The Fanac Fan History Project

Site History (2016-2020)

December 30, 2020: It's the last update for 2020. Wishing you all a better, safer, more joyful year to come.; YouTube: Uploaded on Dec 27, the video of Rob Hansen's Virtual walking tour of fannish London. From the YouTube description: "In the midst of the Covid pandemic, Rob Hansen, noted historian of British fandom, takes us on a virtual walking tour of fannish Holborn (London). Using video and audio clips, along with historical photos, Rob provides a thoughtful and insightful look at British fan history. He talks about early fans, conventions, fanzines, clubs, and the impact of WWII. As this is a walking tour, many of the stops are legendary pubs - the favored meeting places for London fandom for many decades. This is a live recording too - about 35 fans from two continents attended the zoom call where this was presented, and the video includes their Q&A." Find it at https://youtu.be/m4ra2QiiZ48 Thanks Rob, for a great tour!; Fanzines added:; --Awry, Dave Locke. Added #9 (Aug 75) of this genzine. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Kipple, Ted Pauls. Added 27 issues of this genzine, mostly from the early 60s. Added issues #2-13, 15, 50-52, 57-62, 64, 97, 118, 157, and 179. Contributors include Ted White, Marion Bradley, Red Boggs, Rog Ebert (#11), John Magnus and others. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Ornithopter, Leigh Edmonds perzine. Added 5 issues of this new-to-us title from the late 70s/early 80s. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --I Palantir, Ted Johnstone. Added #2 of this Tolkien fanzine out of LA in the mid 60s. Ted Johnstone edited the first 2 issues, and Bruce Pelz edited the last two. We're only missing #1 to complete the run, so it's going on the One and Done Begging list. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Rosebud, Mari Beth Wheeler. Added #5 (Mar 46) of "fandom's intimate fanzine". Not only is Bob Tucker on the TOC, but so is H.P. Pong. We have only one issue left to complete the run - we're missing #1. So, it's going on the One and Done list too. Scan of issue 5 was by Joe Siclari.; --Self-Preservation, Lee Hoffman. Added 2 more issues of Lee's perzine: #3 (Sum 62) and #9 (Aug 66). Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Short Enough To Be Interesting, Eli Cohen. Added the full 4 issue run of Eli's perzine from the mid 1970s. Thanks, Eli!; --Sirruish, Leigh Couch and the Ozark Science Fiction Association. Added 4 isses: #9-12 from the early 1970s. Issue 11 has an article on where the zine got its name. Hint: it has to do with cuneiform and dragons. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Son of the WSFA Journal, Don Miller. Added issues #2 and 3 of this newszine from fall of 1969. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Twll-Ddu, Dave Langford perzine. Added 11 issues, plus an apology and a flyer. Issues: #1-7 (Apr 76-May 77), 12.5 (Aug 78), 14 (Oct 78), 16 (Jul 79), and 20 (Apr 83). Twll-Ddu won the 1977 Nova Award for best fanzine, and three Checkpoint Fan Polls. Twll-Ddu is a core fanzine for us to scan. Scans by Joe Siclari.; PDF Replacements:; --Cry of the Nameless, F. M. Busby edited these issues. We replaced 16 issues: 130-145 from Aug 1959 to Dec 1960. Cry is a core fanzine for us to scan. OCR by Joe Siclari.; --Fantasy Fan, Charles Hornig. Replaced #2, 15 with searchable PDFs. Scan/OCR by Kim Huett. Thanks, Kim!; --Innuendo, Terry Carr. Replaced 9 more issues with searchable PDFs. Now the whole run is in that format. OCR by Joe Siclari.; Convention Pubs (partial update): Thanks, delayed: Thanks to Anne Gray for sending us Smofon 2000 and Confusion 2009 pubs. You can find them at https://fanac.org/conpubs/Smofcon/Smofcon%2018/index.html and https://fanac.org/conpubs/ConFusion/Cryptic%20ConFusion/index.html.
December 26, 2020: Fanzines added:; --1930s One Shots. Starting off this new index page with a single entry - "The Science Fiction Circular", a one page zine from Sam Moskowitz.; --1950s One Shots. Added 3: Terry Carr's "The BNF of Iz", Lin Carter's "Sandalwood and Jade" and Sam Moskowitz's "Science Fiction Market Survey 1956". The BNF of Iz was already up as an article, retyped by Judy Bemis in (I think) the 1990s. It's replaced here with a searchable PDF facsimile copy. Lin Carter's zine is subtitled "Poems of the Exotic and the Strange" and is scanned from the copy he gave to Lee Hoffman. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --1960s One Shots. Added an undated one shot "Fanalog" from Shelby Vick. If anyone has a different/better sense of what decade (or year) it belongs in, please let me know. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --1970s One Shots. Starting this index page with 4 short one shots from Eli Cohen. Thanks Eli!; --Fanthologies, Collections and Festschrifts, added Vol 1 of the Complete Bob Shaw - "The Best of the Bushel". Scan by Joe Siclari (and the copy was autographed to Joe by Bob).; --Fandom Speaks, Rex Ward and Jack Clements. Added 4 issues of this late 1940s letterzine. We're only missing #5, so it's going into the One-And-Done Begging List. Joe adds," Laney wrote a letter to Fandom Speaks but it had folded. The letter is in Fan-Dango 17." Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Moss on the North Side, also MOS on the North Side, Eli Cohen. Added the complete 17 issue run of Eli's perzine from the late 70s/early 80s. He started the zine while living in Canada and changed the name when he moved to NY. Scans provided by Eli Cohen. Thanks, Eli!; --MT Void, Evelyn and Mark Leeper. We Added the latest issue of the Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society's newsletter The MT Void, MT Void Vol. 39, No. 26. Thanks Mark and Evelyn!; --The Scientifiction Scout, Gerry de la Ree. Added the last issue, #7 of this new-to-us title from 1941. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Sinisterra. Added #6 (Fall 1954), edited and William Austin and Royal Drummond. This is a publications of the Nameless Ones club (Seattle). Contributors include Wally Weber, G.M. Carr, and F.M. Busby. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Tightbeam, various editors. Added 4 issues and an 18 page supplemental issue: #10s (1961), 13 (May 1962), 17-18 (Jan-Mar 1963), and 20 (Jul 1963). Issue #18 was edited by Bill Mallardi and Bill Bowers, later of Double Bill fame. Scans by Joe Siclari.; PDF Replacements:; --Cry of the Nameless, Wally Weber, and Buz & Elinor Busby edited these issues. We replaced 15 issues: 101, 109, 120-121, 126-129, 170-175, and 184 from Mar 1957 - Sep 1969. Cry is a core fanzine for us to scan. OCR by Joe Siclari.
December 23, 2020: Notable: Fanac.org is resplendent in a new SSL certificate. You'll notice that there's a little locked lock next to the url at the top of the page. If your browser was telling you we were insecure, this should make the nagging go away.; Last weekend's Zoom call - Rob Hansen's virtual tour of Fannish Holborn: I forgot to mention that all the photos that were used in the Zoom call are online in the Fanac Fan Photo album section. If photos went by too quickly for you, you can dwell on them at your leisure at https://fanac.org/Fan_Photo_Album/e05-p00.html. The photos are arranged in the order of the stops on the tour, so you can retrace Rob's steps as you go. If you weren't able to join the call, you can still look forward to the tour. I'm hoping to put the recording up on our YouTube channel RSN.; Fanzines added:; --CyberCozen, Leybl Botwinik. Added the December 2020 issue. Thanks Leybl!; --Fantasy News, William Sykora. Added issue #149 (mismarked as 150) from May 1941. Scan provided by David Ritter. Thanks, David!; --Horizons, Harry Warner, Jr. Added #152 (Feb 1978). Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Musicals and Plahys, Requiem for a Fake Fan, by James O'Meara. This was done for Pittcon, the 1960 worldcon. It's also listed with the rest of the Pittcon pubs. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Opuntia, Dale Speirs. Added the latest issue, Saturnalia 2020. Thanks, Dale!; --Rhodomagnetic Digest, Don Fabun. Added 4 issues: #14-16 (1951), and 22 (edited by Al haLevy, 1962). Rhodomagntic Digest is a core fanzine for us to scan.; --Self-Preservation, Lee Hoffan FAPAzine. This is a new title for us, and we've added 5 issues from the 1960s. FYI, issue 10 is the "Special Legible issue in commemoration of the fact that I bought a new impression roller.)". Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Rune, various editors, from the Minnesota Science Fiction Society aka Minn-Stf. Added 10 issues and an envelope: #37.5, 72 (and envelope), 73-74, 82, 87-91. Scans courtesy of Matthew Strait and Minn-Stf. Thanks Matt!; --Tink, Mae Strelkov. Added issue #9 (Aug 1973). Scan by Joe Siclari.; PDF Replacements:; --Cry of the Nameless, G.M. Carr, Wally Weber, and F.M. Busby for these issues. We replaced 27 issues: 21 from the early 1950s, and 6 from the early 1960s. Cry is a core fanzine for us to scan. OCR by Joe Siclari.; --Innuendo, Terry Carr. Replaced issue #4 with a searchable PDF. OCR by Joe Siclari.; --Luna, Frank Dietz. Replaced 4 issues: #1-2, and 4-5 from the 1960s with searchable PDFs. OCR by Joe Siclari.; --Spanish Inquisition, Jerry Kaufman and Suzle Tompkins. Replaced all the issues we have with searchable PDFs. Want to egoscan? Now you can do that courtesy of Ctrl-F. We are still missing issues 1 and 2. If you have them, we'd love to get a scan. I did go egoscan for Fanac.org chair, Joe Siclari. I found this from Jerry in #6 - "Vaguely square of shape and slow of speech, Joe is an omnibus collector. No, I take that back. Joe does not collect omnibuses, thank God. He does collect movies, fanzines, sf pulps, film, mystery and sf books, projectors, piano rolls... I expect the walls of our new apartment to be covered with paper (spines neatly out) from wall to shining wall." Joe hasn't changed much. And of course, OCR by Joe Siclari.; --Stellar, Ted White and Larry Stark. Replaced all 10 issues that we have with searchable PDFs. Stellar is a core fanzine for us to scan. OCR by Joe Siclari. Joe's note on Stellar: "Fan fiction (fiction about fans), not amateur science fiction, has appeared in fanzines for many years. I think the best period for this was during the 1950s. From The Enchanted Duplicator to The BNF of Iz and more, we had some marvelous ideas mitered with good writing. For six issues from when it started Stellar carried the epitome. These zines are still worth reading again. Fiction by Brandon White, Stark, Harness, plus Grennell - and that was the first issue. Carr, Ashworth, Shaw and Hoffwoman (as Lee Shaw), plus Calkins, Ellison, Jeeves, Willis and quite a few others. The "Death of Science Fiction" serial may have overshadowed other pieces but there was much good stuff to read, even Mike Hammer (sort of) - and of varied enough styles so that it didn't blend into a mush as so much fan fiction seems to. There were other features as well, reviews, articles. Ted White carried it all in the best looking zine of its time. His color mimeography was superb and the layout utilized modern (for its time) styling. It couldn't last. With the exception of #18 with (Willis and Hammer), the later issues were just standard White fare."
December 19, 2020: Noteworthy: Today we held the first Fanhistory Zoom session. Rob Hansen gave a virtual tour of Holborn (London) fannish history. Using video, audio and still photos, Rob gave an interesting and entertaining illustrated tour, much of it centered on the pubs which have been the venues for meetings of London fandom. About 35 people were in attendance, and participated with questions and commentary. If you weren't there today, you may get a second chance. We're going to put a recording on the YouTube channel real soon now. We do have another zoom scheduled for January. When we have a date and time settled, I'll announce the details here.; Fanzines Added:; --1950's One Shots. Continuing to add index pages with one shots by decade. We already have the 40s, 60s and 80s represented. Today, we add the 1950s. The first and so far only entry in the list - Richard Lupoff's "One-Shot Wonder #1 Pal Maxy Science Fiction" from 1952. This is one of Dick's earliest fanzines. We put up his other early title a few days ago. Scans by Joe Siclari.; ----1960's One Shots. "Harlequin" by John Berry and Arthur Thomson (May 1964). From the introduction by Bob Shaw: "You'll be able to read about John's days in the army, a couple of his adventures with Arthur Thomson, a fan fiction item and a spy story or two. You've also got the wonderful ATom illustrations to ponder over. I had a sneak preview a couple of months ago, and I think they're fabulous." Scan by Joe Siclari.; --ASFA Publications. Added the 17th Chesley Awards Program (2002). Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Asmodeus, Alan Pesetsky and Michael DeAngelis. Added issue #2 of this new-to-us title. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Discrete, Virginia Emden (aka Virginia Kidd). Added the complete 2 issue run of this 1945 perzine. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Energumen, Mike Glicksohn and Susan Wood. Added 7 issues and several supplements, completing the run. Added today: issues #1 (Feb 70), 4 (Nov 70), 11-15 (Mar 72- May73). Also added are an ad for Torcon 2, and supplements to issues 7 and 9. Energumen won the 1973 Best Fanzine Hugo and was nominated for the 1971 and the 1972 Best Fanzine Hugos. Contributors include Ted White, Greg Benford, Bob Toomey, Jack Gaughan, Bill Rotsler, Tim Kirk, Grant Canfield, Dan Steffan, Sandra Miesel, Walt Liebscher, Bubbles Broxon and others. Energumen is a core fanzine for us to scan, and features in the Susan Wood spotlight currently on our homepage. Scans by Taral Wayne. Thanks Taral!; --Fantasy News, William Sykora. Added 14 issues: #129 (Dec 1940), 132 (Jan 1941), 138-146 (Feb-Apr 1941), 151 (Aug 1941), 153 (Oct 1941) and an announcement for the 3rd annish from June, 1941. Issue #132 recaps the headlines of 1940, has articles and excerpts of articles and runs 12 pages. Scans provided by David Ritter. Thanks, David!; --MT Void, Evelyn and Mark Leeper. Added the latest issue of the Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society's newsletter The MT Void, MT Void Vol. 39, No. 25. Thanks Mark and Evelyn!; --New Futurian, J. Michael Rosenblum. Added issue #1 (Spr 1954) to complete the run! Last week, I told you we were only missing one issue. Sam McDonald came through for us! He scanned the issue and sent it to us. Thanks Sam! I'm taking it off the list.; --Rune, aka The Newsletter of the Minnesota Science Fiction Society, by various editors. Added 16 issues of this clubzine: #5-8 (May-Jul 1968), 10 (Aug 1968), 12-13 (Nov-Dec 1968), 17 (Nov 1969), 23 (May 1971), 35 (Feb 1974), 59-61 (1980), 63-66 (1981-1982). The first 9 scans were provided by Matt Strait and Minn-Stf. Thanks, Matt! The last 7 were scanned by Joe Siclari.; --Xenolith, Bill Bowers perzine. Bill did two series of this title, which is primarily a perzine. We've added 7 issues of the first today (from 1977-1979), and 8 of the second series, along with a 2 page index. Scans by Joe Siclari.
December 16, 2020: Reminder: This next Saturday, Dec 19, is the day for our first Fan History Zoom session. Rob Hansen is giving a virtual tour of Fannish Holborn (London) using video clips, audio, historic stills and with his learned commentary. Also of course, Q&A. If you are interested and have not signed up, send a note to fanac@fanac.org. If you have signed up, you'll receive a note in the next two days with a link and details.; Fanzines Added:; --Different, Sam Moskowitz. Added 2 issues: #3 (Jan 1949), and V3#4 (Oct 1969). Issue #3 contains a speech, "A Purpose for Science Fiction" that SaM delivered at the convention meeting of the ESFA on March 6, 1949. Worth reading. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Dynatron, Roy Tackett. Added 19 issues: #32 (May 1967), 36 (May 1968), 64-65 (Nov 1975-Sept 1976), 70-73 (May 1979-Aug 1980), 77-84 (Feb 1983-Sum 1985), 94-95 (May 1990--May 1991), and 99 (Nov 1991). Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Gargoyle, David McIlwain. Added 1 issue, #5 (Apr 1941). This was the last issue. This completes the run. Scan by Rob Hansen. Thanks Rob!; --New Futurian, J. Michael Rosenblum. Added 5 more issues: #3-7. All we are missing now is #1. It now goes on the One-and-Done list. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Nyarlathotep, Marc Michalete. This French language zine covers the fantastic, science fiction and bande dessinee. "Nyarlathotep's team, deeming that an editorial necessarily leads to commonplace, demagoguery or triumphalism beat, has decided to spare its readers the gloomy display of its pointless considerations." There's a nice cover on issue 1. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --The Satellite, John F. Burke and David McIlwain. Added 2 issues: #3 (Dec 1938) and #6 (Mar 1939). According to Fancyclopedia, The Satellite published early fiction by C. S. Youd, Charles Eric Maine and Arthur C. Clarke. https://fancyclopedia.org/The_Satellite. Scans by Rob Hansen. Thanks Rob!; --Sirruish, Leigh Couch. Added issue #8 (Aug 1968). Includes the text of Harlan's GoH speech at Ozarkcon III. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Voyage of the SF52, Richard Lupoff. From Joe Siclari: Richard Lupoff's earliest fanzines were carbonzines, Voyage of the SF52 and One Shot Wonder. Dick told me his circulation totaled eight copies each issue. He had to retype each issue twice each to make his circulation, which included Lee Hoffman and Gregg Calkins. His first issue of Voyage of the SF52 was in February, 1952. Only Lee Hoffman responded back. He did two more issues, dated March and April. The covers of Voyage 2 and 3 are hand-drawn on green construction paper. The interiors are regular bond paper. The scan of these two issues are from the typed/drawn originals."; --Xenium, Mike Glicksohn. Added 15 issues. Susan Wood co-edited the first three of this zine. Some of the issues were for APA-45 and othersfor FAPA. In his thoroughly fannish way, Mike started numberng these with #1-3, proceeded to 2.1-2.7, and then back to 11-15. Is this a complete run? Scans by Taral Wayne. Thanks Taral!; PDF Replacements:; --Fanscient, Donald Day. Replaced 14 issues with searchable PDFs. OCR by Joe Siclari.; --Outworlds, Bill Bowers. Replaced the 150 page issue #70 with a searchable PDF, to make it easier for those reading Outworlds 71 (and trackng through the lettercol). Be warned - it's 59MB. OCR by Joe Siclari.
December 12, 2020: Susan Wood spotlight: Starship. Added all the "Worlds Out of Words" columns, from Andrew Porter's Starship, issues 38-41 (1980-1981). See the splash on the fanac.org homepage. Scan by Joe Siclari.; Fanzines Added:; --Baloobius, Taral Wayne. Added 4 issues of this title. Each issue assures us that it's a one-shot. Thanks, Taral!; --Diaspar, Terry Carr. Added 3 issues (1968-1971) of this new-to-us title. Diaspar was a FAPAzine. According to Fancyclopedia, it was named after the billion-year-old city in Arthur C. Clarke's The City and the Stars. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --The Fanhattonite, Rob Hansen. Added the complet 5 issue run of Rob's perzine from thelate 1980s. Thanks Rob!; --The Fantast, C.S. Youd and Douglas Webster. Added 5 issues from 1939-1942 to complete the run of this core fanzine. Also added a letter to the editor from a young Ken Bulmer. This wealth of fannish history scanned and provided by Rob Hansen. Thanks, Rob!; --Fantasy News, William Sykora. Added 12 issues of this newszine. V4#6 (Jan 40), V4#11-12, 16 (Mar-Apr 1940), V5#22-23 (Nov-Dec 1940), V7#5 (Nov 1941), V8#1 (Mar 1942), V8#3 (May 1943), V9#4-6 (Apr-Jul 1945). Scans by David Ritter. Thanks, David!; --Fanthologies, Collections and Festschrifts. Added 2 items: "Remember When" (Karen Cooper, 1990), a perspective on Art Widner, Guest of Honor at Minicon 25. Next, "John W. Campbell, An Australian Tribute" (John Bangsund, 1974). The Campbell tribute is over 100 pages. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Irish Fan Publications, NICON 86 Remembered, by Tommy Ferguson. Scan by Mark Olson. Thanks, Mark!; --MT Void, Evelyn and Mark Leeper. Added the latest issue of the Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society's newsletter The MT Void, MT Void Vol. 39, No. 24. Thanks Mark and Evelyn!; --Mutant, clubzine with various editors. Added 6 issues of this title. Mutant was the official organ of the Michigan Science-Fantasy Society. These issues are from 1948-1948. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --New Futurian, J. Michael Rosenblum. Added 2 issues of this new-to-us title of Rosenblum's mid 50s genzine. Contributors include Eric Bentcliffe, Walter Gillings, John Berry, John Christopher, A. Langley Searles, Archie Mercer and Donald Tuck. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --My Back Pages, Richard Lynch. Added the Dec 2020 issue. Thanks Rich!; --Now & Then, Harry Turner and Eric Needham. Added issue #6 (Nov 1955). Scan by Rich Lynch. Thanks, Rich!; --The Science Fiction Fan, Olon Wiggins. Added issue #2 (Aug 1936). One of the contributing editors was Donald A. Wolheim, who has a column called Fanfarade. Scan by Alistair Durie. Thanks, Alistair!; --Trap Door, Robert Lichtman. Aded #11 (Feb 1992). Contributors include F.M. Busby, Carol Carr, Greg Benford, Dave Langford and Karen Haber Silverberg. Trap Door is a core fanzine for us to scan. Scan by Joe Siclari.; PDF Replacements:; --Aporrheta, H. P. Sanderson. Replaced all 17 issues (and a holiday card) with searchable PDFs. OCR by Joe Siclari.; --Bane, Vic Ryan. Replaced all 10 issues with searchable PDFs. OCR by Joe Siclari.; --Double Bill, Bill Bowers and Bill Mallardi. Replaced 15 issues: #2-13, 18-20 with searchable PDFs. OCR by Joe Siclari.
December 9, 2020: Splash!: For the next six weeks or so, we feature the late, lamented Susan Wood on the FANAC.org homepage. We hope you take the opportunity to sample her writing, and perhaps listen to her speak. Photo provided by Andrew Porter, Washington Post articles by Eli Cohen, material on the Mac II display by John D. Berry. In addition to these materials, and what we already had on the site, we've added her essay on "Women and Science Fiction", and all the Propeller Beanie columns from Algol. Check out our Fanac.org homepage to see the splash. If you looked at it yesterday, look again. We've added more.; Ephemera: TAFF, added a 1955 Zap Gun license (Mark II), granted on Saturday, April 9, 1955 by Jophan at the Cytricon in exchange for a donation to TAFF. Thanks to Rob Hansen for providing it to us. Thanks, Rob!; Fanzines Added:; --1980s One Shots. Added "Theme" from Vince Clarke (Nov 1983). Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Blatant, Avedon Carol. Added issues #14 (Nov 1985) and 17 (Fall 1988). Scans by Eli Cohen. Thanks, Eli!; --Fantasy Commentator, A. Langley Searles. Added #28 (Fall 1953). It's missing a couple of pages, so if someone has a complete issue we'd love to get a scan of pages 239-240. Scan provided by Rich Lynch. Thanks Rich!; --Fanthologies, Collections and Festschrifts, Added Susan Wood, about and by, edited by John D. Berry (Aug 2016).; --Foolscap, John D. Berry. Added #12 (Jan 1977), which was on our begging list. Eli Cohen saw it there and provided us the scan. Thanks, Eli!; --Gargoyle, David McIlwain. Added 6 issues of this new-to-us UK title from 1940-1941. Well, we added issues #1-3, 3A and 4, along with Forerunner, marked as a preface to Gargoyle 3. Scans provided by Rob Hansen. Thanks, Rob!; --Ionisphere,John Thiel. Dec 2020 issue added, sent to us by George Phillies. Ionisphere is the Bulletin of the National Fantasy Fan Federation Fan-Pro Coordinating Activity. Thanks George!; --Inspiration, Lynn Bridges. Added #1 (Mar 1942) of this FAPAzine. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Null-F, Ted White. Added the Feb 1971 "special austerity issue". Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Opuntia, Dale Speirs perzine. Added issue #489 (7.1 MB). Thanks Dale!; --Philosophical Gas and Parergon Papers, John Bangsund. Added 13 issues (1973-1993) of this new-to-us title. According to Joe Siclari, "Philosophical Gas (PG) ran to at least issue #87. Howver, John stopped PG and did Parergon Papers 1-12 which he later included as #38-49 of PG." Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Relapse, Pete Weston. We've added issues #1 and 2, to complete the run. We've also added "The Sage of Nuneaton", an article written by Rob Hansen to Relapse 22. Relapse 22 was never published due to Pete's illness. All provided by Rob Hansen. Thanks Rob!; --Tightbeam, George Phillies and John Swartz. Added Dec 2020 issue. Thanks to George Phillies for sending.; --Warm Champagne, Susan Wood perzine done for ANZAPA. Added 10 issues (1975-1978) of this title (new to us). Scans provided by Eli Cohen. Thanks Eli!; PDF Replacements: Scienti-Comics, Philip Bronson. Replaced issue #1 with a searchable PDF. OCR by Joe Siclari.; Convention Pubs (incomplete update): Cytricon V, Pete Weston. Added the program book from Cytricon V.; Photos: Added 2 photos of the Susan Wood exhibit at MidAmeriCon II (2016). Photos contributed by John D. Berry. Thanks John!
December 6, 2020: Ephemera?: LASFS Fanquet programs. Added 8 programs for LASFS Fanquets from 1950 to 1966. These were held to honor LASFS members who had achieved professional sales. Fancyclopedia tells us that Louise Leipiar was June Moffat's mother. Scans by Joe Siclari.; Fanzines Combined: Our issues of Bonfire have been moved to the TNFF index. As we mentioned in the newsletter, we are moving towards using a single index page for fanzines which changed their names midstream. You can still see both names in the Classic List. Bonfire was the first name under which TNFF was published. We also replaced the issues of Bonfire that we had with searchable PDFs while we were at it. OCR by Joe Siclari.; Fanzines Added:; --1960s One Shots, Defenestration, Terry and Miri Carr. This was done for OMPA in 1961. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --1980s One Shots, Skiffy Thyme, Ned Brooks. Spring 1980. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Australian Science Fiction Review and Scythrop, John Bangsund. Added 16 issues titled Australian Science Fiction Review: #3 (Sep 1966), #6-20 (1966-1969). Australian Science Fiction Review was nominated for Best Fanzine in 1967 and 1968. In 1968 (in the first year the Ditmars were presented), it won the award for best Australian fanzine. We now have a complete run under that name. The zine changed its name to Scythrop in 1969, and we added 5 issues of Scythrop: #21-24 and #28. We just lost John Bangsund to Covid-19 this year. You can read his Nov 1 obituary in the Age here - https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/those-who-lived-loved-and-are-gone-john-bangsund-20201023-p567zr.html. Many thanks to Sally Yeoland for allowing us to put these zines online. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Awry, Dave Locke. Added 7 issues of this early 70s genzine. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Celephais, Bill Evans perzine. Added 2 issues from the early 1960s. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --CyberCozen, Leybl Botwinik. Added the Nov 2020 issue. Thanks Leybl!; --Fan To See, Larry J. Touzinsky. Added issue #1 (Jan 1953). Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Gotterdammerung, Tommy Ferguson et al. Added "Gotterdammerung Redux" (2007), with excerpts from the fanzine's issues. It was published about 10 years after the fanzine stopped publishing. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Fanzine Readers Review, Rick Sneary. Added the 2 issue complete run of this title from the mid 1940s. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --MT Void, Mark and Evelyn Leeper. Added the latest issue of the Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society's newsletter The MT Void, MT Void Vol. 39, No. 23. Thanks Mark and Evelyn!; --New Ashmolean Marching Society and Student's Conservatory Fanzine, Ted Johnstone. Added the complete 2 issue run, both from 1963, of this perzine done for OMPA. Scans by Joe Patrizio. Thanks, Joe!; --Phantagraph, Donald Wollheim. Added 6 issues and 2 supplements: Aug and Oct 1936 supplements, V8#3 (Aug 1940), V11#2 (Oct 1943), V13#1,2 (Jan, Feb 1945), V14#1 (May 1945), V15#2 (Oct 1945). The two supplements are parts 2 and 3 of a Robert E. Howard essay - "The Hyborian Age". This is the original publication of "The Hyborian Age". Thanks to Alistair Durie for these scans. We've consolidated the index pages for this fanzine. You'll see issues and the previous names for the zine all on one page. Before it was the Phantagraph, the zine had two other names - "International Science Fiction Guild's Bulletin" and "Terrestrial Fantascience Guild's Bulletin". The Phantagraph is a core fanzine for us to scan. Thanks Alistair!; --Safari, Earl and Nancy Kemp. Added #1 (Apr 1959). This was for SAPS. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Science-Fantasy Review, L.V. Heald, L.J.Johnson and others. Added 9 issues: #1-4, and #9-13 of this UK newszine from 1939. Issue 2 starts out with a report of the 3rd SFA convention held in London. Good reading, including a discussion of how to value the stories you read. Scans provided by Alistair Durie. Thanks, Alistair!; --Science, Fantasy, and Science Fiction, Frank Dietz Jr. Added the V2#2 supplement - a report on the 1949 Cinvention. Scan by Mark Olson. Thanks Mark!; --Twixt, Jackie Franke. Added 3 issues of this perzine from 1975. Scans by Mark Olson. Thanks Mark!; --Swan Song, Chuck Harris. Added issue #1 (Spr 1959) of this OMPAzine. Swan Song, "Every issue final...now constitutes the sole fannish activity of Chuck Harris" went on for at least two issues according to the British Fanzine Bibliography - http://www.fiawol.org.uk/Fanstuff/biblio/index.htm. Scan by Joe Patrizio. Thanks Joe!; --Viewpoints, Rosco Wright. Added issue #2 (Fall 1952) of this genzine/apazine. Scan by Mark Olson. Thanks Mark!; PDF Replacements:; --Fan-Dango, Francis T. Laney. Replaced issues 3A and 21 with searchable PDFs. OCR by Joe Siclari.; --Mota, Terry Hughes. Replaced 28 issues with PDFs. The entire run is now online in searchable PDFs. OCR by Joe Siclari.
December 2, 2020: If you read our recent FANAC update, you can skip the next 2 paragraphs. Otherwise, please read on.; Get ready for a trip to fannish London! We are planning a series of Zoom Interactive Fan History Sessions, and for our first session, Rob Hansen is going to give us an historic tour of fannish Holborn, London. Rob is probably the most accomplished fan historian writing these days. As most of you know, he has written the history of English fandom, Then and has put together a number of books covering various aspects of British fandom. Find many of them at https://taff.org.uk/ebooks.php. Reserve the date: Saturday, December 19, 2020 at 11AM EST. Despite the pandemic, Rob has done video recordings around London, and with historic photos and live description will give us a tour that covers some household fannish names and places. He has worked with Edie over the past several months to provide an interesting and fairly detailed coverage of London’s fan heritage. This one hour session is based on tours which Rob has given to individual fans and also developed as a group tour after the last London Worldcon. Even if you have been on one of these tours, you will find some fresh sights and insights. Of course, Rob will be live on Zoom with additional material and to answer questions. Please send your RSVP to fanac@fanac.org, as our Zoom service is limited to 100 participants.; We have created a list of fanzine titles by country of origin. Thanks to Mark Olson’s software, this list will let you sample fanzines from other parts of the world, but don’t be surprised if you find a few familiar names. Fans are slans after all, and not adverse to international relations. You can click on it from the lists of lists at http://fanac.org/fanzines/ or reach it directly http://fanac.org/fanzines/country_listing_of_fanzines.html. The current counts of non-US zines: Australia (26 titles), Canada (15), Ireland (14), United Kingdom (99), and other countries have 3 or less.; And now for the updates -; Bibliographic Material:; Fanzine Listings, The Australian Fanzine Database (1939-1975, Kim Huett and Leigh Edmonds. Completed June 2020 year, this is a listing of items held in state and federal library collections, and in Kim's private collection. What a massive amount of work. Thanks go to Kim Huett and Leigh Edmonds!; Bibliographic Publications, The Science Fiction Bibliography, Vol 1, No 1, 1935. Published by W.L. Crawford and D.R. Welch in Austin, Texas this 1935 pamphlet covers both SF and fannish publications. Very old, very cool. Thanks to John Coker III for providing the scan. Thanks John!; Fanzines Added:; --1960s One Shots. The Reader's Guide to Barsoom & Amtor, Dave Van Arnam and Richard Lupoff. This 95 page zine began life as an article with accompanying map. But there were discrepancies in the map, and the Burrough's material just kept growing until it deserved a publication of its own. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Beabohema, Frank Lunney. Added issue #1 (1968) completing the run. Steve Johnson saw it listed on our One and Done Begging List, and provided us with a scan the very next day. Thanks Steve!; --FANAC Newsletter/Updates, Joe Siclari. Not quite a fanzine, but we added the Nov 2020 FANAC newsletter to the archive. Of note, the announcement of our ZOOM Fan History program. Read the newsletter, and RSVP to fanac@fanac.org to join. The first program is a guided tour of fannish London, by Rob Hansen. Thanks Rob! We know it's been a lot of work to get this ready.; --Fan-Dango, Francis T. Laney. Added 5 issues: #8 (Spr 1945), 12-13(Sum-Fall, 1946), 15 (Fall 1947), and 18 (Sum 1948). Fan-Dango is a core zine for us to scan. Issue #13 includes Laney's report on the Pacificon. He himself said that this should be included as an addition to his memoirs in Ah! Sweet Idiocy!. Scan and comment on #13 by Joe Siclari.; --Holier Than Thou, Marty and Robbie Cantor. Added issue #19 from 1984. This 100 page zine has contributions from Taral, John Berry, Mike Glyer, Dave Langford, ATom and others. Scan by Roelof Goudriaan. Thanks Roelof!; --Motley, Jim Benford. Added issues 1-15 (2012-2020) of Jim's perzine done for FAPA. Jim's first fanzine was published in the mid 50s and you should read it. Read this too for the perspective of someone who has been in fandom for 60 years. Thanks, Jim for sending them!; --Munich Round Up. Issues #1 and #2 from 1958 added. These are in German, so if you're interested and you don't speak German, you'll have to use Google Translate to get a sense of the zine. The headline for issue 1? SCHON WIEDER EIN FANMAG. In English, "A Fanmag Again". Thanks to Thomas Recktenwald for the scans. Thanks Thomas!; --Not Science Fantasy News, Vince Clarke. Added issue #2 (Oct 1982). Scan by Roelof Goudriaan. Thanks Roelof!; --fanzines/SF_Commentary, Bruce Gillespie. Added issues 73-75 (Oct 1993). This 120 page zine is marked #73-75. Includes the George Turner Issue and the Paul Voermans Issue. Scan by Roelof Goudriaan. Thanks Roelof; PDF Replacements:; --Hyphen, Walt Willis and Chuck Harris. Replaced all the remaining 19 issues with searchable PDFs: issues 20-38 as well as the Thumbnail of #38 (Shelby Vick), and a TAFF Supplement to #23 (1959). All of the Hyphen run is now searchable, thanks to OCR by Joe Siclari.
November 28, 2020: YouTube Recordings:; --Tropicon 1989 Filk Today, added part 1 of a video recording of a Filk held at Tropicon in 1989. From the YouTube description: "Julia Ecklar was the special filk guest at Tropicon 8, held in Dania, Florida, in 1989. This recording captures the first part of an open filk at the convention, and includes 10 songs (of which Julia sings four)...You'll see a variety of songs and performers enjoying themselves while making science fiction music." There are links to each song in the list at the end of the description on YouTube.; Fanzines Added:; --1980s One Shots index added. The first and so far only zine here is from Avedon Carol and Rob Hansen. We've added "Chuch" from 1986. Contributors include Patrick Neilsen Hayden, Dave Langford, Christopher Priest, and Jeanne Gomoll. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Astronaut, Robert Stein and Redd Boggs. Added issue #1 (Sep 1947), completing the run. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --A Child's Garden of Olaf, Ken Cheslin. Added issue #2 (Aug 1989). Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Dynatron, Roy Tackett. Added 8 issues: #1-2 (1960), 4-6 (1961), 8 (1961), 23 (1964) and 26 (1965). Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Eclipse, Ray Thompson. Not the same as the zine put out in the early 40s by the Kuhns. This was a mid 50s zine published in Iowa. We've added issue #19 to the archive. You might enjoy the John Berry article about fanning with a family. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Fantholgies, Collections and Festschrifts, "Hommage a Burbee", Bill Rotsler. From the zine: "FANDOM IS JUST A GODDAMNED HOBBY". The words of Charles Edward Burbee II. Fandom has never had a better motto. In other pages of this unblushing monument you will read what friends of Charles Burbee have to say about him. If you'd like to know how he influenced my life, read on." Scan by Joe Siclari.; --FAPA One Shots, The Inadequate Time Machine, Lee Hoffman (1Q1954). "THE U-MAK-A KIT CO. presents a new treat for the home enthusiast". Scan provided by Rob Hansen. Thanks Rob!; --ffm/ffm ending, Pierre Versins. Added 4 issues of "ffm ending" and one of ffm. This late 1950s genzine was published in Switzerland. Generally considered to be "Fake Fantastic Mystery" although Fancyclopedia reports it could also be "Functional Female Muster". Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Lovecraft Collector, Ray Zorn (1949). Added 3 issues of this title. The issues are short, but there's a contribution from David Keller and one from August Derleth. Scans provided by John Coker. Thanks John!; --fanzines/MT_Void, Evelyn and Mark Leeper. We've added the latest issue of the Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society's newsletter The MT Void, MT Void Vol. 39, No. 22. Thanks Mark and Evelyn!; --Rataplan, Leigh Edmonds. Added 23 issues of this new-to-us title. Some issues were coedited with others and those are marked on the index page. Rataplan was nominated for a Ditmar award in 1969 and 1973, and won in 1984 (shared with Ornithopter). Scans by Joe Siclari.; --fanzines/SF_Commentary, Bruce Gillespie. Added #104. Thanks, Bruce!; --Tink, Mae Strelkov. Added "The Tinkunaku Event" (Sept 1973). Hecto. In the 1970s. Scan by Joe Siclari.; PDF Replacements:; --Hyphen, Walt Willis and Chuck Harris. Replaced issues 1-8 and 10-18 with searchable PDFs. OCR by Joe Siclari.
November 22, 2020: You've seen some of the updates say "this is a core fanzine for us to scan". We've updated the list, including how many issues we think there are, how many issues are online, and what our percent completion on those titles. If you have better information on the number of issues, or could provide scans of any of the issues that are missing, that would be fabulous. You can find the listing at http://fanac.org/fanzines/core_fanzine_list_to_scan.pdf. BTW, there's a phase 2 core list we're working as well.; Fanzines Added:; --Wsfanac/Blatant, Avedon Carol. Added 8 issues of this new-to-us title. The first seven issues of this zine were titled "Wsfanac" and the zine then switched to Blatant. Thanks Avedon! Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Fanthologies, Collections and Festschrifts. Added "The Incompleat Bruce Gillespie, a Selection of Bruce Gillespie's fanzine writing", edited by Irwin Hirsh. Thanks to Bruce Gillespie who provided it. Thanks Bruce!; --Horib, Pat and Dick Lupoff perzine/FAPAzine. Added 9 issues of this new-to-us title. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --MT Void, Evelyn and Mark Leeper. Added the latest issue of the Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society's newsletter The MT Void, MT Void Vol. 39, No. 21 Thanks Mark and Evelyn!; --The National Fantasy Fan, 11 issues. We've added: V25#2-3 (Don Miller, 1966), V26#4, #6, #7 (Stan Woolston, 1967), V27#1, #4, #5 (Don Miller, 1968), V28#1 (Don Miller, 1968) and V29#2 (Wally Weber, 1969). We've also added the November 2020 issue, sent to us by George Phillies. Other scans by Joe Siclari.; --Resolution, Jackie Causgrove perzine with contributors (1977-80). We have 4 issues, and are only missing #3 to have a complete run. This is going up on our One and Done Begging List. If you have any of the zines on this list and are willing to scan them for the archive, please drop a note to fanac@fanac.org. Scans of Resolution by Joe Siclari.; --Salamander, Fred Patten. Added the complete run of 3 issues (all from 1962) along with two complete LOCs from Rick Sneary. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Tightbeam, George Phillies and John Swartz. Added issue #314 (the latest). Thanks George!; --Zed, Karen Anderson. Added issue #782 (Win 1955). Karen mentions that this is issue #12. Includes a Tony Boucher Christmas Carol, and of course contributions from Poul and Karen. Scan by Joe Siclari.; PDF Replacements:; Beabohema, Frank Lunney. Replaced issues #12, 17, 18 with searchable PDFs. Now all the issues we have online are in PDF format. OCR by Joe Siclari.; Outworlds, Bill Bowers. Replaced issues #25 and #48 with searchable PDFs. OCR by Joe Siclari.; Cross Reference: We updated the Fanac Names Cross Reference. There are currently 28,427 names in the listings.
November 18, 2020: Directory: Fannish Who's Whos, Rogue's Gallery (Schwarts and Lazar), 1943. This fannish Who's Who comes with heights and weights. Some pages are harder to read than others, but hey, it's almost 80 years old. Scan by Joe Siclari.; Fanzines Added:; --Beyond, Charles Platt. Added 3 issues: #3, 7.1 and 7.2. All we are missing to complete the run is #1. It will be on the One and Done Begging List. Scans provided by Rob Hansen. Thanks Rob!; --Fantasy News, James Taurasi. Added 4 issues: V2, #15, #20, #21, #26 from 1939. I believe these will complete the 1939 issues. Many thanks to David Ritter who provided the scans. Thanks David!; --ScientiFiction, a publication of First Fandom. Added 28 issues from 2011 to 2018, the earlier ones edited by Joseph Martino, and the later issues edited by John Coker, III. Thanks to First Fandom and John Coker for providing them.; --Gimble, Ted Johnstone. Added issue #3 (Mar 1961), completing the run. This is a Coventry related publication. If you don't know what that means, read the article in Fancyclopedia - http://fancyclopedia.org/Coventry. Scans by Joe Siclari.\; --Heckmeck, Mario Kwiat and Manfred Kage. Added 6 issues of this new to us title from the 1960s (of which one is actually 1970). The Google translator says that "heckmeck" is German for nonsense. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Kipple, Ted Pauls. Added 11 issues, all from 1963: #36-40, 44-49. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --MT Void, Mark and Evelyn Leeper. Added the latest issue of the Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society's newsletter The MT Void, MT Void Vol. 39, No. 20. Thanks Mark and Evelyn!; --The National Fantasy Fan, 6 issues plus 1 upgraded. The upgraded issue is V9#2 (Apr 1950), now sporting a cover. We've added: V8#3, V8#5 (1949), V9#5 (1950), V19#4a (1960), V21#2 (1962), V22#3 (1963), and V23#2 (1964). V19#4a was a special Pittcon Souvenir issue. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Nite Cry, Don Chappell. Added issue #11 (May 1956). Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Opuntia, Dale Speirs perzine. Added 2 issues: #487 (7.2 MB) and #488 (5MB). Thanks Dale!; --Outworlds, Bill Bowers. Added 3 issues: #19-20 (1974) and 24 (1975). Outworlds is a core fanzine for us to scan. Scans by Joe Siclari today.; --Sikander, Irwin Hirsh. Added 15 issues: #1-14 (primarily from the 1980s) to complete the run. It really is 15 issues - there's a #9.5 in there too. Irwin has been contributing scans of all kinds of zines to the site. It's nice to be able to add his own zine to the list. Scans for these issues done by Joe Siclari.; --Tangent, Lee Hoffman. Tangent was a FAPAzine that Lee did in the early 1950s. In her first issue, uploaded today, there are contributions by Walt Willis, F.T. Laney, Charles Burbee, Marion Bradley and LeeH of course. Scans provided by Rob Hansen. Thanks Rob! It's a treat to get more of LeeH.
November 15, 2020: Pubs Added:; --Booklist, Ron Holmes. This is not the same as the Booklist sheets that were distributed with Rosenblum's Futurian War Digest, but this Booklist was for the BFL- the British Fantasy Library. A new title for us, we've added issue #8 (July 1948). Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Fantasy Commentator, A. Langley Searles. Added issue #33 (Win 1983). Contributors include Sam Moskowitz, Lloyd Eshbach, George Wetzel and others. Fantasy Commentator is a core fanzine for us to scan. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Gallimaufry, Joni Stopa and Dave Locke. We've added the complete 2 issue run of this mid80s genzine. Contributors include Mike Glicksohn, Andy Offutt, Paul Skelton, Larry Tucker, and Harry Warner, Jr. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Kenning, Jackie Causgrove. Add 10 issues (early 1980s) of this new-to-us title. Kenning was a perzine distributed through FLAP - the Fannish Little Amateur Press. Jackie Causgrove was a co-founder, along with Dave Locke. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Kipple, Ted Pauls. This is a new title for us, and we've added 18 issues from the early 1960s along with one hoax issue. Contributors include Len Moffatt, Marion Bradley, Bill Bowers, Ted White, Richard Bergeron, Harry Warner Jr. and Terry Carr. There's an article by Robert Ebert in one of the issues of this fanzine, but I didn't spot it. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --MT Void, Evelyn and Mark Leeper. Added the latest issue of this Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society newsletter The MT Void, MT Void Vol. 39, No. 20. Thanks Mark and Evelyn!; --The National Fantasy Fan, 6 issues. 1 issue: Feb 1966, edited by Art Hayes. 5 issues edited by Joanne Burger: V34#6 (Dec 74), V35, #1,3,4 (1975), V37#6 (Dec 77). Scans byJoe Siclari.; --Quark, Tom Perry. 1 issue: #10 (Jul 1965). Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Rot, Mal Ashworth, the complete run of 6 issues from the 1950s-1969s, and a LOC. The LOC is from Rick Sneary, and is 4 pages long. It was cut to half a page for inclusion in Rot 5, and here you can see the full letter. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Safari, Earl Kemp. Issue #3 (Oct 1959). Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Spacewarp, Art Rapp. 1 issue: #41 (Aug 1950), the first Insurgent Issue. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Stymie, Roger Ebert. Yes, that Roger Ebert. Complete in two issues from 1960, Ebert mentions Stymie and receiving his first fanzine, Yandro on his blog on May 04, 2008. He also talkls about what caused him to gafiate. You can read his blog on his fannish career at https://www.rogerebert.com/roger-ebert/fanzines-beget-blogs .; Corrections: Thanks to David Ritter for correcting the dates in the index on a couple issues of Fantasy News. Thanks David!
November 12, 2020: --1960s One-Shots, Xerozine 00, William Desmond (Nov 1969). The only triangular zine I've ever seen. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Beyond, Charles Platt. Added issue #5 (Apr 1964) and #8 (Apr 1965). Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Dilemma, Jackie Franke. A new-to-us title and we begin with 8 issues from 1975-77. According to Fancyclopedia, the title "Dilemma" was a nod to Lee Hoffman's Quandry. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Hurkle, Redd Boggs. 10 issues and a supplement. From Joe Siclari - "We just put up a complete run of Retrograde and Discord. Here is a nearly complete run of Hurkle. We are missing only #1. These zines along with Sky Hook show what an interesting writer Redd was. We will continue to add his zines as we get them." Scans as well as commentary from Joe Siclari.; --MT Void, Mark and Evelyn Leeper. Added the latest issue of the Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society's newsletter The MT Void, MT Void Vol. 39, No. 19. Thanks Mark and Evelyn!; --Trap Door, Robert Lichtman. Added 2 more issues - #12 (Mar 93) and #16 (Aug 96). Contributors include Charles Burbee, Redd Boggs, Greg Benford, Andy Hooper, Steve Stiles, Rob Hansen, Bob Shaw and Chuch Harris. Trap Door is a core fanzine for us to scan. Scan by Joe Siclari.
November 8, 2020: Pubs Added:; --The No Holds Barred Guide - How to Get Stinko Fannishly, Karen Anderson, 1954. This fun little pub was handed out at SFCon, the 1954 worldcon. Scan provided by Astrid Anderson. Thanks, Astrid!; --Brillig, Lars Bourne. Added issue #7 (Mar 1957). Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Retrograde and Discord, Redd Boggs. Added the full 17 issue run of this perzine from the early 1960s. The zine received a Best Fanzine Hugo nomination for 1961. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --FAPA One-Shots, Fantasy-Views (Jun 1941). This takeoff on Fantasy News is uncredited, and subtitled "the science fiction weaker newspaper". Remember, these FAPA One-shots are currently listed chronologically, so you can see what went into a given FAPA mailing. Scan provided by Sam McDonald. Sam has also provided us in the past with a number of great scans of Fantasy News. Thanks Sam!; --Metrofan, David McDonald, 1958 issues. Added 2 issues of this new-to-us title. "This is the unofficial publication of the New York Fandom Council, composed of Circle, ESFA, and Lunarians—three first rate s-f clubs in the New York area." Cool. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Nite Cry, Don Chappell. Added 8 issues (1953-1955) of this new-to-us title. "NITE CRY is the Official Publication of the Oklahoma' Science Fiction Confederation." Issue 10 is I believe, the first publication of Harlan Ellison's "Gnomebody" which appeared the year after in Amazing Stories. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Quark, Lesleigh and Chris Couch. Added 2 issues from 1968-1968 of this new-to-us title. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Prolapse, Pete Weston. Added #3 (Nov 2006). Prolapse 3 was completed "after a lapse of only 23 years".
November 4, 2020: Added:; --1940s One Shots. We've created an index to hold the 1940s One Shots in order to keep the Classic list from getting completely out of control. Right now, the FAPA One Shots will stay in their own directory, http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/FAPA-Misc/. Yes, I know it's not completely consistent, but use a Google site search if you're not sure where to look. We've added two fanzines today. Our first entry in this 1940s One Shots index comes from Joe Fortier and Harry Jenkins Jr - "Fan Editor and Publisher". The second is "Spicy STF Stuff" from 1949 which references the Detroit Science Fantasy League. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --1960s One Shots. Index created and 2 fanzines added: Hyborian Times (George Heap, 1967), and Rox (Tom Perry, 1964). Rox was intended to appear "on occasional intervals when the need for an opposition rag in fandom appears evident". Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Bibliographies. Added 5 publications. First from Al Lewis, we have the 1961 and 1962 Indexes to the Science Fiction Magazines, as well as a 2 page "Corrections and Additions" to 1961. We've added an Index to the Clayton Astounding, by Bill Evans and Jack Speer. That one is from 1946. Also, Dick Spelman's guide to Ace Book Publications from 1953-1968, from 1968. Scanning by Joe Siclari; --Conspiracy Newsletter, Richard E. Geis and an unnamed co-editor. Added 7 issues, the complete run, of this non-SF zine. It's a Conspiracy zine, perhaps appropriate for these trying times. It's a sequel to "Richard E. Geis - A Personal Journal", and so it is in the same index - http://fanac.org/fanzines/Richard_E_Geis-Personal_Journal/. Scans by Kim Gibbs. Thanks Kim!; --Giant Wombo, Leigh Edmonds, Valma Brown. Added 2 issues from 1979-1980. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Hodge-Podge, Mary-Louise and Nancy Share. Added 2 issues from 1954, with contributions from Art Rapp, Lynn Hickman, Chuck Harris, Robert Bloch, Marion Bradley, Bill Rotsler, Ray Nelson, Juanita Coulson and others. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Now & Then, Harry Turner and Eric Needham, 2 issues from 1954. "Being the proceedings of the ROMILEY FAN VETERANS & SCOTTISH DANCING SOCIETY". If you're not familiar with it, see the brief Fancyclopedia article at http://fancyclopedia.org/Now_%26_Then and follow the links to "Widowers". Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Perspex Parrot, Bob Shaw (1990). A rare fanzine published by Bob Shaw - "It's a weird thing, but suddenly I feel quite nervous. I've published millions and millions of words as a science fiction writer, as a journalist, and as a fanzine contributor — but this is the first time I've ever sat down to compose an editorial for a fanzine of my very own." I was introduced to Bob once or twice, but I wish I had known him better. Scan by Dave Langford. Thanks, Dave!; --PSFS News, News of the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society, 7 issues. Oddly, one issue is from the mid 1940s and the rest are the mid-later 1990s. Added today, Jul 1944, Nov 1994, Jan/Mar/April 1995 (Rich Kabakjian), and Mar/May 1997 (Carol Kabakjian). Very cool to have a club newsletter than spans 50 years. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Toward Tomorrow, James Kepner. Thanks to Rob Hansen, we've added the final issue to complete the run. Issue #3 (Jan 1945). This one on our "One and Done Begging List" and Rob was kind enough to send us the scans. You can see the list of titles for which we need only a single issue to complete the run at http://fanac.org/fanzines/begging_list-need-1.html . Thanks, Rob!; PDF Replacements:; --New Frontiers, Norm Metcalf. Replaced issues 2 and 3 with searchable PDFs. OCR by Joe Siclari.; --The Willis Papers, George W. Fields / Ted Johnstone, 1961. This is listed under Irish Fandom. OCR by Joe Siclari.
