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Bruce Gillespie

Gillespie, Bruce Richard

February 17, 1947 (age 79)

Birth place: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

17 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
June 1972 37 Essay Letter (Vector 60) Vector 60
June 1972 25 Essay The Frenzied Living Thing: Kobo Abe's Future Vector 60
March 1975 177|177.1 Review Getting Into Death Foundation, #7 and 8 March 1975
November 1975 13 Review Philip K. Dick: Electric Shepherd Delap's F & SF Review, November 1975
June 1976 123 Review Philip K. Dick: Electric Shepherd Foundation, #10 June 1976
February 1977 69 Essay Void Book Review (Void #5) Void #5
April 1983 26 Essay Letter (Vector 113) Vector 113
December 1983 24 Review SF Commentary Reprint Edition: First Year 1969 Vector 117
December 1984 8 Essay Smack That Pulpit! Vector 123
October 1997 43 Essay That Unrelenting Look: Two or Three Things I Meant to Say at George Turner's Funeral Eidolon: The Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy, Spring 1997
2000 104 Review Centaurus: The Best of Australian Science Fiction Foundation, #78 Spring 2000
2000 6 Essay The Good Soldier: George Turner as Combative Critic Foundation, #78 Spring 2000
2000 30 Review Time Future Nova Express, Spring/Summer 2000
2002 25 Essay Alpha and Omega: The Short Stories of Avram Davidson, First to Last Nova Express, Summer 2002
April 2002 13 Review Supertoys Last All Summer Long and Other Stories of Future Time The New York Review of Science Fiction, April 2002
March 2003 52 Essay The Revival of the Science-Fiction Novella Interzone, March 2003
July 2003 5 Essay Bruce Gillespie Replies (answer to a letter) Interzone, July-August 2003

YearAwardCategoryTitleStatus
1972 Hugo Award Best Amateur Magazine SF Commentary - 1971 Finalist
1973 Hugo Award Best Amateur Magazine SF Commentary - 1972 Nominee
1975 Hugo Award Best Amateur Magazine SF Commentary - 1974 Nominee
1976 Locus Poll Award Best Associational Item Philip K. Dick: Electric Shepherd Nominee
2000 Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction Convenors' Award for Excellence SF Commentary - 2000 Nominee
2001 Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award Best Fan Production George Turner: The Unrelenting Gaze Nominee
2001 William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or Review William Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review George Turner: The Unrelenting Gaze Nominee
2012 Hugo Award Best Fanzine SF Commentary - 2011 Nominee
2014 Hugo Award Best Fanzine SF Commentary - 2013 Nominee
2016 Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award Best Fan Publication in Any Medium SF Commentary - 2015 Nominee
2018 Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award Best Fan Publication in Any Medium SF Commentary - 2017 Winner
2018 Hugo Award Best Fanzine SF Commentary - 2017 Nominee
2019 Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award Best Fan Publication in Any Medium SF Commentary - 2018 Nominee
2020 Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award Best Fan Publication in Any Medium SF Commentary - 2019 Winner
2020 Hugo Award Best Fanzine SF Commentary - 2019 Nominee
2022 Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award Best Fan Publication in Any Medium SF Commentary - 2021 Nominee
2022 Hugo Award Best Fanzine SF Commentary - 2021 Nominee
2025 Hugo Award Best Fanzine SF Commentary - 2024 Nominee
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Year Publication Title
Cover January 1969 SF Commentary, #1 SF Commentary, #1
Cover November 1978 SF Commentary, #54 SF Commentary, #54