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BOOK BINDING BY EXPERTS h-hhhhh.- £ -x-x- DO YOU WANT YOURS CIENCE FICTION ORBIT (Consolidated Press, Sydney. 64 pages, 10- by COLLECTION OF MAGAZINES SAFEGUARDED ? 7-g-, unstapled. 55 cents, 1/6 NZ, 2/- A. ) , IF SO, THEN CONTACT DON LATIMER AS Frankly, I did not want to review this. I would like to enthuse, but honestly forbids. The for­ SOON AS POSSIBLE . mat is awkward in size, and the mag is apt to disin­ HE WILL BIND THEM FOR YOU AT' tegrate in the hands. The paper is poor, being semi­ transparent it is hard on the eyes. The art work is PRICES TO PLEASE. A LARGE VARIETY smudgy, the only signature visible is Dick Sheldon . However, the illos da bear some, relation to the sto­ OF BINDINGS ARE AVAILABLE FOR YOUR. ries - a refreshing novelty. Most of the stories are INSPECTION. by well known authors, but are literary potboilers DON LATIMER, INVASION EROM THE MICROCOSM ( Derleth) . Micro­ Rear 645 BELL STREET. scopic invaders destroyed by a charlady with a fly - PASCOE VALE SOUTH., spray - Phew I LUENA OF THE GARDENS (Brandts). Carn­ VIC. Phone: FL 275?. ivorous cabbages and venomous Virginia Creepers, com­ plicate a miseegenetion - a real emetic I ADVT THE CAPTAIN’S GETAWAY (Abernathy)□ An unwan­ ted visitor is given a scace travel secret - he is OFOFOEOFOFOeOFOFOFOFOFOFOFOFOFOFOEOFOFOFOFOFOFOI'OEOF not told that he is going into a time stasis - weak. OF OF DP IROM TOMORROW (Mack Reynolds). Time traveller OF 0 P E RATION FANTAST OF from the future attempts to change present, but is OF + 4- + + + + + + + + + + + + + + OF not believed. He disappears and - You guessed at I OF OF FRITZCHEN (Charles Beaumont). Unnleasant ch­ OF THE WORLD’S LARGEST SCIENCE FICTION OF ild finds an unpleasant creature that :has an unnle­ OF OF asant parent - fair. GATEWAY TO YAMARA (Evans), ^o - OF ORGANIZATION OF men from another dimension need strong men - reader OF OF will.need strong stomach; ASTEROID 745 - MAURITIA by OF All Branches Of Science Fiction Fandom 01' Martin Pearson. One of Hitler’s descendants (I) gets OF are served by this organization. For OF his quietus, from a ghost -I Nerts I MONSTER NO MORE OF OF (’Jells). Mutants on a lest planet - the edd ones out OF full particulars,- contact the Australian OF are the humans - fair idea, mangled in the writing « OF OF agent, DAVIDi COHEN, THE HEART OF THE GAME (English). An Earthman l finds OF OF himself the butt of a telepathic planet - there is a OF BOX 4940, G. OF battle of idealogies with man as a pawn - and a King, OF Not my dish, but some will like it. 0F0F0F0F0F0F0F0F0/“dF0fe0F0’FGP0F0F0F0F0F0F0F0F0F0F0F To sum up: for juvenile consumption. Bob McCubbin ETHERLINE ETHFRLINE 5 w Melbourne Town S/w Mm Mem Group REPORT TO THURSDAY, 3rd June, 1934. closely kept secret was the new Aussie pro - mag, ORBIT, a so-called reprint of the US mag of the At the beginning of April this year, the Syd­ same name. How an organization of the calibre of Con­ ney Science Fiction Thursday Night Group moved back to solidated. Press has the gall to issue a magazine in their old club-room in the Sydney Bridge Club rooms , a format such as ORBII beats me. The less said about Post Office Chambers, near Wynyard station. This room the material the better, and it also astounds me how has seen the most successful fan meetings, and will they get a number '10’, as the original American mag be remembered by visitors to the 1953 Convention as only lasted about 5 issues. If they are invading the the site of the displays and the business session. sf market, at least pick a mag which is still going. For some months previously the group had been It appears that Frew Publications are not the meeting in the club-rooms of the Futurian Society of worst in the world as far as prices go, as the 2/- Sydney, but these were small and not in the city pro­ wantedfor the collection of cheap newsprint known as per, and activities not emanating from the .Futurian ORBIT is really laughable. The only