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SF COMMENTARY 100 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION Part 3 DIRDA * BLACKFORD * BRYCE * HOLMBERG * STEELE * KING * SALVIDGE * TRAIN * RUDD * GILLESPIE SF COMMENTARY 100 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION Part 3 DIRDA * BLACKFORD * BRYCE * HOLMBERG * STEELE * KING * SALVIDGE * TRAIN * RUDD * GILLESPIE Cover: Ditmar (Dick Jenssen): ’Dancing Almond Bread’. SSFF CCOOMMMMEENNTTAARRYY 110000 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION, PART 3 November 2019 80 pages SF COMMENTARY No. 100, 50th ANNIVERSARY EDITION, PART 3, November 2019, is edited and published by Bruce Gillespie, 5 Howard Street, Greensborough, VIC 3088, Australia. Phone: 61-3-9435 7786. PREFERRED MEANS OF DISTRIBUTION .PDF FILE FROM EFANZINES.COM: http://efanzines.com or from my email address: [email protected]. WRAPAROUND COVER: Ditmar (Dick Jenssen): ‘Dancing Almond Bread’. DJ Graphic, Cinemascope version. 3 BRUCE GILLESPIE 49 CRITICANTO 3 I MUST BE TALKING TO MY FRIENDS 49 DANIEL KING 4 TIME WHOOSHES BY! GALACTIC POT-HEALER: 6 GOOD THINGS ARRIVE IN THE MAIL PHILIP K. DICK’S ‘SYMPATHY FOR THE 11 2018: THE BEST OF EVERYTHING DEVIL’ Favourite Novels :: Favourite Books Favourite Films :: Favourite Television 52 GUY SALVIDGE Favourite Popular CDs :: Favourite AMETHYSTS AND OTHER TREASURES Classical CDs 54 DAVID RUDD 27 JENNIFER BRYCE A DOUBLET OF EARLY FANTASY FICTION FAVOURITES FOR 2018: FROM BENGAL TEN BOOKS, TEN CONCERTS, SEVEN MOVIES 56 COLIN STEELE THE FIELD 44 MICHAEL DIRDA TALES OF LOVE AND DEATH BY ROBERT AICKMAN 47 JOHN-HENRI HOLMBERG MANY HAVE MISSED THE THEME OF FRANKENSTEIN: CELEBRATING FRANKENSTEIN’S TWO HUNDREDTH BIRTHDAY 2 I must be talking to my friends First the good news On Facebook recently I wrote that the best news of the year is that Ciao, the favourite Melbourne restaurant of our Friday night fannish group, has reopened on Friday night. It has remained open at lunchtime during the last few years, but meanwhile our group has spent every Friday night wandering mid Melbourne looking for a restaurant with decent food, or a restaurant quiet enough to hear each other speak. Last Friday night (11 October), we wandered down Hardware Lane — and found that Ciao had reopened on Friday night under a new name: Hardware Club. Anton, our genial host of yesteryear, greeted our mob of 10 and set up a table. He welcomed us back as if we had been wandering the desert for 40 years (which is how we saw it). Finally — great service, great food, a house wine that is drinkable ... but it’s already very popular and noisy. I couldn’t hear much of the conversation from my end of the table. But we had returned home at last! For SF Commentary readers this hardly rates as the best news of the year. From your point of view, the best news is that nearly all issues of SF Commentary from the past 50 years are now available for reading, perusing, and printing. Mark Olson has scanned all the duplicated issues of SF Commentary, and made them available through the website organised by Joe Siclari and Edie Stern’s fanzine history project (fanac.org). A warning: each page is scanned separately as a .jpg file. To read an issue consecutively, you need to download all the pages for an issue, then link them using Word or Adobe Acrobat or similar PDF-generating program. But at least you can now take a peek at the great early years of the magazine. Bill Burns continues to host at eFanzines.com all the issues of SF Commentary that have been created during the last 25 years as PDF files. Along with many other fans, I continue to be grateful for Bill’s extraordinary project, which has enabled SF fanzines to continue as a genre. Good news, bad news ... The very good news of 2019 was that anonymous ‘Joe Phan’ financed the production of a large number of print copies of SFCs 98 and 99 and gave me the funds to post them. The bad news is, as usual, the cloud of gloom generated by Australia Post. It continues to persecute people who want to send real magazines and books overseas. Australia’s airmail rates were already twice those of any other country in the world. Rates rose again on 1 October. I will send out overseas copies to a small number of people, mainly contributors, but otherwise will be notifying people to download their copies from eFanzines.com. Sorry about that. I still haven’t won a lottery or been offered an inheritance. Lowlights of the year Lowlight of the year has been our loss of Harry the wonder cat. But I’ve already written about Harry in SFC 99. Another lowlight of the year is the news that our much-missed fan about town and former member of ANZAPA, Chandler Award winner Bill Wright, has