Editorial by Lee Hoffman
It is with pride that we present the tenth issue of
fandom's foremost five-yearly innovative anachronism.
Those of you who have been regular readers of SFFY for
the past forty-five years know that every issue has
brought you at least one exciting new innovation, or
else an old innovation that's new to SFFY.
(illo: Lee holding 10 issues like cards)
Back in 1951, the first issue featured the first
eight-color, all-mimeographed, entirely-out-of-register
cover with a taped spine published by a lone female
fan ever to appear in FAPA.
For our second issue we relocated to Staten Island and started running serials by the eminent SF authors, Calvin Aaargh and Nalrah Nosille and presented a multi-color cover that was entirely in register (due to being done in one run with multi-color ink.)
Our third issue was the first published below ground level and brought you our first use of invisible ink, a feature that proved so popular (with Nalrah Nosille) that it was done again in fifth issue.
The fourth issue was the very first one we published from the same address as the previous one, and was first SFFY to carry the "copyright" symbol suggested by Hugo Gernsbach as a way of declaring an author's rights in any invention that might be inspired and developed in the Real World because of the author's envisioning it in the fantasy world of SF.
With the fifth issue we relocated to Florida, featured Bob Toomey as ass ed and gave you our first fully black and white cover.
Most innovative of all (until now) was issue number six, which not only brought you a magnificent Steven Stiles cover done entirely in black and white, but a whole new concept for SFFY --legible text --thanks to another exciting innovation, the guest editor-publisher, the first of whom, Terry Hughes, set new standards for the zine. This guest editor-publisher concept, which arose in part due to technical difficulties, proved to be so popular (especially with the erstwhile production and mailing department) that we continued it over the lustrums that followed.
Thus it was that with number seven we roped in an entirely new guest
editor-publisher, Dan Steffan, and superb
cover entirely in black & white, rendered
by none other than said guest editor-publisher
himself.
(illo: Lee roping Dan)
The eighth issue featured not one but
two --count'em two! --entirely new guest
editor-publishers. Patrick & Teresa Nielsen
Hayden, with the assistance of (and
artwork) by the ever-popular Stu Shiffman
Issue number nine brought you another altogether new (to us) and exciting pair of guest editor-publishers, Geri Sullivan and Jeff Schalles, with encouragement from rich brown, and our first interactive cover, an exciting new (to us) concept by none other than Ross Chamberlain.
With this present issue we bring you yet another new innovation --the first encore appearance of a pair of our guest editor-publishers. This reflects not only our pride and pleasure in the work these people have done in the past, but also the fact that no one else volunteered this lustrum.
As part of their encore appearance, Geri and Jeff are presenting some new innovations of their own devising -- including Andy Hooper as a co-editor, e-mail, and a genuine photo section.
(illo: mimeo with sheets flying out of out tray)
Some hard-shelled old fossils may question this addition to the
tried-and-true technology employed in earlier issues. To such a
one I say, Foosh, sirrah! We refuse to be left even further behind
in this age of computerized multi-media. Whether you like it or not, you can look forward to more new innovations in future issues. In another eight or ten lustrums we may even move on from mimeo to some more advanced form of archaic reproduction.
Data entry by Judy Bemis
Hard copy provided by Geri Sullivan
Data entry by Judy Bemis
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