<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 14 (filtered medium)">
<!--[if !mso]><style>v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
.shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
</style><![endif]--><style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Tahoma;
panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Garamond;
panose-1:2 2 4 4 3 3 1 1 8 3;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0cm;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:purple;
text-decoration:underline;}
p.MsoAcetate, li.MsoAcetate, div.MsoAcetate
{mso-style-priority:99;
mso-style-link:"Balloon Text Char";
margin:0cm;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";}
span.EmailStyle17
{mso-style-type:personal-compose;
font-family:"Garamond","serif";
color:windowtext;
font-weight:normal;
font-style:normal;
text-decoration:none none;}
span.BalloonTextChar
{mso-style-name:"Balloon Text Char";
mso-style-priority:99;
mso-style-link:"Balloon Text";
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";}
@page WordSection1
{size:612.0pt 792.0pt;
margin:72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
--></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]-->
</head>
<body lang="EN-NZ" link="blue" vlink="purple">
<div class="WordSection1">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Dear SF folk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">I thought the group wd be interested in this exhibition which starts next Friday, 23 March, in the de Beer Gallery, Special Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin. I am not
sure if this list accepts e-images in messages. If folk want to contact me, I can send through the e-poster and pdf of the hand-list of those items on display. I am also happy to send through hard copy posters if addresses are supplied. I don’t think I can
teleport them!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Cheers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Donald
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif""> **<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Ray Guns & Rocket Ships.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">The Fred Fastier Science Fiction Collection<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">University of Otago<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:144.0pt;text-indent:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><img width="129" height="130" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image003.jpg@01CD028F.909E1330"></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">In early December 2010, Fred Fastier, inaugural Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Otago, donated a 1200 strong collection of Science Fiction titles to Special Collections, University of Otago.
This collection forms the basis of the exhibition ‘<b>Ray Guns & Rocket Ships. The Fred Fastier Science Fiction Collection</b>’, which begins in the de Beer Gallery, Special Collections, University of Otago, on 23 March 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">During the 1920s Fred </span>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Fastier </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">attended Arthur Street Primary, Dunedin, and it was there that he became interested in science fiction (SF). One
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">of the first works he read was a magazine called
<i>Amazing Stories</i>, which was edited by Hugo Gernsback, who, in his own stories, predicted RADAR and television. Two other novels remembered by Fastier included Erle Cox’s
</span><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Out of the Silence, </span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">which<i>
</i></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">involves the discovery of a gigantic, buried sphere, containing the accumulated knowledge of a past civilization; and Aldous Huxley’s classic
</span><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Brave New World</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> (1932). Collecting was begun in earnest when he was teaching in New York in the 1950s. This was when the</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> McCarthy era was
in full swing, dominated by anti-communism sentiment and the Cold War. As a professional scientist, Fastier preferred ‘hard-science’ SF rather than imaginative fantasy. What also
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">captured his attention were the ideas and possible situations imagined by SF writers.
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">As a consequence, Edgar Rice Burroughs and his Venus and Mars series did not rate, while writers such as Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, and Arthur C. Clarke did. Fastier calls the latter ‘a good technologist’. Other authors
favoured include H. G. Wells (his idea of tanks before WWI); Hal Clement (especially his
<i>A Mission of Gravity</i>); John Wyndham (of <i>Triffids</i> fame); and Philip K. Dick, with his
<i>The Man in the High Tower. </i>The collection also contains a large number of magazines such as
<i>Astounding Science</i> (which he subscribed to), <i>Galaxy</i>, and <i>Nebula</i>, many of which feature classic short stories in the field.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The exhibition ‘<b>Ray Guns & Rocket Ships. The Fred Fastier Science Fiction Collection</b>’ begins in the de Beer Gallery, Special Collections, University of Otago, on 23 March 2012. It runs through to 15
June 2012. Hours: 8.30 to 5.00 pm Monday to Friday<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Exhibitions are free and all are welcome<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">For further information, please contact Dr. Donald Kerr, Special Collections Librarian , University of Otago, Dunedin.
</span><a href="mailto:Donald.kerr@otago.ac.nz"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Donald.kerr@otago.ac.nz</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> or phone: (03) 479-8330<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i>Teleporting & telepathy are also acceptable methods of communication</i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">**</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
<br>
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Dr. Donald Kerr, F.L.S.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif""> <br>
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Special Collections Librarian</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">
<br>
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">University of Otago</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">
<br>
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">P.O. Box 56</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">
<br>
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Dunedin, New Zealand</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif""><br>
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Phone: (03) 479-8330</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">
<br>
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Email: <a href="mailto:donald.kerr@otago.ac.nz">
donald.kerr@otago.ac.nz</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">University of Otago
</span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Centre for the Book:
<a href="http://www.otago.ac.nz/books/about/">www.otago.ac.nz/books/about/</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">**<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Current Exhibition</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">‘The Gentleman’s Magazine: the 18<sup>th</sup> Century Answer to Google’</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">21 December 2011 to 16 March 2012</span></i></b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif""><a href="http://www.library.otago.ac.nz/SpecialCollections/exhibitions.html">http://www.library.otago.ac.nz/SpecialCollections/exhibitions.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif"">**<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Garamond","serif"">‘Happy, intense absorption in any work, which is to be brought as near to perfection as possible, this is a state of being with God, and the men who have not known it have missed
life itself.’</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Garamond","serif""> - D. H. Lawrence
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br>
<br>
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>