newsagents in
Victoria. Edited by Geoffrey Dale, it features fiction and some
historical material. The layout and printing certainly require
attention (Desktop Publishing has a lot to answer for.) Dale is
looking for hard science fiction stories of 1,000 to 5,000
words. No mention of payment. P.O. Box 197 Ferntree Gully Vic
3156.
Terry Dowling reviews Greg Egan's Distress in The Weekend
Australian April 20/21.
CLOSING DOWN SALE
Merv Binns, notes in a letter that he will no longer be selling
new books and that he will be disposing of his current stocks at
greatly reduced prices. Merv promises news of his closing down
sale in the near future.
ENTERPRISING
The Enterprise club raised $4,250.46 for this year's Good Friday
Appeal. While we may speculate on the cheap bastard who found a
one cent piece to donate, Derek Screen notes that, not included
in this figure, was a 1948 one shilling piece and $15 worth of
Casino betting chips. (Knowing Derek, he should be able to get
at least a 200% return on the chips.)
DITMAR RESULTS
The 1996 Ditmars and ASFMAs were awarded at The Festival of the
Imagination in Perth over Easter. Fortunately the current
constitution does not forbid members of the awards sub-committee
from accepting awards. It's a pity that Alan Stewart had to find
out about his ASFMA from a third party. Perth also kept with a
tradition in that Ethel the Aardvark won the ASFMA for best fan
fiction zine, despite not having published any fan fiction in
1996.
BEST LONG FICTION _Mirrorsun Rising_ Sean McMullen (Aphelion)
BEST SHORT FICTION "Schrdinger's Fridge" Ian Gunn (Aurealis #15)
Best Publication/Fanzine (Periodical) Eidolon (J. Byrne, R
Scriven & J Strahan)
BEST ARTWORK Eidolon 19 (Cover) Shaun Tan
BEST NON-PROFESSIONAL/FAN WRITER Ian Gunn
BEST NON-PROFESSIONAL/FAN ARTIST Ian Gunn
WILLIAM ATHELING JNR AWARD "The Hunt for Australian Horror
Fiction" Bill Congreve, Sean McMullen & Steven Paulsen (The
Scream Factory 16 November 1995)
ASFMA AWARDS
BEST FAN FICTION ZINE Ethel the Aardvark Paul Ewins
BEST FAN NEWSLETTER Thyme Alan Stewart
BEST MEDIA FAN WRITER Ian Gunn
BEST MEDIA ARTIST Ian Gunn
BEST AMATEUR AUDIO/VISUAL PRODUCTION The Dalek Tapes (Albert
Q.)
Careful observers may note that Ian Gunn's name appears quite
often in the lists above.
THE CHANDLER AWARD
The Australian Science Fiction Foundation presented this year's
Chandler award to Perth fan Grant Stone for his numerous
contributions to Australian science fiction, including the
Murdoch Library Collection and his Faster Than Light Radio Show.
PHILLIP K. DICK AWARD
This year's Phillip K. Dick Award winner (for works published in
1995) is: _Headcrash_ Bruce Bethke
First runner up _Carlucci's Edge_ Richard Paul Russo
Other finalists : _Virtual Death_ Shale Aaron; _Permutation City_
Greg Egan; _The Colour of Distance_ Amy Thomson; _Reluctant
Voyager_ Elisabeth Vonarburg.
SHAW MATERIAL
Nancy Shaw is looking for any audio or video tape recordings of
her late husband, Bob Shaw, especially giving talks at
conventions. This material is to be turned over to the SF Oral
History Society for archiving. If you have any such material,
or know of someone who does, please email Tim Gatewood
72740.3445@compuserve.com
AND HE CAN'T STAND DUFF BEER
Aleophile Perry Middlemiss will be representing Australia at
LAcon III as the 1996 DUFF winner.
The votes were as follows
Australia US Total
Stephen Dedman 3 6 9
Danny Heap 18 26 44
Perry Middlemiss 21 42 63
No Preference 0 9 9
Write-In 0 0 0
Hold Over Funds 1 0 1
Total 43 83 126
UPCOMING CONVENTIONS
Added to the list is Multiverse 2, being run by Enterprise, The
Red dwarf Club, The MSFC, the Babylon 5 Club and the Victorian
Dr Who Club. Constellation have apparently lost Michael Moorcock
as GoH. Basicon 2 won the right to host the 1987 Australian
National SF Convention (as well as the Media NatCon). They beat
a Tasmanian bid.
