Terry Dowling Wins DITMAR and ATHELING AWARDS Harlan Ellison Wins Fans At Syncon *83 BRUCE GILLESPIE TO RECEIVE WORLD SF AWARD
TOE AUSTRALIAN SCIENCE FICTION ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS - THE DITMARS, were presented at the 22nd Australian National Science Fiction Convention -SYNCON '83, which was held at the Shore Motel, Artarmon, Sydney, June 10-13. The highlight of this well organised convention, one of the best all round sf cons we have seen in Australia, was the showman like performance of the Guest of Honour, HARLAN ELLISON. He had all the fans practically eating out of his hands, with the colourful and dramatic style of his speech making, readings and conversation. Besides TERRY DOWLING, the inevitable two awards went to MARC ORTLIEB again and ROBIN JOHNSON received the Special Award for Services to Australian Science Fiction. The full list of winners is as follows: BEST INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE FICTION OR FANTASY RIDDLEY WALKER by Russell Hoban (Jonathan Cape / Pan J BEST AUSTRALIAN SCIENCE FICTION OR FANTASY "The Man Who Walked Away Behind the Eyes" by Terry Dowling (OMEGA May/June '83 ) BEST AUSTRALIAN FANZINE BEST AUSTRALIAN FAN WRITER Q 36 Edited by Marc Ortlieb Marc Ortlieb BEST AUSTRALIAN SCIENCE FICTION OR FANTASY ARTIST BRUCE GILLESPIE & ELAINE COCHRANE (Photo John Litchen) Marilyn Pride Melbourne fan and publisher BRUCE GILLESPIE has been awarded the World SF organisation's BEST AUSTRALIAN SCIENCE FICTION OR FANTASY CARTOONIST "Harrison Award" for Increasing the Status John Packer of Science Fiction Internationally. Two other recipients of this award were Sam Lundwell BEST AUSTRALIAN SCIENCE FICTION OR FANTASY EDITOR and Krsto Mazuranic. I Van Ikin (SCIENCE FICTION) The awards were announced at the World SF THE WILLIAM ATHELING AWARD meeting held in Zagreb, Yugoslavia. The "Harrison Award" is initiated and recipients Terry Dowling for "Kirth Gersen: The Other Demon Prince " are chosen, by Harry Harrison . (SCIENCE FICTION #11 ) Continued page 3. (Continued page 3) fe*CORGI and BANTAM r*'
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2 SYNCON '83 and the Ditmars from page 1. Some features may be chopped and otheas cut, but moae about that latea. The Syncon ’83 Committee initiated a new award for Services to Australian Well, the Vitmaas paesented (Jew if any Science Fiction, which was awarded to suapises, and I would like to eongaat- Robin Johnson. Robin, who has been ulate the winneAt,, but I do wit>h Maae involved with fandom in Australia since Oatlieb would gafiate. I also felt veay the 1960s when he returned to his uneasy about shoot fiction competing place of origin from England, was the with long fiction in the Australian Chairman of AUSSIECON, the 1975 World catego Ay and I did not see the real need SF Convention held in Melbourne. This foa an awaad foa cartooning. In my award is a significant token of all of opinion we do only have one Australian Australian fandom’s regard for Robin fan/pro artist who deserves an awaAd. and our thanks for his efforts on our for such wook and that is Chois Joh.uton. behalf. The others are all ok in a quite limited way, but not good enough to win awards. (Further details on Syncon '83 are on If the number of awaads must be limited page 8 .) and I do think they should be, I do hope that futuae Australian National conven World SF Awards^ continued from page 1. tion committees give moae thought to The colour of this award incidently is what categories they designate. Long emerald green, which is appropriate fiction and short fiction should not considering that Harrison resides in be competing against each other. I do Ireland. The other awards given this realise of course that eon committees must take into consideration the numbeA year were: For Dedicated Service: of nominations that aae possible in any Gerald Bishop (Secretary) and Betty Anne one category, but there is enough being Hull (Newsletter Editor) : The 1983 Long written by Australian authors now to Distance Record: Peking - Zagreb, 6100 merit long and shoot fiction categories, miles, to Wang Fengzhen. The President's which in my opinion are moae impoatant Award: Independence of Thought in the than anything else. Field of Science Fiction to Josef Nesvadba. I am suae I will get some flack on this Pezw. Readers, The Dedicated Service Awards need no issue, but I am quite prepared to argue explanation, but the Long Distance This issue is a little latea than 1 on this and the artist category. Record is one which will be bestowed would have liked, paAticulaAly since I Moae care should be taken in futuae as occasionally, when a member travels a would have liked to tell you. the VLTMAR to who is given The Golden Cateapilleo a very long way to attend the annual WinneAS a bit soonea. HoweveA,ciacum- Awaads. They aae meant entirely as a yoke meeting. The Presidents award is for stanees have prevented me faom getting and not to be taken seriously, but if authors who do ’’not subscribe to the .it to you until now. Hext issue I ex people start using them in a vindictive various cliches of the field, but instead pect to be announcing that Melbourne way the aecipients aae bound to get up go their own way and create a body of will be holding the 19 85 Woald SF Con set as one was at Syncon '83. Lt would thought which is unmistakeably their vention , so L will make eveay effoat be a pity foa this Austaaiian fannish own. to get it out as coaly as possible in institution to disappear. Paul Stevens Septembea. Foa the next few has a assuAed me that in futuae he will Bruce Gillespie, who is one of the foun ders of Norstrilia Press, recently re months I will have less time than evea carefully check all aecoemendations oa to devote to paoducing the NEWS, so the nominations if you like, before accept printed in one volume, the first eight ing them. issues of his magazine SF COMMENTARY, size may be eat by a few pages. I hope This magazine, which reviews sf and-has to have moae help in paoducing futuae issues, so 1 will be making eveay effoat articles and letters from readers world MeAv Binns/Editoa-PublisheA wide, was considered by World SF as a to get them out moae aegulaaly and on good example for them and was their time, but don't hold youa baeath. prime reason for him winning the award. 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SCIENCE FICTION BOOKS PUBLISHED IN BRITAIN: $3.15 for 6 issues. dtze and content, id the time and the has been given the job of looking after energy required. ktthough we have heard the STAR TREK series, which were never that the response to requests for stories considered as part of the Timescape for dome to cat anthotogtes hat> not been deal at any rate, and acting as care very good, so perhaps the btoddomtng of taker of TIMESCAPE until a new editor science fiction tn this country is tn is found. Pocket intend to take their reattty a btt of a myth. Ed. ) time and could take a few months to find a replacement for Hartwell. BIG CHANGES FOR POCKETS TIMESCAPE SERIES
WYNNE WHITEFORD has sold French trans POCKET BOOKS publishers announced a new lation rights of his novel BREATHING arrangement for the publication of their SPACE ONLY (Cory § Collins '80) to science fiction and fantasy books in Fleuve Noir. June. The ’’Timescape" logo was to be dropped and a new logo called "Starscope" CORY § COLLINS has received grants from was to be used. The new arrangement was the Australia Council for two forthcom that the Scott Meredith Literary Agency ing titles, FRONTIER WORLDS, (Ed Paul would create and edit the new series for Collins) and THOR'S HAMMER by WYNNE Pocket, but the SFWA and authors in gen WHITEFORD. They will also be publishing eral objected strongly, with obvious TEMPTING OF THE WITCH KING by RUSSELL reasons, to this deal and it has now BLACKFORD and SAVAGE TOMORROW by TREVOR been dropped. However, the Timescape MIMI PANITCH & DAVID HARTWELL DONOHUE. line has not been doing well enough for Photo Science Fiction Chronicle VAN IKIN, editor of the review magazine Pocket Under the editorship of David Hartwell. They have had some very good Ron Busch of Pocket said that Timescape SCIENCE FICTION, and fan GoH at Syncon was losing a lot of money and paying '83, has sold a short story called material including award winners such as the latest Nebula Best Novel , NO too much for the product. "We were "Captive Audience" to OMEGA. (They paid getting great literary reviews and $108.00!) ENEMY BUT TIME by Michael Bishop, but no bestsellers. awards-- but the sf audience is looking JOHN BAXTER reports that his book on for more entertainment and fun than we The Star Trek books will be published international art auctions, BIDDING, is were publishing." not a new title and was in fact published by Pocket themselves, but it seems obvious that changes will be made David Hartwell said in reply that by Granada in 1979. We reported last issue according to his own budget, Timescape that it was new, but it is probably being regarding the rest of their sf line. All the books scheduled will still be pub ’’.. was not losing money, but they can reprinted. Baxter has completed a book lished. David Hartwell has been the do their accounting any way they choose. on the disastrous Australian bushfires editor of sf at Pocket since 1978, after I’m leaving with my reputation for last summer, for NEL. spending five years at Berkley and three doing good books intact." Hartwell is BRIAN HANNANT (co-writer of MAD MAX II) at Signet and from the point of view of up for the Hugo for Best Editor this and Baxter have received a grant from sf fans he has done a great job. He year. the Australian Film Commission to write he introduced the Timescape logo in (Edctofirat Note.: Fox. a comp£e.te. cover an sf script under the provisional title March 1981, and has published the last age, 0^ thiA matter we. AuggeAt you stead of TIME SHIFT. Producer Richard Davis, three Nebula Winners. However the man the, ste,posut Zn the. August iAbue, o£ who did the up-coming PHAR LAP, has agement at Pocket seem determined to Locus. Ed. ) taken interest in it, and is sponsoring make changes. It was announced by Ron it for second-draft funding to the AFC. Busch at Pocket, that Timescape as such would most likely disappear, but the BLUEJAY BOOKS TAKE FLIGHT Sue Milliken, who made FIGHTING BACK, current books scheduled into early ’84 has also taken an option on another would be published. We will just have New publisher BLUEJAY BOOKS, established screenplay by Hannant and Baxter, NIGHT to wait for further developments. by JIM FRENKEL, has signed a distribution SHADE, an Edwardian thriller. This has contract with St.Martin's Press, who will The objection to the Scott Meridith deal also been given an AFC script develope- also handle subsiduary and foreign rights was that it would be detrimental to the ment grant. Financing has been established for the writers and artists in the field, first season's titles and they will com Hyland House will publish LEE HARDING'S on the assumption that writers repre mence publishing late this year, 1983. new novel, WAITING FOR THE END OF THE sented by Meredith would get preferential WORLD, in the first week of September treatment. Meredith denied this saying 1983. It has a "smashing " cover he that he intended to buy from everybody, Bluejay will publish hard covers, trade reported and he also said that his novel and that "It would have been a nice paperbacks and "quality" paperbacks -- DISPLACED PERSON has gone back to press market for all writers". Meredith and trade editions in mass-market size. It's for a third printing by Penguin. He has Pocket have denied that the objections first book will be a hard cover in also sold a movie option on the story. raised by the SFWA and others has caused December, DARK VALLEY DESTINY: THE BIO The scripwriter and producer are Sydney their plans to be dropped and the cause GRAPHY OF ROBERT E.HOWARD by L.Sprague de Camp, Catherine de Camp and Jane based and funding may come from the New was that they had disagreed on other Griffith. Bluejay will also do quality South Wales Film Commission. It may details not specified. It was speculated paperbacks of THE STARS ARE THE STYX by never make it to the screen, but as in reports that it may have been due to Harding points out, it may be the near the budget, which Pocket was trying to Theodore Sturgeon and A MIRROR FOR OBSERVERS by Edgar Pangborn. Both of est he will ever come to making Hollywood. limit due to current problems, was con these titles were once published by The producer will be June Harvey, the sidered by Meridith not enough to turn writer John Edwards. the line around. Dell and the former, like a number of other titles published by Dell, were JACK WODHAMS has a story in the first (EdctoV-d NoZe: The. above, ivai rm/ZnteApWi- sold out soon after publication. We got issue of a new semi-professional magaz ZaZZon oi the, ^iXuairon frtom /ie,posu&> the impression that Dell preferred to ine from Canada, MOONSCAPE, called in Locus and The Publisher's Weekly, but undeijprint a title and sell' out, rather "Jade Elm", along with "The Phantom's as I iva6 paAtrvig thiA up the. August than have-any over. Titles like the Exodus" by PAUL COLLINS and TREVOR iAAue, oi Locus aviZved and...... Ed.) Sturgeon, THE SNOW QUEEN, by Joan vinge and DONOHUE. TOO LONG A SACRIFICE by Mildred Downey (Moonscape , although targer tn dtze, DAVID HARTWELL has definitely left Broxen were underprinted initially and bean eompartdon with Nevitle A.ngove'd Pocket. His contract with them was up to our knowledge not reprinted for a The Cggnus Chronicler and th not att to October ’83 and he was given four long time, if at all. It must have been that much better tn presentation than weeks off with pay. "I agreed to a no a frustrating situation for Frenkel a sf News, Obvtoudty the. onty thing fault devorce," he said. Pocket is now when he was sf editor at Dell. that id preventing publication tn this seeking a new editor. Meanwhile, MIMI country of a publication simitar tn PANITCH , who was Hartwell’s assistant, Continued page 5. 4 BLUEJAY BOOKS continued URSULA K. LE GUIN is working on a new FORR E ST J. ACKERMAN book which will combine prose, poetry, PUTS THINGS STRAIGHT illustration and possibly other forms. In a letter to SF Chronicle in June, The working title is THE VALLEY and it Forrest J.Ackerman corrects a few reports is set in California after a non- nuclear about him and his activities. He said disaster. She discussed t-he work in pro that he would like to be credited for gress on the National Public Radio Show, things he has done, including receiving "All Things Considered", and she read the first Hugo and delivering Gernsback’s some of the poems from the book, which Hugo to him, but not for things he has had been recorded on March 21st at the not done, like being the publisher of Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, Famous Monsters, rather than editor, D.C. which he was for 190 issues. He is not ANDRE NORTON was hospitalized a few JOAN D. VINGE and JIM FRENKEL the publisher along with A.E.van Vogt, months back due to an allergic reaction Photo Charles N.Brown of Triton Books, which has been wrongly to drugs. She was reported to be recov reported in various places including ering at home. The Bluejay trade paperback range will SFC. He is Executive Editor of Morrison, start in January *84 with THE JOHN W. Raven-Hill Inc., publishers of LON OF CAMPBELL AWARD ANTHOLOGY edited by 1000 FACES.’ (the Chaney Memorial Volume), George R.R.Martin. Their offices are at with I NEVER MET JULES VERNE, THE 130 West 42nd St. #514, New York, NY FRANKENSCIENCE MONSTER (revised and 10036, USA. They have a staff of two, enlarged), a non-fiction work by A.E Jim Frenkel and general manager Joann van Vogt, METROPOLIS MOVIE BOOK, THE Hill, plus a few people working on WORLD BELOW and other worthy works pro design and so forth. They will be pub jected as future titles. He said he has lishing Joan Vinge’s (Frenkel’s wife) a full slate and is not seeking submis new book, WORLD’S END ( title changed sions at present. He is not going to from FIRE LAKE). A joint collectors edit a new filmonster magazine for any edition will be published by Underwood- body (including the one mentioned for Miller publishers. Starburst we assume), but he will be con MALCOLM EDWARDS has resigned as editor tributing to various publications includ Future titles to be published include of the British sf magazine Interzone, ing Fangoria, Halls of Horror and Starburst. THE DOOR INTO SHADOW and THE DOOR INTO due mainly to pressure of work as sf FIRE both by Diane Duane, various The latter has comissioned a definitive editor for Gollancz publishers, but he Philip K.Dick books, an illustrated two part part article on METROPOLIS. will continue to do some freelance writ version of Norman Spinrad’s novella And to quote specifically from the SFC ing. Interzone has hired a new art dir ’’Riding the Torch” and Vernor Vinge’s letter:" A new sci-fi periodical is con ector, IAN MILLER, and plans to include new novel, THE PEACE WAR, an illustrated templated with myself playing George more quality artwork in future issues. version of Vinge’s "True Names", Jack Scither’s role to a well known auctorial Williamson’s autobiography and more. name in the SF field, one who recognises Nebula Award Winner MICHAEL BISHOP has Eight books between now and March ’84 "sci-fi" as an acceptable world-wide a number of books in the works, including and two a month after that. It has abbreviation for science fiction by mun ONE WINTER IN EDEN from Arkham House, taken over two years to get Bluejay dane and afficionado alike and not a a collection of short stories due this books off the ground and Frenkel said derogatory term fostered by a vociferous fall. They will also publish his next "there were times when I wondered if it minority (29 years late.’) to apply only novel, WHO MADE STEVIE CRYE?, in 1984. would happen at all." to schlocky SF films. (For those who Bishop has signed with Berkley to edit enjoy guessing games, that could be van an anthology of original/reprint stories Vogt, Bjo Trimble, Robert Bloch or any by authors who began writing between PHILIP K. DICK SOCIETY number of authors who have reasonable 1960 and 1977;. tentatively titled response to my term... but there is no COSMICOPIA. Paul Williams, who was named by the late truth to the rumour that it will be Philip K.Dick as his literary executor, HARLAN ELLISON’S SCI-FI VISIONS, " is to start a society for people who JEAN M. AUEL has sold film rights to appreciate Dick’s works. The adminis Forrest J.Ackerman the first two books in her "Earth’s trator of the estate, Dick’s oldest Children" series, THE CLAN OF THE CAVE daughter Laura Dick Coelho, has petit BEAR and THE VALLEY OF HORSES. Stan ioned the court for Williams to be AUTHORS & Other Rogow Productions in association with officially named as literary executor. Decade/Jozak, plan to make a four hour He will work with Dick’.s agent Russell or more miniseries for NBC. The purchase Galen, at the Scott Meredith agency, People In the HEWS price for the film rights was unconfirmed, to make sure that all Dick’s published but possibly as high as half a million works are available and to get unpub dollars. The third title will be THE ISAAC ASIMOV has completed a new novel, MAMMOTH HUNTERS and it will be written on lished works into print. Membership of THE ROBOTS OF DAWN, which features the the society will be $5.00 US Write to a word processor. The Computer Age character Elijah Baley from THE CAVES OF meets the Stone Age. Paul Williams at P.O.Box 611, Glen STEEL and THE NAKED SUN. It will be pub Ellen, CA 95442, USA , for details. lished by Phantasia Press in a limited (Ed
22nd AUSTRALIAN SF CONVENTION A REPORT By Merv Binns The 22nd Australian National Science Atlantis”, which incidently he did not Fiction Convention -Syncon '83, held at receive, nor does he really want, any the Shore Motel, in the Sydney suburb of credit for; an hilarious account of a Artarmon, was one of the best sf conven visit from Jerry Pournelle who insisted tions held in Australia so far. To begin, on trying a pot of chilli that Ellison the hotel was geared up to handle conven had made, not knowing that it was most SYNCON '83 GUEST OF HONOUR HARLAN ELLISON tions, with plenty of space and excellent likely the hottest pot of chilli in typing a story at the convention. facilities. It accomodated the 500 plus history and other items that may sound Photo by Jane Tissel attendees without any trouble. No prob mundane, but were far from it when you lems developed with the management that listened to Harlan Ellison relating them. that nobody else seems interested^in at I was aware of, and the only complaints The masquerade was held on Saturday the moment, but missed the first half anybody might have had was the cost of night and was somewhat better planned entirely. A pity, because one of the accomodation and the long distance to and organised than those I have seen at points raised involved changes to the the alternative food sources. Food in other cons recently. The theme of a number of awards, which I am particularly the hotel was expensive, but on the Future Casino was good one, but not interested in. Two amendments to make credit side coffee was available and enough advantage was taken of it. Some changes to the number of awards were made the bars were open, almost all the time. of the costumes were very good, but when regarding the number of awards and were it came to the judging I thought one or defeated, but a slight change was made SYNCON '83 was the Guest of Honor, in the description of the award trophy HARLAN ELLISON. He was the star of the two missed out that should have received recognition, while some that won were itself, in that it can now be made of show without any doubt and the attendees any suitable black material, providing loved his performance. The whole conven very ordinary. "The Silent Android" featured a rather solid "female" body that it portrays the southern cross, tion was well organised and Ellison was which incidently does not necessarily the pivot on which the programme revolved. painted gold and wearing a gold mask, Lewis Morley with a talking head growing have to be engraved into the black The programme varied little from most material. More discussion is inevitable other cons, but nearly everything seemed out of his chest, Karen and John Lewis on the number and designation of the to work very well. Unfortunately I saw as alien members of the Star Trek Fed awards, at future National conventions. little of the panels and discussions per eration, with silver hair and brilliant sonally, as I was occupied with a Space blue skin and Tony Green and companion Amanda Munro in black and green costume The site selection voting for the National Age Books display in the huckster room, Convention for 1985 was I heard, almost which incidently was the largest and including make up, were the ones that stand out in my memory and they carried a coup for a rogue bid from Seattle, best turn out I have ever seen at a Washington State, U.S.A. The point is, the convention in Australia. off the main prizes. Stephen Bates,whose costume and presentation included his constitution is worded in such a way After the official opening on Friday head flying off and doubling up his body that the con can be held in any Austral evening, there was a debate on the grotesquely Inside the suit he wore, was ian territory, and that would include subject "That Only Science Has the very unlucky not to be awarded a prize. Australian Embassies throughout the world. Solutions to Our Problems", followed by I might have that mixed up a bit, but you a party in the main convention area, Transfinite Audiovisuals put on one of can get the general idea, Seattle was films and room parties. The film pro their excellent slide shows during the able to bid and win. However an arrange grammeleft a lot to be desired, at least Masquerade and the Perth fans, assisted ment was made with Adelaide and they from my point of view. Some of the short by some Sydney people, staged another of will run the 1985 National Australian SF features were quite interesting such as their amusing SciGoon shows: "Sitting Convention proper, but Seattle will hold "Boom", an animated history of warfare on the Edge of a Feather". Dave Luckett the room parties. One of the parties from the past to the future, but the again giving his uncanny impression of should no doubt be held on one of the main features were purely for laughs Harry (Neddy Seagoon) Secombe. trams, that Seattle has bought from our Melbourne Transport Authority. and for the serious sf film buff, emin- The major events on Sunday were a antly missable. "Get to Know Your Rabbit" smorgasbord lunch at which the fan Amongst the other items on the Monday, is a fun movie and so is "Phantom of the guests, Duff Winner Jerry Kaufmann from the final day’s programme, was a discuss Paradise", but "Robot Monster" and the U.S.A, and Tom Cardy , the FFANZ ion, "Is Criticism Really Necessary?". "Plan 9 From Outer Space" were hardly winner from New Zealand, made their This panel on reviewing was chaired by designed to keep you awake in the speeches; "Is Good SF Possible on TV", Van Ikin. A large part of the discussion- early hours of the morning. It was a with Harlan Ellison, Terry Dowling, was taken up by the incestuous situation good way to encourage fans to attend Jan McDonnell, Daryl Mannell, Nikki White, in Australia, regarding other writers room parties. and Jack Herman, with some very pithy reviewing their friends books and not The highlight of the Saturday programme comments on the subject from Mr Ellison; being able to give an unbiased appraisal. was Harlan Ellison answering questions Van Ikin’s Fan GoH Speech; Harlan Not necessarily soft pedaling, but some about his work. The audience thoroughly Ellison’s GoH Speech in the evening times being even extra critical because enjoyed his often very long answers to followed by the Awards. The Ditmar of the possibility of being accused they their questions and the numerous anec winners are given on page 1 and a were soft pedaling. This very good dis dotes related on the way,about people comment and list of the Golden Cater- cussion went on to cover criticism and in the writing and film and TV fields piller Awards is given by Paul Stevens reviewing in general and I wish I could in particular. Ellison again captivated at the end of this report. have reported it in full, so that all the audience with GOH speech. On the my reviewers and those who have been following days he read from his works The second half of the business session criticing them and others, could read it. and narrated such stories as his efforts was held on Sunday also. I did see part to have the script of a film of Isaac of this, simply because I was reminded The convention drew to a close on a Asimov's "I,Robot" accepted; a meeting I had made a submission regarding the high note with Harlan Ellison reading with some TV executives and producers establishment of a permanent date for his writings. This was followed by the that resulted in the series "Man From the National Conventions, a proposition Official Summation, handing over of the 8 gavel to Derrick Ashby and close of the $50. No dates on volumes two and three convention. Jack Herman, who topped off are confirmed, but they may be spread his fine record of conventions he had over the next two years. convened or chaired with this one, ann ounced that Syncon '83 would be his The short story that Ellison was writing last (we've heard that before somewhere), on his trip, featuring a two thousand and received a standing ovation. year old vampire , the original vampire who was cursed and created by Christ, Before completing my report, I asked will be published in a New Zealand fan Jane Tissel, who was attending her first magazine. We will publish details on how convention, what she thought of if. you can obtain a copy in the next issue " I enjoyed Syncon very much. The of the NEWS. reasons I enjoyed it were meeting other fans en-masse, which I had not done THE GOLD PLATED CATERPILLAR AWARDS before, and listening to Harlan Ellison expound and read his work. THE WINNERS ANNOUNCED AT SYNCON '83 Just sitting around talking to fans was By Paul Stevens an experience not to be missed, but the highlight was seeing and hearing the ebullient Mr Ellison. I also enjoyed JANE TAUBMAN, MERV BINNS, PETER TOLUZZI, those items on the programme that I JULIE VAUX, JOHN PACKER, LEIGH EDMONDS, managed to see between the intermittent and a Special Publishers Award to the conversation, including the auction, the advertising department at Granada the book signing, the masquerade, the dump bin header for "Bladerunner". SciGoon Show, the Transfinite Audio Which brings me to the need for writing HARLAN ELLISON on the platform. visual Shows, the Plenary Business meet this bit in explanation of the 1983 ing at which Seattle won the Australian awards - there is no explanation. I take Photo Steve Roylance National Convention bid for 1985, the full responsibility for the awards. The panels I managed to get to and,...... buck stops here! (To paraphase a recent As aneo-fan,meeting the fans was the U.S. President.) part of the convention that made the However, selection of possible candid most impression on me, but I was also ates is always a problem and a few phone impressed by the organisation of the calls or a word or two in a few BNF ears convention and the overall atmosphere." usually produces a few deserving names. Jane Tisell This year I did ask and got suggestions from two informants. If one of the rec Well, another con was over, but we have ipients of this years awards reacted a seemingly never ending progression of badly to her award then I can only say them coming up, with CONQUEST, SWANCON, sorry and try to avoid doing the same EUREKACON and KINCON over the next year, next year. Of course, you, the reader followed by more in 1985 including, we can nominate a deserving person or per expect, The 43rd World SF Convention. sons for the 1984 Awards (Eurekacon) by dropping me a line here at Space Age. Merv Binns All sources strictly kept anonymous, but please put your name and address on HARLAN ELLISON IN AUSTRALIA your letter. I like to know with whom I am talking and there is always the After the Syncon '83 convention was over, possibility of blackmail later on. Ellison, Terry Dowling and friends, After all, I have to make a living too. drove down from Sydney to Melbourne. He attended a party at John Foyster's Paul J.Stevens. home, visited Hanging Rock, the scene of the very sucessful Australian movie, NEW DR WHO Peter Davison has signed books at Space Age Books and had KEITH TAYLOR decided to give the role away and Brian Photo Steve Roylance dinner sponsored by Space Age at a Greek Blessed, who is a very well know British restaurant in the Melbourne suburb of actor, star of stage and screen, is the Richmond. We believe that the party then next DR WHO. Blessed played the King of carried on by road to Adelaide and then the Hawkmen in the "Flash Gordon" movie, back to Sydney, before Ellison returned home to the U.S.A. the head of a nomad tribe in "High Road to China” and took a leading role in the Ellison did a number of press and media Andrew Lloyd-Webber musical "Cats". He interviews while in Sydney before the will make an excellent Dr Who. convention. One which went quite well was conducted by TV personality Bill Collins, who is a confirmed movie buff FAMOUS FILM PERSONALITIES DIE and can find good things in the most obscure films. Collins and Ellison got Two well know film stars died late July on very well and their mutual love of who were associated with fSsf films. the cinema and their swapping of mem DAVID NIVEN was the star of the classic ories and anecdotes, was a joy to see. British fantasy "Stairway to Heaven" and he also starred in the film of the We stupidly did not get around to get Jules Verne novel "Around the World in ting any details from Ellison on his Eighty Days". He died at his home in current writing and publishing situation, France. RAYMOND MASSEY, the son of a but we know that ACE has or soon will famous industrial and political family, have, eleven titles available including starred in the movie made from the H.G. fiction and non-fiction. SHATTERDAY is Wells classic, "Things to Come", and due for release here by Granada paper also in "Stairway to Heaven" ( also backs. Volume One of the LAST DANGEROUS known as "A Matter of Life and Death"). VISIONS anthology will be published by Both actors contributed a lot to the Houghton Miflin in the autumn, USA and cinema as did director LUIS BUNUEL, contributors, with stories of over 6000 JEFF HARRIS, JERRY KAUFMAN and CLIFFORD who also died at his home in Mexico WIND word stories will get an extra $100 the same weekend as the two actors. Photo Jane Tissel payment and those under 6000 an extra SYNCON '83 CORGI: The Girl of the Sea of Cortez by Publish and be Peter Benchley. DAW: THE BLACKCOLLAR by Timothy Zahn; THE GALACTIAD by Gregory Kern; Matilda's IIaained i Stepchildren by A.Bertram Chandler (FPB); SCANDALOUS REPORTS, EMBARASSING MOMENTS, TERRA SF II: THE YEARS BEST EUROPEAN SF, CRITICAL REMARKS and INNUENDOS in the Edited by Richard D. Nolane; THE TREE OF SCIENCE FICTION WORLD SWORDS AND JEWELS by C.J.Cherryh; THE ZEN GUN by Barrington J.Bayley; THE DAVE LANGFORD tells us in Ansible, that DIAMOND CONTESSA by Kenneth Bulmer; he is not the "Mr David Langford finger ISAAC ASIMOV PRESENTS THE GREAT SF STOR ed in The Financial Times as ’missing' IES # 10(1948) ed, by Isaac Asimov and in the collapse of dubious security Martin H.Greenberg. dealers Langford, Scott § Partners; nor PUBLISHERS RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS DEL REY: The Saga of the Pliocene Exile despite rumours, is he the person appear This column is a list of books due to be I : The Many-Colored Land by Julian May; ing in the nude on page 24 of the first published July/August. It features the WHERE THE NI-LACH by Marcia J.Bennett; March Time Out.." A likely story.’ publishers major releases during this THE ARMIES OF DAYLIGHT by Barbara Hambly; Incidently we have not see an issue of period unless marked otherwise, and Friday by Robert A.Heinlein; ICE PROPHET by Ansible since #32, so maybe this Mr does not include all reprints, but may Langford has gone missing. Then again William R.Forstchen; THE WIZARD AND THE include some new editions. A complete WARLORD by Elizabeth Boyer. we may have just mislaid issue #33. list of all titles with comprehensive details, will be found in our publication DOUBLEDAY: THE HIDDEN WORLDS OF ZANDRA It was intimated in reports in the US A SCIENCE FICTION § FANTASY CHECKLIST, by William Rotsler; WHISPERS IV, ed. by sf news sources, that JOHN SILBERSACK the next issue of which is due out in Stuart David Schiff. THE IMPERATOR PLOT sold the "No Frills SF" book to Berkley September. All mass market paperbacks by Steven G.Spruill. (All hcs.) while he was there. It was actually sold unless marked otherwise. The titles in EERDMANS: SPLINTERED LIGHT: LOGOS AND to them later, but he still does not get capitols are first release. All others any credit. This is not surprising, as LANGUAGE IN TOLKIEN'S WORLD by Verlyn have been published previously by another Flieger who would want credit for such a load of publisher in pb, tpb or he.: rubbish. We believe Australian rights FAWCETT: STARSHIPS ed. by Isaac Asimov, ACE: Golden Dream: A Fuzzy Odyssey by have been bought. Why bother? Martin H.Greenberg § Charles G.Waugh. Ardath Mayhar; NECROMANCER NINE by Sheri CHRISTOPHER PRIEST attacked Arthur C. S.Tepper; WORLD OF MAZES by Robert E. FUTURA: THE SEVENTH CHILD by Brooks Clarke, Isaac Asimov and others in a Vardeman; BOOK OF SHADOWS by James Killus; Stanwood; Psion by Joan D.Vinge (FPB); report in ANSIBLE #32. He said, "We have MAGIC FOR SALE ed. Avram Davidson; A Cosmos by Carl Sagan (NF); The Maharajah a new phenomen in the SF world, which I COLD BLUE LIGHT by Marvin Kaye and Parke and other stories by T.H.White; CLAW by think might be called the Elderly Pioneer Godwin (horror); The Deadly Streets by Jay Ramsay (H). Harlan Ellison; STREETLETHAL by Steven Syndrome. In this, SF writers getting on GRANADA: The Book of Philip Jose Farmer Barnes; Soul Singer of Tyrnos by Ardath in years make certain discoveries about by Philip Jose Farmer; New Arrivals, Old the world, harmless discoveries for the Mayhar; San Diego Lightfoot Sue and other Encounters by Brian Al diss. most part, but because for many decades stories by Tom Reamy; ANNALS OF KLEPSIS they have believed their own misleading by R.A.Lafferty; ROGERS' RANGERS by John HAMLYN: PESTILENCE by Edward Jarvis (H); propaganda that SF writers have new ideas, Silbersack; WAR OF THE GODS ON EARTH #2: Counterfeit World by Daniel F.Galouye. they seem to assume that because it is SHADOWS OUT OF HELL by Andrew J.Offut. HOLT RINEHART: NEBULA AWARD WINNERS 17, happening to them it is happening to the ARBOR HOUSE: World Of A Thousand Colors ed. by Joe Haldeman; DRAMOCLES by Robert world for the first time". by Robert Silverberg (TPB). Sheckley. Priest went on in somewhat bitter tones ARROW: Superman III by William Kotzwinkle; NEW ENGLISH LIBRARY: Martian Timeslip by about Heinlein discovering blood trans THE GHOST DANCE: NIGHTHUNTER by Robert P.K.Dick; Nor Crystal Tears by Alan fusion, Clarke 'crowing' about what he Faulcon (H). Dean Foster; Night of the Living Dead seems to believe is the worlds first by John Russo; Videodrome by Jack Martin; AVON: C.O.L.A.R. by Alfred Slote (Cam bestseller and that he is the first to The Warhound and the World's Pain by elot Juv.); COME FOLLOW ME by Philip organise a royalty deal with the Russians. Michael Moorcock, THE UNDEAD by Guy N. Michaels (H). Priest points out that in fact he has Smith (H). signed two royalty deals the U.S.S.R., BALLANTINE (Trade): MY JEDI JOURNAL PAN: The Wind From the Sun by Arthur C. one in 1977, which has been honoured. (Diary); RETURN OF THE JEDI ILLUSTRATED Clarke. He pointed out that the Russians had EDITION by James Kahn; RETURN OF THE belatedly signed the International JEDI PORTFOLIO by Ralph McQuarrie; PENGUIN: Science Fiction Puzzles by Copyright Convention in an attempt to RETURN OF THE JEDI SKETCHBOOK by Joe Martin Gardner; Constellations, ed. by control the work of their own authors, Johnston, Nilo Rodis-Jamero, all tpbs. Malcolm Edwards; Prisoners of Power by not as a goodwill gesture to the likes (These are all published. An ART OF THE Arkady and Boris Strugatsky; Fireball of Clarke or himself. "..I was pleased RETURN OF THE JEDI will be published by John Christopher ( Puffin J.) to be published in Russia, but I don't later.) think I have any illusions about the PHANTASIA PRESS: SPELLSINGER AT THE GATE wider consequences", Priest said. He BANTAM: The Compass Rose by Ursula K. by Alan Dean Foster; HOMEFARING by added that Clifford Simak for instance LeGuin; THE SHUTTLE PEOPLE by George Robert Silverberg. (Both HCs.) Bishop; THE WINDHOVER TAPES: FIZE OF THE has had 7 books published in Russia, POCKET: STAR TREK: STARDATE CALENDAR GABRIEL RATCHETS by Warren G.Norwood; but he did not say if Simak had been 1984; TRICYCLE by Russell Rhodes (Occ THE DISCIPLE by Laird Koenig (H); BE AN paid for them all. the most popular H). SF writer in China is James Gunn", INTERPLANETARY SPY #3:ROBOT WORLD and he added. #4 :SPACE OLYMPICS, both by Seth McEvoy; SIGNET: TALES OF THE GALACTIC MIDWAY: Dragonworld by Byron J.Preiss, J.Michael #3: THE WILD ALIEN TAMER by Mike Resnick; Reeves and Joseph Zucker; Z-LENSMAN by In Winter's Shadow by Gillian Bradshaw; MARKETS David Kyle; Dark Forces titles: THE DANCER'S ILLUSION by Ann Maxwell; We can occasionally give details on BARGAIN by Rex Sparger; SWAMP WITCH by Different Seasons by Stephen King. overseas magazine and anthology com- Laurie Bridges and Paul Alexander; THE SPHERE: The Last Gasp by Trevor Hoyle; pilers/editors requests for stories. COMPANION by Scott Siegel; and UNNATURAL TALENT by Les Logan. Undersea by Paul Hazel; Yearwood by However we cannot cover the field in any Paul Hazel; INTO THE SILENCE by Basil detail. Authors in Australia wishing to BERKLEY: THE SHROUD by John Coyne; Copper (H); BLOOD HORROR by Christopher sell their stories to overseas markets SPACEWAYS #12: STAR SLAVER by John Cleve; Leach; No Enemy But Time by Michael should subscribe to Locus or SF Chronicle, Subspace Explorers by E.E.Smith; God Bishop; The Spirit of Dorsal by Gordon where they will find all the information Stalk by P.C.Hodgell; FIRE IN THE ABYSS R.Dickson; Mirkheim by Poul Anderson; they require. For subscription rates by Stuart Gordon; and GRAND JUBILEE by plus eight other reprints in a special see page three. Suzette Haden Elgin. sf promotion in August. Continued page 18. II most sought after Australian actor by Hollywood at present, it is most unlikely they would gain his services. Paramount is producing a 3-D movie featuring -wait for it- an invisible man. The trilogy bug has bit Hollywood and Universal are working on a three part series starting with STREETS OF FIRE. The story concerns a "mythical soldier- of-fortune hero in a futuristic society". SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES, the Walter Hill will direct from a screen Disney production based on Ray Bradbury’s play he wrote with Larry Gross. Lawrence novel and his own script, opened on Gordon and Joel Silver are producing. April 29th. It received mixed reviews. Joe Dante, who was the director of People expecting horror were disappointed, THE HOWLING and one of the directors of but the Bradbury style embodied in this THE TWILIGHT ZONE, will direct GREMLINS story, which always was a natural for for Warner Brothers. This is one of two a movie, comes through. The novel was Warner projects with Stephen Spielberg Various events took place a few months based on a story.published in 1948 in as executive producer. Mike Finnell will back to celebrate the 50th anniversary Weird Tales called "Black Ferris". produce this first one, with Chris of the release of the movie KING KONG. Columbus writing the screenplay. Hollywood staged a re-premiere at Grauman's Bradbury, who regards himself as a writer Chinese Theatre, followed by a party at of ideas rather than an sf writer, had George Romero’s Laurel Entertainment $1000 per head. A near capacity audience his first story published in Super Science production company has a busy schedule. at the theatre gave a standing ovation Stories in 1941. Nine years later THE It includes: THE STAND from Stephen King's to the film's surviving star Fay Wray. MARTIAN CHRONICLES sold over a million novel, DAY OF THE DEAD, following the Other attendees inluded Ray Bradbury, copies. He is currently working on a two earlier filmsl NIGHT OF THE LIVING Forrest J. Ackerman, Ray Harryhausen, detective novel, an opera for the DEAD and DAWN OF THE DEAD, a super hero Leonard Nimoy, the widows of animator Seattle Opera Company, and a screen epic, created in collaboration with Willis O'Brien and co-producer/co-director adaptation of the old comic strip "Little Marvel Enterprises, IMAGINE THAT, a Merian C.Cooper. Harryhausen produced Nemo", for Gary Kurtz, the producer of "Twilight Zone" type soft horror story, a bronze sculpture showing Kong besting "Star Wars" and other f£sf films. and a new version of FRANKENSTEIN, which the tyrannosaurus rex, and John Landis The filming of DUNE was due to start will stick close to the original Mary purchased it on the spot for $8,500. in Mexico on March 30th, at Churubusco Shelley story. In New York they attempted to attach Studios. Raffaella De Laurentiis is an inflated model of Kong climbing the producing with David Lynch ("The Ele Empire State Building, but the baloon phant Man") directing from his own kept deflating and could not be repaired. screenplay. Special effects by John Dykstra and his company, Apogee. THE RETURN OF THE JEDI has set new box An early report stated that Max Von Sydow office records. On its opening day it and Sylvia Mangano would be in the cast, surpassed the record set by SUPERMAN II, but an up to the minute report from the and its total earnings for the week author, FRANK HERBERT, who incidently has were $41,131,399 — $16 million more just completed the fifth "Dune" book, than the record set by E.T. in its third HERETICS OF DUNE, gives the cast as follows: week last year. Almost $10million over Jose Ferrer as the emperor; Sian Phillips the cost of making the film. as the Reverend Mother; Kyle MacLachlan, GEORGE ROMERO Despite efforts to keep the story secret an unknown 19 year old actor from Seattle, before the release, the comics and books as Paul; Francesca Annis as Jessica; Jurgen A Broadway musical is being planned based were on sale before hand and blew it. Prochnow as Duke Leto; Freddie Jones as on the Marvel Comic character Captain George Lucas has stated that there will Thufir Hawat; Aldo Ray as Gurney Hallack; Marvel. "Annie", "Li'l Abner" and be no more Star Wars films for five Dean Stockwell as Dr. Yugh; Kenneth "Peanuts" are earlier sucessful adap years.and that he is taking two years MacMillan as the Baron; Richard Jordon as tations of comic strips into musical off to spend with his family and estab Duncan Idaho; and Sting, the rock singer, shows. Meanwhile, quickie-’film producer lish Skywalker Ranch, his filmmaker's as Feyd. Herbert, who saw the first four Roger Corman has signed a deal haven in Marin County. The series won't days shooting, reported in August Locus for the rights to do a film featuring go on without his participation and would that, "It looks very good so far." the Marvel Comics character Spiderman, be three years in the making whatever. and he intends to spend $10 million on Lucas feels his duty to complete the The sf movie SPACEHUNTER, starring production. A large amount for Corman. trilogy has ended and he does not want Peter Strauss and Molly Ringwald, is to spend the rest of his life just on on current release from Columbia and Edward Pressman, producer of PHANTOM OF Star Wars. Future films will deal was reported to be number five on the THE PARADISE and executive co-prodcer of with different generations and will not box office list a few weeks ago. Leonard CONAN, has announced the production of a feature any of the same characters or Maltin on CBS "Entertainment This Week", second Conan movie, CONAN, KING OF THIEVES cast of the films made. said he was not impressed. Almost all the The film will be released by Universal action is limited to one or two scenes in May 1984. The story emphasis will be One good film deserves another! New and the sfx are nothing great, he said. more towards the pulp adventure, with a World pictures plan to make a film of He loved RETURN OF THE JEDI however and somewhat lighter approach. Pressman also THE PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT, from a that is doing great at the box office. announced that he was discussing the ad book which was published in 1979, about It is set for October release here in aption of Theodore Sturgeon's "More Than a ship which took part in an experiment Australia. Human", with screenwriter David Odell, involving matter transmission. The ship John Carpenter is to direct CHRISTINE, who was responsible for DARK CRYSTAL and disappeared in the Philadephia dockyard SUPERGIRL scripts. Olaf Stapledon's based on the Stephen King novel. Richard and reappeared in Norfolk, or so the Kobritz and Larry Franco will produce, "Sirius" was also discussed, but no firm book said. The script, which has had a plans had been made on either at the with Bill Phillips doing the screenplay. lot of changes since its inception, now time of this announcement. involves the ship traveling through time Another film from Columbia, who will be from 1943 to 1983. Sound familiar? How A new Australian movie backed by releasing CHRISTINE, is STARMAN, directed about the Kirk Douglas movie, FINAL Michael Edgley, (he helped finance THE by Tony Scott from a screenplay by Dean COUNTDOWN. Rosner. An sf adventure with comic over MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER), called ONE NIGHT tones. The producers were after Mel STAND, is all about a group of people STEVEN SPIELBERG has announced that he will Gibson to star, but as he is the holed up in the Sydney Opera House do a full live action version of PETER PAN, 12 during the last night of the world. starring pop singer Michael Jackson. Producer Gerry Anderson has been film ing TERRAHAWKS at Bray Studios, just The passing of Crabbe and Dille marks outside London. 