Rob Jackson and David Langford have collected virtually all of Bob Shaw’s short fanwriting of any significance in three ebook volumes. The Serious Scientific Talks was published in November 2019 and The Full Glass Bushel (all the Bushel columns plus other writing for Hyphen) in June 2020; both were expanded with additional material in July 2020. The third ebook is Slow Pint Glass (August 2020), covering short fan or fan-like writing outside the scope of the first two.
Items in the contents lists below link where possible to the original Bob Shaw article or letter online at Fanac.org or elsewhere.
We would like to see Bob Shaw’s contributions to the following, still not traced:
- Star*Rockets, issue unknown (not #1, #3 or #8), early 1950s, edited by Raleigh Evans Multog.
- 'Our'Zine, 1952, a one-shot fanzine by Bob Shaw and others: Vince Clarke, Jim Rattigan, Fred Robinson and Mike Wilson.
- “Trilogic Endings” in 1... Lift Off (Orbit promotional booklet), 1990, edited by John Jarrold [who does not have a copy]. The reported title may be a garbling of 3... 2... 1... Lift Off.
Volume 3: Slow Pint Glass
The 1950s
- “The Fansmanship Lectures I” – Slant 5, Spring 1951, edited by Walt Willis. LINK
- “I Remember” – Phantasmagoria 2, Spring 1951, edited by Derek and Mavis Pickles. LINK
- “The Moon Will Be Hell” – Phantasmagoria 3, Summer 1951, edited by Derek and Mavis Pickles. LINK
- “The Fansmanship Lectures II” – Slant 6, Winter 1951/1952, edited by Walt Willis. LINK
- “1961” – Slant 6, Winter 1951/1952, edited by Walt Willis. LINK
- “The Fansmanship Lectures III” – Slant 7, Winter 1952/1953, edited by Walt Willis. LINK
- “An Inexpensive Fanzine Printing Press” with Vince Clarke – Slant 7, Winter 1952/1953, edited by Walt Willis. LINK
- “Crud and Punishment” – BEM 3, September 1954, edited by Mal Ashworth and Tom White. LINK
- “The Modern Mariner” – Alpha 13, Winter 1955/1956, edited by Jan Jansen and Dave Vendelmans.
- “Wholly Berry” – Grue 29, April 1956, edited by Dean Grennell. LINK
- “Goon Abroad This Year?” – Retribution 4, October 1956, edited by John Berry and Arthur Thomson. LINK
- “The Top of the Turnip” – À Bas 9, November 1956, edited by Boyd Raeburn. LINK
- “A Chance of a Ghost” – Retribution 7, 1957, edited by John Berry and Arthur Thomson. LINK
- “I Refuse to Budgie” – Veritas 4, June 1957, edited by John Berry and Arthur Thomson. LINK
- “Greener on the Other Side” – untitled letters in Oopsla! 22, September 1957, and Oopsla! 25, July 1958, edited by Gregg Calkins. LINK LINK
- “None But the Loony Heart” – The Compleat Faan, December 1958, edited by John Berry.
- “Filthy Looker” – Retribution 13, May 1959, edited by John Berry. LINK
The 1960s
- “Lesion of the Damned” – Retribution 16, January 1961, edited by John Berry. LINK
- “Where There’s a Willis There’s a Waysgoose” – Void 23, January 1961, edited by Ted White, Greg Benford and Pete Graham LINK
- “Purple Writers of the Sage” – Retribution 17, July 1961, edited by John Berry. LINK
- “Dragnit” – The Scarr 1, April 1963, edited by George Charters. LINK
- “A Funny Thing Happened to Me on My Way to the Typewriter” – The Scarr 3, January 1964, edited by George Charters.
