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Sf Commentary 90 SF COMMENTARY 90 November 2015 68 pages BRIAN ALDISS BRENDA ANDERSON DOUG BARBOUR GREG BENFORD MICHAEL BISHOP DAVID BOUTLAND WILLIAM BREIDING JIM BURNS RANDY BYERS STEPHEN CAMPBELL CY CHAUVIN GIAMPAOLO COSSATO JACK DANN DITMAR (DICK JENSSEN) JAMES DOIG LEIGH EDMONDS BRAD FOSTER LEANNE FRAHM BRUCE GILLESPIE DAVID GRIGG CAREY HANDFIELD JOHN HERTZ KIM HUETT STEVE JEFFERY JERRY KAUFMAN CAROL KEWLEY DANIEL KING WERNER KOOPMANN ROBERT LICHTMAN JOHN LITCHEN LYNC PATRICK MCGUIRE JOSEPH MAJOR ERIC MAYER MURRAY MOORE GERALD MURNANE LLOYD PENNEY MARK PLUMMER DAVID PRINGLE ANDY ROBSON FRANZ ROTTENSTEINER YVONNE ROUSSEAU DAVID RUSSELL GUY SALVIDGE RON SHELDON MICHAEL SHUMAN STEVE SNEYD MILT STEVENS STEVE STILES JOE SZABO ANGUS TAYLOR ROBYN WHITELEY CASEY WOLF RAY WOOD MARTIN MORSE WOOSTER AND MANY OTHERS Cover: Steve Stiles SF COMMENTARY 90 November 2015 68 pages SF COMMENTARY No. 90, November 2015, is edited and published in a limited number of print copies by Bruce Gillespie, 5 Howard Street, Greensborough, VIC 3088, Australia. Phone: 61-3-9435 7786. PRINT EDITION AVAILABLE ONLY TO SUBSCRIBERS AND SUBSTANTIAL CONTRIBUTORS. PREFERRED MEANS OF DISTRIBUTION .PDF FILE FROM EFANZINES.COM: Portrait edition (print equivalent) or Landscape edition (widescreen): http://efanzines.com or from my email address: [email protected]. Front cover: Steve Stiles. Artwork: Jim Burns (p. 3 ‘Cockatrice’; p. 37: ’Fyrdraca’); David Russell (pp. 35, 43); Steve Stiles (pp. 38, 65); Brad Foster (pp 42, 48). Photographs: Ted McArdle (p. 4); Naomi Mondello (p. 8); Helena Binns (pp. 9, 10); Tom Becker (p. 11); Mike Ward (pp. 12, 26); Atanta Journal-Constitution (p. 13); James Doig (p. 15); John Clute (p. 17); John Litchen (p. 18); Ulla Koopmann (p. 20); Yvonne Rousseau (p. 21); Elaine Cochrane (p. 29); Randy Byers (p. 31); Steve Jeffery (p. 53). 3 I MUST BE TALKING TO MY FRIENDS :: Giampaolo Cossato :: Kim Huett :: Ray Wood :: Ron Sheldon :: Carol Kewley :: 4 Continuum 11 Guy Salvidge :: Robert Lichtman :: William Bruce Gillespie Breiding :: Michael Bishop :: Milt Stevens :: 5 The Australian Science Fiction Foundation: Angus Taylor :: Lloyd Penney :: Steve Sneyd What we do now Randy Byers :: Daniel King :: Franz LynC Rottensteiner :: David Grigg :: Greg Benford 7 The Australian Science Fiction Foundation: Eric Mayer :: Andy Robson :: Murray Moore The first 10 years Jack Dann :: Joe Szabo :: Peter Simpson :: Carey Handfield Martin Morse Wooster :: Casey Wolf :: David 7 The Enjoyable Interruptions report Boutland :: Robyn Whiteley :: Brenda Bruce Gillespie Anderson :: Joseph Major :: Michael Shuman 11 LOST IN ACTION John Hertz :: Cy Chauvin :: Leanne Frahm :: 11 Art Widner 1917–2015: Brad Foster The Art Widner who I knew was always old Murray Moore 44 and We also heard from ... 13 Ned Brooks made the effort Murray Moore 47 AND NOW THE FEATURE LETTERS ... 14 Graeme Flanagan 1948–2015: Passionate about Australian popular fiction 47 This gets weirder James Doig Jerry Kaufman 49 Some notes for Graham Joyce 15 Health Report, for now Steve Jeffery Bruce Gillespie 54 Music accompanies Mark Plummer 57 More music, music, music 16 FIRST THE LETTERS ... Doug Barbour 58 Shots across the genre divide Gerald Murnane :: Brian W. Aldiss :: John Patrick L. McGuire Litchen :: Werner Koopmann :: Dick Jenssen :: 50 Home on the Ballarat train Stephen Campbell :: Yvonne Rousseau Leigh Edmonds 2 Jim Burns: ‘Cockatrice’. I must be talking to my friends 3 Continuum 11 I had joined this year’s Continuum (Continuum 11, 6–9 of a ‘gold coin’. For the only time during the convention June 2015, Ether Centre, Melbourne) at the close of last one can gain some idea of who has turned up (except year’s because of the general air of fizziness and inner for those West Australians who take the red-eye jet to delight that I felt during 2014’s event. However, much arrive on Saturday morning). of the pleasure of that convention was a result of the way I had promised Gillian Polack I would travel in from the facilities at the International Hotel allowed people Greensborough the next morning for her slide show to meet lots of other people. My heart sank when I heard presentation of her GUFF trip from last year. She showed that this year’s Continuum would return to the Ether a small number of photos of British fans. Most of her pics Centre. It has some mingling room in the lobby area near were of events at a large convention in Croatia that she the registration desk, but few seats for people who simply attended. She had been one of three international guests want to catch up with other people. of honour. She and the other two