26 episodes of this the passing of an era for those of us series made for London Weekend TV and obituaries whose first taste of sf was the "Flash Time Life, are being made and feature Gordon" and "Buck Rogers" serials and puppets, in a new ''Supermacroanimation'' comic strips. process. It is due for an Autumn release. ZENNA HENDERSON,65, died May 11, of The BBC is making a series for release cancer. on TV later this year, based on Alan Garner's "Stonebook Quartet", called Henderson, nee Zenna Chiarson, was born TRIPODS, and yet another version of November 1, 1917, near Tucson, Arizona. H.G.Wells’ THE INVISIBLE MAN. She received a BA in education from Arizona State in 1940 and taught at a A special 20th Anniversary DR WHO story Japanese-American internment camp near has been filmed, directed by Peter Arizona during World War' II, a U.S.Air Moffatt and featuring Peter Davison with Force base near Paris from 1956 to 1958, John Pertwee, Patrick Troughton, Richard and later held posts in Connecticut Hurndall standing in for the late William and Arizona. She was married, but was Hartnell, who died in 1975, and Tom divorced after seven years and she had Baker, who appears in clips from an un no children. completed adventure. The 90 minute spec Her first published story was "Come On ial is due for screening on British TV Wagon.'" (F$SF,1951) and "Ararat" (FfjSF in November. Many old characters includ 1952). She was best known for her series ing villains and the Dr's first companion of stories, "The People", which were in the series, Carole Ann Ford, also published in book form as PILGRIMAGE: appear. Producer, John Nathan-Turner is THE BOOK OF THE PEOPLE (’61), and THE looking for a new American companion for PEOPLE: NO DIFFERENT FLESH (’66). Her the Doctor in the next series. only other two books, also collections were THE ANYTHING BOX (’66) and HOLDING The BBC organised the first ever DR WHO WONDER ('71). The "People" stories Convention in Britain over the Easter BUSTER CRABBE, 75, the star of "Flash featured a group of alien humanoids Weekend, at Longleaf Stately Home in Gordon", "Buck Rogers" and other movie who found refuge on Earth and usually Wiltshire. They advertised it very ex serials of the 1930s, died April 23 at revolved around the young members. A tensively, expecting around 50,000 his home in Arizona after a heart attack. movie was made for TV called THE PEOPLE people to attend over the two day period, starring William Shatner and Kim but had to turn some away when 35,000 Clarence Linden Crabbe was born February Darby. Branded as over sentimental by turned up on the Sunday alone. It' 7th, 1908, in Oakland CA. After spending the critics, Henderson's stories had showed off costumes, special effects his early years in Honolulu and attend ing the University of Hawaii, he grad many fans. We all wish she had written and more, with proceeds of this 20 year many more. celebration going to charity. uated from the University of Southern California in 1932. He won a bronze BYRON KENNEDY, film producer, was fatally Negotiations are under way for a four- Olympic medal in 1928 and a gold medal injured in a helicopter crash on Sunday hour TV version of ON THE BEACH, from in 1932, for swimming, following which the 17th of July. His young companion the book by Nevil SHUTE. MGM/UA, the BBC he worked first as a stuntman and then in the helicopter which Kennedy was and the Australian Nine TV network are as an actor in the movies. He was given piloting, 15 year old Victor Evatt, involved. A film directed by Stanley the lead in TARZAN THE FEARLESS (1932), managed to drag him from the copter Kramer was made in 1959 and was not a co-starred in KING OF THE JUNGLE (1933) and great sucess. 80km southwest of Sydney. But Kennedy, a number of westerns, but we will remem whose back was broken in the crash, died Ridley Scott, the maker of such films ber him best for his roles in the science dn the lake's shore during the night. fiction serials. as THE DUELISTS, ALIEN and BLADE RUNNER, A search involving six helicopters had is working with Universal and 20th He made a special guest appearance in an failed to find the pair. Century Fox on a new fantasy film, episode of the "Buck Rogers" TV series Kennedy, 32, was the producer of the THE LEGEND. Filming of this story which around 1981, but his major activities "Mad Max” films and the TV special that will feature goblins, unicorns and since leaving the movies was in the fairies, with a $30 million budget, will health and fitness field. dramatized the Australian political start late '83 or early '84. drama of 1975, "The Dismissal", in which the Federal Labour Government led by Charles Frie's Enterprises plan to do a ROBERT C.DILLE, 59, the editor/compiler Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, was sacked movie of Arthur C.Clarke's RENDEZVOUS of THE COLLECTED WORKS OF BUCK ROGERS by the Governor General. WITH RAMA. An animated version of this IN THE 25TH CENTURY and founder/chairman Kennedy worked with director George film planned by an Australian company, of the National Newspapers Syndicate, reached the stage of having a short died April 2. Miller on a documentary "Violence in excerpt made to help raise funding, but the Cinema", which received world nothing came of it. acclaim in 1971. They went on to work together on other projects including Production was due to start in April the "Mad Max" films. The Australian After doing the rounds of the studios, on the sequel to RAIDERS OF THE LOST film industry could ill afford to lose Disney will produce SPLASH, which sounds ARK. The title is INDIANA JONES AND THE a man of his ability. TEMPLE OF DEATH. The film will be shot on like an updated version of MR PEABODY location in Hong Kong and Sri Lanka, with AND THE MERMAID, about a very reserved IVAN TORS, television and film producer, the interiors at EMI-Elstree Studios young man who falls in love with a died June 4th of a heart attack while near London. Steven Spielberg will direct mermaid.lt will be made by the people touring Brazil's Matto Grosso Plateau. with Frank Marshall and George Lucas as who did NIGHT SHIFT on an $11 million He would have turned 67 the next week. co-executive producers and Robert Watts budget. Tors began his TV career with 78 epis as producer. The script is being written odes of SCIENCE FICTION THEATRE in '55. by Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck, who New World have sold TV rights to Home He later went on to produce such nature- were responsible for the screen play for Box Office for exclusive cable release, oriented films and series such as SEA Lucas's AMERICAN GRAFFITI. of two of it's sf films, KAIN OF THE HUNT, FLIPPER, RHINO, and GENTLE BEN. LOST PLANET and SPACE RAIDERS. TV pilots in the current season in the GEORGES REMI (HERGE), 75, Belgian SKYWALKING - THE LIFE AND FILMS OF GEORGE artist-creator of the internationally USA include PROTOTYPE, about a very LUCAS, is a biography of Lucas by Dale realistic android who escapes from his known comic strip TINTIN, died in Pollock, just published in Britain by Elm March '83. The strip originally appeared maker and government types, who want to Tree Books publishers. use him for unsavourary purposes, and in Belgian newspapers and was later pub THE SKY AND THE LAND, featuring a female lished in 23 books, in thirty different astronaut. NEXT ISSUE: A comprehensive review of languages, with eighty million copies RETURN OF THE JEDI by Shayne McCormack. being sold. 13 DAME REBECCA WEST, 90, died March IS at Best Novel: HELLICONIA SPRING by Brian her London home. She had been ill for Aldiss, No Enemy But Time by Michael LOCUS AND SF CHRONICLE several months. Her real name was Cecily Bishop, Little,Big by John Crowley, The Isobel Andrews and she was born on Divine Invasion by Philip K.Dick, and FAND SF POLLS Christmas Day, 1892, in county Kerry, The Sword of the Lictor by Gene Wolfe. If the bestseller lists mean anything, 2010 Ireland. She took her pen name from Best Short Fiction: "Kitemaster’’ by ODYSSEY TWO or FOUNDATION'S EDGE should Ibsen's "Rosmerholm", when she started Keith Roberts, ’’Myths of the Near Future’’ win the Hugo this year, but FRIDAY was the writing in 1911. She lived with H.G.Wells by J.G.Ballard, "Overture for a Midsum best we have seen from Heinlein for a while for ten years . Their son, Anthony West mer Night’s Dream" by Angela Carter, THE PRIDE OF CHANUR is a great space opera and (born 1914), is also a novelist and "The Dissemblers" by Gary Kilworth and better than Cherryh's Hugo winner of last critic. She was best known as a reporter, "The Third Test" by Andrew Weiner. The year DOWNBELOW STATION. The other two, THE essayist, political commentator and his sources were not given in this report. SWORD OF THE LICTOR and COURTSHIP RITE torian, but she wrote some fiction The Best Media Presentation: BLADERUNNER are perhaps a little too literary to including one fantasy novel HARRIET HUME: directed by Ridley Scott, Another Flip win Hugos. A good indication as to what A LONDON FANTASY. Her best known work, for Dominic (BBC Teleplay), E.T. The will win is the polls conducted by LOCUS BLACK LAMB AND GREY FALCON (1941), a Extraterrestrial directed by Stephen and SF CHRONICLE. We cannot give you the study of Yugoslavia and the roots of the Spielberg, Mad Max 2 directed by George full details of their polls, but it is to two World Wars, was the culmination of Miller and Tron directed by Stephen look at the top novels as voted for by thei her work as reporter and political Lisberger. Best Artist: TIM WHITE, Peter readers. The top 15 novels in the LOCUS commentator. Goodfellow, Peter Jones and Bruce poll were as follows: 1) FOUNDATION'S EDGE Pennington. by Isaac Asimov, 2) 2010: ODYSSEY TWO JOHN MASTERS, 68, the well known adven by Arthur C.Clarke, 3)FRIDAY by Robert Albacon 2 was held at the Central Hotel ture writer, died in early May of heart Heinlein, 4) THE PRIDE OF CHANUR by Glascow. Dave Langford, who was toast problems. He was born in Calcutta, the C.J.Cherryh, 5) COURTSHIP RITE by master, announced the awards. Between fifth generation of a family serving Donald Kingsbury, 6) HELLICONIA SPRING 500 and 800 people attended some part of the British in India. Almost all of his by Brian Aldiss, 7) CRYSTAL SINGER by novels were set, in, or featured India in the convention, but reports differ. The Guests of Honor were Marion Zimmer Anne McAffrey, 8) STARBURST by Frederick some way. Only two were in any way Pohl, 9) MERCHANTER'S LUCK by C.J.Cherryh, fantasy: THE BREAKING STRAIN (’67) and Bradley and James White. Other authors THE ROCK ('70), but the mysticism and there included Bob Shaw, Robert Holdstock, 10) LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING by Kiplingesque style of his writing made it John Brunner, and Sam Lundwall. A large Douglas Adams, 11) THE GOLDEN TORC by of interest to fantastic adventure fans. part of the programme was taken up with Julian May, 12) HAWKMISTRESS by Marion associated subjects such as war gaming, Zimmer Bradley, 13) RODERICK by John space flight and other fringe items and Sladek, 14) NO ENEMY BUT TIME by Michael not enough about sf, reported Joseph Bishop, 15) EYE OF CAT by Roger Nicholls in Locus. At the convention Zelazny. The Best Fantasy novel in the bidding session the Eurocon-combined- Locus Poll (top 5 only) were: 1) THE with-Eastercon bid co-chaired by John SWORD OF THE LICTOR by Gene Wolfe, 2) Brunner was successful by a very large THE CITADEL OF THE AUTARCH by Gene Wolfe, margin. Malcolm Edwards who was chair 3) FEVRE DREAM by George R.R.Martin, 4) man of the opposing Eastercon bid, was THE ONE TREE by Stephen Donaldson and 5) not at the con to handle the presentat THE TRANSMIGRATION OF TIMOTHY ARCHER ion of his bid. (See. CONVENTIONS by Philip K.Dick. The Best First Novels There seems to be more and more awards mo^LQ, deXtuZb. Ed.) were 1) COURTSHIP RITE by Donald Kings cropping up every year. Here are a few bury, 2) THE RED MAGICIAN by Lisa Gold of them: The first Compton N.Crook THE WORLD FANTASY AWARDS will be given at stein, 3) THE WINDHOVER TAPES: An Image Memorial Award for best first novel, the World Fantasy Convention to be held Of Voices by Warren Norwood, 4)LADY OF was won by COURTSHIP RITE by Donald in Chicago at the Marriott O’Hare Hotel, LIGHT by Diana Paxson and 5) DREAMRIDER Kingsbury. It was presented at Baiticon. October 28-30 1983. The judges are by Sandra Miesel. 6) was Dave Langford's The first Scottish Book of the Year Sharon Jarvis, Betsy Wollheim, Robert THE SPACE EATER ( I thought I had bettea Award went to LANARK by Alasdair Gray. Booth, John Coyne and Alan Ryan. The me.nti.on that one ox Pave wouLd have cut The Libertarian Futurist Society has trophies are designed by Gahan Wilson. me o<5(5 knitbte'i iubiesitptton ttit. Ed.) added a Prometheus Hall of Fame, for Anybody requiring more information about "classic libertarian novels of the past", the convention or the awards should The S F Chronicle list held no surprises to its Prometheus award for the Best write to the Secretary (?) Peter Pautz, and the top three novels were THE SWORD Libertarian Novel for the year. This 68 Countryside Apts., Hackettstown, OF THE LICTOR, FOUNDATION’S EDGE and years awards will be given at Constell NJ 07840 USA or Robert Weinberg ( Con 2010: , ODYSSEY TWO . ation, the 1983 World Convention. The Chairman) P.O.Box 423, Oak Forest, Among the other winners in the Locus winners will receive the Hayek Half Il 60452, USA (312-687-5765 ) poll were: Best Novella: "Souls" by Half Piece, a privately minted gold coin. Joanna Russ; Best Novelette: "Djinn, No Only 155 votes came in for the Nebula Hall of Fame nominees include Robert Chaser" by Harlan Ellison; Best Short Awards out of a possible 570 eligible Heinlein and Ayn Rand. Story: "Sur" by Ursula Le Guin; Best to vote. A sad state of affairs. Percen An organisation of 'left' and 'progress Anthology: THE BEST SF OF THE YEAR # 11 tage wise, it is probably no worse than edited by Terry Carr; Best Single Author ive' writers and readers calling them the Hugo or even better than the Ditmars, Collection: THE COMPASS RISE by Ursula selves The Red Shift Readers and Writers but the SFWA has a way in our opinion of Collective of New Haven CT, are planning K.Le Guin; Best Non-Fiction/Reference: getting over their problem with the to give the Red Shift Award for liter THE ENGINES OF THE NIGHT by Barry Malzberg Nebulas. Why not allow all members to ature of redeeming socialist value.They S F Chronicle tries to give a broader plan to start a magazine also. Contact nominate ( reduce the associate member ship costs while they are at it) and coverage of the field in its poll and Peter J.Krala, P.O.Box 946, New Haven, pick a jury to decide on the final it included: Best Dramatic Presentation: CT 06504, U.S.A, if interested. winners. Or alternatively let the jury BLADERUNNER; Best Professional Editor: Forbidden Planet bookstore have initiated do all the work, using exactly the same Edward L.Ferman; Best Fan Writer: Richard a number of awards for best sf novel, sytem as the World Fantasy Awards. E.Geis; Best Fan/Fanzine Artist: Alexis fantasy novel, short story, anthology, Gilliland; Best Fan Artist/Conventions: new writer, magazine and book cover. Moscon 5 will give the 5th annual Lens No award, but Linda Michaels came second; Plus various awards for comics. Results man Award in September to the 1982 book Best Professional Artist: Michael Whelan; were to be announced at a banquet in in the "Doc" Smith tradition. Best Fanzine: Mike Glyer's FILE 770; New York on July 2nd. Best Semi-Prozine ( we will let you Andre Norton won the 1983 Skylark Award, guess that one, but Locus came second); THE BRITISH SF ASSOCIATON AWARDS presented at Boskone in February. and finally The Best Regional Convention: World Fantasy Convention. The 1982 British SF Association Awards were presented at Albacon 2, the British THE DITMARS - Australian SF Achievement national convention, held over Easter Awards, were given at Syncon ’83, National weekend 1983. The nominations and the Australian SF Convention in June. Details pages 1 § 3. RIELBOURIIE in 85 14 winners (underlined), were as follows: THREE BOOKS BY SAMUEL R. DELANY REVIEWED BY DAMIEN BRODERICK
