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 |
| Publication | Website | 2005 |
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