THE AUSTRALIAN SCIENCE FICTION BULLSHEET #90 – December 19th 1997
An aprosexiac 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
Aurealis #19 is now available. It features fiction by Stephen
Dedman, Kirsten Bishop, Stephen Lawrence, Edwina Harvey and Brent
Lillie, along with reviews, writers' news and an article on useful
books for writers by Stephen Dedman. It also mentions the December
1997 special issue #20/21 looking at the futures of the Australian
republic. Aurealis now has its own Web Page
http://www.aurealis.hl.net
THE AUREALIS MILLENNIUM SHORT STORY COMPETITION
Stories must be exactly 1000 words
Stories must be either science fiction, fantasy or
horror
Entries close 30 June 1998
$1000 worth of science fiction, fantasy and horror books as prizes
($500 1st, $300 2nd, $200 3rd)
Three winning stories published in Aurealis and paid normal Aurealis rates
Entry fee of $5 for each story (please make cheques out to "Chimaera Publications")
Entry is free to subscribers of Aurealis ($28 for four issues)
Secondary school students entry is free if their school is a subscriber to Aurealis
No entry form is needed
Please send entries clearly marked "Aurealis Millennium Short Story Competition" to:
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BULLSHEET MEDIA WATCH
Isobelle Carmody's Darkfall is reviewed in The Weekend Australian
Review 6-7/12/97 Lucy Sussex gets to have her say on her favourite
books for 1997 in The Sunday Age 7/12/97. Damien Broderick
nominates his five favourite science books for 1997 in The Weekend
Australian Review 13/12/97
Ian Gunn reports "The astronaut who forms the letter Y in the word
YES in the Optus TV ad is Lewis Morely in a spacesuit of his own
construction. He spent some considerable time laying on a
blue-screen table while they filmed him. He appears at other times
in the ads, but it isn't always him (they hired a really expensive
suit from America before they got Lewis' cheaper one.)"
ERIC LINDSAY HOSPITALISED
Jean Weber reports "Eric had a heart attack around 2pm on December
5th while alone at his house in Faulconbridge. He was able to walk
to the ambulance despite being in considerable pain. He apparently
had a relatively mild attack and is expected to make a full
recovery, assuming he follows instructions on his diet, exercise
and sleep. He was taken to Nepean Hospital, Penrith and will be
off work for at least a month.
For the next few weeks he'll be recovering at my house, so
I can keep an eye on him, so any snail mail should be sent to PO
Box 744, Ryde, NSW 2112, Australia. It may be 2 or 3 weeks before
we can get an email link working to his office, so any email should
be sent to my Compuserve address. Phone calls and visits are
encouraged, but not after 9 PM.
At least this didn't happen during our recent trip
to the USA! (We arrived home on Dec. 3rd.)"
"Eric's doing fine. Yesterday (9 Dec) he was
disconnected from the drip, sohe can wander around freely now. This
means he's into the "restless and bored" stage. What fun. I'll take
him one of his little computers today, so that might keep him
resting a bit while he types his trip report or something.
The ultrasound test on Monday showed a serious
reduction in volume of blood being pumped by the heart. As I
understand it, this doesn't mean anincrease in risk of further
attacks, but it may mean a noticeable reduction in fitness, such as
tiring faster, shortness of breath, etc. The specialist says most
people don't notice much if any difference, so it shouldn't make
any difference in what he can do (assuming he's sensible for a
month or twoand builds up his exercise program slowly). Stress test
today should tell more."
"Just to let you know that Eric was released from
the hospital on Thursday and is now at my place. He's entirely too
energetic for his own good, but so far (one day!) he's been
behaving himself. Does make me wish we were into bondage... those
ropes, straps and handcuffs would probably come inhandy.
He's working on a report of his hospital stay,
researches into heart attacks, conversations with the doctors and
other medical staff, and the experimental drug program he's now
participating in. Email correspondents will get their copy by
email, probably before Christmas."
AUSSIECON THREE
Nothing new to report, apart from vague rumours concerning who will
be in charge of programming.
1997 TAFF RESULTS: NORTH AMERICA TO EUROPE
Ulrika O'Brien has won the 1997/1998 TAFF race to Europe and
willrepresent North American fandom at the 1998 National British
Science Fiction Convention in Manchester, England, 10-13 April
1998.
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. International GoH: Lois
McMaster Bujold Local GoH: Tess Williams Guests: Jack Dann,
Stephen Dedman, Craig Hilton, Sue Isle, Dave Luckett, Grant Stone,
Janine Webb, Sean Williams 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.
OTHER EVENTS
Star Trek the Exhibit opens at Science Works in Melbourne on
February 27 and runs until July 19.
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.
SYDNEY DW SF FAN CLUB 20 December Something Christmassy - perhaps
"K9 and Company" (aargh!!!) GPO Box 2870 Sydney 2001
neelix@eagle.asstdc.com.au
STAR TREK: THE EXHIBIT September 26 1997 to February 3 1998 The
Powerhouse Museum
SYDNEY SKYFORCE February 22 1-5pm Lidcombe Catholic Workmen's
Club, 24 John Street, Lidcombe PO Box 804 Kensington NSW 2033
Email hbocaz@mail.usyd.edu.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
SOUTHERN SCIENCE FICTION GROUP 15 Shade Place Lugarno (02)
534-3595.
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) THEN dinner.
