SF Commentary 99 50th Anniversary Edition Part 2

July 2019 80 pages

Cover: Randy Byers: ‘Morning Glory’. Photograph. SF COMMENTARY 99 * 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION, PART 2

July 2019 80 pages

SF COMMENTARY No. 99, 50th ANNIVERSARY EDITION, PART 2, July 2019, is edited and published in a limited number of print copies (this edition only) 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].

FRONT COVER: Randy Byers: ‘Morning Glory’ Photograph. BACK COVER: Ditmar (Dick Jenssen): ‘Dancing Almond Bread’. DJ Graphic. ARTWORK: Sheryl Birkhead (pp. 11, 18, 23, 25); John Bangsund (pp. 52–4); John Foyster (pp. 56–8); Denny E. Marshall: ‘Ritual of the Woods’ (p. 79). PHOTOGRAPHS: Cat Sparks (p. 3); Randy Byers (p. 4); Merv Binns (p. 5); Elaine Cochrane (pp. 8, 9, 10); Laurraine Tutihasi (p. 14); Sheryl Birkhead (p. 27); Giampaolo Cossato (p. 35); George Turner (p. 55); John Foyster (pp. 63–5).

3 THE GLITTERING PRIZES 37 FEATURE LETTERS 37 Gerald Murnane: Breakthrough at the age of 79 4 I MUST BE TALKING TO MY 39 Mars and Beyond: Patrick McGuire, John FRIENDS Litchen and Greg Benford Bruce Gillespie 42 Always Coming Home: Yvonne Rousseau (and Ursula Le Guin) 4 TRIBUTES 44 Patrick McGuire: Polite and detailed 4 Gillian Polack pays tribute to Vonda McIntyre disagreements 5 Bruce Gillespie and Yvonne Rousseau pay tribute to Gene Wolfe: 6 Peace, reviewed by Yvonne Rousseau 50 NOVA NOT OUT: 7 Ron Drummond’s dream narrative in tribute to A REALLY INCOMPLETE AND VERY Randy Byers PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE NOVA MOB, 8 Bruce Gillespie and Elaine Cochrane: 1970–2018 Farewell to Harry Bruce Gillespie, with much help from Kim Huett, Julian Warner, 10 LETTERS from Alan Stewart, Leigh Edmonds, Mark Plummer, and Robert Day :: Franz Rottensteiner :: Sally Yeoland Steve Jeffery :: Andy Robson :: John Litchen and inadvertent help from John Foyster and John Leigh Edmonds :: Judy Buckrich :: Bangsund Dick Jenssen :: Alex Skovron :: Jennifer Bryce Cy Chauvin :: Doug Barbour :: William Breiding 66 YVONNE GETS HER KNEES THUMPED Gregory Benford :: Gillian Polack :: Yvonne Rousseau Sheryl Birkhead :: Dale Speirs :: Murray Moore 68 BRUCE GILLESPIE’S NOVA MOB DIARY Mark Plummer :: Stephen Campbelll :: ENTRIES AUG. 1970–OCT. 2017 Lloyd Penney :: John Hertz :: Casey Wolf :: AND MUCH OTHER INFORMATION Jeff Hamill :: John-Henri Holmberg :: FROM KIM HUETT Damien Broderick :: Giampaolo Cossato :: Ray Wood :: Patrick McGuire

2 The glittering prizes: Continuum 15, June 2019 Continuum 15 took place in June, long after most of the material was written for this issue of SF Commentary, which should have appeared on 1 January 2019. But the Continuum Committee got wind of the existence of a Fiftieth Anniversary Edition of SF Commentary. So they awarded me the Eternity Award for (I assume) a lifetime’s achievement. It was a complete surprise, especially as the only other winner is Mervyn R. Binns, whose achievements in fandom make mine seem puny. Many other prizes were given at either the Opening Ceremony (on the Friday night of the convention) or the Awards Ceremony (on the Saturday). Details can be accessed at either the Continuum website or the Australian Science Fiction Foundation site. I was particularly pleased to see that Alan Stewart won the A. Bertram Chandler Award for lifetime achieve- ment, and Kaaron Warren won the Peter McNamara Award. The Ian Gunn Award for unrecognised efforts in fandom went to Lucy Sussex and Julian Warner, for keeping the Nova Mob going for 21 years. (The history of the Nova Mob appears later in this issue of SFC.) Photo below taken by Cat Sparks (who also won a couple of awards at Continuum): (l. to r.): Bruce Gillespie, wielding the giant hourglass that is the Eternity Award; Helena Binns; and Merv Binns, the only other winner of this award.

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