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- Melbourne_Science_Fiction_Club abstract "The Melbourne Science Fiction Club Inc. (Also known as the M.S.F.C. or colloquially "the club") was founded in May 1952 by Race Mathews and others. It is the second oldest, continuously active, science fiction club in the world, after the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society. It meets most Friday nights 8-11pm at St Augustines church hall, 100 Sydney Road, Coburg, (just up from the corner of Sydney Road and The Avenue. Get a #19 tram.) Melbourne, Australia, except over Christmas/New Year and Good Friday. Members of the MSFC were instrumental in organising and running three World Science Fiction Conventions, Aussiecon in 1975, Aussiecon Two in 1985 and Aussiecon 3 in 1999. Current members were involved in the Aussiecon 4 Worldcon in 2010. Members have also been involved in running many of the annual versions of the Australian National Science Fiction Conventions and other regional conventions in and around Melbourne, Australia.Many members of Australian Science fiction fandom have been members of the MSFC. Notable members/past-members of the MSFC include Ian Gunn, (Past president and club fanzine editor) winner of the Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist 1999, Lee Harding, Damien Broderick, Alan Stewart (secretary for 16 years and Ditmar Award winner), Cheryl Morgan (editor of the Hugo Award for Best Fanzine winning fanzine, Emerald City), Phil Wlodarczyk, Martin James Ditmar ("Dick") Jenssen (after whom the Ditmar Award is named), Bruce Gillespie (Fan Guest of Honour at the 1999 World Science Fiction Convention Aussiecon 3), and Race Mathews who later became a Minister in the Victorian Legislative Assembly. The MSFC has a library of over 8,000 volumes and a huge collection of fanzines, which is currently in storage. It is listed as a special library for researchers and has a computer catalogue of approximately 5,500 titles. Work continues on the catalogue. There have been several club fanzines: In the 1950s, the club newszine was called Etherline, which was followed later in the sixties by the Somerset Gazette. There were no formal club zines in the 1970s. Since 1985 the MSFC has published a newszine called Ethel the Aardvark, which has won the Ditmar Award several times, under different editors, including Alan Stewart, Ian Gunn and Paul Ewins, and the Chronos Award. It is up to issue #170 and continuing.".
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- Melbourne_Science_Fiction_Club comment "The Melbourne Science Fiction Club Inc. (Also known as the M.S.F.C. or colloquially "the club") was founded in May 1952 by Race Mathews and others. It is the second oldest, continuously active, science fiction club in the world, after the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society. It meets most Friday nights 8-11pm at St Augustines church hall, 100 Sydney Road, Coburg, (just up from the corner of Sydney Road and The Avenue.".
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