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CAMPBELL and is a novelization of his The Australian Professional Scene ABC radio serial of last year, Journey Into Time. NORSTRILIA PRESS published Australian present,but particularly for Lee as the *¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥ author KEITH ANTILL'S novel THE MOON IN recipient of the award named in honour THE GROUND in July.This author^ name will of Mr Marshall. be quite familiar to people as a radio TRANSMUTATIONS edited by ROB GERRAND is SYNCON ’79 script writer and announcer , but this is a collection of sf stories which is being his first published book.He is also a THE 18TH NATIONAL AUSTRALIAN SCIENCE co-published by NORSTRILIA PRESS and FICTION CONVENTION will be held at freelance journalist and has travelled OUTBACK PRESS ,and is expected to be on the New Crest Hotel,111 Darlinghurst widely,writing five novels including the sale in September . above mentioned,in between times. A Road,Kings Cross,Sydney,New South review by George Turner appears inside. Wales,from the 10th to the 13th of HAMLYN (U.K) have purchased Commonwealth August . STEPHEN CAMPBELL has done a nice job paperback rights to LEE HARDING'S early The Guest of Honour at SYNCON is with the jacket design ,and we hope that novel, A WORLD OF SHADOWS. It will be American author GORDON R.DICKSON. other publishers will take note. published next year. According to the author this will be a 'revised edition' The Fan Guests of Honour are THE HYLAND HOUSE published LEE HARDING'S and will be much closer to the original DOWN UNDER FAN FUND winners for this DISPLACED PERSON in July.A book launching ms than the butchered edition published year, KEN FLETCHER and LINDA LOUNSBERRY, was held at the St Kilda Public Library by Robert Hale (U.K.) in 1976. Another from the USA, and KOICHI YAMAMOTO from at which both Lee's novel and JUDITH novel, THE GIFT OF TIME, has been delayed. Japan. CRABTREE'S 'Skins and Shells and Peelings' Lee says, "Apparently the publishers, GORDON DICKSON we believe will be in were highly praised by John McLaren of Starblaze in the U.S. (Polly and Kelly Adelaide and Melbourne for very brief 'Australian Book Review'. Freas), are having major difficulties. I periods.In Melbourne fans not able to do not expect to see this novel published attend SYNCON will be able to meet him DISPLACED PERSON deals with a young for another year..." However, with at school leaver who finds himself out of at a book signing at SPACE AGE BOOKS. least four titles due for publication in Probable time to be confirmed is on touch with people and the world around the next twelve months, Lee is busier him, and takes refuge in a make believe Wednesday the 8th of August between than ever. He would like to stress that 12 Noon and 2.00 PM. world. Or is it? This novel won the THE WEB OF TIME, due from Cassell, Aust­ 'Allan Marshall Award' in 1978 and is to ralia in October is definately a book be published by Harper and Row in the for children in the 10-16 years category DAVID LAKE will be Guest of Honour at USA soon. The presence of ALLAN MARSHALL and NOT in the more advanced style of PULPCON which will be held on the 1st in person at the launching made it a THE WEEPING SKY and DISPLACED PERSON. and 2nd of September in Melbourne particularly memorable evening for all The book will be illustrated by STEPHEN at the YWCA Convention Centre. are THE VISUAL ENCYCLOPEDFA OF SF edited by Brian Ash, and THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ssowsom , SCIENCE FICTION edited by Robent Holdstock. Both of thue volumes do a great job of ■ a©raC38C35? W, telling you what SF is all about.Its ideas THE themu,exponents of the ant and devotees EllAVAI flDEniA Dean Readen, activities are also covered.The Bnian Ash EiliU ■ uLUi tulw book is published by PAN and the Holdstock This issue of The NEUS -ci the second tn by OCTOPUS . oua second yean of publication ,and 1 think it might be a good time to neflect The long awaited volume edited by Peter OF on what it has achieved oven the last Nicholls published by GRANADA,which yean.Only a few lettens of comment have was promised to be the most compAehensive been neceived and apant fnom those the yet is about to be published.We have seen only indication of whethen the NEWS is a coveA and sample pagu for this £15.00 SCIEI achieving its punpose on not ,is the volume,also called THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF numben of subscriptions we have Aeeeived. SCIENCE FICTION, just to confuse the issue .This is a true encyclopedia at I woutd appneciate heaning fnom you. with last and not just a pictune book. Fnom any criticisms you may have,and suggest- A to Z,authons and vanious subjects are tom neganding additions on changes that HOT could be made. Two items one of paramount coveAed in minor detail, but we will include importance 1 believe; infonmation on the a full, compAehensive review when.the book is Aeeeived . So,a brief summing publication in Australia of science up of some of the encyclopedia type books fiction and fantai y publications ,pantic- ulanly by Australian authons is one, and on Science Fiction that have been the other details of Science Fiction fan published SO faA: activities .These thingi will remain what­ THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SFSF - Don Tuck ever otheA changes may be made. Advent Publishers .The most compAehensive Details 0|j what authons and publishers listina oX Authons' wonks we have seen. Much more useful to me than'Blotter's aAe doing overseas is also important , but the complete listing we have included Checklist of Fantastic Literature.' the last few issues may not be entirely THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SF -Robent Holdstock Octopus publishers .Well illustrated Getting back to DON TUCK'S Authon/Stony appreciated. Complete lasts of books that Listings .These can be a veny handy are released in Australia aAe I feel a survey of the themes and ideas of sf. THE VISUAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SF -Bnian Ash update of infonmation covened by his must. Lus detailed reviews will be Pan publishens - is quite detailed and it Encyclopedia , so that if we neeieve included in futuAe,except on the odd more is categonised and indexed very well so enough neadens asking us to continue impoAtant titles. PoAticulaA attention that infonmation can be found quickly, these ,we will tny and make them a will as always be paid to local publicat­ negulan featune.We have plans to prod­ ions.Ue will endeavouA to coveA more although it is not the true encyclopedia. Ft is also panticulanly well illustrated. uce befone the end of the yean a list­ titles in less detail and just give you ing of all the books published and some idea if they aAe worth reading oa THE PFCTORFAL HFSTORV OF SF and SF DREAMS announced fon 1979.Ft is hoped that not. I would tike to nun a series of AND FVEAS both edited by David Kyle fon this will become a six-monthly, negulan feature reviews oa articles,on various Hamlyn publishens ,wene also well illust­ publication.Also plans one still in authons and theiA wonks .I£ any readers nated , and wene excellent value as an the wonks to pnoduce a checklist of who have a favourite author and would IntAo duetton to the field, but little ii and sf published in 197S and befone. tike to write about him on hen, detailing help as a nefenance to senious neadens Alt majon wonks and authons to be the authons wonks and recommending the and eollectons .They wene veny populan covened giving publishing details and best titlu to read,would please contact when published but have since been a bnief synopsis of most if not all me I woutd be obliged. nemaindened. titles listed. The system fon doing In this issue courtesy of DON TUCK,we this job is thene,but time is the Othen titles come to mind such as Fnanz pnoblem at the moment. have the complete listing of alt the RottensteinenFs THE SCIENCE FFCFFON BOOK, Stonies by GORDON R.DICKSON , to tie in which again was a nice pictune book and did Finally my apolagx.es fon the poon with him being Guut of HonouA. at the coven the sf dneams and ideas field quite quality of the photognaphs fnom QUASARCON SYNCON National Australian SF Convention well,was quite populaA mainly because at in the last issue of the news .Pantly in Sydney this month.If you would like to the time It was published it was unique. due to poon photognaphy and pantly see more authoAS covered in this way on Fon a veny good histony of the whole field bad pnepanation fon pninting.The next a negulan basis , I am sure Don wilt be of sf publishing,wniting,and fandom James issue will be out I hope late August happy to oblige,but please write and let Gunn's ALTERNATE WORLDS is still tops,but with the nepont on SVNCON and the HUGO me know. You might also mention the names even this has its failings. Consequently it nesalts,completed by my able assistants, of authoAS most wanted.Don's ENCYCYLOPEDFA seems we will have to wait fon a while yet as I will be ovenseas at SEACON and OF SCIENCE FICTION ANP FANTASV is stilt fon the Bnittanica of the F &SF field. aftenwands NORTHAMERFCON,both of which available from SPACE AGE BOO/CS and you Bnian Aldiss is wonking on a volume (st fon I will nepont in the Octoben issue. can order it through any good bookshop.Jf Ox fond Univensity Pness ,maybe that will be your local libany has not got a set ask them to get one. Ft is the most compne - hensive Bibliography available on the F8SF authoAS and more , up to the time it AUSTRALIAN SF NEWS ISSN 01SS-8870 is edited and published by Mervyn R.Binns was _completed.A third volume is in prep - under the sponsorship of The Australian Science Fiction nation, and supplements will also be Foundation. be done in time. Naturally a wonk of this ASFN is registered for posting under Australia post regulations category 'B'.The type, which lists every single wonk by the address for all correspondence is 305/307 Swanston Street,Melbourne,3000,Victoria, authoAS coveAed must be some yeans behind Australia. when published.Many other SF Encyclopedias SUBSCRIPTION: $6.00 Australian for ten issues .Please make payments to the editor one now coming on the market,but they aAe Mervyn R.Binns.Air Mail and overseas rates on request. all nowhere near as comprehensive as DON TUCK'S for the period that it covens. 