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City of Women A Science Fiction Novel David Ireland Some Suggested Bitmap nominations Up to date we have found six books that in the U.S.A, in November and features H.G.WELLS, being a direct sequel to may be considered for nomination in the a cover by the popular illustrator Don "The Time Machine". This edition from Australasian Novel category, for this MAITZ. BEHIND THE WIND by Patricia HYLAND HOUSE publishers features a year’s DITMAR, Australasian Science WRIGHTSON is the latest in her original cover, and interior illustrations by Fiction Awards to be presented at fantasy series based on Aboriginal Stephen CAMPBELL. Last but not least TSCHAICON, The 1st Australasian Science legend. The publisher is Hutchinson. The is VANEGLORY by George TURNER. Set in Fiction Convention, to be held over first U.S. editions are being published the same world as his first sf novel, Easter, April 9th to 12th 1982, in by BALLANTINE/DEL REY. CITY OF WOMEN "Beloved Son", it tackles such sacred Melbourne. In alphabetical order they is by David IRELAND, the author of sf cows as longevity and genetic man­ are : THE ANARCH LORDS by A. Bertram "Woman of the Future". It is a novel ipulation. It is published in the U.K. CHANDLER, from DAW, the latest in his that is difficult to categorize, but by FABER and will be distributed in John Grimes series. Bert Chandler is some readers are of the opinion that it Australia soon by PENGUIN. the Guest of Honour at the World SF does come within the field and should Convention to be held in Chicago in be considered for nomination for the If any of our readers consider that we have missed any F§SF books by Australian September this year. BARD by Keith TAYLOR DITMAR. It is published by ALLEN LANE. authors published last year, that should is an heroic fantasy set in ancient THE MAN WHO LOVED MORLOCKS is David Ireland. It was published by ACE Books be taken into consideration for the LAKE'S homage to his favourite author, DITMAR, please do let us know now. AUSTRALIAN PROFESSIONAL NEWS (See also page 6.) DAMIEN BRODERICK recently returned from CORY § COLLINS Publishers have been told KEITH TAYLOR whose novel BARD was listed a trip to the U.S.A, where he attended they ar« to receive grants from the ninth on a recent LOCUS bestseller list, DENVENTION, The World SF Convention. Literature Board of Australia Council He spent a fruitful time with his U.S. is writing a sequel. He is also working for RYN by Jack WODHAMS, LANCES OF ion a sequel to LANCES OF NENGESDUL. publisher's editor DAVID HARTWELL of NENGESDUL by Keith TAYLOR and THE TIMESCAPE/POCKET, reworking his novel SAPPHIRE ROAD by Wynne WHITEFORD. All CORY and COLLINS Publishers announced THE JUDAS MANDALA, which will probably three are original titles -- publication the sale of Best Australian Science be published late 1982. due early 1982. Fiction. The anthology, tentatively titled "WE OF THE SOUTHERN CROSS" GEORGE TURNER received a grant from the WYNNE WHITEFORD is retiring from his comprises "Armstrong" by Jack Wodhams, Literature Board Council of Australia to full time occupation and will devote "Mostly Meantime" by Jack Wodhams, write a non-fiction work, which will be all his time to writing. He is presently "Vandal" by Trudy Rose, "Take the Dilemma part autobiographical leading into an working in collaboration with Paul by the Horns" by John J.Alderson, "And essay on aspects of science fiction. Collins on another novel. (Continued page three.) SPHERE Fnnmsv A CLASSIC Galaxy JACK WILLIAMSON FANTASY Bestselling author of the LEGION OF SPACE series NOVEL BOOKSHOP THE REIGN OF BY A SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY SPECIALISTS WIZARDRY' Master Author in A THE FANTASY WHOLE NEW AND WORLD OF BOOKS SCIENCE FICTION Field

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DISTRIBUTED BY TRANSWORLD NWS and that I will need to limit Indexing books and adding descriptions AUSTRALIAN PROFESSIONAL NEWS the content and the size to twenty to file cards I might add, takes up a Continued from page one. pages. very large part of my time. Not being Eve Was Drawn from the Rib of Adam" by Actually 1 have a bibliophile bee in under pressure to get the complete list Van Ikin, "Creator" by David Lake, "The my bonnet and accordingly my main done to a deadline, 1 should have a Last Day of Christmas" by David Lake interest it Utting all the new f S sf much better chance of getting the NEWS and "The Specialist" by Wynne Whiteford. books that come out. A lot of the Utt­ out on schedule. Incidently I have This collection is edited by Denis SCHECK ing I am doing it being duplicated, at decided to drop the November/ Vecember ’SI with an afterward by Paul COLLINS. The tome of my readers have pointed out, date, but this will in no way effect the publisher is not known at this time. so I am trying to reconcile what I subscriptions. Future issues will be want to do with what I can and must do. dated the month they come out, and 1 After having sold the first Best Please excuse me if i mention business will stilt endeavour to produce six Australian SF, DENIS SCHECK, in collab­ here, but I must say that it it becom­ issues in a year. But 1 do need some help! oration with Cory L Collins, will be ing increasingly obvious that the time If anybody with an IBM golf ball type­ compiling another anthology. The latter and effort I am putting into SPACE AGE has been sold sight unseen to Deutscher writer with an" Adjutant" element for pref- BOOKS NEWSLETTER is not paying off, so erance, is willing to help, I hope they Taschenbuch Verlag. To ensure the it should in some way be curtailed. editor has the best possible selection witl contact me. Or if you can put any Some people rely entirely upon the from which to choose for this second time in here at Space Age. I need help Space Age list for information on new organising reviews, and editing the Best Of, Cory § Collins would like to books. Others get The News and overseas see copies of previously published reviews, the letter column, the conven­ publications,which cover almost every­ tion listing and other things. stories which authors feel would be thing that it published. However it it suitable. Readers are also invited to quite obvious to me now what 1 need to do nominate stories so long as they provide Finally I will just add that 1 am pleased and that it to bring out one basic list with the response I have received to the photocopies and return postage. People giving all possible information. wishing to contact Cory and Collins are NEWS, in that we now have enough subscib- invited to do so at P.O.Box 66, The Space Age list naturally can only ers, plus counter sales and advertisements StKilda, Victoria 3182. be of books they have for sale. The to be breaking even cost wise. Part of descriptions now being given are some­ the reason I started the NEWS was to help LEANNE FRAHM in collaboration with PAUL what of a luxury and I know of few other publicise the Australia in'83 bid and I COLLINS has sold "The Faraway Hero" to retailers who give so much detail on fandom in general. oration has also sold "Unnamed" to are to be published. Most titles that QUEST STAR magazine. are announced by publishers witl be As 1 have said before, I enjoy doing the listed, but with, a minimum of detail. NEWS as I expect most other fanzine PAUL COLLINS' story "Suburban Walk" Point three: I witl produce a separate editors enjoy producing their zines also, received a commendation from the listing of every new book in the field but 1 do not do it just for the praise, McGregor Literary Competition. It has that I can find. This CHECKLIST will not that I receive very much. 1 do it since been accepted by the editor of also included a section each issue of because of my love of sf and fandom and PAPER CHILDREN, which is their bi-annual back titles and special s ub-categories. to give them the publicity that is Best of anthology. Publication was due needed. So any help I get is not just in November 1981. OK! I’m crazy. I am only giving myself more work. Hell, not exactly, because for me, it is for Sf and fandom in general. How about it ? LEE HARDING'S novel FALLEN SPACE MAN the new Checklist wilt come out on an is to be published by BANTAM. irregular basis, so that I will not be Merv Binns/Editor NORSTRILIA PRESS, although they have not under any pressure to get it completed. announced anything officially, are work­ ing on a number of books including novels and an anthology. AUSTRALIAN SF NEWS ISSN 0155-8870 is edited and published by Mervyn R.Binns under the sponsorship of The AUSTRALIAN SCIENCE FICTION FOUNDATION. ASFN is registered for posting under Australia Post regulations category 'B'. The address for all correspondence is 305/307 Swanston Street, Melbourne, 3000, Victoria, AUSTRALIA.

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Basically I am aware that 1 mutt limit the time ------SCIENCE FICTION BOOKS PUBLISHED IN BRITAIN: $2.45 for 6 issues 3 that I am putting into editing the The following books have been announced by the publishers for publication dur­ ing November, December and later. New titles are shown in capitals and new editions and reprints in lower case. Details will be kept to the minimum, but full details on all books published in the F8SF field will be covered in our forthcoming publication FfiSF CHECKLIST. Some titles mentioned here may not yet be published due to delays BERKLEY: Shadowland by Peter Straub. DRAGON: WAR OF THE COMPUTERS by Granville and publishers postponements. A GLOW OF CANDLES AND OTHER STORIES by WILSON. Charles L.GRANT. The Word for World is DOVER: CUT § ASSEMBLE THE EMERALD CITY ACE: The Galactic Effectuator by Forest by Ursula K.LE GUIN. THE WORLD OF OZ by Dick MARTIN. Contains 14 OZ Jack VANCE, If the Stars Are Gods by AND THORINN by Damon KNIGHT. Dolphin Greg BENFORD and Gordon EKLUND. SATORI landmarks and 15 characters in full Island by Arthur C.CLARKE. THE DARK colour. by Dennis SCHMIDT. BARD by Keith TAYLOR. BETWEEN THE STARS (C) by Poul ANDERSON. The Best From Fantasy and Science Fiction THE VISITOR by Jere CUNNINGHAM. NO-FRILLS FAWCETT: MARRAKESH by Graham DIAMOND ed. by Edward L.FERMAN. Time Of The SF by "Anonymous" (No author, no title and (GM). Circle of Light #3:Calix Stay by Fourth Horseman by Chelsea Quinn YARBRO. no cover illustration. A JOVE publication.] Niel HANCOCK (Pop.Lib). Number two The Witches of Karres by James SCHMITZ. Titles announced in the new BERKLEY/ in this series has also been reprinted. The Nightface by Poul Anderson. Way-Farer PUTNAM Trade PB Series include: The God and Kensho, both by Dennis SCHMIDT. In Emperor of Dune, Dune, Dune Messiah and FABER: THE INSIDER by Christopher EVANS. trade paperback: MADWAND by Roger Zelazny. Children of Dune, all by Frank HERBERT. Voorloper by Andre NORTON. FUZZY BONES Satyrday by Stephen Bauer. DEMON by John by William TUNING. In Iron Years by FUTURA/ORBIT: Jannisaries by Jerry VARLEY. LYONESSE by Jack VANCE. THE Pournelle. Gordon R.DICKSON. STRENGTH OF STONES'by DREAM MAKER'S ENCYCLOPEDIA by Charles Greg BEAR. RED SONJA #1:THE RING OF PLATT. FAVOURITE STORIES by Frederik G.K.HALL s CO.: MASTERS OF SF AND IKRIBU by David C.SMITH and Richard POHL (HC). The Once and Future King by FANTASY - A new volume in the series TIERNEY. The Dragon Masters by Jack Vance T.H.White. Some of these would have been including complete bibliographies of A Devil in the Forest by Gene WOLFE. done in HC, but Putnam have dropped their LLOYD ALEXANDER, EVANGELINE WALTON The Long Way Home by Poul ANDERSON. HC sf series as such and will only pub­ ENSLEY and KENNETH MORRIS, edited by Secret of the Lost Race by Andre NORTON. lish some sf titles amongst their general Kenneth J.ZAHORSKI and Robert J.BOYER. The Demon Breed by James H.Schmitz. fiction. Some of these such as the Pohl HAMLYN: Night's Master by Tanith LEE. W.H.ALLEN : Nebula Winners 15 ed. by collection , will not be published till HOLT,RINEHART & WINSTON: SCI FI by Frank HERBERT. Dr Who fj The Cave Monster well into 1982. by Malcolm HULKE. William MARSHALL(Hum.sus.n.). WINE OF CORGI: INVASION by K.MOORE. Valis by VIOLENCE by James MORROW. ARROW: GREEN MONDAY by Michael THOMAS. Philip K.DICK. Dragondrums by Ann The Web Between The Worlds by Charles McCaffrey. HOUGHTON MI FLIN: LISTEN,LISTEN by Kate SHEFFIELD. The Island of Dr Death and CAROUSEL: The Tom Swift Juvenile sf WILHELM (C). ALL BUT IMPOSSIBLE Ed by Other stories and Other Stories, by series by Victor Appleton - Terror of Edward D.HOCH. Gene WOLFE. The Moons of Jupiter, The Alien Probe, ROBERT HALE: MARDOC by Ronald McQUEEN AVON: Titan's Daughter by James BLISH. The City in the Stars, and The War in Outer Space. GREYSTOKE MOBRAY: PICTURES AT AN CHIY-UNE by Susan COON. Mortal Engines EXHIBITION, Ed Ian WATSON. by Stanislaw LEM. THE HOT CAR by Lou DAW: GUARDSMAN OF GOR by John NORMAN. CAMERON. THE SHILOH PROJECT by David THE NOWHERE HUNT by Jo CLAYTON. EARTH KNIGHT: CODENAME ICARUS by Richard C.POYER. IN TWILIGHT by Doris PISERCHIA. IMARO COOPER. by Charles R.SAUNDERS.