OLIEn WORLDS EDITED AND PUBLISHED IN AUSTRALIA BY PAUL COLLINS. Featuring original stories by such authors as A.BERTRAM CHANDLER,DAVID LAKE,JACK WODHAMS,WYNNE WHITEFORD,JOHN CLARK,CHERRY WILDER,ROB GERRAND and others. This is the third collection edited by Paul Collins following ENVISAGED WORLDS, and OTHER WORLDS.We will be featuring a full review next issue of ASFN, but our sources report that this is an even better collection that the previous two volumes. Publication is scheduled for May 1979. RRP $11.95 THE LUCK OF Edited by Paul Collins Including original science fiction by Australia’s top writers.... THE LUCK OF BRIRS FIUE BY CHERRY WILDER was published this month in both cased and limp editions ,by Angus and Robertson in Australia.The author was born in New Zealand but spent most of her life in Australia .She is now living in West Germany with her husband Horst Grimm and her two daughters. The novel is one of those written with children in mind ,but will also be read and enjoyed by adults , as so often happens in the science fiction and fantasy field.An interesting alien environment is the setting for an adventure featuring a space explorer from Earth who crash lands his spaceship on the planet Torin and is befriended by some of the children of the planets natural inhabitants. Cloth edition:$9.95 Limp edition:$5.95 'GANDALF' BOOK LENGTH FANTASY THE COURTS OF CHAOS - Roger Zelazny (Doubleday, Faber) GLORIANA by Michael Moorcock (Allison The following items will appear on the PROFESSIONAL ARTIST 44-71 and Busby,Avon,Fontana) final Hugo ballot for material published SAINT CAMBER by Katherine Kurtz in 1978.Counting and verification were VINCENT DI FATE (Del Rey) performed by David Pringle of the Science STEPHEN FABIAN THE STAND by Stephen King (Doubleday Fiction Foundation in England.473 ballots DAVID HARDY New English Library) were recieved ;the spread of nominations BORIS VALLEJO THE WHITE DRAGON by Anne McCaffrey are shown after each category . MICHAEL WHELAN QDel Rey,Sidgewick and Jackson) Voting forms are on their way to members PROFESSIONAL EDITOR 52-150 (The WHITE DRAGON in my opinion should of The 37th WORLD SF CONVENTION-SEACON not be on the Fantasy list, and the now. If you are not a member but wish to JAMES BAEN (Ace Books,Destinies) neadens who nominated -it should leann vbte for the HUGOS,you can become a non­ BEN BOVA (Analog,Omni) the diffenance between SF and Fantasy. attending member for $10.Australian agent TERRY CARR(Universe,The Year's Best SF, By alt definitions WHITE DRAGON is Robin Johnson P.O.Box A491,Sydney South, (Year's Finest Fantasy) definitely SF and not F. N.S.W. 2000. EDWARD FERMAN (F&SF) GEORGE SCITHERS (Isaac Asimov's SFM) The nominations othenwise hold no NOVEL 61-90 gneat suApnises .but I pensonaity hoped FANZINE________________ 26-71 and thought, that CHRIS FOSS would make BLIND VOICES by Tom Reamy (Berkley - the best antist ZZdi.M.B.) Putnam) JANUS ed.Jan Bogstad & Jeanne Gomoll DREAMSNAKE by Vonda McIntyre (Houghton MAYA ed.Rob Jackson The SEACON Hugo Subcommittee urge all Miflin.Gollancz) MOTA ed.Terry Hughes members to get their votes in and make THE FADED SUN: KESRITH by C.J.Cherryh SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW ed.Richard E. this a truly representative vote ,for (DAW,SFBC,Galaxy Feb-May) Geis the most popular people .stories and UP THE WALLS OF THE WORLD by James publications. FAN WRITER 24-61 Tiptree Jr (Berkley/Putnam , (I feel that I must make one comment on Gollancz) RICHARD E.GEIS WORLD CONVENTION non-attending member­ THE WHITE DRAGON by Anne McCaffrey LEROY KETTLE ships.For the last two or three years I (Del Rey .Sidgewick & Jackson) DAVE LANGFORD have paid a non-attending membership for BOB SHAW the dubious privilige of voting for the NOVELLA 31-182 D.WEST HUGO AWARDS.I did not even recieve copies of the programme booklets.The least a ENEMIES OF THE SYSTEM by Brian Aldiss ' FAN ARTIST 24-64 (F&SF,June ,J.Cape) con-com can do is provide a booklet, otherwise I think non-attending members FIRESHIP by Joan Vinge (Analog Dec) JIM BARKER are just being ripped -off.M-b') THE PERSISTANCE OF VISION by John HARRY BELL Varley (F&SF,March,Hal 1 of the ALEXIS GILLILAND Martian Kings-Futura) BILL ROTSLER THE SCI-FI CONTROVERSY SEVEN AMERICAN NIGHTS by Gene Wolfe STU SHIFFMAN (Orbit 20 ed.Damon Knight:Harper Those are the ten categories of the An old (>fuie.nd of nine fnom Bangon Pa.,USA, and Row) HUGO AWARDS proper.Charles Brown said Vn Remsen T. Schenck, sent me the following THE WATCHED by Christopher Priest that LOCUS was to be treated as a clipping fnom the Miami Henald of the (F&SF,April) professional magazine otherwise