November 1, 2020: We've added a new way to find out what's new at the site. You can send a subscribe note to this address: FANAC-Updates+subscribe@groups.io and we'll add you to notification list. The note can be blank - just send it to that address. The notification list is different than the newsletters we've been doing every quarter or so. This is an email that will come to you about twice a week with "What's New". If you forget to check here, but you want to know what we're adding to the archive, this is for you.; Added:; --Beabohema, Frank Lunney, Cum Bloatus (Feb 1972), a letterzine for the last issue of Beabohema, and distributed as a supplement to Syndrome's first issue. Scan by Kim Gibbs. Thanks Kim!; --FAPA Correspondent, Harry Warner, Jr. #1 (Winter 1939). Adding this completes the run for this title. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Futurian Observer, Australian newszine edited by William D. Veney, Bert Castellari and later Ronald Levy. Added 12 issues from 1940-41 in searchable PDFs. Sample: "SCIENCE FICTIQNEERS CARDS ARRIVE: William D. Veney has at last been able to acknowledge receipt of the Science Fictioneers membership cards for the members of the Futurian Society Sydney. These have been distributed to all fans who are supposed to get them. Fans who have joined up since the list was sent away will.have their names forwarded to Frederic Pohl for inclusion in the Science Fictioneers repidly increasing membership." Very cool. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Null-F, Ted White. Added 11 issues from 1956 to 1970: #5, 22-23, 30-31, 38-40, 42, 45 and 47. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --SF Commentary, Bruce Gillespie. Added 3 issues, all from 2020 - #101-103.; --Son of the WSFA Journal, Don Miller, newszine. Added #149 (June 1974). Scan by Joe Siclari.; PDF Replacements:; --Newfangles, Don and Maggie Thompson. Replaced #1, 34, 45, and 54 with searchable PDFs. OCR by Joe Siclari.; Corrections:; --Thanks to Irwin Hirsh for correcting a typo in the info on the Aussicon 4 photograph of "How Not to Enjoy This Convention".; --Thanks to Bruce Mai for adding the costume name to a masquerade photo for Noreascon 1 (1971), and the participants' names to the Tricon masquerade photo of "Birds".; --Thanks to Leah Zeldes for adding info to a Midwestcon 43 photo, as well as several Detroit Fandom photos. Best of all, she's pointed out a misidentification of a photo from Loncon II (1965) and untiringly worked to figure out who it might be. Leah also pointed out that #3 (Winter 1958) of Jim Caughran's A L'Abandon had pages out of order. Joe Siclari has now corrected that. Thanks Leah!; --Thanks to the International Costumer's Guild for providing information on several custume photos at Westercon 23 (1970).; --Thanks to Mark Richards for correcting a misidentification in a photo from the 1979 Lunacon.
October 28, 2020: --Horizons, Harry Warner, Jr's FAPAzine. Added 12 issues: #55 (Sum 53), 88 (Fall 61), 100-101 (64-65), 108 (Nov 66), 112 (Fall 67), 123 (Aug 70). 125 (Feb 71), 142 (May 75), 145 (Feb 76), 150 (May 77) and 164 (Feb 81). I'm not real sure about #144. The entry says it's from 1978 although it's in between issues from 1975 and 1976. I'll wait until more issues turn up before figuring out what it really is, although I tend to trust Harry more on which FAPA it is going be distributed in than I do on the Horizons whole number. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --MT Void, Mark and Evelyn Leeper. Latest issue added of the Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society's newsletter The MT Void, MT Void Vol. 39, No. 17. Thanks Mark and Evelyn!; --Nova, Al Ashley, issue #2 (May 1942). Unfortunately incomplete, but still 38 pages of good 40s fanzine. If anyone has a complete issue and can provide scans of the missing pages. we'd be thrilled. Thanks to Kenny Martens for providing it. Thanks Kenny!; --Richard E. Geis - Personal Journal, Richard E. Geis (of course). Added 15 issues - #1-3, 10, 12, 14-23. These are different issues #1-3 than were already here on line. Apparently he restarted the title a few years later and reset the numbering. Scans provided by Kim Gibbs. Thanks Kim!
October 27, 2020: Dale Speirs sent us a PDF of issue #486 (8.3 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
October 21, 2020: --Fancyclopedia, Dick Eney, Additions and Corrections to Fancyclopedia II. Dick Eney wasn't completely satisfied with Fancy II, and put out this 24 page publication of Additions and Corrections to improve its "accuracy and completeness." This is in our Reference Section, not the Fanzine section. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Fanspeak, Gary Labowitz (1956). An updated version of the versions done in the early 50s. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Horizons, Harry Warner Jr's FAPAzine. 7 issues - #93-99 from 1963-1964. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --New Fandom, added issue #9, edited by James Taurasi, Fall 1941. There's a little damage to the a couple of the pages, but the words are readable. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Ratatosk, Bruce Pelz, #45. We thought issue #45 had never been published, when much to our surprise a copy turned up. Here it is for you now to fulfill your desires for 1967 news, and now the run is complete. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Tightbeam and Postwarp, various editors and centuries. Added 8 more issues of Tightbeam and its predecessor Postwarp. Editors/Issues: Ray Higgs -Dec 1951 and Jul 1953; Gary Labowitz with Son of Tightbeam (Feb 1968); Beth Slick - Jan/Mar/May/Jul 1975; David Speakman -#272 May 2015. Scans by Joe Siclari; --The National Fantasy Fan, October 2020. George Phillies sent us a PDF of the latest. Thanks George.; PDF Replacements: SF Weekly, Andrew Porter, 3 issues (1967) - #193, 198-199. OCR by Mark Olson. Thanks Mark! Only 3 more left to PDF/OCR.
October 19, 2020: Added:; --Fan-Tods, Norm Stanley, issue #19 (Fall 1952). Scan by Joe Siclari; --Focal Point, Arnie Katz's newszine, issue V3#4 (Nov 1971) completing the run. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Foolscap, John D. Berry, issue #7 (Nov 1972). Scan by Joe Siclari; --Horizons, Harry Warner Jr's FAPAzine. We've added 10 issues - #28-33, and 39-42 from the late 40s. From Joe Siclari on Harry: "Harry Warner, Jr., was probably the most prolific fan writer of all time. His first genzine, Spaceways, ran for 30 issues. Harry wrote for it but it was his genzine and he featured many of the major fanwriters of that time, and not a lot of his own writing. He started his personal FAPAzine, Horizons, in 1939 and continued it quarterly well into the 21st Century. By issue 200 he had passed 4,300 pages. The last we have online is 243, dated November, 2000. Harry continued to write Horizons after that. He died Feb 17, 2003.; In addition to his own fanzines, Harry was a prolific writer of articles for others, sometimes penning a dozen articles a year during the 1940s and 1950s, slowing down a bit by the mid-60s and later. However, Harry is best known for his letter writing over 60 plus years. It was pretty standard for a fan editor to use “waiting for Harry Warner’s loc” as an excuse to why his fanzine was delayed. Harry said that if a fanzine editor took the effort to send him a fanzine, he should make an effort to write a LoC (letter of comment). He couldn’t respond to every fanzine that he received but he wrote back to more than any other fan, sometimes more than a hundred times a year. And Harry’s letters were not quick notes saying “thanks and good luck”. They were usually tightly spaced, multi-page, thoughtfully written and entertaining little essays. If a zine was so bland that there were no comment hooks, Harry could find an excuse to write in detail about something unrelated, perhaps about bicycles or the latest music album he had heard. I don’t know the full amount of Harry’s fan writing but I’m guessing over 10,000 pages is a conservative estimate.; So far, we have all of Spaceways and over 125 issues of Horizons on FANAC.org, several articles about Harry’s fan work on Fancyclopedia.org, and interviews on out Fan History YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/FanacFanHistory. A search on FANAC.or will find many articles by Harry as well.; --No Award, Marty Cantor, issues #5 and 5a (March 1999). Contributors include Milt Stevens, Bruce Pelz, Len Moffatt, Brad Foster, Joseph T. Major, and Ed Green. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Nova, Al Ashley, issue #1 (Nov 1941). Thanks to Kenny Martens, we have the first issue of Nova. It's beautiful, and has articles by Doc Smith, Forry Ackerman, E. Everett Evans, and Hoy Ping Pong. Thanks so much to Kenny Martens for providing it. Thanks Kenny!; --Outworlds, Bill Bowers. Added some ephemera today - Flyer 3 (1970), Flyer 6 (1971) and an Envelope from around 1974. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Not Cricket, Stu Shiffman and Larry Carmody, Sept 1983. This Constellation one-shot can be found in the Raffles index (and are thinking of it as Raffles 7.75}. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --SF Commentary, Bruce Gillespie, issue #92 (Jul 2016).; --Solstice, South Florida Science Fiction Society, 2 issues - late 80s. We've added issues 2x4 and 4 to complete the run. There was no issue 3. Issue 2 has a piece by Brad Linaweaver. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Spinnaker Reach, Russell Chauvenet, May 1966. This FAPAzine is a new-to-us title. Poetry, an article by Harry Warner, Jr and mailing comments. Scan by Rich Lynch. Thanks Rich!; --Trap Door, Robert Lichtman, 3 issues - #17-19, 1997-99. Contributors include Karen Haber Silverberg, Ron Bennett, Carol Carr, Steve Stiles, Dave Langford, F.M. Busby, and Marta Randall. Trap Door is a core fanzine for us to scan. Scan by Joe Siclari.; PDF Replacements:; --SF Weekly, Andrew Porter, 20 issues (1967-68) - #210-229. OCR by Mark Olson. Thanks Mark!
October 15, 2020: Added:; --CyberCozen, Leybl Botwinik, October 2020 (the latest issue). There are changes coming. Read the issue to see. Leybl, thanks for sending it to us.; --Fanthologies, Collections and Festschrifts: Sweetmeats,"a collection of the light, humorous, and simply wierd writing of Sandra Miesel", published by Jerry Kaufman in 1980.; --Harpies, the clubzine of the MiSFitS aka the Michigan Science-Fantasy Society. Added 5 issues (all but one) of this 1969 new-to-us title. Editors include Roger Sims and Howard DeVore. We're only missing #6, so if you have a copy, please let us know. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Opuntia, Dale Speirs' perzine, #485 (the latest. Thanks Dale!; --Postwarp, 8 more issues from the late 50s. This is under the Tightbeam index as Postwarp was the "magzine of letters and comments" for the NFFF. Added some issues from 1952-59 from various editors. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Twll-Ddu, Dave Langford, 6 more issues from the late 70s. Added issues #8-10, 11 supplement, 12 and 15. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Winnie, Jerry Jacks, issue V2#6 (Sep 69). Winnie had several incarnations. This is the first one we've scanned that was put out by Jerry Jacks. Most of what we he have online is by Mike Ward. Scan by Joe Siclari.; PDF Replacements:; --LeZombie, Bob Tucker, issue #5 (May 39). PDF by Sam McDonald. Thanks Sam!; --SF Weekly, Andrew Porter, 19 issues (1967) - #188-192, 194-197, 200-209. OCR by Mark Olson. Thanks Mark!; Convention Publications: Mark Olson is putting up vast quantities of convention pubs. I'll start noting them individually when the numbers are more manageable. You can find them all at http://fanac.org/conpubs/.; --NonCon 2 (1979, Edmondton, Canada) - Prgram Book Added. Scan by Eli Cohen. Thanks Eli!; Corrections:; --Waldo, Eric Bentcliffe, #1 date was incorrectly marked as April. Thanks to Bill Burns for the correction. It should be December.; --Void, Jim and Greg Benford, #6-8 had incorrect headers on the pages. They said #4 (???). Thanks to Tamar Lindsay for the correction.
October 12, 2020: --1 more issue of Forry Ackerman's perzine Glom. Added #11 (May 48). Scan by Joe Siclari.; --added "The Miscellany 1" by Louis Kuslan. This one shot was distributed with Fantasy News, so I've tucked it on that page in January 1940. Scan by Sam McDonald. Thanks Sam!; --5 issues of Jerry Page's Lore. This is a new title for us. There are indexes and checklists, poems by Thomas Burnett Swann, art and articles by Jeff Jones, and more. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --1 more issue of M.K. Hanson's Novae Terrae. The elusive #15 has been added to really complete the run. This is a core fanzine for us to scan. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --added "Out of Reitsch?" (John Berry, 1997/2002) to Fanthologies, Collections and Festschrifts. It was originally published in 4 "consecutive copies of ORBIT, a journal specialising in space stamps, postcards and covers dealing with a space theme". Scan by Rich Lynch. Thanks Rich!; --added "The SAPS Index", which covers mailings 13-33 to the Reference Section. Look for it in the Bibliographies. Scan by Mark Olson. Thanks Mark!; --2 more issues of the SFSFS Shuttle, the clubzine of the South Florida Science Fiction Society. We've added issue #12 (Nancy Atherton, Feb 86) and #61 (Gerry Adair, Apr 90). Scans by Joe Siclari.
October 11, 2020: --5 Artist Showcases. Courtesy of Sara Felix, we've added Artist Showcase Publications from the 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015 and 2019 Worldcons. You can find them in two places - first, under Artzines, and second, under the Worldcon publications section for the Worldcon with which they are associated. Start here to get the Worldcon pubs - http://fanac.org/conpubs/Worldcon/index.html.; --2 ASFA publications. Sara Felix, President of the Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists (ASFA) has provided us with a few publications from the group. The two pubs are 25 years apart, and show considerable evolution (as you'd expect). The first, published 2 years after the incorporation of the group, looks like a typical fanzine of the period. The more recent has some spectacular illos. Thanks Sara! Send more!; --1 more issue of Bill Bowers and Bill Mallardi's Double Bill. Issue #15 completes the run. Thanks to Steve Johnson who saw we needed it on our One-and-Done page, and provided this scan. Issue #15 is marked the Tricon issue, and has contributions from the likes of Buck Coulson and Roger Zelazny. Artists include Dan Adkins, George Barr, Terry Jeeves, ATom and Bill Rotsler. Double Bill is a core fanzine for us to scan. Thanks Steve!; --1 more issue (the latest) of the Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society's newsletter The MT Void, MT Void Vol. 39, No. 15. We've had it up for a couple of days, but somehow I missed putting it in the What's New. Sent to us by Mark and Evelyn Leeper. Thank you both.; --4 issues of Pulsar, the clubzine of the Portland Science Fiction Society. These are from 2001-2002, and are all edited by Debra Stansbury. Scans by Rich Lynch. Thanks Rich!; --1 more issue of Joseph Gilbert and Art Sehnert's The Southern Star. Added issue #2 (Jun 41). From Columbia, S.C., the Southern Star "is a supposedly bi-monthly publication which achieves that enviable status with distressing infrequency." Articles in this issue by Elmer Purdue, L.R. Chauvenet, Milt Rothman, Jim Tillman and Oliver Saari. When we put something up which is that old, we revel in it a little bit. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --1 more issue (the latest) of the NFFF's Tightbeam, edited by George Phillies and Jon Swartz. Thanks guys!; For a real treat, we've added 17 photos from Karen Anderson's collection (thanks to Astrid Bear!) to the Solacon album. These include half a dozen photos from "Alice in Thrillingwonderland" which was performed at the con. In issue #795 of Karen's fanzine Zed, you can read the script for the play starting on page 7. So now you can read the script, see the pix and imagine yourself there. There are also some wonderful masquerade photos and some individual photos as well. Thanks to Astrid for letting us put them up.
October 10, 2020: --1 issue of Ken Cheslin's A Child's Garden of Olaf. Reprint of issue #1 which was originally published in April, 1964. Scan by Rich Lynch. Thanks Rich!; --1 issue of Gray Boak's Cynic. This is completely devoted to the 1971 Eastercon. Scan by Rob Hansen. Thanks Rob!; --7 issues of a Dave Van Arnam's perzine, First Draft. This is a new title for us and these very short zines are from the end of 1967-beginning of 1968. Scans by Mark Olson. Thanks Mark!; --1 more issue of Frank Wilimczyk's Pardox. Added #4 from Summer 1943. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --12 issues of Bruce Pelz's Profanity. This starts in 1958, and the last issue we put up was from 1977. There was a 15 year gap between issues #7 and 8. In #7, Bruce talks about his change in focus and why he's back to doing general fanzines instead of mostly APAzines. In issue #10, he talks about how he is starting his checklist of his impressively large fanzine collection. We use it still to check titles, issues and dates to inform what we put online. This is a new title for us. Scans by Joe Siclari.; Replaced 5 issues of Andrew Porter's SF Weekly with searchable PDFs. Issues #183-187 from 1967 have been replaced, with OCR by Mark Olson. Thanks Mark!; Also added the Chicon 2000 Press Kit to the Conpubs. You'll find it here - http://fanac.org/conpubs/Worldcon/Chicon%202000/index.html. Scan courtesy of Steven Silver. Thanks Steven!
October 8, 2020: I've been touting our Begging List and our One-And-Done Begging list (both here under the various Fanzine pages) - fanzines http://fanac.org/fanzines/. We've now updated the more general "What We Want" page. It can be found a few lines below the Begging lists on the same page. If you ever wondered if there was method or madness in our fanzine choices, here's where to find out. Of course, there's a dose of serendipity involved too. If you have material that's on our priority list, please let us know.; Corrections: We inadvertently had Ted White's egoscan on the list of fanzines where a single scan would complete the run. It's complete, and has been for months thanks to Irwin Hirsh who gave us a scan of issue #1. Thanks again, Iriwn!; --4 more issues of Ethel Lindsay's Haverings. Issues #6, 16, 18, and 34 added. The eagle-eyed among you will notice that we already had a #16 before. That was actually an unnumbered issue ("TAFF News Item"), and is more properly placed between 12 and 13 where it now sits in the index. The actual #16 is online now.; --1 more issue of Mike Deckinger's Hocus. Issue #8 from 1959. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --1 more issue of Marty Cantor's Holier THan Thou. Issue #3 from Jun 1982 added. Darrell Schweitzer, Marc Ortlieb, Mike Glyer, and letters from many a well known fan. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --1 more issue of Bruce Pelz's I Palantir. Issue #4 from Aug 1966 added. This is a Tolkien fanzine, "The Official Publication of The Fellowship of the Ring, an organization of devotees of the writings of J. R. R. Tolkien, insofar as they treat of the lands and peoples of Middle Earth." Scan by Joe Siclari.; --2 issues of the National Fantasy Fan, V19#6 (Dec 60) edited by Ralph Holland, and V25#2 (Apr 66) edited by Art Hayes. The latter is the 25th Anniversary Issue. Scan by Joe Siclari.
October 7, 2020: --7 more issues of Terry Carr's perzine Hobgoblin. Added #4-5, 7, 9, 11-13. These are from Scans by Joe Siclari.; --7 issues of a Mike Deckinger's genzine Hocus, a new title for us. Hocus ran from 1959-1960. There's Roger Ebert material here, along with Donald Franson, Bob Silverberg, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Rick Sneary, Art Rapp and August Derleth. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --7 issues of Postwarp. This is the precursor to Tightbeam and I've put it into the same index. It's an NFF publication and the issues I've added are from the early 1950s. Scans by Joe Siclari.
October 6, 2020: Hooray! The first response to our "One and Done" page. Eli Cohen has sent us a scan of issue #1 of Patrick and Teresa Nielsen Hayden's Izzard. That completes the run - thank you Eli! To see the other zines where we need only a single issue, go to http://fanac.org/fanzines/begging_list-need-1.html.; We have stuff. Lots of stuff. I put up a quick page on FANAC by the Numbers -- http://www.fanac.org/FANAC_Inc/fanacnumbers.html. The formatting and the location may change. Whoo!; Finally, we put up the complete 9 issue run of George Willick's Parsection. This ran from 1960-1961. In a rare expository mood, here's what Joe Siclari has to say about it:; "George Willick's Parsection is an under-rated, lesser known example of a typical Midwestern genzine of its period. I don't mean that in a demeaning manner. Vic Ryan's Bane (http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Bane/ ) and the Coulson's Yandro (http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Yandro/ ), are better known titles. Paresection addressed science fiction and fannish subjects with a fairly sercon attitude. Humor and light "fannishness" was not its forte.; Parsection started off focusing on what Willick though was the reigning controversy of the day - whether science fiction magazines had any future. On this subject alone, the fanzine had a fairly hefty array of contributors including H. L Gold, Gordy Dickson, Don Wollheim and others.; Joe Hensley had a series of lightly written columns which often triggered more hefty responses. One column on Claude Degler raised responses from Algis Budrys and Redd Boggs among others.; Overall, Parsection was good enough to attract some interesting contributors, Kate Wilhelm (fiction), Harlan Ellison and Roger Ebert (fanzine reviews) and a stable of well-known letter writers. Of special interest to fan historians is a series of autobiographical pieces from several fans - Buck Coulson, Rosemary Hickey, Sam Lundwall, Harry Warner, Jr., and more."
October 5, 2020: --1 issue of Waldemar Kumming's Munich Round Up. This is the first issue for us of this long running German fanzine. This issue edited/published by Waldemar Kumming and Gary Klüpfel in 2001. Scan by Rich Lynch. Thanks Rich!; --1 more issue (Oct 2020) of John Thiel's Ionisphere sent by George Phillies. Thanks George!; Replaced 26 issues of JPGs with searchable PDFs today. In particular, we replaced #27-35, 37-39 of Merv Binns's Australian SF News. Also replaced a Chicon special issue of Australian SF New. Additionally, we replaced 13 issues of Richard Geis's SF Review. Almost all of the SFRs are now searchable PDFs.; It's a YouTube day. Link: https://youtu.be/YmCugozN9PU. This recording comes from Boskone 6 in 1969. It's "The Feminine Viewpoint" , moderated by Hal Clement and with Anne McCaffrey, Marion Zimmer Bradley and Larry Niven. From the writeup - "Moderated by Hal Clement, this audio recording (illustrated with dozens of images) is a 1960s view of feminism and the female viewpoint in SF by two of SF's most successful women writers of the day. It is uncomfortable in parts by today's standards, with comments like "you can't be a feminist if you like being a woman", and remarks about fanzines that discount female writers solely because of their sex. Hal Clement is the neutral moderator, and Larry Niven provides a male perspective. This panel is dominated by MZB and Anne McCaffrey, who express their views on women in the field, on the differences in fiction written by woman and men, and on the disadvantages attendant on being a female science fiction writer. Remember, Anne McCaffrey was born in 1926 and MZB in 1930. Their opinions were shaped by the times. It's a fascinating snapshot of the times." Thanks to NESFA and Rick Kovalcik for providing the recording.
October 4, 2020: !!!! Thanks to the fan history researches of Rob Hansen, we have something wonderful for you today. From within Vince Clarke's papers, Rob has found the final draft of Walt Willis's speech at the 1952 worldcon where he was the recipient of the "WAW with the Crew in '52" fan fund started by Shelby Vick. Here is Joe Siclari's introduction to the speech:; Although Walt Willis was prolific, the quality of his writing remained very high because he was diligent. In several articles, Walt Willis described some of his writing procedures.Despite what so many people thought was his facile and relaxed style, he worried over pieces and rewrote them. See Warhoon 12, p 23 - http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Warhoon/Warhoon12-22.html.; Walt’s quality writing was why Shelby Vick created the first really successful campaign to bring a foreign fan to a US Worldcon, "WAW with the Crew in '52". You can imagine the excitement when this was successful. You might also imagine the stress when Walt realized that he would have to speak at the TASFiC/Chicon II.; So it seems he wrote a speech beforehand. Not only did he work on it in advance and rewrite and edit it, but it seems he sent it to at least one friend. During his research into Vince Clarke's papers, Rob Hansen discovered this presentation that you are about to read. It's probably the closest we will get to what Walt Willis said at the TASFiC. As Rob indicated in a note: "What *isn't* included, obviously, is whatever off-the-cuff thanks he added after he'd finished reading." Not seen in close to 70 years, here is what Rob has called: The Harp Speaks.
October 3, 2020: Dale Speirs sent us a PDF of issue #484 (7.8 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
October 2, 2020: Joe Siclari has put together a list of the fanzines for which we only need ONE issue to complete the run. If you have any of these, please step up and help us mark "COMPLETE" for this title in the archive. You can find the link on the main fanzine page, http://fanac.org/fanzines/. Thanks in advance!; --2 issues of Calvin "Biff" Demmon's Grunt, a perzine from the early 1960s. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --6 issues of Terry Carr's perzine Hobgoblin. This is a new title for us. Earlier issues were done as a supplement to FANAC, and later ones were distributed through SAPS. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --1 more Fanthology, to wit, "Travlin' Jiant - The Adventures of Art Widner in Frontierland" by Kim Huett. You'll find it (alphabetically) listed under Fanthologies. Scan by Mark Olson.; --6 issues of Future Times, the Clubzine of the Atlanta Science Fiction Society. These issues are from 2001-2, and this is a new title for us. Scans were provided by Rich Lynch. Thanks Rich!; --1 more issue of Mike Glyer's Prehensile. We've added #1 today. Prehensile is a core fanzine for us to scan.
September 29, 2020: --5 issues of Forry Ackerman's perzine, Glom. This was done for FAPA in the late 1940s. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --1 more issue of Harry Warner Jr's Horizons. Added #90 (Spr 62). Scans by Joe Siclari.; --1 more issue of Rich and Nicki Lynch's Mimosa. Added #2 (Jan 87), "intended for *ahem* Mature Audiences". Mimosa is a core fanzine for us to scan. Scan by Rich Lynch. Thanks Rich!; --7 more issues of Roelof Goudriaan and Lynne Ann Morse's newszine from the Netherlands, Shards of Babel. We've added #3, 12, 17-21 from the mid 80s. Thanks to Roelof Goudriaan for the scans!; --4 more issues of the NFF's National Fantasy Fan, all from the early 1970s. The volume/#s are an educated guess on a couple of these. If anyone knows for sure they are wrong, please let me know. We've added issues from June, August and October of 1970, as well as Feb 1972. Scans by Joe Siclari.
September 28, 2020: --1 more issue of Roscoe Wright's Beyond. Added #6 (Mar 46). Scans by Joe Siclari.; --1 more issue of Dan Steffan's Boonfark, well a supplement anyway. Added a supplement to #8 from Nov 83. We also replaced 7 issues with searchable PDFs. Replaced are #1-3 and 5-8. Scan and OCR by Joe Siclari.; --3 issues of Sam Moskowitz's Different. This is a new title for us and we've added issues from 1962-1974. I think this was primarily a FAPAzine. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --2 issues of Ted Johnstone's Coventry zine, Gimble. #1-2 from 1959-1960. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --8 more issues of Matrix, from the British Science Fiction Association. This comes courtesy of BSFA and Kevin R. Smith. We've added issues #47-54 (done by various editors). Scans provided by Kevin R. Smith. Thanks Kevin!; --1 more issue (the latest) of the Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society's newsletter The MT Void, MT Void Vol. 39, No. 13. Thanks to Mark and Evelyn Leeper for sending.; --1 more issue of Tom Perry's zine later known as Quark. This is #1, and was published in 1956 under the name "Logorrhea". Scans by Joe Siclari.; --5 issues of Sirruish, "The Official Publication of the Ozark Science Fiction Association". This is a new title for us, and we've added #3-7 from the mid-late 1960s. The first two were edited by Jim Hall, and the remaining 3 by Leigh Couch. Contributors include Hank Davis, Chris Couch, Alexis Gilliland, Jack Gaughan, Don D'Ammassa, Harry Warner Jr. and Bob Vardeman. #5 includes a GoH speech Roger Zelazny gave at Ozarkcon. Scans by Joe Siclari.; Fourteen zines replaced with searchable PDFs: Replaced the 3 issues we had left of Andy Porter Algol JPGs. These were issues #9, 12-13. Also replaced the complete 3 issue run of Eric Bentcliffe's Bastion, 7 issues of Geis's Science Fiction Review (#18, 21-22,24,and 29-31) and issue #1 of Ted White and Dan Steffan's Blat with searchable PDFs. OCR by Joe Siclari.
September 26, 2020: --1 more issue (the last) of Larry Farsaci's Golden Atom. We've also uploaded some interesting Golden Atom ephemera. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --1 more issue of Ted White and Les Gerber's Minac. Added issue #14 from April 1964. "It has not been our intention to turn MINAC into The Journal for the Defense of Walter Breen, but we find ourselves more or less fulfilling that function nonetheless." Scans by Joe Siclari.; --5 issues of Tom Perry's Quark. This is a new title for us and we have issues from the 60s-70s. Includes chapters of Walt Willis's "The Harp that Once or Twice". Scans by Joe Siclari.; --9 issues of John Foyster's Satura. This is a new title for us. John Foyster was the main organizer of the 1966 Seventh Australian Science Fiction Convention, which is credited with relaunching Australian fandom (see http://fancyclopedia.org/John_Foyster ).; --3 more issues of Norman Browne's Vanations. Added issues #1, 5 and 6 from 1952-1953. All we're missing now to complete the run is issue #2. Anyone??? Scans by Joe Siclari.; --8 issues of Bill Donaho's Viper. This is a new title for us and has some great material. Joe Siclari: "Besides Donaho, you'll find John Berry, F. M. Busby, Elinor Busby, Robert Lichtman, Ted White, Jack Speer, Len Moffatt, Alva Rogers, Terry Carr, Ray Nelson, Bill Rotsler and others. This was where Rogers' Raquiem for Astounding was first published as a serial (starting in issue #2). It also has one of the earliest big articles on Heinlein by Al haLevy (cochair of Pacificon, 1964), " The Utopian Novels of..." in #6. Issue #9 has article by Donaho looking back at the Breendoggle."
September 25, 2020: --1 more issue of Roy Tackett's Dynatron. Issue #61 (Jan 75) added. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --3 more issues of Ethel Lindsay's Scottishe. Added issues #9 (Dec 56), 17 (Mar 59), and 32 (Jun 63). For issue 32, from Joe, "This issue might be unique. I had 2 copies mostly the same but each had different at least one page different from the other. This scanned issue has all the pages in what I think is the proper order." Scottishe is a core fanzine for us to scan. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --3 more issues of the SFSFS Shuttle, the clubzine of the South Florida Science Fiction Society. Two were both edited by Gerry Adair, and one by Carol Porter. We've added issues 59, 64 and 125. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --3 more issues of Karen Anderson's The Zed. We added issues #773 (Sep 53), 775 (Spr 54), and 792 (Dec 58). Scans by Joe Siclari.; --1 more issue of Guy Lillian's Zine Dump. We've uploaded #50 for Jun-Sep 2020. Thanks Guy!; If you have any old bookmarked links to the wikidot version of Fancyclopedia.org, now is the time to delete them. We've been up and running on the new Fancyclopedia.org for months and months, and the wikidot site is now defunct. RIP wikidot Fancy 2011-2020.
September 23, 2020: --3 issues (the full run) of Bruce Pelz's Coventranian Gazette. You'll likely need to read the Fancyclopedia article at http://fancyclopedia.org/Coventry to get the context. Scan (and index page notes) by Joe Siclari.; --7 more issues and one supplement of Matrix, from the British Science Fiction Association. This comes courtesy of BSFA and Kevin R. Smith. We've added issues 36, and 38-43 from the early 1980s, all edited by Graham James and some with Linda Strickler as co-editor. Scans provided by Kevin R. Smith. Thanks Kevin!; --2 more issues of the SFSFS Shuttle, the clubzine of the South Florida Science Fiction Society. These were both edited by Gerry Adair, and date from 89-90. We've added issues 56 and 63. When you're putting up fanzines of the period, it's always such a relief when the editor/publisher gets a laser printer. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --4 more issues of Karen Anderson's The Zed. We added issues #785, 795, 805 and 806. Scans by Joe Siclari. Includes lovely stuff, like this verse from Poul (all on one line here for space)- "Oh, you can't get to Heaven With a Dean machine Cause the Lord don't sell Thiotimolin"; --1 more issue of Art Widner's YHOS. Issue #17 from 1980. Scan by Joe Siclari.; Also replaced 12 issues of Merv Binns's Austrlian SF News with searchable PDFs. Replaced are issues #13-19, 21, 23-26. OCR by Joe Siclari.
September 21, 2020: --1 issue of a Leigh Edmonds and John Foyster's Boy's Own Fanzine. This is a new title for us and we've added issue #1. We've also linked to issue #5, "Emu Tracks Over America", Leigh Edmonds report of his DUFF trip in 1975. It's already up under our index for Trip Reports from Fan Funds. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --1 more issue (the latest) of Leybl Botwinik's CyberCozen. Thanks, Leybl and Happy New Year!; --3 issues of James Taurasi's Fantasy Scout. This is a new title for us, and according to Pavlat-Evans, the zine was previously titled "Science Fiction Scout". Sam Moskowitz was the Associate Editor. Those were heady days back in 1939, and this is what the fans were talking about. Scans by Sam McDonald. Thanks Sam!; --2 more issues of Bill Bowers's Outworlds. We've added issues #7 (Spr 71) and #23 (Apr 75). Issue #23 is the 5th anniversary issue. Outworlds is a core fanzine for us to scan. We've also replaced #14 with a searchable PDF. OCR and scans by Joe Siclari.; --1 more issue of Earl Kemp's SaFari, this one from Oct 1961. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --1 more issue (the latest) issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's The National Fantasy Fan. Thanks to George Phillies for sending it.; --2 issues of Dave Langford's celebrated fanzine, Twll-Ddu. According to Fancyclopedia.org, Twll-Ddu won the 1977 Nova Award for best fanzine and placed in the Checkpoint Fan Poll for 1976/77, and won the following three such polls: 1977/78, 1978/79, and 1979/80.
September 20, 2020: Almost all newszines today:; --2 more issues of Walt Dunkelberger's newszine, Fanews. These are special issues - one is a Fanews Portfolio (Jul 1948) created by his wife while he was ill so that he could retain his FAPA membership, and the other is a Pacificon 1 page special Fanewscard issue (1946). Scans by Joe Siclari; --17 more issues of James Taurasi's Fantasy News. We've added issues from 1940 onward this time, once again all thanks to Sam McDonald. We've added issues 81-83, 85a, 86, 92, 96, 98-99, 120-125, 180, and 186. Issue #85a is a 2 page extra issue, with the headline: "PHILIP FRANCIS NOWLAN, CREATOR OF ‘BUCK ROGERS’,DIES". Thank you, Sam - these are great!; --16 more issues of Don and Maggie Thompson's newszine Newfangles. Issues today are #30-33, 35-43, 48-50. These are from 1970-71. We also replaced issue #51 with a searchable PDF. Scans by Mark Olson. Thanks Mark!; --2 more issues of Redd Boggs's Sky Hook. Added issues #1 (Win 48) and #8 (Aut 49). Issue #8 has a short article by Laney on Lovecraft. Sky Hook is a core fanzine for us to scan. Scans by Joe Siclari.; Also added Ron Bennett's 1966 Directory of S.F. Fandom. It's in the Fannish directories section at http://www.fanac.org/Fannish_Reference_Works/WhosWho/. Scan by Joe Siclari.
September 19, 2020: --17 issues of James Taurasi's Fantasy News. We've added issues from 1938 onward, all thanks to Sam McDonald. We've added issues 36, 40, 45, 48, 50, 62-64, 66-67, 70, 77-78, 80, 150 (the annual), 188 and a 2 page extra issue, 70a. Headline on the extra issue: "Something new in 'STF' ‘CAPTAIN Future'!" We also replaced issue 79 with a searchable PDF. These are rare and hard to come by - thanks Sam!; --2 issues of Robert Lichtman's Trap Door. These are issues #13-14 from 93-94. Trap Door is a core fanzine for us to scan. Contributors to these issues include Jeff Schalles, Gordon Eklund, Dave Hartwell, Ted White, Rob Hansen, Greg Benford Steve Stiles, Geri Sullivan and Shelby Vick. Scans by Joe Siclari.; If you saw our last FANAC Update, you know that we now have arranged to put up publications from First Fandom. Today, we started with the first of these (and there are many more to come). There are two titles - First Fandom Report and ScientiFiction and they'll all be found under http://fanac.org/fanzines/First_Fandom_Publications/. Today we put up 8 issues, along with a membership application from 1992. Scans today by Joe Siclari.
September 18, 2020: --15 more issues of (mostly) Charlotte Proctor's Anvil from the 1980s. One issue, #37, was edited by Cindy and Linda Riley. We added issues #25-27, 29-30, 32, 34-41, and 44 today. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --1 more issue of Lars Bourne's Brillig. Added issue #6 (Dec 1956). Scan by Joe Siclari.; --2 more issues of Roy Tackett's Dynatron. Added issues #67-68 from 1978. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --1 more issue (the latest) of the Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society's newsletter The MT Void, MT Void Vol. 39, No. 12, courtesy of Mark and Evelyn Leeper. Thanks guys!; --1 more issue (the latest) of Dale Speirs's perzine, Opuntia. Thanks Dale!; We have updated the Fanac Names Cross Reference. There are currently 28,336 names in these listings.
September 15, 2020: --2 more issues of Roy Tackett's Dynatron. Added issues #31 (Mar 67) and #74 (1981). Scans by Joe Siclari.; --1 more issue of Eric Bentcliffe's MI. V3#1 (1972) has been added. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --1 more issue (supplement?) to South of the Moon. Added Supplement 2 (Nov 1975), by Tim Marion. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --3 issues of the N3F's clubzine, The National Fantasy Fan. Added issues V11#1, V11#2 (both from 1952) and V32#4 parts 1 and 2 (from 1972). Scans by Joe Siclari.; Replaced 23 issues of Merv Binns's Australian SF News with searchable PDFs. Replaced are issues 1,3-4, 6-12, 20, 22, 34, 36, 40-46, 49-50. OCR by Joe Siclari.
September 14, 2020: --5 more issues of Charlotte Proctor's Anvil. Added #23-24 from 1982, and #53-55 from the early 90s. The last two issues were co-edited with Julie Wall. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --1 more issue of Dick Shultz's Avenger fanzine, En Garde. This first issue is titled "Rigger Digger", so consider this a Fanac.org homage at the passing of Diana Rigg. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --1 more issue of Ethel Lindsay's reviewzine, Haverings. Added #54 (Jan 1973). Scan by Joe Siclari.; --2 more issues of Ethel Lindsay's Scottishe. Added #39, 41 from 1966. Both have lovely ATom cover. Scottishe is a core fanzine for us to scan. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --1 more issue of Art Rapp's Spacewarp. Added #40 (Jul 1950) and also replaced #39 with a searchable PDF. Spacewarp is a core fanzine for us to scan. Scans and OCR by Joe Siclari.; --3 more issues of Third Foundation. Issues #77-78 (1967) were edited by James Shapiro, and issue #90 (Sep 69) by Lee Gold. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --1 more issue of Buck and Juanita Coulson's Yandro. Added #235 (Apr 1976). Yandro is a core fanzine for us to scan. Scan by Joe Siclari.; And finally, replaced all of Tucker's Bloomington News Letters and Science Fiction News Letters with searchable PDFs. They have all been moved into a single directory as well, and you can find them at http://fanac.org/fanzines/Bloomington_News_Letter/. We have been replacing larger fanzines with PDFs to save a little space on the server. Joe is now moving to OCR the newsletters, even though they are smaller, so that anyone looking for information on a particular person or event can make use of the search. Slowly, we'll get there. OCR and the decision to combine the directories for easier access by Joe Siclari.
September 12, 2020: --2 issues (the complete run) of Larry Shaw's Beulah's Scrapbook. This is identified as a free supplement to Nebula. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --1 more issue of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group Newsletter. Added #93 (May 79), edited by Steven Green. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --added a 1 page supplement to issue #5 of Dan Steffan's Boonfark. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --1 issue of Peter Roberts's newzine Checkpoint. Added issue #24 (Oct 72). Scan by Joe Siclari.; --6 issues of Patrick Nielsen Hayden's perzine Flash Point from the 1980s. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Monsters of the Moon, from Forry Ackerman. This one shot was published in 1940. Scan by Mark Olson.; --1 more issue (the latest) of the Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society's newsletter, The MT Void. Thanks to Mark and Evelyn Leeper for sending.; --1 more issue of Outworlds, edited by Bill Bowers. Add issue #18 (Oct 73). Outworlds is a core fanzine to scan, and this one was provided by Jerry Kaufman and John D. Berry. Thanks guys!; --1 more issue of the NESFA genzine Proper Boskonian. We've added issue #9, edited by Richard Harter from 1972. This completes the run. Proper Boskonian is a core fanzine for us to scan. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --1 more issue of Mike Glyer's Scientifriction. Added issue #8 (Jul 77), and this leaves us with only one more issue to complete the run. Does anyone have an issue #7 they can scan for us? Scientifriction is a core fanzine for us to scan. This scan by Joe Siclari.; --2 more issues of Ron Bennett's Skyrack Trader from the early 1970s. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --6 issues (the complete run) of Patrick and Teresa Nielsen Hayden's perzine, Zed. This ran from 1981-1984. Scans by Joe Siclari.; Replaced issue #152 of Mike Glyer's File 770 with a searchable PDF. Scan by Rich Lynch. Replaced issue #151 of Buck and Juanita Coulson's Yandro with a searchable PDF. Scan by Mark Olson. And we replaced 6 issues of Richard Geis's zines too - Science Fiction Review 37 (Apr 70), Alien Critic 6 (Aug 73), 8 (Feb 74), 11 (Nov 74) and 12 (Feb 75). OCR by Joe Siclari.
September 10, 2020: --6 more issues (some in multiple parts) of John Purcell's Askance. Most of these came courtesy of the NFFF franking service, and one from John. Thanks John! And thanks NFFF too :-); --7 more issues of John Purcell's perzine, Askew. These came courtesy of the NFFF franking service.; --1 more issue of Terry Jeeves's Erg. Added #47 (Jul 74). Erg is a core fanzine for us to scan. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --3 more issues of Ethel Lindsay's reviewzine, Haverings. Added issues 52-53, and 55 (from 1972-1973). Scans by Joe Siclari.; --2 more issues of Mike Glyer's Prehensile. We've added issues 5-6 from 1972. Prehensile is a core fanzine for us to scan. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --2 more issues of Ethel Lindsay's Scottishe. Added #61, 65 to the archive. Scottishe is a core fanzine for us to scan. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --1 more issue of Art Widner's YHOS. Added #44 (Jul 88), including Pulp 9 from Rob Hansen and Avedon Carol. Scan by Rich Lynch. Thanks Rich!; For the musically inclined, we've added the script, program, posters and letters for the Pirates of Fenzance, written by John Pomeranz and debuted at LoneStarCon 2 in 1997. You can find it all under Musicals in fanzine listings. Thanks go to John Pomeranz who provided the materials.; We replaced issue 1 of the Bill Bowers/Bill Mallardi zine, Double Bill with a searchable PDF. PDF by Rich Lynch.
September 7, 2020: Dale Speirs sent us a PDF of issue #482 (7.6 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
September 6, 2020: Sam McDonald points out that we were premature in declaring Novae Terrae completed. We are missing issue 15, a pamphlet between issues 10 and 11, and several supplements. Thanks Sam. We'll keep looking for those. Also, thanks to Sam for the info on Tom Collins's "is" changing its name to Apollo at issue 7.; Fixed some upside down and sideways pages in Void 29. Thanks to Sandra Bond for letting us know they were wonky.; --1 more issue (the latest) of Leybl Botwinik's CyberCozen. Thanks, Leybl!; --5 issues of Dave Langford and Kevin Smith's Drilkjis from the late 70s/early 80s. This is a new title for us. There's also a flyer for #2. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --2 issues of Ken Potter and Dave Wood's Peri from 1953-1954. Contributors include Ted Tubb, Walt Willis, Chuch Harris and Terry Jeeves. Scans by Rob Hansen. Thanks Rob!; --1 issue (the latest) of Tightbeam from the NFFF. This is issue 312, edited by George Phillies and John Swartz. Thanks to George Phillies for sending.; Replaced 14 issues of Richard Geis's Psychotic with searchable PDFs. Today we uploaded issues 5, 7-8, 11, 13, 17, 20-27, along with Psychotic Mashup. These are from the 50s-60s. We also replaced Science Fiction Review #21 and 28, and Alien Critic 5 with searchable PDFs. So 17 replacements. OCR by Joe Siclari.
September 5, 2020: George Phillies sent us a PDFs of August 2020's issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's The National Fantasy Fan. Thanks George.; Dale Speirs sent us a PDF of issue #481 (7.4 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
September 2, 2020: Worldcon Publications: Everything is moved over to the new format, with new links from photo albums to pubs. Hooray for Mark Olson - he has scanned and uploaded an enormous volume of worldcon publications. Read them all (including a few committee APAs) at http://fanac.org/conpubs/Worldcon/. Thanks Mark! If you have materials that we don't have online, how about scanning them and sending them in?; YouTube: We've added Part 2 of the Best of Confederation and you can find it at https://youtu.be/NSfyivaJb7U. From the YouTube blurb: "Hosted by Eve Ackerman, this is Part 2 of a "Best of ConFederation" video, and includes candid scenes around the convention, a salute to Julius Schwartz, Toastmaster Bob Shaw at the Hugos, Harlan Ellison on the Manly Wade Wellman auction (and accepting his Hugo), scenes of the Masquerade and hall costumes. There's also the memorable non-acceptance of Judy-Lynn del Rey's award as well. The video is Part 2 of a grand tour of the convention, and ends with the traditional closing ceremonies and thanks to the committee (including Joe Siclari who now runs the Fanac.org)."; --1 more issue of Ken Cheslin's Envoy. This is really issue #17, but is labelled as #16. Scan by Rob Hansen. Thanks Rob!; --2 issues of Tom Collins's is. It's a new title for us. "is" had 6 issues and ran from 1971-1972. Scans by Joe Patrizio. Thanks Joe!; --1 more part of The Wall OMPA round robin, this one by Darroll Pardoe. Part 2 completes the round robin. Scan by Joe Patrizio. Thanks Joe!
August 31, 2020: Yesterday was a YouTube day. We added part 1 of the "Best of ConFederation". From the YouTube blurb: "ConFederation, the 44th World Science Fiction Convention, was held in Atlanta, GA in 1986, with Ray Bradbury and Terry Carr as Guests of Honor. Hosted by Eve Ackerman, this is Part 1 of a "Best of ConFederation" video, and includes candid scenes around the convention, an excerpt of a (very funny) performance on the recent history of SF, a little filk, and a little programming. Best of all are long excerpts from the Guest of Honor speeches. Terry Carr talks about his fannish past, and after that there are 20+ minutes of Ray Bradbury''s captivating Guest of Honor speech. Ray touches on fandom, Ray Harryhausen, John Houston, Epcot Center and more, ending with a stirring affirmation. This is an outstanding talk by Ray Bradbury." Thanks to Ron Zukowski, co-chair of ConFederation for permission to put this online. You can find it at https://youtu.be/GkDtPgWr8w8 .; --2 more issues of Charlotte Proctor's Anvil. Added issues 51-52 from 1990. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --7 issues of Kevin Smith's Dot, a new title for us. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --1 issue of Rob Hansen's Epsilon. Epsilon had been marked complete, but we were missing this short point issue (which is dated after issue 18). Scans by Joe Siclari.; --3 more issues of Terry Jeeves's Erg. We've added issues 19, 26, and 135. Erg is a core fanzine for us to scan. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --1 more issue of James Taurasi's newszine, Fantasy Times. We've added issue 3 from Nov 41, thanks to the scans of David Ritter. Thanks David!; --1 more issue of Lee Gold's Third Foundation. This is issue 80 from 1968, and has a previously unpublished story by Ray Lafferty. Scan by Joe Siclari.
August 29, 2020: --8 issues of Charlotte Proctor's Anvil, a new title for us. Charlotte edited most of the issues, but the early issues had other editors. Today we add 11 (edited by Jim Gilpatrick), and 22, 45-50. This is the clubzine of the Birmingham Science Fiction Club, but contributors include Marc Ortlieb, Taral, Bill Rotsler, Buck Coulson, Mike Glyer and more. So we now have clubzines from Birmingham clubs on two continents. Scan of issue 50 is by Rich Lynch, and the others by Joe Siclari. Thanks guys!; --4 more issues of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group Newsletter, by various editors. Today's issues are 179, 189, 436 and 442 from 1986 to 2008. Thanks to Carol Goodwin for scanning them, and to John Bray for providing them to Fanac.; --1 more issue of Rich and Nicki Lynch's Mimosa. Added issue 21, from Dec 1997. Scans by Rich Lynch. Thanks Rich!; --1 more issue (the latest) of the Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society's newsletter The MT Void, MT Void Vol. 39, No. 9. It was provided by Mark and Evelyn Leeper. Thanks!; --5 issues of Pete Weston's OMPAzine, Nexus. It's a new title for us and we have added the first 5 issues. I didn't meet Pete until much later than 1964, and it's very cool to have his young voice here. Scans by Joe Patrizio. Thanks Joe!
August 27, 2020: --11 issues of a new title for us - Joe Patrizio's Binary. This was an OMPAzine, and we have uploaded issues 1-1011 (aka issues 1-11) from 1962-1971. Scans provided by Joe Patrizio. Thanks Joe!; --6 more issues of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group Newsletter. Some were edited by Eunice Pearson and some by Graham Poole. Today's issues are from 1983-85. We've added issues 140, 142-143, 145, 151 and 161. Thanks to Carol Goodwin for scanning them, and to John Bray for providing them to Fanac.; --6 more issues of Matrix, from the British Science Fiction Association. This comes courtesy of BSFA and Kevin R. Smith. We've added issues 110, 113, 116-119, and 121. These were edited by either by Chris Terran or by Jenny and Steven Glover. Scans provided by Kevin R. Smith. Thanks Kevin!
August 25, 2020: We are hoping to have a very good set of major convention publications, with appropriate navigation and statistics. Thanks Mark, also for the scanning. If you see items that we lack, but which you have in the way of convention publications, you know what comes next. You can find standards for sending scans at http://www.fanac.org/FANAC_Inc/submission.html. If these are too hard, contact us and we'll figure it out with you.; --1 more issue of Charles Ford Hansen's The Alchemist. We've added issue 6, V2#1 from Autumn 1946. Scan provided by Alistair Durie. Thanks Alistair!; --11 more issues of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group Newsletter. Some were edited by Pauline Morgan, and a few by Eunice Pearson. Today's issues are from 1982-83. We've added issues 128-132. and 134-139. Thanks to Carol Goodwin for scanning them, and to John Bray for providing them to Fanac.; --1 more issue of Gannetscrapbook. We've added issue #7, edited by Andy Firth from 1980 and this completes the run. Scan by Rob Jackson. Thanks Rob!; --12 more issues of Matrix, from the British Science Fiction Association. This comes courtesy of BSFA and Kevin R. Smith. We've added issues 90-91, 93, 95, 97-99, 101, 104-105, and 108-109. These were all edited by Jenny and Steven Glover, with scans provided by Kevin R. Smith. Thanks Kevin!; --1 more issue (the last issue) of John D. Berry's Wing Window. We've added issue 12 (Jan 1993) and this completes the run. Scans provided by John D. Berry. Thanks John!; In the world of Worldcon and other convention publications:; --added some Millenium Philcon pubs scanned by Rich Lynch. Rich also gave us Capclave 2002 pubs and Conucopia pubs. Conucopia was the 1999 NASFIC. Thanks Rich!; --added some flyers and hotel ephemera for Loncon I from Roger Robinson, and PRs and ephemera from Loncon 3. Thanks Roger!; --add a bunch of Eastercon materials from Thomas Recktenwald for Seacon 75 and Seacon 84. Thanks Thomas!; --added a bunch of Novacon pubs from Roger Robinson. These are for Novacons from 2009 to 2018. Thanks Roger!
August 22, 2020: CHANGE NOTIFICATION: We're making the move to a different interface for accessing Worldcon Publications. If you've been paying attention to recent newsletters and flashes, Mark Olson has put together a new, easier-to-love format for Worldcon pubs. All the worldcon pubs are searchable PDFs and you'll also find bidding material, and even ephemera. You can find it all at http://fanac.org/conpubs/Worldcon/. The format and the link for photos and audio stay the same for now, and over the next few days (or maybe weeks) we will migrate completely to the new approach. For a little while, worldcon pubs may be available the old way as well, but one by one those will be cleared out. If you have any worldcon pubs bookmarked, then please be aware that those bookmarks will not be valid for too much longer. All hail Mark Olson, king of the Worldcon pubs! And most seriously, a heartfelt thanks to Mark from a webmaster who really didn't want to start coding again.
August 20, 2020: --1 more issue of Charles Platt's Beyond. This is issue #2 and is marked as "Point of View" #2 from Dec 1963, but it's also Beyond #2. Scan by Rob Hansen. Thanks Rob!; --15 issues of a new title for us: Envoy from Dick Schultz and Ken Cheslin. They tended to alternate issues across the pond for this OMPAzine. Scans by Joe Patrizio. Thanks Joe!; --2 more issues of Rich and Nicki Lynch's Mimosa. We added #1 (Jan 82) and #12 (Jul 92). Contributors include Jack Chalker, Dave Kyle, Terry Jeeves, Roger Sims, Walt Willis, Steve Stiles, Ted White and more. Scans by Rich Lynch. Thanks Rich!; --1 more issue of the SFSFS Shuttle. Added #246 from 2002, edited by Cynthia Warmuth. Scan by Rich Lynch. Thanks Rich!
August 19, 2020: --2 more issues of rich brown's beardmutterings, completing the run. We added #1 (1972) and #3 (1982). Scans by Joe Siclari.; --7 issues of a new title for us - the first series of the BSFA Newsletter. This is not the series that morphed into Matrix (those are in the Matrix index), but an earlier series of brief newsletters. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --1 more issue of Walt Leibscher's Chanticleer. We added issue 2 from 1944. There's an entertaining article called "Michiconfusion (Slan Shack Shennanigans" which asserts "Authors Note: Any similarity between this account and the third annual ’Michicon’ (twerent really) is purely detrimental." Chanticleer is a core fanzine for us to scan. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --1 more issue of Redd Bogg's Sky Hook. Added issue 3 from the Summer of 1948. Sky Hook is a core fanzine for us to scan; today's scan by Joe Siclari.; --1 more issue of Norman Browne's Vanations. We've added #3, and replaced #4 with a searchable PDF. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --1 more issue of Raymond Van Houten's Van Hoouten Says. We've added V4#6 from July 1, 1940. This issue announces "Intellectual Brotherhood of Pro-Scientists". *sigh* Scan by Joe Siclari.