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Aeadens wanting to refresh theiA charge of 50c for three lines single column.15^ each extra line. memories .Two excellent volumes both well ,illustrated which eveAy sf fan should own 1974) with a further story associated 1962) (French,1971 pa) (In Three to THE with the series being "Warrior" (ASF, Dorsai, 1975) (abr,Sphere;2951,1975, Dec 1965). Check titles for appeara­ na, 1976 na) (Daw:UW 1218, 1976 pa; fuTHOR &or« Listing nces . Hbenig,Robby. Juvenile books UE1342, 1977 pa: (new cover) 1979 pa). publ ished by Holt: Secret Under The Originally ASF,sr3, May 1959 - BU DON TUCK Sea: Secret under Antartica: Secret Dickson's classic novel of the ultimate under the Caribbean. soldier - the culmination of his projection of a genetically created Hoka. With Poul Anderson. Lovable line of super-soldiers. Was runner-up intelligent bears. "Heroes are Made" for the 1960 Hugo award for the best (Other Worlds,May 1951) t "In Hoka novel. Signo Vinces" (OW.June 1953) "The Dragon and the George, The (Ballantine Adventure of the Misplaced Hounds" 25362, 1976pa; 27201,1978,pa) (D.Day (Universe,Dec 1953) "Yo Yo Hoka'. " SF B.C.1976) (FdSF.Mar 1955) : The Tiddlywink Warr­ Revised expansion of earlier iors" (F8SF, Auf 1955) "Joy in Mudville" story "St,Dragon and the George "(FfjSF (F8SF,Nov 1955){"Undiplomatic Immunity" Sep 1957) when a scientist seeks to (FgSF.May 1957); "Full Pack (Hokas rescue his betrothed in a topsy-turvy Wild)"(F8SF Oct 1957). The stories up world where he is a dragon and she to "The Tiddlywink Warriors" plus one remains human. new one "Don Jones" were collected in Earthsman's Burden. Earthman' s Burden (with Poul Anderson) (Gnome, New York, 1957) (German,1865) FICTION The Hoka series (not complete) - see Series. Allen Art (Dutton N.Y.1973) (Hale, London, 1974) (German 1975 pa) (Ace Far Call, The (Dial 'Quantum', 1978; 101684,1978 pa). Dell :12284,1978 pa) (D'Day SF B.C. Juvenile - based on "Black 1978) (Sidgwick,1978) (Orbit 1978 pa) Charlie"(GSF,Apr 1954) changing emph­ Novel derived from parts in ASF - asis and expanding - a boy,a girl, and political complications on Earth a native trek across an alien planet. threaten to sabotage a manned mission to Mars. Alien From Arcturus (pa) (Ace #-139, 1956 na - part of double) ( Expansion: Genetic General,The (pa) see Dorsai'■ Arcturus Landing,Ace 02893,1978 pa) Gordon. R. Dicks on's SF Best(C) (pa) Gordon R. DICKSON Novel - Earth controlled by (Dell:13181, 1978 pa) galactic commerces seeks to break it's 9 stories, with introduction - isolation: alien delightfully depicted. 1st November 1923 - Spider Robinson: "Hilifter";"Brother New Version revised and enlarged has U.S.science fiction author born in Chariie";"Act of Creation";"Idiot an afterword by Sandra Miesel. Edmonton,Alberta, the son of a mining Solvant":"Call Him Lord";"Tiger Green” engineer, coming to the U.S.A, when The Alien Way (pa) (Bantam F2941.1965 "Of The People";"Dolphin's Way";"In 13. In 1939 he entered the U.of pa - N6558,1973pa) (Corgi 09167, 1973 The Bone". 14pp.bibliography of Minnesota. Serving in World War 11 pa) (German, 1973 pa) (Warner, 552.3 Dickson's work. 1943-46, he then finished his B.A. 1977 pa) Gremlins Go Home (with Ben Bova) with a major in writing. Opening section based on "The (st.Martin's Press,N.Y.,1974) Hard Way" (ASF,n'te.Jan 1953)- an Juvenile - lad's father in charge He re-established the Minneapolis Earthman in an alien brain seeks to of Mars launching and the lad is Fantasy Society and became a friend learn the mores of the alien race. recruited to help all gremlins who of Poul Anderson with whom he has Ancient,My Enemy (C) (Doubleday,N.Y. ride on the rocket. often collaborated. He has had over 1974) (Daw UW1228.1976 pa) (Sphere ISO stories in all magazines in the Home From The Shore (Ace/Sunridge, 2969.6,1978 pa) sf field since 1950. 1978,pa) SF of 9 stories: "Ancient My Heavily illustrated version of an Enemy": "The Old Ones"; "The Monkey His stories have won or rated old n'te which has been rewritten Wrench"; "Tiger Green"; "The Friendly highly in both the Hugo and Nebula for this version; artwork by James Man"; "Love Me True"; "Our First Death" Odbert. Awards. Besides being indexed in "In The Bone"; "The Bleak and Barren normal indexes like the NESFA series, Land". Hour of the Horde (Putnam,N.Y. 1970) his stories are also covered in (Berkley: S1957.1971 pa) (Daw:UW 1397, W.Contento INDEX TO SF ANTHOLOGIES Arcturus Lan ding (na) see Al ien from 1978 pa) AND COLLECTIONS (1978). His 'Dorsal' Arcturus Originally appeared Venture, May series is one of the most highly Book Of Gordon Dickson,The (C) (pa) 1969 - a talented Earthman combines considered of the contemporary sf see Danger-Human (C) with talented alien beings to form a series and has a well-defined and super-force to combat a roving inter- consistent background over 1,000 Danger- Human (C) (Doubleday,N,1Y. 1970) galactic horde. years - planned early stories being (The Book of Gordon Dickson, Daw historical and set from the 14th UQ1055,197.3,pa) Lifeboat, The (see Lifeship, The) century. SF of 13 stories;"Danger-Human"; Lifeship, The (with H.Harrison) (Har­ "Dolphin's Way": "And Then There Was SERIES per,1976) (Pocket Books: 810,1977 pa) Peace"- "The Man from Earth"; "Black (The Lifeboat, Dobson 1978) (Orbit, Childe or Dorsai. A thematic 'novel' Charlie"; "Zeepsday"; "Lulungomenna”; 1977 pa) on man planned to cover about 1,000 "An Honourable Death"; "Flat Tiger": Originally ASF, sr3, Feb 1975 - years from the 14th to 23rd Centuries "James": "The Quarry": "Call Him Lord" an intergalactic spaceship disinteg­ and designed to be three historical "Steel Brother". rates and a group of humans endeavour novels, three contemporary novels Delusion World (pa) (Ace:F-l19,1961 pa, to survive on an alien controlled and three sf novels. With publishing part of a double with Spacial Delivery) li feboat. difficulties on length the three sf (German, 1962). Mankind On The Run (pa) (Ace:D-164, were planned as 6 shorter novels (in Novel, formerly "Perfectly Adjust­ 1956 -part of double) (German,19588 order of publication) - Dorsai ! (or, ed” (SF Stories,July 1955) - when an 1965) (Italian 1959) The Genetic General)• Necromancer (or earthman is the sandwich when two The involved mankind of a future No Room For Man)■ Soldier,Ask Not • human societies occupy the same city - era; the psi element is somewhat The Tactics of Mistake: The Final without being able to see each other. unbel ievabl e. Encyclopedia-Childe. Asnects of the series (of which the last two have yet Dorsal.' (Considerably abr as The Gen­ to apnear) are outlined as a prologue etic General, Ace: D-449,1960 pa-part to "Brothers”(Astounding the John.W. of double with Time to Teleport, F-426, 3 Campbell Memorial Anthology/H .Harrison 1967 pa: Digit- P437,196 pa ) (Italian Mission to Universe (pa) (Berkley Secret Under the Caribbean (Holt,1964) Puzzle”;''0n Messenger Mountain";'The F1147, 1965 pa) (German, 1967) Juvenile, 3rd of Robby Hoenig Catch";"Jackal's Meal";"The Mousetrap" series. (Ballantine;25703, 1977 pa) Tactics of Mistake,The (Doubleday, Commander and crew of an exp­ Secret Under The Sea (Holt,1960) 1971) (Daw:UQ1009,1972 pa) (French loring spaceship encounter many (Hutchinson,1962) (Scholastic :TX959 1973 pa) (Sphere:2954.8,1975 pa:1976 adventures. The latter edition is 1969 pa) pa) (in Three to Dorsai, 1975) revised at the end with a change to Juvenile, 1st of Robby Hoenig (german, 1975 pa) greater political and social aware­ Series - boy's adventures with his Originally published ASF,sr4, ness than the original. pet dolphin. Oct 1970 and one of th6'Dorsai'series- a military tactician puts his theories Mutants (C)l (Macmillan, New York,1970, Sleepwalker's World (Lippincott, 1971) into practice on a minor planet where Collier, 1973 pa) (Daw:UQ1028,1972 pa; UY1192.1975 pa) the Alliance and Coalition parties Sf of 11 stories of the poss­ (Hale,1973) (Dutch,1975) are at war. ibilities of human mutations with Astronaut trained on Moon returns introduction: "Warrior";"0f The People" to Earth to find the population Time Lord (pa) see Time Storm. "Danger-Human";"Rehabilitated"; spends half its time asleep. "Listen";"Roofs of Silver";"By New Time Storm (St.Martin's Press,New York Hearth Fires";"Idiot Solvant";"The Sol dier,Ask Not (pa) (Dell;8090,1967 1977) (Bantam:12269,1979 pa) (Probably Immortal";"Miss Prinks";"Home From pa) (Sphere;2952, 1975 pa, 2952.1, Time Lord,Sphere:2950■9,1979 pa) The Shore". 1976 pa) ( French, 1972 pa) (Daw One section (at -east) has :UW1207, 1975 pa; UE1339, 1977 pa) appeared in an sf magazine - lines of Naked To The Stars (pa) (Pyramid: A 'Dorsai' novel enlarged from time ravage Earth and areas are F682, 1961 pa) (German 1967 pa) the short novel in GSF(Oct 1964) - a translated into the past...and the (Lancer :74677,1970 na) (Daw:UW 1278, ruthless man seeks to destroy the future. . .with the adventuring of 1977 pa) (Sphere:2968.8,1978 pa) culture of the fanatic 'Friendly' three:a man,a girl who can't speak Originally in FijSF, sr2, Oct worlds. and a leopard. 1961 and enlarged - a future mercen­ ary officer dismissed from his Space Swimmers,The (Berkley :XI371, Three to Dorsai! (C) (Nelson D'day command seeks to find why he lost 1967pa; 23083,1976 pa) (Sidgwick, SF B.C.1975) his memory. London,1968)in SF Special No 1 1970) 3 of the Dorsai novels with An intricately structured multi­ bridge sections and full version of Necromancer (Doubleday, 1962 ;D'Day, dimensional universe with psionically the last - Necromancer; Tactics of Toronto; D'Day SF B.C.1962) (Mayflower gifted individuals. Mistake; Dorsaif 0799,1963 pa) (as No Room for Man Macfadden;75-482, 1963 pa; 50-329. Space Winners (Holt,1965) (Faber 1967) Time To Teleport (pa) (Ace:D-440, 1966 pa; Manor; 75-482, 1972 pa) Juvenile - three U.S.students to 1960 pa with The Genetic General) (French, 1974 pa) (in Three to Dorsai be educated by a galactic federation (Spanish, 1964 pa) 1975) (Daw:UW1353, 1978 pa) are cast away with a furry extra­ Originally published as "No More One of the 'Dorsai' series - a terrestrial on an alien world. Barriers" (SF Stories,Sep 1955)-a mutant threat to a highly developed kind of superman story with a puzzled Spacepaw (Putnam, 1969) (Berkley future society. hero involved in a cosmic tangle in S1715, 1969 pa) a Van Vogtian type of plot. Assignment to Dilbia and intrigue Wolfling (pa) (Dell :9633, 1969 pa; No Room For Man (pa) see Necromancer with it's gorilla like inhabitants; 19633.1977 pa) (German, 1973 pa) further adventures like Spacial (Dutch 1975 pa) None But Man (doubleday 1969) Delivery. Originally published in ASF,sr3, (Macdonal d, London ,1970) (Pyramid: Jan 1969 - an Earthman transferred Spacial Delivery (pa) (Ave:F-119,1961- T2428.1971 pajV3328, 2976 pa) to a supermen's planet survives many part of double with Delusion World) (Daw: U1337, 1977 pa) ordeals and uncovers treason to save (German,1963) (Ace 77748, 1979pa) Frontier planets caught between Earth. aliens and the home planets and how Appeared in shortened form as they extricate themselves. "The Man in the Mailbag" (GSF Apr Anthologies 1959) - an Earthman becomes involved Combat SF (Doubleday,1975) Outposter, The (Lippincott,Phil.1972) in intrigue on Dilbia whose inhabit­ 12 stories. (Hale, London,1973) (Manor;95248,1973 ants are over 9-feet tall and built pa: 12392, 1976 pa) (German) (Sphere like bears/Gorillas. Nebula Award Stories 12 (HarperSRow 2955, 1975 na; 2971.8, 1978 pa) 1978) 8 stories. Originally ASF, sr3, May 1971 - Star Prince Charlie (with Poul Ander- an outposter, one of specially son) (Berkley/Putnam,975, 1976 pa) trained personnel, recruits his allies Star Road, The (C) (doubleday,1973: We hope, to tnctude an interview with. from colonists to buck the harsh D'Day SF B.C.1973) (Daw UY1127.1974 system. G0RV.0N R.V1CKS0N in the next issue ulhtch pa) (Hale,1975) may be eonsideaed as an addendum Planet Run (with Keith Laumer) Sf of 9 stories: "Whatever Gods to this testing. There Be";”Hilifter";"Building on the (Doubleday,1967) (Berkley,1968 pa) A crusty old star frontiersman Line";"The Christmas Present";" 3-Part seeks revenge against a ruthless despot.

