The Australian Science Fiction Bullsheet #135 – January 28 2000
A lenitive 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
Lucy Sussex notes "I have just signed the contract for "The Queen
of Erewhon" to appear in David Hartwell's Year's Best Science
Fiction, to be published by the Harper Collins/Avon etc empire.
FUNNY THAT HE SHOULD MENTION IT
Chuck McKenzie writes "The forthcoming anthology of Australian
speculative humour (working title: Australien Absurdities) is
still going ahead, and the editors have received some excellent
submissions from both well-established and relatively unknown
local SF writers. However, we're still open to submissions until
March 1st, so if anyone out there has any humorous SF, Fantasy or
Horror pieces sitting in their back drawer, send them in. For a
copy of the specs sheet, contact either Chuck McKenzie (PO Box
87A, South Strathfield, NSW 2136. E-mail - chuck@connexus.net.au)
or Tansy Rayner Roberts (Mailboxes Etc, Suite 130, 60 Liverpool
St, Hobart, Tas 7000. E-mail - troberts@postoffice.utas.edu.au)."
IN ELECTRONS
Ion Newcombe reports "AntipodeanSF issue 23 is now available for
viewing. This month's "False Millennium" issue features eight
stories by Aussie authors in celebration of AntiSF's second year
of publication. "Boom Baby Boom" Carol Ryles; "Teach The Children
Well" Geoffrey Maloney; "Writer's Hands" Edwina Harvey; "The
Colonel" Trent Jamieson; "The World" Owen D. Godfrey; "The Book"
Carole Nomarhas; "There's a Party in My Head and Everyone's
Invited" Andrew Sullivan; "Turning Off The Twentieth Century" Rob
Bleckly " http://www.nor.com.au/users/antisf
NEW DAMON DARK!
"The new series of DAMON DARK has been completely recast from
scratch and although Adrian Sherlock was screen tested, it now
looks certain that Bruce Hughes, who starred as The Commander in
the science fiction hit Ocean Girl (series three) will be taking
over the lead role of Damon Dark, defending Earth against the
evil Quantum Mind known as The Jenn Collective. Joining him are
the beautiful Fiona Harris as Veruca Stone and American born
Randall Berger as The Coordinator of Department Six. Andrew
Clarke, double Logi winner and star of All the Rivers Run, was
also considered for the role of Damon Dark. Adrian Sherlock first
played Damon in a ten minute silent movie shot on Super 8 in
1992. He then shot the first 23 minutes of a feature film in
which he played Damon in 1994, only to have the project aborted
after technical problems abounded and the budget for reshooting
was not available. He then played Damon in a pilot called
"Timeslip" in 1997 with co-producer Susan Anderson. Finally on
November 23, 1998, shooting commenced on "Maddox" for channel
31's ERA TV. Along with the re-cut version of "Timeslip" and the
final episode "It's after me", these comprised the five episode
series shown on Channel 31 in September 1999. Adrian is sad not
to have at least had a "Regeneration Episode", in which Damon
could change bodies, but suffice it to say, somewhere along the
line, the aliens have transferred Damon Dark's mind into another
body...maybe he just doesn't remember it. But to paraphrase
Dr.Who,"I'm sure my future's in safe hands!" Good luck to the new
Damon!" The Sherlock Productions team.
BULLSHEET MEDIA WATCH
Brian Forte's piece on having his house burgled appears in The
Age 14/1/2000 Terry Dowling reviews Greg Egan's Teranesia, Kim
Wilkins' Grimoire, Hartwell & Broderick's Centaurus, and
Blackford, Ikin & McMullen's Strange Constellations in The
Weekend Australian review 15-16/1/2000. David Russell notes that
a photo of Shane Morrissey, surrounded by various Star Wars
characters, appeared in the Herald Sun's Connect Computer section
19/1/2000 Sara Douglass receives a three page write-up in The
Australian Magazine 22-23/1/2000
IAN NICHOLS HITCHED
"Ian Nichols, strolling poet and Fan GOH of the coming Swancon
25, was married to Susan Wright in their Doubleview home on
Friday 14 Jan in a civil ceremony in the presence of about forty
guests. Among the fans present were Dave Luckett, Sally Beasley,
Iain Henderson, Susan Margaret, John and Sarah McDouall. Also
present was famous fakefan Katherine Chopin, who pointedly wore
black, in the role of the Groom's Past. The aging of this neck of
the fannish woods was demonstrated by the topics of conversation
- receding hairlines, advancing waistlines, the difficulty of
getting scurf out of one's spectacles and reminiscences of
conventions long past.
The bride performed a minor faux pas during the exchange of vows
by agreeing to take Ian as her wife. The groom demonstrated his
own good taste by displaying the lipstick on his nipple; his
Speech was enlivened by an avowal of his lust for life. A
scabrous section of the assembled multitudes gave this the
charivari it deserved. The happy couple ejected the last guests
at around midnight, which gave them just enough time to clean the
place up before departing to a honeymoon in the Malaysian
highlands." Sally Beasley & Dave Luckett
SICKNESS & DISEASES
David Arblaster reports that it's Beverley Hope's turn in
the hospital. She has just had her gall bladder removed. The
operation was successful and the surgeon reported that her
overall health should improve as a result of the operation.
PERIPATETIC FANS
Adelaide's Brian Forte has been in Melbourne for a couple
of months, doing contract work for Telstra. He has stayed long
enough to be conned into doing the February Nova Mob talk. While
here, his house in Adelaide was burgled, but without too much
material loss. Lewis Morley & Marilyn Pride made a flying visit
to Melbourne to work on a commercial using one of Lewis's
spacesuits. Given that the temperature on the day of the shot was
predicted to be in the mid 30s, Lewis was glad he wasn't in the
suit. Karen Johnston has been sojourning in Western Australia.
Meanwhile, it seems that half the Aussiecon Three Committee is
leaving the country. Helen Connor is off to the US and Europe.
Mark Loney has been in Switzerland and, what with David Evans'
move to the U.S. it leads one to ask how much profit Aussiecon
Three did make :-)
FAN FUNDS
There are assorted rumours concerning the 2000 FFANZ
race, to send an Australian fan to New Zealand for Con d'Or,
which suggest that we should see a ballot paper real soon now.
CONVENTION NEWS
Aussiecon Three members are entitled to nominate items
for the 2000 Hugo Awards, to be presented at Chicon 2000 in
Chicago in August. Copies of the nomination forms have been sent
out to all members. To vote in the awards, you must be a member
of Chicon. (It was noted that the illustration on the nominating
ballot, a dragon nestling on a pile of printed matter, featured
items that could be nominated for the 2000 Hugos...)
UPCOMING CONVENTIONS
WHOVENTION 2000
Australian National Doctor Who Convention. February 4 - 6 2000
GsoH: Sylvester McCoy (7th Dr) and Nicola Bryant (Peri). Fan
Guest: Karen Herkes Rydges North Sydney At door rate is $140 and
day rate of $80. Children's under 16, $10 less than adult rates.
Make all cheques payable to Whovention (not Whovention 2000) P.O.
Box 4 Epping NSW 2121 Australia whovention@eagles.com.au
http://www.eagles.com.au/~whovention
STUDIO HOLLYWOOD CONVENTIONS
February 26 2000 The Masonic Centre Sydney Nichelle Nichols and
Chase Masterson
BOBW 8
March 11 -12 2000 The Southern Cross Hotel, Sydney Theme: Babylon
5 Guests: Richard Biggs, Patricia Tallman, Jeffrey Willerth For
more information: www.bobw.com.au or (02) 9453 0290
HOLODICTION
April 2 2000 The Gazebo Hotel Sydney GsoH Kate Mulgrew Rene
Auberjonois & Jeremy Bulloch
3RD BRISBANE INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL
April 6-9, Brisbane, Australia GoH Ray Harryhausen.