(Delayed until BALLANTINE/DEL REY: CAMBER THE HERETIC by LEISURE: CHILDREN OF NIGHT by Michael January due to legal problems.) THE Katherine KURTZ. The Ice Is Coming by KRING. MAYAB by M.S.KARL. NOONBLAZE MORPHODITE by M.A.FOSTER. ISAAC ASIMOV Patricia WRIGHTSON. Red Shift by Alan by Milan CHIBA. SILENT GALAXY by William (PRESENTS THE GREAT SF STORIES #6,ed. l)y GARNER. Police Your Planet by Lester Del Rey, TEDFORD. The Broken Sword by Poul Anderson , Isaac ASIMOV § Martn H.GREENBERG. ALLIES OF ANTARES:DRAY PRESCOTT # 26. MICHAEL JOSPEH: MISSION by Patrick Iceworld by Hal CLEMENT. Camber of Culdi TILLEY. and Saint Camber both by Katherine KURTZ. The Birthgrave by Tanith Lee. Wollheim's World's Best SF, Series 5 (1976). THE DOME IN THE FOREST by Paul 0.WILLIAMS MAGNUM: The Infinitive of Go by John The Dark Bright Water by Patricia DOUBLEDAY: HCs OZYMANDIAS by Thomas F. BRUNNER. BIKINI RED NORTH by Tom WRIGHTSON. OUT OF THE EVERYWHERE, AND BARLING. Sum VII by T.W.HARD. OTHER EXTRAORDINARY VISIONS by James MONTELEONE. MORE WANDERING STARS edited TIPTREE,Jr. Tomorrow Is Too Far by James by Jack DANN. THE SHADOW: JADE DRAGON § MAYFLOWER: The Sword and the Stallion WHITE. The Worm Ouroboros by E.R.EDDISON. HOUSE OF GHOSTS by Walter GIBSON (Pulp by Michael MOORCOCK. The Orphan by R. RP). THE SUN SHINES BRIGHT by Isaac STALLMAN. THE STEEL TSAR by Michael BANTAM: THE DINOSAURS by William STOUT ASIMOV (NF/SC). THE LOST AND THE LURKING MOORCOCK. and William'SERVICE edited by Byron by Manley Wade WELLMAN. THE TSADDIK OF NEW ENGLISH LIBRARY: The Santaroga Preiss (TPB). MATHEW SWAIN: WHEN TROUBLE THE SEVEN WONDERS by Isidore HAIBLUM. Barrier by Frank HERBERT. Cosmic BECKONS by Mike McQUAY. A DAY IN THE LIFE LIFE IN DARWIN'S UNIVERSE: EVOLUTION Encounter by A.E.VAN VOGT. OF... AND OTHER STORIES by Frank M. AND THE COSMOS by Gene BYLINSKY I NF/SC ROBINSON. THE JANUS SYNDROME by Steven Ulus.) . PANTHER: The Marriages Between Zones E.MACDONALD. SLOW FALL TO DOWN by Stephen DIAL PRESS: ISAAC ASIMOV'S NEAR FUTURES Three,Four and Five by Doris LESSING. LEIGH. CENTURY'S END by Russell M.GRIFFIN AND FAR,ed. by George SCITHERS (HC). The Dark Light Years by Brian ALDISS. Merlin by Robert Nye. DARK FORCES ed.by Starswarm by Brian ALDISS. Getaway World Kirby McCAULEY. by Stephen GOLDIN. The Currents of Space 4 R.R.MARTIN § Lisa TUTTLE. The Parasite by Ramsey CAMPBELL. Clash of the Titans by Alan Dean FOSTER. THE WORLD OF TIERS by Philip Jose FARMER (2 vols). THE SILVER METAL LOVER by Tanith LEE. Forerunner by Andre NORTON. The Hunger by Whitley STREIBER. God Emperor of ,Dune by Frank HERBERT. FLASHING SWORDS #5:DEMONS AND DAGGERS, ed. by Lin CARTER. Shatterday by Harlan ELLISON. Down to a Sunless Sea by David GRAHAM. THE SF Book Club UK: Titles from May to September are: THE CRYSTAL SHIp" Ed. by Robert SILVERBERG, INTO THE SLAVE NEBULA by John BRUNNER, THE ANNE McCAFFREY OMNIBUS, DRAGONDRUMS by Anne McAFFREY, GEMINI GOD by Gary KILWORTH, THE MATRIX by Jo BANNISTER, and THE TYPHOON INTERVENTION by D.R.MASON. Also THE NEBULA AWARD WINNERS #13 edited by Samuel DELANY and #14 edited by Fred by Isaac ASIMOV. The Illustrated Man by POHL. Ray BRADBURY. CONQUESTS by Poul ANDERSON. Dragons:An Introduction to the Modern ENCOUNTERS B.C.: (U.K.) THE LORD FOUL'S (Prob.re/tit.). Barefoot in the Head by Infestation by Pamela Wharton BLANPIED. BANE Trilogy by Stephen DONALDSON, THE Brian ALDISS. Dandelion Wine by Ray ULVERSCROFT: The Manchurian Candidate SHADOW OF THE TORTURER by Gene WOLFE BRADBURY. by Richard CONDON (?). The Crash of and A JOHN WYNDHAM OMNIBUS. The Merman's PENGUIN: Titus Groan by Mervyn PEAKE. '79 by Paul E.ERDMAN. Watership Doun Children by Poul ANDERSON. Return from by Richard ADAMS. the Stars by Stanislaw LEM. POCKET: A GIFT OF MAGIC by Lois DUNCAN (Archway Juv.). WITHOUT ME YOU'RE NOTHING YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS: THE SURFACE OF BCA: (UK) The Last Days of America by by Frank HERBERT with Max BERNARD. The MARS by Michael H.CARR (NF). Paul E.Erdman. Science Fiction Hall of Vampire Tapestry by Suzy McKee CHARNAS. Fame Vol 4, ed by Arthur C.CLARKE. World War III by Harold KING. Ghost Story POTTERSFIELD PRESS (Canada): by Peter STRAUB. BRAINCHILD by Andrew VISIONS FROM THE EDGE edited by John NEIDERMAN BELL and Lesley CHOYCE. NEW RELEASES PLAYBOY: STARHAWKS #2: THE CYBORG KING MILLINGTON: THE BEST TALES OF TERROR FROM AUSTRALIAN DISTRIBUTORS by Ron GOULART.illus. by Gil KANE. OF ERCKMANN CHATRIAN Ed by Hugh LAMB. THE BANISHED by J.N.WILLIAMSON. HC. Books released by Australian distrib­ PUTNAM: THE SARDONYX NET by Elizabeth A. SEVERN HOUSE: This publisher of mainly utors up to DECEMBER 1981 in the F§SF LYNN. library editions have recently published category. FAMINE by Graham MASTERTON, RAIDERS OF SIGNET/N.A.L: THE BEST OF TREK #4, ed. WILLIAM COLLINS: MEMOIRS OF A SURVIVOR by Walter IRWIN and G.B. LOVE. The THE LOST ARK by Campbell BLACK and NEW TALES OF TERROR Edited by Hugh LAMB. by Doris Lessing is newly released in Sands of Mars by Arthur C.CLARKE. THE PICADOR to coincide with a new film DEATH OF A LEGEND by Robert ADAMS. starring Julie Christie. LORD VALENTINE'S PREMATURE by Mary L.HANNER. THE RIPPER THE SCIENCE FICTION BOOK CLUBS CASTLE by Robert Silverberg in PAN. A by William DOBSON. As many books only see he editions from PLANET CALLED TREASON by Orson Scott the Book Clubs, we consider it important to STARBLAZE/DONNING: They'd Rather Be Card also in PAN.AnN.A.L. import is list the titles they are doing. As far THE JAWS OF MENX by Ann Maxwell. Other Right by Mark CLIFTON and Frank RILEY. as we know the British clubs are avail­ PAN titles included THE ANTIPOPE by SPHERE: THE GENESIS ROCK by Edwin CORLEY. able to Australian members, but the only Robert Rankin and 100 GREAT SF SHORT way you can get the US editions is to The Reign Of Wizardry by Jack WILLIAMSON. STORIES edited by Isaac Asimov. Another have friends in the USA who can get them HAN SOLO AND THE LOST LEGACY by Brian N.A.L. title was SWORDS OF THE HORSE­ DALEY. The Top Hat Trick by R.A.WILSON. for you. CLANS by Robert Adams. In FONTANA we STAR/WYNDHAM: Ghost Dance by John The titles listed here cover a period of saw a horror novel in THE SEARING by NORMAN. approximately six months up to December John Coyne. THE INVISIBLE MAN by H.G. TIMESCAPE: THE SIGMA CURVE by William 1981. Wells. 15th FONTANA GHOST STORIES ed. BARNWELL. IN THE HANDS OF GLORY by S.F.BOOK CLUB (USA): by R. Chetwynd. N.E.L.'s sf release has Phyllis EISENSTEIN. RESURRECTION DAYS JUNE: DREAM PARK by Larry NIVEN, the hard science novel DRAGON'S EGG by Robert L.Forward and the movie novel by Wilson TUCKER. FANTASY ANNUAL IV TOO LONG A SACRIFICE by Mildred Downy INSEMINOID by Larry Miller. Also from ed.by Terry CARR. The Best of Harry BROXEN, KINGDOM OF SUMMER by Gillian N.E.L was the Sherlock Holmes sf title Harrison. An Island Called Moreau by BRADSHAW, UNACCOMPANIED SONATA by Orson THE INFERNAL DEVICE by Michael Kurland, Brian ALDISS. SANDKINGS by George Scott CARD, UNFINISHED TALES by J.R.R. 'R.R.MARTIN. WEB OF THE SPIDER by Andrew TOLKIEN, KING DAVID'S SPACESHIP by Jerry a nasty creatures novel, CRABS ON THE RAMPAGE by Guy N.Smith , REVOLT OF THE OFFUTT and Richard LYON. THE COVENANT POURNELLE, ASIMOV ON SCIENCE FICTION, MICRONAUTS by Gordon Williams, THE OF THE CROWN by Howard WIENSTEIN (Star SMALL WORLD by Tabitha KING, THE UNBORN PALACE by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and an Trek). by David SHOBIN (The last 5 titles were for JULY).AUGUST: THE 1981 WORLD'S BEST sf double by Arthur C.Clarke, PRELUDE TAPLINGER:- HOLLYWOOD UNREEL: Fantasies SF Ed. by Donald A.WOLLHEIM, HORNCROWN TO SPACE/SANDS OF MARS. A later still about Hollywood and the Movies, ed. by Andre NORTON, DEAD ANU BURIED by release inlcuded more N.E.L. titles; Martin H.GREENBERG and Charles WAUGH. Chelsea Quinn YARBRO, and THE CHANGING THE SONG OF PHAID THE GAMBLER by Mick Farren, BAMBOO DEMONS by Jory Sherman, TOR/PINNACLE: BEYOND THE IMPERIUM by LAND by Roger ZELAZNY. SEPTEMBER: LOST WORLDS/EXPEDITION TO EARTH by Keith LAUMER. EXPLORATIONS by Poul PROJECT POPE by Clifford SIMAK, DRAGON- Arthur C.Clarke. ANDERSON. Planet of the Damned by SLAYER by Wayland DREW, SUNFALL by C.J. Harry HARRISON. THE BERSERKER WARS by CHERRYH, A ROBERT SILVERBERG OMNIBUS . DOUBLEDAY (Australia) Formerly Tudor Fred SABERHAGEN. THE MINERVAN Distributors: ORBIT /FUTURA releases EXPERIMENT by James P.HOGAN. The Cool included EYES OF AMBER by Joan Vinge, UNGAR : THEODORE STURGEON by Lucy War by Frederik POHL. PATH OF THE MENGER (NF). ROADMARKS by Roger ZELAZNY and DARK FORCES ECLIPSE by Chelsea Quin YARBRO. INVASION: ed. by Kirby McCAULEY. In BALLANTINE/DEL WARNER: Star Kings by Edmond HAMILTON. The German Invasion of England,July 1940 REY series, DEADLY SILENTS by Lee KILLOUGH, The Tolkien Relation by William READY by Major Kenneth MACKSEY. Tomorrow's THE REVOLUTION FROM ROSINANTE by Alexis (NF). J.R.R. Tolkien:Architect of Heritage by Juanita COULSON. Sunwaifs GILLILAND, GLINDA OF OZ and MAGIC OF OZ Middle Earth by Daniel Grotta-Kursa. by Sydney Van SCYOC. Windhaven by George by L.Frank BAUM, THE ENDS OF THE CIRCLE by 5 Paul 0.WILLIAMS, THEIR MAJESTIES BUCKETEERS Some readers have suggested that we by L.Neil SMITH. In TOR/PINNACLE series; drop this listing as it duplicates A TRANSATLANTIC TUNNEL by Harry Harrison, titles listed in the "Books" section. FORERUNNER by Andre NORTON and WATER OF We intend to continue it however as it THOUGHT by Fred SABERHAGEN were due in is the only source of information reg­ December but obviously delayed by the arding F&SF books that are actually strikes, as we have not seen them yet. distributed by wholesalers in Australia. (The unions in Australia seem determined to wreck the economy of the country and eventually put their members and every body else out of work permanently. As usual it is the small businesses who bear the brunt of these strikes and the larger companies who can weather the DITMAR NOMINATION DETAILS storms,are growing larger and stronger to the detrement of the workers in the We wish to point out that VANEGLORY by long run.) George Turner has been delayed in the U.K. because of binding problems. At HODDER & STOUGHTON: In CORONET we saw this time the local distributors, THE CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR by Jean M. Penguin Books are unaware of any delays AUEL, THE SECRET PEOPLE by John WYNDHAM, to their shipment apart from that caused WALK TO THE END OF THE WORLD and by dock strikes. However despite the fact MOTHERLINES by Suzy McKee CHARNAS, A that it will bear a 1981 publication date 'WALK IN THE WOLF WOOD by Mary STEWART 1 most likely, it may not be actually (Knight). In ARROW Books the World eligible for nomination. If you have been Fantasy Award Winner SHADOW OF THE lucky enough to borrow one of the advance TORTURER by Gene WOLFE, CITIES IN copies of VANEGLORY that are being FLIGHT by James BLISH, THE EMPIRE passed around, you may want to nominate STRIKES BACK (Comic version), and a it and we suggest that you do, but do range of reprints including 2001: A bear in mind that it may not be allowed SPACE ODYSSEY by Arthur C.CLARKE, on the final voting list. Check with the STAND ON ZANZIBAR by John Brunner and organisers of TSCHAICON. Any persons can titles by E.C.TUBB, Michael MOORCOCK, nominate publications and people for the Kate WILHELM, and others. DITMAR Awards, but only members of the .LOCAL RELEASES FROM AUSTRALIAN DISTRIB- convention can vote in the final ballot. GORDON § GOTCH; From GRANADA we only UTORS. Bound Volumes f, Trade Paperbacks saw THE VERY SLOW TIME MACHINE by Ian Keith Taylor's BARD is also not avail­ WATSON and the long delayed ENCYCLOPEDIA AUSTRALASIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY: able here yet, but SPACE AGE and we expect OF SCIENCE FICTION by Peter NICHOLLS PHANTASIA OF DOCKLAND, ROCKLAND and GALAXY and BLACK HOLE,will have copies at last. FAWCETT releases included DODOS by Alan ALDRIDGE (ART), FABULOUS very soon depending on the strikes. Only CATASTROPHIES by Isaac ASIMOV and FIRE BEASTS by Monika BEISNER § Alison LURIE limited stocks of THE ANARCH LORDS by AT THE CENTER by George W.PROCTOR. (Art), THE PUPPET MASTERS/WALDO 6 MAGIC A.Bertram Chandler have been available INC. by Robert HEINLEIN (NEL), REVOLT also,but we suggest you try the above METHUEN AUSTRALIA: In MAGNUM series IN 2100 by Robert HEINLEIN (NEL), RED mentioned sources. All other titles men­ Methuen are still trying to catch up STAR IN ORBIT by Oberg (Harrap NF). tioned in our front page article are on after taking over from Carnation general sale in book shops all over and dis tributors and we have only seen ALLEN § UNWIN: THE LETTERS OF J.R.R. also available from libraries by now. ON WINGS OF SONG by Thomas M.DISCH. TOLKIEN edited by H.CARPENTER. In DAW books, BLOOD COUNTY by Selby, HUTCHINSON: BEHIND THE WIND by The categores are: THE ROBOT IN THE CLOSET by Goulart, Patricia WRIGHTSON. BEST AUSTRALIAN SF or FANTASY NOVEL LAMARCHOS by Clayton, SUNFALL by C.J. BEST SHORT AUSTRALIAN SF or F Cherryh, DOOMTIME by Doris Piserchia. MACMILLAN: THE GRAND TOUR-A Traveller's Guide to the Solar System by Ron MILLER BEST INTERNATIONAL SF or F PENGUIN: CITIZEN OF THE GALAXY by and William K.HARTMANN.(This title is BEST AUSTRALIAN FANZINE Robert HEINLEIN, SOLARIS/THE CHAIN OF a hot tip for Hugo NF fiction nomination. BEST AUSTRALIAN FAN WRITER CHANCE/A PERFECT VACUUM in one volume It was published by Workman in the USA.) BEST AUSTRALIAN SF or F ARTIST by Stanislaw LEM, SPLIT SECOND by Gary THE WILLIAM ATHELING AWARD ALAN LANE/PENGUIN: CITY OF WOMEN by KILWORTH, BEYOND THE BURNING LAND and The nominations will close late February, THE PRINCE IN WAITING by John CHRISTOPHER, David IRELAND. If we can get another issue of the NEWS and a number of new editions of Sherlock HYLAND HOUSE: THE MAN WHO LOVED MORLOCKS out before that date, we will attempt Holmes volumes. by David LAKE. to give a run down on other categories, Apart from The Man Who Loved Morlocks NELSON: In SPHERE Books we saw MASTERS particularly the Australian short and Behind the Wind, all the above men­ OF EVERON by Gordon R.DICKSON, ZOMBIE fiction. Incidently it would save a lot tioned books are overseas publications by Peter TREMAYNE, WHEN THE DREAM DIES of hastles if the National Convention distributed in Australia. New f$sf by A.Bertram CHANDLER, THE MASKS OF THE was always held between June and October titles of Australian origin are featured ILLUMINATI by R.A.WILSON, CHAMELEON every year. If we can get some support VARIENT by C.MACK § D.EHREHFIELD, usually under Australian Professional for it we will consider making a move to News BRAINFIRE by Cambell BLACK, THE SILVER have the constitution so amended. SKULL by Les DANIELS, THE MERMAN'S CHILDREN by Poul ANDERSON, DISEASES FROM SPACE by WICKRAMSINGHE § HOYLE (NF). THE WORLD FANTASY AWARD In HAMLYN/BEAVER series, THE WHITE THE GRAND TOUR Winners of the 1981 Awards are: MOUNTAINS,CITY OF GOLD B LEAD, and THE LIFE ACHIEVEMENT: C.L.MOORE POOL OF FIRE by John CHRISTOPHER, BEST NOVEL: THE SHADOW OF THE TORTURER VOLKHAVAAR by Tanith LEE. By Gene WOLFE BEST SHORT FICTION: 'The Ugly Chickens' TRANSWORLD: HORN OF TIME by Poul ANDERSON by Howard WALDROP lead off with CORGI, followed by BEST ANTHOLOGY: DARK FORCES edited by BIRTHPYRE by Larry BRAND, MATHEW SWAIN: Kirby McCAULEY HOT TIME IN OLD TOWN by Mike McQUAY, BEST ARTIST: Michael WHELAN QUAS STARBRITE by James R.BERRY, THE SPECIAL AWARD (Professional): Donald DINOSAURS by William STOUT, (The last A.WOLLHEIM 3 are BANTAM titles.) and THE TONGUES SPECIAL AWARD (Non-Professional): OF THE MOON by P.J.FARMER. UNDER THE Pat CADIGAN and Arnie CITY OF THE ANGELS by Jerry Earl BROWN FENNER was another BANTAM title. SPECIAL CONVENTION AWARD: Gahan WILSON 