August 18, 2020: Leah Zeldes has put together a fabulous set of pointers to resources for fanhistory. You can find it on Fancyclopedia at http://fancyclopedia.org/Fanhistory_Resources. Thanks, Leah!; In the fanzine archive world, today we add:; --1 more issue of Andy Anderson's Centauri. Added #4 from Summer, 1945. This was the last issue. Contributors include Bob Tucker, Walt Leibscher, and Harry Warner. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --added a supplement to issue 25 of Roy Tackett's Dynatron. The supplement is a reprint of Jack Speer's Fantasy Fiction Decimal Classification System, originally published in 1943.; --3 more issues of Morojo's Guteto. Issues 1, and V4#4 along with a 16 page supplement marked "Mar 58" which is from March 1946. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --1 more issue of the LASFS Imagination!. We've added issue #1 from October 1937, edited by T. Bruce Yerke. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --1 more issue of Rich and Nicki Lynch's Mimosa. Added issue 3 from September 1987. Scan by Rich Lynch. Thanks Rich!; --2 issues of Marty Cantor's No Award. This is a new title for us, and we've added the first and last issues of the zine. The first one has a previously unpublished Terry Carr article. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --3 issues of M.K. Hanson's Novae Terrae from 1936, and 3 supplements (from 1936 to 1938). We've added issues 2, 3 and 9, along with the supplements to #3 and #9. It's always exciting to have fanzines from the 1930s added to the archive. It feels as if we are snatching them from oblivion, and today we have these plus at least one more. Scans here were done by Joe Siclari. This completes the run, and Novae Terrae is a core fanzine for us to scan.; --2 issues (well 1.5 issues) of John Magnus's Varioso from 1956. These issues complete the run. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --added 3 supplements to BSFA's Vector. These are supplements to #24 and #29, with a proposed constitutional amendment, the BSFA constitution and a questionnaire. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Added another Voyage 12 from Bill Rotsler. This however, is a different Voyage 12 than the Voyage 12 that was already online. Just to make it interesting for the archivist I suppose. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Songs From Space, from Eric Bentcliffe. This filkish publication (with a cover by Eddie Jones) was issued to commemorate the 1957 Worldcon. You'll find it in the Filk section. Scan by Rob Hansen. Thanks, Rob!
August 11, 2020: --2 more issues of Rosco Wright's Beyond, plus one additional now replaced with a searchable PDF. The new issues are #2 (Mar 1944) and #4 (Jan 1945). Scans by Joe Siclari.; --1 more issue of Bruce Sterling's Cheap Truth. Issue 14 completes the run! Scan by Joe Siclari.; --our first issue of John Edward Rennison's Cosmos. There are multiple fanzines with the same name. This is the one that was distributed with issues of Futurian War Digest. Today we added issue 6. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --1 more issue of Laney's Fandango plus a bonus Burblings from Burbee and Laney that was sent with Fandango 1. The newly uploaded issue is Fandango 20 (Winter 1949). Fandango is a core fanzine for us to scan. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --2 more issues of Harry Warner's FAPAzine Horizons. Issues 36 and 37, from 1948 were added today. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --7 more issues of Imagination! This is a big treat, as these are zines from 1937-1938 from LASFS. By various editors, Imagination is the "Organ of the L.A. Chapter, S.F.L, & the 1st Overseas Chapter, S-F A." As you might imagine, there are contributions from LASFS stalwarts. There's Ray Bradbury with "Formula for a successfool stf story" and Henry Kuttner doing book reviews in issue 7. There's Doc Lowndes, Forry Ackerman, Morojo, Charlie Hornig, and Yerke. There's "A Ghoul" and "Claire Voyant" all in the TOCs. Scans by Joe Siclari. Whoo-hoo!.
August 9, 2020: --2 issues of Walter Gillings' British Scientifiction Fantasy Review. We added issue 3 (Jun 1937) and issue 7 (Mar 1938). Just to be clear, the page number field on the index page has the pages in the PDF. So if the scan was side-by-side, there are really twice as many pages. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --5 more issues of Foundation, the Journal of the Science Fiction Foundation. These are issues 122-124, and 126-127 all edited by Paul March-Russell. Thanks to the Science Fiction Foundation and Paul March-Russell for providing the scans!; --2 more issues of Ella Parker and Paul Enever's Orion. Added issues 21 and 23 from 1959. Orion is a core fanzine for us to scan. Scans by Joe Patrizio. Thanks Joe!; --1 more issue of Vince Clarke's Science Fantasy News. Added issue 12, and some information in the index page. Example: Issue 6 was never published. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --1 issue of Dale Tarr's Science-Fiction World. We've added issue 1, completing the run. And today Joe tells me that the proper title is Science-Fiction World, and not Science Fiction World. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --1 issue of a new-to-us title - Irwin Hirsh's Sikander. This is issue 15 from March 1989. Scans by Irwin Hirsh. Thanks Irwin!; --1 issue (the latest) of Tightbeam from the NFFF. This is issue 311, edite by George Phillies and John Swartz. Thanks to George Phillies for sending.; --2 more issues of Robert Lichtman's Trap Door. Added issues 9 and 10 from 1990-1991. James White, Greg Benford, Redd Boggs, Jeanne Bowman, Ed Burbee, Judith Hanna, Terry Carr, and Bob Shaw among others. Trap Door is a core fanzine for us to scan. Scans today by Joe Siclari.; Replaced with searchable PDF, OCR by Joe Siclari: Issue 6 of Tucker's Sci-Fic Variety, issue 1 of Samuel Russell's Science Fiction Goo, issue 1 of Chauvenet's Zizzle-Pop, issue 1 of Walt Leibsher's Walt's Wramblngs, and issue 14 of Harry Warner's Horizons.
August 8, 2020: --4 issues, the full run, of Ella Parker's OMPAzine Compact. Scans provided by Joe Patrizio. Thanks Joe!; --1 more issue of Ethel Lindsay and Joan Carr's Femizine. We've added issue 13 from Spring 1960, with scan provided by Joe Patrizio. Contributors include Juanita Coulson, Bjo Wells, Joy Clarke and Ina Shorrock. Femizine is a core fanzine for us to scan. Thanks Joe!; --5 more issues of Rich and Nicki Lynch's Mimosa. We've added issues 15, 19, 23, 25, and 30, and replaced issue 9 with an updated copy. Scans provided by Rich Lynch. Thanks Rich!; --1 more (the latest!) issue of the Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society's newsletter The MT Void, MT Void Vol. 39, No. 6,MT Void. Thanks to Mark and Evelyn Leeper for sending it!; Yesterday was a YouTube day. We have another recording from Boskone 5 (1968). From the YouTube writeup: Larry Niven gives a delightful talk on the effects of teleportation on a society. Five years before his"Flash Crowd" was published, this recording is a grand exposition of what goes on in this author's mind as he works out the impact of new technology. "The limitations you assume for your teleportation are going to define your society." Isaac Asimov (and a number of other audience members) challenge Larry with questions and suggestions. There's even a chalkboard talk (which you can follow from the audio). The program provides a very entertaining and complete logical framework for thinking about the problems and advantages of different implementations of mechanical teleportation, with the eager participation of the engineers in the audience. https://youtu.be/GDRvhBU3oKE
August 6, 2020: We are happy to tell you that we have a new arrangement with the Science Fiction Foundation to put issues of their journal Foundation online here. Today, we added 8 issues. These scans have been provided to us by Paul March-Russell, who also edited these issues. Thanks, Paul! Also -; --8 more issues of Matrix, from the British Science Fiction Association. This comes courtesy of BSFA and Kevin R. Smith. We've added issues 80-89 (except for 88) and updated 82. These were edited by Maureen Porter (80-85) and by Jenny Glover (86-89). Scans provided by Kevin R. Smith. Thanks Kevin!; --1 more issue (the latest!) of Dale Speirs's Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
August 5, 2020: --9 more issues of Matrix, from the British Science Fiction Association. This comes courtesy of BSFA and Kevin R. Smith. We've added issues 71-79 edited by Maureen Porter, from 1987-1988. Scans provided by Kevin R. Smith. Thanks Kevin!; --1 issue of a new title for us, Manly Banister's Nekromantikon. We have issue 2 from summer 1950. Nekromantikon is subtitled the "Amateur Magazine of Weird and Fantasy". This issue has a feature on artist Ralph Rayburn Phillips. This was provided to us by John Godin at Boskone 2020 and scanned by Joe Siclari.; --1 more issue of Ted White's Null-F, from Feb 1972. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --1 issue of Potrzebie (the only issue?), edited by Bob Stewart and Larry Stark, published by Ted White. Issue 1 is from 1954. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --added issue 19a of Vector, aka issue 17 of the BSFA Newsletter. Edited by Archie Mercer, this 6 page issue is from June 1963. Vector is a core fanzine for us to scan. Scan by Joe Siclari.; Replaced 7 issues of George Flynn's Voice of the Lobster with searchable PDFs. OCR by Mark Olson. Thanks Mark!; Replaced 2 more issues of Andrew Porter's Algol with searchable PDFs. OCR for these by Joe Siclari.
August 3, 2020: Thanks to those of you that answered our survey. We have more than 125 responses so far. For those that didn't answer yet, there's still time. You can find it at https://us5.list-manage.com/survey?u=462126ad98a8c6356c94cb61e&id=b0e62114be. Also:; --7 more issues of Matrix, from the British Science Fiction Association. This comes courtesy of BSFA and Kevin R. Smith. We've added issues 180-186. These issues, from 2006-2007. All but one of these were edited by Tom Hunter, and the other one by Ian Whates, and Del & Kim Lakin-Smith. Scans were provided by Kevin R. Smith. Thanks Kevin!; --1 more issue of Rich and Nicki Lynch's Mimosa. This is issue 27 from 2001. Ron Bennett, Eve Ackerman, Bob Madle, Mike Resnick, Dave Kyle, Earl Kemp, Forry Ackerman, Bruce Pelz.... Scan provided by Rich Lynch. Mimosa is a core fanzine for us to scan. Thanks Rich!; --1 more issue (the latest!) of the Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society's newsletter The MT Void, MT Void Vol. 39, No. 5. Thanks to Mark and Evelyn Leeper for sending it.; --3 issues (all the issues!) of Ken Cheslin's OMPAzine Sally-Port. These are all from 1962 and were scanned by Joe Patrizio. Thanks Joe!; --1 issue associated with Thyme. This is a 1992 one shot called "DownThyme" and you'll find it in the Thyme index. Scan provided by Irwin Hirsh. Thanks Irwin!; --1 half issue of Joe Siclari's unterHelios. Issue 2.5 from 1972 is really more of a flyer, but ephemera "r" us. Scan by editor Joe Siclari himself.; --15 issues of Ken Cheslin's OMPAzine Whatsit. These issues of his perzine are from 1962 to 1974 and have very charming covers. Watercolor? Silk screen? Does anyone know? Scans provided by Joe Patrizio. Thanks Joe!; Replaced 7 issues of Laney and Russell's Acolyte, 1 issue of Norm Metcalf's New Frontiers, 1 issue of Wild Hair, and 8 issues of Andrew Porter's Algol with searchable PDFs. OCR by Joe Siclari.
July 30, 2020: --2 more issues of Ted White's Gambit from 1960. We've added issues 37 and 39. Issue 39 was coedited by Pete Graham, and combined with THIS #10. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --10 more issues of Matrix, from the British Science Fiction Association. This comes courtesy of BSFA and Kevin R. Smith. We've added issues 170-179. These issues, from 2004-2006, were edited by Tom Hunter. Scans provided by Kevin R. Smith. Thanks Kevin!; --8 more issues of Hank and Lesleigh Luttrell's Starling, these issues from the mid-late 1970s. We've added issues 30-37 of this Hugo nominated fanzine. Scan's by Joe Siclari.; --6 more of issues of Thyme, the Australian newszine, edited by Alan Stewart. These are issues 89-93 from 1993, and also issue 46.5 from 1985, edited by Peter Burns and Roger Weddall. The eagle-eyed amongst you will protest that we already had issue 46.5 up. Turns out that was really issue 46, and today's addition is 46.5. But now, thanks to all these scans provided by Irwin Hirsh, you can read them both. Thanks Irwin!; Also replaced issue 10 of Laney and Russell's Acolyte with a searchable PDF. OCR by Joe Siclari.
July 29, 2020: Today, I sent out our First Ever User Survey for the Fan History sites (FANAC.org, Fancyclopedia.org and our YouTube channel). Response so far has been great, with more than 70 folks filling in the survey. If you are not a subscriber and missed the Facebook posts, you can just go directly to https://us5.list-manage.com/survey?u=462126ad98a8c6356c94cb61e&id=b0e62114be. We'd love to get your feedback.; --10 more issues of Matrix, from the British Science Fiction Association. This comes courtesy of BSFA and Kevin R. Smith. We've added issues 160-169. These were mostly edited by Mark Greener and Martin McGrath, with a couple done by Martin McGrath alone and also two by Tom Hunter.ac. Scans provided by Kevin R. Smith. Thanks Kevin!; --10 more issues of Hank and Lesleigh Luttrell's Starling from the mid 1970s. We've added issues 15-16, 21-25 and 27-29. Contributors include Joe Sanders, Banks Mebane, Juanita Couson, Grant Canfield, Ken Fletcher, Bob Tucker, Terry Hughes, Jack Gaughan, and Tim Kirk. Nice covers and interior art too. Starling was nominated for the 1975 Best Fanzine Hugo. Scans by Joe Siclari.
July 28, 2020: --1 more issue of Gus Willmorth's Fantasy Advertiser. Issue 6 from Jan 1947, scanned by Joe Siclari.; --10 more issues of Matrix, from the British Science Fiction Association. This comes courtesy of BSFA and Kevin R. Smith. We've added issues 150-159 (done by various editors). Scans provided by Kevin R. Smith. Thanks Kevin!; --9 issues, the entire run, of a rare fanzine from 1940 Liverpool - Science-Fantasy Review's War Digest. This was from Ronald Holmes and (I think) Leslie Heald. I don't know what the copy count was, but even Pavlat-Evans has incomplete information about it. But now, thanks to Alistair Durie, you can read them all. Thank you Alistair for providing these scans!
July 26, 2020: Apologies to Nicki Lynch. When I noted the latest addition of an issue of Mimosa (#24), I identified it as by Rich Lynch. Incorrect for sure. That should have been Mimosa by Rich and Nicki Lynch. Again, my apologies.; --2 more issues of Mike and Susan Glicksohn's Energumen. Issues 3 and 9 added, with other contributors including Bob Toomey, Ted Pauls, Andy Offutt, Ted White, Joe Haldeman, John Douglas, Vincent di Fate, Tim Kirk and Bill Rotsler. This is a core fanzine for us to scan. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; --1 more issue of A. Langley Searles' Fantasy Commentator. Added today is issue 2 from June 1944. Alas, Retro voting is over, or we'd add this issue to the list. This is a core fanzine for us to scan. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --4 more issues of John D. Berry's Hitchhike. We've uploaded issues 21-24, with scanning courtesy of Eli Cohen. Thanks, Eli!; --19 more issues of Matrix, from the British Science Fiction Association. This comes courtesy of BSFA and Kevin R. Smith. We've added issues 130-149 (various editors), with the exception of issue 146 which we still don't have. Scans provided by Kevin R. Smith. Thanks Kevin!; --1 more issue (the latest) of the Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society's newsletter The MT Void, MT Void Vol. 39, No. 4. Thanks to Mark and Evelyn Leeper for sending it to us.; --1 more issue (the latest) of Dale Speirs's perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
July 24, 2020: We've sent out a Fanhistory Project update to the subscriber list, and added it under FANAC Updates - http://fanac.org/fanzines/FANAC-Updates/. The updates are being sent out via Mail Chimp. Let me know if you're subscribed and not receiving yours. We're going to try out a survey too (also through Mail Chimp). In the next few days, expect to see a brief survey on how you use the History sites (Fanac.org/Fancyclopedia.org/Fanac YouTube Channel). Thanks in advance for answering the survey!; Abject apologies to Martin Morse Wooster, whose name we inadvertantly misspelled in the update. We'll fix it in the version that goes up on the website.; --9 more issues of Matrix, from the British Science Fiction Association. This comes courtesy of BSFA and Kevin R. Smith. We've added issues 120, 122-129. Scans provided by Kevin R. Smith. Thanks Kevin!; --1 more issue of Rich Lynch's Mimosa. Today's addition is issue 24, from Aug 1999. Mimosa is a core fanzine for us to scan. Contributors in this issue include Forry Ackerman, Dave Kyle, Curt Phillips, Eve Ackerman, and Mike Resnick. Scans provided by Rich Lynch. Thanks Rich!; --1 more issue (the last remaining issue!) of John Berry and ATom's Retribution. A scan of issue 1 (January 1956) has been provided by Rob Hansen, completing the run. Thanks Rob! Thanks both for the scan, and for completing the run. Retribution is a core fanzine for us to scan.; --1 more issue of Len Moffatt's Science Fiction Parade. We've added the June 1962 issue, this one edited by Stan Woolston. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --4 more issues of the Australian newszine Thyme. Well, at least 3 1/2 issues. Edited by Greg Hills and Mark Loney, these are from the early 90s. We've added issues 84-85 and 87. There's a half issue between 84 and 85. Scans provided by Irwin Hirsh. Thanks Irwin!; --1 more issue of the WSFA Journal. Added the July 1999 issue, and was edited by Samuel Lubell. This is a core fanzine for us to scan. The issue was scanned and provided by Rich Lynch. Thanks Rich!
July 22, 2020: Apologies to those that tried to access Matrix last night. Somehow I screwed up the directory and it was HTML soup. Thanks to Dave Langford and Thomas Hartl who let me know about the problem so I could fix it. Fixed it is. Also, more fanzines.; --1 more issue of Sam Moskowitz's Helios. This is issue 4 from October, 1937. Contributions from David Keller, John Russell Fearn, J. Michael Rosenblum, Louis Smith, Corwin Stickney, Jack Gillespie, Donald A. Wollheim, and Clark Ashton Smith. I hope you noticed that our homepage is a splash for SaM, in honor of his centenary. Links to his writings that we have on our site are collected there. Scan for Helios #4 provided by that historian of the 30s, David Ritter. Thanks David!; --11 more issues of Matrix, from the British Science Fiction Association. This comes courtesy of BSFA and Kevin Smith. We've added issues 82, 88, 92, 94, 96, 106-107, 111-112, 114-115. Scans provided by Kevin Smith. Thanks Kevin!; --1 more issue of Bill and Joan Bowers' Outworlds. This is issue 17, from August 1973. Outworlds is a core fanzine for us to scan. Scan for #17 provided by Jerry Kaufman. Thanks Jerry!; --1 more issue of Ethel Lindsay's Scottishe. Issue 66, from 1973, with scan provided by Joe Siclari. Scottishe is a core fanzine for us to scan.
July 21, 2020: --1 more issue (the latest) of Leybl Botwinik's CyberCozen. Thanks, Leybl!; --3 more issues of Ethel Lindsay's Haverings. Added today are issues 23, 57 and 58. After issue 58, Haverings was folded into Scottishe.; --5 more issues of Harry Warner's apazine Horizons. Added today are issues 144, 148, 157, 160 and 168. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --15 more issues of Matrix, from the British Science Fiction Association. We've added issues 56-70, and scans were provided by Kevin Smith. Thanks Kevin!; --7 issues of Starling from Hank Luttrell, almost all of which are coedited with Lesleigh Luttrell (formerly Lesleigh Couch). This is a new title for us. Starling was nominated for the Best Fanzine Hugo in 1975. Contributors include Bob Tucker, Banks Mebane, Grant Canfield, Ken Fletcher, Juanita Coulson, Joe Sanders, Jim Turner, Tim Kirk and Angus Taylor. Scans by Joe Siclari.; Replaced 5 more issues of Thyme with searchable PDFs. OCR by Joe Siclari.
July 19, 2020: George Phillies sent us a PDFs of July 2020's issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's The National Fantasy Fan. Thanks George.
July 18, 2020: PSA: We've had some reports of PDFs that seem to have missing or duplicated pages. Thanks so much for letting us know, but before you drop us a note, please page through slowly. Apparently the Adobe reader can get confused when you're skating through quickly and screw up order, etc. Also, thanks to John Bray, we know that the Google Maps GPS Coordinates extension inside the Brave browser can screw up the index pgaes.; --3 more issues of Leland Sapiro's Riverside Quarterly. This completes the run! Scans provided by Kim Gibbs. Thanks Kim!; --1 issue (the only issue) of Stu Shiffman's Fokal Point. This is folk rather than filk but you will find it in the filk directory. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --7 issues of Matrix and BSFA Newsletter, from the British Science Fiction Association. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --1 issue (the latest) of the Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society's newsletter The MT Void, MT Void Vol. 39, No. 3. Provided by Mark and Evelyn Leeper. Thanks guys!; --1 issue of Bill Bowers's Outworlds. Issue 16 from 1973, and all the illustrations are by Steve Fabian. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --1 issue of Frank Dietz's Science, Fantasy, and Science Fiction. This is issue 5, from Apr 1949, and contributors include Forry Ackerman, Sam Moskowitz, David H. Keller, M.D., Wilkie Conner, and Frank Dietz. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --2 issues of Art Rapp's Spacewarp. We've added issue 101 (Jan 1973) and issue 194 (Apr 1994). This is a core fanzine for us to scan. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --1 issue of Don Miller's WSFA Journal. This is issue 69 from 1969. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --1 issue of Karen Anderson's Zed. Added issue 778 (?) from 1954. Scans by Joe Siclari.
July 15, 2020: --12 issues of Matrix, from the British Science Fiction Association. This is a new title to us and comes courtesy of BSFA and Kevin Smith. Scans for the first 21 issues were done by Alex Bardy, and the rest were done by Kevin Smith. Thanks to you all!; --Filthy Pierre's Microfilk! Online now on the filk index page. This was a bear to scan (and thanks to Joe Siclari for prevailing). Of course Filthy Pierre is aka Erwin Strauss. If you've never used the Microfilk, be aware that it is very aptly named. A mainstay of east coast filks in the 70s when I first started singing, the Microfilk brought in a new generation of filkers. Note that the lyrics start on page 14. Be warned - it's a PDF that's almost 50MB.; --1 more issue (the latest issue) of Opuntia from Dale Speirs. Thanks, Dale!.; --3 issues (the complete run) of John Owen's Rastus from the early 80s. This is a new title for us and was provided by John Owen. Thanks, John!; --3 issues of Earl and Nancy Kemp's SaFari, originally distributed in SAPS. Today, I added issues 2, 6 and a supplement to issue 5 which is also SaFari Annual 1. The numbering here is more than a little odd. Issue 2 celebrates Bob Bloch's sale of Psycho to the movies. The cover is full of pictures of a celebratory party. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --4 more issues of the SFSFS Shuttle, the clubzine of the South Florida Science Fiction Society. These are by various editors. We've added issues 93, 113, 121 and 128. Scans by Joe Siclari.
July 14, 2020: A new record today. Scans provided for this update by six different contributors on 3 continents!; --1 more issue of Ron Bennett's Ploy. Rob Hansen has provided us scans of issue 2 from Fall 1954, thereby completing the run. Issue 2 has contributions by Mal Ashworth, Terry Jeeves, Vince Clarke and others. Ploy is a core fanzine for us to scan. Thanks, Rob!; --2 more issues of The Scarr, by George Charters. Added today are issues 10, and 102 (which I believe to be #11). Scans provided by Joe Patrizio. Thanks, Joe!; --1 more issue John Owen's Shipyard Blues. Added issue 7 from Mar 1992, thereby completing the run. Scans provided by John Owen. Thanks, John!; --6 more issues of the SFSFS Shuttle, the clubzine of the South Florida Science Fiction Society. These were edited by Don Cochran and Francine Mullen in the early 90s. We've added issues 80, 81, 84, 86-88. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --added 1 issue of Roger Weddall's Thyme. Issue 31 (1984). Scan by Irwin Hirsh. Thanks Irwin!; Replaced 41 issues of Thyme with searchable PDFs. The issues replaced are 94-95, 97, 99-106, 130-136. OCR by Mark Olson. Thanks Mark!; We also put up part 2 of the Dick Smith interview with Bob Tucker from 2000. From the YouTube description: "Dick Smith's interview of Bob Tucker was done for Chicon 2000. Here in Part 2, the stories keep coming (and Bob is an excellent storyteller). Tucker talks about Claude Degler's first appearance in fandom and how Jack Speer (later Judge Speer) got into trouble. There's more about Chicon 1, how he learned about the internet and how fandom has changed in the preceeding 60 years. You'll even hear how Bob ended up joining the N3F after decades in fandom." See it at https://youtu.be/G_BHsu4dmPU Videography by Tom Veal.
July 11, 2020: --2 bits of ephemera from Bill Bowers and Bill Mallardi's Double Bill. There's a letter to artists, and D:B Jr aka "Things we Forgot to put in the Magazine, proper". Scans by Joe Siclari; --added John Kenny's FTL 1, from March 1989. You can find under Irish Publications in the Classic Index. That's a good place to start when you're looking for any fanzine. The Classic Index is at http://fanac.org/fanzines/Classic_Fanzines.html. FTL was scanned at Dublin 2019, and provided by Philippa Ryder. Thanks Philippa!; --1 more issue of Linda Bushyager's Karass. Well, we uploaded the "False Karass" that was distributed at Big Mac in 1976. Now it's really complete. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --1 more issue of the Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society's newsletter The MT Void, MT Void Vol. 39, No. 2, that was sent to us by Mark and Evelyn Leeper. Thanks guys!; --6 more issues of the SFSFS Shuttle, the clubzine of the South Florida Science Fiction Society. These are by various editors from the early 1990s. We've added issues 67, 71, 75-78. We also upgraded issue 73 to a new scan with a cover still intact. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --7 issues of John Owen's Shipyard Blues from the late 80s/early 90s. This is a new title for us. Contributors include Mary Gentle, Skel, Eric Mayer, Martyn Taylor, and more. Nice art! Scans provided by John Owen. Thanks John!; It's a YouTube day. We've put an interview with Bob Tucker from 2000 up on the YouTube channel. From the writeup: "Dick Smith's interview of Bob Tucker was done for Chicon 2000 (with videography by Tom Veal, chair of Chicon 2000!). In this low key conversation, Tucker tells wonderful stories about 60 years of fandom, from Chicon 1 in 1940, to his only stint as convention Artist Guest of Honor, to the origin of the Tucker Hotel, to Claude Degler and more. There's history. There's "smoothing". There are intriguing hints of stories not told. Here's your chance to sit down with a ghiant of fandom, and listen to Dick Smith draw out his stories of our fannish past." https://youtu.be/f27lWc3YW6s
July 7, 2020: --19 more issues of Roy Tackett's Dynatron. Uploaded today - issues 40-41, 43-44, 48-50, 52-60, 62-63, and 96. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --4 issues of H.T. McAdam's Fantopologist. Poetry, fiction, and topology. How utterly charming, and not recorded in Pavlat-Evans. My last topology class was in 1968, from the topologist immortalized in "Stress Analysis of a Strapless Evening Gown" as L.M.S.F.T. (Lee M. Sonneborn, fine topologist). He was very cool. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --7 more issues of Dan McPhail's Phantasy Press. Uploaded today - issues 8, 13, 21-22, 29, 50, and 59. Issue 8 comes from 1956 and issue 59 from 1980. Phantasy Press was a FAPAzine. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --6 more issues of the SFSFS Shuttle, the clubzine of the South Florida Science Fiction Society. These are by various editors from the late 1980s to the 90s. We've added issues 48, 50, 53, 103, 129, and 136. When Joe and I edited, it was a family affair. Issue 103 has a column by our then 13 year old son. I'm not sure what the statute of limitations is on egoboo, but I have to admit that reading the letter column for #103 is still very exciting and encouraging. Scans by Joe Siclari.
July 6, 2020: Thanks to Evelyn Leeper and Martin Moore Wooster for pointing out errors on the site. We will get them fixed.; Added 2 more pieces by Sam Moskowitz for his centenary. They are "A Canticle for P. Schuyler Miller" and "Peace and Olaf Stapledon". Both are in the Fanthologies, Collections and Festschrifts index and links can also be found on the FANAC homepage (http://fanac.org/ ). There's a centenary splash for SaM there, which will be up until the end of July. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --1 more issue of the TNFF's clubzine Tightbeam. This is the latest issue, issue 310. Tightbeam is edited by George Phillies and Jon Swartz, and was sent to us by George Phillies. Thanks George!; --8 more issues of the SFSFS Shuttle, the clubzine of the South Florida Science Fiction Society. These are by various editors from the 1990s to 2000s. We've added issues 118, 123, 131, 133, 135, 139, 148 and March 2005. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --1 more issue of John Berry's Pot Pourri. Issue 17 - Eney for TAFF. Pot Pourri is a core fanzine for us to scan. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --13 issues of Roy Tackett's Dynatron. Uploaded today - issues 16-18, 20-22, 24-25, 28, 30, 34, 37-38. Scans by Joe Siclari.
July 4, 2020: --10 more issues of the SFSFS Shuttle, the clubzine of the South Florida Science Fiction Society. These are by various editors from the 1990s. We've added issues 79, 85, 89-92, 102, 108, 111 and 116. Issue 116 has a sweet article "Remembering Robert Bloch" from Gerry Adair. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --added an errata sheet for issue V5#3 of Leland Sapiro's Riverside Quarterly. Scan provided by Kim Gibbs. Thanks Kim!; --1 more issue (the latest) of the Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society's newsletter The MT Void, MT Void Vol. 39, No. 1. This issue, as all others, provided by Mark and Evelyn Leeper. Thank you both!; --1 more issue of Terry Jeeves's Erg. Added issue 136 (Jan 1997), with scanning by Joe Siclari.; --10 issues of Roy Tackett's Dynatron. This is a new title for us, and we start with issues from the early 60s. There are more coming. Note that for issue 6, all we have is a cover. Articles and columns by Len Moffatt, Takumi Shibano, Bjo Trimble, Rick Sneary, and more. Scans by Joe Siclari.; I forgot to note the latest YouTube upload here. It's part 2 of the audio tape from IguanaCon on Fans to Pros, with Terry Carr, Richard Lupoff, Ted White, Robert Silverberg and Harlan Ellison. From the YouTube description: "More serious than part 1, this segment talks about becoming a writer, and provides straightforward, candid insights about selling in the field. There's less byplay but lots of good discussion. Note two things - the recording does not go to the end of the panel but stops abruptly (source material ends), and there is a section where members of the audience are speaking and you can't hear them on the recording. Please be patient - the responses from the panel are worth hearing." You can see it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea0yQouMrrU.
July 2, 2020: --1 more issue of Dale Speirs's Opuntia. This is the latest, issue #477. Thanks Dale!; --5 more issues of Leland Sapiro's Riverside Quarterly. Today's additons are V7#2-3, and V8#1-3 from the 1980s-1990s. We also have 2 issues of Sapiro's Sasquatch Saskatchewanian listed in the early 1970s in the same index page. These scans were provided by Kim Gibbs. So enjoy! Thanks Kim!; --9 more issues of the SFSFS Shuttle, the clubzine of the South Florida Science Fiction Society. These are all edited by Gerry Adair, from the late 80s-early 90s. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --2 issues of Mae Strelkov's Tink. This is spectacular hecto. Scans by Joe Siclari.
June 29, 2020: --replaced 21 issues of Thyme with searchable PDFs. Scans by Irwin Hirsh. Thanks Irwin!; --8 issues of Leland Sapiro's Riverside Quarterly. We've added V5#2-4, V6 entirely, and V7#1. Scans provided by Kim Gibbs. Thanks Kim! Riverside Quarterly is a core fanzine for us to scan.
June 28, 2020: Thanks to Dave Langford and to Sandra Bond for finding errors on the site (which are now being fixed). Everyone else is invited to do the same! Please do send a note to fanac@fanac.org if you see a typo or a mistake or something we should fix. If you sent corrections to convention photos, I apologize. Our photo software is creaaky and I'm looking for alternatives. If anyone out there is an expert on gallery software, please contact me.; --3 issues of Joe Hensley's Apollo from the early 40s. This is a new title for us. Issue 5 says it's dedicated to H.P. Lovecraft (and includes his street address). Scans by Joe Siclari.; --4 more issues of Destiny, co-edited by Malcolm Willits (always), Earl Kemp (some issues) and Jim Bradley (other issues). These are from the early 1950s. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --4 issues of the Geis Letter, by Richard E. Geis. Issues 19, 49-50 and 52 added. The Geis Letter shares an index page with "Richard E. Geis - Personal Journal", so look for these at the bottom of the index page. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --4 issues of John Foyster's The Gryphon. This title (new to us) is a continuation of his Satura (not here yet). Scans by Joe Siclari.; --A cover (alternate cover?) and inside back cover added to the LASFS Lovecraft Symposium. These were provided by Kim Gibbs. Thanks Kim!; --2 more issues of Mike Glyer's Prehensile. We've added issues 14-15. Issue 15 was the last one. Contributors include Mike Glicksohn, Don D'Ammassa, Terr Carr, Bill Rotsler, Marc Schirmeister and others. Prehensile is a core fanzine for us to scan. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --1 issue of Earl Kemp's Safari. This is issue 4 (Jan 1960) done for SAPS 50. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --7 more issues of the clubzine, SFSFS Shuttle. We've added issues with numbers under 100 by various editors. SFSFS = South Florida Science Fiction Society. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --1 more issue of Robert Lichtman's Trap Door. This is issue 7 with memories of Terry Carr. Scan by Joe Siclari.
June 27, 2020: Thanks to Dave Langford for spotting some minor errors on the site (which I've now fixed). Please do send a note to fanac@fanac.org if you see a typo or a mistake or something we should fix.; --7 fanzines and newsletter issues scanned last year at Dublin. Titles: Aphelion, Cortex, Darklands V3#3, Finger Cramps 1, Prototype 8, Sector 14 Convention Special, and Star Truck. You can find them in our list of Irish Fan Publications - http://fanac.org/fanzines/Irish_Fandom/. Zines provided by Philippa Ryder and scans at Dublin by Mark Olson.; --1 more issue of Don Wilson's Dream Quest . We've added issue 1 from 1947. Articles and reviews by Jack Speer, Rick Sneary, Joe Kennedy, Sam Moskowitz, Forry Ackerman and more. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --The Eastercon Speeches (Complete BoSh: vol2), published by Robert Jackson in 1979. I wish we had audio recordings of some/all of these. Also scanned at Dublin 2019 and also can be found at http://fanac.org/fanzines/Irish_Fandom/.; --2 issues of Al and Abby Lu Ashley's En Garde from 1942-1943. We've added issues 2 and 5. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --1 issue of F. T. Laney's Fan-Dango from 1948. We've added issue 17, with scan by Joe Siclari. Fan-Dango is a core fanzine for us to scan.; --Galah Performance, a trip report by John Berry published in 1982 by Taral. Scan at Dublin 2019.; --fanzines/Irish_Fandom/Irish_Fandom27.pdf Grecian Odd Essays by John Berry (2001). Scanned at Dublin 2019 by Mark Olson.; --A Fan's Christmas in Ireland, published by Tom Whitmore, this 1991 publication brings together the unique Christmas card fanzines that Walt and Madeline Willis would send out. Scanned at Dublin 2019 by Mark Olson.; --1 issue of Ted White's GAFIA newsheet from 1958. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --1 issue of the Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society's newsletter The MT Void, MT Void Vol. 38, No. 52, that was sent to us by Mark and Evelyn Leeper. Thank you both.; --5 more issues of Ken Slater's Operation Fantast. We've added 11-14, and 16. Operation Fantast is a core fanzine for us to scan. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --3 more issues of Jack Speer's Rambling, from 1939 and 1941. We added issues 5, 9 and 10. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --5 more issues of Leland Sapiro's Riverside Quarterly. We've added the 1st issue as well as V4#2-4 and V5#1. Riverside Quarterly is a core fanzine for us to scan. These scans were provided by Kim Gibbs, who saw the gaps in the run and volunteered to provide some issues. Thanks Kim! It's much appreciated.; --1 more issue of Lee Gold's Third Foundation. Issue 83 from July 1968 added today. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --1 more issue of Robert Lichtman's Trap Door. This is issue 8, from 1988 with contributions from Jeanne Gomoll, rich brown, Dan Steffan and Bill Rotsler among others. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --3 issues of James Blish's Tumbrils from 1945. These were issues in the Futurian apa - Vanguard APA. Tumbrils is a new title for us. Scan by Joe Siclari.; We also replaced issue #2 of Scienti-Comics, and Art Rapp's Spacewarp 85 with searchable PDFs.
June 25, 2020: --2 issues of Rob Hansen and Ted White's Crank. These two (issues 4-5) complete the run! Thanks go to Irwin Hirsh for the scans.; --9 more issues of John Owen's Crystal Ship, completing the run. We've added issues 8-15, and "The Last Ripples". Issue 11 is the William Morris issue. Scans provided by John Owen. Thanks John!; --2 issue of Roger Sims's Fantasy Scope - #1 from Apr 1950 and #2 from April 1992, completing the run. This fanzine has a 50 year publication history, but there were *ahem* some gaps. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --1 issue of Dean Grennel's Grue. We had only had the cover before, but Rob Hansen sent us this scan of the entire issue. Thanks Rob!; --4 more issues of Harry Warner Jr's FAPAzine, Horizons. These are issues 64, 85, 103 and 109. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --7 more issues of Thyme, with various editors, and one insert throwing someone off the mailling list. These are issues 70, 72-76, and 80.5. The insert comes from Roger Weddall from issue 21. Scans are courtesy of Irwin Hirsh. Thanks Irwin!; We also added 2 brief articles on Fan History by Rich Lynch, one on DC Fandom, and the other on early fandom. You can find them at http://fanac.org/Fan_Histories/. Material provided by Rich Lynch Thanks Rich!
June 24, 2020: --9 more issues of Ken Slater's Operation Fantast. These are issues of the New Series, from #1 in July 1949 to #15 in 1953. There's also an Operation Fantast Handbook from 1951. Operation Fantast is a core fanzine for us to scan. Operation Fantast was one of the zines that connected Walt Willis to fandom outside of Ireland, and motivated him to pub his ish. So very cool to have it here. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --1 more issue of Mike Glyer's Prehensile. Issue 4 from Jun 1972, with scan by Joe Siclari. Thish has not a TOC, but a "Table of Malcontents". Prehensile is a core fanzine for us to scan.; --3 issues of Dale Tarr's The Science Fiction World from the mid 1940s. This is a new title for us. It lasted 4 issues according to Pavlat-Evans. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --1 more issue of Ethel Lindsay's Scottishe. This is issue 40 from Apr 1966. Scottishe is a core fanzine for us to scan. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --3 satires of Thyme by various people from 1988. These are Thyming, Time Out and Why Me 69. Scans provided by Irwin Hirsh. What happened in Australian fandom in 1988? We also replaced two issues with searchable PDFs. Thanks Irwin!; --7 more issues of NFFFs Tightbeam with various editors, plus one supplemental issue (with strange numbering). We've added issues from the mid 70s, and finished adding pages to each issue. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --1 issue of Guy Lillian's Zine Dump. This is issue 48 from April. Thanks Guy!; We've added another 16 photos, this time taken by Kim Huett. There are 10 from the 1997 Corflu and 6 from 1996 Seattle fandom. Thanks Kim! Ok, and we've also added another 35 or so from the 1958 Solacon. These are from the Elinor Busby collection, and scanned by Linda Deneroff. You can find them at Buz and Elinor Busby Photo Album. Thanks Elinor and Linda!
June 21, 2020: George Phillies sent us a PDFs of June 2020's issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's The National Fantasy Fan. Thanks George.; --2 more DUFF reports, albeit for one DUFF trip. Added "Duffbury Tales by Marty Cantor, and "Tales of Duffbury" by Robbie Cantor, both from 1987. They were published together, Ace Double style. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --2 more issues (the last two) of Leybl Botwinik's CyberCozen. These are the May and June issues. Thanks Leybl!; --1 more (the latest) issue of the Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society's newsletter The MT Void, MT Void Vol. 38, No. 51, sent to us by Mark and Evelyn Leeper. Thank you guys!; --1 more issue of Rich Lynch's My Back Pages. This is issue 24, hot off the word processor. Thanks Rich!; --5 more issues of NFFFs Tightbeam, these edited by Chuck Rutherford and Frank Denton. We've added issues 66-70. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --the one and only issue of Vector, edited by Harlan Ellison and Jim Schreiber from Dec 1952. Very early Ellison fiction. Scan by Joe Siclari.; Also added a PDF version of issues 5 and 6 of Jeanne Gomoll's Taffiles. Thanks to Jeanne for sending!; We also replaced Leigh Edmond's DUFF Report (1974), Emu Tracks over America with a searchable PDF. Scan/OCR by Joe Siclari.; We've added another 25 photos from Elinor Busby's collection, scanned by Linda Deneroff. These are from around 1957-1958, and there are photos of Bob Bloch and the Andersons among others. You can see them in the Busby photo album. More to come! Thanks Linda and Elinor!
June 20, 2020: --1 more issue of Ted White's egoscan. This completes the run. The scan was provided by Irwin Hirsh who noticed the gap and kindly filled it. Thank you Irwin! Hey, if anyone else sees a gap in a fanzine run on Fanac.org that they can fill, please do. We really appreciate it.; --7 more issues of Marty (and Robbie) Cantor's Holier Than Thou. We've added issues 1, 3, 7, 9, 23, 26-27. Scans by Joe Siclari. Issue 26 is the Terry Carr Memorial issue.; --1 more artistic fannish calendar. This one is designed by Dave McKane, for 1992 from ISFA, the Irish Science Fiction Association. You can find it in Calendars.; --3 issues of The National Fantasy Fan from 1950. These are issues from Volume 9 (!). Scans by Joe Siclari.; --1 new issue of Dale Speirs's perzine Opuntia. Dale sent us a PDF of issue #476 (3.6 MB). Thanks Dale.; --3 Rotsler Artzines, including two Tatooed Dragons. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --both Safari Annuals by Earl and Nancy Kemp. From 1960-1961, and starting with surveys and questionnaires, thesse are "Who Killed Science Fiction" and "Why is a Fan". Scans provided by Tom Whitmore. Thanks Tom!; --7 issues of NFFFs Tightbeam. We've added the January 1974 issue (Don Markstein), and from 1979-1981, 18, 21-22, 24-25, and 30 (Lynn Holdom). Scans by Joe Siclari.
June 18, 2020: --1 more issue of Charles Platt's Beyond. This is issue 6 (Jul 1964). Scan provided by Rob Hansen. Thanks Rob!; --the 1 and only issue of John Foyster's Emanation. This 80 page zine has contributions from Donald Tuck, Nigel Jackson, and John Baxter. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --2 issues of Ted White's perzine The Gafiate's Intelligencer, one from 1973 and the other from 1983. Creative numbering. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --3 issues of The Green Dragon from 1968-9. This was the newzine of the Tolkien Society of America, edited by Ed Meskys. Scans are by Joe Siclari.; --2 issues of Maura McHugh's Ogham from 1997. They were provided by Philippa Ryder and scanned at Dublin 2019. Thanks Philippa!; --1 more of Guy Lillian's Spartacus. Issue 37, and this was provided by George Phillies. Thanks George!; And a treat for the musically inclined. We've added the script for "HMS Trek-a-Star'. This was done in 1967, primarily by Karen and Astrid Anderson and Dorothy Jones, but with help from Poul Anderson, Jerry Jacks and others. It's under Musicals at http://fanac.org/fanzines/Musicals/; We also replaced Fanews Analyzer #2 (Cosmic Circle) with a searchable PDF.
June 16, 2020: We've added Kim Huett and Leigh Edmond's 76 page just completed database of Australian of Australian Fanzines from 1939-1975. What a great addition to the serious researcher (and also to the interested dilettantes). Thanks Kim! You all can find it under Bibliographies at http://fanac.org/Fannish_Reference_Works/Bibliographies/BIBLIO.HTM; --3 issues of a new-to-us title, Ron Christiansen's The Grotesque. These date from 1946, and were scanned by Joe Siclari.; --1 more issue of Ethel Lindsay's reviewzine, Haverings. We've added issue 16 from August 1962. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; --2 more issues of John D. Berry's Hitchhike. Today, we've uploaded issues 25 and 27 from 1975-76. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --7 more issues of Harry Warner Jr's Horizons. Uploaded are issues 161-163, 172, 191, 225 and 243. We also uploaded a searchable PDF for issue 69. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --3 more issues of Lan Laskowski's Lan's Lantern. We've added issues 18-19 and 22. Lan's Lantern is a core fanzine for us to scan. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --1 more issue of the Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society's newsletter The MT Void, MT Void Vol. 38, No. 50, sent to us by Mark and Evelyn Leeper. Thank you both!; --10 issues of NFFFs Tightbeam with various editors. We've added issues 61-62, 64-65, and 71-76. Scans by Joe Siclari. We've also added the latest issue, #309, from George Phillies. Thanks George!; We also replaced issue 6 (1940) of Sam Moskowitz's New Fandom with a searchable PDF.
June 14, 2020: We've changed the name of the "Fanthologies" page to "Fanthologies, Collections and Festschrifts". Today we added "In Memoriam - H.G. Wells", from 1946 by Forry Ackerman and Arthur Joquel. Scanning by Rob Hansen. Thanks Rob! We also added the "Fanthology Index - 1986-1990" by Don Fitch, with scanning by Joe Siclari. It's at http://fanac.org/fanzines/Fanthologies/; --2 more issues of Terry Jeeves's Erg. Uploaded are issues 50 (Apr 74) and 143 (Oct 98). Scan of issue 50 by Joe Siclari, and of issue 143 by Rich Lynch. Thanks!; --9 more issues of Harry Warner Jr's Horizons. Uploaded are issues 115-116, 118, 120, 122, 124, 146-147 and 158. These range from 1968 to 1979. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --2 more issues of Rich and Nicki Lynch's Mimosa. These are issues 11 (Dec 91) and 13 (Jan 93). Scans provided by Rich Lynch. Thanks Rich!; --9 more of issues of Thyme, the Australian newszine, with various editors. These are issues 60-64, 66-69 from 1986 - 1988. Scans provided by Irwin Hirsh. Thanks Irwin!; --9 issues of NFFFs Tightbeam with various editors. We've added issues 44, 46-47, 50, 54-56, and 58-59. Scans by Joe Siclari. I'm starting to add the number of pages in each issue to this index, so bear with me as it will be incomplete for a while.; --2 more issues of Robert Lichtman's Trap Door. We've added issues 5 and 6 from the mid 1980s. Contributors include Mal Ashworth, Redd Boggs, Harry Warner Jr., Charles Burbee, Terry Carr, Dave Langford and others. Scans by Joe Siclari.
June 12, 2020: --15 more issues of Harry Warner Jr's Horizons. Uploaded are issues 34-35, 38, 66, 82, 86, 89, 91-92, 102, 104-107 and 111. These range from the 1940s to 1967. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --17 more of Peter Burns and Roger Weddall's issues of Thyme, the Australian newszine. These range from issue 41 in 1984 to issue 59 in 1986. Scans provided by Irwin Hirsh. Thanks Irwin!; --3 issues of NFFFs Tightbeam with various editors. Issues 19, 29 and 34. Scans by Joe Siclari. I'm starting to add the number of pages in each issue to this index, so bear with me as it will be incomplete for a while.
June 11, 2020: First, apologies for failing to credit Terry Carr in the title and description of the last YouTube upload. He was listed in the titles within the piece and this was a pure proof-reading screwup on my part. I fixed it now. YouTube restricts us to 100 characters for the titles, so if you see crappy spacing and shortforms in the titles, that's why.; Second, fanzines:; --13 more issues of Roger Weddall's Australian newszine, Thyme from the early to mid 80s. We put up issues 19, 23, 25.5, 30, and 32-39. While Thyme has had multiple editors, these issues were all done by Roger. Peter Burns was the interim editor on issues 36-39 (actually through 42). The issues were scanned by Irwin Hirsh. Thanks Irwin!; --8 more issues of the NFFF's Tightbeam. These range from the 1970s to very recent. The numbering went chaotic in the 1970s. There were unnumbered issues, restarted numbering, and apparently an estimate of the number that should have pertained with a consequent move to that scheme. If anyone has the specifics, please let me know and I'll put it in the preamble to the index as well as make sure it gets into Fancyclopedia.org. These are provided by the NFFF, via president George Phillies. Thanks George!; --9 issues of Ted White's newszine Gambit from the late 50s to the mid 60s. We've added issues 26-31, 44, 47 and 52. Scans by Joe Siclari.
June 9, 2020: --3 more issues of Ethel Lindsay's reviewzine Haverings. Issues 29,31 and 56 on the list now. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --1 more issue of John D. Berry's Hitchike. Issue 26 added to the list. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --4 more issues of Marty Cantor's Holier Than Thou. Issues 2, 4, 11 and 15 added to the list now. Scans by Joe Siclari.; It's a YouTube day (well, yesterday was). Today's upload is an audio recording, enhanced with images, of a very entertaining Fan to Pros panel at Iguanacon (1978). Harlan Ellison and Bob Silverberg along with Dick Lupoff and Ted White, talk about the topic but it's the sidebars that make it really fun. From the writeup: " It's clear that the participants are old friends, with the combination of sharp wit and long familiarity. There are multilingual puns, sincere stories of friends that helped them become professionals, tales of writerly poverty, editorial benevolence and malevolence, and a ready acknowledgement (in detail!) of how fandom helped these writers become professionals in the field. Well worth listening to for both the content and the occasional conversational gymnastics. " https://youtu.be/WhyqRXuCWHE
June 7, 2020: --10 more issues of Lan Laskowski's Lan's Lantern. We've added issues 11-17, 29, 33-34. Check out the notes on these issues - there are special issues dedicated to Heinlein, Norton, Temple, Simak and others. Lan's Lantern is a core fanzine for us to scan. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --2 more issues of Robert Lichtman's Trap Door. We've added issues 4 and 27. Trap Door is a core fanzine for us to scan. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --8 more issues of Buck and Juanita Coulson's Yandro. Today's additions - 163, 174-175, 178-179, 231, 236, and 243. Yandro is a core fanzine for us to scan. Scans by Joe Siclari.
June 6, 2020: --13 more issues of Ethel Lindsay's reviewzine Haverings. These run from 1961 to 1968. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --13 more issues of Rich Lynch's My Back Pages. This zine collects Rich's previously published articles in one place. Scans provided by Rich Lynch. Thanks Rich!; --18 more issues of Buck and Juanita Coulson's Yandro. The issues added were from the mid 60s-1980. Yandro is a core fanzine for us to scan. Scans by Joe Siclari.
June 5, 2020: We're happy to continue the birthday for Bob Madle by adding 7 more issues of Fantascience Digest, and replacing 2 others with searchable PDFs. Some of these scans were made from photocopies. I suspect you can tell the difference between the hecto and the copies. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --7 issues of a new title for us - John Owen's Crystal Ship. John has sent us scans of issues 1-7 from 1977-1983. You'll find contributions from Mary Gentle, Joseph Nicholas, Kate and Anna McGarrigle and more. Thanks John!; --1 issue of Dick Wilson's Escape from Jan 1940. This was the last issue. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --12 issues of Lan Laskowski's Lan's Lantern from the first issue in 1976 to the double issue (#24) in Nov 1987. Several of these issues are dedicated to a specific writer. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --5 issues of a new title for us - Rich Lynch's My Back Pages. This zine collects Rich's previously published articles in one place. Scans provided by Rich Lynch. Thanks Rich!
June 2, 2020: Happy Birthday on June 2 to Bob Madle, who reaches triple digits. If you have been to Fanac.org, you'll have seen our splash page which gives pointers to the audio and video we have of Bob, as well as links to the fanzines he edited in the 1930s. Happy Birthday, Bob!; We've added 5 issues of Fantasy Fiction Telegram, Bob's fanzine of the mid 30s. The run is now complete! These scans were provided by David Ritter in timely celebration. Thanks David!; Also..the latest Opuntia from Dale Speirs (along with an updated index), and the latest Ionisphere from John Thiel and the NFFF
May 30, 2020: --6 issues of Gannetscrapbook, a fanzine published by some of the folks of "Gannet Fandom". This was published in the 1970s and had various editors. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --12 regular issues of Dean Grennell's Grue, along with a Gruesome Zombie (one-shot with Bob Tucker) and a Grue "NN". We also replaced issue 27 with a searchable PDF. From issue 23: James Blish, Chuck Harris, Jack Speer (reprint), Gerry Kincannon, Bob Tucker, Mal Ashworth, Es and Les Cole, Harlan Ellison, Andy and Jean Young, Robert Bloch, Bob Silverberg, and Redd Boggs. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --3 more issues of Geis Letter, from March-April 1998. I also moved one to this index rather than the SF Review index. Scans by Joe Siclari.
May 28, 2020: Thanks to Paul Fraser for pointing out a readability issue with Vector 72. We've uploaded a new version which hopefully will be more readable.; --3 bibliographies of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Two were done by Dick Spelman in the 1970s as references for pubs by Arkham House, Avalon and a few others. The 3rd was done by Al Lewis for the 1962 science fiction magazines. You'll find them in our reference section under Bibliographic Publications: http://fanac.org/Fannish_Reference_Works/; --1 issue of Bernard Cook's newszine Fan-Newsie from Jan 1960. Featured story - "LASFS CELEBRATES 25th ANNIVERSARY; VAN VOGT, ROBERT BLOCH SPEAK". Scan by Joe Siclari.; --2 issues of Harold Cheney's Fantasy Aspects, a reprint zine sponsored by the NFFF. These 1947 issues promise they are "presenting the best from the current fan publishing field". Pavlat-Evans doesn't report any issues past 2, so this may be the complete run. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --2 issues of Science Fiction International's Interim Newsletter from 1950. Various editors, scanned by Joe Siclari.; --2 issues of Don Allen's Satellite. This is from the UK and the late 1950s. Contributors include Vince Clarke, Mike Moorcock, Michel Boulet and others. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --13 issues of Guy Lillian's perzine Spartacus. These issues are from 2014-2020. Issue 32 has a sweet and heartfelt obituary for Patti Green, wife of writer Joe Green. Patti was a wonderful human being, and taught me that the trick to hosting a houseful of people is to boil enough eggs. That sure worked for the neverending stream of fans camping out at the Greenhouse before launches at Cape Kennedy. Thanks, Guy, for sending these.