TALES OF NEVERYON (Bantam, $3.50 US ) SAMVEL R. DELANY NEVER YCNA (Bantam, $6.95 US ) The cover art for NEVERY6NA by Rowena Morrill DISTANT STARS (Bantam, $9.95 ARP ) Both these strange works are set in a now haA oveA two mtttton boofol, tn piitnt. notional pre-history when writing, Hti iwittong hat, aeeetved a mtxed aeactton Instead of taking saunas and beating counting, sex-role differentiation, frtom the (m and cktttct attfoe, but The New myself black and blue, I read Chip York Times Book Review iatd, he ti " the Delany's latest works and try to review trade and four-legged stools have just been invented. It is "a world where moit tnteAuttng iwittea o{ ietence fitetton them. Don't get the idea that this is WAtttng tn Engttih today." an easy or a joyful task. Like me, business was an enterprise not five Delany's crazy about long words and generations old.” Despite this, there hard notions. Words like syntagmatic. are hefty cities, a topic Delany inves ... or possibly syntagm... or possibly tigates forever in NEVERYONA. There syntagma which is how my Oxford spells are real live dragons you can fly on it. It means 'a unit of syntactical if you're a bad girl, and more metaphors sequencing.' and exploratory games than you can shake a two-bladed sword at. TALES OF NEVERYON (the ' y' has an umlaut over it) will certainly strike you as My copy of NEVERYON is splattered with a bit -- strange. It's the sort of comments like (on p. 63) "this absolutely sword 5 sorcery novel which is full of misses the point of pre-literate memory words like 'syntagma'. Published in skills (but see page 64!)", and on p. September, 1979, it contains epigraphs 158 "this is all exactly like Heinlein's from OF GRAMMATOLOGY by Jacques Derrida, latest blather", and on the next page THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE by Michel "...then again, maybe not..." Foulcault, and "Desire and the inter NEVERYONA carries this wild, tedious, pretation of Desire in 'Hamlet'", a endlessly provocative and irritating boring old thing by the impenetrably and interesting performance forward. difficult French psychiatrist Jacques Its cover will appeal especially to Lacan... bum-fetishists (like the covers of so Now, it's a bit hard to see exactly why many sf novels these days, oddly enough). anyone would do a book which has a cover Delany is clearly making a lot of money with a very large dragon and very muscley for Bantam in the USA. Presumably his warriors and large Rubensesque ladies variety of literary games does not (with the tits hidden, because this is attract the Brits to the same extent, DREAMWORKS a non-sexist book) and a text ending since I've seen no UK pb of DHALGREN with an appendix called... "Some Informal or NEVERYON. Even so, Bantam go to ed. by David King Remarks Toward the Modular Calculus, lavish lengths to package his work Norstrilia Press; 198pp. $12.95 Part Three". attractively. DISTANT STARS is a very Western Australian, David King has The astute reader of Delany will notice, pretty Trade Paperback containing some subtitled this collection STRANGE however, that "Some Informal Remarks of his finest early writing (from the NEW STORIES, neatly evading the dead Toward the Modular Calculus, Part One" days before he became a maddened de hand of Hugo Gernsback. appeared at the end of his previous constructionist), illustrated in a The twelve stories are loosely con novel, TRITON. "Part Four" canprises sheaf of different ways by several nected by a similarity in theme: all his latest sword-swinger, NEVERYONA, hands. The delightful short novel involve some form of probing into the just out. "Part Two" has not yet "Empire Star" (now nearly 20 years old) is the centrepiece, nicely set off by nature of reality, often showing the appeared. This shows either that Samuel influence of the late Philip K. Dick Delany can't count, or that he's a non "Time considered as a helix..." and to whom the book is dedicated. linear thinker. "Lines of Power" under its original longwinded title; plus four other stories The mood is set effectively by Kevin You might suppose that Samuel Delany and a useful intro. Very nice, and not McKay's opening vision of an alternative isn't a man with a sense of humour. On at all like whacking your naked back world in which the continent of the other hand, there's evidence from with fronds under a freezy shower. "Austrialia" has been settled by the Part Two of the "Informal Remarks Toward So, if you're up to it, bite your lip Spanish, who call the aborigines, the Modular Calculus, Part Three", that "indios". is to say, Sub-section Two of Part Three and get all three. But there's no need just in case you're confused, which to be embarrassed if recent Delany seems The book, builds to a powerful climax in begins: just too bloody laboured and difficult George Turner's Feedback. The story "K. Leslie Steiner was born in Cuba to bother with. For those who haven't of a philosopher's mental experiment in 1945. Her mother was a black American yet discovered Delany, DISTANT STARS is to reach back in time to the instant from Alabama." Now this section is signed, a pleasant place to start. before the Big Bang, aided by a in a book published in 1979, by S.L. Reviewed by Damien Broderick hypnotist and an empath, it packs a Kermit in January, 1981. So we see that lot of profound thought into less K.L. Steiner's first name is probably than 20 pages. Kermit! (This conjecture is borne out Editors Note.: Bantam have tn pntnt now, There isn't space here to deal with all in the thigh-slapping appendix to aU. oi Petany’i boobi tnatudtng: BABEL-17 the stories as I would wish, but one NEVERYONA.) And Kermit, as we all THE BAL LAP 0E BETA TWO, PHALGREN, THE that stands out for me is David Lake's know, is not a black American but a EINSTEIN INTERSECTION, THE FALL 0E THE THE PURE LIGHT OF THE VOID, with its green one! TOWERS: TRILOGY, THE JEMALS 0E APTOR and NOVA. Bantam iay that Sonnet R.Oetany humorous, fresh slant on the impossible beginning of the human race. «I Then there is Damien Broderick's tense RED AS BLOCD woman is prevented by her father from picture of a madman who believes he pursuing a career working with hawks, can blow up the Earth, and an apparently By Tanith Lee while her brother (who has no talent benign, domestic story by Lucy Sussex DAW; $2.50 US and no interest) is being forced into the role because he's male. Romilly with chilling final whiplash. A collection of short stories with runs away and joins the Sisterhood, Bruce Gillespie's account of a man who loose origins in the tales of the where her talent is put to good use. Brothers Grimm (this is subtitled finds God living next door is enriched The ever-present politics of Darkover by subtle, off-beat humor, and Russell ’’Tales from the Sisters Grimmer”) . dominate the story but in the background, Blackford's CRYSTAL SOLDIER, is a These stories are not merely re-tellings as seen from Romilly's viewpoint. This compelling journey through the mind of old tales with new twists, but are book takes place between STORMQUEEN and of a would-be ideological assassin. entirely new on their own (though their TWO TO CONQUER in the chronology of origins are apparent to someone familiar Altogether, a smorgasbord of different Darkover. Again, a heavy emphasis on with the originals) . My favourite in styles and moods. Best way to enjoy it: personal internal development, self the book is the last, and one which I first, a quick skim of the openings doubts, and so on -- Darkover fans did not spot for its origin. Titled of the stories to get your bearings; probably won't mind, but readers who "Beauty", it takes place in the future, then read the them in the order you prefer a faster-paced story might find, and concerns an Earth which has a strong this a bit tedious. I found, both books choose. presence of alien visitors. Our percep very absorbing and hard to put down. To sum up - well worthwhile. tion of the relationship between the humans and the aliens shifts as we read Reviewed by Wynne Whiteford the story -- and as the main character DREAM PARK learns what’s going on. Eerie and By Larry Niven $ Steven Barnes RE© MOON AND BLACK MOUNTAIN compelling, like many of the works in Ace; 1981 $2.95 US Unicorn/Allen § Unwin, 1982 ( A8U Aust) this book. Excellent reading, as one TPB $6.95 ARP expects from Lee. If you are interested in fantasy role Reviews by Jean Weber playing games, and/or know some of the THE GREY MANE OF MORNING members of Los Angeles fandom, you'll Bantam, 1982, 3 Science Fiction Reviews probably love this book. Even if neither PB $3.95 ARP ( Corgi/Bantam Aust.) of those applies to you, it's still a Both by Joy Chant good read. Plenty of action, some TWO TO CONQUER reasonably interesting characters, a Two paperback reprints of books set in By Marion Zimmer Bradley fascinating setting (another of those the same world, but with very different Arrow; (Hodder 8 Stoughton) $5.95 ARP Disneyland-of-the-future places), a styles to them, Though written later, murder to be solved, all within the (1977), GREY MANE takes place far earlier Two more Darkover novels from a prolific context of a group of people playing in the world's history, and has a very writer. TWO TO CONQUER takes place an involved fantasy game based on the pastoral quality to it as we follow the during the last years of the Ages of mythology of New Guinea, primarily the lives of a nomad group who roam around Chaos, when the Compact was being Cargo Cult. As the point-of-view the Great Plain with their Homed Horses. developed -- that system of customs character, Griffin (an employee of One of the nomads is led by events to whereby one fights only with weapons Dream Park who is trying to solve the question The Way Things Are, and this like sword and dagger, which leave one murder), gets more involved in the game, questioning eventually leads him on a within reach of one's opponent. The he begins to accept it as 'real', as do quest and later to change some of his power of laran (ESP), focussed through the players. The reader also gets very tribe's lifestyle. RED MOON (written matrixes (crystals tuned to their involved. 1970) deals far more with mysterious, user), is so deadly that the very Reviews by Jean Weber unexplained events and the dramatic survival of the planet is in jeopardy calling upon of strong magickal forces (an obvious parallel to nuclear weapons in the battle against evil. Three on Earth today). The attitudes of laran- children are plucked from our world gifted nobels is similar to the leaders NEBULA WINNERS FOURTEEN into this one, where each will play a of major Earth nations, too: why should crucial role in the battle. The reader one choose to make oneself vulnerable Edited by Frederik Pohl is as confused as they are throughout by not using any weapons at hand, when Bantam Books, July '82 most of the book, as to what's going on. one's enemies can certainly be expected 220 pp; $2.25 US I enjoyed both books, but I didn't like to use those weapons? As usual, the There is one outstanding story in this the illustrations in GREY MANE, partly story is told from the point of view because of their misty quality and collection of the Nebula Award winners of a few main characters, and MZB spends of 1978, John Varley's "The Persistence partly because they didn't fit my a lot of time wending the reader's way mental image of the characters and of Vision" (Best Novella). Gene Wolfe through the self-doubts, desires, and was unlucky to be competing that year settings at all. other strong emotions of her characters, Reviews by Jean Weber with his "Seven American Nights", which all of whom (in this book) seem to have was runner-up; however, it seems to be strongsex hang-ups when they are not meant as the first part of a projected THE UNICORN CREED involved in intrigue, plotting, or novel rather than as a true novella. warfare. I enjoy her writing very much, The winning novel that year was Vonda by Elizabeth Scarborough and appreciate the detailed character Bantam, (Corgi/Bantam Aust) $3.95 ARP N. McIntyre's DREAMSNAKE, which began development, and the points she's life as a Nebula-winning novelette as A hilarious spoof of a fantasy novel. making, but it does occasionally get long ago as 1973; there doesn't seem to Every stock cliche is in here: unicorns, to be a bit much. Incidentally, in me to be a lot of point in printing an witches, werewolves, ogres, princesses, this book we learn the beginnings of excerpt from it here, as people are etc. -- all turned around and examined the "Free Amazons" of later ages of likely to want to read the whole work: in a delightfully humourous way. Maggie Darkover, who keep turning up in other perhaps it would be better to print an the witch, Colin Songsmith the minstrel, books but about whom MZB's not told interview with the winning novelist in and Moonshine the unicorn set out to us a great deal of their origins or such anthologies. For the record, the save several nasty situations, and lifestyles. other stories included are "Stone" by manage to have quite a few adventures Edward Bryant and "Cassandra" by C.J. along the way. Although humourous, the HAWKMISTRESS Cherryh (Best Short Story and Runner- book is not entirely without serious up); and "A Glow of Candles, A Unicorn's content; while satirising the form, the By Marion Zimmer Bradley Eye" by Charles L. Grant (Best Novelette author presents some good messages about DAW; (William Collins) $4.95 ARP and next-best story in the anthology, honour, purity, faithfulness, and so on. about the decay of acting in our near As a moral lesson, they're far more HAWKMISTRESS takes us further along the future - and how it may be revived). palatable in this setting than in a path of knowledge about the "Free lecture. But they needn't intrude on Amazons", (here known as the "Sisterhood 1978 must have been the year I finally the reader's sheer enjoyment of the of the Sword”) . A major theme in MZB's lost the race to keep up with my magazine fun, if that's your preference. I recent works has to do with the role of readings, because I had read none of 16 laughed a lot. women; in this book, a talented young these stories before doing this review (not even DREAMSNAKE); consequently, Hensonism, in the form of some new this is also the first Nebula Winners creations - Jabba the Hutt and Ewoks anthology that I’ve read. Looking back etc... Originality, the previous at past winners, I can see that the trademark of a Jedi-film-book is almost regular reader of these anthologies absent entirely, but we must remember would have had excellent value over the this is an explanation job. Everyone years; he would also have missed some has to explain him or herself, get of the best work produced in those years, killed, get out or disappear, from Of recent science fiction and fantasy even by the authors represented. There Yoda, right through to Senator has to be something wrong with a system Palpatine (the Emperor) and Anakin Books and Films that produces but one Aldiss, no Disch, Skywalker (Darth Vader). We trust By Paul J. Stevens no Ballard, no Priest, no Brunner, no the film is up to the high standards Dick, no Bishop, three Ellisons, three set by its predecessors in action, foundation's edge Leibers, three Delanys and a Moorcock technique and beauty of art and form. by Isaac Asimov for those years; and that names as its If not, it would be good indeed, to Granada; HC ; $19.95 ARP (Methuen Aust.) first four "Grand Masters" Heinlein, leave the Far Galaxy until semething Williamson, Simak and (wait for it) de original comes along, and certainly 1982/83 was a big year for science Camp. De Camp’s stories are so good the opening for a new villain is there fiction. Three top selling writers, and so well known that he is represented - who would replace Darth Vader? The (not necessarily the best three writers here by an address entitled "Little big query now for Lucas, surely! of science fiction), all turned out books Green Men from Afar", which says sone- Better writers would be welcome for that not surprisingly, have got onto the thing similar about sf and the current these spin-offs. Only Brian Daley, Hugo ballot as best sf novel of the year. religious vacuum to an equally undist who writes the unfilmed Han Solo I refer to Asimov, Heinlein (FRIDAY) and inguished article, specially commissioned, adventures, is anywhere near the Clarke (2010) as the big three. This by Norman Spinrad, on "The Future of standard required in print for SF year, as last, I may just put 'no award' Science Fiction". There’s also a writing. The others rely heavily down as my choice for best novel, because commissioned piece by Isaac Asimov, on George Lucas' films to sell books, I am not convinced that any of the big which sone of us could no doubt have an odd way of being literate, surely. three produced a novel that is worthy written for him by now, called "Science But for just an explanatory read, this of a Hugo. Fiction: 1938" (Isaac was there, gosh is alright - and the correct address wow) . of the one and only truly "Official The Asimov novel, which Mervyn pursued But you should read Varley’s novella 'Star Wars’ Fan Club" is in the back me to review after listening to me about a utopian society of deaf-blind leaf for fans. Beware of imitations! discussing it verbally, is a perfect people, where the two-eyed man is a example of what is wrong with all three disadvantaged child. Reviewed by Josephine Dorian. books. It is well plotted, well written Reviewed by Michael J, Tolley and things happen logically. So far so THE GRAY PRINCE good. But something is missing from the By Jack Vance, novel that is hard to pin down. I think 173 pp, Coronet Books, £1.25 it is that sense of wonder that we hear THE TWILIGHT ZONE COMPANION