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After Sydney, I felt broke and the t y pewriter was. COLLECTION OF MAGAZINES SAFEGUARDED ? IF SO, THEN CC\ ...CT DON LATIMER AS It has been announced by Race Mathews that there will be no more issues of BACCHANALIA.................I SOON AS POSSIBLE . noticed a nice new ring on Geraldine’s finger, so.. HE '.ILL BIND THEM FOR YOU AT' Congratulations to you both. PRICIN' To pieas^. a large variety It is a good bet that the Melbourne Group OF BINDINGS ARE AVAILABLE FOR YOUR will be getting a room of their own in the not so distant future, and then things will boom. INN'A ONION. DON LATIMER, There is another bumper issue of book news Rear >S--13 NALL STREET. from the American and British pub’llshlng housoe. I TASCOE VALE SOUTH., had thought that after the last issue, they would VIC. Phone.: FL 2752. be leaving us alone for a while. ADYT. I have just ’? x informed that the room we had hopes of getting xor the Melbourne Group was not OFOFOl’OFGFCl'TT 'ROI 01 L Ci F’0®OFQ®'OFOEOFOF'(JpOFOFCFOF exactly what we wanted, so we are back where we st­ OF OF arted. Still, we can only keep trying. 0 F E R A T I 0 N F A N T A S T OF + + + + + ^ + + + + ... + + OF I must apologise for the stencilling , as OF OF OF this machine leaves much to be desired. THE UORLD’S LARGEST SCIENCE FICTION OF OF A science fiction film, FLIGHT TO MARS,has OF ON ANIMATION OF arrived in Melbourne, and a full review will be in OF .OF the next issue of ETHERLINE. OF All .-.ranches Of Science Fiction Fandom OF NEW WORLDS has finally made it I OF ape served-by this organization. For OF The British edition of ONE by David Karp , OF full peroiculars, contact the Australian OF published by Victor Gollancz, has arrived, as has a OF agent, DAVID COHEN, 0F new collection cf Kersh short novels, GUTTERSNIPE . OF ’ OF OF POX 4940, G.P.O., OF The Carnell anthology, NO PLACE LIKE EARTH in the Boardman pocket book has arrived at 3/-- OF Sydney, N.B.V. Oi 0F0F0FUF0F0F0FOFOF FOFOFOFOFOFOFOFOFOFOFOFOFOFOFOFOF ■ IJC ETHERLINE 5 basis. So the situation in the States is an odd one, n p tates in that we have two fandom movements, sixth and sev­ So Wwrs /Sw / ! ,£ S enth, fighting for their existence at the same time. RAY SCHAFFER, JNR. The big que st ion.............. is it mathematically Yell, I ’m back again with some more ramblings. possible to move from sixth to seventh fandom, and And since my last writing, the world of fandom has then proceed backwards to sixth again. Fandom can entered a state of complete quandry. Nobody over on only move forward, unless the sixth group has inven­ this side of the Pacific seems to know just exactly ted a time machine, or possibly a warp. Perhaps it what stage of fandom is in existence at the moment... would best for all concerned to junk this naming of When the members of sixth fandom and their fanzines fandom movements. Confusing it can become, ah ye.s. left the active state last year, a new horde of young The World Con is still some six months off, & fans appeared out of nowhere to take their place in already the Cleveland (Ohio) Science Fiction Organiz­ the role of leadership in the world of fandom. It now ation has started its advertising drive to get the appears that this one full-of-life, young and'active *55 Con for Cleveland. Since this year’s Con is on seventh fandom is likewise fast fading out of the lime­ the West coast, the Cleveland fans are concentrating light, for the leaders of this new movement have, to their advertising campaign principally on the fans in all outward appearances, stopped publishing their fan­ this area. By doing so, they hope to persuade the zines and gone*into a state of hibernation. west coast fans to vote for Cleveland in ’55 at the In the January 21 issue I stated that seventh elections coming up at this years Con in Frisco. fandom was definitely replacing sixth fandom, but in Another big fan gathering coming up on May 22 view of the happenings over the past couple of months and 25 at Bellfontaine Ohio, the INDIAN LAKES CONFE- it looks as if a correction on my part is due. The RANCE. This will be the fifth annual fan get-together reverse is now true, with sixth fandom replacing sev­ held at Indian Lake, and next to the World Con, has enth. It’s a very bewildering state of affairs, since always proved to be the most popular convention. this complete reversal has taken place in the past couple of months. To explain my point, the top fanzine In case some of you haven’t heard (which is of seventh fandom, SCIENCE FANTASY BULLETIN, is nw doubtful, but I’ll throw it in anyway), Clifford D. some five months overdue. The runner-up zine, VEGA,is Simak's CITY was awarded the International Fantasy now on a bi-monthly schedule, and many of the other Award for 1955* Other novels which received high rank­ leaders have folded completely. ing for the past year were CHILDHOOD’S END, THE SPACE MERCHANTS, MISSION OF GRAVITY and THE DEMOLISHED MAN. To make matters even more confusing, Willis, These five novels were high on my list of top- -no'tch one of the wheels of sixth fandom, has returned upon writing, but I feel the top novel of 1953, much unfer­ the scene and has proceeded to make his zine HYPHEN a rate d by many of the fans, was Sturgeon’s MORE THAN close replica of the old QUANDRY. His SLANT has gone HUMAN. Truly a classic if ever I read one* back to quality paper and is once more a leader in the fan field. And to make matters even more confusing , That about winds it up for this issue. I’ll be OOFSLA, another leader of sixth fandom, has been re - on deck again next time. juvinated by C-regg Calkins and is now on a six-weekly RAY SCHAFFER. ETHERLINE ETHETLINE 6 Mkkine Pe VIE\aIS so things are bad I Dick Jenssen. THRILLING YONDER STORIES BRE 102. Cover- by Popp is very good - the original POPULAR SCIENCE FICTION '3- American one must have been terrific ! As for the Cover seems to represent a spaceship assaul­ stories, Dwight V. Swain's THE TRANSPOSED MAN is good ted by Christmas puddings - not an impressive effect really good for Swain, and is "a good sample of fast at all I Contents are YACHTING PARTY - an inocuous moving exciting science-mystery", as Sam Mines puts tale by Fox B.
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