May 25, 2020: --1 issue of Charles Platt's Beyond from 1964. Scanning by Rob Hansen. Thanks to Rob, we also have a con card for Beyond. Hooray for ephemera! Thanks Rob!; --2 interesting filkish items. First we have a 1945 piece by James Blish and Cyril Kornbluth. Scan by Joe Siclari. Next, a 2017 revision of Some Filk Terms and Songs that Every Fan Should Know, 2017 revision by Erwin "Filthy Pierre" Strauss. Scan by Filthy Pierre. You can find them here - http://fanac.org/fanzines/Filk/. One more item, more properly found in the Musicals index. We've added the Playbill for The Dublin 2019 production of The Enchanted Duplicator, courtesy of Filthy Pierre. It's under Musicals at http://fanac.org/fanzines/Musicals/.; --2 items from Richard E. Geis. One is a "Controversy in Review" and the other a "Geis Letter". Both are in the index for Richard E. Geis Personal Journal. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --1 issue of Charles Platt's Garbistan from 1964. Scanning by Rob Hansen. Thanks, Rob!; --1 issue of Bruce Pelz's I Palantir, which Fancyclopedia lists as the first Tolkien fanzine. This is issue 3 (Apr 1964). I Palantir was published as a clubzine by The Fellowship of the Ring, Scan by Joe Siclari.; --2 issue of Rich and Nicki Lynch's Mimosa. Rich has scanned issues 20 and 22 for us, from 1997-1998. Michael Burstein, Sharon Farber, Dean Grennell, Dave Kyle, John Berry, Walt Willis.... Mimosa is a core fanzine for us to scan. Mike Resnick, Ian Gunn, Dave Kyle, Forry Ackerman, Curt Phillips...Thanks Rich!; --8 more issues of Pete Weston's Relapse (the fanzine formerly known as Prolapse). They're tucked into the Prolapse directory and range from 2009-2013. There's always a fan history focus here. Provided and and scanned by Joe Patrizio. Thanks Joe!; --1 issue of Rune, the clubzine of The Minnesota Science Fiction Society. Thish is 86, edited by Jeff Schalles from March 2002, and is dedicated to Scott Imes (appearing a few months after his death). Scan by Rich Lynch. Thanks Rich!; --1 issue of the SFSFS Shuttle, the clubzine of the South Florida Science Fiction Society. This is 147, edited by Cynthia Warmuth, from April 2002. Scan by Rich Lynch (who must have reached 2002 in his files). Thanks Rich!; We've also added Filthy Pierre's "Con Committee's Guide". This was published for ConCon in 1984, aka the first SMOFcon. It's in a small section on Convention Running at http://fanac.org/Conventions/. Scanning by Filthy Pierre. Thanks!; And finally, for those that want to dig deep into fan history, we've added one of the pamphlets published in 1938 by the CPASF - Committee for the Political Advancement of Science Fiction. "THE SPEECHES BY DONALD A. WOLLHEIM AND JOHN B. MICHEL. SUPPRESSED BY THE COMMITTEE OF THE NEWARK CONVENTION". Scan by Joe Siclari.
May 23, 2020: Thanks to the scanning of Linda Deneroff, we're putting up photos from Elinor Busby's collection. Today, we've added the first 16 and these are from the 1958 Solacon, and parties thereafter. Find them at http://fanac.org/Fan_Photo_Album/b03-p00.html . There are more to come. Thanks to Linda for scanning and to Elinor for providing the photos. It's a real treat to see these.; --7 issues of a Dianetics fanzine from the 50s, Aberree, by Alphia Hart (?) with the "POLICY—Don’t take it so damn’ seriously". I believe we came to have these from a friend now passed whose father was an early devotee. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --1 issue of Gavin Brown's Cosmos Bulletin, done for the International SF Correspondence Club. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --3 issues of a different En Garde. This one, from Richard Schultz in the 1960s was dedicated to the TV show, The Avengers. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --2 issues of Roger Sims's Fantasy-Scope from 1996-2000, including an account by Pat Sims of their African adventure. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --1 issue of Rich and Nicki Lynch's Mimosa. This is issue 17 from 1995. Michael Burstein, Sharon Farber, Dean Grennell, Dave Kyle, John Berry, Walt Willis.... Mimosa is a core fanzine for us to scan. Scan by Rich Lynch. Thanks Rich!; --3 issues of Mike Glicksohn/Susan Wood's Energumen. We've added issues 2, 6 and 10, with scans by Joe Siclari. Energumen is a core fanzine for us to scan.; --1 issue (our first) of Lan Laskowski's Lan's Lantern. Issue 28 from 1988, with scan by Joe Siclari. Lan's Lantern is a core fanzine for us to scan.; --1 issue (the latest issue) of the Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society's newsletter The MT Void, MT Void Vol. 38, No. 47, that was sent to us by Mark and Evelyn Leeper. Thank you both.; --1 issue, actually the 1st issue, of George Charters's The Scarr (April 1963). Scan by Joe Siclari. Bob Shaw, Ian McCauley, John Berry.; --2 more issues of Vector, the Critical Journal of the British Science Fiction Association. These are issues 55, 56 along with a couple of review supplements for issues 84 and 96. Scans this time by Joe Siclari.; Also added Dick Eney's FANCYCLOPEDigest(1968) and The Rejected Canon(1962). FANCYCLOPEDigest is a shorter "guide to some of the folkways of of science fiction and fantasy fandom." The Rejected Canon is a reprint of all the parts of Fancy 1 that were not carried over into Fancy 2. Find them both, along with Fancy 1 and 2 at http://www.fanac.org/Fannish_Reference_Works/Fancyclopedia/. Scans by Joe Siclari.
May 18, 2020: --1 issue (the latest, May issue) of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's The National Fantasy Fan. George Phillies sent it to us. Thanks George!; --10 issues of Pete Weston's Prolapse, these issues from 2006-2008. A genzine with a fanhistory bent, from an accomplished fan and faned. Prolapse won a Nova Award in 2007 and 2008, so these are some of the issues that were honored. Read a brief bio of Pete at Fancyclopedia - http://fancyclopedia.org/Peter_Weston. Scans by Joe Patrizio. Thanks Joe!; --issue 1 of Joseph Gilbert and Art Sehnert's The Southern Star from Feb 1941. Issue 1 has Robert W. Lowndes, Erle Korshak, Harry Warner Jr, "Southern Fans" and more. Scan by Joe Siclari.
May 17, 2020: --3 issues of Terry Jeeves's Erg. We've added issues 155-157 from 2001-2002. Scan by Rich Lynch. Thanks Rich!; --1 issue of Fables of Irish Fandom, edited by John Berry and Ken Cheslin. This one is from 1999 - Tales of Oblique House. Provided and scanned by Rich Lynch. Thanks Rich!; --1 (and only) issue of James P. Rathbone's Macabre from 1939. Pavlat-Evans is a little snide about this, quoting under the title "...first issue just out" —”Futurian II 6, Aut 39”. Provided and scanned by Rob Hansen. Thanks Rob!; --1 issue of Rich and Nicki Lynch's Mimosa. Today's upload is issue 5 from 1988. Mimosa is a core fanzine for us to scan. Scan by Rich Lynch.; --1 issue of the Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society's newsletter The MT Void, MT Void Vol. 38, No. 46, that was sent to us by Mark and Evelyn Leeper. Thank you both; --1 issue (the latest issue) of Dale Speirs's perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.; --6 issues of Vector, the Critical Journal of the British Science Fiction Association. These are issues: 220-225, running from 2001-2002 and edited by Tony Cullen. Vector is a core fanzine for us to scan. Thanks to Allen Stroud, Alex Bardy and Polina Levontin and the BSFA for their scans.; --3 issues of the WSFA Journal, from 2001-2002 (December - March), edited by Samuel Lubell. Scans by Rich Lynch. Thanks Rich!
May 14, 2020: --1 issue of Graham England's Don't Panic. Added issue 1 from 1978 and also replaced issue 2 with a searchable PDF. Scan and OCR by Joe Siclari.; --8 issues of Ted White's FAPAzine Null-F from the 50s to the 60s.; --1 issue of Don Miller's Son of WSFA Journal, this one being issue 4 from Jan 1970. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --15 issues of Vector, the Critical Journal of the British Science Fiction Association. These are issues: 205-219, running from 1999-2001 and edited by Tony Cullen. Vector is a core fanzine for us to scan. Thanks to Allen Stroud, Alex Bardy and Polina Levontin and the BSFA for their scans.; Replaced about 25 issues of Luna Monthly with searchable PDFs. OCR by Joe Siclari.
May 10, 2020: --2 issues of Jim Caughran's OMPAzine A L'Abandon from 1958-1960. Scan by Mark Olson.; --2 issues of rich brown's beardmutterings. We've added issue 2 (1972) and issue 4 (1983). Scan by Joe Siclari.; --The Double Bill Symposium, "being 94 replies to 'A Questionnaire For Professional Science Fiction Writers and Editors' as Created by: LLOYD BIGGLE, JR." . Put out by Bill Bowers and Bill Mallardi, of Double Bill. Scan by Joe Siclari. Double Bill is a core fanzine for us to scan.; --2 issues of Miriam Dyches's Goojie Pubs. These all have different names, and we have uploaded Moor Park (#2) and Uneven (#3). This is a core fanzine for us to scan.; --1 issue of Ken Slater's Operation Fantast. This is the convention report issue from 1948, all about the London convention at Whitsuntide. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --1 issue of John Berry's Pot Pourri. Issue 13 from 1960. This is a core fanzine for us to scan. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --1 issue of the eponymous Richard E. Geis. Issue 1 from 1972 uploaded today with scan by Joe Siclari. This is listed in the Science Fiction Review index and is a core fanzine for us to scan.; --1 issue of George Charter's The Scarr. Issue 8 from 1965 today, with scanning by Joe Siclari.; --The Ted White Sampler, edited by Arnie Katz. Collection of Ted White articles with art by Ross Chamberlain, Bill Kunkel, Bill Rotsler and ATom. Scan by Mark Olson. Thanks Mark!; --10 issues of Vector, the Critical Journal of the British Science Fiction Association. These are issues: 190-199, running from 1996-1998 and edited by Tony Cullen. Vector is a core fanzine for us to scan. Thanks to Allen Stroud, Alex Bardy and Polina Levontin and the BSFA for their scans.; Trip and Convention Reports: Added Ken Slater's Consomme report from 1953. Trip and conreports not related to fan funds can be found at http://fanac.org/fanzines/Trip_and_Con_Reports/.
May 6, 2020: --2 of the 2 volumes of Ken Cheslin's The Adventures of Hemlock Soames. Scanned at Boskone 2020.; --BoSH Goes South, "a collection of Bob Shaw's fan writing for his friends in the South and transcripts of his GoH speeches at southern cons...". I would really really like to get a serious scientific talk recording to put on YouTube. Does anyone have one that we can digitize?; --Hektograph! from Geri Sullivan, 1989 - Corflu 6. With articles by Walt Willis and Andy Hooper. Scanned at Boskone 2020.; --1 issue of Marty Cantor's Holier Than Thou. This is issue 10 from April 1981.; --1 issue of Mike Glyer's Organlegger. Issue 7 from August 1973. Scan by Mark Olson.; --2 con/trip reports. We started a directory for non-Fan Fund Trip and Con reports. Here we begin with Chuck Harris's 1957 Lonconfidential and Walt Willis's 1989 The Enchantment. The Enchantment was up before Irish Publications, and we've now replaced it with a searchable PDF. Both of these can also be found by links in the Irish Publications directory.; --10 issues of Vector, the Critical Journal of the British Science Fiction Association. These are issues: 180-189, including a 32 page supplemental review issue for 188. There were various editors on these, and they span from 1993-1996. Vector is a core fanzine for us to scan. Thanks to Allen Stroud, Alex Bardy and Polina Levontin and the BSFA for their scans.; --Xero fun. We've uploaded a special ToC from issue 9, "Special Edition Fanoclasts Pre-Chicon Welcome Party" with some choice autographs. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --1 issue of Zimri, well at least one supplemental issue. We've uploaded the Issue 8 supplement, which now completes the run. Scan by Joe Siclari.; We've also replaced 9 issues of Ray Fisher and Richard Elsberry's Odd with searchable PDFs as well as a couple of the Goon Defective Agency publications. OCR by Joe Siclari.
May 5, 2020: Thanks to those that told us about corrections needed: Sandra Bond, Jerry Kaufman, and Mark Olson.; --1 issue (of 2) of Robert L. Stein's Astronaut from 1947. Contributions by R. L. Farnsworth, Rick Sneary, and George Wetzel.; --3 issues of Gerry de la Ree's Sun Spots. Issues 25, 27 and 28 from the mid 1940s. Two of these were scanned by Joe Siclari and one by Mark Olson. Thanks guys!; --1 issue of Tightbeam. Edited by George Phillies and Jon Swartz, and sent by George Philies, we have issue 308. Tightbeam, is the clubzine of the NFFF. Thanks George!; --1 issue of Van Houten Says. This one is from 1940 and is the 5 page 4th annish. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --10 issues of Vector, the Critical Journal of the British Science Fiction Association. These are issues: 170-179, edited by Catie Cary, from the early 1990s. We also have a new and improved issue 138, thanks to Thomas Hartl, who spotted the fact that our 138 was actually 137. The correct Vector is now up. Thanks Thomas! Vector is a core fanzine for us to scan. Thanks to Allen Stroud, Alex Bardy and Polina Levontin and the BSFA for their scans.; --7 trip reports added from the 1960s-1970s. These are reports of fan fund trips. We've added "Mae Strelkov Trip Report", "Colonial Excursion", "Epitaff", "The Lindsay Report", "A Fake Fan in London" (PDF replacement), "A Squirrel's Tale", and "Parker's Peregrinations". The last is also titled "The Harpy Stateside". You can see them in the trip report index we're building at: http://fanac.org/fanzines/TripReports/ . Mark Olson scanned the Mae Strelkov trip report and the others were scanned by Joe Siclari.
May 3, 2020: Thanks to those that wrote to correct the panelist names in the Le Guin video. My apologies - if I'd been thinking I would have checked with Australian fans before I posted it to get the correct spellings. As it was, I just transcribed what I heard. The names are now corrected in the YouTube description.; --1 issue of Mike Glicksohn's Energumen. We've added the last issue, issue 16. Contributors include Susan Wood, Ted White, Dave Locke, Gene Wolfe, Joe Haldeman, Dave Langford and more. Energumen is a core zine for us to scan. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --1 issue of the Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society's newsletter The MT Void, MT Void Vol. 38, No. 44, was sent to us by Mark and Evelyn Leeper. Thank you both.; --1 issue of Shangri-L'Affaires. This is issue 1, 3rd series, edited by RDE Conway, but it comes right after issue 71 (?). We've also added an alternate cover for issue 38. Additionally, we added an art supplement for Three Hearts and Three Lions. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --5 issues of Art Rapp's Spacewarp. These include issues 17, 128, and 3 unnumbered issues (I couldn't find numbers) of which 2 are Spacewarp by Proxy. These short zines were done while Art was in Korea - but he made it into SAPS. This is a core fanzine for us to scan. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --10 issues of Vector, the Critical Journal of the British Science Fiction Association. These are issues: 160-169. Issue 160 was edited by Kev McVeigh and Boyd Parkinson. Issues 161-165 were edited by Kev McVeigh and Catie Cary, and the remaining issues by Catie Cariy alone. These are from from the early 1990s. Vector is a core fanzine for us to scan. Thanks to Allen Stroud, Alex Bardy and Polina Levontin and the BSFA for their scans.; We replaced ATOM - A Tribute, with a searchable PDF. OCR by Mark Olson. Also we replaced both Laney's ASI and Elinor Busby's People index to ASI with searchable PDFs. You can find them at http://fanac.org/fanzines/Ah_Sweet_Idiocy/. OCR by Joe Siclari.
May 2, 2020: Under our history section (http://fanac.org/Fan_Histories/ ), we've added a couple of items. First, we have Sam Moskowitz's The Immortal Storm, published in Nov 1951. I hope you all have read it already, but here you have it on hand and searchable. In a real way, this is our joint origin story. Scan by Joe Siclari.; Also:; --1 issue of Leybl Botwinik's CyberCozen. We added the April 2020 issue. Thanks Leybl!; --4 issues of Bob Tucker's e-Zombie. These are 2 and 3 page issues from the early 00's. From hecto to ezines. Smooth. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Our first 2 issues of Marty and Robbie Cantor's Holier Than Thou. This fanzine was nominated for 3 Best Fanzine Hugos. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --2 issues of Rich and Nicki Lynch's Mimosa. These are issues 7 (Dec 1989) and 16 (Dec 1994). Bylines include Dave Kyle, Skel, Mike Resnick, Vince Clarke, and Roger Sims. Mimosa is a core fanzine for us to scan. Scans for Mimosa are by Rich Lynch. Thanks Rich!; --3 issues of Don D'Ammassa's Mythologies. With the addition of issues 1, 2 and 3 we've completed the run. Mythologies is a core fanzine for us to scan. Scanning at Boskone 2020.; --10 issues of Vector, the Critical Journal of the British Science Fiction Association. These are issues: 150-159. One issue was edited by David Barrett, and the rest were edited by Boyd Parkinson and Kev McVeigh. They run from 1989-1991. Vector is a core fanzine for us to scan. Thanks to Allen Stroud, Alex Bardy and Polina Levontin and the BSFA for their scans.; We also have added two other histories, one on fandom in Argentina (by Claudio Omar Noguerol) and the other on fandom in Poland (by Krzysztof Papierkowski, translated by Aleksandra Marczynska). These were provided by Rich Lynch. Thanks Rich!
May 1, 2020: Dale Speirs sent us a PDF of issue #473 (5.2 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
April 29, 2020: --10 issues of Vector, the Critical Journal of the British Science Fiction Association. These are issues: 140-149. These issues were edited by David Barrett. They run from 1987-1989. Vector is a core fanzine for us to scan. Thanks to Allen Stroud, Alex Bardy and Polina Levontin and the BSFA for their scans.; --1 issue of Robert Lichtman's Trap Door (issue 3). We also replaced the cover on issue 2. The previous one was stained. Trap Door is a core zine for us to scan. Thanks to Robert for the cover, and Joe Siclari for the scan.; --2 issues of Buck and Juanita Coulson's Yandro. Issues 237 and 239 from the mid 1970s.; --5 issues of Zimri, edited by Lisa Conesa from the early 1970s. We added issue 1-2, 4-5 (and yes that is 5 issues). These were scanned by Mark Olson at Boskone 2020. Sorry, I can't recall who brought them. Whoever you are, thanks!; Replaced Fred Hurter's Censored, issues 2, 4 and 5 with searchable PDFs. OCR by Joe Siclari.; We've uploaded 2 memorial pieces today, both of which were scanned at Boskone. Look in the Fanthologies index for "Califania", the autobiography of Len Moffatt, and for "Henry Kuttner, A Memorial Symposium". The latter was edited by Karen Anderson and includes contributions by Poul, Fritz Leiber, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Tony Boucher, Bob Bloch and an evocative poem by Karen. I believe the poem was published in F&SF as well. The cover is like unto the Astounding cover for The Fairy Chessman. *sigh*
April 28, 2020: --6 issues of Aurora, Specualative Feminism from the 1980s. Aurora is the successor to Janus. Editors are Diane Martin, Janice Bogstad and Jeanne Gomoll. Provided by Janice Bogstand and Jeanne Gomoll. Thanks!; --30 issues of Leslie Croutch's Light, ranging from issue 133 (Winter 1944) to issue 68 (1961). Yes, the numbering did restart in the middle. These were provided by Murray Moore and scanned at Boskone 2020 by Mark Olson. Specific issue added: 37-42, 44-49, 51-68 and 133. Thanks Murray, Mark!; --We have added the latest issue of the Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society's newsletter The MT Void, MT Void Vol. 38, No. 43, that was sent to us by Mark and Evelyn Leeper. Thank you both.; --George Phillies sent us a PDF of April 2020's issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's The National Fantasy Fan. Thanks George.; --11 issues of Vector, the Critical Journal of the British Science Fiction Association. These are issues: 129-139. These issues were edited by David Barrett. They run from 1985-1987. Vector is a core fanzine for us to scan. Thanks to Allen Stroud, Alex Bardy and Polina Levontin and the BSFA for their scans; Replaced John Berry's "The Goon Goes West" with a searachable PDF. Now you can find it in the Goon Defective Agency Publications index. We've also replaced Innuendo 6, and Dave Kyle's 1939 worldcon pamphlet "A Warning" with searchable PDFs. Scanning and OCR by Joe Siclari.
April 23, 2020: --4 issues of John Bangsund's Australian Science Fiction Review from the 1960s. Scans by Joe Patrizio. Thanks Joe!; --6 issues of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group Newsletter. Rob Hansen has scanned issues 86-89 and 91 for us. He's also provided a jaunty SF menu for the 1983 Brum Christmas party. Thanks Rob!; --the 200 page Mota Reader. This collection from Terry Hughes's Mota was edited by Dan Steffan and published in 2015. Scan by Mark Olson. Thanks Mark.; --2 more issues of Rich and Nicki Lynch's Mimosa. Issues 8 and 10 today, scanned by Rich Lynch. Contributors include Vince Clarke, Dave Kyle, Harry Warner Jr and more.; --1 issue Riverside Quarterly, by Leland Sapiro. This is V7#4 from 1985, and was scanned by Joe Siclari.; --1 issue of the WSFA Journal, this one from October 1998 and edited by Samuel Lubell. Scans by Rich Lynch. Thanks Rich!; --3 issues of Lisa Conesa's Zimri from the mid-70s. This UK zine includes contributors such as Ted Tubb, Rod Holdstock, and Harry Turner. Scans by Joe Patrizio. Thanks Joe!; We also replaced Ted Dikty's 1940 Who's Who in Fandom with a searchable PDF. OCR by Joe Siclari.
April 21, 2020: We added a summary, a few days ago, of the last 3 months of work on Fanac.org and Fancyclopedia in the form of FANAC Update 12. One correction (already). The zines that Sandra Bond brought to Corflu to be scanned were from Claire Brialey and Mark Plummer. Thanks to Claire and Mark, and thanks to Sandra for bringing them.; --2 issues of A. Langley Searles's Fantasy Commentator from the late 1940s. We added issues 16 and 21. Contributors include SaM, David Keller, Redd Boggs and George Ebey. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --3 issues of Cry of the Nameless. The most recent is issue 173 1/2 (April 1964) edited by Wally Weber, and I believe, Ella Parker. Contributors this time include George Locke and Ella Parker. Provided and scanned by Joe Patrizio. Thanks Joe! The other two are much earlier - from 1950 we bring you issues 2 and 3, edited by G.M. Carr. Scanning for those by Joe Siclari. Thanks Joe!; --1 issue of John D. Berry's Foolscap. We've added issue 9 from 1973, with scanning by Mark Olson. Thanks Mark!; --4 issues of the International Science Fiction Guild Bulletin, edited by E.E. Evert. These are from 1934-1935 and were kindly provided by Alistair Durie. The zines are marked as edited by Evert, but Pavlat-Evans credits Wilson Shepherd. In 1935, Donald Wollheim took over and the zine morphed into The Phantagraph. These are among our oldest fanzines.; --1 issue of Lee Hoffman's Quandry. Finally, we have issue 30 completing the run of this focal point 1950s fanzine. Yay, Joe Siclari, for the scan.; --1 issue of John Berry and ATom's Retribution, the official organ of the Goon Defective Agency. This is issue 4 from Oct 1956, and was scanned by Mark Olson. More GDA at http://fanac.org/fanzines/Goon_Defective_Agency_Publications/; --1 issue of Dave Ish's Sol. Issue 4 completes the run. Contributors include Lee Hoffman, Shelby Vick, and Bob Silverberg. Another complete run, thanks to Joe Siclari for the scan.; And it's another YouTube day. Today's entry is a panel from Aussiecon 1 (1975). From the YouTube writeup: "This panel centers on questions to Guest of Honor Ursula Le Guin's on her writing for young adults (or at least classified as for young adults). The panelists, moderated by Fan Guest of Honor Susan Wood, are Ursula herself, Stella Leeds, Peter Nicholls, Anna Shepherd, and Ann Sydhom. The video quality leaves a lot to be desired, but the discussion on Le Guin's process of writing, the panel's views on children's literature, and children's literature as a literary ghetto remain interesting and very pertinent. Remember, this was decades before the phenomena of Harry Potter. Thanks to S.C.I.F.I. for digitizing, and to Elayne Pelz for providing us the footage." You can find it at: https://youtu.be/NyP2PQpOc30.
April 16, 2020: --3 issues of Alva Rogers' Bixel. Issue 3 (Jun 1965) and issue 4 (Oct 1968). We've also uploaded Bixeltype aka FTL and ASI. This completes the run of Bixel. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --5 issues of Marion Zimmer Bradley's Day Star. Some of these are combined with Walter Breen's Allerlei. This was a FAPAzine, and scanning is courtesy of Tom Whitmore. Thanks Tom! (And is it Day Star or Day*Star?); --1 issues of Max Keasler's Fanvariety. We've added issue 2 from Nov 1950, thanks to the scanning of Joe Siclari. This is a core fanzine for us to scan.; --1 issue of Ron Smith's Inside. Issue 5 (May 1954) includes an article by Hannes Bok. Provided and scanned by Kim Huett. Thanks Kim!; --1 issue of Dale Speir's Opuntia. Dale sent us the latest issue from mid April Thanks Dale!; We also added 3 fandom directories from various years. You can find them in the reference section at http://fanac.org/Fannish_Reference_Works/WhosWho/. The new ones are the two by Ron Bennett and the one for 1973 by Fred Patten. Also replaced the 1950 directory with a searchable PDF. Scans and OCR by Joe Siclari.; Finally, we've linked to a chron list of all the conventions we know about, in Fancyclopedia.org . We'll get it all integrated in the future. You can find the link at http://fanac.org/convention.html
April 13, 2020: --6 issues of Lars Bourne's Brillig from the late 50s. Lars Bourne = Larry S. Bourne. Early issues are marked as edited by "Larry S. Bourne". A Portland zine, Brillig contributors include Dick Geis, Juanita Coulson, Bill Rotsler, and Gina Ellis. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --2 issues of A. Langley Searles's Fantasy Commentator. Issues 30, 32 from 1979-1982. Articles, poetry and regular features. Scans by Joe Siclari. This is a core fanzine for us to scan.; --the latest issue of Tightbeam, edited by George Phillies and Jon Swartz. From George Philies, we have issue 307. Tightbeam, is the clubzine of the NFFF. Thanks George!; --1 issue of BSFA's Vector. Issue 10, provided and scanned by Joe Patrizio, fills a gap in the run. Contributors include Archie Mercer, Ken Slater and Paul Enever. Thank you, Joe!
April 11, 2020: In the Retro Hugo reading list page, you'll find all the materials on line (that we know about) for the Retros in the categories of Best Related Work, Best Fanzine, and Best Fan Writer. There are links to fanzines on FANAC.org and to efanzines and the Hevelin collection in Iowa. If I've missed anything that you know of, please let me know. Read before you vote!; In the category of "years that are not 1944" we have:; --4 issues of Harold Kirshenblit's Arcturus from the mid 1930s. Contributors include some of the famous names of First Fandom - Fred Pohl, Don Wollheim, and Ted Carnell. Pavlat-Evans says the last issue is incomplete. This issue 10 mockup does seem to be complete. Provided and scanned by Alistair Durie. Thanks, Alistair!; --1 issue of The Mentor by Ron Clarke. Today we uploaded issue 83 (July 1994). This issue includes Chapter 2 of Vol Molesworth's "History of Australian Fandom". The issue was provided and scanned by Sheryl Birkhead. Thanks Sheryl! Welcome to the archiving party.; --2 issues of Frank Lunney's Syndrome. Today we add the first two issues, scanned by Mark Olson. Thanks Mark!; --cover for issue 1 of James Kepner's Towards Tomorrow. Robert says, "I got my set of Kepner's fanzine from the late Charles Burbee, so I assume it's authentic. In the table of contents for the issue, the cover art is credited to Bill Watson, whose signature is on the artwork of the cover I sent. Harry Turner's signature is on the one Rob sent. Could there have been another fanzine with the same name?" So, we have Rob's cover on the PDF and here is cover from Burbee's collection for you too. Thank you, Robert.; --2 issues of Robert Lichtman's Trap Door. These are the first issues we've put online of this excellent fanzine. Trap Door was nominated for Best Fanzine in 1987 and 1992, and won numerous FAAN awards. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --5 more issues of BSFA's Vector. These are issues 200-204, from the late 1990s. Vector is a core fanzine for us to scan. Thanks to Allen Stroud, Alex Bardy and Polina Levontin and the BSFA for their scans.; --2 issues of Art Widner's YHOS. Issues 55 (1999) and 57 (2000) online today courtesy of the scanning of Rich Lynch. Thanks Rich!
April 8, 2020: No new uploads today (at least yet). The Retro Hugo Finalists have now been announced by CoNZealand. In addition to Best Fanzine finalists, there are of course, Best Fan Writer finalists. I'm starting the process of combing through the 1944 fanzines looking for articles by the Best Fan Writer finalists so that you don't have to do that. You can just read them. I'm up to "C is for Centauri" and will eventually get through the entire alphabet. You can find the links at http://fanac.org/fanzines/Retro_Hugos.html. If there are articles I've missed, pls send a note to fanac@fanac.org.
April 6, 2020: I've been tinkering with the look and feel of the fanzine index pages, and I'm not done yet. As most of you know, this website was started in the 1990s, so there are some pages/user experiences that are old enough to vote. When I get done, I hope the new look is cleaner and easier to use. Once the fanzine index pages are done, then I'll look for more places that need some updating. Comments welcome.; --3 issues of Terry Jeeves's Erg, from 2002. We added issue 158. Scan by Rich Lynch. Thanks Rich!; --1 issue of Rich and Nicki Lynch's Mimosa. This is isse 4 from 1988, with Julie (Julius) Schwartz, Bob Tucker, Ron Goulart, Jack Chalker, Sheryl Blrkhead, Doug Chaffee, Alexis Gilliland, Teddy Harvla, Bill Rotsler, Bob Shaw and more. Scans by Rich Lynch.; --8 issues of the WSFA Journal from the early 2000's. Issues from 2002 were edited by Samuel Lubell and issues from 2004-2005 were edited by Keith Lynch. Scans by Rich Lynch. Thanks Rich!; --1 issue of Lisa Conesa's Zimri. This is issue 3 from 1972. From Fancyclopedia.org, "won the Nova Award for Best Fanzine in 1974, tied with Big Scab by John Brosnan. It also won the Checkpoint Fan Poll as Best Fanzine for 1973/74, and placed in 1971/72 and 1974/75. Harry Turner won Best Fanzine Cover for Zimri #6." That's a lot of acclaim. Scanned at Boskone 2020.
April 4, 2020: Dale Speirs sent us a PDF of issue #471 (4.5 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
April 3, 2020: We've had the Goon publications listed in the Irish Fandom directory, but there are more than a few, so today I've started moving them into their own directory. Since there are some sizable publications, a full move over will end up waiting until Joe can transform them into searchable PDFs. Today, on the new Goon Defective Agency Publications index page, we add "Goon Library 2 - Cloche by Night", scanned by Tom Whitmore and a searchable PDF of "This Goon for Hire", also from Tom. Thanks Tom!; --3 issues of Terry Jeeves's Erg, from 2001. We added issues 152, 153 and 159. Scans by Rich Lynch. Thanks Rich!; --1 issue of Terry Hughes's Mota, from 1971. This is issue 3, and it was scanned at Boskone 2020. The addition of this issue completes the run!; --2 more issues of David Ish's Sol. Issues 1 and 2 from 1951, plus an alternate cover for issue 5.; --1 issue of Art Widner's YHOS. Issue 56 from 1999. Scan by Rich Lynch.; --8 issues of the WSFA Journal from 2001-2004. Scan by Rich Lynch. Thanks Rich!; --2 supplements to the WSFA Journal from Don Miller, 1970. These are 73-1 and 73-2, with scanning by Joe Siclari. Supplement 2 has a Phlange report by Jay Kay Klein.; --1 issue of Son of the WSFA Journal from Don Miller, 1970. Issue 11, with scanning by Joe Siclari.; --1 issue of SF&F Journal from 1976. We have added issue 1. This is also Don Miller, and is in the WSFA Journal index. Scan by Joe Siclari.
March 31, 2020: --1 issue of Bleary Eyes. This is issue 5 (the last issue), selected by John Berry. John Berry, Terry Jeeves, Wally Weber, Greg Benford, ATom. Scans by Rich Lynch.; --Boskonian 1, edited by Art Widner (Feb 1942). This was the first attempt at a Boston club fanzine; one article is noted as "an outgrowth of a regular STRANGER'S CLUB discussion on possible, past civilizations". I have tucked it in with the Proper Boskonians of a later age. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --4 issues of Conacs, by M. David Johnson from the early 1980s. This starts out as a convention listing, and grows to 30 pages by the next year. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --2 issues of Ron Clarke's Mentor. We've added issues 86 ad 87 from 1995. Issue 86 has an article by Mae Strelkov, one by Buck Coulson and "Part 5 of Vol Molesworth's history of Australian fandom, this time covering the years 1953-1954. Heinlein paid a visit!" Quote and scans from Rich Lynch. Thanks Rich!; --2 issues of Mimosa by Rich and Nicki Lynch. These are issues 6 and 14 from the early 90s. Rich says "The back cover of #14 has an off-color area top right corner. This is a soot stain from the January 1995 fire. All issues #16 and earlier are survivors of that fire." Scans by Rich Lynch. Thanks Rich!; --Bob Bloch and Bob Tucker's Science-Fiction Fifty Yearly. Published in 1957, it's 25 pages of Bloch and Tucker, and Hoy Ping Pong :-) Scan by Tom Whitmore. Thanks Tom!; --6 issues of David Ish's Sol from the early 1950s. I hadn't heard of this zine before, but it has contributions from Lee Hoffman, Shelby Vick, Walt Willis, Bob Silverberg and Gerry de la Ree. Issue 5 is dedicated to the Willis Fund. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --4 issues of Eric Bentcliffe's Triode, from the late 1950s/early 1960s. We've added issues 14-17. Contributors include Terry Jeeves, Harry Warner, John Berry, George Locke, Eddie Jones, ATom, Mal Ashworth and more. This is a core fanzine for us to scan. Scans by Joe Siclari.
March 29, 2020: Lockdown news of the day:; --Kitsch in sync legends, Bleary Eyes #4 (1954), by John Berry and Ken Cheslin. Lovely reprints from James White, Walt Willis, Bob Shaw, ATom, John Berry. Provided and scanned by Richard Lynch. Thanks Rich!; -- 1 issue of Walt Leibscher's Chanticleer. This is the last issue, issue 7 from June, 1946. Contributors include Bob Tucker, Bob Bloch, and FT Laney. Scans by Joe Siclari. This is a core fanzine for us to scan.; --1 issue of the N3F's Ionisphere, edited by John Thiel and sent by George Phillies. This is the April 2020 issue. Thanks George!; --3 issues of Ron Clarke's The Mentor, from the mid 1990s. This Australian zine ran from 1968-2001 according to Fanyclopedia. Provided and scanned by Rich Lynch who tells us "Lots of interesting stuff within, including another short article by Buck Coulson, a portfolio of some very nice pencil art by Mark McLeod, a look back at the 1950s-60s science fiction comic strip (seems more of a graphic novel) Captain Condor, and Part 3 of Vol Molesworth's history of Australian fandom covering the years 1947-1951." and that's just issue 84. Thanks Rich!; --1 issue of the Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society's newsletter The MT Void, MT Void Vol. 38, No. 39, that was sent to us by Mark and Evelyn Leeper. Thank you.; --1 issue of The National Fantasy Fan. George Phillies sent us the latest issue. Thanks George!; --7 issues of George Charters's The Scarr. These are from 1964-1970. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --21 issues of Dick Wilson's Science Fiction Newsletter from 1937-1938. A blast from the past, these are pretty consistenly 2 pages each and sent out every week. We've added all the issues to complete the run, and replaced two issues that were JPGs with searchable PDFs. Provided and sanned by David Ritter. Thanks David!; --Breaking out individual zines from the Pacificon Combozine, and placing them in their appropriate directories as well. Today: Jack Speer's Matters of Opinion, Morojo's Guteto, and Walt Daugherty's Fan. Scanning by Mark Olson. Thanks Mark!; It's a YouTube day. I've uploaded a 2013 interview of Bob Madle conducted by Joe Siclari at Philcon. From the writeup on YouTube: "A science fiction reader and fan since the early 1930s, Bob Madle has been a part of the SF field for almost 90 years. He has done it all - he's pubbed his ish, worked on conventions, been a TAFF fan fund winner, a worldcon Fan Guest of Honor, and one of the best known book dealers in science fiction. His encyclopedic command of the field is legendary. Bob is the one that named the Hugos (and he talks here about how the awards came to be). In this 2013 interview by fan historian Joe Siclari, Bob talks about it all, from his first entry into fandom to his experiences across the years." Thanks to Syd Weinstein and Philcon 2013 for the recording. https://youtu.be/VP46MzqT67M; I do believe I failed to note another YouTube upload from last week. This is our earliest recording so far - from the 1960 worldcon, Pittcon. It's an audio recording of James Blish giving his Guest of Honor speech, now decorated with appropriate images. From the writeup: "Pittcon, the 18th World Science Fiction Convention, was held in Pittsburgh, PA in 1960. By permission of the Blish family, we have an almost complete audio recording of James Blish's Guest of Honor Speech. This is a thoughtful, not always complimentary look at the state of contemporary science fiction literature, where it falls short and where it can improve. Very much worth listening to, this short recording (enhanced with images) is just what you'd hope to hear from William Atheling, Jr , Blish's serious and constructive critical pseudonym." https://youtu.be/zKFowEqJ6QM; For YouTube, I'm starting to put together playlists by decade. If you want to see what we have on the Fanac Fan History YouTube channel, you'll be able to just pull up the appropriate playlist. To find the channel, you can go to YouTube and search on "Fanac Fanhistory" or you can just go to youtube.com/c/FanacFanhistory .
March 27, 2020: Today's additions for your stay-at-home pleasure.; --2 issues of Dream Quest from Don Wilson. Issue 5 (April 1948) and issue 12 (Nov 1954). Articles by F.T. Laney, Milt Rothman, Art Rapp, Jack Speer and others. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --3 issues of Le Zombie by Bob Tucker. Who-hoo! We have issues 42-44 from 1941 uploaded today. Contents include the "Annual Eyebrow Lifter Dept", the "Wailing Wall Dept" and the "Interview with Dr. Tucker" by Hoy Ping Pong. Scans by Joe Siclari. Thanks Joe!; --1 issue of Mikros. This is issue 4 (Feb 1939), with "Sabina of the White Cylinder" by Forry Ackerman, an article by Charlie Hornig and more. This fanzine is even older than Joe Siclari, who scanned it.; --3 issues of OSFIC Quarterly from the early 1970s. This was edited by John Douglas and Gordon Von Toen, and was from the Ontario Science Fiction Club. There are articles by Mike Glicksohn and Susan Glicksohn among others. This is the complete run, and was provided and scanned by Eli Cohen. Thanks Eli!; --1 issue of Satryic, by Edgar Martin. This is issue 1 (Mar 1942). Provided and scanned by Bob Hurter. Thanks Bob!; --1 issue of Science Fiction Checklist, issue 7 (Nov 1941) from Robert and Frances Swisher. This issue provided and scanned by Bob Hurter. Thanks Bob!; --1 issue (of 1) of Whacky. This uncredited 1 page zine was distributed in FAPA 17 (Sept 1941), and Pavlat-Evans says it is possibly by Julius Unger. I'm not sure whether we should think of it as ephemera, or a zine. But here it is, and when we find/scan FAPA 17, it will placed in situ. Scan by Bob Hurter. Thanks Bob!
March 26, 2020: Dale Speirs sent us a PDF of issue #470 (4.3 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
March 25, 2020: Lots of work this week in cleaning up FanewsCard. For the last umpty years, we had a scheme special to cardzines which didn't have much forgiveness for multipage newsletters. Those were therefore listed in a separate directory. As of now, they are all in a single directory for your news junkie appetite. You choose - CNN/BBC/etc and coronavirus today -or- WWII from FanewsCard. You can see them all at http://fanac.org/fanzines/FanewsCard/.; --1 issue of Approach To Infinity, issue 1 from April 1951. This copy of Dollens's beautiful artzine was given by Forry Ackerman to Lee Hoffman. See the inscription on page 3. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --1 issue of Cry of the Nameless. Issue 31 (June 1952), by Wally Weber. Provided and scanned by Richard Lynch. Thanks Rich!; --2 issues of dubious by Algis Budrys. Pre-FAPAzine from 1960. Scans by Tom Whitmore. Thanks Tom!; --1 issue of Mimosa. Issue 9 (Dec 1990), by Rich and Nicki Lynch. Provided and scanned by Richard Lynch. Thanks Rich!; --1 issue of Opuntia. Dale Speirs sent us a PDF of issue #469 (5.5 MB) of his perzine. Thanks Dale!; --1 issue of John Magnus's Varioso, issue 16 (July 1958). Articles by Harlan Ellison and Ted White, illos by Bill Rotsler. Scan by Tom Whitmore. Thanks Tom!; --PDF replacements: 2 issues of Walt's Wramblings with PDFs. Scans this time by Bob Hurter. Thanks Bob! Also replaced issue 16 of Laney's Fan-Dango with a PDF. This one was scanned by Tom Whitmore. Thanks Tom!; --Breaking out individual zines from the Pacificon Combozine, and placing them in their appropriate directories as well. Today: Al and Abby Lu Ashley's En Garde, Walt Liebscher's Chanticleer and E. Everett Evans's Timebinder. Scanning by Mark Olson. Thanks Mark!
March 20, 2020: Many small corrections have been made, from correcting a typo in Bob Madle's TAFF report (thanks to Nigel Rowe) to removing no longer valid references in a list of convention running fanzines (thanks to John Bray) to adding the 1942 Fanzine Yearbook to the Yearbooks page (thanks to Sam McDonald). Other corrections are still pending. Thanks everyone for sending in the broken bits that you find, and please be patient while I correct them. Thanks!; --Chunder, V5#1 (March 1981) from John Foyster. "The fanzine that brings it up first." Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Contact, 9 issues and 2 supplements from 1956-1957. This is a newszine from Belgium from the Contact Group: Jan Jansen, Ron Bennett, John Hitchcock, Ellis Mills, and sometimes Steve Schulteis. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Crank, issues 1-3 (1985) edited alternately by Rob Hansen and Ted White. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --CyberCozen, March 2020 issue, from Leybl Botwinik. Thanks Leybl!; --Le Zombie, issues 19 (Dec 39), 49 (Sep 42) and e-Zombie 68 (Oct 2000) all from Bob Tucker of course. Also replaced issues 45 and 46 with searchable PDFs. All but issue 45 were scanned by Joe Siclari. This is a core fanzine for us to scan.; --The MT Void, MT Void Vol. 38, No. 38 - the latest issue of the Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society's newsletter sent by Mark and Evelyn Leeper. Thank you both.; --Science Fiction Parade, issue 7 (Oct 57) from Len Moffatt. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --The Pacificon Combozine, 1946. The combozine of the 4th World SF Convention. Mark Olson scanned this monster (>130 pages) and Joe Siclari has broken it up into the individual fanzines. The link gets you to the assembled Combozine, but I'll be putting up the individual zines as well with their respective titles. The one-shots will be accessible in the fully assembled Combozine. Thanks Mark and thanks Joe!; --Placebo, issues 1-3.5 and #5 from Moshe Feder and Barry Smotroff. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Spacewarp, issues 1 (Apr 1947) and 18 (Sep 1948) from Art Rapp. Scans by Joe Siclari. This is a core fanzine for us to scan.; --Vector, issues 126-128. Vector is the Critical Journal of the British Science Fiction Association. These issues edited by Paul Kincaid. Christopher Fowler and the rest of this batch are edited by Dave Wingrove. These are from from the early to mid 1970s. Vector is a core fanzine for us to scan and we have 173 online so far. Thanks to Allen Stroud, Alex Bardy and Polina Levontin and the BSFA for their scans.
March 17, 2020: --Added an issue of The Alchemist from 1947, and a separate PDF of the Denventioneer issue of the fanzine. This was edited by Charles Ford Hansen, Roy Hunt, and Lew Martin. Nice Roy Hunt cover on the 1947 issue. Some familiar names here like Bob Tucker, 4e, Harry Warner Jr and Art Widner. You can see the entire combozine at http://fanac.org/fanzines/Fanthologies/Fantho25-cv.html. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Added an issue + of Dan Steffan's Boonfark. The issue was #4 from 1981, and the + part is the issue 4 Zen Vaudeville Encore. This completes the run. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Added an issue of Bill Watson's Diablerie from 1945. Features fiction by Joe Fortier and Bob Bloch. The Bloch piece begins:; --Added the last 3 needed issues of Janus to complete the run. These were provided by editors Jeanne Gomoll and Janice Bogstad. Thanks! Janus has been a core fanzine for us to scan.; --Added one more issue of SF Dividend by Dick Wilson. This is issue 1, and was distributed with Science Fiction News Letter 10. These are "Free to subscribers of The Science Fiction News Letter". Provided by David Ritter.; --PDF Replacements: SF Echo, issue 1 - new scan by Bob Hurter. http://fanac.org/fanzines/SF_Echo/ Thanks Bob!; --Added 6 more issues of Science Fiction Newsletter by Dick Wilson. As you might imagine, it's a newszine. These are issues 2-5, 10 and 14 from 1937-1938. The scans were provided by David Ritter. Many thanks David!; --Added the 1 and only issue of Joe Fortier's Twilight. This was a one-shot in 1942, preceding his fanzine Twilight Echoes by more than 2 years. Scan by Bob Hurter. Thanks Bob!; --Added 4 issues of Van Houten Says, by Raymond Van Houten. These are from 1939-1942. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Added 5 issues of Jeanne Gomoll's perzine Whimsey to complete the run. These are issues 3-7, provided by Jeanne herself. Thanks Jeanne!
March 15, 2020: First, today's mea culpa. I had inadvertently given credit for the scan of an issue of Fantast's Folly to Rob Hansen. It should go to Sam McDonald. Apologies to both gentlemen (and it's fixed now).; --1 issue of Janice Bogstad and Jeanne Gomoll's Janus. This is issue 15 from 1979 and was provided by Jeanne and Janice. Thanks guys!; --2 issues of Janice Bogstad and Jeanne Gomoll's Aurora. These are issues 25 and 26 and were actually edited by Diane Martin. They were provided to us by Jeanne and Janice. With issue 19, Janus changed its name to Aurora and maintained the issue numbering.; --15 issues of Vector, the Critical Journal of the British Science Fiction Association. These are issues: 101-107, and 116-123. The issues from 101-106 were edited by Kevin Smith, issue 107 by Alan Dorey, and the remainder by Geoff Rippington. These are from from the early to mid 1980s. Vector is a core fanzine for us to scan. Thanks to Allen Stroud, Alex Bardy and Polina Levontin and the BSFA for their scans.; --2 issues of Dick Wilson's Science Fiction Newsletter added. These are issues 36 and 37 from 1938. Two others have been replaced by searchable PDFs (issues 34 and 35). Scans provided by David Ritter. Thanks David!; --3 issues of Energumen by Mike Glicksohn and Susan Wood. Energumen was nominated for Best Fanzine in 1971 and 1972 and won in 1973. Contributors include Dean Koontz, Ted Pauls, Sandra Miesel, Bob Toomey, Arnie Katz, Bill Rotsler, Bob Shaw, Jack Gaughan. Enough? Provided and scanned by Tom Whitmore. Thanks Tom!
March 14, 2020: --4 issues of Chunder, a newszine by John Foyster out of Melbourne. These are from 1979, and yes, there are Harry Warner Jr letters.; --1 issue of Double Bill, by Bill Bowers and Bill Mallardi. This is the 7th anniversary issue, issue 20 from 1969. Here you will find Harry Warner Jr, Bob Tucker, Leo P. Kelley, Roy Tackett, Terry Jeeves, John and Sandra Miesel, Banks Mebane, Hank Davis andy offut, Steve Fabian, Bill Rotsler, Alicia Austin and others. Something nice to read while you're not thinking about the news. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --5 issues of Le Zombie by Bob Tucker. We've uploaded issues 1 (1938), 6-7 and 9-10 (1939). This is a core fanzine for us to scan. These scans were provided by David Ritter. Thanks David!; --1 issue of SF Dividend by Dick Wilson. These are "Free to subscribers of The Science Fiction News Letter". This one was mailed out with issue 18. Provided by David Ritter.; --11 issues of Science Fiction Newsletter by Dick Wilson. These are issues 15-21, and 23-26, from 1938. We also replaced issue 22 with a searchable PDF. The scans were provided by David Ritter. Many thanks David! Thanks to David, we can really get our 1938 on today.; --2 issues of SF Review by Richard E. Geis. We've uploaded issue 43 (B Series, March 1971) and issue 13 (C Series, May 1975). This is a core fanzine for us to scan, and the scanning today was done by Joe Siclari.; --1 issue of Spaceship by Bob Silverberg and Saul Diskin. This is issue 8 (April 1950). Hard to believe this was almost exactly 70 years ago. Scan by Joe Siclari.; From our regular contributing faneds:; Somehow, I unaccountedly missed it when George Phillies sent us a PDF of January 2020's issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's The National Fantasy Fan. It's up now, and a belated thanks to George.; We have added the latest issue of the Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society's newsletter The MT Void, MT Void Vol. 38, No. 37, that was sent to us by Mark and Evelyn Leeper. Thank you both
March 13, 2020: --1 issue of Tale of the 'Evans from E. Everett Evans, Spring 1948. This is issue 18, V5#2. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --1 issue of Texas SF Inquirer. This is issue 40, from 1991, edited by Dale Denton and Alexander Slate. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --6 issues of SF Review from Richard E. Geis. These are issues 15, 17, 25, 27, 28, and 34 from 1975-1980. This is a core fanzine for us to scan. Scans provided by Jim Harris. Thanks Jim!; --1 issue of Tightbeam, edited by George Phillies and Jon Swartz. From George Philies, we have issue 306 in two parts. Tightbeam, is the clubzine of the NFFF. Thanks George!; --4 issues of Bill Rotsler's Voyage. This is an artzine, with wall-to-wall Rotsler art. Issues run from 1969-1982. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --2 issues of Vernon McCain's Wastebasket. We added issues 1 and 2, and also replaced the retyped version of issue 3 that Judy Bemis did 20 years ago with a searchable PDF. Scans by Joe Siclari. Does anyone have #4? That would finish out the run, I believe. Contributors include Lee Hoffman, Shelby Vick, Mack Reynolds and Walt Willis.; Replaced by PDFs: Issue 3 of Joe Fortier's Scientifan replaced by a searchable PDF. Scan by Bob Hurter. Thanks Bob!
March 10, 2020: In these trying times, here are more fanzines to keep you good company.; --Issue V2#6 of Gus Willmorth's Fantasy Advertiser. The issue is from 1948, and advertises a copy of the British first edition of H. Rider Haggard's ALLAN QUARTERMAIN for $4. Big money then, and about $44 now. The minimum wage in 1948 was 40 cents (according to interwebs random website). Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Issue 7 of A. Langley Searles's Fantasy Commentator from the summer of 1945. This is a core zine for us to scan. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --8 issues of Leland Sapiro's Riverside Quarterly. These are Volume 2 and 3 from the late 60s. Contributors include John Sladek, Thomas Disch, Alexei Panshin, R. Bretnor, Chip Delany, etc. The issues were provided by Tom Whitmore, and scanned by Joe Siclari. This is a core fanzine for us to scan.; --Issue 79 of Ethel Lindsay's Scottishe. This is a core fanzine for us to scan. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --23 issues of Vector, the Critical Journal of the British Science Fiction Association. These are issues: 250-272. The issues from 251-265 were edited by Niall Harrison; the issues from 266-272 were edited by Shana Worthen. Issue 250 was edited by Niall Harrison and Geneva Melzack. These are from from 2007-2013. Vector is a core fanzine for us to scan. Thanks to Allen Stroud, Alex Bardy and Polina Levontin and the BSFA for their scans.; --Issue 1 of Lora Crozetti's Venus. This is a 1944 zine (think Retros!). This completes the run. Scanned by Joe Siclari.
