Diverse Universe

Zine
Title:	Diverse Universe
Publisher:	Spaced Out
Editor(s):
Type:
Date(s):	September 1999-April 2009
Fandom:	science fiction
Language:	English
External Links:	Diverse Universe
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Diverse Universe is an e-zine newsletter for the club Spaced Out. It was also produced as hard copy for most of its original run.

It contains articles, art, reviews, commentary and fiction.

Geoff Allshorn and Miriam English were co-editors of the first 17 issues.

It was published four times a year.

Issue 1

Diverse Universe 1 (September 1999)

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• Let's start at the beginning: CLUB LAUNCHED!
• When Will NASA Break Its Final Barrier?
• Short Story Review: All You Zombies by Robert A. Heinlein
• TV Review: Babylon 5 - Confessions and Lamentations/Divided Loyalties
• Fiction Review: Slash Fan Fiction (Perverse Universes: SLASH FAN FICTION), article by Mirna Cicioni
• Spaced Out at Worldcon (Aussiecon 3)
• Alien Odyssey Part I: The Un-Conventional (original fiction)

Issue 2

Diverse Universe 2 (December 1999)

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• 1999 Retro
• Announcement: Future Directions Meeting
• Convention Report: Gaylaxicon 1999
• Short Story Review : Transit by Stephen Dedman
• Star Trek: Infinite Diversity? IDIC - A Paradise Lost, essay by KR
• Why 2 - K ? (original fiction)

Issue 3

Diverse Universe 3 (April 2000)

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• Club News - Incorporation, Constitution, Charity
• Convener's Chat - Jules Verne, Past or Future?
• Club Charity Adopted
• Film Review: The Time Warp (Rocky Horror Picture Show) by Liam James
• Invisible and Alien? Transgender Characters in Media Science Fiction by KR
• Science Fiction - An Agent of Social Change? by Trudy Brunton
• The Share Market by by Stephen Stonewall (original fiction)

Issue 4

Diverse Universe 4 (July 2000)

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• Our First Mini Convention!
• Slash Chronicles: Watch, chat, convert and shiver... Slash fans' SinpOZium (Sydney, 9-11 June 2000), reviewed by Mirna Cicione
• TV Review: Doomwatch - The Plastic Eaters
• Queer Time Travel: TV Science Fiction
• A Night at Rainbow Nebula (original fiction)

Issue 5

Diverse Universe 5 (October 2000)

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• First Annual General Meeting
• Novel Review: Journals of the Plague Years
• A Sample List Of Female Sf/Fantasy Authors To Look Out For
• Gay and Lesbian SF Fandom: FIAWOL or FIJAGH?
• Film Review: Jeffrey
• Tortured Thoughts of a Boy in Love (original fiction)

Issue 6

Diverse Universe 6 (December 2000)

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• Editorial - Entering A New Millennium
• Anthology Review: Bending The Landscape
• Hidden History - Ganymede, Moon of Jupiter
• Newsflash: Ganymede Likely Has A Hidden Ocean
• Cherry (original fiction)
• Alien Odyssey Part 2: Out Among The Stars (original fiction)

Issue 7

Diverse Universe 7 (March 2001)

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• Editorial - 2001: A Human Odyssey
• Anthology Review: Solar Spectrum #1
• Novel Review: Albrick's Gold
• TV Review: Star Trek - Let That be Your Last Battlefield
• Sci-ber Space
• Announcement: Multiverse 4 Convention
• Sodom and Tomorrow (original fiction)

Issue 8

Diverse Universe 8 (June 2001)

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• From the Editors: Star Trek: Queer NOW!
• Club Supporters
• Goodbye, Farewell and Amen
• Review: Blake's 7: Gambit
• Whatever Happened to 2001?, article
• Sexualities in Science Fiction, article
• Goodbye Old Friends
• Multiverse 4 Convention, con report
• Defective Gene 11257 (original fiction)

Issue 9

Diverse Universe 9 (September 2001)

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• Editorial - A Response to September 11: "In respectful memory…and in hope"
• Multiverse 4 Report
• Worldcon 2001 Report
• Magazine Review: Frontier magazine
• TV Review: Astroboy
• Announcement: Workshop Day!
• Priscilla, Drag Queen of the Nebula (original fiction)

Issue 10

Diverse Universe 10 (December 2001)

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• From the Editors: An Open Letter to Parents of an SF Fan
• Supporting PFLAG, article
• 2001 - A Workshop Odyssey, article
• Star Trek - Turnabout Intruder, review
• Whaleroad, review
• Shameless Promo: Solar Spectrum #2
• Tri Again (original fiction)
• And Now A Word... ...From Our Sponsors!