so much about when sf writing is discussed. by Marc Scott Zicree ECOTOP IA EMERGING Bantam Books, 1982; $9.95 US by Ernest Callenbach FOUNDATION'S EDGE follows on directly tpb; 447pp Bantam Books US $3.50 from the first three books and you find that the first foundation on Terminus Despite its title, this book is not Jack Vance would never have become any has recovered from the events of FOUNDA just an episode guide of this almost thing with books like THE GRAY PRINCE. TION AND EMPIRE when the Mule conquered legendary fantasy and science fiction It is badly told and an inadequate them and so upset the Seldon Plan. anthology T.V. series of the 60’s, but story with a cynical ending . One of Feeling pleased and smug the mayor of also contains background information the great disadvantages ECOTOPIA EMERG Terminus is worried about the Second on the origins and production of the ING labours under is the inability of Foundation and sends out a dissident program, a concise biography of its the author to write fiction or under young councillor, as a sort of 'lightning creator, Rod Serling, critiques of each stand politics. Everything goes too rod', to search for and uncover a still episode and occasional insights into easily and the men allow the persons to functioning Second Foundation. American television-thinking of the late create Ecotopia in a most unlikely The Second Foundation is just as smug 50’s and early 60’s. Hundreds of photos fashion. It is naive and chauvinistic with the success of the Seldon Plan, but go to complete THE TWILIGHT ZONE and dul1. Reviewed by John J.Alderson. they are also experiencing dissension COMPANION, ranging from stills from in the ranks and send a young man of Serling’s early television plays, to their own to follow and counter the plans the 159 episodes of Twilight Zone and SCIENCE FICTION SPECIALS of the first Foundation. Each of the beyond. Although Zicree at times tends Volumes 39 - 43 young men has a companion, and each is to be a little unjust in his critiques, Sidgwick § Jackson (Hutchinson Group being subtly manipulated into searching these times are few and far between to Australia ) HCS Each $21.95 ARP for the origin of the human race, and make this book anything but an enjoy able and provocative journey into tele Sidgwick and Jackson have in the past the planet from where everything started. vision’s past. Recommended for those been a regular publisher of hard cover Very little occurs as all this builds up who believe T.V. science fiction is sf, and every so often they bind together to a confrontation between the represen incapable of raising itself above the two or three titles in omnibus volumes tatives of the First and the Second juvenile level. You may be surprised. They are annoying for collectors and Foundation, who are in orbit around a libraries, as they are difficult to cat mysterious planet. Not Earth, but it Reviewed by Rick Kennett alogue when they mix up different authors. does have a possible solution to the However they are good value. eventual evolution of the human race. #39 LEVIATHAN'S DEEP by Jayge Carr, HOW RETURN OF THE JEDI If, when having finished the book, the THE GODS WOVE IN KYRANNON by Ardath by James Kahn reader wonders why it took so long to Mayhar and THE RAVENS OF THE MOON Futura $4.95 * (Hodder § Stoughton Aust) get to a sort of finish where he/she by Charles L.Grant. has more unanswered questions than when Being a film tie in, this is a must #40 FALSE DAWN, TIME OF THE FOURTH for Jedi knight fans, although the he/she started, there is a sure smell HORSEMAN and CAUTIONARY TALES of sequel in the air. I am sure that writing leaves much to be desired. by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro at least two more books will follow, Too many scattered thoughts and jerky, #41 SIGHT OF PROTEUS and THE WEB unexplained pieces are left at the end which may answer the questions raised BETWEEN THE WORLDS by Charles Sheffield in FOUNDATION'S EDGE. to really make us believe that George #42 TITAN By John Varley and TIN WOODMAN Lucas has finished with the Far by Dennis R.Bailey § David F.Bischoff LAUGHING SPACE Galaxy entirely. The action is bits #43 PEBBLE IN THE SKY by Isaac Asimov Edited by Isaac Asimov £ Jo Jeppson from other films, it seems, with some and THE SCIENCE FICTIONAL SOLAR SYSTEM Robson Books HC; $22.95 ARP (Hutchinson).) explanations about the Skywalkers. Edited by Isaac Asimov. (Ed.) * Probable local release September ’83 As the cover blurb says, this volume 17 is an anthology of Science Fiction humor, and certainly this collection STAR/TARGET: MACABRE RAILWAY STORIES ed. of stories and cartoons makes good by Ronald Holmes; DR WHO - FOUR TO DOOMS reading and is good value for your DAY by Terrance Dicks; DR WHO - EARTHSHOCK dollar. by Ian Marter. TIMESCAPE: THE WAR AGAINST THE CHTORR, FALL OF THE SHELL VOLUME 1: A MATTER FOR MEN by David by Paul 0. Williams Gerrold.hc and tpb ; YESTERDAY'S SON by Ballantine; pb; $2.50 US A.C.Crispin (Star Trek); THE ADVENTURES OF ALYX by Joanna Russ; The Ruins of Another new writer. This.-is volume #4 Isis by Marion Zimmer Bradley; Eye of of the Pelbar cycle, a series that is Cat by Roger Zelazny (fpb); BEST SCIENCE always readable and very interesting. FICTION OF THE YEAR #12, ed. Terry Carr. A devastated Earth tries to recover from a nuclear war a thousand years TOR: Moon Called by Andre Norton; earlier and one small area in the old CARLISLE STREET by T.M.Wright (H); THE USA slowly rediscovers civilisation, LAKE by R.J.Jensen (H); TOUCH THE STARS: despite barbarians and disease. More EMERGENCE by John Dalmas; CONFLICT by books to follow. Poul Anderson; Galactic Odyssey by Keith Laumer. TEA WITH THE BACK DRAGON by R.A. MacAvoy UNWIN/UNICORN: TOLKIEN CALENDAR 1984; Bantan; pb; $2.75 US LANDS OF NEVER ed. by Maxim Jakubowski; THE FOUR LORDS OF THE DIAMOND' Prince of the Goodborn by Geraldine Harris A new writer, with a story that is a #1 LILITH: A SNAKE IN THE GRASS ; $2.50 US WARNER: KRULL by Alan Dean Foster. charming little fantasy about a dragon #2 CERBERUS: A WOLF IN THE FOLD ; $2.50 US who has become a man, and who must solve #3 CHARON: A DRAGON AT THE GATE ; $2.95 US A few other important titles for release a crime involving computer fraud. The #4 MEDUSA: A TIGER BY THE TAIL . $2.95 US later in the year include: HELLICONIA characters are well drawn, though perhaps SUMMER by Brian Aldiss (Jonathan Cape); the reader would like to have been told by Jack L. Chalker THE BOOK OF LOST TALES Part One by J.R. a little bit more about the nature of Del Rey Science Fiction; Ballantine pb. R.Tolkien (Allen § Unwin) 2010: SPACE Chinese dragons. There is no doubt about it, Jack Chalker ODYSSEY TWO by Arthur C.Clarke (Granada PB). THE PRISONER OF ZHAMANAK is one of the most inventive newer writers around. First with the five by L. Sprague de Camp books based on the Well World and now Ace; pb; $2.50 US the four books based on a planetary Bestsellers #5 in the Krishna series that started system called the Warden Diamond. A back in 1949, in the pages of Astounding. planetary system with four different As of July 8th three books in the f£sf Good interplanetary fun of the type that worlds where the criminals of the galaxy category were still on the American they don't write anymore. are exiled instead of being brain-wiped, Publisher's Weekly Bestseller List. a system that has an inbuilt bug that The number two on the hard cover list J HER EG infiltrates every living thing and was RETURN OF THE JEDI: The Story Book by Steven Bru st changes it, differently on each planet. Based on the Movie. Adapted by Joan D. Vinge (Random House). Due to be released Ape; pb; $2.50 US Chalker takes the reader to each world by William Collins in Australia. Number in turn, each time giving the reader And yet another (sigh) new writer who 11 was WHITE GOLD WIELDER by Stephen just a bit more of the puzzle until with turns out a fantasy that is better than Donaldson (Del Rey), Number 12 was THE book #4 the entire plot has been laid the usual run of stuff. The plot VALLEY OF THE HORSES by Jean Auel (Crown). unfolds nicely and the characters are out and solved quite satisfactorilyf?)... In the paperbacks RETURN OF THE JEDI by fun with a slightly different morality, A REBEL IN TIME James Kahn was number two, THE GOD and a different view of death. Worth PROJECT by John Saul (Horror) Number reading. by Harry Harrison TOR; pb ; $3.50 US nine, with MY SWEET AUDRINA (Occult/ KHI TO FREEDOM Horror) by V.C.Andrews number 10. A redneck crazy, who wants the South to by Ardath Mayhar win the American Civil War, steals the On the Australian Bestseller list over Ace; pb; $2.50 US plans for making a cheap, easily manu the last six months, SPACE by James Not a bad story that could continue on, factured machine gun. He then utilises Michener (Heinemann), hit the top and but it won't win a Hugo. an experimental time machine to go back 2010: ODYSSEY TWO by Arthur C.Clarke and change history. A negro with Army (Granada) and WHITE GOLD WIELDER by THE SORCERER'S SKULL Intelligence is assigned to follow him Stephen Donaldson (William Collins), both CENOTAPH ROAD #2 and stop him from carrying out his got to second place. The Clarke was still plans. An interesting idea well told. f 6 in June. In paperbacks THE NON BORN by Robert E. Vardeman Harry has done it again! KING by Julian May hit the top in April Fee; pb; $2.75 US and previously to that, E.T. and the three An interesting continuation of a fantasy ECLIPSING BINARIES Douglas Adams "Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The series that promises to go on another THE FAMILY D'ALEMBERT #8 Galaxy" books all did very well. So the five or ten books, as our hero battles by E.E. 'Doc' Smith with Stephen Goldin high sales of sf is not just an American phenomena. Incidently, the pb editions of the dread sorcerer with only his own Berkly; pb; $2.50 US the three books in the "Pliocene Age" series powers (as yet undefined), a friendly If you have read the earlier series then by Julian May, were released in the U.K. and eight-foot-high spider, and a girlfriend you will want to read this. For Doc Australia, before the U.S.A. who is lost between the worlds. Very Smith fans only. Space opera/adventure. readable. 1982 was a very good year for f§sf. Six of the toj) fifteen places on the best ULLER UPRISING THE BRONZE OF EDDARTA seller list for the year, according to by H. Beam Piper by Randall Garrett § Vicki Ann Heydron Publisher's Weekly, were sf £ f. They Ace ; pb ; $2.75 US Bantam; pb; $2.95 US were: E.T, SPACE, THE VALLEY OF HORSES, DIFFERENT SEASONS (King), 2010: ODYSSEY The complete text of an early Piper The third book in a series that started TWO, FOUNDATION'S EDGE (Asimov), and THE story that was long out of print. A with THE STEEL OF RAITHSKAR and went on ONE TREE (Donaldson). E.T. and GHOST company on an alien world faces a to THE GLASS OF DYSKORNIS. The story is STORY (Straub), were the only titles on rebellion of ignorant natives in a good, things happen logically and a the mass market pb list. The TPB top was story that was based on the British maj or plot thread is wound up in this THE DARK CRYSTAL by A.C.H.Smith, followed in India in the mid-1800's. A good third part though yet a FOURTH section by GOD EMPEROR OF JUNE (Herbert), THE story from a writer who should have is promised for 1984. ELFSTONES OF SHANNARA (Brookes) STEPHEN gone on to become the equal of Clarke, KING'S DANSE MACABRE, GOLDEN DREAM: A Heinlein and Herbert. Paul Stevens FUZZY ODYSSEY (Mayhar) and THE SECRET 18 (Preiss). Dear Jack, Scott Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Ian Fleming, et al. So many become disappointed in LETTER I tend to agree with you. regarding names their expectations for themselves, to getting the awards. Asimov on Clarke wiM be acutely conscious of themselves COLU most likely win the Hugo Novel this year, living a sadly flawed ideal. Writers although everybody I have spoken to on are possessed of an inescapable human review 1 have read, says their books one frailty, (itself a cause for resentment), both bad. C.J. by the way, says that for them to be unable, as per Brunner, WAHF-FULL VOWNBELOW STATION is not pant of a series. to display any genuine superior majesty, Jack R. Herman, 17/2/83 I most certainly agree with you on that they might be able to ignore and Box 272, RAIDERS. It has little to do with fantasy rise above the inconsequentials. Wentworth Building, and certainty not sf, and it was a gneat Jealousy for the fragile edifices of Sydney University, pity to see films like EXCALIBUR miss their own self-esteem has writers, more Australia 2006 out. than anybody, squabbling over the minutae of the determinants of prestige. Dear Merv, Unfortunately I missed most of, the busin ess session at Syneon, as I would have It is a paradox that proves how small The Sept-Dec ASFN arrived over the liked to hear mone about the proposed great minds can sometimes be. It is Vacation period and has only just changes to the Vitmar awands. I would frustrating, but also, fortunately, if percolated to the top of the pile. have voted against the pnoposed changes, viewed in the right light, quite bat other changes are needed. Mone about hilarious. It's even funnier when Thanx for the front-page coverage of that later. Syneon was gneat. Congrat you're in the same boat yourself. As the Pat Terry - it is always good to ulations for a job well done. is, see the award getting the respect it deserves and seeing that our choice Merv Jaundiced Jack (The Churlish is popular. Caboolture Cur) Wodhams. Jack Wodhams, Your editorial suggests that Wolfe and P.O. Box 48, Hasta la vista, Merv. May books might have missed out on the CABOOLTURE, Jack Wodhams Hugo because they were parts of series QLD. 4510 but this issue of ASFN contains a Vear Jack, 19-4-83 review of DOWNBELOW STATION, a novel Thank you for your letter and wonds of, that was out when the voting was taking Dear Merv, encouragement. I need them. Every second place. Being part of a series didn't I would have written before, but I was minute I say to myself, why am I doing stop CJC from winning. Like all the finishing off another blasted novel, this? The Hews is doing a job, not per other pro winners (and fan winners this one subtitled STAN. fectly, it has it's faults, but as much for that matter) she is a 'name' and It's about time I dropped you a line, as I want to continue producing it and I think 'names' get the Hugo not enjoy seeing the finished copy hot off works: next year's ballot will include but you know what a bind it is to write letters. But your Australian SF News the pness from the printers, the time the latest Heinlein, Clarke and it is taking will no doubt eventually Asimov (whatever the books titles are forces me to at least say thanks in appreciation for the Wynne Whiteford fonce me to give it away. But until is irrelevant, they are all well-known then... and the books are getting fair to interview, the Chicon report, and the good reviews: that is all that is other good things. This is an excellent Vour comments on authors are interest necessary. I wonder how many of the production, Merv, that pricks my cons ing. Most of the big names I have met 700+ voters had read more than one or cience. The enclosed donation can be have been very easy to get on with, two of the items nominated in any regarded as a sub, or a contribution to despite the reputations some of them category (except 'dramatic presentation' the Binns War Chest, or whatever. With have had before I met them. They are which they had mostly seen, I guess) . luck my conscience won't start bothering only human however and they have their How many of this year's voters for the me again until somewhere around 1986. faults and eccentricities. They do put Australian SF Achievement awards will The piece, or pieces, that amused me up with a lot from fandom at times and have read the books on the ballot? most in the latest SF News was the It surprises me that so many have so (Sorry I left out the latest Hubbard Harrison-Brunner spat. Brunner had a much to do with fandom and conventions. which might be ballot-stuffed onto the go at me once over some minor item, and Thank you very, very much for the don Hugo vote by Scientologists in the he would appear to be a somewhat touchy ation. same way that Burroughs fans once fellow. Writers do, of course, have a tried to stack a Hugo) . tendency to become shitheads in their Merv I see that a movie only has to have a pursuit of a literary career. I mean, smell like an