The Australian Science Fiction Bullsheet #147 – July 14 2000
A meretricious 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).
Postal subscriptions $6-00 for ten.(Cheques made out to Marc
Ortlieb please. Stamps accepted). Available for items of gossip.
E-mailed direct, a once off $10 fee. Free copy from aus.sf on
Internet or at http://www.vicnet.net.au/~sfoz/bullsheet.htm
FAN FUNDS
Paul Kincaid, in Guffaw 4, notes that Eve Harvey's GUFF trip
report A Brighton Belle Meets Skippy (from 1985) is now
available. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be available in
Australia yet, despite Paul quoting an Australian price. Local
GUFF administrator Karen Pender-Gunn hasn't seen a copy yet.
ANY EXCUSE TO MISS A PARTY!
Rather than allow him to have a flat warming party, John
Bangsund's strangulated hernia decided that John would be far
better off in hospital. Sally Yeoland got him there and the
operation went well. In her second Bulletin, Sally reports "he
was discharged from St Vincents yesterday [July 3] and is at home
appreciating greatly being able to actually sleep, let alone in a
comfortable bed!"
PERIPATETIC FANS
Bruce Gillespie notes that Billy Pettit (an American fan, I
assume) will be in Australia, arriving in Melbourne on July 15
and heading for Alice Springs on the Ghan on July 19.
CONVENTION NEWS
Robin Clarke notes updates to The Redbook a
collection of useful information for running Swancons
http://www.iinet.net.au/~robin/redbook/ Robin adds "One thing I
would love to see in the Red Book is a provisional time line for
organising a con! Any first drafts?"
Damien Warman notes the possibility of an Adelaide
serconnish convention September 29 to October 1. Further details
will, no doubt, be forthcoming.
Kevin Standlee reports the following on ConJose. Web site
address http://www.conjose.org/ Effective 15 July 2000, the
Attending membership rate goes up to A$205 (Supporting A$60).
Australian agent: Terry Frost,4/8 Walker St, West
Brunswick, Vic 3055. Cheques payable to "60th World Science
Fiction Convention." Visa/MasterCard/American Express/Discover
Card accepted through the US address and charged at the US$ rate.
(US$120 attending, US$35 supporting effective 15 July 2000).
UPCOMING CONVENTIONS
MANIFEST
The Melbourne Anime Festival August 5-6 2000 The Old Arts
Building, Melbourne University Weekend $15* / $20; Saturday $12*
/ $15; Sunday $8* / 10 (*Applies to members of local anime
clubs)Manifest@metva.com europa.spaceports.com/~manifest PO Box
1136 St Kilda Sth, 3182 Mob. 0411 056 774
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
$US135.00 for residents of North America $US150.00 rate for bona
fide residents of other continents P. O. Box 642057, Chicago IL
60664, fax: 312-946-3779 http://www.chicon.org/
CONQUEST 2000
October 6 to 8 2000 Brisbane Convention Centre GPO Box 1376
Brisbane 4001. http://conquest2000.tsx.org
BOBW 10
Babylon 5/Crusade October 14th & 15th 2000Sydney Guests:Tracy
Scoggins, Peter Woodward Maggie Egan David Allen Brooks
http://www.bobw.com.au (02) 9453 0290.
NELCON
a relaxacon 17-19 November, 2000 The Country Comfort Motel, Port
Stephens N.S.W.. Membership $20 Accommodation $57 per night per
person Edwina Harvey by e-mail at e.harvey@unsw.edu.au or by
snail mail c/- 12 Flinders St, Matraville. 2036
http://members.optushome.com.au/aussff/Nelcon.html
CAMP COSTUME
8-10th December 2000 Polana Camp, Healesville $60 until October
29th, $75 up to the 1st of December 2000, $100 from 2nd of
December to the door. Cost includes all meals from Friday dinner
through to Sunday lunch, accommodation, all workshops & events.
BYO sleeping gear, drinks & special snacks. Attn: Wendy - Camp
Costume, The Australian Costumers' Guild, PO Box 322, Bentleigh,
Vic, 3204.or Chris Telephone: (03) 94574061
ARMAGEDDON PULP CULTURE EXPO
10-11 February 2001 Auckland New Zealand http://www.pulpexpo.com
$7 entry Guests tba
SWANCON 2001 THE MASQUERADE,
40th Australian National Science Fiction Convention April 12-16
2001. GsoH Rosaleen Love, Marilyn Pride, Lewis Morley, Kate Orman
and Sue Ackerman The Rydges Hotel Perth. P.O. Box 162 Nedlands
W.A. 6909.Attending $80; $100 at the door. Supporting $20
http://www.sf.org.au/swancon2001 P.O. Box 162 Nedlands W.A. 6909
swancon2001committee@egroups.com
FRIENDS OF SCIENCE FICTION
May 20, 2001 GoH James Marsters (Spike, Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
ocp Lidcombe Catholic Club Sydney.FSF Members $50 Non-members
$70. email bookings@fsf.com.au or http://www.fsf.com.au
ODYSSEY CON
The 2001 New Zealand National SF Convention Auckland.
