“Absent Antipodeans”—Bob Kuhn Reads Speculative Fiction by Australian & New Zealand Authors at Worldcon 70, 2012

Except on rare occasions, the World Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention is always held in the Northern Hemisphere, most usually in North America—a far step for most Australian and New Zealand speculative fiction authors.

But this year US-based voiceover artist Bob Kuhn has stepped in and set up “Absent Antipodeans” (7.30 pm, Sunday 2 September), a reading event in which he will read from the work of Australian and New Zealand authors who cannot be present themselves. Obviously this is a tre...