March 9, 2020: --14 issues of Terry Jeeves's Erg. These are issues 2, 99-100, 105, 107-111, 116, 128, 137, 154 and 162. They run from 1959 to 2003 - a 44 year long era, an impressively long span for any zine. There's also a 1984 calendar of original art by Terry Jeeves. If you like calendars, there are a few more for you to see - http://fanac.org/fanzines/Calendars/. Erg is a core zine for us to scan. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --7 issues of Ethel Lindsay's Haverings. Today we added issues 21, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32 and 41. These are from the mid 1960s, and provided and scanned by Tom Whitmore. Thanks Tom!; --3 issues of Leland Sapiro's Riverside Quarterly from the 1960s. These are issues V1#3, V1#4 and V4#1. Contributors include Alexei Panshin, Algis Budrys, ATom, Charles Schneeman, Jack Williamson, Harry Warner Jr. Provided by Tom Whitmore at Loscon 2019, and scanned by Joe Siclari. These are core issues for us to scan. Thanks Tom!; --1 issue of John Magnus's SF. This is issue 8 from Dec 1953, and completes the run. Bill Venable, Harlan Ellison, Jack Harness...Scan by Joe Siclari.; --1 issue of Eric Bentcliffe's Triode. We've added issue 18 from May 1960. These are core issues for us to scan. Issue was provided and scanned by Tom Whitmore.; --4 issues of Buck and Juanita Coulson's Yandro. We've added issues 70-71, 78 and 87 from the late 50s/early 60s. These are core issues for us to scan. Provided and scanned by Tom Whitmore. Thanks Tom!; --An Index to SF Review Nos 28-43, by Gregory Bridges, published in 1983 for FAPA. Scans by Joe Siclari
March 6, 2020: Uploaded today:; --10 issues of Will Sykora's Fantasy News. These run from 1940 to 1949. Today we added issues: 91, 93, 126, 130, 131, 175, 176, 181, 183, and 191. These were provided and scanned by Sam McDonald. Thanks Sam!; --1 issue of Leslie Croutch's Light. This is issue 47 from 1951. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; --1 issue of Ethel Lindsay's Scottishe. This is issue 33 from 1963. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; --3 issues of John Magnus's SF. We have uploaded issues 3,4 and 7 from 1952 and 1953. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --2 issues of Lee Gold's Third Foundation. These are issues 93 and 95 from 1970. Provided and scanned by Tom Whitmore. Thanks Tom!; --14 issues of Vector, the Critical Journal of the British Science Fiction Association. These are issues: 273-286. The issues from 273-274 are edited by Shana Worthen, issues 275-284 by Glyn Morgan, and the rest of this batch are edited by Anna McFarlane. These are from from 2013-2017. Vector is a core fanzine for us to scan. Thanks to Allen Stroud, Alex Bardy and Polina Levontin and the BSFA for their scans.
March 4, 2020: --2 issues of Richard Geis's Psychotic. Today we add issues 18 and 19 from 1955. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; --3 issue of Richard Geis's SF Review. We have issue 46, from 1983. Provided and scanned by Jim Harris. Thanks Jim! We also have issues 29 (1969) and 42 (1971) provided and scanned by Joe Siclari. Here's a partial list of interior artists for issue 42: Tim Kirk, Vaughn Bode, Richard Bergeron, Bill Rotsler, ATom, Jack Gaughan and Grant Canfield.; --5 issues of fanzines/Focal_Point. One of these was edited by rich brown and Arnie Katz. The other 4 were all edited by Arnie. We've uploaded issues V2#21 and V3#1-V3#3, V3#5. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --1 issue of Opuntia. Dale Speirs sent us a PDF of issue #468 (5.2 MB) of his perzine. Thanks Dale.
February 29, 2020: Thanks to Sam McDonald for pointing out an embarrassing plethora of broken links. They're all fixed but one.; --Continuing the Richard E. Geis focus, we added 3 issues of SF Review today. These are issues 36, 40 and 41. Scans by Jim Harris. Jim also sent us issue 39, but Joe Siclari had just scanned that one and it went up yesterday. Thanks Jim!; --Added 2 bits of Irish Fandom material. First, a news supplement to Hyphen in 1955, and a message about the Goons from the Bleary Eyes in the same year. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Added the latest issue of the Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society's newsletter The MT Void, MT Void Vol. 38, No. 35, that was sent to us by Mark and Evelyn Leeper. Thank you both.; --2 more issues of Washington fannish material. These are issues of Don Miller's SF&F Journal from the mid 70s. You'll find then in the WSFA Journal index at http://fanac.org/fanzines/WSFA_Journal/.; It's a YouTube day. In case you missed it, this video (which has been available through the Philcon site) was created during the Guest of Honor interview of Dave Kyle at Philcon 2012. He's interviewed by Joe Siclari, who's looking very spiffy in his tuxedo, and who is eminently qualified to make sure Dave tells the important stories. We narrowly missed getting this on YouTube for what would have been Dave's 101 birthday (Feb 14). From the writeup - "Dave Kyle was an enthusiastic and productive science fiction fan and professional, with an 80+ year tenure. In this 2012 interview conducted at Philcon 2012, Dave talks about how fandom started, the first worldcon, fandom in the 1930s (and 40s and 50s and ...), the Science Fiction League, decades of controversies, Gnome Press, chairing his Worldcon and much, much more. ...Thanks to Philcon 2012 and Syd Weinstein for providing the video." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbu50Nrx94w
February 26, 2020: I've been putting up a lot of fanzines lately, so for today, back to photos. Thanks to the cameras of TR Renner, Andrew Porter and David Ritter, we have some photos of this year's Boskone - Boskone 57. You can see them at http://fanac.org/Other_Cons/Boskone/b57-p00.html .; Did put up issues 1-9, 11 and 13 of Richard E. Geis - Personal Journal. These are from 1975-1978. Scan by Joe Siclari. Two issues had mistakenly been up under the SF Review index, misidentified by me (not Joe) as Richard E. Geis. Those have been moved to the proper index now. Mea Culpa.; Since that was insufficiently confusing, we've added two issues of Richard E. Geis from 1972. These are in the index with SF Review. We've also added issue 39 of SF Review from August 1970. Scans by Joe Siclari.
February 24, 2020: Here's what's new:; --11 more issues of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group Newsletter. These are edited by by Carol Goodwin. Today's issues are from 2019. Thanks to Carol Goodwin for scanning them, and to John Bray for providing them to Fanac.; --3 volumes of The Bleary Eyes, a set of retrospective anthologies by John Berry and Ken Cheslin. These were scanned at Boskone 2020 and provided by Murray Moore.; --1 issue of A. Langley Searles's Fantasy Commentator. This is issue 31 from 1981. Fantasy Commentator is a core fanzine for us to scan. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --1 issue Yerke's Mikros. This is issue 3, and has Ray Bradbury's 2nd story, "Hollerbochen Comes Back", a sequel to "Hollerbochen's Dilemma". Scan by Joe Siclari.; --2 issues of Dan McPhail's Phantasy Press. These are issues 15 and 28, but more importantly they are Memory Books. The first commemorates 20 years of the FAPA. The 2nd reprints material from FAPA 1. Very cool stuff. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --2 issue of John Magnus's SF. We've added issues 1 and 2 from 1952. We've also added a letter survey, and replaced issues 5 and 7 with searchable PDFs. Scans and OCR by Joe Siclari.; --1 issue of Art Rapp's Spacewarp. This is issue 2 from May, 1947. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --1 issue of Frank Lunney's Syndrome. This is issue 4 from 1975. Scan by Joe Siclari.
February 22, 2020: As the zines from the Boskone 2020 scanning station start trickling online, I'd like to mention that Murray Moore was a superstar providing substantial numbers of fanzines for the scanning. He has helped fill-in a number of runs, and provided some great stuff. Thank you Murray! The other superstar of the weekend was Geri Sullivan who also brought in a large batch of choice materials for the scanning. Thanks Geri! Thanks to all who brought fanzines to the convention for us. Watch this space to see them all going online. Today's uploads:; --12 more issues of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group Newsletter. These are edited by by Carol Goodwin. There are 4 issues from 2017 and the rest are from 2018. Thanks to Carol Goodwin for scanning them, and to John Bray for providing them to Fanac.; --1 NFFF Fandbook. For 2020, NFFF has produced an 8th Fandbook, on "Founders of the National Fantasy Fan Federation". It's by Jon Swartz and George Phillies, and was sent to us by George Phillies. Thanks George!; --2 issues of Phil Bronson's The Fantasite. We've added issues 5 and 10, thanks to Rob Hansen who provided us with scans. Tucker, Chauvenet, and others. Thanks Rob! Some cool covers.; --1 issue of C.S. Youd's Fantast's Folly. This is issue 3 from Aug 1945, scan by Rob Hansen. Thanks Rob!; --1 issue of John D. Berry's Foolscap. This is issue 3 from Halloween 1967. Supplied by Murray Moore and scanned at Boskone 2020.; --1 issue of Forry and Morojo's Imagination. This appears to be Imagination 13 (V2#1, October, 1938) with a cover from Imagination 11 (August, 1938). Pavlat-Evans does not mention that the issue is misnumbered on the cover. If anyone can scan the correct cover and inside front cover, we will fix the issue. Scan provided by Rob Hansen. Thanks Rob!; --1 (and only) issue of Ginjer Buchanan and Suzle Tompkins fanzine Imryrr. This dates from 1969, and contributors include Bill Rotsler, Bill Mallardi, Sandra Meisel, Andy Porter, and Ted Pauls. Scan provided by Eli Cohen. Thanks Eli!; --2 issues of Jeff Smith's Khatru, issues 1 and 7. This completes the run. Khatru is one of our core fanzines to scan. Jeff sent us proof pages of these issues so we could scan them. Thanks to Jeff for sending them! Scans by Joe Siclari.; --1 issue of MT Void. We have added the latest issue of the Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society's newsletter The MT Void, MT Void Vol. 38, No. 34, that was sent to us by Mark and Evelyn Leeper. Thank you both.; --1 issue of The National Fantasy Fan. George Phillies sent us the latest issue. Thanks George!; --6 more issues of the BSFA's Vector. Issues 4-5 (1959), 27-28 (1964), 30-31 (1965). This is a core issue for us to scan. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --1 issue of Lora Crozetti's Venus. Issue 2 from 1944. Contributors include Bob Bloch, Bob Tucker, Forry Ackerman and Alva Rogers. Provided by Murray Moore and scanned at Boskone 2020. Thanks Murray!; Last but not least, it's a YouTube day. We have a charming audio recording from Boskone 5 (1968) of Isaac Asimov holding forth for more than an hour. It's decorated with photos of people in the room, photos of Isaac, and book and magazine covers. I hope that those that never had a chance to meet Isaac get a sense of how it might have been. From the Youtube writeup: "...Isaac Asimov spends an hour talking about everything and anything. He is speaking to his extended family - a roomful of science fiction fans. Isaac speaks with great good humor about his writing (both science fiction and science fact), ribs his fellow writers, especially Lester Del Rey and others who were in the room, and tells stories about Harlan Ellison and John W. Campbell. He is charming and arrogant, explaining his view of women, why he doesn't write for TV, his experiences on late night TV and more. This is an opportunity to get to know one of science fiction's greats as his contemporaries did. Thanks to the New England Science Fiction Society (NESFA) and Rick Kovalcik for providing the recording." You can find it at https://youtu.be/OAxlrdkY1oQ
February 17, 2020: If you've been following along, you know that we have had more than our fair share of migrations in the last 13 months. First, we moved to a new hosting company (and there are still a few truly irritating AF bugs left in that migration). Second, Mark Olson and John Bray migrated Fancyclopedia.org to a new technology. That move was very painful and took a long time. They are, however, victorious and you can see it in all its new glory at the aforementioned Fancyclopedia.org. Welcome now to the next migration. The code that generates Fanac.org is a marvel of persistence and dedication. It was written over the course of 25 years by our late, lamented first webmaster - Jack Weaver. Embedded in the code are artifacts of the last 30 years of evolution of the internet. There is code from defunct publishers. There is code only maintained by a cabal of aging enthusiasts, none of whom were born after the election of Dwight D. Eisenhower. There are surprises galore. Still. Today, we migrate to Windows 10 and a new laptop. I put the migration off as long as possible (figuring I might make it to Windows 11 or 12 or 13), but the old system found an engaging new way to fail - presenting me with command menus on every (increasingly) frustrated keystroke. It's time.; It is likely to be a little slow in the fanzine uploading department for a few days. So far, so good though. There are problems still to be overcome. However, I present to you the first fanzines uploaded post-this-migration:; --Habakkuk edited by Bill Donaho, issue V3#4. Provided by Murray Moore and scanned at Boskone 2020! This completes the run for us. Thanks Murray!; --Idea, edited by Geri Sullivan, issues 5 & 6 from 1992. Includes articles by Linda Bushyager, Stu Shiffman, and James White among others. This completes the run for us. Provided by Geri Sullivan and scanned at Boskone 2020! Thank you Geri.; --Mota, edited by Terry Hughes, issues 4 & 6 from 1992. Provided by Murray Moore and scanned at Boskone 2020! Includes articles by Lee Hoffman, Grant Canfield, and Ray Nelson among others.; --Dale Speirs sent us a PDF of issue #467 (3.4 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.; --We have added the latest issue of the Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society's newsletter The MT Void, MT Void Vol. 38, No. 33, that was sent to us by Mark and Evelyn Leeper. Thank you both; --Personal Notes, edited by Richard Harter, issues 1 and 2 from 1973-1974. This completes the run for us. Provided by Murray Moore and scanned at Boskone 2020!; Thanks to Dave Langford for bringing some navigation screwups to my attention. I think they're fixed now.
February 11, 2020: More fanzines today (but I am working on a YouTube piece):; --12 more issues of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group Newsletter. These are edited by by Carol Goodwin. Today's issues are from 2016. Thanks to Carol Goodwin for scanning them, and to John Bray for providing them to Fanac.; --February issue of Leybl Botwinik's CyberCozen. Thanks Leybl!; --12 issues of Arnie Katz and rich brown's Focal Point from 1970-1971. Focal Point was "a fanzine of news, views, and reviews". The new issues are the ones between V2#17 and V2#30, and they were scanned by Mark Olson. Thanks Mark!; --2 issues of Don D'Ammassa's Mythologies. These are issues 5 (1975) and 19 (1986). Scans provided by Eli Cohen. Thanks Eli!; --1 issue of Tightbeam, edited by George Phillies and Jon Swartz. From George Philies, we have issue 305 in two parts. Tightbeam, is the clubzine of the NFFF. Thanks George!
February 10, 2020: Today in Fanac.org-; --12 more issues of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group Newsletter. These are edited by by Carol Goodwin. Today's issues are from 2015. Thanks to Carol Goodwin for scanning them, and to John Bray for providing them to Fanac.; --1 more issue of Larry Shaw's McSnoyd's Bulletin. Issue 2, January 1945.; --1 more issue of The Scarr, edited by George Charters. Issue 15 (marked as issue 120) from May, 1967. I have no idea why his numbering became so unique. Whole number 11 was marked as 102, 12 was marked as 110, and so on until 15 became 120.; --4 more issues of SFSFS Shuttle, the clubzine of the South Florida Science Fiction Society. Editors for 3 of the issues are Joe Siclari and Edie Stern, and the 4th was edited by Carol Porter. These are issues 100, 115, 130 and 132. The 100th issue has some fun stuff including Joe Green's first published "story" (his quotes, not mine), a reprint of a short-short by Charles Fontenay, a short-short by Lee Hoffman (which I believe was never published elsewhere), one by Marion Zimmer Bradley, and a personal favorite of mine, a poem by Nancy Atherton entitled "Ode to Joe, Fan". Full disclosure: I co-edited the 100th issue. Also some LeeH cartoons.; --17 publications from Dick Geis. There are 13 issues of SF Review, from the early 80s, provided and scanned by Jim Harris. These are issues 43-45, 48, 53-61. We also have 4 issues of SF Review from the 1969-70 scanned by Joe Siclari. These are issues 34-35, 38 and a short 43. Note that the fanzines scanned earlier have random keystrokes for metadata, so the tab on the top of your screen looks kind of funny. We'll get that fixed, but I thought that it was better to get the issues up as is rather than wait until they were perfect.; --10 issues of Vector, the Critical Journal of the British Science Fiction Association. These are issues: 108-115 and 124-125. The issues from 108-115 Geoff Rippington, and 123-125 by Paul Kincaid. These are from from the early to mid 1980s. Vector is a core fanzine for us to scan. Thanks to Allen Stroud, Alex Bardy and Polina Levontin and the BSFA for their scans.
February 7, 2020: Thanks to Rob Hansen for the cover to issue 1 of Jimmy Kepner's Toward Tomorrow. You may recall that we put up a coverless copy recently, and appealed to anyone that had a cover. Rob came through for us! Thanks Rob.; Joe was able to scan more fanzines from FAPA 28. We're putting them up, beginning with; --Arcadia, Harry Honig; --Black & White, Nova Press; --Issue 2 of Chan Davis's Blitherings; --Issue 5 of Larry Shaw's Caliban; --Issue 1 of Mike Fern's Eccentric's Orbit; --Issue 2 of Elmer Purdue's Elmurmurings; --Issue 131 of Leslie Croutch's Light.; --Issue 15 of Milt Rothman's Milty's Mag; --Issue 1 (and only) of Don Wollheim's New Hieroglyph; --Issue 10 of Donald B. Thompson's Phanny; --Issue 48 (V11#4) of Don Wollheim's The Phantagraph. See notes below.; --Issue 1 (and only) of Oliver Saari's So Saari; --Issue 1 (and only) of George Ebey's Star-Stung; --Issue 1 (and only) of Al Ashley's The Stump; --Issue 7 of E. Everett Evans' Tale of the 'Evens; --Issue 1 of Raym Washington's Take-Off!; --Issue 10 of Walt Leibsher's Walt's Wramblings. Summer 1944.; --John B. Michel's The Works; Also we have:; --12 more issues of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group Newsletter. These are edited by by Carol Goodwin. Today's issues are from 2014. Thanks to Carol Goodwin for scanning them, and to John Bray for providing them to Fanac.org.; --8 more issues of Will Sykora's Fantasy News. This includes some 1944 issues. Provided and scanned by Sam McDonald. You can tell which ones are new because they're marked as scanned by Sam McD. BTW, there are two V8#12s, as printed in the zine. Luckily, they have different whole numbers. Thanks for the scans, Sam! Especially thanks for the 1944 issues that might factor into Retro Hugo decisions.; --1 more mailing of J. Michael Rosenblum's Futurian War Digest. This is a 1944 issue, V5#1 (marked on the front page as V4#1 but we all know better). It includes issue 18 of the British Fantasy Society Bulletin and a few other items.; --2 issues of Don Wollheim's The Phantagraph, issue V11#4, and V12#3 from November, 1944. This was distributed in FAPA 28 and FAPA 30A. "Founded in 1934 as The T.F.G. BULLETIN, Combined with SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW, MIND OF MAN, SCIENCE FICTION WEEKLY, IE VOMBITEUR, FANTASY FICTION DIGEST, THE PLANETEER, and others, including the rights to the original fantasy fanzine THE TIME TRAVELLER." Scans by Joe Siclari.; --1 issue of Bill Watson and George Ebey's Sappho. This is issue 5, from September 1944. Scan by Joe Siclari.
February 2, 2020: "Today, in support of the Retro Hugos project for CoNZealand, we've added an alphabetical list of 1944 fanzines. It is the largest list of 1944 fanzines that we could compile. We have linked, both from our site and others, all the zines we can find to give you the ability to read what was going on in 1944. We will link to additional zines as we find them, and are also still scanning more ourselves. If you know of appropriate materials not on the list, please let us know. We hope this will give you some ability to judge the 1944 materials first hand. Much of it may not seem of significant quality to us today, but it gives context and the ability to compare the writers and editors of 1944, rather than just relying on their later reputations."...Joe Siclari http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Retro_Hugos1944.html; --12 more issues of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group Newsletter. These are edited by by Carol Goodwin. Today's issues are from 2013. Thanks to Carol Goodwin for scanning them, and to John Bray for providing them to Fanac.org.; --1 issue of Forry's Outlandi from October 1944. Actually it's the only issue. For your retro pleasure. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --8 issues of Derek Pickle's Phantamagoria from the mid50s. Some of these are co-edited by Mavis Pickles, and others by Stan Thomas. Cartoons (some by Eddie Jones), articles, columns, reviews. This is a core fanzine for us to scan. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --2 more issues of Texas SF Inquirer. These are issues 30 and 42, edited by Dale Denton and Alexander Slate, from 1990-1991.; Dale Speirs sent us a PDF of issue #466 (2.5 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
January 31, 2020: For you:; --12 more issues of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group Newsletter. These are edited by by Rog Peyton and Carol Goodwin. Today's issues are from 2012. Thanks to Carol Goodwin for scanning them, and to John Bray for providing them to Fanac.org.; --1 more issue of Alva Rogers' fanzine Bixel from 1962. This is issue 1. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --4 more issues of Jeff Smith's Khatru. Includes the massive double issue 3/4 (over 160 pages) with the "Women in Science Fiction" Symposium. Participants: Susy McKee Charnas, Samuel R. Delany, Virginia Kidd, Ursula K. Le Guin, Vonda McIntyre, Raylyn Moore, Joanna Russ, James Tiptree, Jr, Luise White, Kate Wilhelm, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and it's edited by Jeffrey D. Smith. It's a dream team. "Officially, the Symposium ran from 10/9/74 to 5/8/75 (though minor revisions carried on well after), seven months and 168 pages of letters. Most of those 168 are here." Scans by Joe Siclari.; --1 more issue of James Kepner's Toward Tomorrow. This is issue 1, from Spring 1944. Unfortunately, the cover is missing. (Does anyone have one with a cover that they could scan? Or scan the cover and send that to us?). The issue is dedicated to the memory of A. Merritt. Scan by Joe Siclari.
January 29, 2020: Today's adds:; --24 more issues of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group Newsletter. These are edited by by Rog Peyton. Today's ssues are from 2010-2011. Thanks to Carol Goodwin for scanning them, and to John Bray for providing them to Fanac.org.; --1 issue of Alva Rogers' fanzine Bixel from 1962. This issue has a Ray Nelson cover, and an article by Cleve Cartmill. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --1 issue of T Dikty's Fantasy Digest, August 1939. "In this issue: Henry Kuttner Sam Moskowitz Eric Korshak Walter Sullivan J. Harvey Haggard Forrest J. Ackerman Harry Warner, Jr, Larry B. Farsaci" . Yep, Forry with a J period. There are more contributors, but those are the ones listed on the cover. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --1 issue of Jeff Smith's Khatru. This is issue 2 from 1975 and is the first Khatru we've put up. Thanks go to Jeff Smith and to Joe Siclari (who scanned the issue).; --1 issue of L. R. Chauvent's L'Oasis d'Horreur. It was distributed in 1941 in FAPA 15. It's in French. I can read some of it. Actually, some of it is a bit blurry.; --1 issue of L. R. Chauvenet's Nachgemachle Schild Krotensuppe. It was distributed in 1941 in FAPA 15. It's in German. I can't read it. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --3 issues of Mari Beth Wheeler's 1940s fanzine Rosebud, "fandom's intimate fanzine". There are two issues from 1944 for those looking to nominate in the Retro Hugos. Contributors include Forry Ackerman, Walt Leibscher, Bob Tucker, F.T. Laney, Dick Wilson, and Al Ashley. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --1 issue Don Miller's Son of the WSFA Journal, issue 5, February 1970. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --2 more issues of Lee Gold's Third Foundation. These are from 1968 when she was Lee Klingstein. Don't forget that when the zines are large, it may take a few seconds for them to come up on your screen. Have patience. They're there. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --1 issue of Eric Bentcliffe's Waldo. Issue 7, from 1983. Contributors include Mal and Hazel Ashworth, John Berry, Chuck Harris, and ATom. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; --2 issues of Jeanne Gomoll's perzine Whimsey from 1983. Thanks Jeanne!; --4 issues of the WSFA Journal from the 1990s. Various editors including Joe Mayhew. Scanning by Joe Siclari. Also a WSFA data sheet from 1970.
January 27, 2020: Today in fanac.org-; --12 more issues of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group Newsletter. These are edited by by Rog Peyton. Today's ssues are from 2009. Thanks to Carol Goodwin for scanning them, and to John Bray for providing them to Fanac.org.; --32 more issues of Cry of the Nameless! Steve Johnson saw a piece written by Andy Hooper which mentioned that we were looking for Crys, and responded with grand fannish generosity and sent us 32 early issues of Cry. Joe has now scanned and OCR'd them, and they are online for your viewing pleasure. It's hard to put these up without falling in to them. I can hear Buz when I read the editorials. The new issues are the ones marked on the index as provided by Steve Johnson. A couple of the issues have photos on the cover. Check out the photo of James White on the cover of issue 108. Thanks Steve!; --6 more issues of Janice Bogstad and Jeanne Gomoll's Janus. Issues 9-13, and 18 are from 1977-1980. There is much that is serious constructive here, eg the focus on Chip Delany in issue 12-13. Scans by Janice Bogstad and Jeanne Gomoll. OCR by Joe Siclari. Thanks Jeanne and Janice!
January 26, 2020: We've had fabulous contributions from all around the world to this archive. To shamelessly beg for more, we've put up a list of the zines we'd most like to scan here: http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/desired_fanzine_list_to_scan.html . If you have any of these, we'd love to get them online. Thanks!; I've updated the core list of fanzines to scan that we have prioritized. The titles haven't changed much since November (if any), but there's progress on many of them. You'll find it at: http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/core_fanzine_list_to_scan.pdf; We had erroneous information on the OMPAzine The Wall. Thanks to Rob Hansen, it's been corrected. Thanks Rob!; I've been having a little trouble with the new distributions of MT Void. Apologies on that. It's being resolved.; Added today:; --1 issue of Austra-Fantasy. This is issue 6, from September 1941. According to Pavlat-Evans, it's the last issue. Vol Molesworth, Donald Tuck, Bill Veney and more. Provided and scanned by Kim Huett. Thanks Kim!; --22 more issues of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group Newsletter. These are edited by by Rog Peyton and William McCabe. Today's ssues are from 2007 and 2008. Thanks to Carol Goodwin for scanning them, and to John Bray for providing them to Fanac.org.; --1 issue of Bill Watson's Diablerie. This is issue 5 from Nov 1944. There are articles by Walt Leibscher and Harry Warner Jr, satire, and poetry by several folks including Banks Mebane. After a full fannish career up north, Banks retired to Florida and became a stalwart of the South Florida Science Fiction Society.; --Replaced 21 issues of Inside and Inside, 2nd series with searchable PDFs. Scans and OCR by Mark Olson.; --1 issue of the N3F's Ionisphere, edited by John Thiel and sent by George Phillies. This is the February 2020 issue. Thanks George!; --8 issues of Janice Bogstad and Jeanne Gomoll's Janus. These are from the mid70s, full of lovely stuff. Provided and scanned by Janice and Jeanne. Thanks!; --2 issues of Richard Harter's Personal Notes. Both of these are from 1975. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; --7 issues of BSFA's Vector. Well actually it's 6 issues and one supplement. We've added issue 48, 96-100 and the Feb 1977 review supplement. Vector is a core fanzine for us to scan. Scanning for 2 of these by Joe Siclari. Thanks to Allen Stroud, Alex Bardy and Polina Levontin and the BSFA for their scans.
January 24, 2020: There's a new FANAC update today. You can see the current update, and all the old ones at http://fanac.org/fanzines/FANAC-Updates/. Check it out to find out what we've been doing (even the parts that don't show).; --Filksong Manual part 2, Bruce Pelz, 1966. Includes wonderful pieces like "Young Man Mulligan" (identify the references!), and "Highlights from My Fair Femmefan" by Carl Brandon. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --12 more issues of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group Newsletter. These are edited by by Rog Peyton. Today's ssues are from 2006. Thanks to Carol Goodwin for scanning them, and to John Bray for providing them to Fanac.org.; --1 issue of Lee Hoffman Shaw and Larry Shaw's Excelsior, dated "April 1, and vicinity, 1957". Do you miss interlineations? "ashestoashesanddusttodustifthefissiondon'tgetyouthefailoutmust" . Cover by ATom, and interior art by LeeH. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --5 issues of Richard Harter's Personal Notes, a 1970s perzine from the Boston area. For more about Richard Harter, see http://fancyclopedia.org/Richard_Harter . As always, if you have something to add to the Fancyclopedia article, please drop me a line.; --6 issues of Dick Wilson's newszine Science Fiction Newsletter from June and July of 1938. Beautiful hecto zines, provided and scanned by David Ritter. Thanks David!; --14 issues of Irwin Hirsh and Andrew Brown's newszine Thyme, from 1981-1982. These are early issues including #1 and #2. The fanzines were provided and scanned by Irwin Hirsh. Thanks Irwin!; --4 issues of The Wall, a round-robin done for OMPA in the early 1960s. Represented are Bill Donaho, Ethel Lindsay, and Jim Groves. "Ron Bennett was a worried man. For perhaps the first time in his fannish career, he had problems other than being the sole member of Harrogate fandom." Scans by Joe Siclari.
January 21, 2020: Today's bounty from the past (27 pubs)-; More from FAPA 30B -; --Blitherings #3, Chan Davis; --Chartreuse and Shocking Pink, Robert Lowndes; --Devil Take the Hindmost, A. Langley Searles; --STF Comment, Oliver Saari; --Twenty-First Century, Don Wollheim; --YHOS 12, Art Widner; --FAPA Index, Larry Shaw; Other; --11 more issues of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group Newsletter. These are edited by by Rog Peyton. Today's ssues are from 2005. Thanks to Carol Goodwin for scanning them, and to John Bray for providing them to Fanac.org.; --1 issue of two zines. The combined issue 8 of Walt Kessel's Cosmic Dust and Fred Warth's Luna Pono from October 1944. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --1 issue of Phil Bronson's Fantasite from Februay 1944. Nice cover (Ronald Clyne) and a good set of contributors including Milt Rothman, Harry Warner, Bruce Yerke, Bob Tucker, and Bob Bloch. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --1 issue of Lynn Bridges' Inspiration from Summer 1944. Distributed with FAPA 28. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --1 issue of Dale Speirs' Opuntia, dated Edgar Allan Poe's Birthday, 2020. It's issue #465. Thanks Dale.; --5 issues of Vector, the Critical Journal of the British Science Fiction Association. These are issues: 91-95. The issues from 91 through 94 are edited by Dave Wingrove, and issue 95 by Mike Dickinson. These are from from 1979. Vector is a core fanzine for us to scan. Thanks to Allen Stroud, Alex Bardy and Polina Levontin and the BSFA for their scans.
January 19, 2020: Today in Fanac.org, we've added:; We've started to add FAPA30B, the mailing from December 1944. More zines coming in the next few days, but here are 9 to start with. Scans for this mailing of FAPA from Joe Siclari.; --Agenbite of Inwit #7, Bob Lowndes; --En Garde #12, Al and Abby Lu Ashley; --Fandango #7A, F. T. Laney; --Fen 2, Jimmy Kepner; --Horizons 21, Harry Warner Jr; --Phanny V3#3, Don Thompson; --Phantagraph V12#4, Don Wollheim; --Sardonyx 13, L.R. Chauvenet; --Tale of the Evans 9, E. Everett Evans; Additionally, here are other zines added today.; --1 issue of Andy Anderson's Centauri, from 1944. Nice cover by Jack Miller. Fiction, articles, verse and humor. Familiar contributors such as Duane Rimel, Bob Tucker, Harry Warner Jr. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --11 more issues of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group Newsletter. These are edited by by Rog Peyton. Today's ssues are from 2004. Thanks to Carol Goodwin for scanning them, and to John Bray for providing them to Fanac.org.; --1 issue of Walt Kessel's Cosmic Dust. We've added issue 10 from 1947. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --1 issue of F.T. Laney's Fan-Dango. We added issue 5, which was distributed in FAPA 28.
January 18, 2020: Today in Fanac.org, we've added:; --12 more issues of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group Newsletter. These are edited by by Rog Peyton, Steve Jones and William McCabe. Today's ssues are from 2003. Thanks to Carol Goodwin for scanning them, and to John Bray for providing them to Fanac.org.; --2 issues of Ethel Lindsay's Haverings. These are issues 1 (1960) and 12 (1962). Issue 1 says "To be published every time the pile on my desk grows too high..." Scans by Joe Siclari.; --1 issue of Vince Clarke's Science Fantasy News from 1951-52. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; --2 issues of Lee Gold's Third Foundation. These are issues 89 and 92 from 1969-1970. Scans by Joe Siclari.
January 15, 2020: Today in Fanac.org, we've added:; --The first Filk publication. This was a 2 page song sheet by Jack Speer, produced for the 1940 Worldcon. It was provided and scanned by Filthy Pierre, aka Erwin Strauss. Thanks Filthy! You can find it here (and more to come): http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Filk/; --24 more issues of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group Newsletter. One is edited by Martin Tudor, and the remainder by Rog Peyton, Steve Jones and William McCabe. Today's ssues are from 2001-2002. Thanks to Carol Goodwin for scanning them, and to John Bray for providing them to Fanac.org.; --4 issues of Don Wilson's Dream Quest, ranging from issue 2 (1947) to issue 13 (1955). Fiction, articles and art. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --1 issue of Tightbeam, edited by George Phillies and Jon Swartz. From George Philies, we have issue 304 in two parts. Tightbeam, is the clubzine of the NFFF. Thanks George!; Replacements: Replaced King Goddard's Technocrat, issue 1 with a searchable PDF. OCR done by Joe Siclari.
January 12, 2020: Today in Fanac.org, we've added:; --12 more issues of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group Newsletter. Some are edited by Martin Tudor, and the remainder by Yvonne Rowse. These are from 2000. Thanks to Carol Goodwin for scanning them, and to John Bray for providing them to Fanac.org. We've also added an image of the first membership card issued for the BSFG - to Pete Weston. Thanks to Rob Hansen for providing and scanning the card. Cool stuff.; --3 issues of J. Michael Rosenblum's Futurian War Digest. These are 1944 issues, so you'll have them for your Retro Hugo consideration. We've also uploaed the fanzines that were bundled with them. We've added V4, #5 and #5, and V5, #2. The volume numbers in the zines themselves are different, but I've gone by Pavlat Evans. These are core fanzines for us to scan. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --1 issue of Leland Sapiro's Riverside Quarterly. This is a core fanzine for us to scan. Provided by Tom Whitmore, and scanned by Joe Siclari. Thanks Tom!; --13 (12?) issues of Dick Wilson's Science Fiction Newsletter from 1939. We have isses 67-78. The reason for the 12 and 13 confusion is that we have a V3,23a AND A V3,23b by two different guest editors (Lowndes and Speer). All the news of early 1939. These were provided and scanned by David Ritter. Thanks David!; --1 issue of Art Rapp's Spacewarp. This is issue 6 from September 1947. This is a core fanzine for us to scan. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; --1 issue of Time Warp, edited by Art Rapp and George Young. This is issue 1 from 1948. Fiction, poetry and a tongue in cheek manifesto. Scanning by Joe Siclari.
January 10, 2020: I misattributed the editorship of The Third Foundation the other day. It should properly be attributed to Lee Gold aka Lee Klingstein. Sorry about that, and thanks to Lee for the correction.; Today in Fanac.org, we've added:; --2 issues of Austra-Fantasy, edited by Warwick Hockley and Keith Taylor, from 1941. These are issues 4 and 5, and come to us courtesy of Kim Huett, who provided and scanned them. If you want to check your 1941 trivia chops, there's a quiz on page 28 of issue 5. Warning: includes questions on fan fiction. Thanks Kim!; --24 more issues of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group Newsletter. Some are edited by Martin Tudor, and the remainder by Yvonne Rowse. These are from 1998-1999. Thanks to Carol Goodwin for scanning them, and to John Bray for providing them to Fanac.org. We've also added an image of the first membership card issued for the BSFG - to Pete Weston. Thanks to Rob Hansen for providing and scanning the card. Cool stuff.; --5 more issues of the newszine Ember, edited by Don Brazier, from the mid 1940s. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --8 issues of Les Spinge, some issues edited by Ken Cheslin and others by Dave Hale. Issue 13 was stapled in two parts (and ran 100 pages). Contributors include George Locke, Mike Moorcock, John Berry, Archie Mercer, Terry Jeeves, ATom, and others. Les Spinge is a core fanzine for us to scan. Scanning by Mark Olson.; --3 issues of Light, edited by Leslie A. Croutch. These are issues 112-114 from 1942, and were provided and scanned by Bob Hurter. Thanks Bob! We really appreciate the trove of Canadian fanzines you've sent us.; --9 issues of PFJ, mostly edited by Michael Carroll. These are from the early 1990s, and say "Ireland's only Phunny Fantasy Journal". They were provided by Philippa Ryder and scanned at Dublin 2019. Thanks Philippa!; --1 issue of The Rocket, edited by Dan McPhail. We have the 1 page issue #1 from December 1937. Provided and scanned by Alistair Durie. Thanks Alistair! This fanzine changed names to "Phantasy Press" after 3 issues according to Pavlat-Evans.; --2 issues of Stf Hash, edited by Harry Jenkins. This is the complete run of 2 issues from 1941-1942. They were provided and scanned by Bob Hurter. Thanks Bob!
January 8, 2020: Today in Fanac.org, we've added:; --12 more issues of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group Newsletter. Edited by Martin Tudor, these are from 1997. Thanks to Carol Goodwin for scanning them, and to John Bray for providing them to Fanac.org.; --1 issue of Innuendo, edited by Terry Carr. We've added issue 11, completing the run. This is a core zine for us to scan. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; --3 issues of The Planeteer from 1935-1936, edited by Jim Blish. Provided and scanned by Alistair Durie. Thanks Alistair! It's exciting to get scans of fanzines that are this old.; --10 issues of Vector, the Critical Journal of the British Science Fiction Association. These are issues: 81-90. The issues from 81 through 83 are edited by Christopher Fowler and the rest of this batch are edited by Dave Wingrove. These are from from the early to mid 1970s. Vector is a core fanzine for us to scan. Thanks to Allen Stroud, Alex Bardy and Polina Levontin and the BSFA for their scans.
January 1, 2020: We're back to work after holiday travels. To all those who wrote with offers of fanzine scans, thank you very much. I'm working through the emails and the Dropbox treasures. Soon now (which is before RSN).; Today in Fanac.org, we've added 40 publications:; --12 more issues of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group Newsletter. Edited by Martin Tudor, these are from 1996. Thanks to Carol Goodwin for scanning them, and to John Bray for providing them to Fanac.org.; --5 issues of Rob Jackson's Maya. We have issues 9-11, 14-15. These were kindly provided by Rob and scanned at Dublin. Also in situ is the 1976 FAAN Awards Ballot. This completes the run of Maya. There's lots of choice reading material here. Thanks Rob!; --We have added the latest issue of the Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society's newsletter The MT Void, MT Void Vol. 38, No. 25, that was sent to us by Mark and Evelyn Leeper. Thank you both; --Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #463 (6.4 MB) and #464 (4.6 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.; --From George Philies, we have issue 303 of Tightbeam, edited by George Phillies and Jon Swartz. Tightbeam, is the clubzine of the NFFF. Thanks George!; --George Phillies sent us a PDFs of December 2019's issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's The National Fantasy Fan. Thanks George.; --18 issues of Vector, the Critical Journal of the British Science Fiction Association. These are issues: 61, 64-80. The issues from 61 through 68 are edited by Malcolm Edwards, and the rest in this batch are edited by Christopher Fowler. These are from from the early to mid 1970s. Vector is a core fanzine for us to scan. Thanks to Allen Stroud, Alex Bardy and Polina Levontin and the BSFA for their scans.
December 20, 2019: Uploads:; --12 more issues of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group Newsletter. Edited by Martin Tudor, these are from 1995. Thanks to Carol Goodwin for scanning them, and to John Bray for providing them to Fanac.org.; --2 Fannish calendars, one from Bruce Pelz in the 70s and the other from Joe Siclari for 2000. You can find them at http://fanac.org/fanzines/Calendars/.
December 17, 2019: Uploaded today:; --11 more issues of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group Newsletter. Edited by Martin Tudor, these are from 1994. Thanks to Carol Goodwin for scanning them, and to John Bray for providing them to Fanac.org.; --2 issues of Richard Schultz's fanzine, En Garde. This is a 1960s zine and most of it is focused on the TV show "The Avengers". He subtitles it "a magazine of personal opinion and natter...". Issue 6 is 110 pages long.; --2 issues of Lee and Barry Gold's fanzine, The Third Foundation. These are from 1969, and have material by Larry Niven, David Gerrold, Tom Digby and others. BTW, you can hear an interview with Lee and Barry on the Fanac YouTube channel. The interview is at: https://youtu.be/2awsfD6eGqI
December 16, 2019: Here's what's new today:; --Replaced 8 issues of Peter Vorzimer's fanzine, Abstract, with searchable PDFs. OCR by Mark Olson.; --5 issues of Don Brazier's newszine, Ember, from 1946-1947. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --12 more issues of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group Newsletter. Edited by Martin Tudor, these are from 1993. Thanks to Carol Goodwin for scanning them, and to John Bray for providing them to Fanac.org.; --1 issue of George Charters' fanzine, The Scarr. Issue 6, from November 1964 was added. There's an article by Bob Shaw in here! Scan by Joe Siclari.; --5 issues of Art Rapp's fanzine, Spacewarp. We've added issues 16 (1948), 65 (1960), 126, 129, and 133 (early '80s). This is a core fanzine for us to scan. Scan by Joe Siclari.
December 15, 2019: Today's additions are more than fanzines:; --3 issues of Charlie Hornig's The Fantasy Fan, from 1933-1934. We've added issues 3, 6, and 15, courtesy of the scanning of Kim Huett. Underneath the credit for "Editor: Charles D. Hornig", is the further credit "(Managing Editor: Wonder Stories). Charlie was 17.; --3 issues of Morojo's Guteto, from 1941-1942. Issues 2, 3 and 4 added today, scanned by Joe Siclari.; --12 more issues of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group Newsletter. Edited by Martin Tudor, these are from 1992. As always, thanks to Carol Goodwin for scanning them, and to John Bray for providing them to Fanac.org.; --Yearbooks:The Yearbook of Science, Weird, and Fantasy Fiction 1941, edited by Julius Unger and published in 1942. Before the net, before the NESFA Index, how was a fan to find and remember where individual stories were published. The Yearbook, published by Fantasy Fiction Field, had it all. Thanks to Tom Whitmore for providing it for scanning.; And now for something completely different. We've added a whack (43 images) of bid buttons, convention badges and membership cards. They're under the "Artifacts" section at http://fanac.org/Fan_Artifacts/ . This section is also where you find business cards, diaries, autograph books and other artifacts of fannish existence. If you ever lose the link, just click on the "More" link on the homepage.; Last, but not least, it's a YouTube day. In 1990, Moshe Feder, Linda Bushyager, Toni Weisskopf and Hank Davis made a roadtrip to Hagerstown, MD to interiew Harry Warner, Jr. Today, in 2 parts, we've put the interview up on YouTube. Thanks to Moshe for providing it. From the YouTube writeup: "Harry Warner, Jr., author of ALL OUR YESTERDAYS and A WEALTH OF FABLE (the major histories of fandom in the 40s & 50s), is interviewed by editor Moshe Feder...for screening at Corflu 7 in 1990. Harry was Fan Guest of Honor at Noreascon 1, a prolific fanzine editor, and the most prodigious letterhack in fandom. This interview is a rare opportunity to hear from him face-to-face. Harry Warner was somewhat of a recluse, nicknamed the "Hermit of Hagerstown". His fan activity was almost entirely on paper. In this interview, Harry talks about his entry into fandom, his thoughts on conventions, Spaceways and FAPA, the "Odd Tales Hoax", his experiences as a classical musician and more. He talks about the special appeal that fandom had for him." Part 1: https://youtu.be/s-Rs7S_S4dw and Part 2 at https://youtu.be/Slk56cwSC5A
December 13, 2019: Today on Fanac.org:; --12 more issues of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group Newsletter. Edited by Martin Tudor (11 issues), these are from 1991. As always, thanks to Carol Goodwin for scanning them, and to John Bray for providing them to Fanac.org.; --1 issue of fanzines/Destiny, edited by Malcom Willits and Jim Bradley. This is issue 2, from Fall, 1950. This is a core fanzine for us to scan. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --The latest issue of the Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society's newsletter The MT Void, MT Void Vol. 38, No. 24, edited by Mark and Evelyn Leeper. Thank you both.; --5 more issues of Vector, the Critical Journal of the British Science Fiction Association. These are issues 245-249, from 2006, edited by Niall Harrison and Geneva Melzack. Vector is a core fanzine for us to scan. Thanks to Allen Stroud, Alex Bardy and Polina Levontin and the BSFA for their scans.; --15 issues of Dick Wilson's newszine Science Fiction News Letter, from 1938-1939. Scanned and provided by David Ritter. Today we added issues: 53-56, plus an "EXTRA" issue and a Hoax News (Love) Letter. Thanks David!; --1 issue of Rhodomagnetic Digest, produced by the Elves', Gnomes', and Little Men's Science-Fiction Chowder and Marching Society. This issue from September 1950 was edited by Donald Baker Moore. This is a core fanzine for us to scan. Scan by Joe Siclari. This is the second Fall 1950 fanzine today. Curious.
December 11, 2019: Our big news is that Steve Rosenstein has most kindly donated a new blueray writer and disks to Fanac.org. He has been reviewing our backup policies, and providing advice and counsel. Part of the advice was to get a blueray writer for archival storage, and now thanks to Steve, we have one! Thank you Steve. You've been beyond wonderful.; --23 more issues of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group Newsletter. Edited by Dave Hardy, these are from 1989-1990. As always, thanks to Carol Goodwin for scanning them, and to John Bray for providing them to Fanac.org.; --CyberCozen, Leybl Botwinik, December 2019 issues. Thanks Leybl!; --SF Commentary, Bruce Gillespie, issue 76, October 2000 - the 30th anniversary issue, focused on George Turner. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --1980 ISFA calendar, Arthur O'Duffy, scanned at Dublin 2019. With illustrations!; --10 more issues of Vector, the Critical Journal of the British Science Fiction Association. These were edited by Andrew M. Butler from 2004-2005. Vector is a core fanzine for us to scan. Thanks to Allen Stroud, Alex Bardy and Polina Levontin and the BSFA for their scans.
December 10, 2019: Dale Speirs sent us a PDF of issue #462 (6.7 MB) of his perzine Opuntia, along with an updatd cumulative index. Thanks Dale.
December 9, 2019: I left out an important fact about Dick Wilson's Escape 2. On page 5, it contains what we believe to be Cyril Kornbluth's first published fiction. I think we may have skipped the OCR step on this issue. We'll get it updated at some point.; We've replaced issues 25 and 55-56 of SF Commentary with searchable PDFs. OCR thanks to Mark Olson. We also replaced Pong, issue 19-20 with a searchable PDF. OCR here is thanks to Joe Siclari.; Newly uploaded:; --12 more issues of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group Newsletter. Edited by Carol and Tony Morton, these are from 1988. Today's additions - issues 196-207. As always, thanks to Carol Goodwin for scanning them, and to John Bray for providing them to Fanac.org.; --2 issues of Jim Harmon's Radio Hero from 1963. This is a fanzine about Old Time Radio. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --9 issues of Vector, these edited by Andrew M. Butler from 2002-2004. Vector is the Offical Journal of the British Science Fiction Association, and a core fanzine for us to scan. Thanks to Allen Stroud, Alex Bardy and Polina Levontin and the BSFA for their scans. Vector published material by many well known fans and writers.
December 8, 2019: Today we have zines from 1939 to 1987, with a few in between.; --11 more issues of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group Newsletter. Edited by Carol and Tony Morton, these are from 1987. Today's additions - issues 184-188, 190-195. As always, thanks to Carol Goodwin for scanning them, and to John Bray for providing them to Fanac.org.; --1 issue of Escape, Dick Wilson, August 1939. There's an anecdote about Cyril Kornbluth, and another about Fred Pohl and Jack Gillespie in Hagerstown soon after "the convention from which they were barred." We met Dick in the early 80s, during several of his visits to the Florida residence of Dave Kyle. It always pleases me to be able to put his fanzines online. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --2 issues of Yerke's The Knanve, 1944. For background on the Knanves, see fancyclopedia.org . Scans by Joe Siclari.; --2 issues of Son of a Beach, edited by Les Schachter, 1970-1971. This was a fanzine of the Terminal Club, at the State Unitercity of New York at Binghamton. Issue 2 has a long article by Priscilla Pollner on the "Folklore of Fandom". You may know her better as Priscilla Olson. There's also a reprint of a Joanna Russ piece on "The Image of Women in Science Fiction". Scan by Mark Olson.
December 7, 2019: Today in Fan History:; --2 issues of Destiny, edited by Malcom Willits and Jim Bradley. These are issues 1 and 6 from 1950-1951. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --9 more issues of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group Newsletter. Edited by Carol and Tony Morton, these are from 1986. Today's additions - issues 173-175, 177-178, 180-183. As always, thanks to Carol Goodwin for scanning them, and to John Bray for providing them to Fanac.org.; --The War Lock, by Forry Ackerman for the Fall 1942 FAPA mailing. This is subtitled "An Open and Shut Letter (to Persons like Pogorus)". Scan by Bob Hurter.; --Xenolith, Bill Bowers perzine, 2nd series, issue 4. Scan by Mark Olson.
December 6, 2019: Hope all the US folks had a happy Thanksgiving.; It's been more than a week since the last update, so here goes. We have a modest 31 fanzines to tell you about.; --16 more issues of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group Newsletter. By various editors, these are from the mid 1980s. Today's additions - issues 133, 141, 144, 146-148, and 162-171.As always, thanks to Carol Goodwin for scanning them, and to John Bray for providing them to Fanac.org.; -- 1 issue of Geri Sullivan's Idea. We've added issue 2 from March 1989. Scans by Mark Olson.; -- Latest issue of the Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society's newsletter The MT Void, MT Void Vol. 38, No. 23, that was sent to us by Mark and Evelyn Leeper. Thank you both.; -- 5 issues of Polaris, edited by Paul Freehafer. We have issues 1-4 and 6 from 1939-1941. There was an extract from issue 4 up already, but today we put up the whole issue. The story in the extract is said to be by Rimel and Lovecraft. Rimel's name is the only one I see in the fanzine. The story is widely attibuted to Lovecraft. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; -- 6 issues of Robert Silverberg's Spaceship. We've added issues 17-18, and 23-26 from 1952 to 1954. Walt Willis, Red Boggs, Lee Hoffman, Harry Warner Jr, Harlan Ellison, and Robert Silverberg, along with others. Scans by Joe Siclari.; -- 1 issue (the only issue) of Strange Fantasy by Larry Farsaci and Francis Litz, 1940. This is combined with Litz's Outre 3. Scan by Bob Hurter.; -- 1 issue of Frank Lunney's Syndrome, issue 3 from 1973. Scan by Joe Siclari.
December 3, 2019: Added the latest issue (#20) of the N3F's Ionisphere, edited by John Thiel and sent by George Phillies.
November 26, 2019: Correction to info on the Fantasy Tarot Deck. Rich Lynch points out that it should b 1980, rather than 1981 for the date. Thanks Rich!; Dale Speirs sent us a PDF of issue #461 (5.4 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
November 24, 2019: In 1981, Bruce Pelz published a Fantasy Showcase Tarot Deck. It's now online under "Artzines" at http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Artzines/. The Tarot Deck is very cool, with different cards done by different artists. Artists include some of the best fan artists around (and a few pros): Josh Kirby, Ross Chamberlain, Bill Rotsler, Anne Chancellor, Harry Bell, Ken Fletcher, Reed Waller.... You get the idea. If you missed the chance to acquire a copy of the Tarot Deck, Elayne Pelz still has a few for sale for $45. If you are interested, contact her at elaynepelz at verizon.net . Thanks to Elayne for allowing us to scan this, and thanks to Mark Olson for doing the scans.; We have 27 issues of Vector added today. Vector is the Offical Journal of the British Science Fiction Association, and a core fanzine for us to scan. 25 of these were scanned by the BSFA - issues 16-21, 23-26, 32, 34-37, 40-45, 57-60. Two of them were scanned by Joe Siclari - issues 29 and 52. Thanks to Allen Stroud, Alex Bardy and Polina Levontin and the BSFA for their scans. Vector published material by many well known fans and writers - John Brunner, Christopher Priest, Ken Slater, Brian Aldiss, Malcolm Edwards, Terry Jeeves, etc. Very cool stuff.; Also today, we replaced 13 more issues of SF Commentary with searchable PDFs. OCR by Mark Olson.
November 23, 2019: 61 items today (63 if you count the TAFF Ballots). We also replaced Norm Metcalf's New Frontiers, issue 4, with a searchable PDF.; Let's start with TAFF. We're scanning the trip reports and placing them (slowly) in the new TAFF directory - http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/TAFF/. Today's additions: TAFF ballots from 1956 and 1969, Eric Bentcliffe's "TAFF Reporter 1", and Eric's 1961 TAFF Report - "Epi-TAFF". Scans by Joe Siclari.; --24 issues: Birmingham Science Fiction Group News, various editors. We've added issues 111-113, 117-122, 124-127, and 149-160. Scans by Carol Goodwin, and provided by John Bray. Thanks to the BSFG for these!; --7 issues: Degler!, Andrew Porter, issues 172-178. Scans by Mark Olson.; --9 issues: Ember, Don Brazier. This includes issue 1 titled "Spark", and later renamed to Ember.. We've added issues 1, 5, 7, 21, 25, 27, 28, 30, and 32 of Ember. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; --2 issues: Flatbush Artery, Fred Pohl, 1938. These are not SF zines, but are publications for the Young Communist League. It is edited by a fan, Fred Pohl, and has articles by fans, John Michel and Helen Glaser. These zines answer any question people may have about whether Pohl had any Communist leanings. "In a 1989 conversation I had with him, Milt Rothman still blamed his association with Pohl for his inabilty to clear security regulations for working in nuclear research in the 1940s"- Joe Siclari. Scanned and provided by Alistair Durie.; --3 issues: Proper Boskonian, issues 34 and 37, edited by Ken Knabbe and issue 44 edited by Lisa Hertel. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --11 issues: PSFS News, and SF Viewsletter (various editors). It's a mixed grouping. We've added PSFS News issues from: March & May 1951, Nov 1943, Oct 1944, Nov 1945, Mar 1946, and April 1952. There are also issues of "SF Viewsletter" edited by George Heap. These are marked "in the interest of the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society". Those are dated May, June, Sept, and October 1960. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --3 issues: Vector, the Offical Journal of the British Science Fiction Association. Thanks to Allen Stroud, Alex Bardy and Polina Levontin. Today we added issues 22, 38, and 39. Scans provided by BSFA.