6 People and Publishing TOLKIEN'S THE HOBBIT has 7,200,000 GENE WOLFE has turned in the CITADEL OF copies in print after its 79th printing. THE AUTARCH, the fourth and the final We assume that is only the U.S. edition./ This column we would just like to point volume in his "Book of the New Sun" SPIDER ROBINSON'S new novel MINDKILLER series, to Timescape. To bring you up out is concerned with information on will be published by Holt Rinehart and authors, things they are doing, stories to date on the earlier titles, THE Winston in September./ The recent ANALOG SHADOW OF THE TORTURER is now on sale they have sold and important events in serial by DAVID BISCHOFF and TOM here in Arrow paperback, THE CLAW OF THE the publishing scene. It is inevitable MONTELEONE, DRAGONSTAR, has been bought that books mentioned here will be men­ CONCILIATOR is due soon in he from by Berkley./Tor Books have bought a new Sidgwick § Jackson and was published in tioned again in the listing when they novel by JESSICA SALMONSON, SWORDS- are actually published or due. In the pb by Timescape in December, SWORD OF WOMAN OF ENDSWORLD./ A.W.STRICKLAND and THE LICTOR, the third book was due to main titles mentioned in this column FORREST J.ACKERMAN received Golden Scrolls be published by Timescape in HC in , are not yet even published and in some from the Academy of SF,Fantasy S Horror January./ MICHAEL MOORCOCK'S non-fantasy cases only the twinkle in an authors Films for their collaboration on the novel BYZANTIUM ENDURES will be published eye. book A REFERANCE GUIDE TO AMERICAN SF in the U.S. in a cut version by Random FILMS./ A.E.VAN VOGT has completed a The information given here is gleaned House. Timescape have bought THE CITY screenplay for SLAN. from various sources and we wish to IN THE AUTUMN STARS, a thematic sequel thank LOCUS, SCIENCE FICTION CHRONICLE DARRELL SCHWEITZER has sent us an up­ to THE WAR HOUND AND THE WORLD'S PAIN./ and ANSIBLE mainly, but a large amount date on his recently published material. An unconfirmed report to hand states is also obtained direct from the pub­ The Donning publication WE ARE ALL that GENE WOLFE has been induced lishers and book trade sources. LEGENDS contains eight stories, three by Timescape/Pocket Books to do a fifth L.SPRAGUE DE CAMP has sold a new Krishna of which were published in Paul COLLINS' book in the "Book of the New Sun" series. novel, THE PRISONER OF ZAMANACK to ACE./ anthology DISTANT WORLDS as one story. It will be titled THE URTH OF THE NEW THE MANY COLOURED LAND by Julian MAY, ON WRITING SF: THE EDITORS STRIKE BACK, SUN. Publication we would not expect due for Australian distribution in PAN is by George SCITHERS, Darrell SCHWEITZER till very late '82 or '83./ GRANADA about March or April, is due to be pub- and John M.FORD. Published by Owlswick will publish the British edition of ished by FAWCETT in the USA in an ill­ Press it deals with the things new THE BOOK OF SF LISTS by Malcolm EDWARDS and Maxim JAKUBOWSKI./ ustrated TPB format and was listed by writers do wrong, and uses several first the U.S.SF Book Club for combined pub­ sale stories to demonstrate various points. Schweitzer's second novel, THE PHILIP JOSE FARMER CONQUERS THE UNIVERSE lication with the second in the series, SHATTERED GODDESS will be published by by Francois MOTTIER, originally published THE GOLDEN TORC./Artist RICK STERNBACH Starblaze/Donning early in 1982 and a in France, has been picked up by Berkley. won an Emmy award for his work on the They have also bought LIZARD ASK NOT by T.V. series COSMOS episode THE SHORES companion volume of short stories in the same setting will be ECHOES OF THE Barry LONGYEAR, which takes place 250 OF THE COSMIC OCEAN. The award was for GODDESS. Three of the eight or nine years after the action in CIRCUS WORLD. "Outstanding Individual Achievement in A BARNSTORMER IN OZ by Philip Jose the Creative Technical Crafts". stories to be included have already been written and sold to Fantasy Tales, FARMER will be published in 1982 by Amazing and Cory 8 Collins. An interview Berkley./ An option for film rights on by Schweitzer with A.Bertram Chandler Robert ASPRIN’S ANOTHER FINE MYTH has is due for publication in Amazing. been renewed by Milton Subotsky and Ace have contracted for two more of For nearly ten years now we have been Asprin's 'Thieves' World' anthologys./ waiting for the third book in the series, LYNN ABBEY is to do a third "Rifkind" THE LAST DANGEROUS VISIONS edited by book for Ace./ RON MILLER has sold a HARLAN ELLISON. The earlier books, book to Donning, YESTERDAY AND TOMORROW, DANGEROUS VISIONS and AGAIN, DANGEROUS containing 54 colour reproductions. It VISIONS were two of the most successful is an extensive course on how to paint anthologies ever. The delay has been astronomical and astronautical paintings. mainly due to Ellison not having com­ pleted the introductions. Two of the proposed three parts have been done JULIAN MAY at Denvention. but not the third. BERKLEY/PUTNAM, who Photo courtesy Andrew Porter. were going to publish it,have now rejected the unsigned contracts. Ellison has given various reasons for the delay ISAAC ASIMOV’S new "Foundation" novel, including problems with the British tentively titled LIGHTNING ROD could publishers, MILLINGTON and PAN, and he be the hottest sf property ever, and has now bought back the rights from them. it is not even written yet. Requests for RICHARD CURTIS, who recently became subsiduary rights have been pouring Ellison's agent has taken over the into Doubleday's office, totaling it is reselling of the book. rumoured over $lmillion./ The World SF organization of professional sf people ARBOR HOUSE will be publishing MAJIPOOR has announced the publication of a collection of stories , each from a CHRONICLES, Robert SILVERBERG's second RON MILLER at Denvention. book, following LORD VALENTINE'S CASTLE, different country. It will be published Photo courtesy Andrew Porter. set on the planet Majipoor. Bantam will each year and cpntain, fifteen to twenty do the paperback edition./CLIFFORD SIMAK stories. Editions will be published has completed SPECIAL DELIVERANCE for JIM FRENKEL; ex-sf-dditor for DELL has in various laguages. Fb.r further formed a new publishing company. He has information write to Frederik Pohl, DEL REY. DAW and DEL REY have bought up all the back Simak titles and will be bought mass market rights to MALLWORLD President World SF, 320 East 22nd St., by Somtow SUCHARITKUL, who won the John 4M, New York, NY 10010, USA. doing special promotions./ MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY has completed a new novel for W.Campbell Award at the World Convention KNOPF and DEL REY, MISTRESS OF MAGIC. It last year./JOHN SLADEK'S novel RODERICK; ACE Books have announced a new line of is apparently quite long, 492,000 words THE EDUCATION OF A YOUNG MACHINE and it's Juvenile fantasy books. They have pub­ and DEL REY will probably publish it in sequel RODERICK AT LARGE, have been lished some titles such as THE BORRIBLES more than one volume. bought by Timescape. They will probably and THE FACE IN THE FROST packaged as be published by Timescape in three books adult, but they have missed the large A woman has claimed that THE SHINING by rather than two. children's audience. The first two STEPHEN KING is based directly on her titles in the new series will be THE true life experiences, that were con­ Following the publication of the "No­ THROME OF THE ERRIL OF SHERRILL by fided to a psychiatric social worker Frills Books" by Jove, LEISURE Books Patricia McKILLIP and THE SEVENTH SWAN: between 1972 and 1978. She is claiming are planning to publish "Inflation An Adventure Story by Nicholas Stuart $75 million from King, Doubleday and Fighters", which will be novels by well GRAY. The editor is Terri WINDLING. Warner Brothers, who made the film. known authors, but will have plain paper covers and only feature the title and 7 author. First sf title due is TIME OUT The companion magazine to STARLOG, Bradbury originally did a script in 1958 OF JOINT by Philip K.DICK./ DEL REY FUTURE LIFE has folded. Attempting to from the original short story "The Black plan to publish the hard cover edition compete with OMNI, SCIENCE and other Ferris" and then wrote the novel based of ONE TREE by Stephen-R. DONALDSON in similar magazines was apparently too on the unused script. The script did the April. This is the Sth book in the big a task. We always felt that there rounds until Peter Douglas scheduled it "Lord Foulesbane" series and we believe was a certain amount of overlaping in for 1976 production. Jason Robards will the Fontana pb edition will be done the two magazines and we would hope be one of the cast. about April also, so we may have it on that some of FUTURE’S best features will sale here by about June. Space Age staff now turn up in STARLOG. Steven Speilberg, who was executive report that this is the most asked for producer at M.G.M. on POLTERGEIST, with book at the moment. Del Rey also plan BEYOND is a new tabloid size magazine Tobe Hooper directing,has another sf Ito publish a new five part fantasy featuring a similar content to OMNI, film lined up called A BOY'S LIFE, It series by DAVID EDDINGS, starting with published by Alan Weston Publishing, involves a group of boys who befriend PAWN OF PROPHECY./The sequel to SWORD Inc. in Hollywood. It is being distrib­ an extraterrestrial who is left behind OF SHANNARA will be published in TPB uted as a supplement to American college when his space ship visits Earth./ I in July and the first of a new PIERS newspapers. TWIGHLIGHT ZONE has changed Harlan Ellison is working on a script ANTHONY series ON A PALE HORSE, in he it's cover style and has a new distrib­ adaption of his short story "Tired Old in the fall. utor. We may now see it on sale here. Man" for actors Charles Aznavour and QUESTAR has changed it's name to QUEST David Soul, to be directed by Alain The editor of The Magazine of F6SF, STAR and changed it's emphasis from Resnais (LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD). ED FERMAN, has initiated a new series movie orientated material to sf. of hard covers in conjunction with The ten top money making films for '81 Scribner. So far he has purchased a Two magazines announced for U.S. pub­ included four sf or fantasy films; new novel by George Alec EFFINGER lication have been dropped due to the RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, SUPERMAN Part titled THE BIRD OF TIME. He may use .problems that have developed between 2, CLASH OF THE TITANS and TARZAN THE his intials as the new imprint's title: the editors and publisher. They are APE MAN./ John Carpenter's version of ELF Books./ DONNING publishers intend SCIENCE FICTION NOVELS and SF BOOKLINE./ THE THING began filming at Universal to reprint THE HARP AND THE BLADE by about October. This is not a remake of John Myers MYERS./ The collection ed­ GALAXY magazine it is reported is a the Howard Hawks film, but a new inter­ ited by Jan Howard FINDER, ALIEN a distinct candidate for revival. David pretation of the original John W.Campbell ENCOUNTERS has been put off by the Chandler, who is involved with various story.The shape changing ability of the publishers, Taplinger, till May 1982./ technical publications Has reached ten­ creature is being utilized in this new Outstanding titles amongst the BERKLEY tative agreement with the past owners version. Kurt Russell (ESCAPE FROM NEW advance list include: DANSE MACABRE by and plans a 8^"x 11" slick magazine, YORK) stars./Peter Bogdanovitch has Stephen KING for TPB, THE SARDONYX NET with some colour and half fiction and decided to add an sf movie to is reper­ by Elizabeth LYNN, THE UNREASONING MASK half fact. There is enough material on toire. No details are known but it will by Philip Jose FARMER, LAVA by Kevin hand to fill the first two issues. be shot in Europe./ Michael Douglas' O'DONNELL Jr., ELEPHANT SONG by Barry next project will be an sf film STAR LONGYEAR , The "Ozark" trilogy by MAN. Filming was due to start in January Suzette Hayden ELGIN and THE S F BOOK and he will produce, not star in it./ OF LISTS by Malcolm EDWARDS and Maxim SF & F FILM Universal have asked John Landis, who JAKUBOWSKI. made AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON, to NEWS produce a remake of CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON. GRANADA BOOKS will publish the sequel A report in ANSIBLE December issue to 2001:SPACE ODYSSEY by Arthur C.CLARKE, indicates that filming of the third The Edgar Rice Burroughs estate is 2O1O:ODYSSEY TWO. They paid Ballantine STAR WARS film is on the way. "They eager to see the culmination of a project $230,000 for the privilege and Hayakawa were recruiting extras for REVENGE OF to film a straight version of the Tarzan in Japan paid $50,000 for Japanese THE JEDI the last week. 40 pound a day story. GRAYSTOKE,to be possibly produced rights. Clarke was paid an advance of and all the roast bantha you could eat. by Warner Brothers from a script by $1 million and will receive 75% of all Provided of course you were under 4'6". Robert Towne, is based on the early sales after Ballantine have recovered E.R.B. books and covers the entire saga their $1 million in rights sales./ WARNER THE TV series of THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES of the British aristocrat who is stranded Books will publish "The Starfishers" finally came to Melbourne in January in the jungle as a child. / Producer trilogy by Glen COOK early in 1982. ’’82. I think we could have well missed' Michael Philips has announced that he it. The BBC have done a serial version will do the Asimov "Foundation" trilogy. The next meeting of the World Science of THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS by John All will be filmed simultaneously and Fiction Association will be held at WYNDHAM. One wonders how long it will released one after the other in June, the three-day Ars Electronica/Austrian be before that is seen here. The radio July and August 1983. TV syposium, Linz, Austria, September serial version done by the BBC of THE MAD MAX TWO was released in Australia 1982./ L.RON HUBBARD'S giant 20,000 LORD OF THE RINGS is scheduled for a few weeks back. It stars Mel Gibson, page sf novel MAN, THE ENDANGERED air here on the ABC. who since his role in MAD MAX,has done SPECIES is currently being considered very well with GALLIPOLI. Two is an for British