THE AUSTRALIAN SCIENCE FICTION BULLSHEET #62 – September 20th 1996
A nescient 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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AUSSIECON THREE
Correction to costs (I was working from the Aussiecon Three Web
Site which was updated following my download. Can't help bad
luck in a big city.) Rumour has it that PR #0 will be going out
to Australian members some time in the near future.
Membership Rates in Australian dollars 1996
L.A.con III voters
Conversion $80; For Pre-supporter $70; For "Friend of" free
Non-voters
Attending $175; For Pre-supporter $170; For "Friend of" $115;
Supporting $45; For Pre-supporter $40 Child in tow(Born after
Sept '87) $45. Infants free
Address
Aussiecon Three, GPO Box 1212K, Melbourne, 3001, Australia
http://www.maths.uts.edu.au/staff/eric/ain99
email julian@aussiecon3.worldcon.org
BULLSHEET MEDIA WATCH
Multiverse managed to garner a fair amount of media coverage,
including articles in the Herald Sun and Age on Saturday 7/9/96,
plus a few television news snippets. Most concentrated on the
30th anniversary of the first American screening of Star Trek.
On the same basis, Robert Jan and Paula Rusak got the cover
article on the Sunday Age Television magazine for their article
on the history of Star Trek.
FAN FUNDS
John Foyster, the first winner of GUFF, has finally published
the trip report from his 1979 trip to SeaCon. It runs to 103
pages and is available from the current GUFF administrators Ian
Gunn and Karen Pender-Gunn at P.O. Box 567 Blackburn 3130 for
$10. (I don't know if that includes postage.) So far it appears
that Janice Murray is the only nominee for the 1997 DUFF race,
to bring a North American fan to BasiCon Two. New deadline for
nominations in 1997 DUFF Race to Australasia: 1 December 1996.
Nominees require three North American nominators and two
Australian nominators.
IN PRINT
The World Fantasy Award nominations for She's Fantastical and
"Angel Thing", noted in the BS #60 were reported in The Sunday
Age 15/9/96
PEOPLE
Stephen Dedman's story "From Whom All Blessings Flow" (Asimov's,
4/95) was nominated for the inaugural Sidewise Awards for
Alternate History in the Short Form Category. The winner was
Stephen Baxter for "Brigantia's Angels" (Interzone 91)
UPCOMING CONVENTIONS
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
SWANCON 22
January 24-27 1997 Tradewinds Hotel Fremantle (to be confirmed)
GsoH Howard Waldrop, Stephen Dedman & David Cake. $60 until
1/10/96. P.O. Box 318 Nedlands WA 6009
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
September 27-28 1997 Media & Mainstream NatCon YWCA Cato
Conference Centre Melbourne $20 attending membership ($100 at
the door). 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$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
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.
CLUB INFO
Red Squadron in Melbourne has disbanded. They held a wake for
the club after the masquerade at Multiverse. Gamma Quadrant
Outpost has also wound up. Karen Pender-Gunn is still willing
to act as a local contact for the U.S. parent group.
OTHER EVENTS
N.S.W.
FUTURIAN SOCIETY OF SYDNEY September 20 7 pm Room 1615 Uni of
Technology Sydney Students in SF
http://ftoomsh.progsoc.uts.edu.au/~ian/writings.html
SOUTHERN SCIENCE FICTION GROUP October 19 Lunch Meeting Mortdale
Pub Bistro 12.30 - 3.00 Invented languages in books Contact 15
Shade Place Lugarno (02) 534-3595.
SKYFORCE SYDNEY December 7 The Faculty of Nursing, 88 Mallet
Street Camperdown.
AUSTRALIAN SF ASSOCIATION GPO Box 4440 Sydney 2000 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
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 Fanzine Friends of
Science Fiction Newsletter
LOST IN SPACE AUSTRALIA P.O. Box N9 Petersham North NSW 2049
NSW UNI SF CLUB newsletter 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
SYDNEY DW SF FAN CLUB Anglican Church Hall 2 Rochford St
Erskineville GPO Box 2870 Sydney 2001 neelix@eagle.asstdc.com.au
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. Ali Baba Café on George St.
VICTORIA
MSFC September 20 Independence Day Discussion September 27
Board Games October 4 Mexican Food Night October 11 No meeting.
8.00pm St David's Church Hall 74 Melville Rd West Brunswick P.O.
Box 212 World Trade Centre Melbourne 3005
DOCTOR WHO CLUB OF VICTORIA September 21 1pm. "An Afternoon with
Lalla Ward" Melbourne University PO Box 3029 Templestowe
Heights, VIC 3107 (Normal address GPO Box 4782UU Melbourne 3001
email: borad@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au )
ENTERPRISE September 23 Car Rally 10.00am Ormond Railway Station
P.O. Box 466 World Trade Centre Melbourne 3005 (03) 9583 7404
NOVA MOB 2 October Elaine Cochrane on R A Lafferty 13 Frederick
St Brunswick.