spent much of the year in hospital. He has suffered several major falls. In one accident, he fell from a tram, incurring the original injuries. In another incident, a taxi sped off while he was getting out. After several months of treatment, he eturned home for a month or so. During the third incident, a car backed out straight in front of him as he was visiting hospital. As a result he has been wearing both a neck brace and back brace for many months. He left rehabilitation hospital to return home on 17 October. He always sounds remarkably chipper on the phone. Ring him on 0434 315689, but allow for the fact that he spends much of his day involved in physiotherapy exercises or other aspects of the healing process. 3 I must be talking to my friends Time whooshes by! I’m still failing to retire. My basic income is a bit of films (on DVD and Blu-ray) that I would not have seen pension money and a bit of superannuation money otherwise. This year’s films have included Fritz Lang’s (which will run out in about three years). To survive great film noir Human Desire (1954), starring Glenn Ford financially I need to keep compiling indexes. When that and Gloria Grahame (based on Zola’s novel La Bête supply of index work runs out, I will be in real financial Humaine), Memo Meyes’ little masterpiece Martian Child trouble. I’ve had enough work this year to stop the bank (2007), starring John Cusack, based on the life of David account disappearing, but it’s also stopped me being the Gerrold and his adopted son; and the new 4K remastered actifan I want to be. print of Peter Bogdanovich’s The Last Picture Show Until now I’ve been able to produce two parts of the (1972). Fiftieth Anniversary Issue of SF Commentary. But they Not quite monthly, but near enough, have been should have appeared in January. A few weeks ago (be- dinners with Dick Jenssen and a few other friends at the fore I was again rudely interrupted by three indexes and Rosstown Hotel in Carnegie. Geoff Allshorn, who lives a Nova Mob talk), I went diving through the computer in Montmorency, the neighbouring suburb to ours, files and found at least 200 pages of material. drives us to Carnegie and picks up Dick from his home. You might not give a stuff when the next issue of SFC We were eating on Thursdays, but the Rosstown is comes out — and I know that I’ve failed to hit my own extremely popular and noisy on Thursday nights, so deadlines. But some of my contributors have been on the we’ve moved to Monday nights. We’re all having hearing edge of their seats for ten months waiting for their problems these days, so Dick usually invites only four or deathless prose to appear in print. six people to these dinners. Sometimes the whole Rosstown seems filled with people with hearing prob- At the beginning of the year I made a very unwise lems who need to speak loudly so they can be heard. promise to deliver a short talk about the work of James We don’t go out to dinner very often these days. Not Tiptree, Jr. to the Nova Mob. In doing so, I stepped off sure if it’s the times we live in, or merely because of the the safe little lagoon shore of the literary footnote into need to make elaborate arrangements in order to visit the mighty maelstrom of the Tiptree ocean. I had to people. Although Public Transport Victoria was sup- re-read many stories I had not read for nearly 50 years. I posed to have fixed many problems on our railway line, had to read lots of stories I had never read before. it keeps cancelling services and replacing them with (However, I’ve had no time to read the Tiptree’s two buses at night. Therefore we do not feel confident in novels.) I gave myself the great pleasure of re-reading arranging dinner dates in advance, or booking to go to Julie Phillips’ biography James T iptree, Jr.: The Double Life concerts or events in town. Despite this, we did manage of Alice B. Sheldon, the best literary biography I’ve read. to visit Sarah Endacott and Jamie Reuel in South Croy- And I read various other books for the first time, such as don in April. My sister Jeanette and Duncan visited us Letters to Tiptree (Twelfth Planet), edited by Alexandra early in the year, and Jo and Carey Handfield, who now Pierce and Alisa Krasnostein. All this made it impossible live near by, join us for cakes and coffee at Urban to publish SFC 100 by October or write ANZAPA Mailing Grooves once a month. Comments. Charlie and Nic Taylor took us out to Kilmore to attend the annual Winter Solstice party and barbecue You might be amazed to learn that the Gillespie and held by Rose King and Francis Payne in a house filled Cochrane household has spare minutes in the day.
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