Pritcher Mass,The (doubleday,1972) (Daw:UQ1069,1973 pa;UY1236,1976 pa) Originally in ASF,sr3,Aug 1972 - a superman finds his place in the future with a way to tie in a psionic structure for a trip to the stars. BOOKSHOP Pro (pa) (Ace:68023,1978 pa) Short novel originally ASF, Sept 1975, illustrated by James Odbert. SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY SPECIALISTS R-Master,The (Lippincott, 1973) (D'day SF. B.C.1974) (Daw:UY1155,1975 pa) 106 a Bathurst st ( between pitt & castlereagh sts ) (Hale,1975) SYDNEY 2000 Utopian world of the 21st century with a man taking an intelligence­ phone 61 7630 stimulating drug...... Write for our catalogue.And remember we also Secret Under Antartica (Holt, New York stock a full range of fabulous DOVER PAPERBACKS. 1963) <1 Juvenile, 2nd of Robby Hoenig series. There are no f or sf releases from on his stories from various sources. CORGI or the other G8G publishers for NEW RELEASES August. The two STAR TREK titles due FROM AUSTRALIAN DISTRIBUTORS in July were late- TREK TO MADWORLD and SILVER ON THE TREE by Susan Cooper is WORLD WITHOUT END.The sequel to PRICE the fifth in the series after 'Dark is ALLEN And UNWIN Australia will be dis­ OF THE PHOENIX called THE FATE OF THE Rising' and 'Greenwitch' etcetera, and tributing the illustrated film version PHOENIX will be published by CORGI late we believe completes the set; all availa­ of LORD OF THE RINGS to coincide with this year,while the above mentioned are ble in PUFFIN/PENGUIN. TIME TRAP by the release of the film,probably in being distributed here by BANTAM.No Nicholas Fisk is another juvenile sf September. The s ingle-volume paperback details are available yet on the numerous novel due out along with a new printing will also have a film cover.Tolkien's special books being done for the new ST of John Wyndham's THE CHRYSALIDS. film ,due out from Pocket Books in the SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT is RICAL/KENNARD Distributors are doing USA, but we will keep you posted. also due for release in the new small great business with DR WHO books at the paperback size,matching the already HODDER 8 STOUGHTON Australia are very moment and besides the new title due published HOBBIT and the three volumes quiet in the fgsf field at the moment IMAGES OF FENDAHL .reissues expected of LORD OF THE RINGS. The TOLKIEN 1980 with only NIGHTWINDS ed by Karl Edward include DAHLEK INVASION,CRUSADERS,CAVE CALENDER due October will feature scenes Wagner - S6S fantasy stories -due Sep­ MONSTERS,ARK IN SPACE, and THE SEA from the film. tember in CORONET. DEVILS. These are all published by WILLIAM COLLINS PUBLISHERS paperback THOMAS NELSON Australia with the SPHERE WYNDHAM under their TARGET imprint.Also division will be releasing in August list,have a relatively strong line up . due from them is the second E.E.Smith and September a new edition of T.H.White's BELOVED SON by Melbourne author George 'Lord Tedric' novel THE SPACE PIRATES. ONCE AND FUTURE KING .following their Turner will be very popular not only Due later is a novel based on a new TV recent publication of his final Arthurian because of local interest,but because it series from Britain SAPPHIRE and STEEL volume THE BOOK OF MERLYN;three titles is an especially good sf novel .Gordon by Peter J.Hammond ,and a collection, by Algis Budrys - WHO? ,the early cold R.Dickson's NECROMANCER may just be out LEGENDS FROM THE END OF TIME by Michael war novel since made into a quite effec­ in time to coincide with his visit for Moorcock tive movie,MICHAELMAS - his latest novel the SYNCON-National SF Convention in The MAGNUM releases for August through about a very special news correspondent Sydney in August.Nelson's have about September are expected to be Ben Bova's and UNEXPECTED DIMENSION- a collection six titles by Dickson available in Sphere COLONY,a near future space exploration of stories; and new editions of Lloyd at the moment,including NAKED TO THE epic,William Tenn's OF MEN AND MONSTERS Alexander's HIGH KING and TARAN THE STARS,THE DORSAI TRILOGY,and TIMESTORM. and a new issue of Alfred Bester's EXTRO. WANDERER.The other titles in this series Spehere have also re-issued THE BEST OF MY LORD BARBARIAN by Andrew Offut is due of highly regarded fantasies we believe JOHN WYNDHAM in the two volumes.BLAKES prior to the above mentioned titles. are also out or also being reprinted. 7 by Trevor Hoyle is the second book on All the above mentioned titles are from the TV series,the other was published by HAMLYN are not publishing a lot of SF but FONTANA or their imprints. Arrow. THE PILGRIM PROJECT by Hank Searls their current selections are good.The Henry Kuttner classic MUTANT is due in In the PAN series Collins will have is an early space exploration novel with a strong aeronautical background.Two non­ August and that will be followed by the A.E.Van Vogt's THE ANARCHISTIC COLOSSUS, fiction books of interest also are the M.A.Foster series WARRIORS OF DAWN and the film version of NOSFERATU to coincide GAME PLAYERS OF ZAN. with the release of the new version of very contfoversial bestseller on cloning, this classic film,and in their PICADOR IN HIS IMAGE by David M.Rorvik.and MAN SECOND BACK ROW PRESS have picked up the BECOMES MACHINE (Author not known) . imprint Italian author Italo Calvino's Australian rights on an American photo­ INVISIBLE CITIES.lt is good to see he SPACE WAR BLUES by Richard Lupoff is a graphic essay on astronomy-SPACE SHOTS. This is a collection of photos of the has finally been discovered by British humorous space opera due in September planets including close ups of Jupiter, publishers.Following the above will be a and a new edition of William Hope Hodgson's the surface of Mars,and distant stars. new edition of Conan (Sherlock Holmes) THE NIGHT LAND is also expected. Doyle's WHEN THE WORLD SCREAMED featuring An all glossy paperback at a reasonable his slightly lesser known character REVIEW ENTERPRISES ARROW releases are price of $8.95 recommended.The book has Proffessor Challenger .DECADE THE 1960s WARRIORS OF DAY by James Blish and Denis an introduction by astronaut Michael sf collection edited by Brian Aldiss and Wheatley's black magic classic THE Collins. SATANIST . A very rare occurance is Harry Harrison,a new edition of Robert TUDOR DISTRIBUTORS August releases a BERKLEY title from Review and it is Heinlein's contribution to the 1950's include the disaster novel ICEQUAKE by a run of the mill SfiS fantasy title 'it came from outer space' syndrome - Crawford Killian.The September or later SWORD OF THE NURLINGAS by Gerald Bailey. THE PUPPET MASTERS, and finally W.B.YEAT'S list will include three titles by Lindsay fantasy collection FAIRY AND FOLK TALES PENGUIN BOOKS published in June a very Gutteridge .KILLER PINE and COLD WAR IN OF IRELAND . nl.e bound volume from ALLEN LANE in A COUNTRY GARDEN are about miniaturis­ NEW ENGLISH LIBRARY publish the novel hard cover ,THE SOLAR SYSTEM by Peter ation of humans.We have no details on based on the supposed true event,in Ryan illustrated by Ludek Pasek .Despite the third title,FRATRICIDE IS A GAS. which a whole American battleship is the price of $25.00 it sold out instantly The award winning novelette now expan­ said to have been made to disappear during Also already published was Roald Dahl's ded to novel size .STARDANCE by Spider World War Two experiments- THIN AIR by TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED which is made and Jean Robinson is also due about George Simpson and Neal Burger,and a up of stories from a new TV series based September. collection of stories edited by French compiler Maxim Jakubowski-TWENTY HOUSES OF THE ZODIAC .1 belive the latter has a story by Australian author Cherry Wilder.

GORDON q GOTCH will have in August from PANTHER a new edition of Norman Spinrad's SPACE AGE once banned sf title BUG JACK BARON and a new edition of Aldous Huxley's BRAVE SCIENCE FICTION 8 FANTASY NEW WORLD to coincide with the new TV serial due for screening here soon. ART,FILMS,CHILDRENS,OCCULT, MAYFLOWER have only a collection of PHILOSPHY,FOOD,HEALTH 8 SHELTER horror stories introduced by the man RECORDS,COMICS,POSTERS 8 CARDS BOOKS now synonymous with 'Dracula'-CHRISTOPHER PTY.LTD. LEE'S ARCHIVES OF EVIL. Most sf readers still lump subjects such as UFOs and ESP under the heading 305*307 SWANSTON STREET, MELBOURNE, 3000 PH0NE. 663.1777 of sheer fantasy ,but for those who Victoria, AUSTRALIA 663-1394 want to believe there is more than meets the eye there is PROBABILITY OF THE IMPOSSIBLE by Thelma Moss from PALADIN. SEND $1.00 NOW FOR SAMPLE COPIES OF OUR 'NEWSLETTER' In the later chapters, Antill call it entertaining on an escapist takes up a challenge most writers level. But do read the Introduction shy clear of, the depiction of simple by Theodore Sturgeon; as a model of goodness of heart. Major talents have asininity it will take beating. failed this test and Antill doesn't pass it unscathed, but I didn't have SF WITH PEOPLE IN IT! to grit my teeth over it as over the end, for example, of Terry Carr's HALF A LIFE by Kirill Bulychev. CIRQUE, which crashed at the same (Collier Books ; 142 pp; $3.95) hurdle. Even in the last chapter, A late feature of sf publishing MOON IN THE GROUND by Keith Antill which could have been a disaster, is the upsurge of second rate fiction (Norstrilia Press; 220 pp; $11.95) Antill just gets away with it. And produced in large format - introduced .when a novelist 'gets away with it' indexed, annotated, illustrated (after WORLD SOUL by M.Emtsev and E.Pamov. under the nose of another who knows (Collier Books; 179 pp; $3.95) a fashion) and marked at a price an precisely what he is up against, that's antique dealer might rip off a sucker. One of sf's recurrent dreams is reasonable praise. Advice: If the book is in a paper­ of the warring nations brought toget­ back format larger than 5" by 7” and her in peace and amity to march for­ No faults? Of course there three quarter inches (Picador size) ward into a glorious future, like the are - 15,000 words could be pruned case the contents very carefully fadeout of one of those old Pete with advantage, the 'scientific' logic before you buy. Smith Travelogues. needs some smartening and the charact­ erisations are perfunctory, even comic This does not apply to the I have never subscribed to the strippish. But what matters is the Collier Books series of Russian trans­ love-in-a-mist version of planetary attack on the one-world conception lations. These are a little larger oneness and am pleased to announce and the great salad of naivety and than Picador's, are printed on good to you two novels, from opposite sides silliness Antill lays out for our quality paper, contain fiction rather of the world, which cast a pair of enjoyment. better than the general sf run and pretty beady eyes on the idea. have cover illustrations which are The danger is that we will be attractive, colourful, of a higher One is Norstrilia's Press so busy laughing at the idiotic Amer­ standard than most cover art and maiden venture into hardcover publish- icans, Russians, politicians and sol­ always relevant to the contents of ing and I hope they come out of it diers writhing on his skewer that we the book. (They also contain intro­ with a whole skin. (Do you know what may miss the real point - that the ductions by Theodore Sturgeon, which it costs to publish a book? If you do, Americans, Russians, politicans and should be picklid and preserved. Even you'll understand the retail price.) soldiers are ourselves writ large. Colliers can't get everything right.) The volume has a nicely symbolic wrap­ around jacket by Stephen Campbell, We need more novels of this Kirill Bulychev is new to me good paper and a clear typeface. quality - and better. There will and I hope to see more of his work. Happily, the publishers have not hired yet be an Australian sf with it's own The seven stories in this collection a 'big name' to write one of those special flavour and appeal . (translated with feeling and a sense embarassing prefaces which hard-sell of language by Helen Jacobson) will the most arrant nonsense as the prod­ Having recently done my crit­ not make sf history but they leave uct of genius. ical druthers over the Collier list of behind a warmth of feeling rare Russian sf, I have now to face up to enough in English sf and almost totally MOON IN THE GROUND is not a one that didn't please - Emtsev and absent from the American brand. product of genius, but neither is it Parnov's WORLD SOUL. Bulychev does not write about arrant nonsense. It makes very good sf settings against which human types sense indeed, and it won't harm you The central idea is fine. A struggle and react, but about human to save your pennies for a week or two laboratory experiment gone wrong beings in conflict with strangeness. and invest in a copy. releases on the world an entity which, itself mindless, acts as a conmunica- The title story tells of a woman picked up by a trawling spaceship in The story is of the discovery, tion channel for minds around it. The a random sampling. Nothing new there. in Central Australia, of an ancient world finds itself in random mental What is new is that we are told about artifact from 'out there'. It is a communication; the total confusion of the woman rather than about the alien machine - a computer and data retrieval minds and personalities is disastrous, ship (though that is also powerfully system plus some capacities in excess as logically it must be, and the present); we see through her eyes and of these simple operations. It is appalling 'one-world' created by the feel with her nerves, whereas other discovered by an American group entity can only be returned to sanity handlers of such themes have let us operating one of those installations by destruction of the cause of it. watch the protagonist but never be which cause local parliamentary snap- her or him. And the unexpected, low and-bitch every so often, and the There is little satire in this key ending, back home on Earth, is group tries to keep its wonders for novel. It is a direct statement of the not relevant to spaceships or aliens the exclusive use of America - on the simple fact that total communication or even to adventures; it is relevant understanding that with America on does not mean total understanding or to people, is timeless- and devastating. top, everything will be sweet for the co-operation, only confusion enough rest of the adoring world. (Remember to destroy the race. Advocates of Most of the stories would, in General Bullmoose?) telepathy, take note! plot outline, sound cynical and over- clever! Bulychev saves them every With that for a springboard, we Unfortunately, the seriousness time by his plain, but unblinkered are given some 100,000 words of uproar of the book is more than matched by love of people. This one is a bargain and infighting, with the author just the uninspired translation of Antonina at the price. Please pay special barely out of sight as he lays on the Bouis who has (for I have experienced attention to I WAS THE FIRST TO FIND political satire with a shovel.There's her deadening hand in other novels) a YOU and SNOWMAIDEN; there is a great no subtlety in his arguments, and why stunning ability to throw a fog of deal still to be said on the old but whould there be? The power game was dullness over the most interesting not unknown themes. ever cunning but never subtle, and ideas. I imagine she translates Keith Antill kicks it wherever he can fairly literally, which is no way to GEORGE TURNER see a naked gut. treat the transmutation of one langu­ age into another. (How do you imagine AUSTRALASIA'S The result is often funny and Stanislaw Lem's untranslatable Polish MOST FREQUENT GENERAL always interesting. One really wants word-play would sound if the brilliant INTEREST SCIENCE FICTION to know what will be the outcome of Michael Kandel did not render it MAGAZINE a very logical machine's efforts to with English pyrotechnics of his own?) NOW IN ITS THIRD YEAR unify a world whose ideas of logic OF PUBLICATION would make sword-'n-sorcery look Edited & published by Brian Thurogood, 127 Wilma Rd, Ostend, Waiheke Is., NZ. WORLD SOUL is worth reading lia. • $A7.75/10 issues airmail; $A5.50/10 issues surface mail. jintelligent by comparison. for what it has to say, but I can't BOOK REVIEWS continued will thrill to the adventure of the average secretary as she captures the SPACE WARS,BATTLES, AND WEAPONS love of the supreme ruler of Yargo. or The Battle Of The Books On THE SHADOW OF THE WOLF by Chris Outer Space THE BULL CHIEF Carlsen. A Review by Paul Stevens THE HORNED WARRIOR Reviewed by Rowena Cory. If any of you out there ever wondered about the strange spaceships This trilogy traces the quest that feature on the covers of so many of the hero Swiftaxe as he tries to of our English sf books, then you need free himself from the possession of go no further than three publications the god Odin. that just came to hand, SPACECRAFT 2000 TO 2100AD - GREAT SPACE BATTLES The Bear God possesses his body and SPACE WARS,WORLDS AND WEAPONS. and wreaks havoc at the sight or Using the aforesaid covers, these smell of blood. This gives the three books give a history of the author a chance to smother the tales Terran wars, weapons and exploration with as much violent sex and death over the next few centuries. SPACE­ as he sees fit, whilst not destroying CRAFT is a handbook for Star Wars the character of the protagonist. buffs, a detailed look, with histor­ ical notes, at all the spacecraft both sf and non-sf over the last few The main conflicts of the novels used in the Terra/Alpha vs Proxima years and some work he did for the are the various attempts by Swiftaxe war of 2048 AD, and at look at all films SUPERMAN, DUNE and ALIEN. A to free himself of this curse, and the commercial craft that were devel­ great buy for the serious collector his horror of the acts while under oped following that war. of SF art. the control of Odin. Carlsen has taken many of the myths of these GREAT SPACE BATTLES is just FUTUROPOLIS is a look at the savage people and woven them into his that, and is a sort of sequel to future city through the eyes of tales. The gods are' evident as they SPACECRAFT, taking Terran history on writers,artists,philosophers and play with their mortal worshippers, a few more hundred years. The reader film-makers, and just about anyone sometimes answering their pleas for gets to find out all about the Leguna else Robert Sheckley can come up help;at other times venting their wars, the great rebellion and the with. It is an ok book, though not displeasure. Capellan pirates as well as a few a necessary one, and will appeal These books trace through incidents in the colonisation of new only to those interested in this three ages, using known mythical planets. subj ect. heroes and events. Those who befriend the hero usually die violently. This SPACE WARS, WORLDS AND WEAPONS Due later in the year is anoth­ violence fast loses it's ability to is an attempt to copy the success of er HAMLYN book, a third in the shock after several children have been the first two books though from a series I mentioned earlier called disembowled; there are few instances slightly different angle. Separated SPACEWRECKS, it has cover illustra­ of mercy and fewer reasons for laugh­ into several different chapters like tions on all the weird and unusual ter. Space Vehicles, Interplanetary Wars spacewrecks that litter the space­ It isn't this repetitive vio­ and Weapons, Fantastic Creatures, lanes. This sort of book must be lence that lingers in the mind, but Fantasy, and Worlds Apart, this book selling! the rich blend of strange gods and gives the sf writers’view of the future bel iefs. world of spaceships and space travel, writers such as David Gerrold, Larry YARGO by Jacqueline Sussan For the reader who enjoys bar­ Niven and E.E."Doc" Smith are examined; Reviewed by Rowena Cory. barous tales, the trilogy is a feast though in little detail compared to of death and honour. the artists views (such as Chris Foss}. This twenty year old novel was found in a filing cabinet. It was additional LOCAL RELEASES Each chapter deals with various rejected when it was written and BOOK PEOPLE AUSTRALIA recieved in July sf stories, themes and ideas and is should have stayed in the filing cab- the BIG 'O' publication THE JEWEL IN THE illustrated with a whole host of sf inet--it is a painfully immature novel. SKULL.This is a comic strip by James book covers from both the USA and Cawthorn illustrating Michael Moorcock's England, each illustration being Because of the plot devices fantasy epic. PB $8.50 accompanied by some future history. used,it must stand as sf. Perhaps the Though at first look, the buyer may young authoress had read a little sf. TUDOR DISTRIBUTORS(Doubleday Aust.} think SPACECRAFT and SPACE BATTLES Advance information of BALLANTINE from are the best buy, a second and closer All the odd theories such as Tudor is hard to get ,but SOURCE OF look should be given to SPACEWARS, UFOs, sun spots, atomic weapons MAGIC by Piers Anthony is out or due, WORLDS AND WEAPONS for it's incisive etcetera have found their way into WARM WORLDS AND OTHERWISE the collection look at science fiction and fantasy this novel. The inhabitants of Mars, by James Tiptree Jr,STARFOLLOWERS OF writing from the pulps to current not having space travel but wishing CORAMONDE by Brian Daley is a fantasy times. This book gives good value to warn Earth of the danger, contact re-issued with a sequal due soon, and and should be on everyone's shelf; the Yargoians who are to abduct the Fritz Leiber's THE SILVER EGGHEADS is it is not just a coffee table book, doctor. How can they contact the also re-printed. it is one you should read rather nlanet Yargo many light years away, than just look at the pretty pictures. yet cannot raise Earth is not explained. FURTHER APOLAGIES FROM THE EDITOR SPACECRAFT 2000 TO 2100 AD, SPACE BATTLES - Stewart Cowley and Charles Once on Venus, they have many A numbeA 0(J wim wette made. tn the hepoht Herridge . HAMLYN $8.95 each. adventures in the fine tradition, of on QUASARCON due to a mtttnteAphetatton SPACE WARS,WORLDS $ WEAPON by Steven Edgar Rice Burroughs with as little by my typtite of, my w>iZXZng,and 1 un^oh.- Eisler. OCTOPUS $6.95. regard to reality. There are times tunateZy dtd not pteh them up.One of, the when she displays a wry sense of wout wat hefenence to WAVCON at gZoomy Whilst we are on this tack of humour not apparent in her other works. tnttead of, gi.owtng,whtch we eoMected reusing old (and new sf book covers} by hand tn the whoZe pntnt hun.My apol- let me deal quickly with two more It is packaged to appeal to agtet to aZZ but pahtieuZanZy MV CON books, 21ST CENTURY FOSS, Dragon's the mass market, perhaps the publisher and QUASARCON. Dream $12.95 and FUTUROPOLIS, Robert doesn't intend it to sell as sf or f. Sheckley, ABW Visual Library $10.95. The women I feel it is aimed at are Foss deals exclusively with the art the Barbara Cartland readers-- they of Chris Foss, deaturing book covers are less demanding or critical. They Television: MICHAEL NOURI for his role Previous to this Bond falls out of a of Dracula on tv. plane without a parachute,falls off a Stage: FRANK LANGELLA and MICHAEL ANS- cablecar in Rio De Janiro.has a fight in ARA for their roles of Dracula on stage. a Venetian glass museum doing about one Special Awards: to actor MIKE MAZURKI, hundred million dollars worth of damage BRAMWELL YOUNG and DR.DONALD.A.REED in one hundred seconds .goes boating up for his service to the Count Dracula the Amazon in a super-boat,and is sub­ Society. jected to over twelve Gs in a centrifuge. THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE FICTION, In addition to this he tangles several The awards were presented April FANTASY AND HORROR FILM'S 6th ANNUAL times with Jaws,the steel toothed man­ 28,1979 at the Directors Guild in Los AWARDS CEREMONY was taped on Saturday mountain ,and makes love to three very Angeles. Presenters included Ann February 24th with William Shatner as beautiful women.There is a nice little Robinson, George Pal, Ray Bradbury, host.A seiected portion was due to be twist to the character of Jaws but I A.E.Van Vogt,Kirk Alyn, William Marsh­ shown on American TV on May 23rd.So far will leave you guessing on that one. all, Eric Greene and Gayna Shireen. there has been no indictaion of it being All the usual Bond gadgetry is there to screened here, as it was last year.The delight the eye and croggle the mind, Awards Cermony was dedicated to George such as a pocket X-ray device to help Pal,"father of the modern sf film." crack safes,while Lois Chiles and Corrine Clery are suitably beautiful,and The award presenters and performers Roger Moore does a competent job again included: Dyan Cannon,Veronica Cart­ as 007,but on leaving the theatre it is wright,Jodie Foster,Teri Garr,George the space sequences that remain in the Hamilton,Margaret Hamilton,Mabel King, memory.This MOONRAKER may bear little Jack Larson,Noel Neill.Vincent Price, relation to the original Ian Fleming Rod Taylor,John Huoy^Bobbie Bates, novel, but this production is the most FalkensteinfcFrancis, and Klatu the spectacular Bond film yet and no-one Robot. seeing it will fail to be impressed.