enquiries@odyssey-con.sf.org.nz
THE MILLENNIUM PHILCON
The 59th World Science Fiction Convention August 30 to September
3, 2001 The Pennsylvania Convention Center & Philadelphia
Marriott Hotel GsoH Greg Bear, Stephen Youll, Gardner Dozois,
George Scithers Toastmaster: Esther Friesner. Attending $145
Supporting $US40 Millennium Philcon Post Office Box 310
Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006-0310 U.S.A. phil2001@unix3.netaxs.com
http://www.netaxs.com/~phil2001
COSTUME CON 20
February 15-18 2002 Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre
$A50Daily Admission $100 until Dec 31st 2000; $A130 Jan 1st 2001
- Dec 31st 2001 $160 Jan 1st 2002 - Feb 15th 2002 The Australian
Costumers' Guild PO Box 322 Bentleigh Vic 3204
stilskin@netspace.net.au http://www.vicnet.net.au/~costume/
CONVERGENCE
41st Australian National Science Fiction Convention June 7 - 10
2002 GsoH Joe Haldeman, Sean Williams Lucy Sussex, Gay
Haldeman and Race Mathews Toastmaster Jack Dann Cato Conference
Centre Melbourne Web:- http://www.vicnet.net.au/~converge/
email:- contact-convergence@egroups.com.
CON JOSE
The 60th World Science Fiction Convention August 29 to September
2, 2002 San Jos McEnery Convention Centre GsoH Vernor Vinge,
David Cherry, Bjo & John Trimble, Ferdinand Feghoot Toastmaster
Tad Williams. P.O. Box 61363 Sunnyvale CA 94088-1363 U.S.A.
ConJose@sfsfc.org http://www.conjose.org/ Attending membership
rate goes up to A$205 (Supporting A$60). Australian agent: Terry
Frost, 5 Temple Street, West Brunswick, VIC 3055. Cheques
payable to "60th World Science Fiction Convention."
GoH = Guest of Honour
O.C.P. = Other Commitments Permitting
tba= to be announced.
EVENTS
Note that there is an annual calendar available on the Vicnet SF
web site at http://www.vicnet.net.au/~sfoz/2000cal.htm
CLUB NEWS
Garry P Dalrymple reports "the Sydney Futurians September meeting
has been shifted to September 08. I hope to form a committee to
run a suburban Freecon for the unfortunates who cannot escape
Sydney in September/ October, ( possibly some events before and
some after the 'limpics' )."
CANBERRA LIVES
Robbie Matthews reports from Canberra "There has been some
activity here in the ACT of late, and I thought I'd send in some
information you to update your pages: CSFG - Canberra Speculative
Fiction Group We're a bunch of writers (or would be writers) of
SF, Fantasy, and Horror, ranging from rank amateurs to pros. We
meet the 3rd Wednesday of every month at the Writers Centre at
Gorman House.
Contact: Les Petersen mailto:les.petersen@detya.gov.au We also
have a mailing list: mailto:CSFG-subscribe@egroups.com
Also, Carole Nomarhas is running an E-Zine, Goblin Muse.
http://www.goblinmuse.com"
NSW
SKYFORCE SYDNEY July 23 12:00pm to 5:00pm Lidcombe Catholic
Workmen's Club 24 John Street, Lidcombe
SYDNEY FUTURIANS September 8 7:00pm Room 1615, 16th floor,
University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Tower building, Broadway
Queensland
BRISBANE DR WHO CLUB July 23 Red Cross Centre, 409 Adelaide St
Brisbane P.O. Box 10308, Adelaide St, Brisbane, Qld 4000
QUEST August 5 Red Cross Centre 409 Adelaide St Brisbane GPO Box
2084 Brisbane Qld 4001
CONQUEST August 6 Red Cross Centre 409 Adelaide St Brisbane GPO
Box 1376 Brisbane Qld 4001
STARGATE:SG1 August 20 Red Cross Centre 409 Adelaide St Brisbane
BUFFY November 25 Red Cross Centre 409 Adelaide St Brisbane
S.A.