November 22, 2019: I received a question from Justin Busch about the last lines of the last few pages of the fanzine Australian Fan News. Justin wanted to know if there was any way to improve the legibility. From Kim Huett who scanned the zines: "I totally forgot to mention that the bottom line on each page of this fanzine is unintelligible. My best guess is that whoever typed the original pages went just a little too far down the stencil. Probably because the editor was unfamiliar with the machine it was printed on...A further thought. I'm pretty sure Bill Veney didn't own a printer and so had to the flatbed machine owned by either Bill Castellari or Vol Molesworth (jds). In which case it's quite likely he didn't know how much of the stencil he could use. Fanzine production was a bit complicated in Australia during the 40s it has to be said." Now you know.; Today we added 37 fanzines(!).; --2 collections/anthologies. First, Quo Davis, a festschrift to honor Hank Davis on his 30th birthday edited by Moshe Feder (1972). Second, 14 Bob the Bushel, a collection of Bob Shaw's "Glass Bushel" columns by Bruce Pelz (1995). You can find them at http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Fanthologies/. Hint: 14 is spelled out and the list is alphabetical.; --17 issues of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group Newsletter. Thanks to the good offices of John Bray and the scanning of Carol Goodwin, we have a goodly number of these to put up. There will be more coming. Pete Weston was the editor of the first newsletter.; --2 issues of Mainstream, edited by Jerry Kaufman and Suzle Tompkins. Jerry kindly scanned issues 1 and 2 for us, completing the run.; --12 issues of Norstrilian News, mostly edited by John Foyster, with one by Leigh Edmonds. We've added issues 1 and 6-15 incl 10A all from 1970. Scanning by Mark Olson.; --2 issues of The Phantagraph, edited by Don Wollheim. Issues 36 and v13, num 4 from the 1940s. By volume 13, DAW had stopped putting whole numbers on the zine. Scans provided by Alistair Durie. Thanks Alistair!; --2 issues of South of the Moon, edited by Tim Marion and David Ortman. We've added issues 10 and 10s (a supplement) from 1975.
November 20, 2019: A nice count of 33 new zines for you today, ranging in publication date from 1936 to 2019, an 83 year span.; --2: Arcturus, edited by Harold W. Kirshenblit, issues 2 and 3 from Jan/Feb 1936, provided and scanned by Alastair Durie. Thanks Alastair!; --10: Ember, edited by Don Brazier. This is a hectozine so parts are a little faded. We have issues 3, 8-9, 11-15, 22, and 33 from 1946 and 1947. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; --1: Horizons, Harry Warner Jr. issue 43 from summer 1950. We've also replaced issue 70 with a searchable PDF. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; --3: Operation Fantast, Ken Slater. Issues V1N4 and V2N6, from 1950 scanned by Thomas Recktenwald, along with Fantast Sidetrack (1954). All we had before for the two Operation Fantasts was a table of contents. Now, thanks to Thomas, we have the zines!; --4: Science and Fantasy Fan Reporter, Colin Roden (AU), issues 26-28, and 34 all from 1942. These were provided and scanned by Kim Huett.; --1: Telefan by Vol Molesworth (AU). The one and only issue, from March 1941. Provided and scanned by Kim Huett.; --12: Vector, the Offical Journal of the British Science Fiction Association. Proper credits and more issues are coming but thanks for now to Allen Stroud, BSFA president and the BSFA board for providing these scans for the archive. Thanks also to Alex Bardy and Polina Levontin. We also uploaded a 2018 publication "Through the Decades - Sixty Years of the BSFA 1958-2018" aka the Best of Vector, Vol II. Thank you guys!
November 18, 2019: Today's haul in 4 parts:; From Kim Huett, we have a batch of interesting Australian Newszines.; --Australian Fan News, by Bill Veney. As far as I know, this is the only issue. Bill Veney chaired the first Australian Science Fiction convention in Sydney in 1952. Scanned and provided by Kim Huett.; --Science and Fantasy Fan Reporter, various editors. We have 13 more issues today, from 13-25. Note that Pavlat-Evans only lists them up through 15, so here you go. Thanks Kim!; From Joe Siclari's fanzine scanning, we have an issue of John D. Berry's Foolscap, issue 13 from 1978. Note that he used a piece of art that was not new, and so the cover says "Foolscap 7". It fooled us, and the title metadata lists the wrong issue. It's on our list to fix.; --Also from Joe Siclari's scanning, the 1955 edition of Tucker's Neo-Fans Guide. Fandom explained in 10 pages.; The 3rd part of the additions today: another 24 photos from the collection of Howard DeVore. You can see them at http://fanac.org/Fan_Photo_Album/v01-p00.html Scans by Joe Siclari.; The 4th part is an addition from a regular contributor. George Phillies sent us a PDF of November 2019's issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's The National Fantasy Fan. Thanks George.
November 17, 2019: Today's haul has 24 fanzines from Australia, Northern Ireland, England and the US.; --Starting with the fanthologies, we have 2. There's "Curt Phillips for TAFF!" from Randy Byers and Claire Brialey (2014), and the "Best of Entmoot", from Greg Shaw (1970). You'll find them in the Fanthologies index at http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Fanthologies/ . Scans by Joe Siclari.; --The Scarr, George Charters, issue 111 aka issue 13, November 66. "The Scarr" is of course an anagram of "Charters". This was done for OMPA 50. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Science and Fantasy Fan Reporter, from Eric F. Russell, Colin Roden, Graham Stone and Vol Molesworth. We add this newszine title and 12 issues from 1941, Australia. These were scanned and provided by Kim Huett. Thanks Kim!; --Science Fantasy News, Vince Clarke, issues 7, 8 and 11 from 1951-52. This continues the newszine theme and brings it to England. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Space Diversions, issue 7 from Norman Shorrock, John Roles and David Gardner. This issue is over 100 pages long. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Spaceship, from Robert Silverberg with some co-edited by Saul Diskin. Here we have issues 5, 9, 10 and 13 from 1949 to 1951. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Waldo from Eric Bentcliffe, issue 2. Scan by Joe Siclari.
November 16, 2019: It's a YouTube day today. I've uploaded the Harlan Ellison Memorial panel that was held at Worldcon 76. From the YouTube description: "This Memoriam panel (audio, with pictures) features memories and anecdotes from Tom Whitmore, Robert Silverberg (who was a friend of Harlan's for 65 years), Chris Barkley, David Gerrold, Christine Valada and Nat Segaloff (Harlan's biographer). Each of the panelists had a close relationship with Harlan, and these loving but clear-eyed reminiscences are a comfort to those that miss him, and hopefully to those readers who never had a chance to meet him. Harlan was an enormous presence in science fiction. His stories, his scripts, his kindnesses and his sometimes unbelievable missteps will be long remembered. Recording provided by Karen G. Anderson and Richard Lynch." It was all I could do to not add my own Harlan stories to the description. My favorite memory may be watching Harlan try to convince my then 5 year old that violence was wrong, and that he should not watch Godzilla movies. https://youtu.be/na3dLxm0AYE; In the world of written material, we've added a few things to the site (scans by Joe Siclari).; First, a searchable PDF version of the magnificent John Bristol (aka Jack Speer) effort Fancyclopedia 1 in our reference section. More reference materials here: http://www.fanac.org/Fannish_Reference_Works/; For the newsminded, SF Parade, issues 3 and 5 from 56-57, a special Walt Willis one-shot from 57 and a 1962 issue edited by Stan Woolston.
November 15, 2019: It's been a few days since I did a 'What's New' entry, but I have been putting up a few things.; First, thanks to Bruce Mai and Filthy Pierre for their photo corrections. I've got some of them up, and am working on the rest. Thanks guys!; Secondly, if you're on our mailing list, you received a Flash Update from Joe Siclari. Thanks to a suggestion we received after the last newsletter, we're using Mailchimp to distribute future communications. If you didn't get one and you'd like to be on our mailing list, let me know at fanac@fanac.org . If you believe you're on our mailing list already but didn't get the Flash, then please let me know that also. We had some email bounces and I may have misread your email address from one of our signup sheets at a convention somewhere.; Ok onward. If I've added correctly, we have 35 items added to the archive for this edition of 'what's new'.; --Idea, Geri Sullivan, issue 4, February 1992. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --ISFA Newsletter, edited by Richard Gallagher. We added the first 8 issues (from 1976-77). These were provided by Philippa Ryder and scanned at Dublin 2019.; --Lowdown, Richard Labonte, issue 1, 1968, which completes the run. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --The MT Void, MT Void Vol. 38, No. 20,Mark and Evelyn Leeper. Thanks Mark and Evelyn!; --Opuntia, Dale Speirs, issue #460. Thanks Dale!; --Science Fiction Review, Richard E. Geis, issues 14, 16, 19-20, 23, 26, and 36-38. These were scanned and provided to us by Jim Harris. There's something a little screwy with the title metadata on these. When you look up at the title tab, you'll see nonsense letters. We'll fix that, but for now the fanzines are up as is. Thanks Jim!; --Scottishe, Ethel Lindsay, issues 63-64 from 1972. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Sky Hook, Redd Boggs, issue 2, May 1948. On page 4, "FAN MEETS AUTHOR: The talk at the post-meeting session of MFS members had got around to the subject of mutants. Someone said reflectively, "There was a good story in Astounding some time ago about a mutant -- a kid and his dog... What was the name of it?" Poul Anderson blinked a few times, then ascertaining that the otner was not kidding, remarked, "It was called 'Logic'. I wrote it. " Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Spacewarp, Art Rapp, issue 85, 1967. Scanned by Joe Siclari.; --Texas SF Inquirer, issue 43, edited by Dale Denton and Alexander Slate, 1991. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Xero, Dick and Pat Lupoff, issues 3 and 4 of Xero Comics from 1961. Scans by Joe Siclari; --Yandro, Buck and Juanita Coulson. Issues 193-195 and 197. Scanned by Mark Olson.; And two special items.; --TAFF material. Joe Siclari has rescanned "ATom Abroad" and made it a searchable PDF. Over time, we'll migrate the TAFF reports to this spot on the site.; --Musicals. We've added the script and a glossary for the Dublin 2019 production of "The Enchanted Duplicator - The Musical", written and updated by Irwin "Filthy Pierre" Strauss, who provided the material to us. Thanks Filthy!; Also, for those that are interested, I've updated our progress on the list of core fanzines to scan. You can find it here - http://fanac.org/fanzines/core_fanzine_list_to_scan.pdf
November 11, 2019: More fanzines today. If you received the last newsletter, we pointed you to our list of fanzines that are high priority for us to scan. I'll try to indicate which ones are "core" as I report on what we've put on line. The list can be found at: http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/core_fanzine_list_to_scan.pdf; Today, all the uploads are core. We have 16 newly uploaded issues:; --Erg, Terry Jeeves, issues 0 and 133. How's that for a spread. There's also an upgraded 64 with a fewm ore pages. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Pot Pourri, John Berry, issues 18 and 46. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --SF Review, Richard E. Geis, issues 30-33 from 1969. Jim Harris has kindly provided the scans to us. Thanks Jim!; --Scottishe, Ethel Lindsay, Issues 62, 67, and 68. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Spacewarp, Art Rapp, issues 73, 77 and 80 from the 1960s. Additionally, we replaced issue 76 with a searchable PDF. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Xero, Dick and Pat Lupoff, issues 1 and 4. Scans by Joe Siclari.
November 10, 2019: First, a few miscellaneous items. In our quest to move to the searchable format, we've replaced Andy Porter's Algol 15 with a searchable PDF. It's at http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Algol/Algol15.pdf .; Also, we've replaced the 4 PDF listing of Joe Siclari's Fanzine Archive colllection with a single bigass PDF. It says A-E on the first page, but ignore that. It's the whole collection. Easier to search, easier to deal with. Thanks Joe. Oh yes, you can find it at: http://www.fanac.org/Fannish_Reference_Works/Bibliographies/FanzineArchive/fanzine_archive.pdf; Now on to the 16 newly uploaded fanzines.; --CyberCozen, Leybl Botwinik, Oct and November 2019 issues. Thanks Leybl!; --Fantasy War Bulletin, C.S. Youd, issues 4, 7, and 8, 1940. These were provided by Rob Hansen. Thank you Rob!; --Light, Leslie Croutch, issues 118-120, 1942. Scanned by Bob Hurter, from the collection of Canadian fan, Fred Hurter. Thanks Bob!; --The Time Scanner, Bob Studley, 1941. This is the complete run of 2 issues. Scan by Bob Hurter. Thanks again!; --Yandro, Buck and Juanita Coulson, issues 187-192 from 1969. Scans by Mark Olson. Thanks Mark!
November 8, 2019: Dale Speirs sent us a PDF of issue #459 (2.7 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
November 7, 2019: Today's roster of 25 fanzines (plus a few pieces of ephemera).; --Haverings, a review zine by Ethel Lindsay. We've added 18 issues, along with a couple of pieces of ephemera. I was happy to get a guestbook comment recently from someone that really appreciated the ephemera we've been adding. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Mikros. We've added issue 7, (Vol 2, #1), from Spring 1941. This was edited by Russ Hodgkins, Henry Kuttner, Art Barnes, Jim Mooney, and Fred Shroyer. The zine was provided and scanned by Alistair Durie. Thanks Alistair! I've added you to our list of contributors at http://www.fanac.org/FANAC_Inc/fancont.html . If anyone out there has contributed time, material, scanning, articles for Fancy 3, etc. and is NOT on that list, please let me know. Send a note to fanac@fanac.org and I'll put your name on it. I know we're missing a number of names.; --Outworlds, Bill Bowers, issues 8.5 and 8.75 from 1972. I know, a quarter point issue is a bit strange. Warning: issue 8.5 is marked as a "supplement for consenting adults". Issue 8.75 is a lettercol. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Prehensile, Mike Glyer, November 1974, issue 13. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; --From George Philies. we have issue 302 of Tightbeam, edited by George Phillies and Jon Swartz. This one is in 2 parts. Tightbeam of course, is the clubzine of the NFFF. Thanks George!; --Triode. We've added issues 3 and 4, edited by Eric Bentcliffe and Terry Jeeves, and issues 20, 22, 25, 26 edited by Eric Bentcliffe. Issue 26 is the last issue, and they range over 20 years. Scanning by Joe Siclari.
November 4, 2019: We've started a new fan photo album for Howard DeVore's collection. When photos are identified as having been taken at a convention, generally we put them on the convention page. For the non-convention photos from Howard's collection, we have this album at http://fanac.org/Fan_Photo_Album/v01-p00.html. There are some rarely seen fans pictured like Raymond Washington (he of the Cosmic Circle), along with old friends like Pat and Roger Sims, and folks we would have liked to know like Doc Smith. Thanks to Karol DeVore Sissom and Mark Hickman for getting these to Joe Siclari for scanning.; There are two new titles in the fanzine department. Curiously, they both end in an exclamation point, although one is in quotes.; --Sound Off!, Joseph Gilbert, 1941. We have the complete run of 3 issues thanks to Bob Hurter. These were scanned from the collection of Fred Hurter.; --The 'Pseudo-Futurian!', J. Michael Rosenblum, all 4 issues from 1940. The 'Pseudo-Futurian!' then combined with Science Fantasy Review's War Digest to become the Futurian War Digest. Three of these issues were provided by Rob Hansen, and Joe Siclari supplied the last, completing the run.
November 3, 2019: 23 additional publications uploaded today, along with replacing 3 more publications with PDFs instead of JPGs.; --Duplicating Without Tears! is the new entry here. It's a symposium, edited by Vin¢ Clarke. This is where we are collecting articles and publications on how to (physically) pub your ish. This contribution comes from Rob Hansen. Thanks Rob!; --Fantasy Foundation publications. This index has "I Bequeath" by Forry Ackerman (1946), and a Checklist of Fantasy Magazines, 1945 edition. Scans by Joe Siclari. Read a 1959 article from Fancyclopedia 2 about the Fantasy Foundation in Fancyclopedia 3 - http://fancyclopedia.org/fantasy-foundation. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Light, Leslie Croutch. 14 issues added: 115-117, 121-122, 124-128, 34-36, and 43. The numbering in this list is ordered by design. Light started with issue 108, ran to 135 and then changed its numbering to start back at issue 29. Scans by Bob Hurter from the collection of Fred Hurter.; --Sustaining Program, Jack Speer. Issues 9-13 (1941-1942) are newly online, and the other 3 issues from 1942 have been replaced with PDFs. Scans by Bob Hurter. Thanks Bob!; --The History of SF Fandom in New Zealand, 1981, Nigel Rowe, scan by Mark Olson. We have a number of short histories of various aspects of fandom in our history section. Look here to see them listed by geography and by decade: http://fanac.org/Fan_Histories/
November 1, 2019: Today's count is 12 fanzines and 23 photos. All scans besides Opuntia today by Joe Siclari.; --Diablerie, Bill Watson, 1944, issues 1 and 3. Articles by F. T. Laney, and E. Hoffman Price. Published by "Watson and his Cohorts in Horror" just too late for Halloween.; --Dale Speirs sent us a PDF of issue #458 (6.9 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.; --Peon, Charles Riddle, issue 36 from December 1955.; --unterHelios, Joe Siclari, issues 2 and 3 from the mid1970s.; --SFSFS Shuttle, Joe Siclari and Edie Stern. 4 issues from the mid 90s. Yes, we are scanning our fanzines too. This was the clubzine of the South Florida Science Fiction Society. I flipped through these issues and was scandalized at a missed typo in an editorial. Summabitch. However, I really liked one of the other editorials (so generating my own egoboo apparently).; --Shadow of a Fan, Joe Siclari, w Edie Stern. Issues 1 and 2; All the photos today are from the collection of Howard DeVore, courtesy of Karol DeVore Sissom and Mark Hickman.; --MidWestCon - 11 photos from MidWestcon. Of these 5 are from MidWestCon 1 in 1950 and 6 are from MidWestCon 50 in 1999. One of these is a photo of Howard DeVore and Margaret Kiefer, the only people to have attended all 50 MidWestCons.; --Discon 1 - 12 masquerade photos from Discon 1 in 1963.
October 31, 2019: Thanks to Karol DeVore Sissom, we are scanning photos from the collecton of Howard DeVore. Today, we put up 19 photos from Detention from Howard's collection. http://www.fanac.org/worldcon/Detention/w59-p00.html . Scans by Joe Siclari.; We also added two calendars today, one from 1960 (George Barr) and the other from 1969 (Tim Kirk). They're now in a directory set aside for calendars, and I'm sure there will be more as we go forward. You can see it at: http://fanac.org/fanzines/Calendars/ . Scans by Joe Siclari.
October 29, 2019: 16 publications for you today (although one is just a bookmark from 1944).; --Triode, Eric Bentcliffe, issues 21, 23-24, from 1975-76. Contributions from Bob Shaw, Terry Jeeves, Tom Perry, Rob Jackson, John Berry and others. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; --Scarr, George Charters, issue 14 aka issue 112, March 1967.; FAPA 29, September 1944. Finally finished, and as complete as it is going to get. Today we added 12 zines. Please go to the FAPA 29 index to link to individual zines.; --Elmurmurings 3, Elmer Purdue, August 44; --FFF Presents Richard Tooker and ER Burroughs; Julius Unger, September 44,; --Janus 1, Paul Spencer, September 44; --Mad Muse, James Russell Gray, September 44; --Panty Raiser 1, Jimmy Kepner and F. T. Laney, September 1944; --Paradox 8, Frank Wilimczyk; --Rouzine; Gordon K. Rouze; --Shangri Luna'Affaires, Claude Degler, a Cosmic Circle publication; --Star Bound bookmark; Litterio Farsaci; These last 3 FAPA contributions are of a type.; --Open Letter to All Members of FAPA, Robert Lowndes, September 1944; --Open Letter to Officers and members, F. Towner Laney / Walt Daugherty / James Kepner / Morojo / Mel Brown / Forrest J Ackerman, September 1944; --These Amazing Amendments, Al Ashley
October 26, 2019: We've put up 4 more fanzines from the Fred Hurter collection, scans courtesy of Bob Hurter.; --http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/YHOS/, issues 1 and 2 of Art Widner's YHOS from 1941; --http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Last_Testament/, the complete run of Last Testament, by Lee Eastman, 1941-1942. That's issues 1-2.; We started a new directory on fanzine reproduction. It's http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/How_we_used_to/ "How We Used To". The first item here comes from Ahrvid Engholm. It's a 127 page publication called "The Stencil Duplicated Newspaper", from FS and Damon Knight, 1941. We'll put more "how to" materials in this directory as we find them. Thanks Ahrvid!; And of course, more fanzines went up as well.; --http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Looking_Ahead/, Looking Ahead, Jack Robins, 3/1940. Issues 1 and 2 (both from March of 1940). Scanning by Joe Siclari.; --http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Yandro/, Yandro, Buck and Juanita Coulson, issues 180-183. We've also replaced the JPGS on seeral other issues with searchable PDFs - issues 146-150, 152. Scanning by Mark Olson.; --Dale Speirs sent us a PDF of issue #458 (6.9 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.; --George Phillies sent us a PDFs of October 2019's issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's The National Fantasy Fan. Thanks George.; FANAC Update #10 has been uploaded as well; it was sent out on 10/24/19. You can find it at: http://www.fanac.org/FANAC_Inc/update1019.pdf; That's 14.
October 22, 2019: For your reading pleasure, we have 18 zines from the early 40s, all courtesy of Bob Hurter from the collection of Fred Hurter. Bob provided us these scans and more; these are the first ones to be uploaded (after OCR) to the Fan History Project. Thanks Bob!; --2 issues of Le Vombiteur, Doc Lowndes, issues 34 and 37 from 1940, http://fanac.org/fanzines/LeVombiteur/; --13 issues of Light, Leslie Croutch, early 40s. We have issues: 29-33, 108-111, 123, 134, 135, and Light Flashes 1. Note that issues 29-33 are from a later date. These issues are the "new" Light.; --3 issues of Sci-Fic Variety, Bob Tucker, issues 3,4,5 from 1941 and 1942.
October 20, 2019: Updates for the last few days include 11 more FAPA 29 zines, a script for a science fiction musical, and another 6 fanzines. We have received a number of scans from Bob Hurter, son of Canadian fan Fred Hurter (who edited "Censored"). We're running them through the OCR process and will start putting them up shortly. Thanks very much to Bob Hurter for helping us to preserve this material.; Today we have a new MT Void, providing me my eye-roll moment of the day. Thanks to Mark and Evelyn Leeper, we get new issues regularly, and I have a software routine that accepts them and readies them for posting on Fanac.org. However, today's issue started with a section by Mark asking folks to stop using the word "million" in emails to him, so he could filter out all the spam that offered to make him rich. My software decided that this MT Void, which quoted a number of such emails, was itself spam and refused to process it. Thanks to the magic of manual processing, the new issue is up, but that was an unexpected consequence of this particular fannish diatribe. You can read it at: http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/MT_Void/MT_Void-3816.html; Getting back to our regular update, from FAPA 29 and scanned by Joe Siclari, we have; --An Anonymous Civilian, Bill Watson, http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/FAPA-Misc/FAPA-Misc46.pdf; --FAPA Fan, Donald Wollheim, #15, http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/FAPAFan/; --Fandango 6, F. Towner Laney, http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Fan-Dango/; --Guteto V4, #2, Morojo, http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Guteto/; --Light 132; Leslie Crouch, http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Light/; --Milty's Mag Fall 1944; Milton Rothman; http://fanac.org/fanzines/Miltys_Mag/; --Nucleus, V5, #2 , August 1944; Louis Kuslan, http://fanac.org/fanzines/Nucleus/; --Presenting Adam Singlesheet, September 1944, Forrest Ackerman, http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/FAPA-Misc/FAPA-Misc45.pdf; --Sardonyx V3, #4, Fall 1944, Chauvenet, http://fanac.org/fanzines/Sardonyx/; --Tale of the Evans, V2, 4, Fall 1944, E. Everett Evans, http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Tale_Evans/; --Twilight Echoes 1, Fall 1944, Joe Fortier, http://fanac.org/fanzines/Twilight_Echoes/; Andy Hooper sent us a musical treasure. It's a scan of the script for The Purple Pastures, performed at the 1960 Pittcon, written by Terry Carr/Carl Brandon in 1958, and adapted for presentation by LASFS in 1960. This was produced jointly by LASFS-CHIAC for the 1960 Pittcon, and performed on September 4, 1960. Thanks Andy! BTW, I didn't know what "CHIAC" was so I looked it up in Fancyclopedia.org - http://fancyclopedia.org/chiac; We've also posted the August 2019 Fanac.org update online, finally. It was sent from a Dublin hotel room before worldcon, and managed to evade online publication. If you missed it, you can read it here - http://www.fanac.org/FANAC_Inc/update081419.pdf; 5 other fanzines added (all scanned by Joe Siclari):; -- Richard E. Geis, issues 1, 2, 1975, along with Geis Letter 48 from 1998. These are listed on a common index page for all of the Geis pubs, so if it looks funny, just keep scrolling down till you see what you're looking for.; --Scientifriction, issue 5, Mike Glyer, 1978.; --Texas SF inquirer issue 49, Alexander Slate, April 93.
October 16, 2019: 27 zines added today.; First, we finished uploading FAPA 28. There were 2 last Cosmic Circle Publications to add - a membership report, and what appears to be yet another version of Cosmic Circle Monthly. Now onward to FAPA 29, already in progress. You can find all the Cosmic Circle pubs listed at http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Cosmic_Circle_Pubs/; The oldest zine of the day was scanned and provided by David Ritter. It's the first annual edition of Tesseract, from May, 1939, edited by C. Hamilton Bloomer. Thanks David!; We've also added the complete 13 issue run of Outlander. This was the Official Organ of the Outlander Society in Southern California and had a different editor for every issue. The first issue was in February, 1949, and the cover of this copy features signatures by Forry Ackerman, Len Moffatt, Con Pederson and a bunch of others. There's also 2 pages of bibliographic notes included. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; Next up, Focal Point. We've added 9 issues: Volume 2, #1, 3, 4, 10, and 12-16, all edited by Arnie Katz and rich brown. These are all from 1970. Focal Point was "a fanzine of news, views and reviews". Scanning by Mark Olson.; Mark also scanned issues 52 and 53 of Don and Maggie Thompson's Newfangles from 1971.; Finally, we have issue 47 of Outworlds, published by Bill Bowers. Scanning by Joe Siclari.
October 15, 2019: I'm almost done with FAPA 28. There are two more small Cosmic Circle pubs to get up. So, we've started putting up FAPA 29 from September 1944. Today, we put up 14 fanzines from FAPA 29, and another 8 from other times and places. It's still under construction, and I plan to do a few at a time. Today, everything was scanned by Joe Siclari.; First the list of FAPAzines.; --Agenbite of Inwit 6, Doc Lowndes http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Agenbite_Inwit/; --Banshee 5, 6, , Larry Shaw, http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Banshee/; --Beyond 3, Roscoe Wright, nice Wiedenbeck cover, http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Beyond/; --Browsing 7, John Michael Rosenblum, http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Browsing/; --Caliban 6, Larry Shaw, http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Caliban/; --Cushlamochree, 1 and 2, Walter Daugherty, http://fanac.org/fanzines/Cushlamochree/; --En Garde 11, Al Ashley and Abby Lu Ashley, http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/EnGarde/; --FAN-TODS 8, Stanley, http://fanac.org/fanzines/FAN-TODS/; --Fantasy Amateur V8, #1, Larry Shaw, http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/FantasyAmateur/; --FAPA Variety 10, Bob Tucker, http://fanac.org/fanzines/FAPA_Variety/; --Horizons 20, Harry Warner Jr, http://fanac.org/fanzines/Horizons/; --YHOS11, Widner, http://fanac.org/fanzines/YHOS/; Also, we have put up --; --Cry of the Nameless 179, Elinor Busby, Wally Weber and Vera Heminger. http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Cry_of_the_Nameless/; --Erg 89 and 90, Terry Jeeves, http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Erg/; --Habbakuk V3, N1 and V3, N2, Bill Donaho. These issues complete the run. http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Habakkuk/; --Proper Boskonian, 28 (Laurie Mann), 30, 36 (Ken Knabbe) and a seasons greetings from 1995. http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Proper_Boskonian/; Today's archive haul = 22 fanzines
October 14, 2019: Eight fanzines and some ephemera for today. In no particular order-; --Alien Critic 7, Richard Geis, November 1973, with a speech by Fred Pohl, a column by John Brunner, and an interview with Roger Zelazny. Scan by Mark Olson; --Mikros, T. Bruce Yerke, issues 5 and 6 from 1939. The first 4 issues all had different titles. We have one of those that will be going up soon, but for now, ssues 5 and 6. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --South of the Moon, various editors. Issue 11, scanned by Joe Siclari. Issue 19, scanned by Mark Olson. We're adding a column on many of the index pages indicating who provided the zine or did the scanning. Everyone should have their egoboo, and that way the notes column is saved for more pertinent notes.; --Luna Pono, Fred Warth, issue 4, July 1944. It seems a very sincere fanzine. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Spasmodic, Eric Jones, 1957-1958. We have both of issues of Spasmodic here. These will help complete your understanding of the mysteries of Saint Fantony. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Miscellaneous TAFF documents. These are from the 50s and 60s, and include ballots, progress reports and statements of support. We'll be putting up more such as we go.
October 12, 2019: Since our world runs on egoboo, that's the order in which today's uploads are presented. First, because I can, here is a LOC on the website which was very heartening. From Steven Johnson: "Incredible volume of top rate fanzines added to the site in the past few > months...endless hours of reading pleasure and memories of times past. Today I've enjoyed Innuendo for the first time and rereading that last issue of Lighthouse first encountered when published. Thank you!"; One of our regular contributors, Lebyl Botwinik sent us the September issue of his CyberCozen. Thanks Leybl!; Also, we added the latest issue of the Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society's newsletter The MT Void, MT Void Vol. 38, No. 15, sent to us by Mark and Evelyn Leeper. Thanks guys!; Next, from the scanning of Mark Olson.; --Alien Critic 9, Richard Geis, May 1974,; --Fanfare 11, Tony Lewis, 1989, published by MCFI. This was a publication inspired by the Noreascon 3's Fan Guest of Honor - The Stranger Club.; --Hababbuk V3, 3, Bill Donaho, 1994; --Idea 10, Geri Sullivan, 1997. There's a lot of Steve Stiles art in this one.; --Mythologies 18, Don D'Ammassa, 1985, with art by Brad Foster and Taral.; --Prehensile, Mike Glyer, issues 10, 11, 12, and 13.5. Too much art to list.; From the scanning of Joe Siclari.; --Bulletin of the Cleveland SF Society , issues 13, 14 and Science Fantasy Bulletin 7, Harlan Ellison, 1952. Includes art by Raymond Lowell Gibson, Margaret Dominick, Ray Nelson, Harlan Ellison, Shelby Vick, and I believe, MZB.; -- FANAC, issue ###, April 1962, a little hoaxzine(?) from Ron Bennett and Ron Ellik.; --Goon Library Publication 1, The Enigma of the Heironymous Machine, Steve Schulteis. 1957, published by John Berry and ATom. Art by ATom.; --Proper Boskonian, issues 29 (Laurie Mann) and 31 (Ken Knabbe). Issue 29 has art by David House, Anatoly Paseka, Linda Michaels, Sheryl Blrkhead, Diana Stein, Joe Mayhew, Peggy Ranson, Ingrid Neilsen and Laurel Slate. Issue 31 has art by Merle Insinga, Alice Lewis, Joe Mayhew, Diana Stein, and Phil Tortorici.; Additionally, we replaced 3 issues of Pamphrey with searchable PDFs (issues 0,3, and 6).; Finally, we added a few photos from Philcon 2017, taken by Joe Siclari and Edie Stern. You can see them at http://fanac.org/Other_Cons/PhilCon/q17-p00.html; Today's fanzine total - 18
October 11, 2019: Added 27 zines today, and replaced 2 others with searchable PDFs. One of the replaced ones was John D. Berry's Hitchhike 28. Scanning today by Joe Siclari unless otherwise ntoed.; --Damn Thing, T. Bruce Yerke, issues 2 and 4 from 1940-1941. We had The Damn Denventioneer Thing #4, but that's very different from the regular issues. For one, the regular Damn Thing is about 18 pages longer. With Rob having given us several interesting Yerke fanzines, Joe was very pleased to turn up a few more to add to the site.; --Double Bill, Bill Bowers and Bill Mallardi. We added issues 14, 16, a rider on 16 and issue 17. There's material here by Lloyd Biggle, Buck Coulson, Harry Warner Jr., Dan Adkins, George Barr, Terry Jeeves and Mae Strelkov.; --Duplicating Without Tears!, a symposium edited by Vince Clarke on fannish reproduction. This is from 1956, and was provided by Rob Hansen. One day I'll have to put up a "How To" section for material like this.; --Gambit 48, Ted White and Les Gerber, 1963. This is the 10th annish, and is combined with Minac 4 (a special Discoon Issue).; --Lowdown, Richard Labonte, issues 2-3, 1968-1971. This was the first publication of the Montreal in 1974 bidding committee.; --Mainstream, Jerry Kaufman and Suzle Tompkins. We have a wealth of Mainstreams here, issues 7-17, and they cover 1982 to 1998. Stu Shiffman, Jeanne Gomoll, Alexis Gilliland, Dan Steffan, Craig Smith, Andy Hooper, Art Widner, Brad Foster and of course Jerry and Suzle. Good stuff.; --Minac, Les Gerber and Ted White, issues 5 and 6, along with a hoaxzine by Bill Blackbeard and Redd Boggs.; --Pamphrey, Walt Willis. Added issues 1, 2 and 5. Replaced issue 7 with a searchable PDF.; --Lastly for tonight, Songs from Space, Eric Bentcliffe, 1957. This is a book of science fiction songs, set in a skiffy fictional frame. I've put it up in the musical section, although I don't know that it was performed as a musical. Provided by Rob Hansen.
October 10, 2019: Since the last update, we've put up a variety of (hopefully) items of interest. There's more FAPA28, including 3 pieces of Cosmic Circle history}, there are UK zines provided by Rob Hansen, there are important US zines, and there's a script/playbill for a musical (thanks to Linda Deneroff}.; First, here are some 1940s zines from Rob Hansen; -- , a Dirty Word, Damon Knight, May 46. You can find this at http://fanac.org/fanzines/Dirty_Word/Dirty_Word2.pdf. This zine has no name. The publishing colophon has a few blanks followed by ", a Dirty Word". Mark Olson, writing the Fancyclopedia entry for it has opined that Mr. Knight was too clever by far in his title so we are listing it under Dirty Word, A; --The Bedside Fassbeinder, T. Bruce Yerke, oneshot, Nov 44. A volume of words from Carlton Fassbeinder (one of Yerke's pennames).; --Damn Thin, T. Bruce Yerke, 1942. An unfinished Damn Thing.; --Fan Dance 1, C.S. Youd, August 1941.; --The Gentlest Art, Douglas Webster, issues 1, 3-4. These were part of FIDO.; --Hellzapoppin, Douglas Webster 1941. Also part of FIDO.; The remaining zines were scanned by Joe Siclari.; Next, the FAPA28 zines. Almost done with this mailing; there are just two more to go. If you look at the Retro Hugo materials for next year (http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Retro_Hugos.html ), you'll find these are being added as we go since the mailing was in 1944. Links for these are found in FAPA28; --Troy, Helen Bradleigh, March 44 -- Cosmic Circle; --Jupiter (Ronald Maddox) and Cosmian World (Rex Matthews), Spring 44, Cosmic Circle; --National Futurian Weekly 22 (Degler); Cosmic Circle; --Memoirs of a Superfluous Fan, Yerke, has been replaced with a searchable PDF; If you want to read more of the Cosmic Circle, we have gathered the original materials we have here - http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Cosmic_Circle_Pubs/; Ok, now for more recent fanzines.; --Psychotic 3, Richard Geis, September 1953. The real Psychotic 3 this time! You guys keep us honest.; --Mainstream, Jerry Kaufman and Suzle Tompkins, issues 3-6 from 1978-1981. Mainstream was nominated for Best Fanzine in 1991. These are the first of the title we've put up.; --Proper Boskonian, issue 33 from Ken Knabbe (Dec 94), and issues 41-42 from Lisa Hertel.; --unterHelios, issue 1, Joe Siclari, July 1971. Joe is the chairman of the Fan History project and Fanac.org. Ever get a fanzine from him? Here's your opportunity to see what the callow youth of 21 (almost 22) produced. Send your LOCs to fanac@fanac.org. I'll pass them on.; And finally, from Linda Deneroff, the script and playbill of the first Lunacon musical performed in 1980. Based on "1776", this production is entitled "1986". We've put up the script (book by Richard Kolker, lyrics by Richard Kolker, Patrick Daniel O'Neill, Jill Wilkins, and John Kingsbridge) and the Playbill. Soon we'll be adding the permission letters from the authors whose names were taken in vain. Thanks to Linda for keeping all the letters, and the rest. Watch this space - http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Musicals/; That's 20 zines today, and one musical.
October 7, 2019: Today's most notable PDF replacement is for Dave Kyle's notorious pamphlet from the first worldcon. You can find it here - http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Dave_Kyle/Dave_Kyle03.pdf Amazing that for all the fuss it caused, it was only 5 pages.; Continuing to work on FAPA28, today we've added 7 to the TOC (well 6 if you don't count the PDF that replaces the JPGs); -- Emergeny Flare, Dik Daniels; -- Futuria 2, Elsie Wollheim. There were only two, and this is the last issue, but it's marked "The Official Organ of the Futurian Society of New York".; --Futurian Advance 3, Helen Bradleigh. Cosmic Circle; --History of the Future Cards. Not sure who these were from, but they are very cool. For various years in the future (the future of FAPA28 that is), "facts" are extracted from science fiction stories and replicated here. For example, for 1960, "Peace, ending the long war from 1940 to 1960; worldwide, participants unknown. Eye of the Past, Eando Binder, Astounding, March, 1938" Check it out.; --Investigation in Newcastle, Jack Speer. This is another of Jack's articles on Cosmic Circle.; -- Intelligence Quotient 2, Doro aka Don Rogers aka Degler. This was already up as JPGs, and is now replaced as a searchable PDF. More Cosmic Circle, of course.; --Venus-Con, Francis T. Laney and Mel Brown. Not Cosmic Circle!; In addition to the FAPAzines we've added the complete 5 issue run of Tappen, by Malcolm Edwards. This ran from 1981 to 1982. Contributors include Peter Nicholls, Dave Langford, D. West, and Chris Atkinson.; You'll also find 2 more issues of Erg (Terry Jeeves) from the early 60s. Look for issues 11 and 18.; There's also our first upload of an issue of Mike Glyer's Prehensile, May 1973. By issue 9, he was already up to 78 pages. One of the articles is titled "Dark Alleys of Fanhistory" by Dan Goodman. Hmmmm....; George Phillies sent us issue 301 of Tightbeam, edited by George Phillies and Jon Swartz.; Finally, for the newszine enthusiasts, we have 2 more issues of Son of the WSFA Journal, Don Miller. These are issues 69 and 192.; That's 17 new fanzines, and all but one were scanned by Joe Siclari.
October 5, 2019: Dale Speirs sent us a PDF of issue #457 (5.8 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.; --Ephemeron 2, Russell Chauvenet; --Fan Slants 3, Mel Brown (this one a replacement for JPGs); --Fan-Tods 7, June 1944, Norman Stanley; --FAPA Variety 9, Tucker; --FAPA Fan 14, Don Wollheim; --Horizons 19, Harry Warner, Jr.; --Reader and Collector V3,3 H.C. Koenig; --Sustaining Program 6/44, Jack Speer; --Towards Tomorrow #2, James Kepner; --YHOS 10, Art Widner; Additionally, we added 4 issues of John Berry's Pot Pourri. Issues added: 35, 44, 51 and 52. Also, we replaced 42 with a searchable PDF.; For the newszine junkie, we have 9 issues added of Ron Bennett's Skyrack from the 60s an early 70s. We replaced issues 36 and 40 with pdfs, and added issues 38, 42, 56, 58-59, 62-64, and 96. We also added some issues of Skyrack Trader, mostly a catalog that Ron sent out in the 70s. You'll find 6 issues of that - 96 and 99 (which came first, around the same time as Skyrack 96), and then issues 5-8. Fans are infinitely creative. All of the above were scanned by Joe Siclari.; Next, from Rob Hansen, we have a scan of an issue of C.S. Youd's Fantasy War Bulletin, from 1941. I believe this is the last issue. The first piece starts with the Blitz. Thanks Rob!; Plus, we have added the latest issue of the Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society's newsletter The MT Void, MT Void Vol. 38, No. 14, sent to us by Mark and Evelyn Leeper. Thank you both.; Finally, it's a YouTube day. Actually it's a musical YouTube day. From the paragraph on YouTube: "Julia Ecklar was the special filk guest at Tropicon 8, held in Dania, Florida, in 1989. This recording captures her concert at the convention, and includes 10 songs (of which Julia wrote four). The last song is beautifully signed by Linda Melnick. In the 1980s and early 1990s, Julia was a sought-after filk performer at science-fiction conventions worldwide. As a published author, her skill with words is very evident in the songs she writes. Filk songs are often strong on narrative, and you’ll notice that a number of these are about science fiction novels that were popular at the time." https://youtu.be/f37i168aL2Y
October 2, 2019: 35 zines added for you since the last "What's New". All scanning today is by Joe Siclari.; Let's do the singletons first today. There are 8 of them, although 4 are really a start at adding FAPA 28.; --Yandro 259, the last issue, February 1986, Buck and Juanita Coulson. For the new zines we scan, we're tryin to put information in the PDF metadata. If you float your cursor to the top part of the screen, an info line should appear with the title, issue number, editor, and date of publication.; --Wingwindow 10, August, 1987, John D. Berry. This completes the run on Fanac.org.; --Waldo 1, April 1959, Eric Bentcliffe.; --Satellite 4, January 1939, John F. Burke. This seems to be missing its cover.; The next 4 are the beginnings of FAPA 28. Since CoNZealand is doing retros next year for 1944, this issue of FAPA is are relevant.; --Banshee 4, Larry Shaw, June 1944.; --Browsing 6, John Michael Rosenblum, June 1944.; --En Garde 10, Al and Lu Ashley, June 1944.; --Fantasy Amateur V7, #4, R. D. Swisher, June 1944.; And finally, 27 issues of Erg by Terry Jeeves. Today we added issues 53-59, 61-62, 64-76, 81, 92-93, and 95-96.
September 30, 2019: Treat of the day: 10 issues of Psychotic, Dick Geis. Early, early Psychotic. We have added issues: 1, 2, 4, 6, 9-10, 12, 14-16. Scans by Joe Siclari. Enjoy! All are searchable PDFs.
September 27, 2019: Just a few for you today, in no particular order.; --One issue Orion, Paul Enever, issue 20, from 1958. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Two issues Proper Boskonian - issue 38 (Ken Knabbe, 1995) and issue 39 (Lisa Hertel, 1997). Scan by Joe Siclari; --Dale Speirs sent us a PDF of issue #456 of his Opuntia. Thanks Dale.; --Latest issue of the Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society's newsletter The MT Void, MT Void Vol. 38, No. 13, that was sent to us by Mark and Evelyn Leeper. Thanks to Mark and Evelyn.
September 26, 2019: Fanzines added today: 40. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; --17 issues of the newszine Fantasy Fiction Field, 2nd series. This is the one done by Harvey Inman, that started in 1963. We also replaced two that were all JPGs with PDFs. You can find the earlier series of Fantasy Fiction Field, by Julius Unger, at http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Fantasy_Fiction_Field.; --15 issues of Erg, Terry Jeeves. We added issues: 7-10, 12-17, 21,23, 28, 31, and 40. Terry was a member of "First Fandom, Knights of St. Fnnthony. B.S.F.A., and the Stockport & Ecclesall Dog & Cake Wa;king Society" (From issue 16).; --8 issues of Ted White's egoscan. We added issues: 2-5, and 8-11. We also replaced issues 6-7 with PDFs.
September 25, 2019: The count of fanzines uploaded today is 40, and Joe Siclari did all the scanning. In addition to the issues newly added, we have one PDF replacement for a zine that was online as JPGs. It's Egoboo 11, by John D. Berry and Ted White.; We have added:; --32 issues of Son of the WSFA Journal, Don Miller. These are issues: 89-96, 98, 103-112, 114-120, 122-126, 129 and date from 1973 to 1974.; --7 issues of Proper Boskonian, various editors, late 70s to early 80s. Three of these are a little different. They were distributed with Instant Message mailings are pretty short. Added issues 15, 17-19, and the ones marked IM.; --1 issue of the N3F's Ionisphere, from John Thiel. This one (issue 19) was sent electronically by John.
September 23, 2019: Kim Gibbs was kind enough to notice we were missing the cover for Beabohema 3, and provide us with a scan. Now we have a complete issue! We've turned it all into a searchable PDF. Thanks Kim! http://fanac.org/fanzines/Beabohema/; Today's additions:; --Beabohema, issue 19, Frank Lunney, December 1971.; --31 issues of Son of the WSFA Journal. We've added issues: 51-52, 55-57, 59, 63, 66-67, 70, 72-73, 75, 80, 88, 100, 127-128, 132, 145, 150, 157-160, 173-176, and 181-182. Scans by Joe Siclari; --2 issues of Erg, Terry Jeeves. We've added issues 49 and 63 from the mid 70s. In issue 49, search on "shading" to get to the articles on stencil art. There's material on shading plates, textures, homemade stylii, letter guides and such. When posting your blog or your facebook story gets too onerous, just read and remember what sensitive fannish types did to achieve those artistic fanzine triumphs. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Entropy Booklet 1, Terry Carr, 1964. "Crime Stalks the Fan World" by F. Lee Baldwin, with illustrations by Ray Nelson and an intro by Bob Tucker. Scan by Joe Siclari.; Less is More dept: Thanks to Mark Olson, we've replaced another 24 SF Commentary issues with searchable PDFs. Today, we replaced SF issues 26, and 28-50.
September 22, 2019: It's all about the Son of the WSFA Journal today. We've added 26 issues: issues 12-14, 17, 19, 21-22, 24, 27-29, 33-34, and 36-48. Also, we've started to replace some of the fanzines with searchable PDFs. For Son of the WSFA Journal, so far we've replaced issues 30-32.
September 20, 2019: Dave Langford kindly told us about an upside down page in one of Tucker's Bloomington News issues. Thanks Dave! I fixed it.; We have updated the Fanac Names Cross Reference. There are currently 27,824 names in these listings.; We've added about 10 new photos. They're masquerade photos from the 1995 Lunacon, taken by Andrew Porter. You can see them at http://fanac.org/Other_Cons/LunaCon/l95-p00.html. Thanks Andy!; Today's fanzine count: 37; --Fanfare, issue 3, August 1940, edited by Russ Chauvenet. Contributions from Earl Singleton, Harry Warner, and R.D. Swisher. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --The MT Void, MT Void Vol. 38, No. 12, Mark and Evelyn Leeper. This is the latest issue of the Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society's newsletter. Thank you guys.; --The Scarr, issues 2 (1963) and 4 (1964), George Charters. According to Fancyclopedia, "The Scarr" is an anagram for Charters. ATom, John Berry, Ian MacCauley, Bob Shaw, Archie Mercer.; --Scottishe, Ethel Lindsay, 1955-1981. 33 issues, including the last issue. Ethel Lindsay was the first female TAFF winner, and was a Knight of Saint Fantony. Today: issues 31, 34, 36, 43, 45-54, 55 nibblings, 56-60, 69-78, and 80-82.
September 18, 2019: Fanzines first today, and photos after. Thanks to Jerry Kaufman, we now have recovered pages 66 and 67 of Slant 7, which had gone unaccountably missing (it's an uninteresting story). Jerry was kind enough to let me know so I could fix the problem. Thanks Jerry!; --Added VoM 34, July 1944, Forry Ackerman and Morojo. This was provided and scanned by Rob Hansen. Thanks Rob! The only VoM we're missing now is issue 31. Anyone?; --New-to-us title Vagabondia, complete in all 2 issues, Doc Lowndes, 1941. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; --New-to-us title Scottishe, Ethel Lindsay, 14 issues. More of these are coming.; Photos: We have 30 more photos from Dublin, thanks to Rich and Nicki Lynch. There are some nice photos of the Fan Fund auction, and of the Lego version of the Star Wars battle on Hoth. You can find them at http://www.fanac.org/worldcon/Dublin/x19-p00.html. The new ones are in the section for general photos, and for program items. Thanks Rich! Thanks Nicki!
September 17, 2019: We have both photos and fanzines today, along with a poster for a 1959 concert of the New Lost City Ramblers that goes along with Lee Hoffman's Gardyloo.; Photos first: We have the first of the photos scanned at Dublin 2019, from the collection of Philippa Ryder. These are from 1990, from the first Octocon, the Irish National convention: http://fanac.org/Other_Cons/Octocon. Thanks again, Philippa!; Fanzines next:; --Jan-Feb 1936: The 2nd issue #1 of Flabbergasting stories, John Michel and Donald A. Wollheim. This was provided to FANAC and scanned by Kim Hewitt. Thanks, Kim!; --May 1943: Two (different) #1 issues of Cosmic Digest, edited by Don Rogers and Raymond Washington. Don Rogers is a pseudonym for Claude Degler. It is exactly as interesting as you think it might be. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --May 1944: Cosmic Circle membership directory. We also added a page 2 to the white paper. Links to all the Cosmic Circle material we have online can be found at http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Cosmic_Circle_Pubs/. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Jan 1946: Science*Fiction, by Larry Shaw and Judy Zissman. This is the one and only issue. This had a bang up start, with contributions by Bob Bloch and Jim Blish. Scan by Mark Olson.; --1969-1970: The last 2 issues of Cry of the Nameless, edited by Elinor Busby in 1969-1970.; --1969-1976: 6 issues of Son of the WSFA Journal, Don Miller. We added issues 1, 10, 23, 25, and 197-198.; --1975: Issues 4 and 6 of Mythologies, Don D'Ammassa.; --1969-1976: 4 issues and 2 supplements of the WSFA Journal, also Don Miller. We added issues 67, 68, 84, SF&F Journal 87, Supplements to 47 and 51. By issue 87, Don wanted a different name, so that one is an SF&F Journal.; --Sep 2019: George Phillies sent us a PDFs of September 2019's issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's The National Fantasy Fan. Thanks George.; --Sep 2019: Dale Speirs sent us a PDF of issue #455 (3.8 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
September 16, 2019: A whopping 61 additional fanzines today. Randomly on a Monday (actually in order of upload):; --Issue 5 of Sky Hook, Red Boggs, January 1949 FAPAzine. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --14 issues of Beabohema, Frank Lunney. Issues 2, 4-11, 13-16, and 20, from 1968-1971. Scans by Mark Olson.; --3 issues of Götterdämmerunng, Tommy Ferguson, Mark McCann, and James McKee. We added issues 1-3, but we actually alrady had issues 8-11. However they were listed in a pre-2000 format on the website, and I suspect no one, except maybe our late lamented 1st webmaster, actually knew they were there. Scans of issues 1-3 were done at Dublin 2019.; --5 issues of Xero, Dick and Pat Lupoff. We added issues 6, 8-9, along with issue 8 Comics, and issue 8 Avram Birthday edition (which is only 2 pages). Note that issue 6 from 1961 is the Willish - http://fanac.org/fanzines/Xero/Xero6.pdf. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --25 more issues of Yandro, Buck and Juanita Coulson. Today's additons: issues 184-186, 196, 198, 201-204, 206-209, 211-218, 221-224. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --9 issues Scientifriction, Mike Glyer. This is a new title for us. Mike introduces the first issue (December 1974), by saying it's "A sort of Christmascard of a fanzine", By issue 4, he's up to 94 pages. We have issues 1-4, 6, and 9-12. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --4 more issues of Proper Boskonian, various editors, from 1969-1976. We've added issues 5, 7, 13, and 14. Scans by Joe Siclari.
September 14, 2019: Between the Dublin 2019 scanning and Joe Siclari's scanning, and with a little help from our friends, we added 58 zines today.; From Dublin -; --3 issues of Tommy Ferguson's TASH, 1990s. According to Fancyclopedia.org, TASH stands for "The Amazing Sentient House". Cool.; --30 issues of the ISFA Newsletter, the newsletter of the Irish Science Fiction Association. Apparently, the newsetter had some evolution in its name, being styled "newsletter" in the 70s and 80s, and just "news" in the 90s. There were a couple of different editors along the way as you might imagine. These issues run from 1977 to 1982.; From the scanning of Joe Siclari -; --23 more issues of Buck and Juanita Coulson's Yandro. We added issues: 141, 144-145, 153, 155, 157-161, 164-169, 171, 200, 205, 210, 219-220, and 225. Issue 141 dates from 1964, and 225 comes from 1974, so a 10 year span. Usually, I talk about the contributors of words when I mention fanzine ToCs. Having put up a vast number of Yandros in the last few days, I want to point out that there are some fine covers here too - from folks like George Barr, Eddie Jones, Dan Adkins, Danny Frolich, and Juanita herself.; With a little help from our friends -- Rob Hansen provided us with scans of 2 issues of VOM. Newly uploaded are issues 17 and 49. Thanks Rob! We're only missing two issues now. Does anyone have issues 31 or 34? Can you scan them for us? Contact me at fanac@fanac.org.