SF/Fantasy film to I used to be quite a pleasant and Stephen Hitchings, qualify for the SF Film Awards: RAIDERS affable chap once. If the aggro is 62 Coronation Pde., OF THE LOST ARK which is no more not inherent, it is certainly encouraged ENFIELD, N.S.W. 2136 Fantasy than THE DIRTY DOZEN or THE by any sustained effort to try and beat 9/4/83 GUNS OF NAVARONE garners all the awards the publishing odds. The acquired and SF Film makers can say: 'Look meaner temper could have something to Dear Merv, that's one of ours'. Ridiculous. do with reject slips, unimaginative editors, and smart-assed critics I was appalled by the puerile Brunner- Alderson follows me from zine to zine, general ly. Harrison exchange in ASFN 32. You say acquiring expertise in a new area each you get few letters from big name pros; time I encounter him. This time it is It is very easy for a writer to develop if I thought this was typical, I'd say Pliocene geology and climate. In the a sense of being misunderstood, so to thank God you don't. How can sf hope second book of the series Ms. May has come to feel beleagured and unloved. to become respectable when its big names something to say about geology etc of Also, alas, writers are doomed to be go on like this? the setting of the Saga of the Exiles less bravely intrepid than the heroes On the basis of these two letters, I'd but why does Alderson need to try to they create. It is easier to write say Harrison wins both the argument and be so picky instead of attempting to about a noble person than to be one. the prize for most infantile sneering. justify his brusque rejection of the Writers are like actors, who are never characters. as great as the roles they play. I Stephen Hitchings sometimes think that writers, outside Stevens' column needs to be retitled. of their writing, are not the most Pear Stephen, It is no longer 'a jaundiced view' competent managers of the actual it is straight sycophantic. If he processes of living. And the bigger I appreciate your feelings about the doesn't have something nasty to say about they are, the more screwed up and un Brunner/Harris on exchange and I regret movies, then he isn't doing his job. enviable their private lives seem to ASFN got caught in the middle, however And to start praising film tie-in get. Jack London's writings can be I think you missed the bit of humour in novels.. .he'11 be complimenting admired, but his handling of his own the whole thing. Vera Lonergan next. See You, , , personal affairs falls far short of Merv Jack inspiring. The same can be said of F. 1 Jack L. Chalker, planned as something of a mulit-media a good thing on a bad thing ai ian ai 4704 Warner Drive, event. ieZZing a book ii eoncenned. Ai a ipec- Manchester, taZiit ihop we tny and bning non-ii MD 21102. All best, booki by known ii authodi to the atten Cordially, tion oi cuitomeni, by diipZaying them Jack L. Chalker with the ii, but thii iize book ii hand Sorry to be so long replying to yours to i-it in the iheZvu. We have iound a of the 18th Feb., but I've been strugg Vean Jack, Zot oi nuiitance to Zange ionmat iietion ling to (A) learn a word processing It ii I who need to apoZogiie ion the papenbacki in the past, but ii it in a system (B) learn how to use the printer tong detag in pubZiihAng Zetten, titZe neadeni want they wiZZ buy it no (C) print and get off a new book, and but betten Zate than neven. You wiZZ matten what edition it ii in now. When (D) keep my health. My sanity is not have the iZidu oi AUSSIECON I ient you, it cornu to getting "imaginative" iie in danger; I lost that years ago. but I am ionny that it wiZZ pnobabZy be tion accepted and diipZayed aZong with any othen iietion, which puneLy at> a No, the restaurant run-in wasn't really a ZittZe tate ion you to get any nuponie inom anybody eZse. penionaZ thingi I do not go aZong with funny, but the resolution was more at any note, the 8-ionmat ii a good way satisfactory than I expected. Eva is CONSTELLATION ioundi Zike being a gneat oi achieving that end. learning a lot about her liberal friends, eon, but too many peopZe Zike CH1C0N. I Uenv though, few of whom offered any support am nine that everybody that cornu oven or encouragement. hene tn 'S3, wiZZ enjoy the Zack oi the Baltimore is closing in on 5000 members btg cnowdi at the WonZd coni that you Darrell Schweitzer, now, so it'll be another big one, al expedience oven, thene. We ain't won tt 113 Deepdale Road, though the layout in the convention yet of, eoume, but tn thii case I thtnk STRAFFORD PA 19087 complex is such that it will probably we can itant counting the chickeni. USA be easier to see and meet with other You one dotng veny weZZ with youn wait June 24th, 1983 folks than it was at the Hyatt, with ing. I beZieve we have a bniei neview Dear Merv, all those Roman catacombs leading to oi iome oi youn titZu in thti iiiue. rooms and more rooms. The big problem But oi Zuck with youn iutune eHonti. Every time I see the incident of my is the loss of that hotel at this Uenv Celebrated Strangling Incident with critical time, along with the slowdown Charles Platt repeated (ASFN, Feb 83), in construction caused by higher interest it seems to get more exaggerated. All rates the past couple of years that Christopher Priest, that really happened is that he grabbed 1 Ortygia House, meant that the new hotels due to open me by the lapels. Ginjer Buchanan 6 Lower Road, in 1983 are opening in 1984 instead. merely said, "Manners, Charl-es". Platt Oh, well, at least this time I don't HARROW, MIDDLESEX isn't noted for having any. He made have to worry about a room. We sent HA2 ODA ENGLAND some faceteously threatening remarks. the PRs air mail to all non-North Amer I don't want this to get blown up ican members more than a week before 26th January, 1983 with the retelling, lest it seems that any were sent third class here, and so poor Charles is guilty of attempted Dear Merv, if any Australians coming over for the murder rather than simple boorishness. bidding haven't yet sent in those hotel Many thanks for your letter...I'm Sane news: I've just signed a contract forms they have only themselves to blame always glad to get ASFN, and to if they wind up in the sticks. for DISCOVERING MODERN HORROR FICTION hear from friends down under. I'm with Staimont House. This will be an sorry to hear you've been feeling Any questions you might have on this anthology of new and reprint essays the pinch. Me too, as you probably year's worldcon, let me know and I'll on contemporary (e.g. Robert Aickman) know. We're now back here permanently. try and get you the answers for the figures in the field. This will be Actually, now the worst is over News. There certainly is no question a dated announcement by the time you and we've made the move. I'm feeling that Melbourne is stuck with '85; even can publish it, but anyone interested optimistic again. I'm sorry I'm not if some other bidder did show up at this in participating should query and much of a purveyor of news. In the stage it would be nearly impossible to include a couple IRCs for reply. The SF world, I always feel that I'm mount a creditable campaign in so short book will close late in the year. a time. The handwriting was on the the ideal customer for newszines, wall from Denver -- all 500 or so Sydney as I hear everything last. But, AMAZING will start serial-ization of voters from then are members of Const yesterday I received my first advance Pohl's 3rd GATEWAY novel in the January ellation; two or three hundred fans from copies of the Arena (Arrow) edition issue. this area who would have voted for of THE AFFIRMATION. I don't know Best, Sydney had it not been a local bid, and why or how, but one of the copies has an average 1100 or 1200 total votes for "Winner of the Ditmar Award" printed Darrell. the worldcon in an average year. Any on it, and the other hasn't. Very body who wanted to try and overcome odd, isn't it? Anyway, I hope the Vean VanneZZ, such a lead as you had for '85 would copies that eventually make their way to Australia will be ones with it Uy "PubZiihed andBeVamned" eoZumn eontaini be throwing time, effort, and money neponti that in iome eaiu one no doubt down a hole. on...though I've learnt to count on nothing in this world. Whatever, it's not to be taken too ieniouiZy. ChanZu The last World Science Fiction Conven a handsome edition, printed in the PZatt ieemi to be a peuon who managu tion that I missed was the 1965 Loncon; B-fomat size. The other day, to get hirmeZi invoZved in iituationi, it's a good bet that I will be in "The Bookseller” listed the book as one which inevitabZy get departed in that Melbourne in '85, health and finances of the ten best-subscribed paperbacks eoZumn. Thariki ion the othen inio. willing. It's a little more of a for February, which for about twenty Uenv strain this time around, when I have minutes actually cheered me up. Later, to buy two adult and one children's though, I was talking to someone at ticket instead of just a single for me. the publishers and discovered this was L.W. Symes, Transportation alone will probably run news to them... c/o National Australia me a good $3500. Still, business has Bank, Keep in touch. been good. My last three books all Personnel Department, made the top 20 on the real best-seller Very Best, BRISBANE QLD 4000 lists, and just recently an auction for a new 3-book series drew substantial Chris. April 10th, 1983 bids from Berkeley, Bantam, and Tor, with the latter finally getting it. Vean Chnii, Dear Merv, Yu, we have THE AFEJRUATWN now and it Thanks very much for your letter of If anyone down there has a few good dou have "Vitman Winnen" pninted above July 7th, and your advise on starting slides of the Aussiecon Hugo ceremonies the titZe. You mint have picked up one an SF magazine. As you can see, I'm I'd appreciate copies. Like Aussiecon's, oi the AuitnaZian eopiu. We do not back in Brisbane, but the problem is the Constellation Hugo ceremonies are iind thii 8-ionmat iize ai you put it, finance. 20 I'm sorry I haven'1 . written for so long, Gladbach (Germany). I'm GoH at the to Bruce Gillespie, John Foyster, but I've been very busy, moving around last three conventions. Conventions Roger Weddall and the other Aussies; and getting things organised. are almost as frequent in Europe as in I should be writing, but am terribly the U.S.A, nowadays. busy. I would very much : ike to get other people's fanzines, so if you would Congratulations, Bruce. Best Wishes, in ASFN, I would be mention my request Yours, most grateful. Franz Rottensteiner Brian. Good luck with the News and Space Age. Dear Trans, Lance Symes. Dean Brian, Thank you ion youn tetten and the review Thank you ion. youn tetten. Bruce Gillespie oi SF aus AUSTRALIAN, which you wilt Peat Lance, was quite surprised to hear he had won gather inom the next tetten I ran last Thank you ion youn tetten. I hope you the World ST Award. and is looking ionwand issue oi ASTN. Thank you also ion the othen inionmation about si publishing get some response inom the ^anztne to receiving -it. We do hope that we can encourage as many peopte inom diHenent in Germany. I have been sending ASFN to edetoti ion sample copies oi their you but I may have the wrong address. I ztnei. countries to attend our second world Metv convention here in 19 85. The yanks will check and see that you recieve the have had it as thein very own ion. too last and this issue ion certain. tong, and it would be nice to see it Merv Binns Brian Aldiss, held in Jugoslavia on any othen countries 16 Moreton Road, as oiten as possible in the iuture. In OXFORD OX27AX, iaet I think a tot oi the American ians John Alderson, ENGLAND would be just as happy ion. this to happen Havelock, Victoria 3465 21/6/83 as the world cons are getting too big there and there are lots oi other, big US cons 17/6/83 to attend during the yean.. Dear Merv, Dear Merv, I hope you are enjoying all youn travelling Yesterday, Margaret and I returned from around. I read Rottensteiner' s review of the first (Zagreb) meeting of WORLD SF SF Australien with considerable interest over which I have presided as president. Merv bearing in mind he's one of the The meeting was held by courtesy of harshest critics going. I had given SF professionals and was a great and Franz Rottensteiner, the book, plus the English version rollicking success - thanks to the two A-1060 Vienna, to a neighbour (a native German) for prime activists there, Bruno Ogorelec Marchettigasse 9/17 her assessment of the translation. and Krsto Mazuranic. AUSTRIA She maintained it was quite good though Tomorrow I have to be off on my travels said that "Pack de Stier bei den again, but today I hasten to send March 1st, 1983 Homern" was not a translation of you news of particular interest to my "Take the Dilemma by the Horns" and friends in Australia. One of the new Dear Mr Binns, that they had no word for dilemma WORLD SF awards, the Award for Increas in German though my dictionary disagrees Thank you for your letter of January and gives "dilemma” and also gives ing. the Status of SF INternationally, 11th, 1983, and please excuse a very went to Bruce Gillespie. It was a very the meaning of "stier" as bull or late reply, but I return now to bullock. But Rottensteiner uses the popular award, and loudly cheered at Ortmann, where your letter was sent, correct and original title. I still the banquet last Sunday evening. only now and then, and so collected seek enlightment. We are going to get the award to Bruce it only some weeks after it had as soon as possible. Meanwhile, I arrived. I enclose a review of the I am however, most delighted with his enclose a photograph of the awards; Australian SF anthology as requested, reception of my story, and I am not sorry it is not better but it was together with some background in going to criticise a reviewer. To call professionally taken - I should have formation on Goldman SF. They probably my savage satire on international got the fans to do it. Also enclosed, printed about 15,000 copies of the relations a "broad farce" suggests a report on the awards and what I said book. If you are interested , it that the ethics of international rel about them (though everything was contains the following stories: ation have sunk so low as to be beneath interspersed with jokes, ad libs, ''Creator” and "The Last Day of Christ satire. Naturally, the Prime Minister's and pleasant interjections frem the mas" by David J. Lake, "Mostly Mean bad puns seldom translate and assembly). Excuse roughness - no time time" and "Armstrong” by Jack Wodhams, Dosenmerikaner isn't quite "canned to make a smoother copy. "The : Hairy Parents" by A. Bertram American" but I rather object to them Chandler, "And Eve was Drawn from the being blamed on the author. Before I'm very happy that this award goes Rib of Adam" (Van Ikin), "Suburban leaving this anthology I must comment to Australia, and particularly, to Walk" by Paul Collins, "Double Summer on the magnificent illustration, a two Bruce, who has helped bind you to the Time" by Cherry Wilder, "Vandal" by page spread which so vividly portrays rest of the SF world. For your Trudy Rose, "Take the Dilemma by the Major General Kilmore, Gunnar Redie, information, we welcome Oz professionals Horns", by John J. Alderson and and the Minister for Primary Production. in WSF. Sub for one year stands at "The Specialists" by Wynne N. Whiteford, 25 Swiss francs. Our future meetings It was a triumph of a sort to sell this as well as an afterword "We fran the anthology overseas but Paul Collins has include some exciting venues: Southern Cross" by Paul Collins). 