- “Take Me to Your Leader” – The Scarr 4, April 1964, edited by George Charters. LINK
- “Discourse on Metaphysics” – The Scarr 6, November 1964, edited by George Charters. LINK
- “Slobland Revisited” – The Scarr 8, June 1965, edited by George Charters. LINK
- “Air on a Harp String” – The Scarr 120 [15], May 1967, edited by George Charters. LINK
- “The Cosy Universe” – Warhoon 24, August 1968, edited by Richard Bergeron. LINK
- “The Mortal Gael I” – Warhoon 25, November 1968, edited by Richard Bergeron. LINK
- “The Mortal Gael” II – Warhoon 26, February 1969, edited by Richard Bergeron. LINK
The 1970s
- “The Jaundiced Goggle” – Scottishe 55, March 1970, edited by Ethel Lindsay.
- “Speculations on Fan Mortality” – Science Fiction Review 36 (first series), April 1970, edited by Richard E. Geis. LINK
- “The Mortal Gael” III – Warhoon 27, September 1970, edited by Richard Bergeron. LINK
- “BoSh Tosh I” – Focal Point 2:13, 14 September 1970, edited by Arnie Katz and rich brown. LINK
- “BoSh Tosh II: How I Saved Winston Churchill’s Life” – Focal Point 2:20, 21 December 1970, edited by Arnie Katz and rich brown. LINK
- “BoSh Tosh III” – Focal Point 2:21, 4 January 1971, edited by Arnie Katz and rich brown. LINK
- “The Extraordinary Behaviour of Ordinary Materials” – Energumen 7, July 1971, edited by Mike and Susan Glicksohn. LINK
- “BoSh Tosh IV” – Focal Point 3:2, 17 August 1971, edited by Arnie Katz. LINK
- “By a Specious Correspondent” – Egoboo 13, 8 October 1971, edited by John D. Berry and Ted White. LINK
- “James White” – Novacon Programme Book, November 1971, edited by Vernon Brown for the University of Aston Science Fiction Group. LINK
- “This Is... Uh... He Publishes... Er...” – Warm Heart Pastry 1, [undated] early 1972, edited by Neil Goldfarb.
- “The Jig Is Up” –Rats! 14, January 1972, edited by Bill Kunkel.
- “Never Respond to a Review” – untitled letters in Algol 18, May 1972, and Algol 20, May 1973, edited by Andrew I. Porter.
- “BoSh Tosh V” – Tandem 1, January 1973, edited by Arnie and Joyce Katz.
- “Two Recipes” – as “Deadline Stew” and “Martian Madness” in Cooking Out of This World, August 1973, edited by Anne McCaffrey.
- “All Our Chester Days” – Blazon 1, April 1974, edited by Eric Bentcliffe and Keith Freeman for the Knights of St Fantony.
- “Bicycle to Betelgeuse” – Tynecon ’74 Programme Booklet, April 1974, edited by Rob Jackson for the 1974 UK Eastercon held in Newcastle upon Tyne. Artwork by Harry Bell.
- “Billion Year Esprit de Corps” – Cypher 11, May 1974, edited by Jim Goddard and Mike Sandow.
- “Hi, Fen!” – Random 6, February 1975, edited by Mike Gorra. LINK
- “Once Upon a Tyne” – Maya 7, February 1975, edited by Rob Jackson. Artwork by Harry Bell. LINK
- “Allies in Sunderland” – Prevert 1, March 1975, edited by John Jarrold.
- “Beyond Apollo by Barry Malzberg” – Foundation: The Review of Science Fiction, March 1975, edited by Peter Nicholls.
- “Bringing Them Out of Their Shells” – Mota 11, July 1975, edited by Terry Hughes. LINK
- “Beer” (speech delivered Autumn 1975) – Mimosa 19, November 1996, edited by Rich and Nicki Lynch. LINK
- “Prediction or Predilection?” – Diaspar 17, November 1975, edited by Terry Carr.
- “Income Taxi” – Maya 10, March 1976, edited by Rob Jackson. LINK
- “Escape to Infinity” – Foundation: The Review of Science Fiction, June 1976, edited by Peter Nicholls.