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
MULTIVERSE 2
September 6 - 8 venue and other details tba. P.O. Box 1044
Bundoora Vic 3083
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:
Queens Birthday Weekend 1996 The Christchurch City Travelodge,
NZ GsoH 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
http://www.ar.com.au/~medtrek
BASICON 2
1997 Media & Mainstream NatCon $20. Date, venue 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 May 18 Series - the continuing
saga 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
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
NSW UNI SF CLUB newsletter Sub Space Relay (02) 481-9419
VICTORIA
GALLIFREY note in their latest Black Light that, despite all
rumours to the contrary, they are still holding meetings.
MSFC 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
ENTERPRISE April 27 AGM & Quark's L&F Emporium P.O. Box 466
World Trade Centre Melbourne 3005 (03) 9583 7404
TIME TREKKERS P.O. Box 934 Bendigo 3550.
NOVA MOB May 1 Wynne Whiteford 13 Frederick St Brunswick.
AUSTREK GPO Box 5206AA Melbourne 3001 e-mail austrek@tbsa.com.au
DANDENONG VALLEY SCIENCE FICTION SOCIETY May 8 8.00pm Series
Novels the rip-off 8.00pm, Dandenong Library. Ann McGann 63
Woodside Ave, Frankston, 3199. 05971-3645.
SKYFORCE (Star Wars) June 15 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
6TH ANNUAL SCI-FI BALL August 31 6.30pm The Heidelberg Centre,
Ivanhoe $40. 1 Bourke Court Laverton 3028
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
CONQUEST May 6 10am GPO Box 1376 Brisbane 4001
THE WAR COUNCIL BABYLON 5 May 19 10am. Metro arts Centre
Brisbane
HOLODICTION '96 June 2 (02) 311-3841
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).
CRITICAL MASS May 1 Writers Centre Adelaide
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 doi@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 : 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 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 SFS May 2 7:30pm Woden Library. .ph (06) 288 6391
(ah) PO Box 47, Civic Square ACT 2608
FANZINES
Black Light #18 British telefantasy Damian Christie for
Gallifrey GPO Box 910G Melbourne 3001. The Captain's Log #224
Star Trek Rose Mitchell, Sean-Paul Smith & Tony Soutter for
Austrek GPO Box 5206AA Melbourne 3001. So You Say #14 Shayne
McCormack perzine/newszine 49 Orchard Rd Bass Hill 2197. Sydney
Futurian #16 newsletter Ron Clarke for The Futurian Society of
Sydney P.O. Box K940 Haymarket NSW 2000 Busswarble #29 perzine
Michael Hailstone 14 Cecil Rd Blackheath NSW 2785 Conscript
news/clubzine GPO Box 1376 Brisbane 4001
WEB PAGES
AFR
http://www.peg.apc.org/~roman/afr/afr_1/afr_1.htm
paul-michael agapow
http://www.cs.latrobe.edu.au/~agapow/Postviews/
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://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
West Lodge
http://www.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/~null/WestLodge/WestLodge.html
VicNet
http://www.vicnet.net.au/~vicvol/sfoz/sfpage.htm
X-Files
http://www.iinet.net.au/~brianp/xfiles/
SOURCES
Cath Ortlieb, Derek Screen, Justin Ackroyd, Terry Frost, Merv
Binns, Kim Huett, The Captain's Log, Sydney Futurian, Alan
Stewart , LAcon III Infobot, Conscript
1996 HUGO AND CAMPBELL AWARD NOMINEES
L.A.con III, the 54th World Science Fiction Convention, has
released the nominations for the 1996 Hugo Awards and John W.
Campbell Memorial Award. The nominees that follow were chosen by
popular vote by 442 members of L.A.con or Intersection who
submitted valid nominating ballots. In some categories more than
5 nominations appear due to tie votes. Remember, if you join
LAcon III to vote for Australia in '99, you can also vote for
the Hugos.
