Thought Crit massers might enjoy this montage: can you identify all the films?
Author: kwoll
SF films next week!
The Cinematheque is screening some great SF films next week at The Mercury Cinema:
Ghost Ship (1943) at 7pm Monday night the 7th of December
King Kong (1933) at 7pm Thursday night the 10th of December
Harakiri (1962) on Mon 14th december
Just so you know!
Looking for a new Critical Mass venue!
The SA Writers Centre has decided groups can’t book the venue for regular events, which means we need to look for a new venue for Critical Mass in 2016. While we have met in people’s homes before, I suspect a library or church hall may be a more convivial meeting place.
Anyone interested in helping search for a new venue? We won’t need one until February in the New Year.
End of year meeting
December is the month in which we replace the guest speaker with a dinner outing. So, if you are free at 7:30 on Wednesday Dec 2nd, join us at Cafe Brunelli’s from7:30 onwards. Around 8pm we shall either stay there to order food, or head out elsewhere on Rundle St for food.
Hope to see a few of you there!
Welcome to Critical Mass News
As mentioned in recnt meetings, we are moving off Meetup to a new system:
(i) A monthly newsletter generated by mailChimp;
(ii) A section on the adelaidefanreview.com website for critical mass news and notes: https://adelaidefanreview.com/category/critical-mass/
(iii) Events listed in The Shape of Things to Come google calendar (see RHS column of website for the next ten items)
Basically, the functionality of meetup will be handled by the google calendar and the section of the website.
A Sound of Lafferty talk now on the website
Looking for Contributors
Just as we have a regular segment as part of critical Mass for news and quick reviews, we’d like to add snippets and thots to the website.
If you’re interested in being a semi-regular contributor, please email me and I’ll add you as a user of the website, and arrange a short training session to point out some features of the site (including the possibility of emailing in your contributions!)
If you’re interested, email me (Roman): websmith@internode.on.net
The Quantum Thief trilogy
A recording of the critical mass talk
The Sound of Lafferty
It is the secret river that not only greens the soul but also runs under walls and gains entrance to all fortified and walled places of the world and of the mind. Regard your own estate and case. Is your own town not built on two rivers which are separated by a firmament between? One of them is the impossible river by which all things may enter anywhere. We’d be robbed of our celestial birthright without it.
Ignace Wolff, The River Inside quoted by R. A. Lafferty in Rivers of Damascus
Raphael Aloysius Lafferty was a brilliant Irish-American fabulist whose amazing works are little known nowadays.
Lafferty’s words belong to an ancient, invisible river which nourishes and greens our imagination. The river made up of storytellers’ voices, ancient and modern, weaving myth and legend, whispering ghost stories and telling folk-tales. An oral tradition which stretches from cave mouth to radio studio, from the Halls of Asgard to the main street of Lake Wobegon.
R. A. Lafferty is not recognized as the brilliant fabulist he is because he belongs not to the literary tradition, but to the oral tradition. If his stories were recorded, podcast, or broadcast on radio, he would have a huge following and would be kept constantly echoing.
Last Wednesday, Roman Orszanski reprised his talk from the February 1989 Critical Mass.
Here is a recording of it
The Adelaide Fan Review 
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