- “Irish Rose by Patrick Wyatt” – Foundation: The Review of Science Fiction, June 1976, edited by Peter Nicholls.
- “Introduction to ‘The Exorcists of IF’” – Algol 27, Fall 1976, edited by Andrew I. Porter. Artwork by Atom (Arthur Thomson).
- “The Writer’s Year” – BSFA Yearbook 1977, [no month given] 1977, edited by Dave Lewis for the British SF Association.
- “The Two-Year Warning” – Seacon ’79 Bid Progress Report 3, April 1977, edited by Graham Charnock for what became Seacon ’79, the 1979 World SF Convention (Brighton, UK). LINK
- “Tango Time” – New Statesman, 15 April 1977, edited by Anthony Howard.
- “Wetfoot in the Head” – Maya 14, July 1977, edited by Rob Jackson. Artwork by Harry Bell. LINK
- “How Short Is ‘Short’?” – Rigel Magazine 60, December 1977, edited by Guido Eekhaut.
- “Talking a Lot of Bilge” – Mota 24, March 1978, edited by Terry Hughes. LINK
- “PRO and Con” – Maya 15, June 1978, edited by Rob Jackson. Artwork by Jim Barker. LINK
- “The Game of Dog and Crab” – Mota 26, November 1978, edited by Terry Hughes. LINK
- “The View from Serendip by Arthur C. Clarke” – Vector 90, November/December 1978, edited by David Wingrove for the British Science Fiction Association. LINK
- “Auld Slang Sayings” – DNQ 16, April 1979, edited by Taral Wayne Macdonald and Victoria Vayne.
- “Pro Lapse” – Matrix 23, April 1979, edited by Simon Ounsley for the British Science Fiction Association.
- “What Is Science Fiction? My View” – Science Fiction Book Club News, Summer 1979, edited by Paul Begg.
- “Confessions of a Philistine” – Inca 1, July 1979, edited by Rob Jackson.
- “Dreams of Empire” (contribution to symposium) – Seacon ’79 Souvenir Book, August 1979, edited by Graham Charnock for Seacon ’79, the 1979 World SF Convention (Brighton, UK).
- “Tiles of Horror” – Seacon ’79 Souvenir Book, August 1979, edited by Graham Charnock for Seacon ’79, the 1979 World SF Convention (Brighton, UK).
The 1980s
- “Coming Apart at the Themes” – Science Fiction Review 35 (second series), May 1980, edited by Richard E. Geis. LINK
- “BoSh of Arabia” – Energumen 16, September 1981, edited by Mike Glicksohn. LINK
- “Has-to-Ride Belt, or A Streetcar Named Bizarre” – Anvil 22, July 1982, edited by Charlotte Proctor. LINK
- “When Fandoms Collide” – The Zine That Has No Name 3, November 1982, edited by Paul Skelton. LINK
- “BoShcon Non-Speech” (delivered 20 November 1982) – Anvil 27, May 1983, edited by Charlotte Proctor. Transcribed and abridged by Steven Carlberg. LINK
- “Private Passions” New Internationalist, December 1982. LINK
- “James White: An Appreciation” – Albacon III Programme Book, April 1983, edited by Dave Ellis, Frances Jane Nelson and Mick Molloy for the 1983 UK National SF Convention held in Glasgow. LINK
- “Comparative Fizzyology” – The Australian Fan Funds’ Newsletter 1, December 1983, edited by Marc Ortlieb.
- “Murphan’s Law” – Microwave 7, February 1984, edited by Terry Hill. LINK
- “You Don’t Really Mean That” – Ron’s Raygun 2, September 1984, edited by Ron Gemmell.
- “A Word in Your Beer” – Mainstream 10, October 1984, edited by Jerry Kaufman and Suzanne Tompkins. LINK
- “V: Plumbing the Depths” – Starburst 75, November 1984, edited by Alan McKenzie. LINK
- “Seducers with Staples” – Focus 10, February 1985, edited by Sue Thomason for the British Science Fiction Association.
