The latest Special Collections exhibition, “Aliens, Androids & Unicorns. The Hal Salive Science Fiction and Fantasy Collection” opened last Thursday in the de Beer Gallery, Central Library, Dunedin. It runs to 29 May 2015, so if you are visiting Dunedin during this time, please drop in. The de Beer Gallery is open 8.30 to 5.00 Monday to Friday; 1st floor Central University Library.

All those favourite works by Van Vogt, Delany, Jack Williamson, Ursula Le Guin, Jack Chalker and many others, are on display. Another feature is the amazing run of Astounding Stories, many pre-1949. Please pass this on to those other interested parties who relish science fiction and fantasy.

Harold Terrence Salive (1939-2012) was an academic, inventor, and keen collector.  In March 2013 his widow Rachel arranged to donate the collection to Otago, where it now complements the Fastier collection featured in a previous exhibition.  We are delighted to be able to showcase another aspect of the weird and wonderful world of science fiction.