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Sydney Futurian, issue 8, 1948
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PAGE TWO THE SYDNEY FUTURIAN GREETINGS FROM OVER THE OCEAN! To some of you attending the Toronto Science Fiction Convention, it may well be news that there is such a thing as an organised fandom in Australia. To others, it will be like renewing an old acquaintance. You may have known of fan activities "down under" before the Pacific incident that began with Pearl Harbour and ended with Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but perhaps you did not know that activities have now been revived. Because we feel that we are a part of a world-wide interest in imaginative literature, a global fandom that recognises no boundaries, we have produced this special TORCON number of THE SYDNEY FUTURIAN. We hope that it will serve as Australian representation at the Convention, and that you will derive some pleasure from reading it. When our Society was formed in November, 1939, we adopted the name FUTURIAN SOCIETY OF SYDNEY, at the suggestion of William D. Veney. Though its career has been at times hectic (a characteristic of all stf groups) the club has existed for eight and a half years, andhas held 86 meetings. For the greater part of its life it has been a purely local body, although several years ago it sponsored a Futurian Federation of Australia. Then, at a special meeting in November, 1947, it was decided to delete the words "of Sydney" from its name, and to admit as Associate Members fans living anywhere in the world. The Futurian Society now has 27 members; it has expanded from Sydney southward to Victoria and Tasmania; northward to Queensland; and across the oceans to Japan, England, Canada and the U.S.A. We believe that in the instability of this postwar era the time is ripe for a widening of the scope of fandom. Without desiring to destroy the independence of local fan clubs, we feel that some non-partisan organisation
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PAGE TWO THE SYDNEY FUTURIAN GREETINGS FROM OVER THE OCEAN! To some of you attending the Toronto Science Fiction Convention, it may well be news that there is such a thing as an organised fandom in Australia. To others, it will be like renewing an old acquaintance. You may have known of fan activities "down under" before the Pacific incident that began with Pearl Harbour and ended with Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but perhaps you did not know that activities have now been revived. Because we feel that we are a part of a world-wide interest in imaginative literature, a global fandom that recognises no boundaries, we have produced this special TORCON number of THE SYDNEY FUTURIAN. We hope that it will serve as Australian representation at the Convention, and that you will derive some pleasure from reading it. When our Society was formed in November, 1939, we adopted the name FUTURIAN SOCIETY OF SYDNEY, at the suggestion of William D. Veney. Though its career has been at times hectic (a characteristic of all stf groups) the club has existed for eight and a half years, andhas held 86 meetings. For the greater part of its life it has been a purely local body, although several years ago it sponsored a Futurian Federation of Australia. Then, at a special meeting in November, 1947, it was decided to delete the words "of Sydney" from its name, and to admit as Associate Members fans living anywhere in the world. The Futurian Society now has 27 members; it has expanded from Sydney southward to Victoria and Tasmania; northward to Queensland; and across the oceans to Japan, England, Canada and the U.S.A. We believe that in the instability of this postwar era the time is ripe for a widening of the scope of fandom. Without desiring to destroy the independence of local fan clubs, we feel that some non-partisan organisation
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