The non televised awards: Best Animation: WATERSHIP DOWN THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME is a TV Best Production Design: John Barry series in 24 parts made by British SUPERMAN ITV. /Besides BLACK HOLE the Disney Best Editing: Mark Goldblatt and Joe Studios will be releasing soon KING Dante PIRANHA Albert R Broccoli ARTHUR AND THE SPACE MAN starring the Best Sound: Art Rochester, Mark Berg­ ROGER MOORE JAMES BOND 007“ British actor Ron Moody .presumably as er, Andrew Wiskes INVASION OF THE m km Flemings King Arthur./THIEF OF BAGHDAD is already BODY SNATCHERS. MOONRAKER on release starring Roddy McDowell as Best Cinematography: Russell Boyd Hassan,Indian actor Kabin Bedy as the si.—,Lois Chiles Michael Lonsdale. Richard Kiel.— -Corinne Clery PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK Prince .Peter Ustinov as The Caliph, And "for his truly immeasurable Albert R Broccoli mu,Lewis Gilbert s—.Christopher Wood ... .John Barr/-.. Hal David Ken Adam — — MichaelG Wilson his daughter Pavla as the Princess,and contribution to the art of sf writing" Assooate Producer Willism P Csrtlidge lamed Perwision’ nriLOOLfr'STEF«l T United Artiste Terance stamp as the Wicked Wazir.lt Best Literature: A.E.VAN VOGT. • irfnwMiwr | Tat Song Performed tn Shirley Bassey] appears to be a follow up to the old Best Music: John Williams SUPERMAN film story , rather than a remake./ A FILM REVIEW BY PAUL STEVENS A recent release here was a locally The televised awards: made film called LONG WEEKEND.lt deals Best Make-Up:William Tuttle and Rick with a group of young people who go off Baker THE FURY. Merv Binns and I were very pleased to recieve an invitation to a media prev­ for a weekend in the bush,where they Best Costumes: Theoni.V.Al dredge THE kill a kangaroo,litter and despoil the EYES OF LAURA MARS iew of the new JAMES BOND FILM-MOONRAKER. Two of the stars,Corrine Clery who was countryside and are then turned upon Best Special Effects: Colin Chilvers by the 'denizens' of the bush. SUPERMAN 0 in 'The Story of O', and Richard Best Writing: (tie)Elaine MaygWarren Kiel,who plays Jaws in both THE SPY WHO Coming from NBC is a new series based on Beatty HEAVEN CAN WAIT with Anthony LOVED ME and again in MOONRAKER,were the old Republic serials, which is Shaffer THE WICKER MAN. introduced to the aiidience . called CLIFFHANGERS.It consists of three twenty minute segments .each segment Best Director: Philip Kaufman INVAS­ Hardened old science fiction fan that I being an episode of a cliffhanger story. ION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS. am ,I have not been very impressed so First on the line up will be DRACULA IS Best Supporting Actress: Dyan Cannon far by the efforts of movie makers to DEAD AND WELL AND LIVING ON THE COAST, HEAVEN CAN WAIT portray science fiction on the screen, Best Supporting Actor: Burgess Mere­ but the makers of the Bond films have which has already got a three hour dith MAGIC always had me wishing that they would spin-off order.STOP SUSAN WILLIAMS will lend their talents to such a venture. be an adventure story about a girl Best Actress: Margot Kidder SUPERMAN They have done so with MOONRAKER,and it reporter searching for her brother's Best Actor: Warren Beatty HEAVEN CAN has got to be the most spectacular film killers ,and the third segment is a WAIT in the whole series. The question is new version of the old Gene Autry Best Horror Film: THE WICKERMAN now , where do they go from here?How serial THE PHANTOM EMPIRE,to be called Best Fantasy Film: HEAVEN CAN WAIT the hell can they top the ending of SECRET EMPIRE.The story is about a law­ Best Science Fiction Film: SUPERMAN MOONRAKER. man who stumbles on a super civilization hidden under a mountain.Lots of sf The Academy's Life Career Award was Whatever the future holds this has got adventures, are promised. presented this year to Christopher Lee to be one of 'the' films to see in '79. Each series has a ten week run and when by Vincent Price. The people who returned again and again finished replacements will be a to see STAR WARS will want to see this Hitchcock -type thriller called MAN IN THE COUNT DRACULA SOCIETY has announced twice as many times,from the typical THE MIDDLE and the PANTHER AND THE the winners of it's 1979 MRS ANN RADCLIFFE lay em' in the aisles beginning, to the ROSE , which is set in old California AWARDS .As follows:- last forty minutes,which will have the and has a female Zorro as the leading fans simply slathering with delight. A character.The series is shooting at Cinema: George Hamilton for LOVE AT full scale battle wages in orbit.with FIRST BITE. the old Republic lot.All we need now is seven space shuttles,a giant space a 'Jungle Girl' adventure and a Rocket International Cinema: Delphine Seyrig station,and several platoons of space for DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS Man' story, and we could be excused for suited goodies and baddies fighting it out thinking we are back in the early 50s. Special Cinema Award: CHRISTOPHER LEE with blue laser beams,while the villain for his career in films. Lets hope the series does well in the Drax.played with restraint by Michael ratings .TV could use some changes and Literature: Dr Raymond McNally and Lonsdale,prepares to wipe out the pop­ Professor Leonard Wolf for their var- exciting , if not really new direc­ ulation of Earth with his doomsday tions in programming. Qious books on DRACULA. weapon.And that is only the last forty minutes! noia I can only say, balls to you reasonably as a straight film, with George. Metropol is is pure German Cliff, Robertson winning an Oscar far his Gothic as far as I'm concerned and role as the lead character ,it can only so are many of the early so-called SF/ be utter bad taste to make a musical of horror produced by German film-makers it. incidently in a previous issue of first in Europe and later in Hollywood. the News I refered to this film as As for paranoia, good grief George, DAVEV.The correct title was of course you're being deliberately naughty 23 Lushington Road, CHARLIE. A late report states that the here - yes I know paranoia means author,Daniel Keyes was attending the LONDON. NW 10. UK. delusions of persecution, but what I 1st July,1979. premiere of the musical play,on June 14th. was saying about the cycle of paranoid Apart from the obvious financial aspect I films in the 1950s is that the physic­ would, love to know what he thinks of it. Dear Mervyn, al threats in these represented imagined threats at the time. Read it Mrs.N.Craven. I always wince when I see writ­ again George, slowly. 11 Pendle Street, ers rush into nrint to defend them­ BOX HILL. 3128 selves after their work has been As for Jaws I still say it's an 3rd June,1979. savaged by some critic, because it updated version of a typical 1950s Dear Sir, suggests a basic insecurity on their sf/horror film in both theme and mood, nart. But though I'm one of the most and George you've got to admit that Many thanks for the interesting secure people I know (and my psychia­ the shark doesn't behave like any trist will back me up on this) I must things I read in AUSTRALIAN SF NEWS f, shark you're likely to meet at your especially for the information as to break my own rule and comment on local beach. George Turner's excessively bitchy the lass in S.A. interested in the review of my splendid book FUTURE 'Darkover Chronicles'. Is there also And as for your final bitchy I wonder, a group interested in Pern - TENSE. comments about the book's worth George, perhaps the 'Dragonriders Offsiders" I shall simply quote a few illustrous or "Pals of Pern"- I'd love to know. Now we all know what a conscien­ people who have read FUTURE TENSE: tious fellow George is and I'm sure "Best thing I've read since JAMES BOND My main reason for writing is he didn't allow the fact that his IN THE CINFMA"-Kingsley Amis; "Bloody personal opinion of me is rather low - the statement on page 2 of the Aust. bonzer"-Stanislaw Lem; "It's so good SF.News for June 1979 that "The White he has previously referred in print to we're rewriting it into Russian as me as 'an ass' - to influence his Dragon is not fantasy but Science soon as possible"-The Stugartzy Fiction". I would welcome a definition objectivity while writing the review. Brothers. In the same way I must stress that of both terms and also where "Sword 8 Sorcery" fit in, as I think I have even though I regard George to be a So, eat your heart out George. pretentious galah, this will have no been labouring under a delusion for years that I am a fantasy addict bearing on the general tone of my Sincerely, whereas I am really SF - where does the following comments. JOHN.BROSNAN. LORD OF THE RINGS fit in? Ignoring all the wit and brill­ iance that saturates FUTURE TENSE On with the good work - let me (thousand of copies still available- know when I owe you a sub. hurry while stocks last!) George Yours faithfully, chooses instead to attack it by quibb- Mrs.N.Craven. 1ing over a series of very minor points, such as my giving The War Game Dear Mrs Craven , only 17 lines instead of the 56 lines I gave to Village Of The Damned. Gee, The differance between fantasy and sf I'm sorry about that George but I has always been an arguable subject.The didn't actually 'dismiss' the former line between the two is often very fine. film as you say, and I did mean the The writing of Andre Norton far instance Academy Award reference to be ironic is to me mostly the special blend of the (along with all the wit and brilliance two which authors like Ann McCaffrey, there is a lot of irony in the book - J.C.Cherryh, and Tanith Lee have also even the Drice is meant as an ironic done very well with.This is obviously comment on the publishing industry). what you like reading.The Lord of The Rings and the works of William Morris Duel probably qualifies to be far instance are not too far removed. included in several cinematic genres, However the other type of fantasy which George, but I still say that it can relies more on the occult ,and black be classed as sf because it can be magic or a combination with sword and interpreted as a film about fear of sorcery is a style of story telling faceless technology. It could also which appeals quite often to an entire­ be interpreted as a film about sexual ly different type of reader. A.S.F.N Robert Clements inadequacy (the Dennis Weaver charac­ 27 Bellinger Place The Dragon books to me are not fantasy ter obviously has doubts about his Sylvania,2224 NSW at all , because the reasons given for masculinity, as is evident in the cafe Dear Sir all the events are scientific ,even though scene with all the truck drivers) but I was listening to the 'Showman'(ABC the taws of physics as we see them are if you want to regard it as being abo­ Radid-Sunday 24th June) and they men­ somewhat stretched .As I have said though, ut 'rational man versus the humanly tioned a musical(musical?) called and the definition is always open to argument . irrational', George, it's okay with based on- 'Flowers For Algernon' now Many books by authors such as Arthur C. me. on in England.If that doesn't sound Clarke,Larry Niven,and Isaac Asimov are sick enough , the unfortunate casting clearly sf and no one will disagree.lt However, I do think you're of Michael Crawford-'Some Mothers Do really does not make much difference,as being very silly on Earthquake George. Have 'Em ' - must just about finish the tong as readers can ascertain before they The destruction of Los Angeles isn't job.