publication. I The truth HARLAN ELLISON will have complete cre­ even better film than the original and about the CARL SAGAN NOVEL, CONTACT, ative control over a television series it is reported to have broken all local for which he has signed a contract for that will bear his name, based on 65 box office records for its first Week. $2,000,000 advance, seems to be some­ of his stories. TV syndicators will It is set in a even more bizarre future, what obscure. The advance will not be offer the series to TV stations for the Fall 1982 season. If this deal with more elaborate effects and costum­ paid until an outline acceptable to the ing. publishers is received and our sources comes off, it could be the best sf say this has not yet happened. Also it offered on TV of this nature since In 1980 we decided to drop the film is said that the actual writer is ROD SERLING's TWIGHLIGHT ZONE, but one news from ASFN and include it in the Sagan's wife ANN DRUYAN, who it is can only be sceptical bearing in mind Fantasy Film Society's publication, claimed specialises "in well written Ellisons current track record. FANTASY FILM FAN. However the Film treatments of other people's books." Society, due to lack of interest by its Rather strong accusation if entirely Theodore Sturgeon's novel MORE THAN members and lack of funds,has gone into accurate. HUMAN has been optioned for filming by an indefinite recess. So we will be producers Robert Gordon and Doris including some F§SF Film news in each Fendel. Sturgeon has been signed to do issue of the ASFN from now on. the screenplay./ Filming started in MAGAZINE NEWS September on Ray Bradbury's SOMETHING Our thanks to SF CHRONICLE and their Publisher Arthur Bernhard is trying to WICKED THIS WAY COMES at Disney Studios. correspondent Kay Anderson for the sell AMAZING STORIES. After all these Kirk Douglas and son Peter who also majority of the above information. years it would be a pi’ty to see it go produced "The Final Countdown" are the down, but so far Bernhard has had no producers. Bradbury is doing the script gtakers. and it is interesting to note that SYNCON * 83 Sydney June 10-13 GUEST OF HONOUR: HARLAN ELLISON The 2nd Australasian SF Convention AKA The 22nd Australian National Convention Details from P.O.Box A491, Sydney South, 2000 NSW The original series is now being screened here by Channel 7 who apparently intend The 1983 WORLD CONVENTION will be held to run the whole series from the very in Baltimore, U.S.A. The Guest of Honour beginning. Local fans are very pleased is JOHN BRUNNER. More details in future and fan club organisers are requesting issues. The following conventions are announced everybody to write and let channel 7 for 1982. If you are running a con this We will be happy to supply details on any know that they have a large and very year and it is not mentioned here, please conventions being held overseas besides appreciative audience. do tell us about it for inclusion in the the World Cons, to people who may be going Shooting on the second ST film was due next issue. over at other times, or you can always find a full listing in any issue of LOCUS. to start around November, with SMOFFCON 23rd to 25th of January ’82 rumours flying around that Spock was Trinity College, University of to die saving the ENTERPRISE from CIRCULATION ONE Convention was held in Melbourne. Attending membership Canberra over the weekend of October disaster. Gene Roddenbery who is an $10.00. Accommadation $18.00 for the adviser only on the film, said he is 3-4. We have not received any written one night. Further details from report but believe it went well. against the demise of Spock. The general Christine and Derrick Ashby, The .opinion is that such an event will kill South Melbourne Organisation of No bid was registered for a UNICON for the popularity of the film, the series Fantasy Fen. A relaxacon. 1982, when the time came at TOLKON/ and all future interest in it on TV. UNICON '82 held in Sydney last September. Maybe that is what Paramount want. It SWANCON January 30th to February 1st Jack Herman, as acting chairman of the is not clear to us as to whether Nimoy 1982. Westos Motor Inn Australian Tertiary SF Association, wants out or the studio wants Nimoy out. Further details from P.O.Box 318, members of which have been the various He denies his contract stipulates that Nedlands, 6009 WA. University SF Clubs, has asked the Spock must die in the film. Perhaps a clubs to rejoin the association, and to replacement for Nimoy might work, a MEDTREK Star Trek Convention indicate their possible interest in look alike or a new Vulcan character, February 13th to 14th 1982 holding the 1982 Unicon. If nothing is but I guess not. He should have enough The Hydro Majestic Hotel, decided beforehand he intends to call sense to sit back and accept that he is Medlow Bath, NSW an extraordinary meeting of the associ­ Spock and the fans will not let him be Details from 12/207 Birrel St., ation at Tschaicon at Easter. You can otherwise, and what is more he should Waverly, NSW 2024 contact Jack Herman at Box 272, think of all the money the role has and TSCHAICON EASTER April 9th to 12th '82 Wentworth Building, University of Sydney, will bring him. GUEST OF HONOR: JACK VANCE NSW 2006. The Melbourne Town House, MEDVENTION was to be held at the Medlow More details on the new ST movie include 701 Swanston St., Carlton, Victoria Bath Hydro Majestic Hotel on December that the budget will be less than half The First Australasian SF Convention that of the first film. Nicholas Meyer Australian GOH Leanne Frahm 3rd to 5th, but due to a large increase who directed TIME AFTER TIME will direct. Fan GOH Eric Lindsay in the room rates it was decided to The script has been written by Jack Attending Membership: $25.00 now! transfer the convention to another hotel, Sowards and Sam Peeple (who wrote the At Door : $30.00 at Wyong. For further details write "Where No Man Has Gone" TV episode ). We have heard rumours of another STAR G.P.O.Box 2708 X, Melbourne 3001 Some left over footage from the first TREK con for Sydney this year, with film will be utilized in the new film, SYNCON '82 A convention will be held Walter Koenig as possible G.O.H., but with new work by Lucasfilm's Light and in Sydney this year either in we think it is unlikely to eventuate. Magic branch, which recently supplied August or October over the long work for RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK and weekend. More details later. DRAGONSLAYER . LARRY NIVEN and SHARMAN DiVONO are co­ OCTACON NEW ZEALAND'S FOURTH NATIONAL MELBOURNE - AUSTRALIA in '85 plotting a Star Trek newspaper strip. SF CONVENTION June 4-7 1982 Ms DiVONO is the strip's regular writer. Fan GOH: DAVID HARVEY As if once wasn't enough in a life All enquiries to P.O.Box 5516, time; Melbourne fans want to host yet Dunedin, New Zealand another WORLD SCIENCE FICTION CONVENTION. Attending Membership: $19.00 Non -attending: $4.00 Australia is certainly ready for a Overseas Supporting: $6.00 second World con, but it is a great pity The convention will be held at the that it could not have been in Sydney. OTAGO UNIVERSITY CLUB AND SOCIETIES The bid for '83 was it seems a little BUILDING. An official hotel, for premature, but only because Baltimore accommadation only, is to be announced. in the USA wanted it more than we did. ,But lets have no more post mortems and CHICON IV 40th World SF Convention recrimination. A lot of people worked Chicago, September 2-6 1982 hard for Australia in '83, some things Guests of honour: A BERTRAM CHANDLER, may not have been well handled, but a FRANK KELLY FREAS and LEE HOFFMAN lot of people could have done more to Toastmaster: MARTA RANDALL help, but that is now all water under At: THE HYATT REGENCY HOTEL the bridge, so lets get on with '85. Attending Memberships as of January Not only the people directly involved 1st 1982 is $50.00. The supporting with the '83 bid, but probably a lot membership is $15.00 up to the cut off of other people, particularly readers date of July 15th. We do not know of this magazine are heartily sick of of an Australia agent. Amounts shown hearing about another world convention are in U.S. dollars. We hope that as for Australia, but I am sorry folks as many people as possible will be att­ you are going to hear a lot more. A ending to not only indicate the local lot of money went into the '83 bid, but interest in the World Con,in view of that was not at all wasted as the pub­ our '85 bid, but to give moral support licity it bought with things like the MELBOURNE in "85 to our own A.Bertram Chandler as G.O.H. second Anti-Fan film, has laid a very g strong base for the '85 bid. Consquently needs a small group of people, necessar­ group for a great effort. Pity they only by supporting the '85 bid both financ­ ily in one city,to see that the jobs came second in their section, but they ially and in the many other ways that get done. had some pretty stiff opposition. you can, you are ensuring that the cash and effort you put into the '83 bid is However I do sympathise with Jack to not wasted. If I personally thought this extent that I got the impression M.B. Ed. about all the effort I put in to the some of the people throughout fandom in AUSTRALIAN FAN CALENDAR for 1981 for Australia, including those who are instance, for practically nil response always knocking what other people are from the skinflints of Australian fandom, trying to do because it is not being I would tell you all to go to hell now. done the way they would do it or its Personally I do not intend to be directly not 'fannish' enough, decided that the involved with the '85 bid, but I hope A'83 bid did not merit their support that this column which will be a regular and in fact openly condemned it. To be Goings on over in Perth included the feature of the NEWS, will in a small way quite honest the committee brought this wedding of Roy Ferguson and Julia Curtis in November and for personal reasons add to the strong publicity that the on themselves, but a bit more constructive Sally Underwood now wishes to be known MELBOURNE IN '85 bidding committee have criticism and co-operation from fandom by her original name of Sally Beasley. already started to produce. throughout Australia would have helped. That is my personal comment I might add, Sue and David Grigg became the parents A handout announcing the '85 bid which not Jack's. of a baby girl a few days before was handed out at DENVENTION after the Christmas. This explained their absense '83 bid was lost, had to be so much Jack Herman is still insistent that at the annual Binns New Year's Eve better than anything done for '83 from the help of fans all over should be barbecue. Also missing were John and go to woe. The intended regular pub­ enlisted in any bid. I agree, but it lication, THE ANTIPODIAN ANNOUNCER, boils down to what sort of help and Jennie Foyster, who were in Paris 'enjoy­ is another step in the right direction. what direction is given to them. Jack ing' the winter weather we expect. sees no cause for any bitterness bet­ To be quite fair to the '83 bidding ween Sydney and Melbourne over the bid committee I say again that even if they DOWN UNDER for '85 and offers his help and exper­ had done better with the publicity and ience to the '85 committee. other things, Baltimore was very deter­ FAN FUND mined to win and had much more going ' The candidates for the trip to the for them because of this determination, The Britain in '84 bid has been dropped. U.S.A, this year at CHICON World SF being on the spot so to speak. If we It came in for some pretty strong crit­ Convention time are as follows: do win the bid for '85,just as much icism by people such as Joseph Nicholas. Derrick Ashby, Damien Brennan, Daryl work and even more, needs to be done, It was eventually announced that the Mannell and Peter Toluzzi. A voting but it does seem unlikely that a bid people responsible for the bid had no form with the candidates platforms is as strong and determined as Baltimore's idea at the time that Australia would be 'included with this issue of the NEWS. can be expected . Also we have a great bidding again for '85, and that they had no intention of uidermining the number of supporters in the USA already. FINDER S GUIDE TO Australian bid. Little thought had gone It was I believe a hard choice for many into the bid it seems and no worthwhile AUSTRATERR ESTRIALS fans to make and they probably now feel support had been organised in the short We now have copies available of Jan that they should support Australia for Howard Finder's GUIDE TO AUSTRATERR- '85. BUT, we still have to prove that time it had been considered. Our thanks to Dave Langford and ANSIBLE, for this inform­ ESTRIALS, which is a collection of we really do want '85 and that we can drawings of Australian animals by fan run a good world con. ation. Perhaps I should explain again for the uninitiated, that it would be most un­ and pro artists both in Australia and the USA. Proceeds from the sale of tin future issues of the NEWS this column likely for the U.S.A, fans, who make up the copies are going to DUFF and it is will deal with how you can help the bid, very great majority of World Con supporters, practically sold out in the USA. Jan and I expect to be takling with to vote for two World Cons outside the himself will be standing for DUFF people directly involved with the bid. U.S.A, two years running. next year. The cost of the book which Questions such as "Why Run a World Con?" you can order from ASFN or Space Age and "Why another one in Melbourne?", I Our report on DENVENTION, the World SF Books is $5.00 plus $1.00 postage.. hope will be answered. The cost of Convention held in Denver last September We hear Marc Ortlieb has already got supporting memberships or subscriptions appeared in the last issue, but we did his trip report out. What's happened to to publications can be had from the not have room to include some photogo- all the other trip reports that people MELBOURNE IN '85 BIDDING COMMITTEE at graphs kindly supplied by Andrew Porter have supposed to have done,Eh?.'.' P.J.S's G.P.O. Box 2253 U, Melbourne 3001, of SF CHRONICLE, which arrived a bit excuse is that he has no money, but Victoria, Australia. The committee is late. They are in this issue on page 11. ? then he has to do it offset doesn't he. John Foyster (Chairman) The attendance figures by the way were slightly lower than we quoted, 3792. Incidently, Jan Finder says he would Peter Darling (Secretary) love to see his GUIDE TO AUSTRATERR- Christine Ashby (Treasurer) Looking at the photographs it seems to me .ESTRIALS get on the non-fiction Hugo Derrick Ashby that the standard of the costumes for the Masquerade was very high. Full marks to nominations this year. Thats up.to you Paul Stevens folks. David Grigg our friend Jan Howard Finder and his