www.visualeyes.net.au/baf
HIGHLANDER DOWN UNDER 3
April 14-16 2000 Mercure Hotel Brisbane GsoH Peter Wingfield,
Valentine Pelka & Anthony De Longis $165 P.O. Box 198 Brisbane
Albert St Qld 4002 ph (07) 3282 4220. sonjav@powerup.com.au
http://www.powerup.com.au/~sonjav/
SWANCON 25
39th National Australian Science Fiction Convention April
20th-24th, 2000. Ascot Inn, Belmont, WA. GsoH Connie Willis and
Ian Nichols. Gratuitous interstate guest "Mitch" Other guests
include Stephen Dedman, Sue Isle, Jack Dann, Janeen Webb, Sean
Williams and Tess Williams swancon25@megabyte.murdoch.edu.au
http://www.swancon.iinet.net.au Swancon 25 GPO Box G429 Perth
W.A. 6892 $70 Aus until January 1st 2000 $20
KITTEN KON
The Goodies Convention 2000 April 21-23 2000 Dallas Brooks Centre
Melbourne GsoH Tim Brooke Taylor & Graeme Garden [o.c.p.]
Contact The Goodies Rule - OK! P.O. Box 325 Chadstone Vic 3148
$100 until 20/1/99 $120 until 14/3/2000
http://thegoodies.oztek.com.au
FRIENDS OF SCIENCE FICTION
Mini-Con May 7 2000 10:00am to 6:00pm Guest (commitments
pending) :. $50 FSF members and $60 nonmembers (02) 9523 8385
fsf@nlc.net.auP.O Box 797, Fairfield, NSW, 1860.
MULTIVERSE
May 13 2000 - A day with Nicole deBoer
http://www.vicnet.net.au/~multivrs/
MULTIVERSE 4
Mid 2000 tba http://www.vicnet.net.au/~multivrs/
CON D'OR
The 2000 New Zealand National SF Convention June 3 to 5 2000 West
Plaza Hotel Wellington GsoH Tad Williams Sara Douglass and Maree
Sole. Contact enquiries@condor.sf.org.nz or
http://www.condor.sf.org.nz
sinpOZium 2000
The Australian Slash Con June 10 to 12 2000 (Queens Birthday
Weekend). Sydney. Convener Bernice brussell@ozemail.com.au.
Official website
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~gabriani/sinpozium.htm Mailing list
http://www.onelist.com/community/sinpozium
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/
SWANCON 2001 THE MASQUERADE,
40th Australian National Science Fiction Convention April 13-16
2001. GsoH tba The Rydges Hotel Perth. P.O. Box 162 Nedlands W.A.
6909. swancon2001committee@egroups.com
http://www.sf.org.au/swancon2001
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. Supporting $US 40
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/
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.sfsfc.org/worldcon/ Attending $A150.
Supporting $A50.
GoH = Guest of Honour
O.C.P. = Other Commitments Permitting
tba= to be announced.
CLUB NEWS
Rebecca Dominguez bluebec@mynx.wow.aust.com posted the following
to aus.sf "Melbourne Babyloniacs Annonymous are getting together
again to rescreen Babylon 5. (Most likely from the beginning.)
Should you be interested in joining our group to come and watch a
few episodes please reply to myself or: dexx@mynx.wow.aust.com
(he reads his email more often), we will then give you contact
details. The only price is nibblies or drinks."
