Comments | jocko55: sf fans love chocolate!

jocko55

sf fans love chocolate!

Jun 16, 2009 20:57

Snap, crackle and pop. Now that the latest Ethel the Aardvark fanzine (142, with a cool maroon and blue cover) is out, I can now say I am surprised and delighted to be offered a Life Membership by the Melbourne Science Fiction Club. I am unsure how many weekly meetings I have attended in 26 years, but I did calculate I had made 4,500 ( Read more... )

msfc, aussie sf fandom

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mortonhall June 16 2009, 11:35:10 UTC

Congrats on the life membership - well deserved!

I can think of four fanzines without trying:
Steam Engine Time
Ethel the Aardvark
ANZAPA (which might be cheating)
Interstellar Ramjet Scoop

They all seem to be VIC based... perhaps that's why the Chronos awards are necessary!

fishlifter June 16 2009, 20:45:53 UTC

Add Mumblings from Munchkinland, Chris Nelson in ACT, for geographical variety...

---Mark

drjon June 16 2009, 12:17:27 UTC

Congratulations!

mireille21 June 16 2009, 12:19:22 UTC

Woohoo! to all of the above. All good and exciting news.

Um, maybe we should start thinking about producing a fanzine here in SA...

I agree about the kids' program and will forward your comments to Ruth.

mortonhall June 17 2009, 10:36:35 UTC

FYI - http://www.stickyinstitute.com/

not sure if they have done anything about SF related fanzines but it might be worth checking them out

mortonhall June 17 2009, 10:48:39 UTC

excellent, thanks. Checked out the website,
Feb 2010, Festival of the photocopier.
YES
I want to attend.

Festival of the photocopier jocko55 June 17 2009, 10:51:03 UTC

bugger, did the anonymous thing again.

mortonhall June 17 2009, 11:18:03 UTC

I'm pretty sure they have done one of those every year for the last few years. I've never managed to get to one!

anonymous June 18 2009, 12:56:47 UTC

Ah, found you, you bugger!

Of course you can do another Playbeing. Just let me know how much trib you need.

Andrew W. aka Phandom/the Hoax.

jocko55 June 18 2009, 13:27:29 UTC

Hello old friend.

Yay, LOL

Well I have to do some sort of a fanzine. Here would be a great place to make a fabulous joke about a Dudcon (next years SF Natcon, in Melbourne) fanzine... Of course I suspect i have enough for an issue of Psychodaleks too. Was Watching Doctor Who DVD featuring the Special Weapons Dalek today. Still cool.

anonymous June 19 2009, 02:27:13 UTC

Hello Jocko!

I would love to see another Psychodaleks. It would be well received, especially now that Dr. Who has been back on the air in recent years. I'm sure I have a few doodles about the place I could submit.

Back to Playbeing, it's a good year to do it too - Colfer's new HHG novel comes out in October, there's a new "Last Chance to See" with Stephen Fry & Mark C., and I'm sure there was something else happening this year. The Dick Barton serial with Simon Jones? No, that wasn't it. I'll just look it up in this new edition of Playbei-- Hang on a minute! There isn't one...yet!