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Issue Details: First known date: 1980... 1980 Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy Series
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Void Publications, under the ownership and editorial direction of Paul Collins, began publishing science fiction novels and anthologies in 1980 under the series title Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy (ASF&F). The first release was Jack Wodhams' Looking For Blücher, followed by David J. Lake's The Fourth Hemisphere and Wynne Whiteford's first novel Breathing Space Only. All three nominated at the 1981 Ditmar Awards.

In 1981 Collins formed a new publishing venture with artist Rowena Cory. The first title to be released by Cory and Collins was the anthology Distant Worlds (1981). While this title is also included within the ASF&F series, it is also the fourth volume within another Void/Cory and Collins' series called Worlds: Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy. This series effectively continued the Void: Science Fiction and Fantasy magazine which had released five issues between 1975 and 1977. The first three volumes from the World series were published prior to Collins establishing the Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy, and hence are not considered part of that collection. The two Worlds series volumes published after 1980s (Distant Worlds, 1981, and Frontier Worlds, 1983) are included within the ASF&F series.





Notes

    • The issue numbering system implemented by Void for the Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy series was continued by Cory and Collins.


  • Void's trademark continued to be used on the spines of Cory and Collin's publications, even though the imprint had ceased in 1980.


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y separately published work icon Looking for Blucher Jack Wodhams , St Kilda : Void Publications , 1980 Z996382 1980 single work novel science fiction St Kilda : Void Publications , 1980
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y separately published work icon The Fourth Hemisphere David J. Lake , St Kilda : Void Publications , 1980 Z994584 1980 single work novel science fiction St Kilda : Void Publications , 1980
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y separately published work icon Breathing Space Only Wynne Whiteford , St Kilda : Void Publications , 1980 Z995764 1980 single work novel science fiction

'An Australia of the near future, in which the torch of civilization is carried on in the hydro-electric powered Heights of the Snowy Mountains, while industrial breakdown has thrust the rest of the world into smog-polluted barbarism.

'But on the Heights, frontier-guard Roy challenges his people's paranoid fear of the "Outside".' (Publication summary(

 St Kilda : Void Publications , 1980
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y separately published work icon Distant Worlds Paul Collins (editor), St Kilda : Cory and Collins , 1981 Z873597 1981 anthology short story fantasy science fiction St Kilda : Cory and Collins , 1981
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y separately published work icon Ryn Jack Wodhams , St Kilda : Cory and Collins , 1982 Z257689 1982 single work novel science fiction humour Clute and Nichols, in the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, describe Ryn as the story of 'a sixty-two-year-old black Zimbabwean reincarnated, to his bafflement, as a white baby in the Brisbane of a reticently depicted Near-Future Australia'. St Kilda : Cory and Collins , 1982
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y separately published work icon Lances of Nengesdul Keith Taylor , St Kilda : Cory and Collins , 1982 Z257585 1982 single work novel science fiction

'An acrobat, trick rider and Midget, his world was the circus. This new world of Barcui was a nightmare to him. Their survival tried him to his limits. Yet he found one amazing compensation. On Barcui, his size was normal. He discovered that among the first men he met... the men who carried the deadly... Lances of Nengesdul.' (Publication summary)

 St Kilda : Cory and Collins , 1982
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y separately published work icon Sapphire Road Wynne Whiteford , St Kilda : Cory and Collins , 1982 Z257789 1982 single work novel science fiction

'The voyage to Alpha Centauri usually takes years but Max Vanmore, reluctant heir to Vanmore Titanium, dares to make the journey in a ship powered by an experimental f.t.l. drive.

'He knows that his is in a race, a race to a distant planet where technology generates unspeakable riches.

'Money is at stake. Lives are at stake. But even more...

'Whoever wins the race will rule the future.' (Publication summary)

 St Kilda : Cory and Collins , 1982
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y separately published work icon Ring of Truth David J. Lake , St Kilda : Cory and Collins , 1982 Z973526 1982 single work novel science fiction St Kilda : Cory and Collins , 1982
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y separately published work icon Future War Jack Wodhams , St Kilda : Cory and Collins , 1982 Z453335 1982 selected work short story science fiction St Kilda : Cory and Collins , 1982
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y separately published work icon Thor's Hammer Wynne Whiteford , St Kilda : Cory and Collins , 1983 Z549390 1983 single work novel science fiction crime

'Mining in the asteroids takes a special breed of men. And breeds a special kind of violence.'

Source: Front-cover blurb.

 St Kilda : Cory and Collins , 1983
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y separately published work icon Savage Tomorrow Trevor Donohue , St Kilda : Cory and Collins , 1983 Z296866 1983 single work novel science fiction St Kilda : Cory and Collins , 1983
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y separately published work icon The Tempting of the Witch King Russell Blackford , St Kilda : Cory and Collins , 1983 Z296964 1983 single work novel science fiction St Kilda : Cory and Collins , 1983
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y separately published work icon Frontier Worlds Paul Collins (editor), St Kilda Melbourne : Cory and Collins , 1983 Z312277 1983 anthology short story science fiction St Kilda Melbourne : Cory and Collins , 1983
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y separately published work icon The Wild Ones A. Bertram Chandler , St Kilda : Void Publications , 1984 Z810910 1984 single work novel science fiction

'They called the robomaid "Clockwork Kitty" until she informed them of her right name. She was a triumph of Japan's far-future robotics industry and she was a present to John Grimes as he set out aboard Sister Sue for a voyage to the planet called New Salem.

New Salem was a colony of blue-nosed religious fanatics and Grimes knew it meant trouble. For in addition to his sexy-looking robot he had Shirl and Darleen aboard, two wild ones of kangaroo ancestry, sure to be problems. And trouble came, not merely from the fire-wielding bigots but from Grimes' old enemy, Drongo Kane.'

(Source: www.baenebooks.com)

 St Kilda : Void Publications , 1984

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y separately published work icon Worlds: Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy Paul Collins (editor), Void Publications (publisher), Cory and Collins (publisher), Penguin (publisher), 1978 St Kilda : Void Publications , 1978-1994 Z1847506 1978 series - publisher short story science fiction fantasy In 1978, having published five issues of the Void Science Fiction and Fantasy, editor Paul Collins transformed the magazine into a series of hardcover original anthologies which were released under the collective 'Worlds' title. The proposed contents for issues 6, 7 and 8 of Void in fact became the contents of the first anthology, Envisaged Worlds. After closing down Void Publications in 1981 Collins published the latter anthologies through his new company, Cory and Collins. A final title in the "worlds" series, Metaworlds, was released in 1994 by Penguin.

[Source: Marshall B. Tymn and Mike Ashley. Science Fiction, Fantasy, And Weird Fiction Magazines, 1985, pp. 266-267]
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