- “How to Be Sick” – Anvil 36, June 1985, edited by Charlotte Proctor. LINK
- “Aussiecon Two After-Dinner Speech” (delivered August 1985) – excerpt in symposium “On Being Fans” in Thyme 49, January 1986, edited by Roger Weddall and Peter Burns. Symposium compiled and arranged by Peter Burns. LINK
- “Aussiecon Two Fan Natter” (delivered August 1985) – excerpt in symposium “On Being Fans” in Thyme 49, January 1986, edited by Roger Weddall and Peter Burns. Symposium compiled and arranged by Peter Burns. LINK
- “Foreword to PsiFi: Psychological Theories and Science Fictions” (dated June 1986) – PsiFi: Psychological Theories and Science Fictions, January 1987, edited by Michele Benjamin and Jim Ridgway (published by The British Psychological Society)
- “Bob Shaw’s Patented Ever-Fail Get-Rich-Quick Schemes” – Confederation Program Book, August 1986, published by the 1986 World SF Convention (Atlanta, Georgia, USA). LINK
- “The Extra Dimension” – Vector 134, October/November 1986, edited by David V. Barrett. LINK
- “Silverberg and Slow Glass” – from “Comment on Two of Silverberg’s Worlds of Wonder” in Foundation: The Review of Science Fiction 38, Winter 1986/1987, edited by Edward James.
- “Escaping from a Monster of the Mind” – The Independent, 26 May 1987, edited by Andreas Whittam Smith.
- “Friends on a Train” – Empties 9, September 1988, edited by Martin Tudor.
- “Merry Christmas” – Anvil 49, May 1989, edited by Charlotte Proctor. LINK
The 1990s
- “Perspex Parrot” – Perspex Parrot 1, mid-1990, edited by Bob Shaw.
- “DeepSouthCon 28 Speech” (delivered in June 1990) – Anvil 52, October 1990, edited by Charlotte Proctor. Transcribed and abridged by Dick Lynch, Charlotte Proctor and Rebecca Brayman. LINK
- “Life Is But a Raffle” – Anvil 52, October 1990, edited by Charlotte Proctor. LINK
- “Mickey Mouse Works” – Sticky Quarters 20, December 1990, edited by Brian Earl Brown.
- “Play Mystic for Me” – Trap Door 10, January 1991, edited by Robert Lichtman.
- “Seasonal Greetings” – Anvil 53, April 1991, edited by Charlotte Proctor. LINK
- “Twenty Years of Novacon” – untitled in Novacon 21 Programme Book, November 1991, edited by Alice and Steve Lawson for the Birmingham SF Group. LINK
- “Key Bored” – Nexus 2, Spring 1992, edited by Paul Brazier.
- “Bargaining Up the Wrong Tree” – Anvil 54, July 1992, edited by Charlotte Proctor. LINK
- “The Half-Life of Brian” – Novacon 25 Progress Report One, October 1994, edited by Martin Tudor for the Birmingham SF Group. LINK
- “Introduction to ‘The Mercenary Mirage’” – Overload (Novacon 25 Guests of Honour booklet), November 1995, edited by Martin Tudor for the Birmingham (UK) SF Group. LINK
Quotes and Nuggets
Most of these are from published letters of comment, the originals usually being untitled.
- “Fan File” – Quandry 13, August 1951, edited by Lee Hoffman. LINK
- “Stunned Speculation on the Manchester Mushroom” – Slant 6, Winter 1951/1952, edited by Walt Willis. LINK
- “Pun Primer” – Bem 2, June 1954, edited by Mal Ashworth. LINK
- “Absent-Minded Astronauts” – Nebula Science Fiction 13, September 1955, edited by Peter Hamilton. LINK
- “Fan Chess” – Fanac 12, December 1958, edited by Terry Carr and Ron Ellik. LINK
- “An Old Fan and Tired?” – Hyphen 22, March 1959, edited by Walt Willis. LINK
- “A Word from the Co-Author” – Bob Shaw’s introduction to the second edition of his and Walt Willis’s The Enchanted Duplicator, August 1962, published by Ted Johnstone. LINK
- “A Presentation to Terry Carr” (written late 1967) – Innuendo 12, May 1990, edited by Terry Carr and published after his death by Jerry Kaufman. LINK
- “Advice to a Beginning Writer” – contribution to Q&A symposium in SF Writer’s Bulletin 5, July 1970, edited by Don Malcolm for the British SF Association.