September 13, 2019: When I do the updates, I usually talk about the fanzines and photos uploaded. Often, folks provide corrections or clarifications, and I generally don't point those out. It happens relatively often, so today let me tell you that I corrected a bunch of misspellings of "Hertz" thanks to a note from John Hertz. No, the misspellings had nothing to do with John, but were for a fellow traveller. Thanks, John.; Added a curious item from August 1950, provided and scanned by Susan Graham and UMBC. It's Egoboo - A Fantasy Satire, by Manly Banister. "EGOBOO is strictly fiction-its characters, places and incidents are fictional. It is, admittedly, satire, but satire without the sting of malice or animosity. It is a mirror like one of those you find at amusement places, laughably distorting what they reflect." Thanks go to Susan Graham and her team.; The biggest addition is another 18 issues of Buck and Juanita Coulson's Yandro. Newly uploaded: issues 121, 123, 126, 129-138, 226-227, and 250-252. Scanning by Joe Siclari.
September 12, 2019: We're mostly staying at least 50 years behind the times today (and all the scanning is by Joe Siclari). We've added 25 zines here.; --1943 Fanzine Yearbook, compiled by Bob Tucker, Larry Shaw and Art Widner. This appeared with Le Zombie 56 in January, 1944.; --Zap, a one-shot done by Ted Johnstone in May, 1957, to commemorate the 1957 LASFS Fanquet held in honor of Forrest J Ackerman. The ink has faded in parts, so some of this is physically hard to read.; --KiwiFan, from Roger Horrocks. 3 issues of this New Zealand fanzine from the late 50s.; --Yandro, from Buck and Juanita Coulson. We've added 20 issues, mostly from the 1960s: 101-102, 104, 106, 108-113, 115-117, 119-120, 253-254, 256-258 and 2 calendars plus a supplement.
September 11, 2019: From Ireland to Dave English - that's where we go today, with a difficult stop in California.; Ireland is represented by 2 issues of James Bacon's The Brentford Mercury from the mid90s. Did you think Journey Planet was the first?; We halso have 3 issues of Lee Hoffman's folk music zine, Caravan. The last issue here, number 16, is what the zine looked like after it had been taken over by Billy Faier. There's also a songbook, "Folksong Festival Songs".; In the area of collections and fanthologies, today sees 4 more scanned and online: Fanthology 1981, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, A Dave English Sketchbook, published by Larry Stark, the Incompleat Burbee, Vol 1, put together by Pete Graham, Ron Ellik Terry Carr, Dave Rike and Carl Brandon, and Rotsler's Rocks, by Bill Rotsler. We've also replaced the JPG version of "The Selected Writings of Rick Sneary" with a PDF version.; Lastly, I want to call to your attention that we are assembling materials related to the Breen Boondoggle. You can find them at: http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Breen_Boondoggle/
September 10, 2019: Wow, we've uploaded 35 fanzines today, from 1955 to 2019.; Noteworthy (not that they're not all noteworthy):; --Issue 300 of Tightbeam, edited by George Phillies and Jon Swartz. That's a lot of issues. George Phillies says that next year is the NFFFs 60th year of publication for Tightbeam.; --The Zed 780, Karen Anderson (Summer 1955). My favorite for today - this issue has the first intentional use of the word "filk" according to Fancyclopedia.org - and you can search for it! Very cool.; Irish zines scanned at Dublin 2019 (all thanks to Philippa Ryder for bringing them for scanning):; --Cygnus, 2 issues (1970s), edited by David Patterson. These are from the North Down Science Fiction Group.; --ISFA News, 10 issues (early 90s), edited by Brendan Ryder. News from the Irish Science Fiction Association.; More issues of stuff we have and want more of:; --Alien Critic and FAPA Psychotic, edited by Richard E. Geis. We have Alien Critic, issue 4 (Jan 1973), and FAPA Psychotic 2 (from around 1972). Scanning by Joe Siclari.; --Cry of the Nameless, edited by F.M. Busby. We have a strange little issue from September 1960, plus an envelope from 1969 (it's groovy, and I mean that with no subtext), and a letter from Ted Pauls (1959). I've tucked everything in chronological order, so just look for the date and you'll see the names/descriptions. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; --Jane's Fighting SMOFs, edited by Jane and Scott Dennis. Added today is issue 12 (Summer 1988), scanned by Ben Yalow. This is the fanzine that focused on convention bidding (esp worldcon bidding).; --Proper Boskonian, 8 issues, various editors. We added issues 6, 12, 26-27, 32, 35, 40, and 43. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; --South of the Moon, issue 18 (1980), edited by Harry Andruschak. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; --Yandro, 8 issues (1960-1961), edited by Buck and Juanita Coulson. Scanning by Joe Siclari.
September 9, 2019: Variety is today's keyword.; First, we added the November 1944 FAPA30A mailing, with 14 zines, including poetry, snark and serious constructive fandom (like Laney's Fan-Dango 7. This is part of our 1)FAPA love and 2)prep for next year's Retro Hugos. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; Second, we've added some photos of program panels from Dublin 2019, thanks to Rich and Nicki Lynch. There are also a few caption corrections courtesy of photographer Frank Olynyk. You can see them all at: http://www.fanac.org/worldcon/Dublin/x19-p00.html . The panel photos are at the end.; Third, it's a YouTube day. We've added another interview by Rusty Hevelin conducted at MagiCon in 1992. Note the warning in the writeup. From the writeup - "In this video, Rusty Hevelin interviews author Jack Williamson. Jack talks candidly about his life and career, from his experiences with psychoanalysis to his apprenticeship with (early SF writer) Miles J. Breuer to how he changed with the market over 50 years. WARNING: You have to listen closely as Jack speaks softly, and the interview is very slow till about midway. There's a lot of "I don't recall" early on. If you do, you'll be rewarded with insights into one of the field's most important early writers." The link: https://youtu.be/HEjK5phFv1o
September 8, 2019: For you today, we have a mixed bag of interesting fanzines.; --Lighthouse, edited by Terry Carr and Pete Graham. We've added issue 6, May 1962, completing the run! Scanning by Joe Siclari.; --Maya. We've added issue 7, February 1975, edited by Rob Jackson. This was provided by Rob Jackson and scanned at Dublin 2019.; --The Phantagraph, edited by Don Wollheim. We've added issues 49 and 50 from 1944. These are part of FAPA 30A from November 1944 which will be added next. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; --Quibble only one, October 1951, by Peter Ridley. This was a one shot, one copy zine done for Lee Hoffman, presumably as a gift or a goof. It features "Illustrations by Virgil Mislay and Earle Bogey". There's hand drawn art, and apologies but the print quality is not the best. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; --Xero, edited by Dick and Pat Lupoff. Issues 5 and 7 from 1961. Issue 7 credits includes John Berry, Lin Carter, Don Westlake, Buck Coulson, ATom and Steve Stiles. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; --Yandro, edited by Buck and Juanita Coulson. Issues 74-75, 77, 79, 81, 85, 86, 88, and 100 (which range from 1959 to 1961). Scanning by Joe Siclari.
September 7, 2019: Still catching up from Dublin 2019. Today we added about 200 photos taken by Frank Olynyk. These are primarily of authors at their autographing, but there are a few others. See them at http://www.fanac.org/worldcon/Dublin/x19-p00.html. There's a little more tuning to do on the descriptions, but they're up. Thanks Frank!; --11 more issues of First Contact, 1990s, edited by Robert Elliott. This is the newsletter of the Irish Science Fiction Association, and was provided by Philippa Ryder, and scanned at Dublin 2019.; --Maya, edited by Ian Williams, Ian Maule and Rob Jackson. Today, we have issues from all of them. Adding issues 1-6 and 12-13. There's content from the editors, Terry Jeeves, Darrell Schweitzer, Harry Bell, Bill Kunkel, Christopher Priest, Greg Benford, Malcolm Edwards, Pete Weston among others.; --Proper Boskonian, 12 issues by various editors. This was the genzine from the New England Science Fiction Association, published from 1967-1998. Here's a quote from issue 8 - One of the delights of fandom is the never-ending stream of characters who are going to save and purify SF and/or Fandom. They arise; they issue their manifestos; people take them very seriously; all sorts of statements are issued pro and con; people get very upset about what "they" are doing; and a good time is had by all." That was by Richard Harter, in 1971. It seems quite modern, doesn't it?
September 5, 2019: Alphabetically today, we begin with; --9 issues of First Contact, 1990s, edited by Robert Elliott. This is the newsletter of the Irish Science Fiction Association, and was provided by Philippa Ryder, and scanned at Dublin 2019.; --4 issues of Quandry 1952, from Lee Hoffman. We've added issues 18-19, 22 and 24. Thanks to the scanning and OCR'ing by Joe Siclari, we've also replaced issue 20 with a searchable PDF. It makes me unreasonably happy to go into a Q and search on Bloch and (after a couple of clicks) go directly to the letter of comment that he wrote. (In issue 20, he starts with "Dear Shirley", which I'm pretty sure was something no one else did. LeeH always called him 'Mr. Bloch'.); --Issue 4, Fall 1938, of Scienti-Snaps, edited by Walter Marconette, provided and scanne by David Ritter. David says this is the last all hecto issue.; --Sensor 1.5, Summer 1995, Brendan Ryder. This is the Intersection issue (it's short). It was scanned at Dublin 2019 having been provided by Philippa Ryder.; --WSFA Journal 72, June 1970, Don Miller. Scans by Joe Siclarti.; --2 issues of Yandro, Buck and Juanita Coulson. Issues 56 (1957), and 68 (1958). Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Issue 11, January 1966, of Pete Weston's Zenith Speculation. There's also a letter soliciting subscriptions. Don't we all wish we had a secretary like Pete did.
September 4, 2019: Another mixed bag today, including a couple of scans from Dublin 2019.; --Maya 8, July 1975, edited by Rob Jackson, with material by Malcolm Edwards and Peter Weston among others. Scanned at Dubin 2019.; --Outworlds, issues 8 and 11, by Bill Bowers. Issue 8 is an all column issue with contributions by Poul Anderson, Greg Benford, Steve Fabian, Doc Lowndes, Andy Offut, Ted Pauls and Bill Rotsler. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Pamphrey 7, the last issue of a Walt Willis FAPAzine from 1958. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Retribution 5, December 1956, by John Berry and Arthur Thompson.; --Issue 1 of Sensor, Winter, 1994, Brendan Ryder. Subtitled a "Review of Irish Science Fiction". This is one of the cache of Irish fanzines, provided to us at Dublin by Phillipa Ryder, and scanned at Dublin 2019.; --Shangri L'Affaires, 14 issues from 1963-1965: 54-60, 63 and 65, plus the 1961 Meritricious Art Supplement, from various editors. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Son of the WSFA Journal, Don Miller, 7 issues 1970-1973: 6-9, 62, 76, 87. These are news supplements to the WSFA Journal.; --South of the Moon 13, August 1976, Andrew Sigel; --Spacewarp 14, May 1948, Art Rapp
September 3, 2019: Today, we learned of the death of FANAC.org's first webmaster, Jack Weaver. Without him, there would be no FANAC site. I met Jack in 1980, when we were both working on the same real-time telephony project for IBM. Jack was technically excellent, thoroughly irascible with those he had little respect for, and a remarkably good friend for what turned out to be almost 40 years. He read science fiction, joined the local club and worked on art show and other convention jobs. At work, when we were having one of those inevitably strange discussions, this time about which of Snow White's dwarfs each programmer resembled, Jack immediately laid claim to Grumpy. No one objected. I will miss him a lot.; As we've experimented with OCR, I've been articulating whether each day's PDFs are searchable. From now on, they're all searchable (except for the art portfolios) and so I'm going to stop mentioning it. Everything new will go up as a searchable PDF unless it makes more sense to have them go up as an image. Thanks for your patience and sorry for any confusion. We are still experimenting with bookmarks, so I'll keep you posted about that.; Today, everything is from Joe's scanning. Thanks Joe! Finally, we've added issue 9 of Hyphen. Materials by Walt Willis, Vince Clarke, Chuck Harris, and Bob Bloch plus letters from all kinds of interesting people. This completes the run (!!!).; Added issue 117 of Harry Warner's Horizons. This was mailed out in FAPA 111.; We've added a boatload of Art Rapp's Spacewarp. There are 14 newly uploaded issues: 7, 19, 23-33, 66, plus the index to the first 5 volumes. Issues are primarily from the late 40s, with the most recent one being from 1960.; Continuing the run of classic zines, we also have issue 2 of Wild Hair, this one dated April 21, 1949. It is from Burbee, Laney and Rotsler.; In random order, we finish with issue 52 of Tucker's Le Zombie, from 1943. Page 9 has a list of fans in the war.
September 2, 2019: Today's additions are courtesy of the scanning of Joe Siclari.; We have added 3 issues of Richard Bergeron's Warhoon, specifically 9, 14 and 16. These range from 1960 to 1962. There are contributions from Walt Willis, Dick Eney, Gregg Calkins, Walter Breen, etc.; Another treat is the addition of 2 searchable issues of Hyphen, edited by Walt Willis et al. We've added issue 19, and replaced the partial issue 1 with a PDF of the entire issue.; From Frank Dietz, we have issue 3 of Luna (which is different than Luna Monthly ). This completes the run. In this issue, there's a speech by Fritz Leiber, a debate on "Witchcraft in Science Fiction" by Lester Del Rey and Randall Garrett and more. Despite the fact that this zine is 56 years old, and our source is not pristine, with the magic of current OCR you can open it up and search on "Witchcraft" and go right to the article. It may not sound exciting to you, but it's exciting to me.; We've also added Chanticleer 6, by Walt Liebscher. I believe this is from December 1945, and contributors include Doc Lowndes, Bob Bloch and Bob Tucker.; And finally, Dale Speirs sent us a PDF of issue #454 (5.1 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
August 31, 2019: The first and maybe the best of our Dublin 2019 scanning is now online. From the collection of Dublin chair James Bacon, we have the sketchbook of James White, circa 1948, done on the back of a receipt book from the tailor shop where he worked. These are the covers of Slant that you never saw, plus you know, sketches.
August 30, 2019: More classic issues of Cry of the Nameless today. We've added 15 issues in PDF format from the late 50s and late 60s. Issues added are: 112-114, 116-119, 122-125, and 180-183. These are chock full of fascinating letters, illos and articles by professionals and BNFs, but you'll have to delve in for yourself. I've had too much fun the last few weeks and now I'm tired. More tomorrow.; at http://fanac.org/fanzines/Retro_Hugos.html. There are a few errors baked in (eg the numbers on a couple of these are not accurate), but it's a decent start.; Today's other offerings still come from the backlog (aka before Dublin). We've added:; Issues 2 and 4 of the Whole Fanzine Catalog, by Brian Earl Brown, scanning by Joe Siclari. We've also replaced the JPG verson of issue 21 with a searchable PDF created by Mark Olson. The new issues complete the run.; Vol 2, #2 of Boyd Raeburn's á Bas, scanning by Joe Siclari.; Issues 2 and 4 of Ground Zero, edited by Belle and Frank Dietz and George Nims Raybin. This completes the run of Ground Zero. Contributors include: John Trimble, Ron Ellik, Lynn Hickman, Ian Macauley and Ted Johnstone. Scans by Joe Siclari.; We have updated the Fanac Names Cross Reference. There are currently 27,704 names in these listings.
August 23, 2019: Dale Speirs sent us a PDF of issue #453 (8.6 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
August 21, 2019: We're back from Dublin 2019, and playing a little catchup. Not ready yet to post anything scanned at Dublin, but here are a few other fanzines for you.; First, from Mark Olson's scanner, we have 12 issues and 5 supplements of the WSFA Journal. The supplements are from the issues numbered in the 70s, and the regular issues are scattered from 1971 to 1974.; George Phillies sent us a PDF of the August issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's Tightbeam, edited by George Phillies and Jon Swartz. Thanks George!; Lebyl Botwinik sent us the August issue of CyberCozen. Thanks Leybl!; George Phillies sent us a PDFs of August 2019's issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's The National Fantasy Fan. Thanks George.; Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #451 (7.2 MB) and #452 (6.2 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
August 2, 2019: We're glad to announce that we have completed the run of Joe Kennedy's major fanzine, Vampire. We added the rare first issue (hecto & construction paper) from 1945.
July 28, 2019: First, we've added another classification system for your edification. This one is from Jack Speer, and was originally published in December of 1943. The version we have uploaded is the reprint by Roy Tackett in Dynatron 25 (1965). The title is Decimal Classification for Fantasy Fiction. Scans by Joe Siclari; Mark Olson has been continuing to experiment with OCR of mimeographed fanzines, and we are now starting to put these searchable PDFs online. Remember when you are searching them that the OCR of these old documents is not 100%, but hot damn, now we can search in fanzines that were published decades ago! The earliest today is Yandro 50 from March 1957.; Today's searchable bounty:; --Issue 67, January 1989, of Bruce Gillespie's SF Commentary. We also put up issues 71-72 from April 1992, but that scan is not searchable as yet. Scans by Mark Olson.; --Issue 1, July-August, 1976 of Brian Earl Brown's The Whole Fanzine Catalog. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Issue 76, April 1971, of Don Miller's WSFA Journal. Scan by Mark Olson; --Yandro, by Buck and Juanita Coulson, issues 50, 69, 73, 93 and 95. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Xero, by Dick and Pat Lupoff. We've put up our first issue, which is the final issue, #10.
July 26, 2019: George Phillies sent us a PDFs of July 2019's issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's The National Fantasy Fan. Thanks George.; Dale Speirs sent us a PDF of issue #450 (5.0 MB) of his perzine Opuntia, as well as an updated index to cover the last 25 issues. Thanks Dale.
July 25, 2019: More from the scanners of Susan Graham and her team at UMBC:; 1. Two issues of Harry Warner's Spaceways - issues #2 and #6 from 1939. Number 6 has been tinkered with to improve readability.; 2. Issue 6 of Ron Ellik's Starspinkle. This newszine from the early 1960s was a "bi-weekly news and chitter-chatter fanzine" according to Ron.; 3. Issue 2 of Ed Mesky's Niekas with an off-putting front cover. Page 4 has a lovely description of the filk singing session in Karen Anderson's room at Chicon. Sample - "For the next few hours I was there listening to and grokking in its fullness the various filk, Tolkien, and filth songs sung."; 4. Issue 8 (edited by Jean Cox) of Shangri-LA. This is a "conference issue" from 1948, and the cover advertises in this issue A E Van Vogt, Ray Bradbury, L Major Reynolds, and Chas Schneeman.; Many thanks to Susan Graham and UMBC.
July 24, 2019: Very pleased to say that today's update consists of 3 of the first 4 issues of Laney's The Acolyte. These were provided and scanned by Susan Graham and her team at UMBC. They kindly have helped fill in some holes in the archive and there are more fanzines from UMBC coming (although unfortunately not more Acolytes). Issue 1 has been tinkered with in terms of color and contrast in order to make the text more readable. Thanks, Susan!
July 23, 2019: Ed Meskys has provided more than 20 boxes of fanzines to scan and upload. We're starting to go through them now. Thanks, Ed! It's like finding a treasure chest and just getting ready to open the lid. Mark Olson provided the transport. Thanks, Mark! That's a lot of boxes.; We're putting the individual zines from the Denventioneer up on their own index pages. Today, we've added Wright's Denventioneer Comet issue to that index, and started one for Yerke's Damn Denventioneer Thing. These are from Marh 1941. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; In the spirit of tidying up, we've also added the cover (found it!) to á Bas 6. There's also a B&W cover for the same issue. I don't know the story behind the two covers. Do you?; Additionally, we have added the double issue 18-19 of the Whole Fanzine Catalog from March 1981. Scans by Mark Olson.
July 22, 2019: Dale Speirs sent us a PDF of issue #449 (8.6 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
July 18, 2019: A bit of a puzzle to lead off with today. I put up issue 3 of Psychotic today, but I'm not entirely sure that it is issue 3. If someone can clarify this for me, it would be much appreciated. There's no issue number that I can find or date. Apparently Geis had some printing problems too, as there were blank pages embedded. We think we put this back to together accurately but if you have a copy, we would appreciate any corrections or confirmations. Scan by Joe Siclari.; Thanks to David Ritter, we now have the first 4 issues of volume 2 of Fantasy News. These are whole numbers 27-30 and date early 1939. All issues are from David's collection, with the exception of issue 27 which is from the collection of James Halperin, Heritage Auctions. David did all the scanning. Thanks David!; Joe also scanned Science Fiction Reivew 21 published by Dick Geis in August of 1955. Contributors include Damon Knight, Dick Lupoff, and Harlan Ellison.; Moving to a more contemporary period, we've added issue 71-72 of Bruce Gillespie's SF Commentary from April, 1992. There are letters from Ursula Le Guin, Walt Willis, Brian Aldiss, Mal Edwards, Stan Robinson, and many more. Scanning by Mark Olson.; And lastly, today, we have issues 20 and 21 of the Whole Fanzine Catalog. As the index says, these are both from November 1981. They were mailed out together and they are separate issues. Scanning by Mark Olson.
July 14, 2019: Thanks to David Ritter, we now have the first volume of James Taurasi's Fantasy News online. All issues are from David's collection, with the exception of issues 18 and 24 which are from the collection of James Halperin, Heritage Auctions. David did all the scanning. The issues run from June - December of 1938, coming out very regularly every two weeks. Today's addition is issues 11-26. Here you can read the fannish reaction (or at least Taurasi's reaction) to important events of 1938. Example: the issue 13 headline: "Greater New York Chapter of the Science Fiction League dissolved by Thrilling Wonder Stories", followed a few months later by the issue 21 headline: "First Queens SFL Meeting Huge Success. Mort Weisinger, Editor of Thrilling Wonder, Present". A big hoorah for David Ritter! Thanks!; We have 4 more issues of Bruce Gillespie's SF Commentary. Mark Olson has scanned issues 32, 34, 38, and 68 for us. The first 3 are from 1978 and issue 68 is from 1990. Thanks Mark!; George Phillies sent us PDFs of the July issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's Tightbeam, edited by George Phillies and Jon Swartz. This month's Tightbeam comes in two parts (as did last month's issue). Thanks George!; We also received a PDF of John Thiel's latest Ionisphere from George Phillies. This is the Bulletin of the National Fantasy Fan Federation Fan-Pro Coordinating Activity. Thanks George!; George Phillies sent us a PDFs of June 2019's issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's The National Fantasy Fan. Thanks George.; July 12, 2019; "Ain't Technology Grand" department - Mark Olson has provided a PDF of the Pavlat-Evans fanzine index that is searchable! It's not 100%, eg there are some pages and characters that the OCR didn't grasp, but I ran 3 searches and 2 of them worked just fine. What a great improvement to those of us that use the Pavlat-Evans Index heavily. For those that don't, the index chronicles all the fanzines published from the beginning through to the December 1952. There are errors and omissions, but it's a very handy tool. Thanks Mark!; A real newszine treat, courtesy of David Ritter. He's scanned and provided us with the first ten issues of James Taurasi's Fantasy News, dating from the summer of 1938. The first headline of the first issue? "NEXT HELIOS TO BE LARGE SIZE!". A big thanks to David Ritter, and to Mark Olson who provided some reformatting support. This gives us 2886 newszines available online.; There are two more issues of Bruce Gillespie's SF Commentary up - issue 19 (1971) and issue 29 (1972). Issue 19 is massive - it's 142 pages, and is a special John Foyster issue. Scanning by Mark Olson.; We have for you the (current) July issue of Leybl Botwinik's CyberCozen. Thanks Leybl!; Dale Speirs sent us a PDF of issue #448 of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.; And finally, a teaser. We have the last two issues of Spaceways coming soon, thanks to Susan Graham and UMBC. There are other zines from our scanning wish list as well that we'll be getting online as soon as we can. Thanks so much for helping Fanac fill in the gaps in the online archive of important zines.
July 10, 2019: Mark Olson sent us scans of 3 issues of Don D'Ammassa's Mythologies. Today we've added issues 15-17. Thanks Mark!
July 8, 2019: Two sterling additions to the archive today.; First, it's a YouTube day. Thanks to the careful archiving of Bill Burns, we have a 1970 recording of a talk by James Blish. From the YouTube description: An interesting talk tracing the history of science fiction from well accepted general literature to a literary ghetto and back to general respectability. With wit and insight, James Blish (who was also the respected critic William Atheling Jr.) talks about science fiction before the debut of Amazing,and his perceptions of the malign influence of the specialty magazine. Jim discusses the impact of technology on society's attitude towards science fiction, and where we might go from here. Audio recording enhanced with 40 images. Recording and photos provided by Bill Burns, who was part of the Sci-Con 70 committee. Link: https://youtu.be/Sbj_ClgiQ4c; Second, we've added a vintage Combozine. Scanned by Joe Siclari, we have added The Denventioneer 1, produced for the 1941 Worldcon, Denvention. Edited by 4e and Morojo, this includes special issues of VOM, Comet (Wright) including a Ray Bradbury piece, Fantasite (Bronson), Damn Thing (Yerke), Alchemist (Hansen), Pluto (Manning) and a few extras.
July 4, 2019: A few treats today for you:; The oldest is Damon Knight's Snide. We've added the Denventioneer issue, from 1941. The first page is more legible than the second, but if you blow it up you can read it. Scan by Joe Siclari.; From the 60s, we have Saint Fantony publications. First, from Keith Freeman and Stanley Nuttall, a very helpful explanation: The Most Noble and Illustrious Order of Saint Fantony, a history and structure. There's also the 1966 secret ballot for election to the Order.; Dale Speirs was kind enough to resend a PDF of issue #445 (5.8 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Somehow I missed/lost it. Thanks Dale.
July 3, 2019: Today's zines:; Twig 16, 1960, edited by Guy Terwilliger. This issue has pieces by Ted White, Rick Adams and Miriam Carr, and art by Rotsler, ATom, Reamy and others. Scanning and contrast enhancement by Joe Siclari.; Foolscap, issues 1 and 2 from 1967. Edited by John D. Berry. Joe has enhanced the contrast on these to make them more legible. Scanning also by Joe Siclari.; A few updates to start with: thanks to Jonathan Baker for reporting the problem, the links have been fixed on the Other Conventions index page.; We have updated the Fanac Names Cross Reference. There are currently 27,624 names in these listings.; Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #446 (3.5 MB) and #447 (8.4 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
June 14, 2019: We tried to scan Terry Carr's Innuendo 4 at Corflu 2019, but it jammed the scanner and a page was damanged. Now, with careful attention Joe Siclari has scanned the issue and it is finally online. Thanks Joe!; Three new titles today. The earliest is an issue of Walter E. Marconette's Scienti-Snaps. This is the first annish, and it's from February 1939. It has fiction, articles and features, including "An Answer to 'Science or Fiction?' by R.D. Swisher, Ph.D. Scans by Joe Siclari.; Next, from March-May 1939, we have 2 issues of Bob Tucker's D'Journal. The banner reads "Fantasy Fiction's First Fun-Fan Folio Featuring Funtastic Foolery". That sounds like Bob, doesn't it? Scans by Joe Siclari.; Fannish generations later, we have an issue of Dean Grennell's Grue. This is issue 27 from February 1956. Grue was a FAPAzine, and it was nominated for the 1956 Best Fanzine Hugo. Since I've been quoting, here's one from page 2 - "Material this time by Robert Bloch, Chuck Harris, Lee Hoffman, John Berry, A J Burks, Chuck Derry, Ken Beale, Burbee, Bill Courval, and Bob Hoskins. Artwork by Ray Nelson, Ron Fleshman, Arthur Thomson, Will'm Rotsler, Rich Bergeron, Lee Hoffman, Juanita Wellons Coulson, damon f knight, Randy Jason, also random scraps by the editor." Scans by Joe Siclari.; We have for you the (current) June issue of Leybl Botwinik's CyberCozen. Thanks Leybl!
June 13, 2019: Two more issues of Psychotic, edited by Dick Geis. These are issues 7 and 13 from 1954. Remember, the Psychotic issues are listed under SF Review, so don't be surprised. Scanning by Joe Siclari.
June 12, 2019: A new title for us today - we've added issues 7-14 of Don D'Ammassa's Mythologies. The issues are from 1975-1978, and Mythologies was twice nominated for the Best Fanzine Hugo. These are substantial zines, with contributors including Paul Di Filippo, Jerry Pournelle, Bonnie Dalzell, and Jim Young. Scanning by Mark Olson.; Joe Siclari has manually corrected the scan for Fan-Dango 21, making it more readable. Thanks, Joe!
June 5, 2019: Two new-to-us titles, and an article by Helen Wesson today.; We've added the complete run of Lee Hoffman's folk music zine Gardyloo, the "Magazine of Folknikness". Gardyloo, or something like that, is of course what French housewives were reputed to yell as they emptied the chamberpot from a 2nd story window. These are from 1959-1960. They're a bit peripheral to our main focus, but we are now out of Lee Hoffman folk titles to upload. Gardyloo was added by request, which pleased me no end.; Thanks to Rob Hansen's OCR project, we have issue 1, 7-11 of Sands of Time, edited by Ted Carnell. Issues are from 1941-1944, and were bundled with FIDO. You can see text versions of Sands of Time on Rob's web site at http://www.fiawol.org.uk/fanstuff/then%20archive/Sands/SOT.htm . These scans were delivered to us at Corflu 2019 through the good offices of Bill Burns. Thanks Rob! Thanks Bill!; The article I mentioned is The Phenomenon of HPL. It's a ten page article that appeared in The Fossil, the official organ of the alumni of amateur journalism. The page indicates that this article won the first annual Fossil literary award for biography. It's from July, 1957.
June 4, 2019: A mixed bag today, as it is on most days.; --Wild Hair 7, June 1951, edited by Charles Burbee, F. Towner Laney and Bill Rotsler. Lifted from the facsimile published in Boonfark. Thanks Dan!; --Dimensions. Issue 15, August 1954, edited by Harlan Ellison, and issue 16, September 1956, edited by Lee and Larry Shaw. Apparently Lee and Larry Shaw inherited some materials from Harlan after he had moved on to other interests. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; --Beabohema, edited by Frank Lunney, 1968 - 1971. Beabohema was nominated for the 1970 Best Fanzine Fanzine Hugo. We've added 4 issues: 3, 12, 17-18. There's Vincent Di Fate fan art - http://fanac.org/fanzines/Beabohema/Beabohema17-19.html, and also in issue 17, a Hannes Bok section - http://fanac.org/fanzines/Beabohema/Beabohema17-27.html. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Eye, edited by Vince Clarke. Issues 2 and 6 from 1954-1955. Contributors including John Brunner, E.C. Tubb, Ron Bennett, Sid Birchby and of course Vince Clarke. More issues coming. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Operation Fantast Newsletter, Ken Slater. Issues 6 (Oct 51), April 54 and August 54. News of the day. This is a different publication from Operation Fantast, although they're both put out by Ken Slater. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Whole Fanzine Catalog, edited by Brian Earl Brown. Issues 27-28 from 1987-1989. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Gafia, Ted White. Issues 9 and 10, 1958. Issue 9 has a report on Ted's trip to the Midwestcon. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Fanthology 76, edited by Victoria Vayne. Best of the year, with contributions by Harry Warner, Lee Hoffman, Reed Waller, Bob Shaw, Mae Strelkov, Bob Tucker, Grant Canfield, Tom Perry and more. Scan by Mark Olson.; --1986 Science Fiction Fanthology, edited by Mike Glyer, produced by Dennis Virzi and Pat Mueller, and scanned by Mark Olson. Chris Priest, Avedon Carol, Jeanne Gomoll, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Elst Weinstein, Skel, Arthur Hlavaty, Brad Foster, Dave Langford and more.
June 3, 2019: Today, we have some interesting ephemera along with two new fanzine titles (new-to-us fanzine titles). Of course, there's a little more filling in of existing titles as well. All scans today are by Joe Siclari. Thanks Joe!; For the interesting ephemera --; --An Inchmery Holiday card (1959) from the Aporrheta folks. I find this particularly poignant since 1960 was the year that it all fell apart. When we met Vince Clarke in the 80s, he was still beyond devastated.; --Program for the Enchanted Duplicator production at Norwescon 5, March 19, 1982, Shelley Dutton and the Razz Bazz Rep. Now you have the program and the script.; For the new titles--; --Boonfark, edited by Dan Steffan, 1974-1983. We have issues 1-3, 5-8. Issues 6 and 8 have graphic adaptations of Chapters 2 and 3 of the Enchanted Duplicator. Presumably Chapter 1 was in issue 4. (Does anyone have an issue 4 that they're willing to scan for us?) Contributors to Boonfark are stellar - Terry Carr, Ted White, rich brown, Grant Canfield, Bill Rotsler, Alexis Gilliland, Ray Nelson, Dave Langford, Jack Gaughan, Steve Stiles, Lee Hoffman, Richard Bergeron, ATom, etc.; --Wing Window, John Berry perzine, 1981-88. We've added issues 1-9, and 11.; And finally for the filling in--; --Double Bill, edited by Bill Bowers and Bill Mallardi. Issues 11-13 (1964-1965), and 18-20 (1968-1969); -- Dale Speirs sent us a PDF of issue #444 (5.7 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
June 2, 2019: A wealth of updates today. Joe was up half the night scanning apparently. Thanks Joe!; Two new titles:; --Bane, edited by Vic Ryan, 1961-1962. We have added the complete run of 10 issues (well 9 and 1/2 issues). Contributors include Dan Adkins, Nick Falasca, MZB, Buck Coulson, Bob Lichtman, Bill Rotsler, Steve Stiles, Terry Jeeves, Bob Tucker, Andy Offutt, Shelby Vick, ATom, Redd Boggs, and Harry Warner, Jr.; --Habakkuk, edited by Bill Donaho, 1960-1994. There were a few gaps in publication. The first 6 issues are 1960-1961. The next 3 are 1966-1967. Donaho also stopped numbering the issues with their whole numbers, and switched to Volume/Number in the second set, or rather Chapter/Verse. There are some great illos, and contributors include Bjo Trimble, ATom, Ray Nelson, Bill Rotsler, Mal Ashworth, Felice Rolfe, Art Rapp, Ron Ellik, Steve Stiles, Greg Benford, Gordon Eklund, Terry Jeeves, Joe Staton, and Don D'Ammassa.; More of the same. Issues to start filling in runs of fanzines that are already represented on the site.; --Aporrheta, edited by Sandy Sanderson, 1958-1960. We've completed the run, adding issues 1-5, 7-14, and 16. ATom, Ron Bennett, Vince Clarke, Harry Warner, Dean Grennell, Joy Clarke. Fancyclopedia.org says Aporrheta has been called "one of the best British fanzines of the late 50s" - http://fancyclopedia.org/aporrheta .; --Outworlds 48, December, 1985, Bill Bowers.; --SF Commentary, Bruce Gillespie. Issues 51-52 (1977), 69-70 (1991). The last is a double issue. Scanning by Mark Olson on the SF Commentary issues. The rest of today's scanning is all Joe Siclari.; --WSFA Journal, edited by Don Miller. Issues 57, 61, 70, 73-74, 77 from 1968-1971. This is a clubzine, but there are unexpected art and articles in here. Covers and back covers are done by Vaughn Bode, Jack Gaughan, Tim Kirk and articles by Thomas Burnett Swann, Jay Kay Klein. Strong representation on the TOC by DC locals of course like Alexis and Doll Gilliland.
June 1, 2019: We have a new-to-us title to add today. Thanks to the scanning of Joe Siclari, we've added the first 10 issues of Double Bill, edited by Bill Bowers and Bill Mallardi. The zine was published from 1962 to 1969, and had contributors like Buck Coulson, Bjo Trimble, Bob Tucker, John Berry, G.M. Carr, and Terry Jeeves.; There's more sercon in 4 additional issues of SF Commentary, edited by Bruce Gillespie. Today's additions: issues 25, 26, 28, and 30. These are sizable issues. Issue 26 alone is 120 pages. Scanning by Mark Olson. We may be asking for help in filling in our gaps in SF Commentary. We're running out of issues to scan and there are not that many issues under 70 that are missing.; More music today as well. We have added issues 1-9 of Lee Hoffman's Caravan, 1957-1958. This is a folk music zine so a little peripheral to our FANAC.org focus, but 1) it's from LeeH, and 2) you'll see contributions from John Brunner, Buck Coulson and Harlan Ellison. There's also Dave von Ronk. Scanning by Joe Siclari from LeeH's file copies.; Fill in the gaps:; --WSFA Journal #1, March, 1965, edited by Don Miller. This 1st issue starts with a history of the Washington Science Fiction Association, the organization for which this fanzine is the official organ. There's a short message from the president, Banks Mebane. In a curious juxtaposition, Banks Mebane later moved to Florida and was friends with Lee Hoffman. Here's my favorite picture of them together - http://fanac.org/Other_Cons/TropiCon/t03-005.html. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; --Femizine 11, May, 1959, edited by Ethel Lindsay. There's a piece by Elinor Busby in this issue, along with other contributors. Scanning by Joe Siclari.
May 31, 2019: Today's additions continue to fill in existing titles. All scanning by Joe Siclari today.; --Pot Pourri 41, John Berry, October 1965.; --Peon, edited by Charles Lee Riddle. Issues 2 (Sept 1948) and apparently issue 11 (Dec 1949). I thought issue 11 was already online, but somehow I neglected to actually put it online. Issue 2 has Rotsler illos. Issue 11 has David Keller, E. Hoffman Price, Ray Nelson and more.; --Yandro, edited by Buck and Juanita Coulson. From 1962-1966, we've added 6 more issues of Yandro: 118, 124, 128, 139, 142, 156.; --Shangri L'Affaires 13, A Series, edited by Forry Ackerman and Morojo, Halloween 1941. This is a one page zine that was apparently done at a party by leaving the stencil in the typer. We've all done it at one time or another, haven't we?; --Orion, issue 19, June 1957 edited by Paul Enever and George Richards, and a 3 page Christmas Card for 1961.; --Odd, edited by Duggie Fisher and Richard Elsberry. Issues 4-8, 10-13 from 1950-1951. Issue 12 has a Silverberg piece, "The Truth About Yngvi".
May 30, 2019: Fill in the blanks; --Spacewarp, edited by Art Rapp, issues 67. 69, 74, 76 from 1960 to 1963. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Spanish Inquisition 9, February 1977, edited by Jerry Kaufman and Suzle Tompkins. This has a great Stu Shiffman cover - a portrait of the editors. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Voice of the Imagi-Nation, edited by Forry Ackerman and Morojo. Many issues: 18-19, 22, 29-30, 32,35-45, 47-48, 50 and two special issues done for the 1941 Denventioneer. Issue 39 has Forry's article/response to the death of his baby brother, KIA on January 1, 1945. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Warhoon, edited by Richard Bergeron. Issues 18 (1963), 23 (1968). Contributers include Robert Lowndes, Walt Willis, William Atheling Jr (Jim Blish), and Walter Breen. Scans by Joe Siclari.
May 29, 2019: Scanning and uploading have been happening. Reporting on the scanning and uploading has not. So, additions from the last few days (in order of upload):; --Fanvariety, edited by Max Keasler. Issues 4-13 from 1951. This later became Opus. This was 1951 remember, and on page 3 of issue 12, http://fanac.org/fanzines/Fanvariety/Fanvariety12-03.html, you can read Max Keasler's reaction to finding out that Lee Hoffman was a girl. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Shangri L'affaires 10, May 1943, edited by Phil Bronson. This is the "B" series (the "A" series issue 10 appeared in 1941). Shaggy 10 was provided by Rob Hansen from his OCR project and delivered by Bill Burns at Corflu 2019.; --Novae Terrae 28, December 1938, edited by M. K.Hanson. All the Novae Terraes have been provided by Rob Hansen from his OCR project, and were delivered by Bill Burns to us at Corflu 2019. If you would rather read a text version, they're all on Rob's site at http://www.fiawol.org.uk/FanStuff/THEN%20Archive/NewWorlds/NT.htm.; --Femizine, edited by Joan Carr and Ethel Lindsay. Issues 1, 5-6,7 and 9, mid 1950s. Joan Carr, of course, was a hoax perpetrated by Sandy Sanderson. Issue 9, http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Femizine/Femizine09-01.html tells the whole story. Femizine went on for 6 more issues. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --SF Commentary, edited by Bruce Gillespie. Issues 16-18, 20-23 from 1970-1971. Scanning by Mark Olson.; --Little LeZombie, Bob Tucker, Issues 1 and 3 from 1941. These were printed in Fantasy Fiction Field and are slotted into the Le Zombie index where they fit chronologically. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; --Cinder, edited by Jim Ashe, late 1960s. The dates and numbering are inconsistent here. Does anyone have insight? Are there two series? Scanning by Joe Siclari.; --Foolscap, John D. Berry. Issues 4-6, 8. 10-11 AND a 3 page LOC from Lee Hoffman that was tucked into one of the issues. Scanning by Joe Siclari.
May 27, 2019: Added Foundation of the CPASF, by John Michel from May 1939. You've heard that Michel thought fans should be politically active. This one shot pamphlet is about the CPASF - "Committee for the Political Advancement of Science Fiction". Scan by Joe Siclari.
May 26, 2019: Something old, something new. Today's additions in chronological order:; --Deventioneer Fantasite 1, Phil Bronson, March 1941. This is part of a combozine done for Denvention in 1941. My favorite line is "Cliff Simak is every inch a fan and he is positively swell." He certainly was when I met him in 1981. We will be putting up other zines from the Deventioneer, as well as the entire fanthology. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --What is Science Fiction Fandom?, Martin Carlson. This is a 1971 reprint of a 1944 pamphlet presented by the welcoming committee of the National Fantasy Fan Federation. It's a window on the past. In defining fandom, the pamphlet quotes E. Everett Evans as saying that fandom "is a state of mind", and from Michael Rosenblum's "Citizens of Tomorrow in the World of Today". I have to agree that fandom broadens your life. Scanned at Corflu 2019.; --Fantasy Advertiser 4, September 1946, edited by Gus Wilmorth. Magazines and books for sale, ads and the occasional article. Scanned by Joe Siclari.; --Operation Fantast 6, December 1948. Edited by Ken Slater, 1st series. Fiction, reviews, editorial and listings of magazines for sale. Scanned by Joe Siclari.; --Fandango 21, edited by F. T. Laney, Spring 1949. In addition to Laney, there's an article by Burbee. Scan by Joe Siclari.; --Orion, edited by Paul Enever. Issues 11-12 from 1955. Contributors include John Berry, George Richards, ATom and others. Scanned by Joe Siclari.; --Space Diversions 11, edited by Norman Shorrock, June 1960. This is the last issue Space Diversions, and has contributions by Eric Bentcliffe, Ron Bennett and Terry Carr among others. Norman was still looking for LOCs despite it being the last issue. He promises that a LOC will ensure you receive the first issue of Bastion.; --Legal Rules, Jerry Lapidus. Issue 2 from 1969. Business meeting stuff from worldcon. This was scanned by Mowgli Assor, and provided to Fanac at Corflu 2019.; --Inworlds, Bill Bowers. This is a review zine from the early 70s. We've put up 12 issues of it today. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; --Intermission 84, 2019, an EAPA zine. Ahrvid Engholm. This one is also on e-fanzines.
May 25, 2019: Happy Memorial Day Weekend! In the US, it's the unofficial start of summer. For your beach reading pleasure, we have added fanzines from both sides of the pond, and across multiple decades.; --Novae Terrae, edited by M. K. Hanson, issues 23-27, as well as the supplemental pages for issue 27. These issues are all from 1938, and include a 48 page anniversary issue. Associate editors include Arthur C. Clarke and William Temple. Jack Speer has an article in the anniversary issue titled "Why Fandom?" It's still worth reading. As with the other issues, these were provided by Rob Hansen from his OCR project and delivered to Corflu 2019 by Bill Burns.; --Opus, edited by Max Keasler, issues 2-6, 1952. There's a lot tove here. There's the continuing "All Our Yesterdays" by Harry Warner Jr, columns and articles by Marion Zimmer Bradley and Harlan Ellison ("Cleveland Fandom - First Year") and a quirky feature called "About This Picture" in which a skiffy illustration is paired with an explanation that is funny or outrageous or a combination. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; --Psychotic, edited by Richard E. Geis. Issue 5 from 1953. Remember, the Psychotics are in the SF Review index along with other Geis titles.; --Spacewarp, edited by Art Rapp, issue 100, October, 1972. This is the 25th anniversary issue, and a 104 page behemoth. There's a useful list here too - page 3 has a checklist of Spacewarps to date - http://fanac.org/fanzines/Spacewarp/Spacewarp100-003.html . There are reprinted articles, other checklists, poetry, art and cartoons. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; --Timebinder, edited by E. Everett Evans, issues 1, 4 and 6 from 1944-1946. Serious and constructive. Very serious. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; --Umbra, edited by John Hitchcock, issue 8, August 1955. Book reviews, fanzine reviews, fiction, editorials. This is ditto. Joe Siclari for the scan and judicious punch-up so it's more readable. Thanks Joe.; --Warhoon, edited by RIchard Bergeron. Issues 1, 5, and 11 from 1952-1961. Issue 1, page 6 is not upside down. Issue 11 has a piece by John Berry. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Yandro, edited by Buck and Juanita Coulson. Issue 84, January 1960. This issue has a 13 page art section and some innovative page numbering. There are no pages missing, but the numbers aren't contiguous. I've numbered the art section ("Yandrart") as A1, A2, etc. Contributions by MZB, Ted White, Gene DeWeese and others. In particular, art by George Barr, Dan Adkins, Bjo Wells (aka Trimble), Juanita Coulson, George Scithers and others. Scanning by Joe Siclari.
May 24, 2019: I've fixed some errors on the site thanks to help from John Boston and Rob Hansen who pointed them out. If you see a problem, even if it's a small one, please let me know by sending a message to fanac@fanac.org . Thanks to Rob, I've corrected the editor's name on Caustic Square Bullshooter - part of the December '43 FAPA mailing, and thanks to John, I've corrected the page ordering on Terry Carr's Lighthouse 5. Thanks to you both.; We have a few new additions as well.; --Aporrheta, edited by Sandy Sanderson. Issues 6, 15, 17 from 1958-1960. Contributors include: Bob Tucker, Frank and Belle Dietz, Joy and Vince Clarke, Dean Grennell, Bill Rotsler, ATom, and John Berry.; --Full Length Article #6, Jack Speer, 1965. Titled "The Breenigan After One Year". Too soon?; --Opus, edited by Max Keasler. Issue 20, January 1953. This is our first issue of Opus, but the last of the fanzine I believe. On Max Keasler: Lee Hoffman said of him, "Max was the personification of Sixth Fandom in America: young, witty, enthusiastic. He openly avowed that he never read science fiction. He blazed across the fan skies, speaking in interlineations, publishing monthly, filling the world with Ray Nelson drawings. Then he disappeared." http://fancyclopedia.org/max-keasler; --Psychotic, edited by Richard E. Geis. Four issues: 11, 22, 25, 27 from 1954 (issue 11) to 1968. Sample contributors from issue 27 - Bill Rotsler, Ross Chamberlain, Harlan Ellison, Greg Benford, Jack Gaughan, and John Christopher. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; --Sky Hook, edited by Redd Boggs. Issues 14 (1952) and 20 (1953). Skyhook was nominated for the Best Fanzine Hugo in 1956 and the Retro for Best Fanzine of 1954.; --Spacewarp, edited by Art Rapp. Added issues 22, 109. We had had text versions of some others, but have now also added scans of issues 34, 35, 36, 38, 42, and 109. Spacewarp was nominated for the Retro for Best Fanzine of 1951.; --Texas SF Inquirer, issue 24 (edited by Scott Merritt), and issue 55 (edited by Brad and Cindy Foster). Provided by Pat Virzi and and scanned at Corflu 2019. We are still working down those scans.
May 23, 2019: For your fannish entertainment today:; Completed runs:; --Oopsla, edited by Greg Calkins - I thought this was complete before but Sam McDonald pointed out that there was an interim issue after 29 and before 30. That one is now online as well, so we ought to be well and truly complete on Oopsla. Thanks Sam! Joe Siclari for the scan.; --Pong, edited by Ted White and Dan Steffan - In a massive feat of scanning, Joe has provided the remaining 35 Pongs and now we have a complete run. Thanks Joe!; More of a good thing:; --A Bas, edited by Boyd Raeburn. Issues 5, 6, 8 supplemental (2 pages), 10, and Volume 3, Number 3. I can't figure out which issue is V3, N3. Does anyone know? From internal evidence, I place it at July, 1954, but I don't know the whole number. Help. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; --Canadian Fandom 21, June 1954, this issue edited by Gerald Stewart. Intended for distribution at the Mid-West Con. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; --Goon, but Not Forgotten by Jack Harness, October 1959. Scan by Joe Siclari. This was pubbed in 1959. The Goons of TV fame released an album by the same name (with the addition of an ellipsis) in 1967. There are some puns that cannot be avoided. The Goon Show ran from 1951 to 1960, so perhaps Jack reused the title.; --SF Commentary, edited by Bruce Gillespie. We've added issues 10-14, all from 1970. George Turner, John Foyster, Harry Warner, Bill Rotsler, etc. Scanning by Mark Olson
May 22, 2019: More good stuff today in no particular order. From the 1970s, we have 4 more issues of Mike Gorra's Random. These are issues 1-4 from 1974, and issue 4 has an Egoboo Poll for 1973-1974 and lists voters and votes for Best Fanzine and Best Fan Writer. Who won? Outworlds was the best fanzine and Susan Wood was the best fanwriter. You can see the entire poll at http://fanac.org/fanzines/Random/Random04-06.html. Scanned by Joe Siclari.; The next is, I think, a new title for us today. We've added 6 issues of Pong, edited by Ted White and Dan Steffan. An early 1980s fanzine (except for issue 41), it was a key fanzine for its commentary and wit. Issue 41 scanned by Dan Steffan, and the rest by Joe Siclari.; More Peons too. We have added 14 more issues: 1, 3-6, 8-11, and 17-21. Edited by Charles Riddle. These date from the late 40s to early 50s.; We've added 3 more issues of John Berry's SAPSzine Pot Pourri, including issue 1. (We've added 1,5, and 6.) In the first issue, you can feel his excitement over finally getting into SAPS. It's charming. Scans by Joe Siclari.
May 21, 2019: First, we have more Oopsla, edited by Greg Calkins. These are issues 4 issues today. We have issues 13-14, 16, and 30, from 1954 to 1961. Issue 30 has contributions from: George Barr, Walt Willis, Dean Grennell, Bob Bloch, Harry Warner Jr, Bob Tucker and Greg Calkins. Oh, and the art credits are really good too: Dan Adkins, Richard Bergeron, Jack Harness, William Rotsler, and ATom. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; Next we have more Psychotics, including some early ones. Issues 8 and 17 are from 1954, and issue 23 from 1968. Psychotic was one of the titles that Dick Geis used, and you'll see on the index that they are listed with SF Review and Alien Critic. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; Finally, we've added the first 9 issues of Bruce Gillespie's SF Commentary. SF Commentary is serious and constructive, and there are unexpected (to me, anyways) contributors like Stanislaw Lem. Scanning by Mark Olson.; George Phillies sent us a PDFs of May 2019's issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's The National Fantasy Fan. Thanks George.
May 20, 2019: Just two titles today, but both of them are outstanding.; First, we have another 11 issues of Lighthouse, edited by Terry Carr and Pete Graham. Beginning with issue 10, Terry's name is the only one that appears as editor. Lighthouse was nominated twice for the Hugo for Best Fanzine. Contributors include Walt Willis, Terry Carr (of course), Jack Gaughan, Don Wollheim, Ted White, Pete Graham (of course). For issue 15, the TOC reads like a wishlist of contributors - Chip Delany, Carol Carr, Gahan Wilson, Fritz Leiber, Damon Knight, Tom Disch, Pat Lupoff, Joanna Russ, Harlan Ellison. And now it's online at http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Lighthouse/Lighthouse15-01.html and you can read it whenever and wherever you want. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; Next, we have another 6 issues of Oopsla, edited by Greg Calkins. Thanks to the scanning of Joe Siclari, we've added issues 1-5, and also issue 5.5. This last was done for Walt Willis, put together to raise money for the fan fund to bring him to the US and Chicon II.; Dale Speirs sent us a PDF of issue #443 (3.9 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
May 19, 2019: I ran out of time to post an update yesterday, so this is actually for yesterday and today. Today's fanzines come from 1935 to the late 1960s, so I will attempt a chronological list.; --Membership list of the Society for the Prevention of Wire Staples in Science Fiction Magazines, March 1935, presumably by Don Wollheim. For the original material on the Staple Wars, see the zines in the index of the Polymorphaneucleated Leucocyte. Scanned at Corflu 2019; --Nova Terrae, edited by M.K. Hanson. Issues 19-22, from 1937-1938. As with the other issues, these were provided by Rob Hansen from his OCR project and delivered to Corflu 2019 by Bill Burns. More to come.; --The Timebinder, edited by E. Everett Evans. Issue 2, April 1945. Poetry, personal reflection, letters. Scanned at Corflu 2019.; --Toward Tomorrow, edited by Jimmy Kepner, June 1945. FAPAzine. This issue includes an article on the Social Structure of Fandom. Scanned at Corflu 2019; --Beware, edited by Ken Beale. Issues 1-2 from 1951. The editorial in issue 2 is about how conventions *should be run*, triggered by receiving the first Nolacon material. There's fiction and articles as well. Scanned by Mowgli Assor and and provided by him at Corflu 2019.; --Sinisterra, edited by Wally Weber. Issue 7, Winter 1954. Another from the Nameless Ones, with fiction and articles. Scanned at Corflu 2019.; --Ploy, edited by Ron Bennett. Issues 3-4 from 1955, and issue 12 from 1958. Scanned by Joe Siclari. I believe we are only missing 2 issues to complete the run.; --Ooopsla, edited by Greg Calkins. Issues 20-26, and part 1 of the double issue 28-29. Issue 20 is from Jan 1956, and issue 26 is from March 1959. Contributors include John Berry, Walt Willis, and Harry Warner. Scanned by Joe Siclari.; --Peon 37, October 1956, edited by Charles Lee Riddle. There's an article by James Gunn in this issue, on the topic of getting a mass market for science fiction. It ends with these lines - "The only way to a mass circulation for science fiction is a slow process of education. Bring up a generation that isn't afraid of speculation, that can swallow an idea without getting indigestion." And now we are popular culture. Scanned by Joe Siclari.; --SF Club of London Club Combozine, various editors. These issues for 1960 and 1961. ATom, Vince Clarke, Ethel Lindsay, and others. Scanned at Corflu 2019; --Locus, edited by Charlie and Marsha Brown, issues 11-15, from late 1968. Scanned by Mowgli Assor and and provided by him at Corflu 2019.
