Most of anything I have written for science-fiction fanzines – and which survives on computer disk somewhere – is getting to appear on this page. So does some new stuff, as I get around to doing it. (Brief tale of woe: I had all my disks catalogued on hard disk, and the catalogue backed up on a floppy. Then came the Great Hard Disk Crash, followed by the discovery that although my computer said it was backing up when I told it to, it really wasn't. Even now, every so often, I find something on a floppy which gets added here. The Crash is also the reason for anything else I can possibly blame on it.)

This site mirrors another at home in Australia, and the (more or less) duplicate of this page can be obtained by clicking here. This page came about in the USA because of delaying hardware and software problems in Australia, and the urgent need to get some anime society information on the net as soon as possible. Fortunately Geocities was able to supply a site pretty well straight away. (In cyberspace the other side of the planet can be closer than the city you live in.) Also, as they could supply the site at no charge, the price was right.

A number of my pages contain hit counters, despite my being given advice to the contrary. ("Why advertise your page is getting no traffic?" A point of view Geocities probably went along with, as all their counters turned invisible to public gaze some time ago.) But I really wanted to see what was more popular than what, and went ahead anyway. After being knocked out of commission for almost a year by a double medical whammy, I discovered the company supplying the counter on my Australian pages had changed its net address without warning, meaning an unknown number of hits had gone unrecorded. Meantime Geocities had gone on uninterrupted. I began to collate my data. The first and most recently added page I looked at, in which counters had started up in both countries at the same time, at one stage in 2000 had 119 USA hits to 96 Australian. Later, in 2001, it was 93 USA hits to 491 Australian hits. This means my USA page must have had at least 26 negative hits! This is even worse than no hits at all! Still, any statistics are better than none at all, right?

My published writing was one of the reasons for starting this page, so I am very gradually (as oddly-dwindling time permits) adding stuff on my writing and the process of writing here.

• Melbourne Anime Society (MAS) Main Page
• Melbourne Anime Society Screening Information
• What You've Missed (Old MAS screening info)
• What You've Thoroughly Missed (Older MAS screening information, from the 20th century)
• The MAS Loan Library
• An Introduction to Manga and Anime (Comics and cartoons)
• The Joys of Subtitling
• English vs Japanese - Subbing Nightmares
• Common Hard-to-translate Japanese Expressions
• An Overview of Certain Anime Titles

• Japan Trip 1993 - The Daicon Report
• USA Trip 1983 - The Constellation Report
• UK Trip 1979 - The Panopticon Report 

• Australian Stuff   (Mainly for the information of non-Australians accessing this site)
• Aussietrek 1979  (Report on a Sydney Star Trek Convention with George Takei)
• Report on Three Aussiecons (Coming sometime in the future)
• The Great St Kilda Flood (The day it rained 40-days-and-40-nights style)

• Nostalgia Isn't What It Used to Be  (Growing up in Oz in the 1950s)
• The Eyes Have It  (Why I'm not short sighted any more)
• Writing  (A little about my writing career, such as it is)
• Me in the Media  (Something about my work in front of the camera)

• UFO report
• An Urban Legend vs Me
• Secret Societies (Coming sometime in the future)

• I Link, Therefore, I Am

• I have been writing science fiction since leaving high school, and have even been published here and there.

• My view of the Australian film and television industry.

• Netscape users who would like to see this page with frames, click here. (I personally have been unable to warm to the use of frames too much – they take too long to load, take up too much screen room, and so on – however as some people prefer them to a plain layout, here's my contribution. Just be warned I have not put an excessive amount of time and effort into this.)

• The Plain FAQs

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The link to Australia-related stuff began as a service for overseas visitors to this site, to explain certain Australianisms I may have used. If anything puzzles you, or there is something you think deserves being added, please e-mail me at .

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