consolation is Society met with continual obstruction there, so it the fact that it's absorbent.and.it has no staples. was decided to move the social group back to the city Books out in Melbourne include CHILDHOOD'S END room. by Arthur C. Clarke priced at 13/3, FUTURE TENSE ed­ The move has has a beneficial effect on the ited by Kendell Foster Crossen, priced at 13/3, the group as a whole, which previously had been licking coll.ection of short stories, JIZZLE by John Wyndham both members and enthusiasm. Since returning to 333 priced au 14/6, HOLE IN HEAVEN by F. Dubrez Fawcett’ George St., David Cohen's BLUE CENTAUR BOOKSHOP and priced at 12/-, STORIES & CREAM by Edward Hyams, pri the library of the NORTH S 1ORE FUTURIAN SOCIETY ( the iced at 14/6, the juvenile ISLAND OF FEAR by Patrick holders of the 1955 Convention) have been doing a ro­ Meore at 9/6 and THE COMPLETE BOOK OF OUTER SPACE at 17/6. aring trade, and a fabulous display of science fiction art work featuring several hundred items was arranged Magazines to arrive include NE J WORLDS 23 at 2/6 one night. Newcomers are not infrequent, and are alw­ WEIRD TALES 4 at 2/3, the latest Tit Bits MENACE FROM ays welcome. Attendances have varied between fifteen THE PAST by Carl Maddox at 1/3 IF 6 at 2/3, BEYOND and thirty, and a number of veteran readers of science 3 at 2/3, AUTHENTIC 44 at 2/3. fiction who had drifted cut of contact previously , There should be an influx of books in the next have put in appearances. couple of weeks, as there are quite a few out in UK. Two new paperbacks from Panther arrived, both The office bearers so far elected for the 1955 at 2/3. Con are: W. Hubble, Organizer; A. Haddon, Secretary:; The 49th Man is in town as a support at the P. Burke, Chairman; M. Bos, Local Publicity; D. Cohen State Theatre, while as the 3rd support to the very Tre asurer. funny British film, GENEVIEVE is THE ORACLE, an exc­ ellent fantasy. D. Nicholson. IJC ETHERLINE ETHERLINE 6 “ 7 FROM FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION, 3rd Series, edited by Boucher & McComas, from Double day at $ 3.25. 9/obaJ Pound Up It has been announced (unfortunately) that the VARGO STATTEN SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZJN& will carry on John Wyndham’s excellent HIE KRAKEN WAKES from May under a new publisher, SCION DISTRIBUTORS. was broadcast over the B^B.C. on the 28th April. SCIENCE-FANTASY 8 contains "Tomorrow" a long New books out in UK arc as follows: novel by E. C. Tubb, "The Shimmering Tree" by Margaret THE SILVER SWORD by James Ramsay Ullman, from Collins Lowe, "Space Prize" by F. G. Rayer, "Once Upon A Tine" at 12/6 stg on April 5th. by Jonathan Burke, "Take A Letter" by P. H. Cutler , ON THE ORIGIN OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM by H. Alfoen from "Dawn Of Peace Eternal" by John Ashcroft, "The Conqu­ Clarendon Press at 30/- stg, on 22nd April. erors" by Lan bright, with a guest editorial by Jilson NIGHTMARES OF EMINENT PERSONS by Bertrand Russell at Tucker. 9/6 stg, from Bodley Head on 18th May. THE ROBOT AND THE MAN by Martin Greenberg, from Gray­ son & Grayson, at 9/6 stg, on May l/th. BEACHHEADS OF SPACE by August Derleth, from fei d enfold and Nicholson at 9/6 stg, on 7th May. THS NE.' MEN by C. P. Snow, from Macmillans on 30th Ap­ ril, AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION 44. Cheap editions of THE SMASHED' 70RLD by Henry Another cover in the "To The Stars" series .. Slater from Jarrolds at 6/- stg, THE OTHER HALF OF The lead story by Alan Barclay, "The Lever and the' THE PLANET by Paul Capon from Heinemanns at 6/- stg, Fulcrum" is excellent , astonishingly good by AUTHEN­ and LITTLE TALES OF SMETHERS by Lord Dunsany, also from TIC standards. Jarrolds at 6/- stg. "Addict" by Frank Quattrocchi has as addicts The pocket book edition of THE SANDS OF ILIRS, those who do not take drugs issued by the State. A by Arthur C. Clarke was issued on April 12th by Coral fair yarn, but I still find it hard to believe that Books.