1984 Brighton had a number of triumphs. Its cover The book is also illustrated (horribly) and layout is old-fashioned and stodgy 1985 Guests of Soviet Writers, trip by Gerd Striepecke, but in general to Moscow and Krimea - all free. (Pay ccmpared with the covers and layout the volume looks attractive. Feel of Wodhams' FUTURE WAR and Lake's your own fares) free to use of my remarks whatever (Other possibilities like Mexico and RING OF TRUTH, both of which have a you see fit. high-standard indeed. They are also Australia were over-ruled) I know nothing about the Yugoslavian 1986 Peking is a possibility. Also a cut above at least most American bid for the World SF Convention, but I SF (though American fantasy seems to we shall be represented at Expo '86 know that there is some active fandom in Vancouver - details currently being have higher standards). Out of all the in Yugoslavia, and presumably they books illustrated in Australian SF worked out. will be able to organise a Con, although News for May there is nothing anywhere 1987 Tubingen, Malta, Dublin are on one can never be sure of such things the cards. comparable in the way of covers as and other European organizers quit these two books. When all is said and Hope you are well and making both at the last minute. It certainly done a book cover is a work of art and ends meet. My future plans just this cannot be a mere gimmick to get tourists whilst something has to be printed on summer include visits to Kansas, Rimini to Yugoslavia for in relation to it, most publishers, in particular (Italy), Edinburgh Festival (Scotland), Yugoslavia's whole tourism, a World Con the American, put too much on it. Eindhoven (Holland), Ljubljana (Jugo is insignificant. Collins does not. As for the critics slavia for Europcon 8), and Bergish Please give my regards especially, 21 of their contents it can be summed us they have co-operated to put on a con as many original stories. Don Myrus is as "sour grapes." vention. There is still no national the editor, and his department is com organisation however and they have not pletely separate from omni fiction John J. Alderson. reached the stage of presenting awards. editor's Helen Datlow, but at the same The next two conventions will be held address. If you wish to submit stories I Aecexved a cZtcuZcw. ZeZte/t fxom VON in September '83 and February '84. It write to Don Myrus at Omni Publications TUCK, which woz sent to his fxiends is obvious that sf is well established International, 909 Third Ave., New York, and contacts about six month!, ago. My in Yugoslavia. In fact, Yugoslavian fans NY 10022. And readers, you may have apologies to Von, as I did want to men are bidding for the World SF convention been missing something. tion eaxtiex, but overlooked it. Von tells in 1988 and Eurocon in 1986. us that he retired last year fxom his job with the EZ company. The main item in The French sf magazine Orbites is hav SHORT STORY COMPETITION the letter was that VOLUME THREE of the ing distribution problems after some ENCyCLOPEVLA OF FSSF, edited by him difficulties with payments to authors. The Third Annual Short Story Contest and published by Advent in the USA, was The editor, Daniel Riche, is negotiating sponsored by Twilight Zone magazine is due out. Also that supplements to the for a new publisher. now open for entries. First prize is three volumes published will most likely $500, second $300 and third $200. It is be published in the future. He thanks According to an article in the May issue open to writers who have not had a story all the people that have been helping of LOCUS by Ye Longlie, science fiction published for payment so far. Submissions him by supplying details of books con is quite popular in China. Cover illus should consist of one story per person, tents etc, and offers his help whexe he trations of six magazines which feature two thousand words or less, typewritten, can. He recommends a number of biblio sf and non-fiction science articles are with the author’s name address, and graphic xefexence volmes published ovex shown, with another six magazines men phone number on the first page. An the last yeax. tioned. This upsurge in the writing and addressed envelope with reply coupons publishing of sf in China has developed from Australian or New Zealand entries, He told us that he is tailing a bit moxe since the change of government in 1976. must be enclosed. Deadline September 1st. interest tn Tasmanian fan activities and The emphasis has changed from sf being Address:Story Contest, TZ Publications, that he is selling most of his collection, for children, with magazines appearing Inc., 800 Second Ave., New York, NY 10017 , you can write to him at P.O.Box 44, one after the other. Chinese sf writers USA.______Lindisfarne, Tasmania 7015, fox moxe and fans have attended such gatherings Australian & tfWfay details. Volume 3 of the Encyclopedia as the World SF annual meetings and is now out and on sale in the USA. Space they have greeted visitors to their Fan Artwork Age Books axe expecting stock soon. shore such as Robert Heinlein. We are Ed. glad to see this contact between sf by Michael MCGann & Sakura Allison devotees from diverse parts of the “ SPACE ART ON YOU! planet and hope there is more of it. T-SHIRTS $8.00 printed black on white, blue, gold or red. In particular we hope to see fans from SLOPPY JOES $18.00 printed black on white or blue. I WALL PRINTS $6.00 each INTERNATIONAL many parts of the world including the Asian countries, attending the World STATE SIZE, NUMBER and COLOUR PREFERENCE NEWS Convention that we expect to hold in Adult Sizes.I Postage Included in Price Effective April 28th, citizens of Rumania Melbourne in 1985. S M L XL I Dealer Inquiries Welcome. had to register typewriters they own 483 BEAUCHAMP RD, with the police. This is to prevent pos ChequeI to Sak.U/La A-CCUOn MAROUBRA, N.S.W. 2035 session or use of typewriters by those who "pose a danger to public order or FSTiiTiTilE / state security." In Poland, martial law required that sales of typing paper be All Our Yesterdays banned. Again we are made aware of the MAGAZINE NEWS freedoms we enjoy in so called Western democracies and how difficult it would be for sf fandoms to exist in the above named countries. Fandom does exist in Poland and we are sure that everybody reading this will wish the fans there NEW BRITISH MAGAZINE as reported in the best and hope that fandom there can Ansible. survive and grow. REALITY is a planned magazine of TF or The Italian Section of the World SF 'technology fiction' which is like SF Association has published the first only subtly different, masterminded by edition of a reference booklet, REPORT- Maurice Goldsmith (Science Policy Foun ARY OF THE ITALIAN PROFESSIONALS IN dation), Charles Barren (SF Foundation SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY WRITING. Acting Administrator), George Hay and The listings cover the year 1981, just possibly Dave Langford. The editor, with bibliographys and other information. though there seems some doubt about the matter, which seems to be a normal state There are now only two publishers of of affairs in sf circles in Britain, is SF in Italy, Fanucci in Rome and the later, Mr Langford. The format has Editrice Nord in Milan, and no regular been mentioned as A3 newspaper style. magazines. The Italian edition of ISAAC Submissions to Charles Barren, c/o SF ASIMOV'S MAGAZINE ceased publication a Foundation, NE London Poly, Longbridge few months back and the publisher SIAD Rd., Dagenham, RM8 2AS. Edizioniin Milan, continues to publish only translations of Asimov's and FANTASY NEWSLETTER, the US news and Greenberg's SF GREATEST STORIES. The review magazine published by Florida only sf activity now is Urania's twice Atlantic University and edited by Robert yearly collection of three novels by A.Colliins, was delayed recently due to one author. Urania have been publishing a cut in University funds. Issue number sf for 31 years. 60 was a combined June/July issue, which is probably explained by the fact that The Fifth Annual Yugoslavian SF Conven it is now a one man effort. Not only Photo by Lee Harding tion was held in the club rooms of the that caused the delay, but the copy ■ Narodni University in Belgrade on got lost on the way to the printer and A very early meeting of the Melbourne SF February 22-27. It was the largest so turned up a week later. We small mag Club, with the late Bob McCubbin (School far held with 2000 people attending. azines all have our problems. teacher), Merv Binns (Bookseller), Race The programme included films, lectures, Mathews (Then student teacher, now M.P. an art exhibition and a business meeting. Authors and readers please note: THE and Government Minister), and Dr Dick There are a number of sf clubs in BEST OF OMNI volumes not only include (Ditmar) Jensen (Head of the Department Yugoslavia and this is the first time reprints from the magazine, but almost of Meteorology, Melbourne University.) 22 Ellison had not completed work on his the last Australian World Con here in notices planned lecture, called "The Curse of Melbourne in 1975, AUSSIECON, in the FAN NEWS the Chambered Nautilus" and gave one next issue. Meanwhile you can obtain RON SMITH, one time publisher, editor of his usual free-form performances more details from The Melbourne in and now bookseller, is one of the found instead. "It went on much too long and '85 Bidding Committee; G.P.O. Box 2253U ers of a male liberation movement in probably shocked some of the more Melbourne 3000, Victoria, Australia. Melbourne. He was interviewed regarding sedate academics", reported Locus. UK Agent: Joseph Nichola-s, 22 Denbigh his and the movements aims in the CONTACT , science fiction and anthro St., Pimlico, London SW1V 2ER. The Melbourne SUN newspaper on Tuesday July pology conference was held April 8-10 USA Agents: Joyce Scrivner, 2732 14th 12th. Ron, who moved here from the U.S. in Santa Cruz. The Mayor of Santa Cruz Ave Sth Lower, Minneapolis MN 55404, about 25 years ago, was the editor of when opening the conference expressed and Jan Howard Finder, P.O.Box 428, the fan magazine inside which won the , the hope that conference would learn Latham, NY 12110 USA. Hugo for Best Fanzine in 1956. He now "how to deal with alien cultures in" owns the bookshop "Open Leaves", at his city. The programme appears to have CONQUEST '83 is the next SF Convention 71 Cardigan Street, Carlton, Victoria, been very innovative in some ways and to be held in Australia. It will be held which specialises in books on human so successful, that it will probably at The BRISBANE PARK ROYAL Hotel, on relations. become a regular event. C.J.Cherryh, September 24th and 25th 1983. Member PAUL J. STEVENS,(alias Anti-fan), book Paul Preuss and Jerry Pournelle were ship is now $25 full and $15 for students seller, film star, 1978 Duff Winner and amongst the attendees and speakers. and pensioners. Membership at the con something of an institution in Melbourne will be $15 and $10 per day. For more and Australian fandom, and KIT DRIVER, ARCHON 7 was due to be held in St Louis details write to G.P.O. Box 1376, have announced their engagement. MO, USA, from July 8-10, but the Mayor Brisbane, Queensland, 4001 or ring of St Louis "strongarmed" the hotel into 369 2851 or 394 3474. A fund raising ANNIVERSARIES holding the Miss Universe Pageant the event is being held August 24th at the second weekend in July. Archon switched LOCUS magazine, our major news source Canberra Hotel, 2nd Floor, Ann Street, to July 22-24 at the Chase Park Plaza. Brisbane, from 11.30 AM to 4.00 PM. Fans along with SF Chronicle, has now been interested are requested to bring along published for fifteen years. They have EUROCON '84 will be held in conjunction books to sell in the auction. done a great job over the years and in with SEACON '84 to be held in Brighton, particular have helped to create the England, we presume over Easter. A bid EUREKACON, the 23rd National Australian world wide sf fan fraternity that now from Blackpool for 1984 CON was unsuc SF Convention, is being held at the exists. Congratulations Charles Brown § Co. cessful. The Guest of Honour will be Melbourne Town House over Easter next Space Age Books was 12 years old in July. Isaac Asimov, health permitting, with year. Rumour has it that they just beat They have survived against all odds, but Chris Priest as British GoH. Many other the organisers of a comic-come-war- admit that bookselling is not the way to distinguished guests are expected to games convention to it, who apparently get rich. They wish to thank sf fandom attend. took it for granted the hotel was theirs for its support over the years and they CONSTELLATION UPDATE: Membership of for that weekend. More details on the hope that they can continue to help and the 1983 World SF Convention stands at con can be had from P.O.Box 175, South support fandom in its activities in the future. 5000. The membership fee, currently Melbourne. 3205, Victoria. $40, will most certainly be increased SWANCON 9 is being held in Perth, 27th at the door. Hugo Ballots and site sel to 30th of January 1984, at the WESTOS ection ballots should by now have been MOTOR INN. Harry Harrison will be the returned to the committee. The only way GoH. More details from P.O.Box 318, that Melbourne, Australia can now lose Nedlands 6009, W.A. the ballot for the 1985 World con is for a massive number of write in votes KINKON Featuring Sight and Sound in to be recorded, as no other nomination Science Fiction, will be held at the was made. Consequently we expect to VICTORIA HOTEL, Melbourne, June 9-11 announce in the next issue, that the 1984. For details write to P.O.Box 1581P, bid has been won for Melbourne's second Melbourne,. 3001, Victoria. World con, and who the GoH will be and NORWESCON 6 was held March 17-20 in other details. The 1985 NATIONAL AUSTRALIAN SF CONVEN Seattle, with approximately 1600 atten TION will be held in Adelaide. More It was reported that GoH John Brunner dees. Jack Williamson was GoH, with details on all these Australian cons would not be able to sign books at Richard Powers as Artist GoH and Art nest issue, or see the last issue of ASFN. Widner as Fan GoH. Art attended Syncon Constellation, due to an injured wrist. '83 in Sydney held in June. Other not However he will be doing limited book ables at NorWescon included Algis Budrys, signing at the convention. EDITORIAL LAST WORDS: We could only Charles N.Brown, Patricia McKillip, mention one on two fanzines in the space David Hartwell, Joanna Russ, Lou Aronica left, so we will leave them till next and others. The programming was good, L.A.CON II, the 1984 World SF Convention, issue, when my assistant Jane Tissel, but one complaint was that it attracted has announced that including the main who has been moving house and othen. too many media fans. ( Ho hum! When ate hotel, The Anaheim Hilton with 1300 things tecently, wilt bning you a nun these people going to tealise that the. rooms, it has booked rooms for a total down on mainly media fanzines. media is a ma jot pant of the sf scene of 2,900 with seven hotels. A free brs now, whethet they tike it ot not. Ed.) shuttle service will run between the My thanks this issue to Space Age's the hotels, Disneyland and the Anaheim Juttianne Wylie fon typing up most of Other recent major conventions in the Convention Center, and it is absolutely the book neviews and tettens and Justin USA included LUNACON '83, with GoH necessary, as the distances are enor Acknoyd fon. finding most of the typos Anne McCaffrey, which was marred by mous . and bad gnammat. Thanks also to alt out the worst weather in 20 years, with contnibutons and tevieioens and to out storms and floods delaying people get CONSTELLATION, by the way,is being held soutces of infonmation, LOCUS, ANSIBLE ting to the con. It was held in Hasbruck in Baltimore at the BALTIMORE CONVENTION and SF- CHRONICLE. Heights, which we gather is in New CENTRE, September 1-5. John Brunner, The FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE is GoH, David Kyle is Fan GoH and Jack We have been asked to. include citeulats ■ON THE FANTASTIC, was held March Chalker is Toastmaster. A good contin in the NEWS when they one being mailed, 24-27, 1983, in Boca Raton, Florida, gent of Australian fans is expected to but we negnet we cannot do so. Lt is with Harlan Ellison as GoH. It was as attend. The L.A.CON, the 1984 and 42nd fon a stant pnobabty against Austnalia usual the most popular academic confer World Convention, is being held August Post negutations neganding negistened ence on sf, with more than 500 people 30 - September 3. Gordon R.Dickson is publications and as we seem to be getting attending. Due to bad organisation of the GoH. The Australian agent has still to 24 pages each issue now, it is just registration, many people did not pay not told us who he is. More details impossible to get anything else in the a membership and the conference, which next issue. We will also have compre maximum size negotiation envelope we ate was underwritten by the late Thomas hensive details on the 1985 WORLD SF using. Sonny we cannot oblige, but we Burnett Swann's family, lost money. Most CONVENTION, which we expect to be held think, that out advertising nates one of the conference went very well, but here in Melbourne again, ten years after pnetty teas enable at any note, so.... 23 ED. ’ SCI FI FILM DAYS STAR TREK As Follows outer V ^X*""
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