SF Commentary No. 31 is a particularly significant issue of Bruce Gillespie's Australian science fiction critical fanzine, featuring coverage of Philip K. Dick in Vancouver. The issue also covers Ivan Illich in Melbourne, connecting Dick's science fiction to broader intellectual currents.
A stop-press note announces that the committee bidding to hold the World Science Fiction Convention in San Francisco in 1975 has withdrawn its bid, strengthening Australia's bid for the 1975 Worldcon. The issue includes extra credits for SF Commentary 30, including a drawing by Lindsay Cox and production help by Ken Ford.
The Vancouver connection is particularly notable: Dick delivered his famous speech "The Android and the Human" at the Vancouver Science Fiction Convention in 1972, one of his most important public addresses. This issue of SF Commentary likely contains reporting or discussion of Dick's Vancouver appearance, making it a valuable primary source for documenting Dick's public intellectual life and the reception of his ideas within the science fiction community.