A LAST WORD ON '83. OK! I said it was about time we dropped it but...... A letter from Jack Herman, chairman of the '83 bidding committe was published in THYME newszine, issue six. Basically he felt that any bid for a world con PARTICULARLY needs to be a combined effort of all fan groups in Australia, with which I AUSTRALIAN agree to a certain extent, but the initial bidding can only be done by a FANDOM.' Ed. small group of people who can get to­ gether regularly or at the drop of a •hat. Decisions must be made quickly and decisively and in '75 we found that a small group worked much better. Of course when it comes to the running of the convention itself you can bring in lots of people to help* and even during the bid you can have people on the fringe do’ing all sorts of jobs, but it IO Clifford Simak, G.O.H. in a relaxing moment C.L.Moore, co-G.O.H. accepting the All photographs courtesy Andrew Porter Artwork by Daryl Manne11 Gandalf Award of S F Chronicle

Barry Lonyear, left points out something Dave Kyle gives out the Gary Kurtz accepting the Hugo for to Stanley Schmidt of ANALOG Big Heart Award "The Empire Strikes Back"

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in the masquerade This group came second in the Master's This group, with Jan Howard Finder in the award middle, took the second prize in the masquerade

Lee Ki Hough - Author year. Details haven’t been fixed yet, THE CYGNUS CHRONICLER will not fold under but the magazine appears to be similar any circumstances, since it is still to a German Omni, and certainly pays receiving enough support to survive as a better than the German paperback pub­ more frequent short review vehicle. But lishers. I should like to consider the trippling of cost involved in publish­ Australian submissions of short fiction ing the current fiction, content, and the for this magazine. This will be more additional demands made on my time in the action- oriented than the Suhrkamp editing of that fiction, are far too high A LETTER FROM FRANZ ROTTENSTEINER paperback series. to justify in the light of the limited September1st 1981 All the best support received. The many kind words Dear Mr Binns: Frans Rottensteiner received are welcome, and much appriciated. Thank you for having sent ASFN to me But my printer and typesetter expect for a long time now; thank you for your Mt/ thankA to Ma. jjoA. thoAe. something more tangible. Perhaps the next kindness. I have appreciated the news dctaZtA and I am veAy AotiAy I have tahe,n three months will see a change in circum­ you supplied, and I wonder whether I 60 tong to pabZZAh them. The, bcguAeA on stances - more money, an editor with much can repay you a little with some infor­ Lem'A AaZeA aAe, paAtZcuZaAZy e,nZZghte,nZng. ability but no reason, or hell freezing mation that might be of interest to you M.B. over - but I stongly doubt it. and your readers. Neville J. Angove A final comment, relating to nothing in STANISLAW LEM IN ENGLISH P.O. Box 770, particular. It is one thing to strive Harcourt Brace Janovich, Inc. will pub­ Canberra City. A.C.T. 2601. for literary excellence - that path may lish a second volume of the Pirx stories August 28, 1981. lead to academic recognition of Australian in November: More Tales of Pirx The fiction ( a recognition already given to Pilot. This will be followed in January Dear Merv, out mainstream authors ). But books are ’82 by a second volume of The Star bought by those who enjoy reading: is it Diaries, probably titled Memoirs of a ASFN #25 was as usual, interesting and too much to ask that the authors and critics Space Traveller. Four of these stories informative. And although it does not striving for literary excellence also have just been accepted by The New aspire to literary excellence, it was include in their goals the need for fiction Yorker who will begin running them this extremely enjoyable and excellent reading. to be enjoyable as well. Or is that too September; this makes a total of seven much to ask since it so far seems quite I am glad that my suggestion to George beyond most local sf authors? KT * Lem stories to appear in The New Yorker; N.A. they have already published three stories Turner at the ANU conference ( on the conducting of a workshop for editors ) My apoZagZeA to Ne.v and my tteadeAA ^on from A Perfect Vacuum. Further titles the, deZay tn pubZZAhZng thZi and the, under contract to HBJ are His Master’s may bear some fruit. I have argued over the past few years that Australia does ne,xt ZeZteA by MZchaeZ HaZZAtone,. I have, Voice (which is currently being trans­ a ZateA ZeZteA (from Ne.v whZch I wZZZ lated by Michael Kandel), Imaginary not lack authors, but does lack the people who are qualified/competent to ZncZu.de, next Zaauc,. Magnitude, and Eden, an sf novel of help those authors develop: editors. 1959. All HBJ titles will also be pub­ 7 have, a a tack ofi ZetteAA to coveA and lished by Martin Seeker and Warburg in Aome. oft them oac, now hoAnZbZy out of± Neither Lee Harding’s nor George Turner’s the U.K. date,, but I wZZZ tAy and anAweA them letters ( or comments therein to or aZZ Zfi not ZncZu.de. theZA conte,nt Zn Avon have just published Tales of Pirx about me ) raise new issues ( except that M.B. the Pilot in a Bard edition, and will I do not publish CYGNUS for self aggrand­ follow with Mortal Engines and Return isement - lam on record as stating that Michael Hailstone From the Stars to follow later. I do not wish to be a fiction editor, but P.O. Box 193, have been temporarily forced into that Woden, A.C.T. 2606. In Germany, I have just edited a Lem position because no one better qualified August 27, 1981. Reader More Fantastic Tales of Stanislaw is willing to expend the time and effort Lem; this anthology will have a print required for the obvious lack of gain ). Dear Merv, run of at least 30,000 copies in hard­ But one comment of Turner’s does need back. Last year’s Fantastic Tales of comment. There may be excellent Australian For a start, I'd like to repeat what I S.L. was for four months on the Spiegel authors crying for publication, but all said in an unpublished letter, that I bestseller list, and sold more than those whom I could contact ( in one way too am not impressed by Jeffrey Buchanan's 55,000 copies so far in hard back. This or another ) displayed a distinct lack letter. I've had enough of such people is still small compared to some of his of willingness to contribute to CYGNUS, who say " good on you " but don't put their East German printings: a six volume except perhaps by sniping from the money where their mouth is. Blaming the quality paperback edition of a selection sidelines. " fascist turds in Canberra " is a pathetic of his works had printings of 70,000 excuse. I too have to live in the same copies of each, with a further 70,000 In any event, because of recent changes country under the same " fascist turds ", copies to appear in the future... in personal circumstances ( and there yet they still haven't stopped me from I have also edited a Best of Stanislaw seems to have been a communication taking on the monumental task of putting Lem for Daiwa Shobo in Japan. breakdown: her name is KATHERINE, out four issues of CRUX on a very limited not Karen ), I have even less time and budget. And even now I don't blame them In Germany, I am currently editing, money to contribute to " vanity " press. for my present dismal financial plight; besides a series of Fantastic Novels in I have been willing to contribute at rather I blame the likes of Mr Buchanan. hardback and the German H.G.Wells It's clear that Australian sf readers and editions for Zsolnay, the "Fantastic least 20 hours per week, and in excess of $2000 per year, in my vain attempt fans are not really interested in the Library" of Suhrkamp Verlag in Frankfurt. to foster local SF. But the time spent establishment of a local sf scene here. Beginning with October, there will be is now more than I can afford ( after two releases a month in this series, both all, CYGNUS is supposed to be a review science fiction and weird fantasy. For Now on to George Turner's latest letter, magazine ), and I simply do not have the this series, which is probably the most which I feel bound once again to answer. spare money any more. As it stands, the unusual in Germany, my usual enlightened It's not because I violently disagree September issue may be the last ever to policies apply: all works that have won with him; on the contrary, I'm rather carry fiction ( if only because the any sort of sf award are automatically flabbergasted at how dimwitted he takes excluded from consideration. We publish contents have largely been set ). In me to be. I agree with him almost fully spite of a slowly growing subscription Lem, the best works of the Strugatskys, about Bondi beach, kangaroos, jumbucks list, my losses are not reducing fast are developing some new German writers, and tfillabongs, my beef being that we enough, and unless I receive a massive and have just acquired a dozen books by should be able to write sf unselfconscious­ J.G.Ballard, both older works that had increase in financial support, I will ly as Australians rather than imitation previously appeared in Germany from drop the fiction entirely. In fact, even Americans or English. other publishers, and his latest books, with the needed finance, unless I can including HELLO AMERICA’ convince someone to take on the role I'm well aware that Wynne Whiteford, of fiction editor, the fiction will still Lee Harding, John Baxter, David Grigg, I shall also act as fiction editor for be dropped. Jack Wodhams and Cherry Wilder got them­ a new German SF magazine to appear next selves established through the overseas 12 markets, and I certainly can't gainsay I'm on no high horse, rather the very and selection of material - if they that they are successful writers, but, opposite. wish people to pay money for them. I feel, their success has been achieved at a price, a compromise, which I feel Lastly, it might please George to know All the best isn't worth it. Quite frankly, ( and that I've learnt a bit more about editing Josephine Dorian. here I'm letting myself in for big from seeing two stories of my own publish­ trouble, for I'm going to be much more ed this year, and from that about liberties franker than I was in the CRUX 1 edit­ editors may take with work they accept. JuZy yeZ.’ WeZZ again I apotagise,but T orial ), I was bitterly disappointed So now I have a little bit more confidence beZceve a tot of what Josephine has to by Baxter's two Pacific anthologies, to be henceforth bold, bloody and resolute. say is still very relevant Ml have the only decent stories therein I decided to include this letter as old remember being George Johnston's , Michael Hailstone as it th. A later one will be published which was barley sf, and Bert Chandler's, next issue. And a note to other tetter which was, very slightly. We should be writers to please watt till next issue able to write simply as ourselves, free J.M.Dorian, before writing again, as by then I will of the cultural cringe, and this has 68 Station St., have cleared all letters on hand. I do always been my approach ever since I Aspendale 3195 not think I can comment constructively began to write in my teens, ( which 1/7/81 on what Josephine hat to say, but I do was long befor I even heard of the Dear Mr Binns, believe that she makes a numbet of stupid cringe ). Likewise for not points that new writers will do imitating or borrowing the conventions Thanks for the NEWS. Hope you are well to take tn to account. of imported sf. I've rejected quite a surviving the winter. Thank the planets for Buck Rogers on Tuesday nights as Getting back to Michael's letter, there as few stories because they've dealt with welt I feet I can add very tittle to what tired timeworn hackneyed themes - battles a relief from football ad nauseum! The crop of letters you had in response to he has to say. I have one letter from in outer space, humanity forsaking the Nev Angove to publish next Issue and then Earth for the stars, robots and so on. George Turner's about Magazines seemed interesting. I feel it is wise to look I would like to see this subject taking up a bit less space in this column. If George thinks I should publish less carefully at one's own writing - does it any readers still have something to say on really make sense? - is always the best often, in order to improve the quality the matter I will certainly publish it in phrase to use in respect of it. What of the fiction. Surprise, surprise, I'm the issue after next, but please do keep may seem a brilliant piece of work to forced to publish barely twice a year, it brief. The next letter from Bert oneself may read like a half witted if even that, because I can't afford computer's misprints to an editor and/or Chandler is back a bit also, but it to do it more often than that. Which is stilt relevant. ,, „ means that both writers and readers audience. Getting published by a local M. o. tend to lose interest, hence the fiction student run effort is not the same as declines in quality. being in print by say Gollancz, Sphere or whatever. The competition in the A.Bertram Chandler, But I'm not afraid to ask a contributor latter instance comes from many Flat 23, Kanimbla Hall, to rewrite part of a story if I think established writers plus the screenplay 19 Tusculum St., that is needed: for instance, I asked mush pulps of populars, like spin offs Potts Point, NSW 2011 24/viii/81 Eric Harries-Harris to rewrite the from the "Star Wars" series, the Han Dear Merv, beginning of his story CORRIDA DE Solo efforts, fantasy reprints of TORRES, which appeared in CRUX 4, in Tolkien and so on. Ask yourself how do Isn't the price of pommy paperbacks order to clarify what the story is about. you really measure up in that company? dreadful now? One of my whinges used O.K. you may write as well as George to be that I could browse through the Okay, I haven't actually asked the Lucas. Nine out of ten of his books bookstalls