Wrong Turns on the Wallaby Track: Australian SF Fandom 1936-60

The recording of this talk by Leigh Edmonds is now avaialble on the Fanac channel on youtube:

Wrong Turns on the Wallaby Track: Australian SF Fandom 1936-60, Pt1- Leigh Edmonds, Perry Middlemiss

Beginning with an introduction to Australian history of the period by Perry Middlemiss, the session entertainingly describes the important fans, and clubs from the beginnings in Sydney with a Science Fiction League branch, to the Futurian Society of Sydney and the Thursday night group. Leigh provides both entertaining and instructive insights, from the parallels to US fannish history, to the Australian group whose “main form of entertainment was feuding”, and the impact on science fiction readers of the Australian wartime embargo on the import of unnecessary items.

Wrong Turns on the Wallaby Track: Australian SF Fandom 1936-60, Pt2- Leigh Edmonds, Perry Middlemiss