EVENTS
Note that there is an annual calendar available on the Vicnet SF
web site at http://www.vicnet.net.au/~sfoz/2000cal.htm
QUEENSLAND
VORTEX January 30 Red Cross Centre 409 Adelaide St Brisbane GPO
Box 2004 Brisbane Qld 4001 (07) 3356 5472 pbuddaaa@zip.com.au
CONQUEST February 6 Red Cross Centre 409 Adelaide St Brisbane GPO
Box 1376 Brisbane Qld 4001
SOUTH AUSTRALIA
CRITICAL MASS February 2 2000 Critical Mass Quiz Night Writers
Centre Adelaide PO Box 3355, Rundle Mall, Adelaide, SA 5000
dmw@pobox.com
1999 AUREALIS AWARDS Monday March 6 2000 6:00pm South
Australian Writers' Centre, Second Floor 187 Rundle Mall Adelaide
S.A.
VICTORIA
MSFC January 28 1950s SF ,February 4 Food Night: Middle Eastern
BBQ. Dreaming Down Under stories with Jack Dann & Janine Webb
February 11 The Seven Basic Plotlines of Star trek. What are
they? Which episodes, which series, which movies fall into which
plotline? 8:00 pm St. David's Uniting Church Hall, 74 Melville
Road, West Brunswick P.O. Box 212 World Trade Centre Melbourne
3005
FRIDAY NIGHT MOB January 28 ,February 4, ANZAPA Collected
February 11 ANZAPA Distributed 6-7.30pm. Informal eating and
nattering. Myers Cafeteria Melbourne
SPACED OUT 29th January 2000 Public Meeting Discuss future
directions of the club for 2000 and beyond. 2pm at ALSO Building,
1/35 Cato Street, Prahran Contact P.O. Box 363 Preston Vic 3072
Alan (03) 9824 1545 http://www.vicnet.net.au/~spaceout/
spaceout@vicnet.net.au
AUSTRALIAN SCIENCE FICTION FOUNDATION AGM January 29 2000,
2:00pm. Open to all members of the Foundation. Contact Cath
Ortlieb for more details if you wish to attend - P.O. Box 215
Forest Hill Vic 3131, mortlieb@vicnet.net.au or (03) 9803-9480
AUSTRALIAN BABYLON 5 FAN CLUB January 31 P.O.Box
437,Sunshine,VIC. 3022 chrisap@bigpond.com
http://www.vicnet.net.au/~babylon5/
NOVA MOB November 2 Brian Forte on Critical Mass 13 Frederick St
Brunswick
AUSTREK February 5 2000 2pm St Marks' Church Hall, cnr Canterbury
& Burke Roads, Camberwell "Should auld acquaintance be forgot
..."GPO Box 5206AA Melbourne 3001 03 9489 8743
http://www.vicnet.net.au/~austrek/ austrek@vicnet.net.au
ENTERPRISE February 26 Star Trek "Make a short Film" Day P.O.
Box 466 World Trade Centre Melbourne 3005 enterprs@vicnet.net.au
http://www.vicnet.net.au/~enterprise/ 0418 56 1701
ELECTRONIC ZINES
EMERALD CITY Issue 53 Cheryl Morgan cmorgan@ceres.wallis.com or
http://www.emcit.com
DEADLINES
Bullsheet #136 February 8 2000.
George Turner Prize January 28 2000
ANZAPA 193 February 7 2000
DUFF Nominations February 15 2000
Hugo Nominations March 31 2000
GUFF Nominations April 14 2000
This Fanzine Supports The Minneapolis in '73 WorldCon Bid The
Toronto in 2003 WorldCon Bid. The Nieuw Amsterdam in '04 WorldCon
Bid and the Australia in 2007 WorldCon Bid
ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS TO THE 1999 FICTION LISTINGS
1999 AUSTRALIAN SF, F AND HORROR ANTHOLOGIES, CRITIQUE AND
COLLECTIONS
Real Sci-Fi George Ivanoff (Horwitz Martin)
1999 AUSTRALIAN SF, F AND HORROR NOVELS
The Book of Revelation Rory Barnes & Damien Broderick (Harper Collins)
1999 AUSTRALIAN SCIENCE FICTION, HORROR AND FANTASY SHORT STORIES
"Beam Me Up", "Ghosts" & "Sugar" George Ivanoff Life, Death and Detention(Margaret Hamilton Books)
"Matthew 24:36" Chris Lawson, Eidolon SF Online (Dec '99)
1999 AUSTRALIAN YOUNG ADULT SF, F AND HORROR NOVELS
Horsehead Man Rory Barnes (Angus & Robertson)
A Dark Journey Dave Luckett Omnibus*
* Sally Beasley notes that Dave Luckett's A Dark Journey and A
Dark Victory should be considered in both the general and young
adult areas, that I missed the beginning of the title of Women
of Other Worlds: Excursions Through Science Fiction and Feminism
Helen Merrick & Tess Williams and also that Sara Douglass The
Betrayal of Arthur is non-fiction, not a novel.
Corrections and additions provided by Jeremy Byrne, Bruce
Gillespie, Sally Beasley, George Ivanoff
THE MARK TIME AND OGLE AWARDS -- 2000
Presented by The American Society For Science Fiction Audio
(ASFSFA)
The Mark Time Award is given each year to honor the Best Science
Fiction Audio Production. The Ogle Award is for the Best
Horror/Fantasy Audio Production. A Gold and Silver Award in each
category will be Presented to the Winner at MINICON 35 Friday,
April 21, 2000, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
How To Enter:
1. Print and fill out the Entry Form.
http://www.mtn.org/~jstearns/MarkTime.html)
2. Send Five (5) copies of each Audio Production you are entering
(CDs or Cassettes), the Entry Form and a check for the $25.00
Entry Fee to: Mark Time Award, 3421 44th Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN
55406
3. DEADLINE for Entry: February 1, 2000
Criteria for Judging:
1. The degree to which the Production fits the subjective
description "science fiction," as against "horror" or "fantasy."
2. Use of Medium - sound design, location recording, "audio art."
3. Writing - storyline, characterisations, dialogue.
4. Performances.
5. Direction.
6. Technical production.
Judges for the 2000 Mark Time Awards are: Richard Fish, LodesTone
Media; Jerry Stearns, Minicon 35 Staff; Philip Proctor,
actor/voice artist, Firesign Theatre; Brian Price, Midwest Radio
Theater Workshop; Kara Dalkey, Fantasy Author
The Mark Time Awards are co-sponsored by MINICON and Minn-STF.
(The Minnesota Regional Science Fiction Convention, sponsored by
the Minnesota Science Fiction Society.)
Questions & Comments to jstearns@mtn.org, or 612-722-2907
For further information, see the Web at
http://www.mtn.org/~jstearns/MarkTime.html
MELBOURNE IN 2002 NATCON BID
Rose Mitchell reports: "Enthusiasm continues to grow for the
Melbourne-based Natcon bid for 2002. Fen around the country are
beginning to take up aspects of the planning. We've even had
interest from America, albeit merely to catch up on how far along
we are with arrangements.
The Bid Group is committed to making this truly a Natcon, ie,
involving fen from around the country, who are discouraged from
'marking their own territory', to draw an analogy. Just because
the Bid Group is based in Melbourne, doesn't necessarily mean
that the Con must be wholly and solely Melbourne run. After all,
this is the 21st century and the technology is readily available
to enable us to work on a project remote from our physical
location.
Which brings me to the reason why the particular time of year has
been earmarked, ie, Queen's Birthday weekend. It was the only
'NATIONAL' long weekend we could identify that did not clash with
another convention. The only other national long weekend we
could find was Easter, but as Swancons usually book this out,
Easter was discarded as a viable date. Unfortunately Western
Australian doesn't get the Queens Birthday holiday at the same
time as the rest of Australia -- this would be a good argument
for mutual recognition across state boundaries.
If anybody can come up with a date when all of Australia gets a
long weekend (except for Easter and of course Christmas -for
obvious reasons), we sure want to hear from you. We are in the
final stages of negotiations with our preferred venue and guests
of honour, so its not too late -- yet.
Contact Rose Mitchell on mitchell@vicnet.net.au."