- ”The Bun Is the Lowest Form of Wheat” – Focal Point 2:8, 6 July 1970, edited by Arnie Katz and rich brown. LINK
- “The Rustle-Bedspring Diagram” – Maya 9, November 1975, edited by Rob Jackson. LINK
- “The House on the Borderland” – Checkpoint 78, January 1977, edited by Peter Roberts. LINK
- “Ming the Mercenary” – Quark 14, April 1977, edited by Tom Perry.
- “You Can B. Shaw” – True Rat Nein, April 1977, edited by Leroy Kettle.
- “Writing Funny” – Mota 28, June 1979, edited by Terry Hughes. LINK
- “Practical Joke” – Ansible 6, February 1980, edited by David Langford. LINK
- “Law of the Jungle” – Holier Than Thou 9, January 1981, edited by Marty Cantor. LINK
- “Hugos There?” – Boonfark 5, August 1981, edited by Dan Steffan. LINK
- “First Visit to the South” – TriContinental One-Shot, August 1981. LINK
- “TED Author Credits” – Boonfark 6, Spring 1982, edited by Dan Steffan. LINK
- “On Perfectionism” – Pong 33/34, 19 April 1982, edited by Ted White and Dan Steffan. LINK
- “Correction” – File 770 71, December 1987, edited by Mike Glyer. LINK
- “Swelling and Skating” – Sikander 15, March 1989, edited by Irwin Hirsh.
- “Interzone Newsflash” – Interzone 34, March/April 1990, edited by David Pringle.
- “How Do They Say It?” – Anvil 55, April 1993, edited by Charlotte Proctor. LINK
- “Certificate” – undated; personalised copies given at various times to various fans. LINK
Not Included
As already noted, the Serious Scientific Talks and the Glass Bushel columns have their own ebook collections, the latter also including further writing for Hyphen and the column’s 1984 revival in Science Fiction Review. Slow Pint Glass covers everything else, at least at shorter lengths: the one long fable The Enchanted Duplicator (1954, with Walt Willis) has seen many editions including an ebook at the TAFF site.
Of course there must be some accidental omissions, the Bob Shaw fanzine articles we never located or never heard about. Slow Pint Glass can always be updated if any missed gem comes to light. It was an editorial decision to include just a single example of Bob’s artwork for Slant. Cartoons from his early fannish career were for the most part poorly reproduced and difficult to rescue for the ebook format: the spirit was willing but the technology often wonky. The letters of comment, mostly in “Quotes and Nuggets”, are a selection only – ones that both editors liked. Knowing that Bob himself had a low opinion of the straight science fiction (as distinct from fan fiction) he wrote in the 1950s for Slant and other fan venues, we have left it out. Professionally published fiction is of course outside the scope of this collection, and interviews (at least ten appeared in print) are represented only by the Q&A session in “BoShcon Non-Speech”.
Further known omissions are listed below. Reprints with unchanged titles are not included.
- Fen Crittur Comical Books, Autumn 1952, by Walt Willis and Bob Shaw; drawings by Bob Shaw, assisted by Vince Clarke; additional material by Vince Clarke, Chuck Harris and James White. Comic-strip pastiche of Pogo, plus FAPA mailing comments by Walt Willis. LINK
- “Estimate” – Peri 1, January 1953, edited by Ken Potter and Dave Wood. Amateur fiction.