Issue 11

Diverse Universe 11 (March 2002)

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• Editorial - Pride March/ Asteroids/ Club Matters
• TV Novel Review: Star Trek Section 31 - Rogue
• Star Trek's Infinite Diversity Reappears
• chev's perspectives - Blake's Seven: Orbit
• Twilight Zone: Eye of the Beholder
• Gay Base Alpha
• Did You See The Doctor..?
• Ex-Gen, Next Gen (original fiction)

Issue 12

Diverse Universe 12 (June 2002)

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• Editorial - Club Achievements: Sharing the Journey
• Ditmar Award - We Won!!
• The Forever Taboo @ Convergence
• Quantum Leap into Enterprise, news brief
• Wonder Woman & Farscape, news brief
• Blake's 7 and other remakes, news brief
• Vulcan found?, news brief
• obits - Stephen Jay Gould, George Alec Effinger, Damon Knight
• TV Review: Star Trek TNG - The Host
• Anthology Review: Ancient Science Fiction
• The Forever Awarded: An Interview With Joe Haldeman
• Transformed (fiction)
• Cemetery, Sleeping Ground (fiction)

Issue 13

Diverse Universe 13 (September 2002)

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• Editorial - Tribute to Enterprise Club, " A Tribute in Trying Times"
• Outer Space Day Report
• Gaylactic Awards
• Moon Trees
• Buffy Marries Fred
• I Robot movie
• Farscape cancelled
• Rhysling Award 2002
• The Computers of Blake’s 7, article
• Star Trek Enterprise: Review of the Episode The Unexpected by Alan Duncan
• Revisit 2001: A Queer Odyssey?
• TV Review: Willow and Tara, Cindy and Max (Lesbians on TV)
• Review: Ethan of Athos
• Nova (original fiction)

Issue 14

Diverse Universe 14 (December 2002)

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• Editorial - The Gay Games
• Jupiter-like planets form, news brief
• Tunguska 95th anniversary, news brief
• Firefly cancelled, news brief
• Slow Glass Goes Electronic, news brief
• obits - John Meredith Lucas, Jonathan Harris
• Dick Jenssen: What SF Has Meant to Me, essay
• Comix Strip: Spiderman
• 30 Years Ago: Apollo Program Ends
• 20 Years Ago: AIDS in Australia!
• Homo Apollo (poetry)

Issue 15

Diverse Universe 15 (March 2003)

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• Editorial - Imminent War/Valé Columbia
• Mt. Stromlo observatory razed, news brief
• Lambda Literary Awards, Stargate, news brief
• Mars lectures in Melbourne, news brief
• Swancon, news brief
• Bruce Gillespie: The Pleasures of Reading SF, essay
• Dick "Ditmar" Jenssen: The Word, The Image
• Anthology Review: Solar Spectrum #2
• Science Fiction TV Comedies: Funny Queer?
• Comix Strip: Neil Gaiman
• Launch Time (original fiction)

Issue 16

Diverse Universe 16 (June 2003) pdf

• Editorial - Happy Fourth Birthday!
• Names on comet, news brief
• Multiverse congratulations, news brief
• Klingons not needed, news brief
• NASA music, news brief
• obit - John Foyster
• Modern TV Review: Enterprise - The Pros and Cons
• Comix Strip: The Invisibles
• Celebrating A Fifty Year Old Classic Novel: The World Well Lost
• Classic TV Review: The Tomorrow People
• Medusa (original fiction)
• Darkness Comes (original poetry)

Issue 17

Diverse Universe 17 (September 2003) - Special double issue.

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• From the Editors: The Token 'Why' Chromosome?

• Melissa And Her Friends: An Interview with Melissa Scott
• A Womb With A View: Women in Science Fiction, essay by Stephen Stonewall
• Getting Feral With Kerry! An Interview with Kerry Greenwood
• The Alternate Universe of Fan-Fic by Claire McKenna
• Sweet Mary Sue: Female "types" in fan fiction by Sue Bursztynski

• The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin, review
• Buffy: the end, review
• Film Review: Contact
• Film Review: Cypher
• A Book And A Song: A Lesbian SF website and Lisa Koch
• Comix Strip: Peregrine Besset In The Red World, website review

• Unfortunate Dreams (original artwork)
• I Sit (original fiction)
• Mother of Life (original poetry)
• Announcements: *Supporters, Benefits Scheme, and Solar Spectrum

Issue 21

Diverse Universe 21 (August 2005)

It is a Doctor Who special.

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• Obituaries
• Logans re-run, news in brief
• Wonder Mum?, news in brief
• Tennant Starts Filming, news in brief
• Convenors Corner
• Original Fiction: The Moons Orbit
• Recipe: Tardis cake
• Spaced Outer Bio-graph: Our members stories, one by one
• Reviews: The New Dr Who eps 6 & 7
• Interview: John Barrowman
• Film Review: Batman Returns

Issue 23

Diverse Universe 23 (October 2007)

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• Spaced Outer Bio-graph: Our members stories, one by one
• Review: Outland
• Chev's Perspectives
• Original Fiction: Universal Light
• Original Fiction: In the Wake
• Original Fiction: Worlds Unknown

Issue 24

Diverse Universe 24 (April 2009)

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• Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson, book review by Cathy Larsen
• Convenor’s Corner by Cathy Larsen
• A Solar Eclipse in Russia by Scott Ross
• Worlds Unknown by Fiction by Gregory Fitzgerald
• Universal Light by
• Fiction by Gregory Fitzgerald