Episode 7: All this I speak in print, for in print I found it

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Perry and David discuss:

They also interview Bruce Gillespie, who talks about his childhood, discovery of SF fandom and fifty years of publishing his magazine SF Commentary:

  • Melton (00:13)
  • Bacchus Marsh (00:30)
  • Hears about fandom (01:19)
  • ASFR (01:06)
  • Invited to stay with Bangsund (00:53)
  • Meeting Harding, Turner, et al (00:59)
  • First convention, MSFC (00:30)
  • First ‘fanzine’ produced as schoolboy (01:01)
  • Duplicators (00:41)
  • Starting to produce fanzines (00:24)
  • ANZAPA (01:02)
  • Sent to Ararat (00:36)
  • First two issues of SFC (00:38)
  • Response from o/seas (00:36)
  • Critical reviews of SF outside academia (02:11)
  • John Foyster (00:47)
  • Resigning from teaching in Ararat (03:33)
  • Meets Gerald Murnane (01:10)
  • Acquires own duplicator (01:08)
  • Aussiecon (02:12)
  • 1977 extraordinary year (01:37)
  • How have things changed? (02:03)
  • Nostrilia Press (02:42)
  • IBM Composer (00:46)
  • Typesetting for Highland House & others (02:36)
  • Desktop publishing comes in (01:00)
  • Applying this to fanzines (00:12)
  • Modern challenges (00:41)
  • Bill Burns’ Efanzine site (01:56)
  • Will you continue? (00:26)
  • Awards (01:10)

“I’ll warrant you, ’tis as well:
For often have you writ to her, and she, in modesty,
Or else for want of idle time, could not again reply;
Or fearing else some messenger that might her mind discover,
Herself hath taught her love himself to write unto her lover.
All this I speak in print, for in print I found it.
Why muse you, sir? ’tis dinner-time.”

—Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona