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Sydney Futurian, issue 8, 1948
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THE SYDNEY FUTURIAN PAGE SEVEN vice to Australian fans generally, by sending prozines to the club library. $1 worth pays an annual subscription as an associate member, or one current prozine will pay for 6 consecutive issues of THE SYDNEY FUTURIAN. Material for the Library should be sent to Mrs. L. Molosworth; 160 Beach St, Coogee, Sydney, NSW. (Members -- a new Library catalogue will shortly be issued, probably with the next SYDNEY FUTURIAN.) --------------- CORRESPONDENCE SECTION .......... With everyone talkin' about the TORCON -- in case you were chalkin' that pun up for yourselves -- we quote, appropriately enough, the letters of two well-known Canadian fans; Moe Diner and C. J. Bowie-Reed, President and Secretary respectively of the Montreal S. F. Society. "Science fiction certainly seems to be having a post-war boom;" Bowie-Reed writes, "Before the war there was a teen-age club in Toronto plus the fanzines LIGHT, CENSORED, and CANADIAN FANDOM. The club and CENSORED folded, LIGHT went irregular, and CANADIAN FANDOM was the solo survivor. In November 1946 Moe Diner and Basil Rattray in Montreal, and myself at Dawson College (30 miles out of town) formed the M.S.F.S. During the summer Toronto organised, and in oct-Nov. Hamilton organised. Plans have been undertaken to revive the Canadian Amateur Fantasy Press, Toronto has produced MACABRE; LIGHT has seen a new issue, and we in Montreal are preparing to put out CENSORED again. "By the middle of Nov. 1947 we in Montreal had a membership of five, and we decided to start a publicity campaign -- in four newspapers and over station CJAD. Membership is now 27, with five to ten prospective members. We feel that membership should go higher than this, since the English-speaking population of Montreal is about 250,000 (little less than 20% of the total population). As it is,
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THE SYDNEY FUTURIAN PAGE SEVEN vice to Australian fans generally, by sending prozines to the club library. $1 worth pays an annual subscription as an associate member, or one current prozine will pay for 6 consecutive issues of THE SYDNEY FUTURIAN. Material for the Library should be sent to Mrs. L. Molosworth; 160 Beach St, Coogee, Sydney, NSW. (Members -- a new Library catalogue will shortly be issued, probably with the next SYDNEY FUTURIAN.) --------------- CORRESPONDENCE SECTION .......... With everyone talkin' about the TORCON -- in case you were chalkin' that pun up for yourselves -- we quote, appropriately enough, the letters of two well-known Canadian fans; Moe Diner and C. J. Bowie-Reed, President and Secretary respectively of the Montreal S. F. Society. "Science fiction certainly seems to be having a post-war boom;" Bowie-Reed writes, "Before the war there was a teen-age club in Toronto plus the fanzines LIGHT, CENSORED, and CANADIAN FANDOM. The club and CENSORED folded, LIGHT went irregular, and CANADIAN FANDOM was the solo survivor. In November 1946 Moe Diner and Basil Rattray in Montreal, and myself at Dawson College (30 miles out of town) formed the M.S.F.S. During the summer Toronto organised, and in oct-Nov. Hamilton organised. Plans have been undertaken to revive the Canadian Amateur Fantasy Press, Toronto has produced MACABRE; LIGHT has seen a new issue, and we in Montreal are preparing to put out CENSORED again. "By the middle of Nov. 1947 we in Montreal had a membership of five, and we decided to start a publicity campaign -- in four newspapers and over station CJAD. Membership is now 27, with five to ten prospective members. We feel that membership should go higher than this, since the English-speaking population of Montreal is about 250,000 (little less than 20% of the total population). As it is,
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