THE AUSTRALIAN SCIENCE FICTION BULLSHEET #96 – April 9 1998
An asthenic 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
Jack Dann notes "I just learned that The Memory Cathedral has
been shortlisted for the Benalla Award for the Audio book of the
Year, which is part of the 1998 Braille & Talking Book Library
Awards in Australia. The award will be presented at the
Melbourne Writers Festival in August, so there's plenty of time
for me to keep my fingers crossed. "
Good news also from Richard Harland who reports "I've just
finished the copy-editing on the sequel to The Dark Edge, which
will be called Taken By Force. It's now at the typesetters, and
will be coming out in August of this year. I'm contracted to
write the third novel in the Eddon and Vail series by the end of
this year, no title as yet."
BULLSHEET MEDIA WATCH
Damien Broderick reviews science books by Carl Sagan, Timothy
Ferris, Huw Price and Yervant Terzian and Elizabeth Bilson in The
Weekend Australian 28-29/3/98
MEDICAL MATTERS
Jocko - James Allen - is the latest to be hit by ill-health,
having suffered a minor heart attack. According to Justin
Ackroyd, he was home by Friday April 3. I'm sure everyone will
join me in wishing Jocko the best and in telling him to slow
down!
FAN MOVEMENTS
Eric Lindsay reports "We just returned from Queensland where we
had to arrange renovations. Jean [Weber] leaves the Ryde address
on 20 April, will have about a month at Faulconbridge, and then
move to PO Box 640, Airlie Beach 4802 around mid May. I will get
there mid July."
CONVENTION NEWS
CSO the Dr Who NatConto be heldin Brisbane over the ANZAC Day
long weekend has been cancelled due to insufficient membership.
AUSSIECON THREE
After a brief flurry of activity, including the web page and
newsletter, it seems to be back to no new information.
UPCOMING CONVENTIONS
CONQUEST 98 Easter Games Convention April 10-13 1998 University
High School Melbourne P.O. Box 310 Knoxfield M.D.A. Vic 3180
asylum@very net http://www.very.net/conquest/
HOLODICTION April 18 1998 Guy Vardarman Carlton Crest Hotel,
Melbourne ph: 1800 67 1701, fax: (02) 9311 3607
HOLODICTION April 19 1998 Guy Vardarman ph: 1800 67 1701, fax:
(02) 9311 3607
CSO (Dr Who NatCon) 24-26 April 1998 CANCELLED Email
timelord@mail.cth.com.au
SWANCON TWENTY THREE April 24-27, 1998 (Anzac Day long weekend )
The Hotel Grand Chancellor (formerly 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 $70.00 until March 31 $75 thereafter until the con.
GPO Box 429 Perth WA 6841 http://www.gu.uwa.edu.au/swancon
E-mail: swancon23@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
BEST OF BOTH WORLDS 3 Babylon 5 ConventionMay 2-3 1998 GsoH: Mira
Furlan, Michael O'Hare, Joshua Cox, Sandy Bruckner
http://www.bobw.com.au
WORLD HORROR CONVENTION 1998 May 7-10 1998 Embassy Suites North
Phoenix, AZ USA GsoH Brian Lumley; Bernie Wrightson; Tom Doherty;
John Steakley; Tom Savini.P.O. Box 61565, Phoenix, AZ USA
85082-1565
TREKNOLOGY May 16-17 Rockhampton Qld Joshua Cox & Mira Furlan
ph: 07 4927 7293 fax: 07 4921 1701 academy@tpgi.com.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.
http://www.trump.net.au/~s_newman/thylacon2/
ARCANACON XVI Role Playing Games July 2-6 1998 Collingwood
Education Centre Melbourne ph 03 9481 5564 email
chiara@linus.burnet.edu.au
PHANCON 98. Literary sf/fantasy convention July 11-12 Parramatta
Gazebo Hotel. Guests Terry Pratchett, David Gemmell and Sara
Douglass. For info kit email kemil@ozemail.com.au or phone 1800
817 298.
BucCONeer 56th 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.
CONQUEST 98 October 9-11 1998 Mercure Hotel Brisbane GsoH. Peter
Jurasik (Londo), Walter Koenig (Bester) Richard Arnold GPO Box
13676 Brisbane Qld 4001
FORCE THREE June 12-14 1999 3rd National Star Wars Convention
Karralyka Centre Ringwood Vict GsoH tba $150 until 1/6/99. P.O.