(At least it does for me) purchase a book if it comes into the a 'well known present day event which category that they prefer reading. has been happening off and on since All I can do is hope. the earth's crust formed...' Or at Robert Clements M.B. least it isn't as far as I know. Do Pezw. Ma CZemenZs, you know something we don't George? Ve4,we did AepoiZ this show .tn cl AecenZ Has there been another cover-un? NEWS ,but we have not heard any further mention of, it. One can only hope that it As for your quibbling over bombs. it would seem to me that despite AUSTRALIA IN '83! the use of the words Gothic and para­ the £act that it did come over quite 9 JAN HOWARD FINDER is an American fan; great supporter of fan fu.ndt>,convention oiganiser(NOVA CONI , staunch supporter of Australian bids and the originator I believe of Wombat Fandom.He has a few pertinent comments to make,excerpted from JOHN COLEMAN BURROUGHS,66 .younger son a letter to Paul Stevens. of Edgar Rice Burroughs,died recently. Besides illustrating a lot of his BILL WRIGHT who has been a great suppor­ Jan Howard Finder,NOVACON 9(West) father's books he also had one novel ter of Australian sf fandom for some, c/o P.O.Box 428,Latham N.Y. 12110,USA published called TREASURE OF THE BLACK years and did a lot of work for the FALCON.lt is also believed that he was Dear Paul, 1975 Australian World Con early on,is partially responsible for some of the the Fan Guest of Honour at PULPCON. One question does the Australian works attributed to his father. National Convention have a fixed date, He recently changed his address to : or not?It seems that co-ordinating 35 Laughlin Avenue,Nunawading,3131, RICHARD C .MERIDITH the author of 'The DUFF races with it might be difficult. Victoria,Australia. Sky Is Filled With Ships','We All Died It would seem to me that nominations ROBERT BLOCH A Bio -Bibliography At Breakway Station' and a number of should close about 200 days prior to other sf books, died April/May at the the con the winner will go to. Graeme Flanagan of P.O.Box 1029, age of 42.The number of books he had Oh yes, I see where you made the wise Canberra City, A.C.T 2601,has just published were few but of high quality choice and chose the wombat as the published a complete bibliography of and it is a great pity to hear of his symbol for DUFF on the T-Shirts and the works of ROBERT BLOCH. It contains death.His last novel 'The Awakening' badges.I'm going off to get some trav­ a biography,appraisals by Harlan Ellison was due to be published by St Martin's ellers cheques and will send you same and Fritz Leiber.an interview on his Press in May. once I know how much they are.(Just WEIRD TALES involvement by Bob Weinberg, Swedish fan and one of the founders of like I couldn't pass up the chance to photographs and book cover reproductions. fandom in that country LIEF ANDERSON, buy a book called THE YEAR OF THE It is a must for all Bob Bloch fans. died on May 4th at only 35.He was an WOMBAT.) Papercover .$2.00 plus post. astronomer and an authority on the Barry Longyear, the chap who has written DARKOVER FANDOM planet Pluto.His major work , a two those circus world stories in IASFM volume CATALOG OF LUNA CRATERS is As mentioned in a previous issue, if suffered a heart attack on May 10th.He currently being printed. you are a fan of the MARION ZIMMER would welcome letters from fen.His BRADLEY 'Darkover'series,you may like address is #1 Wilton Road,Farmington, to join the Australian Darkover Council. ME 04938,U.S.A.A very nice guy.I met Just write to Jill Curtain, 32 Jetty St., OUR AGENTS: him at the Nebula Awards in NYC. GRANGE,5022 .South Australia. In the NEW ZEALAND,Brian Thurogood.Noumenon, May the Great Wombat Smile on you! latest Newsletter published and edited 127 Wilma Rd,Ostend,Waiheke Jan by Jill,a letter from Ms Bradley tells Island, New Zealand Vear Jan, us that she is working on a new novel, UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPE: I just want to reassure you that Paul is set in the Ages of Chaos,TWO TO CONQUER. Gerold Bishop,Aardvark House only playing the part of Anti-Fan,and Also on a complete rewrite of THE BLOODY P.O.Box 10,Winchester,Hants, SUN. ______would not condone the murder of a pool S022 4QA England defenceless wombat . I know the death of AMERICA : , young Bluey must have been a shock to Our thanks again to LOCUS for any of Charles Brown,Locus you, seeing him so dreadfully treated, the information in this issue they have Box 3938,San Francisco , but just calm down and dont take it too supplied ,and thanks to our reviewers CA 94119 U.S.A hard.Revenge is sweet you know. Me/iv and our artist CHRIS JOHNSON . 10 REVIEWS CONTINUED Overall, I do not think the book inhabits a mechanical body, he spends THE MYTHOLOGY OF TOLKIENS MIDDLE EARTH is as good as Paul Kocher's MASTER OF much of his time wondering if his wife Ruth.S.Noel, Panther 1979 ARP $3.25 MIDDLE EARTH (Penguine 1974), which I is being unfaithful. Reviewed by Chris Bennie. feel deals more usefully and sympath­ etically with Tolkien's world view. Their marriage is not a happy one; This book is one in the contin­ Nevertheless, it is a book which any yet he longs to continue his lonely uing spate of books on Tolkien and serious student of Tolkien's world mockery of love. After several his work. One cannot help wondering would wish to have on their shelves. affairs, his wife chooses to devote what the old man makes of it all, now her life to a mechanical husband. safely ensconced beyond the circles THE SECRET GALACTICS A.E.Van Vogt It is an easy-to-read after­ of the World. I suspect, although Reviewed by Rowena Cory. noon's entertainment. in this edition there is no mention PB $2.75 of it, that this book was written as, or from an M.A. thesis. In it's Several alien cultures have original hardback edition it was infiltrated our society--aliens use published in the same year as THE the Luind Method to change their SID4ARILLION which means that it has embryos into human males. They rise not been able to deal with the 'new' to positions of power. Because there material presented therein. are no female aliens, the alien male must breed with earth females. So The book is written in a very instead of an alien/human confrontat­ systematic fashion, dealing with ion, there is an alien male/female Tolkien's main mythic material under dilemma. four general headings. Those are:- BRITISH FANTASY AWARDS 'THEMES' - 'PLACES' - 'BEINGS' and The various alien groups are 'THINGS'. Under the first MO, Noel competing to gain control of earth. The British Fantasy Awards 1977- deals with Fate, Subterranean Descent. They have one thing in common:they do 1978 were presented by the British Denial of Death, Language and Chron not understand their wives.... Fantasy Society at Fantasycon 5,held ology, and each of the other sections February 23-25,1979, at Coventry. The are done in a similar manner. This At times the aliens put for­ winners and runners-up in each categ­ is quite a useful procedure and it ward interesting theories as to how ory are as follows:- does enable her to deal with each the earth female's mind works. In thing in a relatively systematic fact the plot becomes subordinate to NOVEL:(First prize being the August fashion, finally giving a brief this male/female game. Derleth Award) account of Tolkien's use of the lst--Stephen Donaldson THE CHRONICLES particular symbol and then drawing The two female characters are OF THOMAS COVENANT(Holt,Rhinehart 6 upon the waste reservoir of compara­ very shallow, but then the male Winston) tive mythical material from the past. characters aren't strong either. The 2nd--Richard Cowper THE ROAD TO COR- The principle sources of Tolkien's books moves quickly and this lack of LAY Victor Gollancz) ideas she finds in the Celtic and depth is not missed. I found where 3rd—Michael Moorcock GLORIANA or The Nordic mythologies which she thinks he writes from the female's point of Unfulfilled Queen(AllisonSBusby) Tolkien uses intentionally, wishing view rather like looking into a 4th--George.R.R.Martin DYING OF THE to leave the impression in our minds mirror while wearing distorted glasses. LIGHT (Victor Gollancz) that these are merely echoes and If this is how Van Vogt thinks women Sth—Tanith Lee THE QUEST OF THE WHI­ distortions of the original truth think, then, this is how Van Vogt TE WITCH (Daw Books) which he is recounting in his writings. thinks aliens think. I suspect the SHORT STORY: This she suggests is one of the author is playing on the predjudices 1st—Harlan Ellison JEFFTY IS FIVE(F£ reasons why Tolkien continues to of the masses whilst having a joke at SF.July 1977) exert such an incredibly powerful the expense of the reader. 2nd—J.Michael Reaves THE BIG SPELL attraction on each new generation of (Weird Heroes 8,ed Byron Preiss) readers. As for the plot, it is simpli­ 3rd—Ramsey Campbell THE CHANGER OF city itself while resolving none of Although I think it is quite a NAMES (Swords Against Darkness vol 2) the major issues. The main character useful book and certainly worth $3.25, 4th —Stephen Donaldson THE LADY IN is a human man, who was murdered one there are certain things with which I WHITE (F8SF,February 1978) year earlier. His brain has been would wish to take issue. In partic­ 5th--Michael Bishop WITHIN THE WALLS connected to a small six-wheeled veh- ular, I cannot agree that Tolkien's OF TYRE (Weirdbook 13,ed W.Paul Ganley) world is a pagan one. I would argue iclejthis gives him the ability to that to the contrary, it is definitely open doors with a miniature lazar--all FILM: (Only four films nominated) one in which Christian values are of which makes him a formidable adver­ 1st —Stephen Speilberg CLOSE ENCOUNT­ dominant although in a veiled fashion sary except when someone pulls the ERS OF THE THIRD KIND (Columbia/EMI) and that this is quite intentional proverbial plug, and he is left to stew 2nd—George Lucas STAR WARS (20th Cen­ on Tolkien:s part. Also, her objection in his own juices. Even though he tury Fox) Continued page 14 to the idea of a divine providence (she does not use the term) working /ADDITIONAL EDITORIAL NOTES We will be doing a special column of historically in the lives of all bad books which will include reviews sentient beings towards a creative On looking at the material on hand for by Paul Stevens who is very good at climax (Tolkien's Eucatastrophe) is this issue and the next I decided it "putting things down" when he puts his strange in a world which cries out for was getting a bit late to use it, and mind to it, but if you have come across a sense of direction and meaning. She what is more with two or more conventions any particularly bad book, you want to says (p.20) in referring to modern to report next issue.... warn other readers about, please do send literature, 'It is no longer necessary us a commentary on it. But keep it very for a work of fiction to come to a So we have gone to 16 pages for THIS brief- up to 200 words only. conclusion that satisfies the desire ISSUE ONLY. for justice or mercy. It is not even Publishers are sending us books for necessary to reach any resolution', review and we try to mention every one, but is this really what the average BOOK REVIEWS - We need short reviews but there are also others which SPACE reader thinks? Perhaps it is this of current books. Feature reviews of AGE will donate to reviewers. We emphasis in Tolkien's work which locally published books or ones particularly want articles surveying accounts for it's ever growing considered of importance we will require the works of a particular author, popularity, that in a world which approximately 1000 to 1500 words. mentioning his best works, which we would seems so prosaic and meaningless, These we will refer to as an A review. like to run simultaneously with an ASL people instructively reach out to some Others of minor importance - B review kind of transcendence, even if only in by Don Tuck. These articles need be and the length must only be approxim­ about 2000 words. Again we will supply literature, to gain a sense of ately 300 words. The third category, C books - paperbacks or hard covers if meaning in their lives. is reprints, and any other titles of publishers keep supplying recent works.1 minor importance - 200 words only. Writers who have stories and articles OFFUTT Andrew CONAN THE MERCENARY PROFESSIONAL PROBLEMS they want published should contact FOR AUSTRALIAN AUTHORS Sunridge.P.FN FE TPB Don BOYD,P.O.Box 19,Spit Junction,2088 OLNEY Ross 10 TALES CALCULATED TO A correspondent has informed us that on N.S.W. He is publishing a magazine in GIVE YOU SHUDDERS PB sending a story to a large British sf the near future. Golden P. HF/A FE JUV hard cover publisher, she was told that Paul COLLINS is currently looking for PAGE Gero Id HEROIC FANTASY Daw they were not interested in any stories material for his next collection .You FA FE PB with an Australian setting. I suppose can contact him at P.O.Box Box 66, PAGE