- “The Return of the Space Boggle” – Confusion 14, February 1953, edited by Shelby Vick. Three-page comic strip that has also been described as a one-shot and may have been separately distributed. LINK
- “Bosh #1” and “Bosh #2” – Locus 25 and 26, both April 1969, edited by Charles N. Brown. Reprint compilations published in support of Bob Shaw’s TAFF candidacy, in which we first found “Fan File” and “Pun Primer” in “Quotes and Nuggets”.
- “The Mortal Gael” – The Scarr 122 [17], June 1969, edited by George Charters. Three-part column reprinting “The Cosy Universe” and the first two segments of “The Mortal Gael I” above. LINK
- “Follow the Sun” – Rigel Magazine 60, December 1977, edited by Guido Eekhaut. Short-short story; straight SF.
- Courageous New Planet – Novacon 11 Guest of Honour booklet, October 1981, published by the Birmingham SF Group. Arguably fan fiction but reprinted in the Bob Shaw collection Dark Night in Toyland (Gollancz, 1989), so this must be regarded as straight SF.
- “A Simple Lie Detector for the Home Handyman” – Mad Scientist’s Digest 9, November 1984, edited by Brian Earl Brown. Retitled reprint of “The Extraordinary Behaviour of Ordinary Materials”, without the introductory sentence.
- “Non-Profiles of the Future” – Ron’s Raygun, March 1985, edited by Ron Gemmell. Retitled reprint of “What Is Science Fiction? My View”.
- “Shell Cases” – Trap Door 12, March 1993, edited by Robert Lichtman. Slight rewrite of “Bringing Them Out of Their Shells” to explain the Oyster Rating system after Walt Willis had mentioned it in a letter. This drops the Filbert Knutt character, with the Rating becoming Bob’s own invention; changes a couple of gags, so for example “to attend a meeting of the Kent Science Fiction Society” becomes “to read Battlefield Earth”; and omits the final paragraph.
- “The Mercenary Mirage” – Overload (Novacon 25 Guests of Honour booklet), November 1995, edited by Martin Tudor for the Birmingham (UK) SF Group. Early fiction: see “Introduction to ‘The Mercenary Mirage’” above.
Volume 2: The Full Glass Bushel
This collects all Bob Shaw’s Glass Bushel columns from Hyphen, plus his other pieces in Hyphen and the two additional Bushel columns for Science Fiction Review in 1984. Most links are to the Hyphen archive at Fanac.org.
- “Introduction, 1986: Bob Shaw” – Messages Found in an Oxygen Bottle, August 1986, published by The NESFA Press.
- “The Glass Bushel: Water, Wind and Gales of Laughter” – without subtitle in Hyphen 1, May 1952, edited by Walt Willis and Chuck Harris. LINK
- “The Glass Bushel: Comes the Revelation” – without subtitle in Hyphen 2, September 1952, edited by Walt Willis and Chuck Harris. LINK
- “The Glass Bushel: The Advent of the SEWIFAVSAG” in Hyphen 3, February 1953, edited by Walt Willis and Chuck Harris. LINK
- “SFAN!” – Hyphen 3, February 1953, edited by Walt Willis and Chuck Harris. LINK
- “The Soupcon Report” – Hyphen 5, November 1953, edited by Walt Willis. LINK
- “The Glass Bushel: Cyclic History” – without subtitle in Hyphen 6, January 1954, edited by Walt Willis. LINK
- “Reviews” – Hyphen 7, March 1954, edited by Walt Willis. LINK
- “The Glass Bushel: Kolektinbug” – without subtitle in Hyphen 8, January 1954, edited by Walt Willis. LINK
- “The Glass Bushel: Hoax” – Hyphen 10, September 1954, edited by Walt Willis and Chuck Harris. LINK
- “Your First Murders” – Hyphen 10, September 1954, edited by Walt Willis and Chuck Harris. LINK
- “The Glass Bushel: The Ladies’ Armchair Companion” – without subtitle in Hyphen 11, November 1954, edited by Walt Willis and Chuck Harris. LINK
- “Subtle Horror Story” – Hyphen 11, November 1954, edited by Walt Willis and Chuck Harris. LINK