BEST NOVEL
The Time Ships Stephen Baxter (HarperPrism)
Brightness Reef David Brin (Bantam)
The Terminal Experiment Robert J. Sawyer (HarperPrism;
serialised as Hobson's Choice, Analog, Mid-Dec 1994-March 1995)
The Diamond Age Neal Stephenson (Bantam)
Remake Connie Willis (Bantam)
BEST NOVELLA
"Fault Lines" Nancy Kress (Asimov's, August '95)
"A Man of the People" Ursula K. Le Guin (Asimov's, April '95)
"A Woman's Liberation" Ursula K. Le Guin (Asimov's, July 1 '95)
"Bibi" Mike Resnick and Susan Shwartz (Asimov's, Mid-Dec '95)
"The Death of Captain Future" Allen Steele (Asimov's, Oct '95)
BEST NOVELETTE
"Luminous" Greg Egan (Asimov's, Sep '95)
"TAP" Greg Egan (Asimov's, Nov'95)
"Think Like a Dinosaur" James Kelly (Asimov's, Jun '95)
"When the Old Gods Die" Mike Resnick (Asimov's, Ap'95)
"The Good Rat" Allen Steele (Analog, Mid-Dec '95)
"Must and Shall", Harry Turtledove (Asimov's, Nov '95)
BEST SHORT STORY
"TeleAbsence" Michael A. Burstein (Analog, Jul '95)
"Life on the Moon" Tony Daniel (Asimov's, Apr '95)
"A Birthday", Esther M. Friesner (F&SF, Aug '95)
"The Lincoln Train" Maureen F. McHugh (F&SF Apr'95)
"Walking Out" Michael Swanwick (Asimov's, Feb'95)
BEST NON-FICTION BOOK
Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters, by Isaac Asimov,
edited by Stanley Asimov (Doubleday)
Spectrum 2: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, edited by
Cathy Burnett and Arnie Fenner (Underwood)
Science Fiction: The Illustrated Encyclopedia, by John Clute
(Dorling Kindersley)
Alien Horizons: The Fantastic Art of Bob Eggleton, by Bob
Eggleton (Dragon's World/Paper Tiger)
To Write Like a Woman: Essays in Feminism and Science Fiction,
by Joanna Russ (Indiana University Press)
BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION
Apollo 13 (Universal)
"The Coming of Shadows" (Babylon 5) (Warner Brothers
"The Visitor" (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) (Paramount
Television)
Toy Story (Buena Vista)
12 Monkeys (Universal)
BEST PROFESSIONAL EDITOR
Ellen Datlow; Gardner Dozois; Scott Edelman; Kristine Kathryn
Rusch; Stanley Schmidt
BEST PROFESSIONAL ARTIST
Jim Burns; Thomas Canty; Bob Eggleton; Don Maitz; Michael Whelan
BEST ORIGINAL ARTWORK
Cover of F&SF, October-November 1995 Bob Eggleton
Cover of Analog, January 1995 Bob Eggleton
Dinotopia: The World Beneath, by James Gurney (Turner)
Cover of Analog, March 1995 George H. Krauter
Cover of F&SF, January 1995 Gary Lippincott
BEST SEMI-PROZINE
Crank!, edited by Bryan Cholfin
Interzone, edited by David Pringle
Locus, edited by Charles N. Brown
The New York Review of Science Fiction, edited by David
Hartwell, Ariel Hamon, and Tad Dembinski
Science Fiction Chronicle, edited by Andrew Porter
BEST FANZINE
Ansible, edited by Dave Langford
Apparatchik, edited by Andrew Hooper and Victor Gonzalez
Attitude, edited by Michael Abbott, John Dallman, and Pam Wells
FOSFAX, edited by Timothy Lane and Elizabeth Garrott
Lan's Lantern, edited by George "Lan" Laskowski
Mimosa, edited by Richard and Nicki Lynch
BEST FAN WRITER
Sharon Farber; Andy Hooper; Dave Langford; Evelyn C. Leeper;
Joseph T. Major
BEST FAN ARTIST
Ian Gunn; Teddy Harvia; Joe Mayhew; Peggy Ranson; William
Rotsler
JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARD For Best New S F Writer,
Michael A. Burstein (1st year of eligibility); David Feintuch
(2nd year of eligibility); Felicity Savage (2nd year of
eligibility) Sharon Shinn (1st year of eligibility); Tricia
Sullivan (1st year of eligibility)
DEADLINE FOR #53
Tuesday May 7th.
Distribution Friday May 10th.