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<p><font size=3 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'>Dear All <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'>The following is an invitation from the
Rudyard Kipling Society of Australia, whose February 27th meeting will be held at
the hall of the Roseville East Uniting Church and will include a talk on
"Rudyard Kipling and the Antarctic" by Dr Alan Cowan (from Canberra).
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'>The meeting starts at 2 pm and the
church hall is visible from and just across the street from the <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Roseville</st1:place></st1:City> railway station,
which is one stop beyond Chatswood and about 25 to 30 minutes from Central
Station.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'>The speaker for the Rudyard Kipling
Society of Australia meeting following this, which will be held on Saturday
29th May, 2010, will be Amelia Scholtz who will speak on "Rudyard Kipling
and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Japan</st1:place></st1:country-region>".<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=3 color=black
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=3 color=black
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
color:black'>There may be more dimensions to the writing of Rudyard Kipling than
most people realize, as </span></font><font color="#333333" face=Arial><span
lang=EN style='font-family:Arial;color:#333333'>the Libertarian Futurist
Society, who publish ‘Prometheus’, a quarterly journal of Libertarian
Science Fiction, have recently announced the following finalists for the
2010 Prometheus Hall of Fame Award. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=3 color="#333333"
face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=3 color="#333333"
face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=3 color="#333333"
face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333'>They
are;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=3 color="#333333"
face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333'>"No
Truce with Kings", by Poul Anderson (1964), <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=3 color="#333333"
face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333'>'Repent,
Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman", by Harlan Ellison (1965), <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=3 color="#333333"
face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333'>"As
Easy as A.B.C." by Rudyard Kipling (1912) and <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=3 color="#333333"
face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333'>Cryptonomicon
by Neal Stephenson (1999).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=3 color="#333333"
face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=3 color="#333333"
face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=3 color="#333333"
face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333'>Wishing
you well in all things.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=3 color="#333333"
face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=3 color="#333333"
face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=3 color="#333333"
face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333'>Garry
P. Dalrymple <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=3 color="#333333"
face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333'>A
Sydney Futurian and Sydney Freecon Convenor, <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=3 color="#333333"
face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333'>but
not necessarily a Sydney Libertarian Futurist<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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