on Grand Central Station in " competent writers " for material, are written up screen ideas done by writers New York and find my titles - but not but they must have been living in exile like Brian Daley and Donald F. Glut. on central station in Sydney. This is on Mars if they don't know CRUX exists. He already is guaranteed a market no longer true. Such was my pleased I sent out pamphlets to 270 supposedly through the efforts of his effects men, surprise that I just couldn't resist interested people in the early days, actors and producers. His reputation the temptation of buying a copy of the but only a few responded. Can somebody is not, therefore, on the line if a Sphere edition of THE RIM OF SPACE. please tell me what BOGGLE had that book bearing his name reads like Mickey Price in the UK - LI.25. Price in CRUX lacks? Mouse under hypnosis having a freak out. Australia - $4.50. What peculiar math­ If however your writing reads like the ematics makes $1.25 = $4.50? I don't remembering complaining about latter and is printed by magazines for There'll be another price hike, I losing writers in my last letter. It the sake of filling up space you could suppose, if the Sales Tax on books goes might surprise George to learn that I've be ruined before you get started - and through. What is especially infuriating received material from lots and lots of a loss to sf. Do you read like is that the Holy Joes were able, almost writers. I've heard from so many that Germaine Greer of the late '60's? at once, to get an assurance that this I don't remember whether I've heard from Kenny Everett? Marxist propagandists would not apply to the Bible and Prayer Tony Peacey, though the name sounds without imagination? You have a right Book. It is only authors not in the familiar, but I've certainly heard from to be printed, but your audience has Public Domain who will suffer the con­ Tony Huntington, who has sent me loads a right to be entertained, relaxed, sequences of diminishing sales... of stories. I think I've been quite made to think, and above all to get tough with him. I still have one of his value for its hard earned money. If In the same mail as your letter was one stories. ( I wish he'd renew his you prefer horror and occult, do you from Harlan Ellison. He is still subscription, like many others whose concentrate on making people sick only? embroiled with publishers but - I quote subs have also run out; it would help Have you something to say about these - The three books (The Last Dangerous raise the chances of seeing his work media which is new and original, or are Visions) will be in the production chute in print ). you re-writing "The Exorcist", "The Omen" of Putnam's by year's (sic) end... and "The Amityville Horror" because Mphm. He may as well wait another ten No, I haven't looked down the contents you saw them on tv? I feel it is wrong years and then he will be able to claim list of TRANSMUTATIONS, because I don't to blame writers entirely however. that the anthology is one of adult sf. remember ever seeing a copy. It was Editors must be made more responsible. With best wishes, quite unobtainable in Sydney when I A negative often inspires, rather than ’ Bert tried to get one. Besides, I can't retards the aspiring writer of whatever afford the $11.00 or whatever it costs, age. Sure one feels like a brick has Well regarding that last paragraph I when I'm sinking all my funds into dropped on one's head with every can only refer you Bert and our readers CRUX. rejection, but the bliss of one really to the "People and Publishing " column good acceptance note frequently in this issue. No further comment. As I agree that an editors workshop might alleviates the pain of a thousand bricks. to the hike on book prices, 1 can only be a good idea, if it doesn't cost too I don't think all magazines here are rot, tell you that the local distributors much. But what's this crap about out as George may, but most could do with have to make a crust at least as sweet " high horses " ? Let me tell you that a lot of improvement in presentation as the parent company and at the iamejj time thAow a fcew cAumbs to us book- to SF fcandom, so I do not see thetA heard of Richards, so you can't say we seiteAS. So it is not just a rnatteA ofc Aeasoninq. only buy big names from abroad. conveAting the BAittsh pAice. 1 know M.B. it ts haAd fcoA kustAotian AeadeAS to So, while Australian markets are very accept, but the kustAotian distAibutoAA much a good thing, and will lead to the can fcuity j as tifcy what seems to be a Darrell Schweitzer, developemnt of ”a truly Australian brand veAy high rnaAk up. I do ceAtainty agAee 113 Deepdale Rd., of SF ”, I would be curious to know in howeveA, that some add on a tot mo Ac Strafford PA 19087 U.S.A October what sense American markets are to be than otheAS and I can atso add that we 14th 1981 regarded as hopeless. b ooksedt eAS get tittte oa none ofc it. Dear Merv, One bit of advice I would give overseas _ M.S. The May/June issue has just reached these writers: Regardless of the cost, airmail Colin Steele/ Librarian,______v shores, so that may give you some idea the manuscript. Send a xerox, which can The Australian National University, how long it takes. One thing that sparks be thrown out if not bought, and P.O.Box 4, Canberra, ACT 2600 a reply from me is the letter from instruct the editor to do so in your cover Michael Hailstone, in which he describes letter. Make sure the xerox is of good 9/11/81 the overseas markets as ’’hopeless’’ for enough quality that it can be copied and Dear Merv, an Australian author attempting to est­ still come out legible. Enclose two or ablish himself. Now if Michael means three reply coupons and an envelope for With reference to the issue on the they are hopeless for the establishment an airmailreply. (Airmail for us is 40University of Queensland I can tell you this from first-hand exper­ Press anthology PORTABLE AUSTRALIAN whtch tnfcoAmatton is pAtnted etsewheAe ience. The editors are not interested in tn this issue. One adddtttonat item that SCIENCE FICTION and that copies of the the author’s country of origin. They are papers mentioned above and the tapes I do not thtnk we have mentioned ts that interested in the story. A new Australian OWLSWICK PRESS aAe to publish a deluxe of the second day have been deposited author is at no disadvantage whatever. He in the National Library. edition ofc THE HkMV 0E ZEI by SpAague may suffer the inconvenience of greater Ve Camp, which wilt contain the text ofc Best wishes, postage expenses and longer intervals the two kvalon volumes, HAND OF ZEI and Colin Steele going and coming, but otherwise he can SEARCH FOR ZEI, with the oAiglnat compete equally. In the novel market it Thank, you Co ten fcoA that tnfcoAmatton Ed CoAtieA ittustAations, with a Aecon- would probably be best to have an American stAuction ofc the OAiglnat coveA fcAom paAttcutaAty the book ofc Van I kin’s, agent. I think some publishers might feel which I had no knowledge ofc tilt now. ASTOUNDING done by Kelly Facos fcAom tempted to pay slowly an author who is CaAtieA’s Aoughs. M.B. 10,000 miles away (or however far you are Harry J.N.Andruschak, from New York, which is the navel — some My thanks to VaAAell fcoA his comments P.O.Box 606, say anus— of the universe). on the sfc maAket as viewed by kussle authoas and the news. La Canada-Flintridge, Let us consider a few things: CA 91011 USA 21/9/81 A.Bertram Chandler has been selling to Well that ts all I can squeeze in thts Dear Merv, American markets since 1946. As I under­ issue. I have tetteAS fcAom EAic Lindsay, stand it, the common complaint is that Received Australian SF News #25. Sorry Kim Huett, Owen SalteA, Jean WebeA, he is not published enough in Australia. GaAAy Llnnell, HeatheA Chauncey, to hear about your financial problems, MaAgaAet kAnott, ktbeAt Vann, GAegg since that makes you the latest statistic Wynne Whiteford sold to America in the in a growing list. I wonder how many more 1950s. Hilts and Vcajx LoneAgan, with news and postal increases will be needed to kill comments that should be acknowledged, off fanzine fandom totally? Jack Wodhams, like Chandler, is a Campbell kit ofc these witt be coveAed in the discovery, first published in American next issue,which I expect to have out Anyhow, I am sending you my genzine, markets. His first novel was published by eanty MaAch. Intermediate Vector Bosons 3 by sea over here. (The Authentic Touch, published Mcav B. Ed. mail, as I cannot afford airmail. by Curtis.) He has a novelet in the Actually, two copies .... one for you current issue of AMAZING. and one for Mannell. Lee Harding has been published a lot in Not much else to say.... although I am this country, mostly in the.Jakobsen unhappy that A in ’83 lost to Baltimore. GALAXY and IF. Displaced Persons was F Obituaries j Hopefully the A in ’85 will learn the recently published here in hardcover. lesson and ADVERTISE’’ Cherry Wilder has been published here in LEE BROWN COYE died in Hamilton, New Please announce that if A in ’85 wins both hardcover and paperback. York, on September 5th 1981. Coye was the bid, I intend to run for DUFF that an artist who illustrated mainly horror Keith Taylor established himself in an year. stories for WEIRD TALES and more recently American magazine, FANTASTIC, and has also the books published by Carcosa Press and I understand some fans are upset by my been published in Swords Against Darkness. Arkham House. He won the World Fantasy puns, such as the thing I perpetuated His novel Bard is due to be published Award for Best Artist twice. He was in Q36. Remember.... punsters should by Ace. bom July 24th 1907. never be hanged, just drawn and Philippa Maddern has been published in FRANCIS G.RAYER died on July 11th 1081. quoted. American anthologies. He was 60. An English author who was a Andy frequent contributor to NEW WORLDS and In fact, LeGuin’s Australian workshop WeZZ the copies ofc youA zine have not AUTHENTIC in the 1950s. His novels inc­ book has been published by a major tuAned up yet kndy, but then we have luded TOMORROW SOMETIMES COMES (1951), American publisher (Berkley). had a fcew stAikes heAe, both matt and JOURNET TO THE STARS(1964) and THE STAR dock, with tots ofc matt stilt missing Damien Broderick has published two novels SEEKERS (1953). He also wrote under the and oveAdue. I was consideAing dAopptng in this country ( A third is coming up). name of George Longdon and edited an the fcanztne Aeviews 4 ectton due to anthology anonymously, WORLDS AT WAR 4 pace limitations. I am a tittle put And so on. ISAAC ASIMOV’S recently bought (1948). out by some fcanztne fcans because they a first (or very early) story by a new ERIK FENNELL, 67 died in Hawaii on do not Aecoqntse ASFN as a fcanztne. Welt British writer, Tony Richards. The only August 10th 1981. He was a computer peAhaps LOCUS isn’t eitheA,but tt 6tttt difference was that when the story went expert who wrote about a dozen stories wins the Fanzine Hugo Aepeatedty. kSFN back for a rewrite, the mails took longer, for PLANET and other pulp magazines in is a non-pAofcessional magaztne devoted so the process stretched out over months the forties and early fifties. 14 rather than weeks. None of us had ever 'blacks' discover that the pre-Holocaust 'Detailed instruction data for gene­ NICHOLAS STUART GRAY, the Scots drama­ tailoring your species to harmony bioform tist, actor, and children's author, died world was on the verge of interstellar for perfect environment that I-we-it in London on March 17th 1981. The best communication and are building a rocket to reach the ancient satellite which preserves long love yearn to provide is broadcasted known of his works is the SEVENTH SWAN urged in data readout provided.' which is a follow on to the Hans Anderson the secret. story of the same name. Fair enough - as a sample. Two chapters G.KEN CHAPMAN, the noted British book of such extracts left me totally dealer and sf fan died on October 9th, uninterested in the messages from the 1981. He was widely known the world stars. Fortunately there were only a over and had many customers in this few more pages to go, so I staggered on country including the late Ron Graham. to the end of a potentially excellent novel He helped organise the British SF Assoc­ spoiled by the writer's determination to iation, which grew from the first wallow in trendy techniques, vitiating British SF Convention held in Leeds in a very considerable talent with surface 1937. After the war he helped found trivia. NOVA publications which published NEW WORLDS, which soon became the lead­ THE SPACE MACHINE ing British sf magazine. In 1951 along by Christopher Priest with John Wyndham, Leslie Flood and 363 pp; $4.95 Frank Cooper, he inaugurated the Inter­ national Fantasy Award, which preceded It is curious how quickly this good novel the Hugos, being presented annually, has dropped from sight while dozens of except in 1956,from 1951 to 1957. lesser works crowd the shelves. It is He was always willing to help sf something of a curiosity, a little to one researchers and his knowledge of the side of the general flow of SF, but an The plot concerns the efforts of the field was such that you will find endearing curiosity, worth preserving. 