it 2Sth of, FebnuaAu 1979.1 night add that as NOVELETTE 34-57 would have appeared on the Fanzine list. much as I agn.ee with the Idea that science The following awards are not part of fiction fandom should encourage a little THE BARBIE MURDERS by John Varley the Hugos ,but are administered by mone sophisticated image of the genn.e,the (IASFM,Jan/Feb ) SEACON. fuss oven, this tenm Is quite hilanious .1 THE DEVIL YOU DON'T KNOW by Dean Ing hope you agn.ee with me. M.8. THE JOHN W.CAMPBELL AWARD 15-54 HUNTER'S MOON by Poul Anderson THE BODY sociologic is reduc­ (Analog ,Nov) This award is given in Honour of the ible to two kinds of persons: Those THE MAN WHO HAD NO IDEA by Thomas M. famous editor of ASTOUNDING/ANALOG , who use the term ’sci-fi" when Disch(F&SF,Oct) who did more to help and encourage speaking of science fiction and those MIKAL'S SONGBIRD by Orson Scott Card new writers than any other editor.Thus who do not. The term first popped up (Analog,May) this award is given to new writers in in the early 1950s or thereabouts as the field. sort of a goof on ’hi-fi', which was SHORT STORY_____________ 30-50 STEPHEN DONALDSON (The Chronicles of then coming into some currency, and Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever:Holt, CASSANDRA by C.J.Cherryh (F&SF,Oct) was quickly renounced by everyone Rinehart & Winston,Ballantine,Fontana COUNT THE CLOCK THAT TELLS THE TIME except Joe Dumb, the same individual CYNTHIA FELICE ("Longshanks":Galileo by Harlan Elision (Omni,Dec.) who refers Co San Francisco as Jan 77;Godsfire,Pocket Books) STONE by Edward Bryant (F&SF,Feb) "Frisco". Persons who say 'sci-fi1' JAMES P.HOGAN (Inherit the Stars:Del THE VERY SLOW TIME MACHINE by Ian reveal themselves to be half-wits Rey ) Watson (Anticipations,edited by who do not belong in your home and BARRY LONGYEAR ('The Tryouts":Future Christopher Priest:Faber, social set. The correct diminutive, Pastimes ed Scott Edelstein; Scribner's) of course, is either ’sf’ or ’SF’, A Different Light:Berkley) VIEW FROM A HEIGHT by Joan D.Vinge each of which is pronounced ’ess-eff’ CHARLES SHEFFIELD ("What Song the Sirens (Analog,Sep) as opposed to ’sssf’ . Hie class Sang": Galaxy .April 77;etc) struggle against persons who say DRAMATIC PRESENTATION 62-137 Owing to a tie in nominations,six names ’sci-fi’ goes on to this day, most appear in this list instead of the recently via the editor of OMNI, the HITCH-HIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY new science fact-and-fiction magazine. (BBC:Radio 4) usual five. BEN BOVA is his name, and he has just THE INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS 'GANDALF' GRAND MASTER of FANTASY written an entire article on the (United Artists) subject and sold it to a main-stream LORD OF THE RINGS (United Artists) RAY BRADBURY publication in order to educate the SUPERMAN (Columbia-EMI-Warner) URSULA LE GUIN proletariat. The magazine thanked WATERSHIP DOWN (Cinema Internat Corp.) MICHAEL MOORCOCK Bova very much and sent him a check JACK VANCE marked for ’sci-fi article.’ 2 ROGER ZELAZNY ERSTEREON 1979 EASTERCON '79 was held at the Sheraton MB ROBIN JOHNSON and A.BERTRAM CHANDLER Hotel in Melbourne over the weekend of April 13th to 16th .The Guest of Honour was CHRIS JOHNSTON Artist Captain* A. BERTRAM CHANDLER , and the Fan Guest KEITH CURTIS. night,was the screening of one of the worst The program got under way with a slide show films I have ever seen , and one of the very of sf fans and previous convention scenes, few I have walked out of before it was over, presented and narrated by John Foyster.I THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW. did not see much of it myself ,but judging SATURDAY started off with a GUFF Slave from the roars of laughter the item was a MB Auction which raised only about $10,and very popular one. this is not surprising when you consider One of the highlights of the EASTERCON This was followed by the Guest of Honour that John Foyster,John Alderson and was the panel on WOMEN IN SCIENCE FICTION Captain Chandler being introduced and Paul Stevens masquerading as Eric Lindsay The panel included Helen Swift,Christine interviewed by Robin Johnson .In amongst were the auctioned .The book auction was Ashby,Adrienne Losin.Jean Webster,Valma the inevitable humorous anecdotes ,we a great success for DUFF and GUFF,and I Brown and the lone male Marc Ortleib. heard how the theme of the Grimes series believe about $300 was raised for the fan. They observed that women have been treat­ came into being ,and details of recently funds altogether over the con.Bi11 ed very poorly .being plot devices rather completed and future projects .