Norvell SONS OF THE BEAR GOD the publisher knows what he can sell, StKilda,Victoria 3182 Berkley FN FE PB but it does seem a bit tough to us that PAUL Barbara PILLARS OF SALT Signet local authors are limited in such a way. SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY PUBLISHED SF/N FE PB We obviously cannot force publishers to PINKWATER Daniel ALAN MENDELSOHN,THE take Australian set stories,so it seems A LIST OF BOOKS PUBLISHED IN THE U.S.A. BOY FROM MARS Dutton that if you want to sell stories to This is a continuation of the APRIL list. JUV SF/N FE HC overseas publishers, and let's face it MAY,JUNE and JULY will also be found in PINKWATER,D.Manus LIZARD MUSIC Dell the market here is still very limited, the rest of this issue.A comprehensive JUV PB NFD they will need to be written against a coverage of all British books published PIPER.H.Beam 4 DAY PLANETGLONE STAR background other than Australian.Or and due for publication soon will be PLANET Ace SF/N's NE PB simply that good,as in the case of included in the next issue. PCHL Frederik JEM St Martins SFN FEHC GEORGE TURNER'S 'Beloved Son',that it RICHTER.W.D. INVASION OF THE BODY does not matter where they are set. HAGGARD.H.Rider NADA THE LILLY N.Castle SNATCHERS FOTONOVEL FN NE TPB SF Film PB CAPTAIN A BERTRAM CHANDLER as most of HANDLEY Max MEANWHILE Warner SFN NE ROBINSON SGJ. PROJECTIONS Baronet our readers will know , is the author of TPB SF/N FE TPB the John Grimes series of stories.He HARD.T.W. SUM VII Harner SFN FE HC ROCK James.A. WHO GOES THERE(SF PSEU­ has been resident in Australia now, HARDING Lee MISPLACED PERSONS Harper DONYMS) James.A.Rock having been born in England,for about SFN FE Juv HC SF NF PB/HC twenty years.In all that time he has HJORTSBERG GREY MATTERS Pocket ROGERS Barbara THE DOOMSDAY SCROLL been writing and selling his stories SFN.PB RP Dodd HC NFD to ACE and DAW publishers mainly in the HOWARD.Robert.BLACK CANAAN Berkley RUSS Joanna PICNIC ON PARADISE U.S.A.,and ROBERT HALE in the U.K. FN NE PB Berkley SF/N NE PB THE GODS OF SAL-SAGOTH SABERHAGAN Fred BERSERKER MAN Ace Over the last few years he has become Ace FN NE PB a sensation in Japan,and the whole SF/N FE PB HOYLE Trevor THIS SENTIENT EARTH SAVCHENKO Vladimir SELF-DISCOVERY Grimes Series has been published in a Zebra SFN NE PB Macmillan SF/N FE HC uniform edition.ACE books who published HULKE Malcolm DR WHOGTHE DOOMSDAY PB SCHMITZ James THE UNIVERSE AGAINST HER most of his earlier works,are now reprinting WEAPON Pinnacle SF NE Ace SF/N RP PB them all and five are out so far.DAW have IVERSON Eric WERENIGHT Belmont SEAMUS Cullen ASTRA G FLONDRIX Pocket published the later ones with more to FN FE PB FN NE PB come. KNIGHT Damon RULE GOLDENGOTHER STORIES SEYMOUR Miranda COUNT MANFRED Pon.Lib For some unexplainable reason,paperback Avon FA FP PB NFD PB publishers in the land of his birth have LeGUIN Ursula.K.THE BEST OF URSULA.K. SHAW Bob SHIP OF STRANGERS Ace completely ignored the series,but the LEGUIN Taplinger SF/C SF/N NE PB hard cover publisher ROBERT HALE has FE HC SHIRLEY John DESTRUCTION OF DRACULA published at least five.Series science THE LANGUAGE OF NIGHT Zebra HF/N NE PB fiction we find is very popular ,so we Putnam SF/NF HC FE SILVERBERG Robert THE EDGE OF SPACE cannot understand why one of the British THE LATHE OF HEAVEN Nelson JUV SF.A FE HC paperback publishers have not latched onto Avon SF/N PB RP NEW DIMENSIONS 9 Harper the GRIMES Series. LEM Stanislaw THE CHAIN OF CHANCE SF/A FE HC Jove SF/N PB FP A TIME OF CHANGES LOGSDON Syd JANDRAX Ball FN FE PB Berkley SF/N NE PB LORD Glenn THE HOWARD COL1ECTOR Ace TO OPEN THE SKY Berkley FC FP PB SF/N NE PB LUMLEY Brian IN THE MOONS OF BORE A GGREENBERG.Harry GOLANDER Joseph DAWN Jove FN FP PB FE. OF TIME Nelson J SFA HC McDOWELL Michael THE AMULET Avon FN SIROTA Mike FLIGHT FROM BERBORA #2 FP PB Manor FN FE PB McKILLIP Patricia HARPEST IN THE WIND SMITH Cordwain er SPACE LORDS Jove Atheneum #3 FN FE HC SF.N RP PB MATHESON Richard I AM LEGEND Berkley SMITH.E.E.GEKLUND Gordon SPACE PIRATES SF/N NE PB Tedric 2 Baronet SFN MERCER Charles BATTLESTAR GALACTICA FE TPB SCRAPBOOK Putnam SF/N SMITH George THE FOURTH "R" Dell Ne PB SF/N NE PB MEYERS Richard CRY OF THE BEAST Pocket SOBCHAK Vivian THE LIMITS OF INFINITY: Incredible Hulk comic The American SF Film N.FE PB Barnes SF/Film HC' MONTELEONE Thomas THE SECRET SEA Pop. SPINRAD Norman A WORLD BETWEEN Jove Lib. SF/N FE PB SF/N FE PB MOORCOCK Michael GLORIANArOr the Unful­ STRAUB Peter GHOST STORY Coward McCann fill'd Queen: Being a Ro­ FN FE HC mance Avon FN NE TPB SWIGERT Bob THE TIME TRIP H.Miflin i 11 .Elizabeth Malczvnski TPB/HC NFD MORRIS William THE ROOTS OF THE MOUN- THOMAS Roy G SMITH Barry CONAN THE TPB TAINS Newcastle FN NE BARBARIAN comics/NE PB MUNSON Brad THE MAD THRONE Pop.Lib TREMAYNE Peter BLOODRIGHT(Dracula SF/N FE PB Unbom)Walker HFN NE PB MURPHY Walter THE VICAR OF CHRIST TURNER George BELOVED SON Pocket Macmillan HC NFD SF.N NE PB NORTON Andre SEVEN SPELLS TO SUNDAY VANCE Jack SPACE OPERA Daw SFN NE Atheneum Juv FN HC PB SNOW SHADOW Fawcett VAN VOGT.A.E. RENAISSANCE Pocket FN FE PB SFN FE PB This illustration is from the cover of GMADLEE Dorothy STAR KA'AT WORLD WALLACE Irving THE PIGEON PROJECT the Japanese edition of BIG BLACK MARK. Pocket SF/N FP PB Juv SGS HC NFD HERBERT Frank^RANSOM Bill THE JESUS STRUGATSKY Borisf,Arkady THE UGLY SWANS SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY PUBLISHED INCIDENT Berkley/Putnam Macmillan SFN/NE/HC SFN/FE/HC TORGESON Roy CHRYSALIS 4 Zebra A LIST OF BOOKS PUBLISHED IN THE USA HOWARD.R.E. CONAN OF CIMMERIA Ace Continued from the last issue #12. Balance SFA/FE/PB SSFN/RP/PR APRIL, and MAY,JUNE and JULY.A comprehensive TURNBULL Gerry THE OFFICIAL STAR TREK CONAN THE FREEBOOTER Ace listing of all the British books due this CATALOG GrossetfiDunlap SSFN/RP/PB year will be included in the next issue. SF/Film/TPB THE TREASURE OF TRANICOS VANCE Jack THE BAGFULL OF DREAMS WATSON Ian THE VERY SLOW TIME MAC- Sunridge SSFN/FE/TPB Underwood MYST N/TPB HINE Ace SFN NE PB HOYLE FredBGeoffrey FIFTH PLANET CITY OF THE CHASCH Daw WATSON Wemer THE CASE OF THE SEMI- Hamer SFN/NE/PB SFN/NE/PB HUMAN BEANS Coward Juv HULKE Malcolm DR WHO&THE DINOSAUR THE SEVENTEEN VIRGINS F/N HC INVASION Pinnacle Underwood MYST N/TPB WESTON Peter ANDROMEDA St Martins SFN/NE/PB-JUV. VANDALS OF THE VOID SF/A NE HC Gregg SFN/NE/HC WHITE James ALL JUDGEMENT FLED HUNTER Evan FIND THE FEATHERED JUV SERPENT Gregg SFN/NE/HC VELEY Charles CHILDREN OF THE DARK Ball. SF/N NE PB D.Day N/HC/NFD WIBBERLEY Leonard THE QUEST OF EXCAL- KIDD Virginia MILLENIAL WOMEN Dell SFA/FPB WILHELM Kate SOMERSET DREAMS!,OTHER IBUR Borgo FN FE TPB FICTION Harper SFC/FPB WILSON Colin THE HAUNTED MAN:The KLEIN Gerard STARMASTERS GAMBIT Daw SFN/RP/Pb WILLIAMS Gordon THE MICROCOLONY Bantam Strange Genius of David SFN/FE/PB LANCOUR Gene THE MAN-EATERS OF GAS- Lindsay Borgo F-NF NETPB WOLD Allen THE PLANETMASTERS CALON D.Day SFN/FE/HC YARBRO Chelsea.0.FALSE DAWN Warner St Martins SFN/FE/HC SFN NE PB LARSON Glen A.. BATTLESTAR GALACTICA:The Photostory Berkley WOLF Leonard WOLFS COMPLETE BOOK OF YOLEN Jane THE DRFAM WEAVER Collins TERROR Crown HE/FE/HCgPB SFN-illus/PB Juv SFN FE HC WOLLHEIM Donald 1979 ANNUAL WORLDS BEST ZELAZNY Roger THE ILLUSTRATED ZELAZNY LAUMER Keith RETIEF UNBOUND Ace SFC/FE/PB SF Daw SFA/FE/PB Ace SF-Illus NE PB YEP Laurence SEA DEMONS Harper LEIBER Fritz GATHER DARKNESS! Ball. 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SF/C FE PB CURRAN Ronald THE WEIRD GATHERING § SFC/FE/PB SMITH Cordwainer INSTRUMENTALITY OF OTHER TALES Fawcett GELLER Stephen GAD Harper NFD/HC MANKIND Ball SFC/FE/PB GRANT.C.L. THE SOUND OF MIDNIGHT SMITH.E.E. MASTERS OF SPACE Jove HF/C FPB DANIELS Les THE SILVER SKULL:A Novel Pon.Lib HFN/FPB SFN/RP/PB GREEN Roland WANDOR'S VOYAGE Avon SMITH Sidney THE SURVIVOR St Martins of Sorcery Scribner OCC-F/N/FE/HC FN/FPB #3 in series. SFN/FE/HC DAVIS Mildred SCORPION Pocket NF/N FPbI HEINLEIN Robert REVOLT IN 2100 Signet SPRUILL Stever1 THE PSYCHOPATH PLAGUE SFN/RP/P3 Dell SFN/FPB (See Vol 2 #2 for a list of abreviations.) AWARDS continued from page 11 ELGIN Suzette STAR-ANCHORED,STAR-ANG­ VANCE Jack SERVANTS OF THE WANKH ERED D.Day SFN FE HC/J Daw Planet of Adv #2 3rd—Jerzy Skolimowski THE SHOUT(Rank) ELLISON Harlan FANTASTIES OF HARLAN SFN/NE/Pb 4th--David Cronenberg RABID (Alpha) ELLISON Gregg FC FE HC SERVANTS OF THE WANKH ARTWORK: FABIAN Stephen MORE FANTASY BY FABIAN Chuck Miller SFN/NE/HC lst--Boris Vallejo Cover of BORIS De La Ree F-art FE PB WALLING William THE WORLD I LEFT BEH­ magazine "The Amazon PrincessgHer Pet" FOSTER Al an.D.THE TAR-AIYM KRANG IND ME St Martins N/FE 2nd--George Barr cover of HASAN by Ball SF/N RP PB HC NFD Piers Anthony (Borgo Press) GASKELL Jane SOME SUMMER LANDS WILHELM Kate JUNIPER TIME Harper 3rd—Brian Froud plate 12 of THE LAND Pocket FN FPB N/FE/HC OF FROUD (Peacock Press) GRANT Charles LEGION Berkley HFN/FPB WILLIAMS JaySABRASHKIN Raymond DANNY 4th—Simon Horsfall "The Sorceror" GREENBERG Martin,OLANDER JosephSWAUGH DUNN ON THE OCEAN FLOOR from LONGBORE THE INEXHAUSTIBLE(BFS) Charges MYSTERIOUS VISIONS Pocket Juv/SFN/NE/PB Sth—Jeff Jones page 97 in QUEENS St Martins SFA/FE HC WILLIAMSON Jack SEETEE Jove SFN/NE/PB WALK IN THE DUSK by Thomas Burnett HEINLEIN Robert THE MAN WHOL SOLD THE WYATT Joan A MIDDLE EARTH ALBUM Swann (Heritage Press) MOON SFN/RP/PB S6S F/Art/NE/PBgHC HOGAN James THE TWO FACES OF TOMOR­ SMALL PRESS: ROW Ball. SFN FE PB AMERICAN JULY 1979 lst--Stephen Jones/David Sutton FANT­ HOWARD Robert TIGERS OF THE SEA Ace ABBEY Lynn DAUGHTER OF THE BRIGHT ASY TALES 2 SSFN RP PB MOON Sunridge TPB NFD 2nd--W.Paul Ganley WEIRDBOOK 13 WORMS OF THE EARTH ALDISS Brian LONG AFTERNOON OF EARTH 3rd—John Harvey LONGBORE THE INEXHA­ Ace SSFN RP PB Sugnet SFN/RP/PB USTIBLE (for the BFS) HUBBARD. L. Ron SLAVES OF SLEEP Dell ANTHONY Piers CASTLE ROOGNA Ball seq 4th—Jon Harvey CTHULHU 2: TALES OF FN NE PB Ill.Ed Cartier THE CTHULHU MYTHOS (Spectre Press) JETER.K.W. MORIDCK NIGHT Daw to Source of Magic FN/FE/PB 5th—Stuart Schiff WHISPERS 10 sect to Well's The Time ASPRIN Robert MYTH CONCEPTIONS S.blaze Machine Daw SFN FE PB COMICS: Donning seq to Another KANE Gil&GOULART Ron STAR HAWKS Ace 1st—Roy Thomas/Frank Brunner'The Sca­ Fine Myth FN/FE/TPB SF Comic FE PB rlet Citadel" SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN 30 BRADBURY Ray BEST OF RAY BRADBURY KIRK TimSGREEN Michael TOLKIEN SCRAP­ 2nd—Steve Gerber/Jim Starlin/Bob Wia- Taplinger SFC/FE/HC BOOK Running F/FE NFD ceck "Among the Great Divide" RAMPAG­ BUSHYAGER Linda MASTER OF HAWKS Dell LARSON Glen BATTLESTAR GALACTICA #2 ING HULK 7 SFN/FE/PB Ace SF comic PB 3rd—Jim Stenstrum/Louis Bremejo CARD Orson.S. A PLANET CALLED TREASON LEIBER Fritz WORLDS OF FRITZ LEIBER "Faster-Than-Light Interstellat Tra­ St Martins SFN/FE/HC Gregg SFC/FE/HC vel" 1984 1 CARR Terry THE YEARS FINEST FANTASY LONG Frank.B. NIGHT FEAR. Zebra 4th—Chris Claremont/Carmine Infantino vol 2 Berkley FA/FE/HC SFC/FE PB "Sandsong" MARVEL PREVIEW 14 DICK.Phillip. THE BEST OF PHILLIP.K. McINTYRE Vonda DREAMSNAKE Dell SFN FPB 5th—Mike Grell "All Men Are Mine" DICK Taplinger SFC/FE/HC MALZBURG Barry BEYOND APOLLO Pocket WARLORD 14 DICKSON Gordon NECROMANCER Daw SFN NE PB SFN/RP/PB 8PRONZINI Bill THE END OF SUMMER:SF OF These awards were not 'judged' at HEINLEIN Robert THE MENACE FROM EARTH THE 50's Ace SFA FE PB the Convention. The judging was done Signet SFC/RP/PB MATHESON Richard A STIR OF ECHOES by various panels of three for each KAYE Marvin^Godwin MASTERS OF SOLIT­ Berkley SFN/NE/PB category,some months prior to the UDE Aavon SFN/NE/PB MAXWELL Ann A DEAD GOD DANCING Avon announcement of the awards. KILWORTH Garry IN SOLITARY Avon PB/NFD SFN/FPB LEVY Edward THE BEAST WITHIN Arbor Our thanks to LOCUS for these details MELUCH Rebecca SOVEREIGN Signet SFN House HC/NFD and in turn John Harvey who supplied FE/NFD LUKEMAN Tim RAJAN D.Day HC/NFD them to LOCUS. MOFFITT Donald THE JUPITER THEFT LYNN Elizabeth THE DANCES OF ARUN HC Ball SFN/RP/PB Berk ley/Putnam SFN/FE NICHOLS Leigh THE KEY TO MIDNIGHT OTHER AWARDS McKENNEY Kenneth THE MOONCHILD Avon Pocket PB/NFD A new award is to be presented from this PB/NFD NICHOLS Ruth THE SONG OF THE