'black' scientists to obtain 'white' tribe frequent acknowledgements for his help co-operation - for psycho-political in many of the referance boooks. For his plot Priest begins with H. G. reasons - and the action is played out in Wells's time machine, turns it quite ROBERT SHIRLEY RICHARDSON , who wrote terms of moral conflict and blackmail logically into a space machine and lands under the name of Philip Latham, died until the stellar secrets are finally his characters on the Mars of 'The War November 12 at the age of 79. As he was revealed. Spinrad has created a couple of the Worlds'. His variations on the an astronomer his stories were strongly of fairly plausible societies to carry Wellsian themes are neatly conceived influenced by his knowledge of the his thoughts on honesty, corruption and and the old master would have had planetary scene. He began by writing the grey areas between right and wrong. an appreciative chuckle for such as the books on popular astronomy and wrote Martian space gun whose barrel is lined stories for ASTOUNDING and a number of All this sounds intrinsically interesting. with ice. juvenile novels for Winston publishers. What bothers me - or, as Spinrad would Gregory Benford in LOCUS said of him: undoubtedly write, 'bugs' me - is the He plays quite a few tricks with Wellsian "His understated approach seemed closer style. His 'white' hero and heroine are characters, including a 'new woman' who to the spirit of science than the far- called Clear Blue Lou and Sunshine Sue could teach Ann Veronica a thing or two flung adventure of sf's starship captains’ and no toughness on their parts can blow and the introduction of Wells himself He had a quiet career that influenced away the nursery tale atmosphere created as a player in his own scenario. If the many." by the names. The 'black' villain is attempt at turn-of-the-century speech the more acceptable Arnold Harker. and rhythms is not always successful, My thanks to both LOCUS and SCIENCE it is better than most might have FICTION CHRONICLE fft>t the. above. de.ta.LLs. Lou and Sue talk a sort of modified jive managed. (Remember how beautifully M.B. when they aren't talking sexual politics Aldiss did it in 'The SalivaTree'?) (their frequent sexual encounters reek Buy this one for your shelf; it is of everything except love despite Spinrad's worth keeping for a re-read next year or efforts to ram 'love' into the reader's the year after. mind). They are supposed to be leaders of their clans and highly intelligent (Lou is a sort of implicitly trusted THE MAN WHO LOVED MORLOCKS arbiter, Sue a communications expert) but by David J.Lake; their speech is so larded with words Ulus, by Steph Campbell; lacking exact meaning (e.g. 'mindfuck', Hyland House 'boogie together', 'shitheadedness') that 128 pp; $13.95 one wonders what really went on in their intelligent heads. One of the pin-pointing After a long production holdup this signs of intellect is the ability to 'Time Machine' sequel proves worth wait­ communicate clearly, concisely and ing for. It may be short in wordage (approximaletly the same length as the accurately; Lou and Sue communicate on REVIEWS BY GEORGE TURNER Wells original) but is the kind of the contextual fringes of meaning. loving production job that makes an ideal Xmas present. Aside from the SONGS FROM THE STARS What Spinrad is doing, I fear, is writing story itself there are the really fine by Norman Spinrad. down to his audience - being with-it, mod, illustrations by Steph Campbell, who Sidgwick 8 Jackson, groovy and the rest of those words already has carefully observed the hints given 286 pp; $21.50 out of date. If his target is the under-25 by Wells as to the structure of the group who are reputed to represent the time machine and done a very nice job This is in many ways a good novel. It has bulk of SF readers, I think they will of reproducing the turn-of-the-century a solid plot, potentially interesting not be fooled; they may become bored, as mixture of simple line for the figures characters, some originality of approach I did, with the too-trendy overkill. with a florid decoration of inconsequen- - and I disliked it thoroughly. The tials ( see particularly pages 18 and 40 reasons may lie with my predilections Then there are the 'literary techniques'. and the beautiful chapter lead-ins). rather than with the book, so some He uses everything from rough-house explanation is in order. realism to a reasonable facsimile of lyric David Lake has picked up the story at prose and lays it on with a trowel. The precisely the point where Wells left it, The story is set a couple of centuries climax of technique comes in the endless but has shown that the facts related in After the Holocaust. The clans and computer-translations of the messages from the first adventure can be re-interpreted tribes use 'white science', such as solar the stars. Here he offers, quite to show that the Time Traveller's tom­ power and non-polluting technology, but legitimately, a translation couched in morrow was in no way the place he thought beyond the mountains are the 'black alternative vocabularies in an attempt it but a far more complex and puzzling scientists' who have resurrected atomic to indicate the shades of alien meaning milieu. The authorial ingenuities here energy and such pollutants as petrol. The not encompassed by English. Like this: (extending even to a tangendtial brush|5 with Dr Kemp of ’The Invisible Man’) bobbysoxer... Unlike the previous two stories, this are a delight. one is somewhat drawn out and not a lot Lake has not repeated the mistake of the Read and enjoy. happens. The picture of a drowned pastiche writers by trying to recreate England a thousand years in the future Wells style. He has, instead, observed ALTERED STATES having returned to barbarism and the commonly careful, gently modulated, by Paddy Chayefsky feudalism with the Church controlling undecorated narrative English of the 205 pp; $3.95 knowledge is very well presented and period and so fitted his tale neatly conceived. The conflict between the into its setting without calling obtrus­ Though the film of ’Altered States’ is a Church and the Brotherhood of Kinship ive attentuon to its origins. This one- pretty faithful rendering of the novel, with their vision of the white bird of of-a-kind novel deserves your attention. the film succeeds where the novel does Kinship and Universal Brotherhood is not. The trouble would seem to be that the the main thrust of the novel. There are the usual intrigues between the feudal AN INFINITE SUMMER brilliant scenarist of such as ’Network’, with its trenchant dialogue and unerring lords and priests, but it all somehow by Christopher Priest seems tedious, perhaps because I felt 219 pp; $2.75 selection of visual symbols, is simply not a novelist. that the first two stories were a complete whole while this one was merely an I have read and liked all of Priest’s embellishment. novels but have never found his short Science fictionally, Chayefsky has done stories to my taste; they are feather-light his homework and has obviously researched as much as he needed (but no more) for CONGO by Michael Chrichton they lack solidity, they promise but do not Allen Lane. deliver, their often good ideas peter verisimilitude in the sense-deprivation out unrealised. scenes, only to take an imaginative leap at the end which makes nonsense of A novel which on the surface appears to be nothing more than the account of an This is, I think, a better collection than, biology, metaphysics and common sense. This comes across on the screen by sheer expedition into the Congo in search of his earlier ’Real-Time World’, written rare industrial diamonds that can he in a more flexible, more meaningful prose visual impact; in the novel it flouts one’s sense of rightness. And the brilliant used in the upcoming generation of - but the subtleties and strengths of super computers. Deeper down the story the prose do not add up to meaningful writer of screen dialogue relaxes, as is about whether primates are more stories. a novelist, into interminable speeches he wouldn’t allow us within shouting distance intelligent than we give them credit for, and whether humans and primates can relate So - a rather tearful time travel tale ends a film script. to each other culturally. These questions in a paradox no amount of unravelling are never answered. can render logical or useful, in ’The All in all, a disappointment - but other Negation’ a promising situation is critics have liked it, so perhaps you Unfortunately the author can't make up resolved in cliche and the interesting should try it for yourself. his mind to tell a good story (and it ’whores’ winds down with little said. George Turner could have been a ripper’), or whether to feed us great indigestable chunks of The final novella, ’The Watched’, nearly scientific and historical facts relating saves the book; if it ends inconclusively to primate research, computers, and congo it also manages to be dramatically REVIEWS BY JOHN LITCHEN exploration. A better writer would have satisfying, which the other stories do inserted the necessary information without not. All in all this is a competently the reader being aware of it. written collection but unmemorable. CLONE By Richard Cowper In general, the story moves along fairly FUNDAMENTAL DISCH Pan Books. rapidly and it would probably make an by Thomas M. Disch excellent film if the actors playing Gollancz; 372 pp; This is a reprint of an earlier novel the gorillas could be made up like those Bantam (pb); 398 pp first published by Victor Gollancz in in 2001, and not like those in Planet 1972. Quartet Books also did it as a of the Apes. The ending is contrived and There’s no point in writing about Disch paperback in 1974, and if you missed it is probably and easy way out for an author unless you write at length, so there’s then, do read it now. It is a delightfull) who got his protagonists into an awkward nothing for it but to assume that you know funny book, full of crazy characters and situation once he'd run out of story to just how good he is and confine myself to zany situations. There is Alvin, a tell. pointing out what is collected here. clone who has lost his memory, Norbert, his anthropoid mentor, Cheryl, a good It’s got everything in it: Industrial The eighteen stories appeared between 1964 Samaritan who administers death to those Spies, Congo mercenaries, talking gorillas, and 1976 and cover very nicely the wanting to commit suicide, the lesbian tribal wars, cannibals, wild rivers, and development of the man who is arguably Professor Poynter who created Alvin and an erupting volcano, not to mention our most literate and intellectually his brothers, and many more. Norbert and space age technology, super computers convincing writer of science fiction - Alvin are separated during a massacre and laser beams. and of some other works also. His at Marble Arch while on their way to improvement in quality was spectacularly visit Professor Poynter. Alvin is It could have been a lot better, but on the fast it is hard to believe that the rescued by Cheryl the good Samaritan, other hand there are many books a lot worse writer of the smooth, middle-of-the-road, and both of them are later captured by the than this one around. magzine oriented, 1965 writer of ’White Universal Anthropoid Brotherhood, an Fang Goes Dingo' produced only two years organisation seeking equality with humans John Litchen later the accomplished ’Casablanca’, through social revolution. Alvin who in 1970 the haunting ’The Asian Shore’ has bizarre powers of teleportation and and in 1971 the perfectly crafted hallucination creates havoc with the REVIEWS BY JOHN ALDERSON ’Angouleme’. They are all here; see for brotherhood simply because he is in love yourself. with Cheryl and dreams about her. THE RIM OF SPACE by A.Bertram Chandler Meanwhile Professor Poynter and Norbert Allison $ Busby 127 pages £ 5.95 Then he diverged into ’mainstream’ fiction are searching for Alvin, who is slowly Volume one in the Rim World Series. and the publication of some fine poetry, becoming aware of his powers. What will WHEN THE DREAM DIES by A Bertram making further stages in a seemingly happen when he decides to exercise them? Chandler, Allison £ Busby. Volume two endless development. in the Rim World Series £ 5.95 This is a book well worth reprinting. He has by no means left SF behind (there (Both a£t>o /teceZved Zn SpheAetPB. Ed.) is at least one SF novel in preparation) A DREAM OF KINSHIP Very nice to see Bert’s books out in but it may be significent that the best by Richard Cowper hardback, and very nicely produced too. story in this book, ’Getting Into Death*, Victor Gollancz. The publisher aims to publish the is not SF. entire series, and more power to his This book completes the cycle started elbow. I could go on indefinitely - but then, I with the novelette ’ Piper at the Gates There is a bitter -sweet quality The Rim am a devoted Disch fan, a proper Disch Of Dawn’, and the novel ’Road to Oorlay’. of Space. Derek Calver joins the ’’Forlorn Lady" to run away from himself, for razing Britain, is that only the companions, all male, and spice it all and finds the rest of the crew are s im- sturdy would survive. with plenty of action - here you have ilarly lost souls. He rises rapidly to the ingredients of this novel. If you command, due to deaths and the crews are The only fantasy consists of dubious want a simple afternoon's reading then very small. Immediately he goes to the hints of a sinister nature. But apart the lack of characterisation won’t rescue of a pleasure yacht and destroys from not being what it promises, it is bother you. his ship in the effort to save the other. an enjoyable book. Some hilarious Despite his triumph in saving the other moment? do not however, relieve the But the poor writing might, eg. ship, his success is ashes in his mouth. monotony of wading through 369 very "...I met and befriended a beautiful In When the Dream Dies Alan Kemp appar­ questionable pages of British history.. stone age girl Darya, ....who was ently realizes his dream of owning and seventeen and absolutely the most operating his own ship, but a series of A STORM UPON ULSTER by Kenneth C. Flint gorgeous girl I have ever seen. Which disasters robs him of his ship and he Bantam $2.50 may perhaps explain how she recruited dies in the crash of his home-coming. so easily a tough, hard-bitten soldier Perhaps as well., his wife has run away Working from the legendary Meave, of fortune like myself...." with someone else in his absence. The warrior queen of Ireland, at the time title aptly describes t-he book. Bert of Christ, Flint has fleshed out the doesn’t write for immature school boys. myth to make a novel. Along with her ageing king Meave controls nearly These books are excellent, mature reading. all the land, except Ulster. Her druid forments trouble by insinuating that THE DREAMING DRAGONS the king of Ulster owns a bull which is more magnificent than her pride of by Damien Broderick the herd. He hints that this is bad 245 pages, Penguin Books $4.50 PB for the stability of her throne because of the existing rivalry A typical example of an overseas pub­ between the two kingdoms. lishing house publishing Australian fiction; Penguin republishes a successful The voice of sanity is that of her book pioneered by Norstrilia Press. Champion, leader of the army, and he Their courage deserves a medal. As for is also her lover. But as you know from the book, despite it being written to the start, Meave is going to lead her what is becoming an obvious formula for people to death in a pointless war that THE GREY MANE OF MORNING Australian SF The Dreaming Dragons is all grew out of a misunderstanding by Joy Chant worth reading, one of the several worth­ fostered by the druid who plays the Bantam $7,95 while books since Chandler’s The Bitter typical role of sweet-tongued liar. Pill. It has pretentions to being a You’ve read it all before. The authoress’s knowledge of nomadic novel although in my opinion the ending society enables her to build a does not sufficiently wrap up the story. ZANTHODQN by Lin Carter believable tribe, the Alnei. They The colour and the characters are vivid. Daw, $2.95 are strongly reminiscent of the Plains Reviewed by Rowena Cory. AUSTRALIAN FUTURISTIC TALES Indians, or the mongols of the Russian Magazine September 1981 Further Adventures in the Underground Steppes. 