- “The Glass Bushel: Pyrotechnics” – without subtitle in Hyphen 12, December 1954, edited by Walt Willis and Chuck Harris. ¶ LINK
- “The Glass Bushel: The Haunted House” – Hyphen 13, March 1955, edited by Walt Willis and Chuck Harris. LINK
- “The Glass Bushel: BoSh Goes Loco” – without subtitle in Hyphen 14, June 1955, edited by Walt Willis and Chuck Harris. ¶ LINK
- “The Glass Bushel: The Supernatural and the Underworld” – without subtitle in Hyphen 15, November 1955, edited by Walt Willis and Chuck Harris. LINK
- “The Glass Bushel: Canadian Capers (1)” – without subtitle in Hyphen 16, August 1956, edited by Walt Willis. ¶ LINK
- “The Glass Bushel: Sprinting in the Rockies” – Hyphen 17, December 1956, edited by Walt Willis. LINK
- “The Glass Bushel: Rush Report re Portrush” – Hyphen 18, May 1957, edited by Walt Willis and Chuck Harris. ¶ LINK
- “The Glass Bushel: The Ballistics of Bards and Buses” – without subtitle in Hyphen 19, January 1958, edited by Walt Willis. LINK
- “The Glass Bushel: Perchance to Sleep” – Hyphen 20, February 1958, edited by Walt Willis. LINK
- “The Glass Bushel: Canadian Capers (2)” – as “The Glass Bushel: The Molehill” in Hyphen 21, October 1958, edited by Walt Willis and Chuck Harris. ¶ LINK
- “The Glass Bushel: Two Years Before the Potato Hatch” – Hyphen 22, March 1959, edited by Walt Willis. LINK
- “The History of Irish Fandom: Part 4” – Hyphen 23, November 1959, edited by Walt Willis. LINK
- “Homing Odyssey” – Hyphen 23, November 1959, edited by Walt Willis. LINK
- “The Glass Bushel: The Man in the Grey Flannel Toga” – Hyphen 24, March 1960, edited by Walt Willis. ¶ LINK
- “The Glass Bushel: The Strange Pond of Dr Moreau” – without subtitle in Hyphen 25, November 1960, edited by Walt Willis and Ian McAulay. ¶ LINK
- “The Glass Bushel: I Have Been Faithful to Thee, Cinema” – Hyphen 26, January 1961, edited by Walt Willis and Ian McAulay. ¶ LINK
- “The Glass Bushel: Bowmen in the Gloamin’” – Hyphen 27, March 1961, edited by Walt Willis and Ian McAulay. ¶ LINK
- “The Glass Bushel: None But My Foe to Be My Guide” – Hyphen 28, May 1961, edited by Walt Willis and Ian McAulay. LINK
- “The Glass Bushel: Booze in the Night” – with the further subtitle “An Excursion into the Strange Half-World of Ian McAulay – Scientist, Fan Editor, Motor Cyclist, Collector, Psychic Researcher, Sot” in Hyphen 29, September 1961, edited by Walt Willis and Ian McAulay. ¶ LINK
- “The Glass Bushel: QVO VOIDVS” – Hyphen 30, December 1961, edited by Walt Willis and Ian McAulay. LINK
- “The Glass Bushel: The Merry, Merry Paean of Pipes” – Hyphen 31, March 1962, edited by Walt Willis and Ian McAulay. ¶ LINK
- “The Glass Bushel: Tommy Johnston versus Science Fiction” – Hyphen 32, 1963, edited by Walt and Madeleine Willis. ¶ LINK
- “The Glass Bushel: The Blue Plate Special” – Hyphen 33, June 1961, edited by Walt and Madeleine Willis. LINK
- “The Glass Bushel: A Fine Pere” – Hyphen 35, April 1964, edited by Walt and Madeleine Willis. LINK
- “Weekend Return” – Hyphen 36, February 1965, edited by Walt and Madeleine Willis. LINK
- “Ad Astra?” – Vector 65, May/June 1973, edited for the British Science Fiction Association by Malcolm Edwards. ¶ LINK
- “The Glass Bushel: Pipes, Plates and Politicians” – without subtitle in Science Fiction Review 51, May 1984, edited by Richard E. Geis. LINK
- “The Glass Bushel: Creepy Coincidences” – without subtitle in Science Fiction Review 53, November 1984, edited by Richard E. Geis. LINK
- “The Glass Bushel: Trance with a Stranger” – Hyphen 37, October 1987, edited by Walt Willis. LINK
¶ Included in The Best of the Bushel (1979).