QUEENSLAND
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
CONQUEST Metro Arts 109 Edward St Brisbane GPO Box 13676 Brisbane
Qld 4001
FSFSA C/O Leela Cosgrove 3 Sollis St. Geebung Brisbane Q 4034
HIGHLANDER Newsletter The Buzz
HYPERION (07) 3341 0307
NEW ALLIANCE P.O. Box 7446 East Brisbane Qld 4169
QUEENSLAND STAR TREKKERS (Quest) GPO Box 2084 Brisbane 4001 West
Hill QLD 4101 Email water@thehub.com.au
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
GOULBURN VALLEY SCI-FI CLUB December 28 Willowmere Receptions
Kyabram.c/o 41 Grutzner Ave , Shepparton , 3630
AUSTREK January 3 EmmyAward winning designer - Mr Adam Howard St
Marks Church Hall, Cnr Canterbury & Burke Roads, Camberwell. From
2pm. Contact Shane Campbell (03) 9489 8743 or
Email:austrek@dc.com.au GPO Box 5206AA Melbourne 3001
austrek@dc.com.au http://www.dc.com.au/austrek
MSFC January 16 Discussion on Heinlein's Straship [sic] Troopers
January 23 Stargate Discussion January 30 Photos Slogans & Role
Playing February 6 Greek Food & Computer Imagery. 8.30pm St David's
Church Hall 74 Melville Rd West Brunswick P.O. Box 212 World Trade
Centre Melbourne 3005
ENTERPRISE January 23-26 Galaxy exploration trip to the Buchan
Caves January 31 Annual Beach Day and Sandcastle Competition P.O.
Box 466 World Trade Centre Melbourne 3005 (03) 9583 7404
enterprise@minerals.csiro.au
SKYFORCE (STAR WARS) February 14 1-5 pm Melbourne Uni, Copeland
Theatre, Economics and Commerce Building P.O. Box 427 Northcote
3070 Email Address: darren.maxwell@tmca.com.au
www.xavier.vic.edu.au/starwalking
STAR TREK THE EXHIBIT February 27 to July 19 Science Works
Spotswood
AUSTRALIAN BABYLON 5 FAN CLUB P.O. Box 41 West Brunswick 3055
Fanzine Babbling On Email JamesAllen@vut.edu.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
DANDENONG SCIENCE FICTION SOCIETY Ann McGann P.O. Box 706 Frankston
Vic 3199 015 510 159 luddite@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
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.
PHRYNE FISHER CLUB P.O. Box 41 West Brunswick 3055
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.
SWANCON TWENTY 3 Summer Solstice Picnic December 21 Point Walter at
the end of Point Walter Road in Bicton 6pm.
JUMP POINT January 10 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
PAPER FANZINES
PHANEWS #7 Phantasia Bookshop 443 High Street Penrith NSW 2750
kemil@ozemail.com.au
STARWALKING NEWSLETTER #30 Jan & Michael Wilson P.O. Box 427
Northcote Vic 3070
SYDNEY FUTURIAN #31 Ron Clarke P.O. Box K940, Haymarket NSW 1240
ETHEL THE AARDVARK 76 Ian Gunn for the MSFC P.O. Box 212 World
Trade Centre Melbourne 3005
THE TWILIGHT ZINE 1 Michael Jordan No obvious name or address.
Contact him c/o the MSFC (above)
A.M.D. 1.2 Paul Ewins No obvious name or address. Contact him c/o
the MSFC (above)
THYME 118 Alan Stewart P.O. Box 222 World Trade Centre Melbourne
3005
NO AWARD 2 Marty Cantor 11825 Gilmore St #105, North Hollywood CA
91606 USA
ELECTRONIC FANZINES
ANSIBLE 125 Dave Langford, 94 London Road, Reading, Berkshire, RG1
5AU, UK. ansible@cix.co.uk. To receive Ansible monthly via
e-mail, send a message to Majordomo@imi.gla.ac.uk containing the
sole text: subscribe ansible
WEB PAGES
For a full listing,
http://www.vicnet.net.au/~sfoz/zines.htm
New
Aurealis Online
http://www.aurealis.hl.net
Kathryn Andersen Babylon 5 Page
http://connexus.apana.org.au/~kat/b5/b5.htm
DEADLINES
DUFF Nominations December 31
George Turner Award January 30 1998
ANZAPA 181 February 7th
Aurealis Competition 30 June 1998
SOURCES
Alan Stewart, Vortex, Ali Kayn, Ian Gunn, Ethel the Aardvark,
Rose Mitchell, Jean Weber
DEADLINE FOR #91
Tuesday February 3rd.
Distribution Friday February 6th.
BULLSHEET UNCLASSIFIEDS
SCIENCE FICTION WRITING WORKSHOP NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS
Contact: Amy Axt Hanson selenite@compuserve.com
Applications are now being accepted for the 1998 Clarion West
Writers Workshop in Seattle, Washington, USA. This intensive
six-week workshop prepares writers for professional careers in
science fiction and fantasy.
About 17 students will be selected for the
workshop, which will run from June 21 to July 31, 1998.
Instructors include Paul Park, George R. R. Martin, Connie Willis,
Lucy Sussex, Gardner Dozois, and Carol Emshwiller.
Applications should be postmarked on or before
April 1, 1998. A complete application includes:
*a cover letter discussing where you've been, what
you're doing, your writing history, and why you want to attend the
workshop (send 3 copies of this letter),
*20-30 pages of typed, double-spaced original
manuscript, which usually consists of 1-2 short stories or a novel
excerpt with outline (send 3 copies of each story),
*a non-refundable $25 application fee payable to Clarion
West,
*completed financial aid forms if applicable. (Limited
financial aid is available. Forms should be requested in advance
by writing to Clarion West. Only 1 copy need be sent.)
Completed applications should be sent to Clarion West, 340
Fifteenth Avenue East, Suite 350, Seattle WA, 98112, USA.
Participants can expect to pay tuition of $1,300 (US),
minus $100 if their applications are postmarked before March 1,
1998. Dorm housing and college credit are available at additional
cost.
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