Box 427 Northcote Vic 3070 (03) 9416-8998
http://www.imageworks.com.au/starwalking
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 email julian@aussiecon3.worldcon.org
http://www.maths.uts.edu.au/staff/eric/ain99
CHICON 2000 The 58th World Science Fiction Convention
August 31 to September 4 2000 - Hyatt Regency Chicago IL GsoH Ben
Bova, Bob Eggleton, Jim Baen, Bob and Anne Passovoy, Toastmaster:
Harry Turtledove P. O. Box 642057, Chicago IL 60664, fax:
312-946-3779 http://www.chicon.org/
GoH = Guest of Honour
O.C.P. = Other Commitments Permitting
tba= to be announced.
CLUB NEWS
Katharine Maxwell reports re Time Trekkers " Frontier received
the following e-mail: 'I thought I should inform you that the
club has since folded, and myself and several others from that
club are behind our publication. If you could change those
details toFor Maddened Prophets PO Box 97, Bendigo VIC 3550 we
would be appreciative.'"
A.C.T.
CANBERRA S FS April 16 1998 Restaurant Meeting Da Cellini
Restaurant Braddonph (06) 288 6391 (ah) PO Box 47, Civic Square
ACT 2608
NEXT GEN http://bohm.anu.edu.au/Clubs/Next_Gen/
N.S.W.
SOUTHERN SCIENCE FICTION GROUP April 18 Book Crawl in Sydney 15
Shade Place Lugarno (02) 534-3595.
SYDNEY SKYFORCE August 16 10am-5pm-5pm Lidcombe Catholic
Workmen's Club, 24 John Street, Lidcombe PO Box 804 Kensington
NSW 2033 (03) 9416 89981 Email hbocaz@mail.usyd.edu.au
SMEG RADIO 2RRR Wednesday nights between 7pm and 8pm.
SYDNEY DW SF FAN CLUB 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
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
FUTURIAN SOCIETY OF SYDNEY Room 1615 University of Sydney Tower
http://www.progsoc.uts.edu.au/~ian/writings.html
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) THEN dinner.
QUEENSLAND
QUEENSLAND STAR TREKKERS (Quest) April 12 GPO Box 2084 Brisbane
4001 Email water@thehub.com.au
CONQUEST May 3 Red Cross Centre 397 Adelaide St GPO Box 1376
Brisbane Qld 4001
HIGHLANDER May 17 Red Cross Centre 397 Adelaide St Postal
address 11 Perrett St Bundamba Qld 4304 sonjav@powerup.com.au
Newsletter The Buzz
COSMIC COTILLION(Vortex) May 30 7.00pm Irish Club - Elizabeth
Street, Brisbane Contact Kevin on 07-3356 5472
CAMP KHITOMER 3 June 6-7 GPO Box 2084 Brisbane 4001 Email
water@thehub.com.au
VORTEX June 7 Red Cross Centre 397 Adelaide St G.P.O. Box 2004
Brisbane 4001
BRISBANE DR WHO FAN CLUB June 21 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
HYPERION (07) 3341 0307
NEW ALLIANCE P.O. Box 7446 East Brisbane Qld 4169
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
S.A.
CRITICAL MASS Contact Damien Warman PO Box 3355, Rundle Mall
Adelaide SA 5000 dmw@pobox.com
AUSFA, c/- Clubs Association, University of Adelaide, North
Terrace, Adelaide SA 5001.
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 April 10 No meeting April 17 Focus on Fanzines April 24
Comedy SF Literature May 1 Comedy SF on Screen 8.30pm St David's
Church Hall 74 Melville Rd West Brunswick P.O. Box 212 World
Trade Centre Melbourne 3005
ENTERPRISE April 10 Childrens Hospital Good Friday Appeal April
25 AGM, Elections & GamesP.O. Box 466 World Trade Centre
Melbourne 3005 (03) 9583 7404 enterprise@minerals.csiro.au
STAR TREK THE EXHIBIT February 27 to July 19 Science Works
Spotswood
SKYFORCE (Star Wars) April 11 1-5 pm Melbourne Uni, Copeland
Theatre, Economics and Commerce Building P.O. Box 427 Northcote
3070 Email Address: darren.maxwell@tmca.com.au
http://www.imageworks.com.au/starwalking
AUSTRALIAN COSTUMERS GUILD April 17 1998 Restaurant Night
Telephone: (03) 9568 0708 P.O. Box 322 Bentleigh Vic 3204 email
stilskin@netspace.net.au Telephone (03)9557 7088
http://www.vicnet.net.au/~costume/
PHRYNE FISHER Club April 25 Meet at 2.20 pm at Charmaigne's in
Southgate, $20 per head for the Chocolate and Dessert walk.