had been accompa- I could hardly skip Continuum 11 altogether, because nied by translators, who also acted as gofers. A Croatian Mariann MacNamara, administrator of the Peter Mac- seaside city in the middle of summer looks very attractive Namara Award (for lifetime achievement in Australian for a holiday, let alone a convention. SF), had asked me to hand over in person this year’s The good news is that Gillian has written a 45,000- trophy to Merv Binns. The award had been given origi- word report, which will be published with photos. The nally at Swancon (the national convention) in Perth at bad news is that, unless something further happens, it Easter, but Merv and Helena could not be there. Grant will appear only as an e-book. Which would be okay if it Watson had brought the trophy back from Perth. He also appears as a PDF, in which case I can print it at home. handed it over to me on the steps of State Library, and Otherwise, I won’t be reading it. (I had always thought the little plinth arrived from Mariann a week ago. I asked that fan fund candidates were required to produce a full the Continuum committee if I could make the presenta- printed report that one could put on the shelf for pos- tion during the Opening Ceremony, and Liz Barr said I terity, but there have been exceptions, such as Irwin could, so I was there, and Merv and Helena turned up, Hirsh’s slide show of his report.) and everything went very well. I made a short speech Gillian is usually one of these people always seen based on a paragraph in Mariann’s citation, and Merv hurtling off in another direction at a convention, but on looked very pleased, accepted the trophy and plinth and Saturday Roman Orszanski and I managed to persuade made an even shorter speech, and then we could get on her to have lunch with us. Erika Lacey, ex-ANZAPAn in with socialising in the lobby. Ted McArdle took a photo town from Townsville, also took part in the expedition. of the presentation. Helena also took photos of the Eventually we navigated our way to Floor 3 through the event. baffling entrails of the new Emporium complex (from The Friday night of Continuum is traditionally the which Ted McArdle had just escaped), and found very best attended event of the convention, as anybody, not satisfying Malaysian-style food at the Chinta Ria, one of just members of the convention, can attend for the price the many small restaurants in the Cafe Complex. I went home to resume indexing, but was so tired that I slept for two hours. On the train home I finally leafed through the Continuum Program Book. There I found, Merv Binns (l.) receives his Peter MacNamara Award at Continuum 11 from Bruce Gillespie (r.) on behalf of Mariann to my horror, that somebody had put me down to take and Pat MacNamara. (Photo: Ted McArdle.) part in a panel on ‘The History of Australian SF’ at 10 the next morning. A few weeks before, I had been asked about setting up such a panel, but after I said that I had no time to organise it, I had heard no more. Not that I could have reached the convention on a Sunday morning by 10 a.m. Our train service can only be described as erratic on Sunday morn- ings. Through the wonders of the Internet I did man- age to alert Stephanie, of the committee, and also Terry Frost, who was the other person on the panel. Last I heard, he had roped in Roman as the other committee member. Roman said that the panel went well, with quite a few people in the audience. (At 10 in the morning? The mind boggles.) The other event I had promised to attend was the Australian Science Fiction Foundation panel, 2 p.m., Monday afternoon, in the hour before the Closing Ceremony. I would have thought this the worst possible time to be given a panel. However, 4 quite a few people were still around, even many interstate fandom in a way many members of Continuum never do. people I would have expected to be heading home. Few Roman and I went upstairs to the Cocoon Bar, a place of them attended our panel, which is one of the best I had only once ever discovered during three or four organised I’ve been to. Two of the panelists have been Continuum conventions held at the Ether Centre. I had with the Foundation since the beginning: Carey Hand- hoped to find people to talk to. A huge number of field and Cath Ortlieb. Rose Mitchell has returned to the Convention dead-dog-partiers had already formed a cir- organising committee after some years away, and LynC cle of chairs, which seemed impossible to invade. How- has joined us in recent years. ever, suddenly nobody seemed to want to talk to me, so I’ve reprinted here two of the presentations.
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