TIME TREKKERS October 4 Theatre Sports Bendigo Community Support
Centre 46 Sternberg St Bendigo. P.O. Box 934 Bendigo 3550.
DANDENONG VALLEY SCIENCE FICTION SOCIETY October 9 Series
novels prove that SF buyers are suckers 8.00pm Dandenong
Library. Ann McGann 63 Woodside Ave, Frankston, 3199.
05971-3645.
SKYFORCE (Star Wars) October 12 St Mark's Church Hall, cnr Burke
Rd & Canterbury Rd Camberwell. 1.00 to 5.00pm P.O. Box 427
Northcote 3070
LONDON LOWLIFE'S FEAST (1997 Valentine's Day Ball) February 15
St Brigid's Church Hall, North Fitzroy. Presented by the
Australian Costumers Guild P.O. Box 322 Bentleigh Vic 3204 email
stilskin@netspace.net.au
AUSTRALIAN BABYLON 5 FAN CLUB P.O. Box 41 West Brunswick 3055
Fanzine Babbling On
AUSTRALIAN COSTUMERS GUILD P.O. Box 322 Bentleigh Vic 3204 email
stilskin@netspace.net.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.
AUSTREK First Saturday of the month at St Augustine's Church
Hall, Bourke Street, Melbourne unless otherwise notified. GPO
Box 5206AA, Melbourne, 3001 Phone: 03 9887 1701 (Answering
machine only)
BIG SF (Star Trek/ general SF) Ballarat P.O. Box 178 Wendouree
3355
FELLOWSHIP OF MIDDLE EARTH Monash University F & SF Society 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. K&Ms, Myer Arcade Melbourne
Gallifrey GPO Box 910G Melbourne 3001
GOULBURN VALLEY SCI-FI CLUB bi monthly 4th Sunday of the month.
Willowmere Receptions Kyabram. P.O. Box 186 Kyabram 3620
PHRYNNE FISHER CLUB P.O. Box 41 West Brunswick 3055
THE QUANTUM LEAP FAN CLUB Newsletter The Leaper PO Box 315,
Northcote VIC 3070
RED DWARF FAN CLUB P.O. Box 1044 Bundoora 3083
THE X-FILES FAN CLUB OF AUSTRALIA P.O. Box 402, Niddrie 3042.,
Fanzine The Field Journal.
QUEENSLAND
QUEST G.P.O. Box 2084 Brisbane 4001
11:21 (Qld X-Files Club) Contact Flat 2, 10 Roseglen St Greenslopes 4120
BRISBANE DR WHO FAN CLUB bimonthly, 3rd Sunday of the month CWL
Coffee Lounge, off Charlotte Street, Brisbane. PO Box 10308,
Adelaide Street, Brisbane QLD 4000. email dhutchis@cin.gov.au
CONQUEST GPO Box 1376 Brisbane 4001
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 October 2 Writers Centre Adelaide PO Box 3355,
Rundle Mall, Adelaide, SA 5000 dwarman@maths.adelaide.edu.au
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).
W.A.
THE NEUTRAL ZONE PO Box 1169, Bibra Lake, WA, 6163. Phone (09)
434 4167, email: nzone@iinet.net.au Fanzine The Final Frontier
Newsletter The Defector
UNISFA - University of Western Australia Science Fiction
Association. 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
A.C.T.
CANBERRA S FS ph (06) 288 6391 (ah) PO Box 47, Civic Square
ACT 2608
FANZINES
OSCILLATION OVERTHRUSTER #7 Sue Ann Barber P.O. Box 1169 Bibra
Lake WA 6163
PINKETTE 15e Karen Pender-Gunn P.O. Box 567 Blackburn 3130
SYDNEY FUTURIAN #21 Ron Clarke P.O. Box K940 Haymarket NSW 2000
WEB PAGES
For a full listing,
http://www.vicnet.net.au/~sfoz/zines.htm
New Pages
Australasian Star Trek Ratings Analysis
http://www.iinet.net.au/~sentient/ASTRA/
Yvonne Hintz
http://www.iinet.net.au/~hellgate
DEADLINES
1997 DUFF nominations 1 December 1996
ANZAPA #172 8 October 1996
SOURCES
Alan Stewart, Rose Mitchell ,Tim Richards, Sydney Futurian
DEADLINE FOR #63
Tuesday October 8th.
Distribution Friday October 11th.