Can't Get Off the Island

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Can't Get Off the Island was a single-author fanthology of Greg Pickersgill's fan writing edited and published by Claire Brialey and Mark Plummer in August 2005 on the occasion of him being Fan GoH at Interaction, the Worldcon that year. Greg later reorganized the material for his own website as linked below, and Can't Get Off the Island was reissued in ebook form by Ansible Editions in 2017.

Material was drawn from Greg's fanzines Fouler, Ritblat/Grim News, Stop Breaking Down, Rastus Johnson's Cakewalk; from contributions to Frank's APA; from Seamonsters edited by Simone Walsh; and from posts to the Wegenheim and Memory Hole elists.

Title Source
1. AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Faces and Places Introduction by Greg Pickersgill
Who's Crazy Introduction by Claire Brialey & Mark Plummer
Not So Much an Excuse, Anne Warren, More Like a Reason GFP Antworte Nicht, Frank's APA, February 1984
'Messages from Mars Made Me Do It' Follycon Souvenir Book, Easter 1988
I Sighted the Boundary of Space-Time with Vincent Rastus Johnson's Cakewalk #1, September 1993
Self Explanatory Rastus Johnson's Cakewalk #3, December 1993
Out of the Attic, Number 2 Rastus Johnson's Cakewalk #5, April 1994
Science Fiction Book Club, scary or wot posted to Wegenheim elist, 7 February 2005
2. REVIEWS: FANZINES AND A BIG BOOK
Scoria Fouler #3, October 1970
Fouler on Maya 'Eyeball', Fouler #4, December 1970; 'Eyeball', Fouler #6, June 1971; and 'Eyeball', Fouler #7, September 1972
Eyeball – Fanzine Reviews Ritblat/Grim News #1, March 1974
Burning Hell – Fanzine Reviews Stop Breaking Down #2, April 1976
Burning Hell – Fanzine Reviews Stop Breaking Down #4, March 1977
Big Fat Book Rastus Johnson's Cakewalk #1, September 1993
Now, Then Rastus Johnson's Cakewalk #2, November 1993
The Best Fanzines posted to Memoryhole elist, 6 February 1999, 25 February 1999 and 12 April 1999
The Blue Spot Returns posted to Memoryhole elist, 12 October 2001
3. CONVENTIONS
Billy the Squid (Silicon 3, 1978) Seamonsters #2, November 1978
Nice Time Come Back Again (Novacon 23. 1993) Rastus Johnson's Cakewalk #3, December 1993
And there I was and (Eastercon 2003) posted to Memoryhole elist, 28 April 2003
Some Notes Towards an Incomplete Version of Events (Eastercon 2004) posted to Wegenheim elist, 15 April 2004
4. EDITORIAL
Buddy Punch – Bad Scene Man Ritblat/Grim News #1, March 1974
Buddy Punch Ritblat/Grim News #2, April 1974
Moaning At Midnight – Off the Hook Stop Breaking Down #4, March 1977
Billy the Squid Seamonsters #2, November 1978
Silt Seamonsters #3, March 1979
Fandom Stranger Stop Breaking Down #7, August 1981
Novelty! Excitement!! Innovation!!! Brand New Attitude, Frank's APA, October 1983
I was There on October 22nd Not Jumping But Falling, Frank's APA, November 1983
Search the House for Dracula Rastus Johnson's Cakewalk #7, October 1994
Search the Sewers for Harry Lime Rastus Johnson's Cakewalk #7, October 1994
Fannish Prozines posted to Memoryhole elist, 29 October 2001
Little Dog Gone – A Christmas Presence posted to Wegenheim elist, 14 January 2004
Fannish posted to Wegenheim elist, 30 September 2004
5. A WAY OF LIFE
Got Me Down on the Killing Floor B24 Liberator, Frank's APA, April 1984
More Wild Ideas Rastus Johnson's Cakewalk #3, December 1993
The King is Dead, Long Live the King Rastus Johnson's Cakewalk #5, April 1994
Rider on a Stone Horse Rastus Johnson's Cakewalk #6, June 1994
Real Life in Haverfordwest Rastus Johnson's Cakewalk #6, June 1994
Wallowing in memory and sentiment again posted to Memoryhole elist,12 October 2001
Fandom is just a mailing group posted to Memoryhole elist, 1 November 2001
Science Fiction Book Club: scary or wot posted to Wegenheim elist, 6 February 2005



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