Notable members/past-members of the MSFC include Merv Binns (SF fan, editor, fanzine publisher and proprietor of Australia's first specialist SF bookshop, Space Age Books) Ian Gunn, (Past president and club fanzine editor) winner of the Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist 1999, Lee Harding, Damien Broderick, Alan Stewart (secretary for 16 years and Ditmar Award winner), Cheryl Morgan (editor of the Hugo Award for Best Fanzine winning fanzine, Emerald City), Phil Wlodarczyk, Martin James Ditmar ("Dick") Jenssen (after whom the Ditmar Award is named), Bruce Gillespie (Fan Guest of Honour at the 1999 World Science Fiction Convention Aussiecon 3), John Bangsund and Race Mathews who later became a Minister in the Victorian Legislative Assembly.
The MSFC has a library of over 8,000 volumes and a huge collection of fanzines, which is currently in storage.
It is listed as a special library for researchers and has a computer catalogue of approximately 5,500 titles.
[1] After Somerset Gazette there was no official club zine in the seventies.
Since 1985 the MSFC has published Ethel the Aardvark, a newszine which has won the Ditmar Award – several times under editors including Alan Stewart, Ian Gunn, and Paul Ewins – and the Chronos Award.