Not Included
- “The Glass Bushel: Service with a Smell” – Vector 3, Winter 1958, edited by B.T. Jeeves. Reprinted extract from “The Glass Bushel: Perchance to Sleep” above. LINK
- “More Canadian Capers” – retitling of “Canadian Capers (2)” aka “The Molehill” in Messages Found in an Oxygen Bottle, August 1986, published by The NESFA Press.
Volume 1: The Serious Scientific Talks
A final talk delivered at the 1995 Eastercon and Worldcon seems never to have been published, but will be added if a recording or transcript can be found.
- “Introduction, 1979” by Mike Glicksohn – The Eastercon Speeches, 1979.
- “Introduction, 1995” by Alison Scott – A Load of Old BoSh, 1995.
- “A Note from the Author” by Bob Shaw – The Eastercon Speeches, 1979.
- “The Need for BAD Science Fiction” – Goblin’s Grotto 1, June 1975, edited by Ian Williams. † ¶
- “Time-Travellers Among Us” – as “Time Travel Talk” in Triode 21, June 1975, edited by Eric Bentcliffe, Terry Jeeves and Eric Jones. † ¶ LINK
- “The Return of the Backyard Spaceship” – Maya 11, August 1976, edited by Rob Jackson. † ¶ LINK
- “The Bermondsey Triangle Mystery” – Maya 14, June 1977, edited by Rob Jackson. † ¶ LINK
- “Up the Conjunction: An Investigation into Astrology” – Drilkjis 3, August 1978, edited by Dave Langford and Kevin Smith. † ¶ LINK
- “Eau de Clone” – Matrix 30, June 1980, edited by Eve and John Harvey for the British SF Association. This may have been preceded by the same talk’s appearance in Ben’Zine 3, undated (but with a Phil Foglio cartoon dated 1979), edited by Ben Zuhl.
- “The Mysterious World of Bob C. Shaw” – Matrix 37, August 1981, edited by Graham James for the British SF Association. LINK
- “Beyond Cosmos” – Serious Science, 1984. ‡ ¶
- “Conning Your Way” – Serious Science, 1984. ‡ ¶
- “Ten Years, but Not Decayed” – Serious Science, 1984. ‡ ¶
- “My Life and Space/Times” (aka “Worldcon After Dinner Speech”) – Matrix 61, October 1985, edited by Eve and John Harvey for the British SF Association. ¶ LINK
- “What I Learned from Watching Star Trek” – Mimosa 3, September 1987, edited by Nicki and Richard Lynch. LINK
- “Campus Fugit” – Xyster 13, November 1987, edited by Dave Wood.
- “The Importance of Fluoridation of Public Water Supplies” (aka “A Serious Scientific Talk”) – Nowhere Fast 4, August 1988, edited by Harry Bond. ¶
- “Corn Is the Lowest Form of Wheat” – Mimosa 9, December 1990, edited by Nicki and Richard Lynch; foreword added in Pulp 18, January 1991, edited by John Harvey. LINK
† Speech collected as one of five in The Eastercon Speeches (1979).
‡ Speech collected as one of three in Serious Science (1984).
¶ Speech collected as one of ten in A Load of Old BoSh (1995).Further Research