PEARL MACLEAN Katherine THE TROUBLE WITH year on called THE PROMETHEUS AWARD.lt Bantam FN/FPB YOU EARTH PEOPLE S.Blaze will be for the best work in speculative NIVEN Larry &POURNELLE Derry INFERNO Donning SFC/FE.NFD' fiction which in the judgement of the Gregg SF/NE/HC committee best embodies the values of NADER George CHROME Jove SFN/FPB NORTON Andre EXILES OF THE STARS Ace PAGE Gerald YEARS BEST HORROR STO- libertarianism.We believe the first SFN/RP/PB presentation of this gold award worth RIES:Series vii Daw O'DONNELL Kevin BANDER SNATCH Bantam HFA/FE/PB $2500 , will be made in September .For SFN/FE/PB SLAEH Dennis SF GOLD:Film Classics further detail s contact Promethius Award PAPE GordonSASPLER Tony CHAIN REACTION of the 1950's McGraw Committee ,626 South Meldrum,Fort Collins, Bantam SFN/FE/PB Hill SF/Film/HC/FE CO 80521, U.S.A POURNELLE Jerry JANISSARIES Ace SPINRAD Norman THE STAR SPANGLED FE/TPB/NFD FUTURE Ace SF/FE/PB/NFD FAN NOTES POWERS Tim THE DRAWING OF THE DARK STEWART Mary THE LAST ENCHANTMENT Ball FE/PB/NFD THE VICTORIAN SCIENCE FICTION FOUNDATION Morrow FN/FE/HC RUSS Joanna THE TWO OF THEM Berkley was recently formed by members of various STRIEBER Whitley THE WOLFEN Bantam SFN/NE/PB Science Fiction clubs in the Melbourne^ HFN/FPB RYAN Thomas THE ADOLESCENCE OF P-1 area.MONASH SF ASSOCIATION,THE MELBOURNE TUBB.E1C. WEB OF SAND Daw Ace SFN/FE/PB SF CLUB, and AUSTREK we believe are all Dumarest 20 SFN/FE/PB SABERHAGAN Fred AN OLD FRIEND OF THE involved,but we have not recieved offic­ VANCE Jack THE DIRDIR Daw planet FAMILY Ace SFN/FE/PB ial notification . The pro-tem President of adv. 3 SFN/NE/PB SFLIG Elaine DEMON SUMER Pocket is Daryl Mannell of MUSFA and Steve WALLACE Ian HELLERS LEAP Daw FE. PB/NFD Palmer is Secretary.Gerald Smith is the SFN/FE/PB STASHEFF Christopher A WIZARD IN BEDLAM Newsletter Editor .Steve and Daryl have WHELAN Michael WONDERWORKS Starblaze D.Day SFN/FE/HC also started a new Amateur Publications SF ART/FE/PBf;HC SHEDLF.Y Ethan EARTH SHIP6STAR SONG Association called ZAPA .Information WILLIAMSON Jack DARKER THANK YOU .Viking FE/HC/NFD on the above can be obtained from Steve THINK Dell FN/NE/PB THOMAS RoygSMITH Barry CONAN THE BAR­ Palmer : 6 Smith Cres.,Footscray Phone WOLF Gary THE RESURRECTIONIST BARIAN vol 4 Ace comic 68 4625 or Daryl Mannell .Flat 1/55 D.Day N/FE/HC/HFD NE/PB Bayside Ave., Edithvale,Phone 772 9306. YARBRO Chelsea THE PALACE:Am Jost- TITELMAN Carol THE STAR WARS BOOK proca seq to Hotel HC Del Rey SF/FE/HC8PB/NFD DR WHO FAN CLUB.Enquiries regarding this Transylvannia HFN/FE/ TUCKER Wilson THE YEAR OF THE QUIET newly formed club should be made to SUN Gregg SFN/NE/HC Adrienne Losin,Croydon High School, 14 Croydon Road,Croydon,3165 712-3422 this fanzine is nothing spectacular and bigger and better every issue, CHUNDER! is the same applies for most of the contents the best fanzine carrying news of fans and this is the kind of good stable fanzine what they are doing in Australia. Perhaps which keeps up my faith in the field. more important than the news aspect is the large and continuing letter column that is NABU 6, Ian Maule, 18 Hillside, 163 The WASSFAN 9, Roy Ferguson, 247 Glouch- becoming the most interesting part of each Carashalton Road, Sutton, Surrey, SMI 4NG, ester Street, East Victoria Park, WA 6101/ issue in which the readers express their UK/available for the usual/ irregular/25pp. free to members of WASFA or $2 for 12 opinions on whatever the current topics of Yet another thoroughly enjoyable fanzine! issues/monthly/6pp. This isn’t the most contention are and whatever else they think British fanzine always seem to be much less recent issue but it is fairly representat­ enjoyable just to look at then those from other readers might want and need to know. ive of the quality and the contents of an There are also convention reports and North America but, on the other hand, the issue. The highlight is on news which is fanzine reviews, some news of local sf and contents generally seem to be quite a deal often slanted towards Western Australian the the occasional column from me. more enjoyable to read than most fanzines fans but which can be quite interesting to from the US. The British have a delight­ DATA 21, for ASTREK from Sue Clarke, other Australians as well. Currently it ful sense of humor which extends into almost presents the news of local fan and sf 6 Bellevue Road, Faulconbridge, NSW 2776/ everything that concerns them and that available to the members and some others/ activities in the most compact form that includes both science fiction and fandom. more or less monthly/6pp. Just a quick is available in Australia and for that The highlight of this issue is a report by mention of this club and its often inter­ reason alone it could be recommended. Its John Brosnan of a Writers Conference held esting fanzines. ASTREK is a Star Trek other qualities make it even more worth in Ireland - laughed so much I almost fell fanzine, if you didn’t know by now, one of obtaining. off my chair. The final item in the issue the growing number that seems to be making COR SERPENTIS Vol 2 No 1, edited by Daryl is reviews of some British fanzines - they themselves felt these days. If you want Mannell, Flat 1/55, Bayside Avenue, Edith- just show you that when it comes to some to get involved with Star Trek fandom I vale, Viet 3196, for the Monash University vicious reviewing the Brits lead the way. guess that this club could be a good place SF Association/available to members of to start. LOCUS 220, Charlie Brown, PO Box 3938, MUSFA and perhaps also on request/37pp. San Francisco, CA 94119, USA/$20 for a CHECKPOINT 93, Peter Roberts, 38 Oakland To begin by damning with faint praise I years subscription air-mail or $12.50 per Drive, Dawlish, Devon UK/L for 6 issues should say that this isn’t too bad for a year sea-mail/just about monthly/24pp. airmail or the usual/possibly monthly/8pp. University Clubzine. The production is This issue is outstanding, if for no other So far as I know this is the only British not to bad and the presentation is okay reason, for the covers which are full newszine which means, simply, that if you but really the main problem is that the colour reproductions of the Voyager I are interested in knowing what is going contents are too lightweight. I did find photos of Jupiter. I would not be at all on over in that part of the world you will an article on sf on the tv of interest surprised if many people who get LOCUS took find this fanzine useful. Peter has an even though it said nothing new as it did this cover and stuck it to their walls the amusing way with words which can sometimes collect together a lot of dissipated but photos are just so magnificent. The cont­ be too cutting for comfort, but on the useful information, however that was the ents of the magazine are the same as they whole this is yet another delightful best item in the issue. usually are, which means that there is a British fanzine. SPECTRE 2, edited by Perry Middlemiss, lot of professional news and some fan news ENIGMA Vol 10, No 1, edited and produced PO Box 98, Rundle Street, Adelaide, and those who are really interested in what by Van Ikin, Department of English, Univ­ SA 5000 for the Adelaide University SF is happening in the sf field really can’t ersity of Sydney, NSW 2006, for the Sydney Association/^3 for 4 issues or most of the go without getting this. University SF Association/$3.20 for 4 usual/sort of regular/42pp. This is also The WHOLE FANZINE CATALOGUE 6/7, Brain Earl issues and available to members and perhaps a fanzine produced by and for a University Brown, 16711 Burt Road, #207, Detroit, MI for the usual as well/three issues per sf club but unlike COR SERPENTIS this is 48291, USA/available for trade of 40C per a fanzine that is a joy to look at. The year/52pp. ENIGMA is perhaps the most issue/more or less monthly/24pp. Like me, editor has taken a great deal of trouble important of the University sponsored sf Brian seems to spend more time reviewing over the appearance of his final product fanzines being produced in Australia at fanzines than reading them. He also seems and the care shows. The contents are also the moment; it is certainly the largest to get more than me and therefore the list a little more interesting, an interview and the most lavishly produced. This that you will find in any issue of this with Terry Carr (who was in the country at issue served as a special issue for fanzine is a fairly good and fairly comp­ the beginning of the year) would be most Unicon V which was held last January and lete listing of the fanzines that are worth enlightening to most readers and the book it features a lot of material about the seeing. The reviewing is concise and, in reviews would prove to be interesting as professionals who were there. There are most cases, fairly accurate. The presen­ well. I think that most people would enjoy many reviews and a lot to interest most tation is well done and it is easy to follow reading this fanzine. readers. There is some fiction which is Currently this is the best way to keep track not all that great but then you don’t have TWLL-DDU 15, Dave Langford, 22 Northumber­ of the ever expanding field of fanzines. to read it - I didn’t try too hard. All land Avenue, Reading, Berkshire, RG2 7PW, SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW 30, Richard E Geis, in all this issue suffered because of its UK (Australian Agent - Leigh Edmonds, emphasis on the Unicon guests and I look address below)/available for the usual/ PO Box 11408, Portland, OR 97211, USA/ forward to the return of more normal 12pp. This fanzine, though small, is as bi-monthly/$!.50 per issue and perhaps for issues in the future. full of laughs as you might find in any trade/64pp. SFR goes together rather well ordinary fanzine two or three times its FILE 770, Mike Glyer, 14974 Osceloa Street, with LOCUS to present anybody who reads size. The great feature here is that the Sylmar, CA 91342, USA/available for news, the two with a fairly good overview of what editor writes most of the material in the letters, etc, trade with other newszines or is going on in the sf field - I wouldn’t issues and he is probably one of the finest $1 per issue airmail/monthly or so/22pp. be bold enough to say that SFR tells you writers in fandom currently. TWLL-DDU is A sort of North American version of our everything that is happening although it also a great way to learn about who’s who very own CHUNDER! I’m sure that the locals does seem to have so much news and infor­ in British fandom. over there find it very interesting to read mation in it that a reader might get the and while I find it informative I find that FORERUNNER April 1979, edited for the feeling that there just couldn’t be any some of it really doesn’t have much to do Sydney SF Foundation by Jack Herman, 7B more going on. This fanzine gives a with what I find interesting in fandom. Kingsbury Street, Croydon Pary, NSW 2113/ feeling for what is happening in sf these This is no criticism though of an excellent days and for that it is rather valuable. $3 for 12 issues or some of the usual/ standard of reporting and of a fine fanzine There are regular contributions from some which really sets high standards for others. monthly/8pp. The editor if this club of the best respected names in the field fanzine is expanding the horizons which we and from the best known, more than enough Send fanzines for review to: have become used to from FORERUNNER. The interviews from people who have become the Leigh Edmonds news is now a lot less Sydney oriented and greats to people who are just starting to PO Box 103 there is much more comment on matters that make a name... and for 64 pages of closely Brunswick most sf fans and readers will probably typed reduced type. Very good value. Viet 3056 find interesting. One thing that is most AUSTRALIA worthwhile is the continuing series of CHUNDER! Vol. 3 No. 5, John Foyster, articles on various series in sf, such as GPO Box 4039, Melbourne, Viet 3001/$l for "Known Space". Although the appearance of 5 issues or also available for letters, articles or art/monthly/20pp. Getting 15 NEW ENGLISH LIBRARY

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