32 pages $1.60 World. The plot is a little unusual for S£S; This issue does not contain any world­ Take one beautiful female, who it reads more like an account of the shaking stories, in short, its just conveniently gets herself stolen by the meeting between whites and the Plains like other magazines here and overseas. villain; add the bland Hero, several Indians -- an honourable people of Con.n.p. However, there are half a dozen stories of varying quality, most with a pro­ nounced Australian slant so one may presume that the authors are Australian, and most too, betray some sort of cut­ ting edge. Whatever the merits or de­ merits of the stories the authors are trying to say something and with some critical encouragement may rise to greater things. The illustrations vary in quality, the layout is good but could be improved, the paper is good and the K WE type excellent, a marked contrast to the unreadable nature of the two most famous overseas journals. However, it is a modest but worthwhile publication and deserves the support and the constructive SUBSCRIBE TO CRUX , ONE OF THE VERY FEW SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINES IN AUSTRALIA. criticism, of all sf fans. Issue 4 is our now, with a beautiful sea/time-travel drama by Charles elliot, John Alderson AN EPIC OF A BULL THAT SURVIVES A BULL FIGHT BY ERIC HARRIES-HARRIS, AND DID YOU KNOW THAT THERE'S REALLY NO SUCH PLACE AS MONT ALBERT? ALSO FICTION BY REVIEWS BY ROWENA CORY: ALBERT VANN, DAVID EARL, PETER LYONS. THE ONGOING SAGAS OF SHERRA OF NORMANSK THE GRAIL WAR by Richard Monaco Sphere; $6.50 AND HORG, PLUS THE WEATHER REPORT SENT BACK BY THE VIKING LANDERS ON MARS. ISSUE 5 HAS NOW GONE TO PRESS, WITH 6 NOT LONG TO FOLLOW. GOOD FICTION BY This book according to the publisher’s blurb is ’...a magnificent, stirring DIMITRI KUMASHOV, ALBERT VANN, ERIC HARIES-HARRIS, JOHN ALDERSON, ALSO THE and beautifully moving Arthurian tale THE INCREDIBLE SAGA OF A GREAT SHIP THEFT, A FINE TALE ON A PLANET WITH A in the classic fantasy tradition of SEVEN MONTH DAY. ALSO COULD EINSTEIN BE WRONG? PLUS A GRIPPING SEMI-FICTIONAL LORD OF THE RINGS.’ (their emphasis, not mine). I doubt that Tolkien fans RAVE TO WHET YOUR PARANOIA. would find that description even vaguely applicable. Subscription: $6.00 for 4 issues. Back copies of issues 1,2 & 3 all still available for $1.00 each post free. Cheques payable to: Michael Hailstone The. author details the adventures of three characters, who are instrumental P.O. BOX 193, in defeating Clinschor, whose motivation WODEN, A.C.T. 2606 17 simplistic lifestyle are outmanoeuvred competant sf needs to have more than just by a treacherous, advanced race. Great Ghu! Of course Zet has his tiny tep- an occasional space ship or alien creature tillian head blown off before he can have in it to qualify. So what is wrong with his wicked way and Edwina gets a bath of The Golden Ones extract tribute from the the Hale SF line? For a start the editor viscous, yellow green ichor and has to Plains tribes, but only Mor'anh of the who passes the manuscripts must be an in­ find a shower as soon as possible...... Alnei questions their ancient ’rights’. competent, unable to recognise when bad with writing like this on British book­ When the Golden People take his sister writing and limp plots are being served Nai, the ’luck’ of the tribe, his shelves it is no wonder that British fans up to him. It is this bad writing which is drink like they do. I might add that I steadily growing resentment hardens, at the core of everything. and he resolves to free his people. managed to read five of the eight books My explanation of how they get away with sent for review; the one mentioned plus In real life the less sophisticated it is quite simple. Library sales ESPER'S WAR by Roger Perry, THE FIVE society is subjugated and absorbed, guarantee that 90% of what they print of DOORS by Jack Rhys, CALIFORNIA DREAMING in fantasy peoples like the Alnei are any title is sold. Most librarians don't by Nicholas Garlick and SCORPION by favoured by the gods. Both Mor'anh and know what good sf is and would not rec­ Neville Kea. Others received were THE his sister are chosen, and it is through ognise it if it came up and bit them, so POWER BALL by John Lymington, GENESIS II their guidance when possessed that the when borrowers ask for sf they get pointed by David Wiltshire and THE SECRET SEA tribe is freed. to the Hale titles and so it goes on. If by Thomas F.Monteleone. Hale relied on bookstore sales and if they (We. have It on good authority that one title This process is carefully detailed and published in paperback, I can guarantee Paul did not >iead, THE SECRET SEA. by Thomae, plotted from the early horror when that very few of their titles would sell F.Monteleone ti, not gneat, a eut above Mor'anh swears vengeance, to the tribe's more than a few hundred copies. One of the nett. M.S. ed.) final whole-hearted agreement when he the exceptions would be A.Bertram leads them to destroy the Golden Ones’ Chandler and a few other established town. authors. UNDER THE CITY OF ANGELS by Jerry Earl Brown, Bantam PB $1.95 (US) has a Those who enjoy Conan would probably future Los Angeles being dropped into not be awake to know that Mor'anh has To give you some idea of how bad the the Pacific Ocean due to some meddling triumphed - while those who are devoted writing is that abounds within the pages with the various crustal faults by big Tolkien fans might find the story of Hale sf books, I will take as an business and a reactor meltdown. As lacking in the aura of past history example THE TYPHON INTERVENTION by Douglas government agencies try to keep salvage which made his books so enjoyable. R.Mason.The plot is that hoary old standby, operations out of the area an alien Reviewed by Rowena Cory. the alien invasion of Earth by a bunch of race send one of their brainwashed nasty lizards from a dying planet, by the agents to Earth to try and keep anyone Rowena Cory use of some sort of matter transmitter. on Earth from finding out they were However it is the writing that makes this responsible and the plot gets rather book top of the "worst sf or fantasy novel complicated. The Blurb, attributed to for 1981" list. Cop this for example : Clive Cussler quotes the book as being "Braced against the swaying of the carrier, EERIE, EROTIC, AND INTRIGUING .. SF AT he bent his arms in a piece of component IT'S CLASSIC BEST which proves one of orientation that brought their mouths on two things, that either Clive Cussler a precise docking sequence". can be bought or he hasn't read any Translation: He kissed her. science fiction worth a damn. The book Another bit of turgid writing where the had an interesting idea but was overlong ...ofrecent Fantasy *5F blond heroine is about to be ravaged by and was certainly not classic sf! the lizard's commander. I quote: By Paul J. STgueNS "For the commander's convenience, Edwina As a slight change I can recommend THE BREAKING OF NORTHWALL and THE ENDS DAGGER OF THE MIND Bolton had been staked out on a circular chart table with a thpee-in- one slope. OF THE CIRCLE by Paul 0. Williams, by Bob Shaw Cruciform. Ankle and wrists tethered to Ballantine PB $3.25 (Aust) each. Pan PB. compass point markers. Nude as a needle. Another post-holocaust series but well Elegant as the marine Venus. Taut and written with interesting characters An interesting and original idea with straining against the holdfasts, in a and believable cultures set in the future. Worth reading. a flavour that is purely British sf vain struggle to evade Zet's predatory writing at it's best. The hero is no fingers." Paul J.Stevens superman flexing his mighty thews but is instead a rather seedy and slightly bewildered man faced with outside forces that make him suspect that he may be going insane. FIRST AUSTRALASIAN} From the best to the worst ...... •F. CONVENTION - SOME RECENT ROBERT HALE RELEASES MFL&OURNE- Most publishers care about the books they publish, they edit the manuscripts sent to AFMSTP-IT*- 19,32.- them carefully and make sure that what they publish meets a reasonable standard. Then there are those publishers who just want to publish books. To hell with quality, or story or anything else, they need a TSEHflIEON certain number of books published each quarter and who cares anyway? Well, the readers obviously do, but when it comes GOH -JACK VANCEI- to sf any old garbage will do. One of the worst offenders in this type of publishing AUSTFALRJ GOH ■ LEAMNE FRAWA is Robert Hale Ltd. I have had a total of eight books handed to me for review, all FAKJ GOH ■ ERIC fe. LINDSAY published by Robert Hale and what I man­ aged to wade through, were all garbage. ENQUIRIES TO: Let me repeat that so you get my opinion MEMBERSHIP RATES: without any frills. Hale sf is garbage. TSCHA1C0N ATTENDING: $25.00 Jan. let - Apn. Sth 19S2 G.P.O. BOX. 2708 X $30.00 At the doon Now, having said that, and whilst awaiting MELBOURNE the process server let me qualify my state­ VICTORIA 3001 SUPPORTING: $7.50 ment. For a start, good quality sf or even 18 EDITORS NOTE: Please do accept our apologies if you are unable to recognise the famous fans caricatured above, but Leonardo was indisposed and we had to get Daryl Mannell to do the job. By the way, * that is not Andrew Brown.

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*** BALLOT FORM *** BALLOT FORM *** BALLOT FORM *** BALLOT FORM *** BALLOT FORM *** Administrators MUST receive this form by 10th April, 1982. I vote for ( list 1,2,3,4,5) DERRICK ASHBY SIGNATURE:______DAMIAN BRENNAN NAME (print) DARYL MANNELL PETER TOLUZZI______Write-in______ADDRESS

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DERRICK ASHBY: 100 well-chosen words on why Derrick Ashby should be chosen by the /General Fannish community to represent Australian Fandom as the DUFF winner in the 1982 season (and I reckon that counts as 31 words already,Curtis). I am 29 which means that I won’t be too old to travel when I win, or too young to appreciate the experience. I have been a fan for 8 years and have been around for long enough to know what I’m getting myself into. I have helped organise numerous conventions, survived my time in the Magic puddin’ club, am current editor of ANZAPA and have published several genzines over the years. I have thus been involved in most facets of fandom. I’ve smoothed with Tucker, lost Mike Glicksohn Loes and eaten cheese salad at Degraves (and survived)... NOMINATED BY: LEIGH EDMONDS, KEN FLETCHER, JERRY KAUFMANN, ERIC LINDSAY and MARC ORTLIEB. DAMIAN BRENNAN: Groping his way from the sandy wastes of Western Australia into the true light of fandom, see our Damian, indutibably red-headed (Redheads of the world ignite!) though somewhat overgrown, chef extraordinaire, purveyor of Ratoons and the all-potent Vegemite! The first person to turn up at Swancon 1 in 1976, Damian assisted at the birth of WA fandom and has compiled a fanzine history of its developement. A desciple of the Great Carrot in his guise as Big Bunny, he produced BIONIC RABBIT, one of the best and most regular of the wacky WA zines. With his recent migration to the shores of sun-soaked sity of Sydney he has forsworn his former frivolous image, converted to a neo-paganism, and is producing a new genzine, CAAMORA. NOMINATED BY: SALLY BEASLEY, JUDITH HANNA, ROBIN JOHNSON, FRAN SKENE and CLIFFORD WIND. DARYL MANNELL: Welcome to this, my very own DUFF platform. Just sit back and put your feet up and let me amuse you for the next 80 words or so. First Question: what is a ’’Tiny Daryl"? David Atten borough’s hairdresser has a witty theory that is little more than a figment of Von Danniken’s bank balance,others mutter "Hoyle’s Not-so-big bang theory". (More like a faint pop, really.) Seriously though, I entered fandom in 1978, became the Monash Uni’s Association dictator and editor of the clubzine, COR SERPENTIS. Chairperson of UNICON VI which was a great success— ask the Haldepeople ( not that I want to drop names, but this is politics), Secretary of CINECON 1981, current committee member of Australian SF Foundation, regular ratbag at Space Age and regular attendee at other cons. If I win I’ll produce a trip report within 12 months of return, plus meet huge members of fans etc., etc., so vote 1 for Tiny Daryl, the candidate with a heart to match his stomach. NOMINATED BY: MERVYN BINNS, JAN HOWARD FINDER, CAREY HANDFIELD, LEE SMOIRE and PAUL J.STEVENS PETER TOLUZZI: SF reader since age ten. Discovered fandom in 1975 at AUSSIECON (wow!) — instantly hooked. Helped found 2 university sf clubs and contracted DSD early in '76; recovered just in time to pass exams... Co-chair of one National Convention (Syncon ’79) and helped organize many other cons. A in ’83 committee member. Con addict— I have’t missed an Aussie convention in over three years. Founding member and second editor of APPLESAUCE; former member of ANZAPA; editor of one clubzine, SCYTALE; currently producing genzine, THE PETER PRINCIPLE. Official Mascot at Circulation One (Canberra 1981). Currently President of the Sydney SF Foundation. Founder of Aussie chapters of Massage Fandom. Frisbee Fandom. HiFi- chondriac and indefatigable music freak.Influences: Monty Python, Hitch-hiker's Guide..., Doonesbury, Tom Robbins. Piscean Rather fuzzy. Definitely gregarious. Recently titled, 'Self-appointed Guardian of Fandom's immorality'. NOMINATORS: A.BERTRAM CHANDLER, MIKE GLYER, LINDA LOUNSBURY, JACK HERMAN and JEAN WEBER. This copy of the DUFF voting form typed by Merv Binns as an insert for ASFNews 26/1/82