Contact Jeanette beforehand..P.O. Box 41 West Brunswick 3055
AUSTREK May 2 Darkzone 232 Flinders Lane, City From 2pm. Contact
Sue Bennett (03) 9386 1726 email: austrek@vicnet.net.au GPO Box
5206AA Melbourne 3001 http://www.vicnet.net.au/~austrek/
NOVA MOB May 6 13 Frederick St Brunswick.
DANDENONG SCIENCE FICTION SOCIETY May 13 Ann McGann P.O. Box 706
Frankston Vic 3199 015 510 159 luddite@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
THIRD ANNUAL COSTUMERS' BALL August 15 6:30pm Streeton Room, The
Centre Ivanhoe. $48. The Australian Costumers' Guild P.O. Box
12345 A'Beckett St Melbourne 8006
THE AUSTRALIAN SCIENCE FICTION FOUNDATION P.O. Box 215 Forest
Hill Vic 3131
AUSTRALIAN BABYLON 5 FAN CLUB P.O. Box 610 Ballarat Vic
3353Babbling On xfive@ballarat.starway.net.au
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 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 lordpres@hotmail.com
GOULBURN VALLEY SCI-FI CLUB c/o 41 Grutzner Ave , Shepparton ,
3630
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/
RED DWARF FAN CLUB P.O. Box 1044 Bundoora 3083
TIME TREKKERS St Luke's, 46 Sternberg St BendigoP.O. Box 334
Bendigo 3550.
THE X-FILES FAN CLUB OF AUSTRALIA Locked Bag 1013, Flemington,
3031. Fanzine The Field Journal.
W.A.
WRITER'S WORKSHOP April 11 1.00 pm to 3.00 pm 'Impossible Things'
Cathy Cupitt $25 for KSP members, $30 for non-membersatharine
Susannah Prichard House 11 Old York Rd, Greenmount Sally Clarke
psclarke@telematrix.com.au
JUMP POINT UWA The Babylon 5 club of W.A. P.O. Box 245,
Inglewood 6932. Telephone: (08) 9249 6354 Fanzine:
Stellarcomemail: info@jumppoint.net.auWeb:
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
http://kite.ois.net.au/~fizzgig Email addresses are:-Promotions
Officer fizzgig@ois.net.au Secretary - b.trump@cowan.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 nexus1@iinet.com.au
PAPER FANZINES
THYME 120 Alan Stewart PO Box 222 World Trade Centre Melbourne
Vic 8005
VOICE OF THE PLATYPUS #1 Aussiecon Three GPO Box 1212K Melbourne
Vic 3001
THE GEIS LETTER 46 Richard E. Geis P.O. Box 11408 Portland OR
97211-0408 USA 100313.3440@compuserve.com
SLOW GLASS BOOKS CATALOGUE 111 Justin Ackroyd GPO Box 2708X
Melbourne Vic 3001
THE COMMUNICATOR Derek Screen for Enterprise P.O. Box 466 World
Trade Centre Melbourne Vic 3005
ELECTRONIC FANZINES
TOMMYWORLD 38 Tommy Ferguson 40 Deramore Avenue, Belfast, BT7
3ER, Northern Ireland E-mail: tferg@dial.pipex.com Phone: (01232)
293275 http://members.tripod.com/~Tommyworld/index.htm
ANSIBLE 129 Dave Langford, 94 London Road, Reading, Berkshire,
RG1 5AU, UK. ansible@cix.co.uk.
WEB PAGES
For a full listing,
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New
Paul Collins
http://www.plasticine.com.pcollins/
Gallifrey
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~gallifrey/
Kira fan-fiction page
http://users.dx.com.au/wormhole/fliss/index.html
Star Trek
http://www.netc.net.au/~apples/
DEADLINES
Double Gamma Nominations April 18
DUFF April 23
ANZAPA 182 June 5
Aurealis Competition June 30
SOURCES
Alan Stewart, Justin Ackroyd, Stephen Dedman,Jack Dann, Richard
Harland, Katharine Maxwell, Eric Lindsay
DEADLINE FOR #97
Tuesday April 28th.
Distribution Friday May 1st.