PARSEC: The Aussie Star Wars Appreciation Society July 30 12-5 pm
Adelaide High School P.O. Box 306, Greenacres, S.A., 5086
http://www.parsec.homepad.com/
CRITICAL MASS August 2 Jee Harris: What the Carboniferous means
to me.PO Box 3355, Rundle Mall, Adelaide, SA 5000 dmw@pobox.com
VICTORIA
MSFC July 14 What is SF? July 21 AGM July 28 Coffee, cake and
conversation 8:00 pm St. David's Uniting Church Hall, 74 Melville
Road, West Brunswick P.O. Box 212 World Trade Centre Melbourne
3005 http://www.vicnet.net.au/~msfc/ MSFC@eGroups.com
FRIDAY NIGHT MOB July 14, July 21, July 28 6:00-7.30pm. Informal
eating and nattering. Myers Cafeteria Melbourne
ENTERPRISE, STARWALKING, DR WHO CLUB & BABYLON 5 CLUB July 22
1:00 to 5:00 pm Bowling Chadstone Bowling Centre P.O. Box 466
World Trade Centre Melbourne 3005 enterprs@vicnet.net.au
http://www.vicnet.net.au/~enterprise/ 0418 56 1701
MULTIVERSE July 28 Supernova preview. Details to be announced PO
Box 355 World Trade Centre Melbourne Vic 3005 AUSTRALIA
multivrs@vicnet.net.au http://www.vicnet.net.au/~multivrs/
COSTUMER'S GUILD 30th July 1-4:30pm Pre-Ball Panic Ross House 247
Flinders Lane, Melbourne. PO Box 322, Bentleigh Vic 3204
NOVA MOB August 2 Bruce Gillespie on sf biography and
autobiography 13 Frederick St Brunswick
AUSTREK August 5 2 pm Art Show St Mark's Church Hall Cnr
Canterbury & Burke Rds, Camberwell GPO Box 5206AA Melbourne 3001
http://www.vicnet.net.au/~austrek/
SKYFORCE 2000 August 12 1:00 to 5:00pm Charles Pearson Theatre
ERC University of Melbourne P.O. Box 427 Northcote Vic 3070
http://www.starwalking.net
6TH ANNUAL AUSTRALIAN COSTUMERS' GUILD BALL August 26 The Centre
Ivanhoe, 275 Upper Heidelberg Rd. Ivanhoe. PO Box 322, Bentleigh
Vic 3204 stilskin@netspace.net.au
http://www.vicnet.net.au/~costume/
WEB PAGES
NEW
The Redbook
http://www.iinet.net.au/~robin/redbook/
Nelcon.
http://members.optushome.com.au/aussff/Nelcon.html
Goblin Muse
http://www.goblinmuse.com
FANZINES
BANANA WINGS 15 54pp Claire Brialey 26 Northampton Rd Croydon
Surrey CR0 7HA U.K & Mark Plummer 14 Northway Rd Croydon Surrey
CR0 6JE U.K. banana@tragic.demon.co.uk
VANAMONDE 358- 362 2pp ea John Hertz 236 S. Coronado St No 409
Los Angeles CA 90057 USA
ELECTRONIC FANZINES
ANSIBLE 156 Dave Langford 94 London Road Reading Berkshire RG1
5AU U.K. ansible@cix.co.uk http://www.ansible.co.uk/
THE PAPER SNARL 13 PaperSnarl@aol.com http://www.papertiger.co.uk
FANS ACROSS THE WORLD NEWSLETTER 100 B. Wilkinson 15 Manor Drive
Southgate, London N14 5JH U.K. bjw@cix.co.uk
CoAs
Katharine Maxwell notes that Frontier Magazine's phone
number has changed to: (03) 9850 7800. The mailing address
remains at PO Box 100 Fairfield VIC 3078.
DEADLINES
Bullsheet #148 July 25 2000.
Hugo Awards July 31 2000
ANZAPA 196 August 4 2000
Swancon 2001 Short Films August 20 2000
James White Award August 23, 2000
Chandler Award Nominations September 30 2000
GUFF 2001 November 13 2000
This Fanzine Supports The Minneapolis in '73 WorldCon Bid The Toronto in 2003 WorldCon Bid. and the Australia in 2007 WorldCon Bid Warman & Woods for GUFF!
OTHER STUFF
Garry P Dalrymple notes "I have just come into the possession of
120 Science Fiction books from a Presbyterian Theology College's
library, which includes 19 ea Anthologies, several beb books and
additionally six 1976 to 1978 magazines. These books are unmarked
by the usual library spine labels, stamps or card pockets etc. It
looks as though most were bought in the early sixties ( ? ) by a
single enthusiast librarian or were brought in by students and so
represent an 'interesting' sample of the available SF of the day.
Of particular interest are several 'BEB' books,
published by 'Bill Ewington Books' Sussex Street Sydney ( NO
DATES! ), Printed - The Griffin Press, 262 Marion Street Netley
SA. Each book is exactly 160 pages, font size having been
adjusted to fit. Several have women in undress as the cover
image. Each is by a different author. Are these BEB books
of any value?, Are they by Australian Authors or all by 'Bill
Ewington'? I will list details of all of them if someone can
indicate to me who would be interested in buying them or
suggestions on how best to preserve them if they justify the
effort.
As an 'archive' I think they are more significant
than as inderviduals. Some are most likely first paperback
editions. Their condition varies, as you would expect for
books that have spent thirty plus undisturbed years on a library
shelf .
Please don't hesitate to pass this information
around to people like Merv Binns or that nice Mr Gillespie, as I
would really like to know what I have got.