Import Clare McDonald-Sims!

By Andrew Porter: Since 1972 the Down Under Fan Fund, a fan-supported fellowship, has encouraged closer ties between Australasian and North American Science Fiction fans through the alternating exchange of representatives. DUFF delegates will time their travels to allow them to attend the World Science Fiction Convention or the national convention in the destination country and visit fans they would not have a chance to meet otherwise. The new delegate is also encouraged to publish a trip report, copies of which can be sold to add to the fund.

The 2016 Down Under Fan Fund race, which this year will bring an Australian fan to MidAmeriCon, the World SF Convention, to be held in Kansas City, Missouri, has only one candidate, Clare McDonald-Sims. Her platform is:

I’m a serial committee member and volunteer for fan clubs and smaller conventions in Melbourne, and a collector of SF books, digests and pulps. I’ve attended four Worldcons in four countries and would like to break that one-for-one streak. I love travelling to places I haven’t been, which includes Kansas City! If I have the honour of being the 2016 DUFF delegate I will attend as many cons, visit as many clubs, meet as many people and travel to as many new places as possible. I’m friendly, hardworking and will happily say g’day to everyone I meet.

Perhaps she might even make it to PulpFest!

To vote in the race, which must include a donation, go here: ozfanfunds.com/duff/DUFF_onlineballot2016.html

The deadline for voting is May 16.