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Australian SF News 44 Number 44 nusiRnunn jjf newsSI.00 Volume 7 Number 2 NnvtwncRNovember 1986 WYNNE WHITEFORD ENDER'S WAR SELLS MORE BOOKS by Orson Scot! TO BERKLEY Card wins 198< Hugo Best Novel Award WHILE ON A US TRIP TO ATTEND THE WORLD SF CONVENTION IN ATLANTA, WYNNE WHITEFORD CLINCHED A DEAL ORSON SCOTT CARD WITH BERKLEY FOR THREE REPRINTS, TWO NEW NOVELS AND PROBABLE SEQUELS A MUCH DESERVED TRIUMPH FOR FOR FIVE SERIES. AN HIGHLY ORIGINAL AND More details page 3- OUTSTANDING SF NOVEL. Full Hugo Award Details inside. flUSTMLinn ® nEUIS ISSN 0155-8870 AUSTRALIAN SF NEWS Issue # 44 November 1986 Edited and published by Mervyn R.8inns 1 Glen Eira Road Ripponlea 3182 Victoria, AUSTRALIA All correspondence to: „ „ Post Office Box 491 DEAR READERS, Elsternwick 3185 Victoria, AUSTRALIA First up I must apologise for the long deal in Phone: (03) 531 5879 publishing this issue, particularly after all the new subscriptions I received back in June. The SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $6.00 for 6 issues, response I received indicated enough interest to by surface mail and $15.00 for air mail. keep publishing ASFN, but not enough to make a Please make all payments to the editor, big thing of it. So issues for the time being Mervyn R.Binns or MERV BINNS BOOKS. At this will be small and to the point, not only because time I have no confirmed overseas agents, so of the number of subscribers I have, but also please contact me direct for new rates and due to the time it is taking me to earn a few payment details. I plan to keep to 12 pages if dollars selling books via mail order. I can publish on a regular basis, but to catch I hope that I can now get into the routine of i up I may be forced to produce slightly larger putting an issue together on a regular basis, issues from time to time. The main features of simply by allowing a few hours every week to the NEWS will remain as they are, with some work on it. My new bookselling business has got details on books announced by publishers and off to a reasonable start, but I still have a lot a full list of all books sent to us by them. of books in stock and I have a lot of work to do A list of all books 'by author' is included producing new lists and finding people to send in my separate publication BOOKS, which is them to. being sent free to all MERV BINNS BOOKS cus­ tomers. I will send it free to any NEWS sub­ There does seem to be a lot more fantasy books scribers and others on request. available on the local bookstands at the moment', M.B. but a quick look indicates less new sf. The US publishers are publishing just as much sf as ever, ADVERTISING: but a slight increase in fantasy may be noted, while in Britain some publishers like Grafton, Full back page $60 Interior full page $50 formerly Granada, and Futura are turning out a Half page $25 Quarter page $15 regular flow of sf and fantasy, with Allen and These rates are for publishers and other Unwin not only producing more fantasy in cloth professional advertisements. Conventions and and pb, but introducing a new sf series, ORION other fan advertisements receive a 50% as well. The out put from Sphere however has discount. practically disappeared along with Arrow and Copy ready size is 200 mm up, 150mm accross. their now disappearing imprints Hamlyn. Methuen 2 page 100mm by 150mm. a page 100mm by 75 m.~i. are not doing to bad, along with a small but If larger copy is received and has to be regular contribution from Penguin and the odd reduced, advertisers will be charged for the media items from Star. Some hard cover publications cost of reduction. like Asimov's novels and CONTACT by Carl Sagan | ----------------------------------------- have made an impression, but there is still not a lot of sf being published in Britain. The Australian field however, compared to Britain PCeeeBlwihe Seeks or even Antarctica, remains a disaster area. It is very disappointing after the promising efforts MAIL ORDER FSSF BOOK SERVICE of publishers In Australia to get an sf field P.O.Box 491, Elsternwick, 3185,Victoria going here, to see their efforts all for naught. My first comprehensive new list, BOOKS #1, is Appart from the magazines APHELION and OMEGA, now available, along with TRADING POST #4, which only publishes a couple of stories each listing new and second hand books in stock. month, I know of nothing due to be published or published recently, in Australia. In a small way ■ Lists sent FREE! Callers welcome, but please j ring on 531 5879 first. I guess this could be attributed to the good old Australian cringe, but I guess it really boils BRODERICK in particular, so apart from the fact thai down to the fact that the total demand for sf his novel THE BLACK GRAIL was published by Avon In books in the country is still not big enough to September, we do not know what he is up to. support their publication here. It is good to see a very Australian novel like ILLYWHACKER GEORGE TURNER has been hard at it. Faber will be pub by Peter Carey, getting both local ( Ditmar lishing a new novel, THE SEA AND SUMMER, in July Winner this year) and overseas recognition and 1987. This is an expanded version of a novella, bestseller status. 'The Fittest', first published in URBAN FANTASIES. He is working on a "rather shorter novel" based on I do not intend to include long lists of books another novella, On The Nursery Floor', which saw that have been published or announced,in the NEWS. the light of day in STRANGE ATTRACTORS last year. I recently published the first issue of my pub­ He said, "I'm doing this (novel) because (a) the lication BOOKS, which listed all the sfsf books story contains germs of ideas that need developing published, that I could find, from late I985 up and (b) I just feel like doing a high-speed to June 1986. I hope to get that out regulary as thriller, for a change of pace. APHELION will be I am offering many of the books listed for sale publishing a few more of his short stories in 1987 and offering to obtain all others. I will include and he expects to put a collection together for lists of books on things like Space Travel in Norstrilia Press, who have shown interest in the future issues, and a separate list of cinema and idea. Nova Mob attendees and a few more of his associated things like posters. I will send a friends, attended a party at John Foysters home in copy of BOOKS #1 or Cinema Book S Poster lists on StKilda, to celebrate George's 70th birthday and request. The NEWS will cover news of books coming, the sale of THE SEA AND SUMMER. recently written or bought by publishers, plus details on books sent to me by publishers for The big sucess story of the moment is WYNNE WHITEFORD. review. I will definitely include some reviews. After attending the World SF Convention in Atlanta, I expect to continue to carry other usual features, Georgia, in the USA, Wynne Whiteford returned with and with luck, add perhaps critical articles and the news that he has sold a novel to Berkley, such, when time and economics allow for an DARK FRONTIER, which is to be published in the fall increase in size. of 1987. They are going to reprint each of his nove OK! t did say last issue I would include the book in paperback, THOR'S HAMMER, SAPPHIRE ROAD and list by publishers, but I have found it more prac­ BREATHING SPACE ONLY. Another new novel, LAKE OF THE tical not to include the book list as part of the SUN will be published first in hard cover and then NEWS. I wi11 put you on the regular mailing list to later in mass market paperback. This story is set receive BOOKS, on request. It is free for the time during the early days of a Martian colony, when being and will be as long as you keep buying books mining exploration finds an underground colony of from me, but in future a subscription will mutated humans. Survivors of a lost race on Earth, be payable by non-book-buyers. who tried to colonize Mars thousands of years ago. This novel is due to be finished in December, Wynne reports it had better, be as they have ____________________________________ MERV BINNS and paid him an "advance, which is bigger than the one __ ' T> M Stephen King got for Carrie", he added. He is AUSTRALIAN planning a sequel to THOR'S HAMMER for Berkley, PROFESSIONAL" and an outline for this, plus a sketchy one for a NEWS third novel in the series, have a I ready been sent to Berkley. In fact five separate trilogies are now a strong possibility, based on the three novels already published, and the two coming up. This report of Wynne Whiteford's success and George Turner's continued activity, brings a ray While the publication of sf in Australia is at a of sunlight to an otherwise bleak outlook for low ebb, the writing of it not so bad. Short story Aussie SF. writers have a few places to have their stories published here and they can off course try and break into the overseas market.
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