May 17, 2019: I screwed up the What's New report yesterday, and gave short shrift to Random, edited by Mike Gorra. Yesterday we added issues 5-10 from 1975. Contributors include Bob Tucker, Terry Carr, Redd Boggs, James Shull, Ray Nelson and others. Ray,of course, invented the propellor beanie. He talks about it in issue 9, in "Birth of the Beanie" - http://fanac.org/fanzines/Random/Random09-12.html.; Today's additions:; --Tomorrow And..., edited by Jerry Lapidus. Issues 8-9 from 1971-1973. Contributors include David Gerrold, Bob Vardeman, Dan Steffan, andy offutt, Mike Gilbert, Richard Bergeron, James Shull, Ted White, Harry Warner, and John Foyster. Scanned at Corflu 2019; --Oopsla, edited by Greg Calkins. Eight issues from the 1950s. Conributions from Walt Willis, Shelby Vick, Richard Elsberry, Bob Tucker, Hal Shapiro, Robert Bloch and more. Scanned by Joe Siclari.
May 16, 2019: Still working through the Corflu scanning (plus a little gap filling).; The gap filling is Innuendo 6, the Innish. This is an 86 page zine, with material by Terry Carr, Ron Ellik, Ron Bennett, Harry Warner Jr. Rich Eney, Pete Graham and the final 3 chapters of Carl Brandon's "The Cacher of the Rye". Scanning by Joe Siclari.; From the Corflu scanning we have:; --A L'Abandon, edited by Jim Caughran, issues 3 and 6 from 1958-1960. Contributions from Terry Carr, Bill Donaho. Random 5-10; --Pirate Jenny, edited by Pat Mueller, issues 1-4 from 1988-1999. Handsome zine out of Texas, with contributions by Teddy Harvia, Richard Brandt, Dennis Virzi, and Brad Foster. Pirate Jenny was nominated for the Hugo for Best Fanzine in 1990.; --Nova Terrae, edited by M.K. Hanson, issues 14, 16-18 from 1937. As with the other issues, these were provided by Rob Hansen from his OCR project and delivered to Corflu 2019 by Bill Burns. More to come.
May 15, 2019: A couple of delightful additions to the usual roster of zines uploaded from the Corflu mass scanning event.; First, we have a transcript of the highly entertaining Guest of Honor speech that James White gave at Albacon II, the 1983 Eastercon, titled "The Scottish Influence on Sector General". Ian Sorensen provided and corrected the OCR transcript. It's a real pleasure to hear James speak again, and you can hear him when you read the transcript. Thank you, Ian.; Second, thanks to Jerry Kaufman, we now have the script for the Enchanted Duplicator play that was performed in 1982 at (I believe) Norwescon 5. The adaptation was done by by Shelley Dutton Berry, Gary Farber, and Jerry Kaufman. Thanks Jerry! This is especially timely with the Irish worldcon just a few months away.; On to the fanzines.; -- Everything is Everything, by Gary Deindorfer, March 1972. This is a 2 page rider that was distrubited with Hot Shit one month. Provided by Grant Canfield, scanned at Corflu 2019; -- Ploy, edited by Ron Bennett, from 1956 - 1959. 9 issues. There are lots of illos, including art from Bill Rotsler, ATom, Eddie Jones, Juanita Coulson. Articles from Lee Hoffman, Terry Carr, Bob Bloch, John Berry, Terry Jeeves. It was fun even to upload them. Voyage 3, Rotsler Art zine, 1974, scanned at Corflu 2019; --Space Diversions, issue 2 (1952) edited by Tom Owens and issue 10 (1958), edited by John Roles. The Liverpool group of the 1950s published this fanzine, edited by one or more of Norm Shorrock, Tom Owens and John Roles. Content by the editor, Walt Willis and others. Art by Eddie Jones. Scanned at Corflu 2019.
May 14, 2019: More Horizons today. FAPAzine by Harry Warner Jr, from 1954 to 1975. Thanks to Frederic Gooding III who provided these issues at Corflu 2019, we have added issues: 61, 65, 67, 69-81, 83-84, 113-114, 127-141, and 143. If I've counted correctly, that's 36 issues. Thanks also to Joe Siclari who scanned them.; Having led with the massive issue count, now on to lesser issue counts.; --Novae Terrae, edited by M.K. Hanson, 4 issues from 1937: issues 10-13. As with the other issues, these were provided by Rob Hansen from his OCR project and delivered to Corflu 2019 by Bill Burns. More to come.; --The Pendulum, edited by Bill Venable, 1952-1953. Complete run of 4 issues. Redd Boggs, columns by Derek Pickles and Harlan Ellison. Scanned at Corflu 2019.; --Vieing, edited by Wayne Strickland, August 1955. Rotsler art, Terry Carr, Daniel Galouye, Bob Tucker, Charles Burbee. I think this was a one shot. Scanned at Corflu 2019.; --Voice of the ImagiNation 46, September 1945, edited by Forry Ackerman and Morojo.
May 13, 2019: Today's additions:; --egoscan, by Ted White. Issues 6, 7 from 1984. "The Fanzine That Talks About Fans". Scanned at Corflu 2019.; --Texas SF Inquirer, these issues edited by Scott Merritt. Issue 29 and the rest of issue 27. Apparently I had only uploaded part of issue 27 before. Provided by Pat Virzi and scanned at Corflu 2019.; --Hot Shit, edited by John D. Berry and Calvin Demmon. We added the complete run of 20! Many thanks to Grant Canfield for providing the zines to scan. Scanned at Corflu 2019.; --Novae Terrae, edited by M.K. Hanson. Added 5 issues: 5,6,7,8, and 29. These were provided by Rob Hansen from his OCR project, and delivered to Corflu 2019 by Bill Burns.; --Horizons, edited by Harry Warner and published in FAPA. A lot of issues of Horizons were provided by Frederic Gooding III, and we are starting to get them online today. The first batch of 8 issues: numbers 47-51, 53-54, and 60 which are from 1951-1954. Harry was not only prolific but amazingly consistent. One of the most trying parts of putting zines online is to find the number, the date, and often the editor (and the name of the fanzine). Bruce Pelz was a marvel of consistency in making this info easy to find. Harry's Horizons are equally consistent. A very big thank you to Frederic for providing these at Corflu 2019.
May 12, 2019: Lots more fanzines scanned, but first a brief digression. At the end of April, I uploaded Thyme 77, and commented on the unusual inclusion of Thyme Fiction. Kim Huett tells us that a number of issues of Thyme included a fiction supplement while Lync & Clive Newall were editing the newszine. Thanks Kim! I'll keep an eye out so I can note that in the index as we scan more.; Now fanzines. We've added the May issue of Leybl Botwinik's CyberCozen. Thanks Leybl!; Below is today's roster of fanzines scanned or acquired at Corflu 2019 and uploaded. We scanned 3500-4000 pages at Corflu; so far we have uploaded 1700 or so.; --Button-Tack, the Rick Sneary Memorial Fanzine, edited by Len and June Moffatt and John Hertz, 1991. Tributes and writings. Provided by Joe Siclari.; --Howard Phillips Lovecraft - Memoirs, Critiques and Bibliographies, edited by George Wetzel, 1955. Provided by Joe Siclari.; --Innuendo, edited by Terry Carr. From 1956 to 1990, we have added issues 2, 9, 10, and 12. Last update I credited these to the wrong person. They were provided by Joe Siclari. Stellar contributors include Terry Carr, Greg Benford, Harry Warner, Susan Wood, Tom Perry, Carol Carr, Steve Stiles, Grant Canfield, Dan Steffan, Bill Rotsler and ATom.; --Niekas, edited by Ed Meskys and Felice Rolfe. From 1965-1966, we have added issues 11 and 16. These were provided by Murray Moore. Serious and constructive, and enormously long. These two issues total 180 pages.; --Novae Terrae, edited by M.K. Hanson, 1936. We added issues 1 and 4, and will be adding more. These are thanks to Rob Hansen whose OCR project team scanned many British fanzines. He's providing the scans to us. Thanks Rob! You can read a text version of these at http://www.fiawol.org.uk/FanStuff/THEN%20Archive/NewWorlds/NT.htm; --Peon, edited by Charles Lee Riddle. From 1949 to 1957, we added issues 7, 30-35, and 38. Contributors include Robert Bloch, Terry Carr, Harlan Ellison, and Jerome Bixby. Provided by Joe Siclari.; --Pot Pourri 2, John Berry, 1958. Includes a Carl Brandon piece. Provided by Joe Siclari.; --Skyhook, edited by Redd Boggs. From 1948 to 1952, we added issues 4, and 13. Provided by Joe Siclari.; --Tomorrow And.., edited by Jerry Lapidus. From 1968 to 1973, we added issues 1, 5, and the Letter and Review supplements to issue 9. Provided by Rob Jackson from the collection of Paul Skelton.; --Twilight Echoes, edited by Joe Fortier. Issue 5 from 1945. "Dedicated to the Liberal Fantasy Mind" . Provided by Joe Siclari.; --Umbra 15, edited by John Hitchcock, August, 1956. Provided by Rob Jackson from the collection of Paul Skelton.
May 9, 2019: Continuing to put up the zines scanned at Corflu 2019. All the zines today are provided by Rob Jackson from Paul Skelton's collection and scanned at Corflu 2019.; -- Innuendo, 1956-1958. Edited by Terry Carr and Dave Rike (later by Terry Carr alone). 5 issues with contributors like Terry Carr, Robert Bloch, Carl Brandon, Harry Warner Jr., Bjo Wells (Trimble?), Bill Rotsler, Ray Nelson, Jack Speer, and Marion Zimmer Bradley. Outstanding stuff.; --Tomorrow, issue 4, Winter 1938. Edited by Douglas Mayer. Published by the Science Fiction Association.; --Umbra, 1955-1956, edited by John Hitchcock. 3 issues with contributors like Larry Stark, Ron Bennett, and Greg Benford.; --Voice of the Imagi-Nation, edited by Forry Ackerman and Morojo. Issues 24, 27 and 33 from 1942-1944. Letters from fandom, with correspondence from folks like Bob Tucker, Tigrina, Walt Leibscher, Harry Warner, C.S. Youd, Francis Towner Laney, Jimmy Kepner, Vol Molesworth, Robert Bloch, Milt Rothman and more.; --Vulcan, edited by Pete Graham and Terry Carr. Issue (August 1952). Features, Fan humor, serious constructive stories, and serious constructive poems. Lots of Terry Carr content.; Also from Corflu, but not a fanzine, we've added to the YouTube channel a recording made by Rob Jackson of the Saturday panel, "The Void Boys Speak!". If you are a subscriber to the FANAC YouTube channel, you may have gotten a notice yesterday. Thanks to Bill Burns, today we are uploading a replacement video of that panel with improved quality. Thanks Rob, and thanks Bill! From the YouTube description: "VOID was a focal point fanzine of the 1950s, and launched the science fiction careers of Jim and Greg Benford. This panel, held at the 2019 Corflu, covers the history of VOID. With original editors Jim and Greg Benford, co-editor Ted White, and with Luis Ortiz (who is publishing a book on the topic) , the panel covers all aspects of VOID. If you are familiar only with the professional careers of Jim and Greg Benford, and Ted White, this video will give you perspective on their fannish careers. The video ends with a rousing rendition of the Void Boys song! Note that the video was streamed live, and there are slides in use showing the VOID covers that are not visible in the video. If you are interested in seeing the covers, or reading Void, check out http://fanac.org/fanzines/VOID". You can find the video at: https://youtu.be/fMz7fBytt34
May 7, 2019: Corflu 2019 was a delightful fannish oasis from start to finish. Today's update is about Corflu and what is happening next.; Fanac.org had put out a request for particular fanzine issues before the convention, and did in fact bring the scanning station to the convention. The Corfluvians came through, bringing fanzines, material support, skilled hands and all that we could hope for. We scanned 3500-4000 pages during the weekend, and received more scans on CD and thumb drive. We are beginning to put them up today. Also Fanac.org was given the 2019 FAAN award for Best Online Fan Activity!; Thanks go to Michael Dobson, Paul Skelton, Ted White, Nigel Rowe, Rob Jackson, Murray Moore, Pat Virzi, Greg Benford, Ian Sorensen, Mary Ellen Moore, Frank Lunney, Jerry Kaufman, Suzle Tompkins, Jim Benford, Andy Hooper, Bill Burns, Rob Hansen, Grant Canfield, Susan Graham, Luis Ortiz, Dan Steffan, Frederic Gooding III, Mowgli Assor, John D. Berry and Rich Lynch. Many more at the convention who aren't on that list have contributed to FANAC.org at other times. This archive is very much a community activity. Thank you all.; Here are the first fruits of the weekend, today in alphabetical order.; --Canadian Fandom, issue 16. July 1949. This issue from 1949 was edited by Ned McKeown. Thanks to Mowgli Assor for scanning it and bringing it to us.; --Hyphen 20, February 1958. Contributions by Bob Shaw, Mal Ashworth, Vince Clarke, ATom, Ray Nelson, Bjo Wells. Provided by Rob Jackson from Paul Skelton's collection and scanned at Corflu.; --Phantagraph 11, July 1935. Edited by Wilson Shepherd, and provided by Rob Hansen, with Bill Burns doing transport. Contributions from Don Wollheim and F. Orlin Tremaine among others. Rob was kind enough to give us the scans that he and his team made in order to provide the OCR'd material on http://www.fiawol.org.uk/ . Thanks Rob! So we have the facsimile version, and go to Rob's site for the text version.; --The Satellite, issues 1 and 2 from 1938. This is the official organ of the Liverpool SFA. Provided by Rob Hansen.; --Texas SF Inquirer, issues 1-2, 4-5, 7, 10, 27-28, 34, 46, 51-52. Provided by (and mostly edited by) Pat Virzi. From a 2 page newsletter to a 28 page fanzine. All scanned at Corflu. Thank you Pat.; --Twig 9, July 1958, edited by Guy Terwilliger. Contributors include John Berry, John Trimble, Dan Adkins and ATom. Provided by Rob Jackson from Paul Skelton's collection and scanned at Corflu.; --Void, edited by Jim and Greg Benford, and later Ted White. Issues 1, 5, 29. Many thanks Jim and Greg for providing issues 1 and 29. Issue 5 was provided by Rob Jackson from Paul Skelton's collection. All were scanned at Corflu. Contributors include the editors and Terry Carr, Avram Davidson, Harry Warner, Alva Rogers, John D. Berry, and Arnie Katz. This completes the run on FANAC.org
May 6, 2019: We're back from Corflu, and have many new scans to put online. The FANAC scanning station was there, and Corfluvians brought many interesting zines to be added to the online archive. Thanks and numbers and zines to follow.; There are a couple of items that we put online before Corflu that I hadn't yet noted by the time we left. First, we've the Chuch Harris Appreciation Society Magazine. Edited by Spike on behalf of Corflu 6, this collection of Chuch Harris pieces was published in 1989. Scanning by Mark Olson.; Adding to the Geis index, we have Psychotic 20 from 1955. Contributions by Peter Graham, Wallac West, Greg Calkins and Bob Tucker. This is from the first series of Psychotic. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; George Phillies sent us PDFs of the May issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's Tightbeam, edited by George Phillies and Jon Swartz. This month's Tightbeam comes in three parts (as did last month's issue). Thanks George!
May 1, 2019: Adding 4 more issues of Science Fiction Review and 2 more issues of Alien Critic (same index) today. These are issues 49-52 of Science Fiction Review from 1983-1984, and issues 6 and 10 of Alien Critic.. Scanning by Jim Harris. Thanks Jim!; Filling in the gaps department (scans by Joe Siclari):; -- Cry of the Nameless issue 2, edited by G.M. Carr from February, 1950. Humble beginnings.; -- Sun Spots, issues 16, 24, edited by Gerry de la Ree, 1940s. Ok, less filling in the gaps and more adding to the list. Fiction, articles, and art.; New titles department:; --Oopsla, edited by Greg Calkins, with 2 issues from 1959. There are articles by Dean Grennell, Ron Bennett, Walt Willis. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --Minac, edited by Ted White and Les Gerber. Eight issues from 1963, including Minac 4, the Discon special issue that was joint with Gambit 48. Scans by Joe Siclari.; --SF Critic, by Andrew Porter. Review zine, with five issues from 1967. Scans by Mark Olson
April 29, 2019: Listed under the index for Science Fiction Review, today we've added 3 issues of Psychotic from the late 60s. Articles by Arnie Katz, Harry Warner, Norman Spinrad, Steve Stiles, Ted White and others. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; From the wilds of November, 1939, we've uploaded issue 2 of Larry Farsaci's fanzine Golden Atom. There's an article by Forrest J. Ackerman. Yes, the table of contents lists the middle initial with a period. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; Dale Speirs sent us a PDF of issue #442 (7.2 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.; There are 3 new titles today. First, Orcrist, a Tolkien related fanzine from the University of Wisconsin. We have 2 issues up from the early 70s. One is a C.S. Lewis themed issue, and the other focused on the "Medieval Tradition in Modern Literature". Scanning by Mark Olson.; The second new title today is Stu Shiffman's Potsherd from 1985. There's wonderful Shiffman art, and an article by Moshe Feder. Scanning by Mark Olson.; And finally, we have four issues of Al Weinstein's Ad Infinitum from the mid 1940s. Some pages are faded, especially in the first issue, but they are mostly readable. Articles by Walt Kessel, Joe Kennedy, Harry Warner, Hoy Ping Pong, and other familiar names. Scanning by Joe Siclari.
April 28, 2019: Today's update is an eclectic mix, and all the scanning is by Joe Siclari. We have two new fanzine titles, plus what I hope are some interesting items.; The first of the new titles is Pluto. We've added 4 issues of this Vincent/Marvis Manning fanzine from 1940-41. Issue 5 has a cover by Damon Knight. There's some poetry, an article referencing a certain H. P. Pong, an article by Forry Ackerman, and a number of contributor names I didn't recognize.; The second of the new titles is a bit of a tangent to our usual material. We have a couple of issues of Lee Hoffman's Caravan. Caravan was a folk music zine rather than science fiction, and has record reviews, an article by Paul Clayton, ads for Electra Records and so on. These issues are from 1958, and the staff photographer is listed as Aaron Rennert. Aaron was living in Port Charlotte towards the end of Lee's life, and was my co-consipirator in delivering my surprise 70th birthday present to her - Happy Birthday, LeeH!.; The Enchanted Duplicator is still loved and appreciated, 65 years after its original publication. We now have 6 versions on line, included a text version. Today we added the original 1954 edition, and the 1971 edition. You can find them all here - http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Enchanted_Duplicator/.; We're also scanning Yearbooks, and are collecting them in one index. Today we added a short one - Tucker's 1944 Fanzine Yearbook. It's a compendium of the fanzines published during the year. Here's your chance to cross check Pavlat-Evans!; The last item on today's update is another Neofan's Guide. Today we added the 4th edition from 1976, edited by Bob Tucker and published by Linda Bushyager.
April 27, 2019: Two new titles today. First, at the suggestion of Greg Benford, we've added some issues (4) of Boyd Raeburn's fanzine, A Bas. This Canadian fanzine was pubbed in 1950s. There's poetry, there are interlineations (some of which sound a little sketchy now), there are articles and there is humor. Thanks for the suggestion Greg, and thanks to scanner Joe Siclari.; The second new title is Varioso aka Vamp aka SF. Vamp and SF are the previous names, but the numbering is contiguous so we've put them in the same index. There are 8 of them up now - this zine was pubbed by John Magnus, and has articles by Hal Clement, Shelby Vick, Bob Madle, and other 50s stalwarts. Also scanned by Joe.; Today, we fill in a few blanks. First, continuing the Dick Geis zines, we have added issues 39-42, and 47 of Science Fiction Review, courtesy of Jim Harris. These issues are from the early 80s.; We've filled a gap in Izzard too. Issue 6 is now online. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; For those fascinated by the financial side of fandom, we have an issue of the Business Supplement to the WSFA Journal from 1967. The treasurer reports an on hand amount of $39.03. Scanning by Mark Olson.; The last of our fill-in-the-blanks today is another issue of Geri Sullivan's Idea. You can now find issue 11 on the index. There's a piece by Dave Langford, and art by Stu Shiffman, Ken Fletcher and Bill Rotsler, among other notables. Scanning by Joe Siclari.
April 26, 2019: Still working through the Dick Geis zines, today we have put online 7 more issues. There's Alien Critic 11, and Science Fiction Review issues 29-33, and 35. You can find them all at http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/SF_Review. Scanning by Jim Harris. Thanks Jim!; Continuing with yesterday's 1930s theme, we've put up 4 more zines of that decade. These were all scanned by Joe Siclari. Are these representative of the period? What do you fan historians say? I find the singletons of these to be rather sad, remnants of good intentions that never led to issue 2.; --King Goddard - Technocrat, September, 1938; --Alex Osheroff - Robot, August, 1937; --James Taurasi - Space-Lines, September, 1938; --Don Wollheim - The Science Fiction Bugle, May, 1937; Almost as old, we have a new-to-us title from the 1940s - Walt Daugherty's Fan. Issue 2 has fiction from Henry Hasse (who was co-author on Ray Bradbury's first published story). Issue 4 was for the 1945 Fanquet. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; From 1941, we have both issues of Harry Jenkins Fanart, with abundant examples of exactly that. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; We've also established an index for publications that were focused on art at http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Artzines. To kick it off, we've seeded it with the ATom Fan Calendar 1959, and Ted Johnstone's "Fanzine for Atom/Rotsler" from 1964. Scanning by Joe Siclari. More to come.
April 25, 2019: Congratulations to this year's TAFF Winner, Geri Sullivan. In celebration, we have uploaded 6 issues of her fanzine Idea. Idea ran from the late 80s to 2000. Besides Geri (who is a very good writer), Idea had contributions from folks like Jim Young, Nate Bucklin, Jon Singer, Walt Willis (!), James White, Jeff Schalles, Jeanne Gomoll and Andy Hooper. Yay Geri! See you in Dublin. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; There's another LASFS publication today. It's the Christmas Art Meritricious for 1959. This one was edited by Bjo Trimble. It's mostly art, with a few short articles, including one by Robert Bloch. Scanning by Mark Olson.; More from Jim Harris today. We've put up 2 issues of Alien Critic, edited by Dick Geis. Remember that we've put Dick's zines in a single index even though he changed titles several times. The ranges and zine titles are bolded to give you a perspective on what came when. Today's addition is two issues from 1973 and 1974. Thanks Jim!; Joe Siclari has been scanning as many 1930s zines as he can (and so has Mark Olson). These are the most fragile and so move to the front of the line. Today we have 5 zines from the 1930s for you. Each of them is the only issue published for that title. I'm sure the editors (at least some of them) planned to publish more, but one issue is what they did. Some of the pages are a little hard to read. They are old.; --Forrest Ackerman - Metropolis, July, 1939. Done for the first Worldcon, there are pictures and (presumably reproduced) signatures.; --Jim Avery - Funtasy, Spring of 1939. Harry Warner is the Associate Editor and Hoy Ping Pong the consulting editor.; --Robert Madle - Cosmos, May, 1938. John Baltadonis is the Associate Editor.; --Robert Madle - Science Fiction Fan, February, 1935. John Baltadonis is the Managing Editor.; --James Taurasi - Queer Tales, June, 1938. Poetry, art and articles.; By the way, thanks to Mark Olson's coding skills, we are keeping a running total of pages and fanzine issues on http://fanac.org/fanzines/chronological_listing_of_fanzines.html and on http://fanac.org/fanzines/alphabetical_listing_of_fanzines.html. The total is right under the descriptive paragraph. We are also keeping tally of the newszines on http://fanac.org/fanzines/chronological_listing_of_newszines.html. It's not completely accurate. Most of the PDFs count as 1 page, so the real total is actually larger.
April 24, 2019: To pick up the newszine thread again, we've added several issues of two titles. First, we have 6 more issues of Checkpoint, edited by Peter Roberts. Checkpoint was a UK newszine from the late 60s/early 70s. There are a couple of double issues, and the evocatively named "Lostwithiel" issue. I have long thought that Lostwithiel is the most Tolkienesque placename on the planet. This Checkpoint issue was primarily intended for trade. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; Next, we have 5 more issues of the Australian newszine, Thyme. Today's additions are issues 77, 78, 80, 82, 83. Issue 77 includes a fiction section of 12 pages. I don't believe there was another such in any other Thymes. Does anyone know? Scanning by Joe Siclari.; Leaving the newszines, and getting more traditional, we've added an issue of a 1940 hectograph zine by Tom Wright, The Comet. Page 10 (http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/COMET2/Comet2-10.html has a where-are-they-now article on the winners of the first Gernsback cover contest. The contest was held in Gernsback's Science Wonder Stories in 1929, and challenged readers to submit a story based on the Frank R. Paul magazine cover. This article has the perspective of 10 years afterwards. Consider it your dose of SF history for today. Scanning by Joe Siclari.
April 23, 2019: Thanks to Jim Harris, we have new-to-us title(s) today. So far, there are 8 issues of Richard Geis's fanzines on line at http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/SF_Review/ . The titles changed every so often, while the numbering remained consecutive, except when it didn't. For more on Dick Geis, see the Fancyclopedia article at http://fancyclopedia.org/richard-e-geis . Science Fiction Review was one of the most influential zines of its time. It was filled with discussions, and often arguments, between pros and fans, and reached more people than any other fanzine. Contributors were a "Who's Who" of both fans and pros. Geis won the Hugo for Best Fan Writer seven times, and was nominated many more. His fanzines won the Hugo for Best Fanzine 6 times. You'll notice we put some title ranges in the index to help keep the title Cconfusion to a minimum. Thanks to new contributor Jim Harris who scanned copies of his zines and provided them to us! Thanks Jim!; More issues today of Bruce Gillespie's SF Commentary. Today, we've added issues 46-50. Note that whole numbers 48-50 are one big triple issue (and weigh in at 146 pages). Scanning by Mark Olson. Thanks Mark!; We're starting to scan Lighthouse. We have 3 issues up so far. Edited by Terry Carr and Pete Graham, Lighthouse was nominated for the 1967 Best Fanzine Hugo and the 1968 Best Fanzine Hugo. Contributors to these issues include: Terry Carr, Pete Graham, Ted White, Ray Nelson, ATom, Rotsler, Alva Rogers, Walt Willis, and Steve Stiles. Scanning by Joe Siclari. Thanks Joe!
April 22, 2019: Five more issues for you of A. Langley Searles Fantasy Commentator from the mid-late 1940s. This sercon fanzine published articles by contributors like F. Towner Laney, Sam Moskowitz, and Jack Speer. Plus a little poetry. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; Moving forward in time to the 1950s we have 7 more issues of Shangri-L'Affaires, namely issues 39-41, 43, 49, 53 and Series C, 8A. If you look at the index page, there are almost different editors as issues. Of course, the issues span 1958 - 1997. There's a little Bob Bloch, a little Ron Ellik, a little John and Bjo Trimble, among others. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; A week or so ago, we started putting up PNH and TNH's Izzard. Our contribution today: scans of issues 2-5 and 7. Issue 7 for instance, has work by Bertie MacAvoy, Ted White, and Terry Carr. And a letter from Harry Warner too. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; George Phillies sent us a PDFs of April 2019's issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's The National Fantasy Fan. Thanks George.
April 20, 2019: Continuing with more of Harlan Ellison's zines, today we have another 4 issues of Science Fantasy Bulletin, also from the early 50s. Not only is there writing by Harlan, but by Bob Bloch, MZB, Dean Grennell, Algis Budrys, Bob Silverberg and more. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; Ready for some NFFF history? We've put 5 more early Bonfires online, including the first one. These are from the early 40s, and show how important the NFFF was thought to be at the time. Scans by Joe Siclari.; Harry Warner's fanzine Spaceways ran for 30 issues in the late 30s - early 40s. Today's addition to the canon - issues 17-23. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; I'm not sure that I mentioned this before, but we have 4 issues of Mallorn on line too. This is the annual Journal of the Tolkien Society, from the early 70s. Scanning by Mark Olson.
April 19, 2019: Guy Terwilliger did more than Annuals. He also pubbed Twig. Today we added 4 issues. There are contributors like Tom Reamy, the Coulsons, and Dean Grennell. There is at least one Feghoot-like article too. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; Everyone has heard of Walt Willis and Bob Shaw's fannish masterpiece, "The Enchanted Duplicator", right? Fanac.org has long had a text version online, and today to enhance your reading, we have added 4 more editions, all with different artwork. There's one from 1962, one from 1979, from 1983 and from 1988, with different illustrations. Here's your chance to get ready for Dublin this year, and immerse yourself in Irish fan writing. They can be found at http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Enchanted_Duplicator/. Scanning by Mark Olson.; And back to the 1950s again, this time with Harlan Ellison in the US. We have two issues of Harlan's Science Fantasy Bulletin, from the early 50s. Issues 8 and 10 show what Harlan was capable of when he was a fan and before the mad dogs kneed him in the groin.; Dale Speirs sent us a PDF of issue #441 (4.4 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
April 18, 2019: There are more Fanthologies that Mark Olson has scanned for Fanac. Today, we add 2 from Guy Terwilliger-The Best of Fandom - 1957 and The Best of Fandom - 1958. The 1957 volume has an intro by Bob Bloch, and contributions from John Berry, Tom Reamy, Bob Shaw, Carl Brandon (wink wink), Marion Zimmer Bradley and more. If you are not familiar with Carl Brandon, you can read about him in Fancyclopedia 3 - http://fancyclopedia.org/carl-brandon. The 1958 volume has an intro by Bob Madle, and contributions from Robert Bloch, C.S. Youd (John Christopher), John Berry, Charles Burbee, MZB, Terry Carr, Harry Warner and more. Thanks Mark!; Joe Siclari has scanned more issues of Cry of the Nameless. We've added 8 issues between 7 and 17. Most of these eary issues are edited by G.M. Carr. Thanks Joe!; April 17, 2019; There's nothing like variety to keep your hobbies interesting. Today, we have a variety of publications to share with you. First, how about some Australian History? Published in the mid90s, Vol Molesworth's "A History of Australian Fandom 1935-1963" is chock full of details and photographs. It appeared in segments in The Mentor. Scanning by Mark Olson.; We also have a trio of fanthologies, published from 1948 to 1982. From 1948, we have the 1948 Fantasy Annual, edited by Red Boggs and Don Wilson. There are articles on clubs, APAs and magazines. It's really more of a Yearbook, but for now you can see it here under Fanthologies. Scanning by Mark Olson.; Next, we have The Expurgated Boob Stewart, published in 1960 and edited by Terry Carr. This of course is a collection of work by Boob Stewart. One of the articles (done in collaboration with Terry Carr) is "Dr. Longdog Answers Your Questions". Scanning by Mark Olson.; The last of today's additions is from 1982, edited by Eric Bentcliffe. When Yngvi was a Louse has articles by Ted Tubb, Mal Ashworth, Bob Shaw, John Berry, Terry Jeeves and others. The articles look back to the 50s, when Yngvi was indeed a louse. Scanning by Mark Olson.
April 16, 2019: We're making some more incremental changes to the look and feel of the Fanac.org site. Today's noticeable change: we've put all the fanzines in a single, sortable list -- here. It's a long list, and you can search to find a particular zine on the page. With over 7100 fanzines and hundreds of titles, it's not reasonable for everyone to remember when a particular fanzine was published and look in the right list. So we're doing away with the artificial distinctions of modern and classic. We'll be tweaking the descriptive wording over the next few days as well. I hope this makes the site easier to use for everyone.; Now to the fanzines: Sam McDonald has really come through with some 1943 material for us. Today we've added 2 issues of the MFS Bulletin from 1943. He's also combed through our list of fanzines published in 1943 and found half a dozen spots where we didn't have the link properly included, even though the materials are online. Sam, I think I have them all now. Thanks!; We have another issue of Canadian Fandom. This is issue 17 from 1951, and it's edited by Ned McKeown. For you Worldcon fans, there's an article on Cinvention. That was in 1949 and this fanzine lists 1951 as a publication date. Hmmm, I better read it a little closer. Scans by Joe Siclari.; Moving from Canada to the UK, we've also added another issue of Orion. This one is issue 18, edited by Paul Enever. Contributors include John Berry, and Terry Jeeves. Scans by Joe Siclari.; Moving right along to the 1960s, we've added 4 more issues of Frank Dietz's Luna. This changed its name to Luna' at issue 6, but the ones we added today are the earlier issues. Much of this is transcriptions from convention programs and interviews. You'll see names like Randall Garrett, E. Everett Evans, Theodore Sturgeon, Doc Smith, Ed Emsh, SaM and John W. Campbell, so a few names you know. The Campbell/Emsh piece is from a discussion led by SaM at the Pittcon. Scans by Joe Siclari.
April 14, 2019: Time for newszines. We've added 3 more issues of the British newszine Checkpoint, edited by Peter Roberts. These are from the mid 1970s. Today's addition - issues 22, 92. and 99. Scans by Joe Siclari.; Our new title today is from the 80s. We have for you 2 issues of Izzard, by Patrick and Teresa Nielsen Hayden. Izzard was nominated for the 1984 Best Fanzine Hugo and in 1987 it won the SFC Award for Best Fanzine. There are contributors here like Terry Carr, Greg Benford, Tom Whitmore and Steve Stiles. Scanning by Joe Siclari.
April 13, 2019: Hooray for Rob Hansen! He saw that we were missing issues of The Fantast, and sent us scans of issues 1, 2, and 4, along with a rejected article from issue 2. Since the issues were published in 1939 (by C.S. Youd aka John Christopher), this is no easy feat. Thank you Rob!; By the way, along with these early issues, check out the star studded Fantast issue 13. Contributors include Arthur C. Clarke, Doc Lowndes, Forry Ackerman, and of course, C.S. Youd along with others.; More issues today of SF Commentary. This zine edited by Bruce Gillespie won the Ditmar Award 5 times and was nominated for the Best Fanzine Hugo in 1972, 1973 and 1975. Today's issues are 40-45, published in 1974-1975. Scanning by Mark Olson.
April 12, 2019: We're back in the 1940s today with 9 issues of Canadian Fandom. Edited first by Beak Taylor and later by Gerald Stewart, this zine was first published as 8-Ball, and later morphed into Canfan (edited by Bill Grant). Contributors include Leslie Croutch, Fred Hurter, and Henry (no relation) Ackerman. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; From an even earlier time, we have 6 issues of Fantast. This UK fanzine was first edited by C.S. Youd (better known as John Christopher), and later by Douglas Webster. There are a few familiar contributors, but a number of new-to-me names. Check it out. Scanning by Joe Siclari.
April 11, 2019: Dublin 2019 has announced the Finalists for this year's Retro Hugo Awards, to be given for works published in 1943. We've pulled together what we have on Fanac.org, along with a few zines from eFanzines and the University of Iowa, to give you a single place where you can find all the Finalist publications available online. Read before you vote! http://fanac.org/fanzines/Retro_Hugos.html Thanks to Joe Siclari and Mark Olson for all their scanning efforts, and to Bill Burns and Pete Balestrieri for their archives.
April 8, 2019: We have another issue of Blat for you today. It's issue 4, from 1994, and has material by Andy Hooper, Rob Hansen, Gordon Eklund, Steve Stiles and more. Scan by Mark Olson; Mark also scanned Fanthology 64. Edited by Mike Domina and Terry Carr, contributors include Bob Tucker, Ted White, Bill Rotsler, Lee Hoffman, Dick Lupoff, Carol Carr, Grania Davidson and others. What were you doing in 1964?
April 7, 2019: For a modern touch, today we uploaded the complete run of Patrick and Teresa Neilsen Hayden's fanzine, Telos. Telos ran from 1980 to 1982, and had 5 issues. There are contributions and letters from folks like LeeH, Dick Bergeron, Dan Steffan, Terry Carr, Bertie MacAvoy, John D. Berry and Gary Farber (who had a hand in editing a couple issues). And of course there's material by Patrick and Teresa :-) Scanning by Joe Siclari.; We've a few more of issues of Wally Weber / Buz Busby's Cry of the Nameless online. Today's additions (scanned by Joe Siclari) are issues 101, 109 and 120. These issues are from the 50s, when Cry was considered one of the most fannish of fanzines. Thanks Joe!; We've added the April issue of Leybl Botwinik's CyberCozen. Thanks Leybl!
April 4, 2019: We have another YouTube piece up today! Thanks to Fred Lerner, we have a 1962 audio interview with John W. Campbell. It can be found at https://youtu.be/SC-o9z-E010. From the YouTube writeup: John W. Campbell and his views on science fiction are showcased in this intriguing audio interview (presented with illustrative pictures) from 1962. Fred Lerner, noted librarian, bibliographer and historian, was just 17 when he interviewed John W. Campbell, the man that shaped much of science fiction for decades. Campbell was both a successful author and the long time editor of Astounding Science Fiction (later Analog). Topics discussed include Rudyard Kipling as a science fiction writer, the government's interest in Cleve Cartmill's fiction, and the nature and value of science fiction. If you like Golden Age science fiction, this is an opportunity to hear one of the giants of the field in his own voice.; Dale Speirs sent us a PDF of issue #440 (3.9 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
April 2, 2019: Mea culpa. I incorrectly marked The Spanish Imposition as a hoax zine. It's not -- it's a one shot done by DavE Romm in honor of Jerry and Suzle being Guests of Honor at Balticon in 1976. Sorry about that.; As another Corflu approaches (http://www.corflu.org/ ), we have for you today a fanthology edited by Andy Hooper for Corflu 10. It's Fanthology '89. Contributors include Walt and Madeline Willis, Jeanne Gomoll, Mike Glyer, Dick Lynch, Joseph Nicholas, Ted White and more. Thanks Andy! Scanning by Mark Olson.; Eastercon is approaching too - https://www.ytterbium.org.uk/. Fancy a little British fanzine? Here's the complete 6 issue run of Mal Ashworth's BEM. It ran from 1954 to 1958, and had contributers like Vince Clarke, C.S. Youd aka John Christopher, Bob Shaw and Bob Bloch. Scanning by Joe Siclari.
April 1, 2019: A treat from the '70s today! We have 7 issues of Suzle Tompkin and Jerry Kaufman's Spanish Inquisition. SpanInq won the 1977 Best Fanzine Hugo, and had a contributors list of some of the best of 70s fandom including Ginjer Buchanan, Randy Bathurst, Grant Canfield, Vincent Di Fate, Moshe Feder, Ken Fletcher, Phil Foglio, Alexis Gilliland, Mike Glicksohn, Terry Hughes, Bertie MacAvoy, Sandra Miesel, Andy Porter, Peter Roberts, Bill Rotsler, Stu Shiffman, Jon Singer, Dan Steffan, Mae Strelkov, Reed Waller and much more. There's also a hoax zine included, titled The Spanish Imposition. Thanks to Jerry and Suzle, and to the man who did the scanning - Joe Siclari.
March 31, 2019: I'm very happy to say that Joe Siclari is back to scanning after his heart surgery. He's not at full strength by any means, but has returned to archiving some of the best of fandom's publications. Today, we have 9 issues, including 2 supplementary issues, of Ella Parker's Orion. These ran from 1953 - 1962, and had material from Ken Bulmer, ATom, John Berry, George Locke and others. We prioritized scanning Orion at the suggestion of Rob Hansen. Thanks Rob! And hooray for Joe, back from the brink and engaged in his usual and much-missed fanhistorical pursuits.; George Phillies sent us a PDF of John Thiel's latest Ionisphere. This is the Bulletin of the National Fantasy Fan Federation Fan-Pro Coordinating Activity. Thanks George!; George also sent us PDFs of the February issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's Tightbeam, edited by George Phillies and Jon Swartz. This months Tightbeam comes in three parts. Thanks George!; Taral Wayne sent us a PDF of his Perzine Rat Sass 12 which we have added to the Rat Sass index. He says this is likely the last issue of Rat Sass. Thanks for sending it, Taral.
March 30, 2019: Thanks to Eli Cohen and Leslie Turek for the name updates on the photos from Selina Lovett's photo album. We appreciate you guys helping to clarify the names so quickly!; Still working on those WSFA Journals. Today we added issues 60, 62, 64, 65 and 69. The latter is a 90 page behemoth special Disclave 1969 issue. Scanning by Mark Olson. (They may still be uploading so if they're not there when you look, give it until tomorrow). Thanks Mark.
March 29, 2019: Thanks to Alan White, we have a scan of what is arguably the first fanzine ever published, the May 1930 issue of The Comet. It was the only issue with that name. Later issues were titled "Cosmology". Thanks Alan!; Selina Lovett provided us a lovely slew of photographs from the early 1970s. These are primarily NE fans, but there are also photos of folks like Arthur C. Clarke, 4sj, and Poul Anderson. I've added them in as an album under http://www.fanac.org/Fan_Photo_Album. You can link directly too: http://www.fanac.org/Fan_Photo_Album/l03-p00.html. Thanks Selina!
March 26, 2019: Thanks to the good offices of Peter Mansfield, we now have the last of issues of Jack Chalker's Mirage. The missing one was #4, and Peter was kind enough to notice the gap, and provide the issue and the scan. Thanks Peter!; FYI, we have a list of folks that have contributed materials to FANAC.org at http://www.fanac.org/FANAC_Inc/fancont.html. If you have contributed, but don't see your name, please send a quick note to fanac@fanac.org . If you haven't contributed, and have some interesting fanzines that are not on the site already, please send us a scan and get the double egoboo of seeing your scan on line and your name on the list. Before you do a lot of work, please check in and make sure that we don't already have the scan in the backlist waiting to go up. If you aren't of the scanning persuasion, how about finding a corner of fandom that you know about and adding or extending articles on Fancyclopedia.org? Be a participant.; We have 9 more issues of the WSFA Journal today from 1968. Scanning by Mark Olson. Thanks Mark!; Dale Speirs sent us a PDF of issue #439 (5.3 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
March 22, 2019: We have more issues of the WSFA Journal, this time from post-Boskone scanning. Today we put up 8 issues, all from 1967 of the clubzine, including a couple edited not by Don Miller, but by Jay Haldeman. Scanning by Mark Olson. Thanks Mark!; Some of the last of the Boskone scanning is Battle of the Titans, Vaughn Bode vs Jack Gaughan. This art zine is exactly what it sounds like it should be - an entertaining artistic romp between two great fan (and pro) artists. This is part of the material that Geri Sullian brought to Boskone for scanning last month, and was scanned there. Thanks Geri!; George Phillies sent us a PDFs of March 2019's issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's The National Fantasy Fan. Thanks George.
March 16, 2019: Another interesting collection for you today. We've added Selected Writings of Rick Sneary to the list. This was edited by Len Moffatt, with a disclaimer by Rick Sneary. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; Dale Speirs sent us a PDF of issue #438 (2.1 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
March 15, 2019: We've added the March issue of Leybl Botwinik's CyberCozen. Thanks Leybl!; We've added the run of Eric Bentcliffe's Bastion. There are 3 issues, from the early 1960s. In the last issue, there's an article by Dick Lupoff describing the formation of Fanoclasts, the New York city fan group. Scanning by Joe Siclari.
March 12, 2019: We've added the first issue today of Blat!, the 1994 FAAn Award winning zine from Ted White and Dan Stefan. Scanning by Joe Siclari. Enjoy!
March 7, 2019: Still from Boskone 2019, we have today 2 issues and a supplement from Blat!, the 1994 FAAn Award winning zine from Ted White and Dan Steffan. The supplement is called "Blat Archives", and is marked as a supplement to issue 4.; More Mota! We've uploaded the remaining 15 issues that we have - from issue 17 to the final issue, issue 31. This is Terry Hughes's Hugo nominated genzine from the 70s.
March 6, 2019: George Phillies sent us a PDF of the February issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's Tightbeam, edited by George Phillies and Jon Swartz. This months Tightbeam comes in two parts. Thanks George!; A treat today - we have 13 issues of Terry Hughes's Mota. Mota ran from 1971 to 1980 and was nominated for the 1979 Best Fanzine Hugo.; Dale Speirs sent us a PDF of issue #437 (6.0 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
February 27, 2019: Today's additons - The Really Incomplete Bob Tucker, edited by Dave Locke and published by Robert and Juanita Coulson. Scan by Mark Olson.; We've added 5 issues of Sata, first published by Dan Adkins and later by Bill Pearson. There is art here. Scans by Joe Siclari.
February 26, 2019: More from the Boskone scanning (getting to the end pretty quickly). We've added Ole Chavela!, a zine from 1960 edited by John and Bjo Trimble for Isabel Burbee (wife of Charles). Thanks to Geri Sullivan for bringing it!; Additionally from Boskone, we've added a couple of Neofans Guides to fandom and to science fiction. These are from 1973 and 1984, edited by Bob Tucker, Marty Cantor and Mike Glyer. If you have to ask what they are, then you should read them.; Adding to our collection of yearbooks, we've added the Science Fiction Yearbook 1957, 1958 edition, published in 1960. I think I have that right. Editors are the editors of Science Fiction Times, James Taurasi, Ray Van Houton, Frank Prieto. Scan by Mark Olson.; Joe has scanned 2 more issues of Jack Chalker's excellent zine, Mirage. Today we add issues 7 and 8. Articles by J. Ramsey Campbell, Gordy Dickson, and others. There's even a chronology of Clark Ashton Smith!; A new title today is Gambit from Ted White. This ran from the mid50s to the early 80s. It has a convoluted ancestry, and I'll wait for Joe to explain it. Scanning by Joe Siclari (on our new high speed scanner :-)
February 25, 2019: We've added the first material scanned with our new scanner, donated by Steve Rosenstein (thanks again Steve!). A choice selection, we have 5 issues of Karen Anderson's Vorpal Glass. This was done for the Golden Gate Futurian Society (GGFS) and many contributors include Poul Anderson, Tony Boucher and Fritz Leiber, among others. Thanks to Astrid Bear for finding/reporting a couple problems with the uploads! They're fixed and Vorpal Glass awaits you.; We've uploaded a few more of Bob Tucker's Le Zombies, (also scanned with the new scanner). We've added issues 51, 56 and an improved scan of issue 48. Scans by Joe Siclari.; A new index page has been added for yearbook sorts of things. It's at http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Yearbooks/. The first two are edited by Joe Kennedy from the late 40s - the 1945-1946 Fantasy Review, and the 1946-1947 Fantasy Review. I'll also link to them from the Fanthologies page and maybe from the Fan Histories page. More yearbooks will be coming. Scanning by Mark Olson.; Another interesting item from the Boskone scanning. Added ATom, A Tribute, a heartfelt zine put together by Vince Clarke after Arthur Thomson's death in 1990. There's much to see here. This was in the trove that Geri Sullivan brought. Thanks Geri.
February 24, 2019: More from Geri Sullivan's Boskone fanzine set of scans -- 4 issues of Eric Bentcliffe's Waldo. Waldo was done for OMPA, and ran from 1959 to 1984.; Yesterday, we put up a bunch of issues of the WSFA Journal. Today, we've put up 11 issues of the supplement, known as Son of the WSFA Journal. This is more of the Boskone scanning.; Three charming photos added today, provided by Thomas Recktenwald. Two are photos of LASFS from the 50s (and we sure could use some ids for the people), and one is a photo of special effects artist Paul Blaisdell and actress Lori Nelson reading a German SF pulp edited and translated by Walter Ernsting (here ). The photos were sent to Waldemar Kumming by Walter Ernsting in 1981, and came to Thomas Recktenwald from Waldemar. Thanks to Thomas for sharing them with everyone!; Eli Cohen has provided us with scans of 35 of the 36 issues of Prospectus, the Newsletter of the Fantasy and Science Fiction Society of Columbia University from 1969 to 1973 which he edited. If you fondly recall the Adventures of Ferdinand Feghoot, I'm told that many of the issues contain "The Adventures of Grayson Greensward", a feghoot-like series. Thanks Eli! If anyone has issue 1, please let us know. That's all we (and Eli) need for a complete run.
February 23, 2019: At Boskone, Steven Rosenstein offered to donate a high speed scanner to FANAC. It's arrived!... and we look forward to lots more scanning (and faster too). Thanks Steve!; From the Boskone scanned pile, we have added 25 issues (435 pages) of the Washington Science Fiction Association clubzine, the WSFA Journal.; Geri Sullivan provided some lovely Irish oriented materials at Boskone. Today, we've uploaded 3 issues of John Berry and Ken Cheslin's Fables of Irish Fandom. This late 90s fanzine reprints articles from the 50s, 60s and more of and about Irish fandom. You'll find pieces from Hyphen and Oopsla, from Cry of the Nameless and Void, from Scottische and Nexus. There's also a link to it from our page on Irish fandom - http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Irish_Fandom/. Thanks Geri! Scanned at Boskone 2019.; We've now put online more than 2/3 of what was scanned at Boskone last weekend. We're up to about 1500 pages!
February 22, 2019: You may notice some different formatting on our homepage. We're experimenting with some changes to the look and feel, so it will be fluid for a little while. If you have suggestions or comments, please send them to fanac@fanac.org.; We've added 5 issues of George Locke's zine Smoke from 1959 - 1963. Scanning at Boskone 2019.
February 21, 2019: Geri Sullivan brought us some zines to scan at Boskone last weekend, and a couple of them are now available to you. First, we have an issue of Richard Bergeron's Warhoon. Warhoon 25 is titled "Bob Shaw for TAFF".; Geri also brought us a special Bob Shaw issue of Focal Point. Edited by Arnie Katz and rich brown, issue 12.5 was published in 1970 and the Fancylopedia article lists it as part of Volume 2 - http://fancyclopedia.org/focal-point-fanzine .; More from the Boskone 2019 scanning: today we've added 3 issues of Charles Riddle's Peon. Peon was nominated for a Fanzine Hugo in 1956, and was produced during Riddle's career in the Navy. Contributors include Terry Carr, Jim Harmon, Lee Hoffman, H. L. Gold and others.; You may notice some strange formatting on our homepage. We're experimenting with some changes to the look and feel, so it will be fluid for a little while. If you have suggestions or comments, please send them to fanac@fanac.org.; George Phillies sent us a PDFs of February 2019's issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's The National Fantasy Fan. Thanks George.
February 20, 2019: We had a very productive weekend at Boskone 56. The FANAC scanning station scanned almost 2000 pages of material. Scanning by Mark Olson and Joe Siclari. History minded fans stopped by and provided material (thanks Geri Sullivan!), and promised more. We have promises of photos, and fanzines and scanning hardware too. The zines scanned at Boskone will be so marked in the index pages of the title, so you can see what we did. The first batch going up are Yandro issues.; Today in Buck and Juanita Coulson's Yandro we have added 7 1965 issues from 146-152.; The fanzine section has been organzined since the mid 90s into categories of Classic Fanzines (before 1980), Modern Fanzines (after 1980), and Electronic Zines. Those categories will be changed eventually, but for now we have provided two new ways to find what you're looking for. Thanks to software written by Mark Olson, we now have a Chronological Fanzine Listing, and an Alphabetic Fanzine Listing that cover ALL the zines we have. You can look at a month and see what we have online that was published during that month. As always, we are adding more zines, so the list will change. It's not ALL the zines that were published, but we are getting some good numbers. December 1943 shows 55 listings for instance.
February 19, 2019: Dale Speirs sent us a PDF of issue #436 (6.0 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
February 12, 2019: Back to Shangri L'Affaires. Today, we added issue 74. Scanning by Mark Olson. These are sizable issues; thanks, Mark!; Today, we uploaded the last 3 issues of Rob Hansen's Epsilon. Actually this was the first 3 issues and completes the run. Scanning by Mark Olson.; A treat for those thinking of Ireland (and for everyone else as well) - we've uploaded Willis Discovers America, a "pre-trip report" for Walt's 1952 journey in the US. Scanning by Mark Olson. Thanks Mark!
February 9, 2019: Back to Shangri L'Affaires. Today, we added issues 71-73. Scanning by Mark Olson. These are sizable issues; thanks, Mark!
February 8, 2019: Thanks to Sam McDonald for finding some omissions and inconsistencies in our Retro Hugo materials. What a labor of detail that must have been! Thanks Sam! We are fixing/have fixed them. The Retro Hugo reading list can be found at http://fanac.org/fanzines/Retro_Hugos1943.html.; Today, we uploaded issue 4 of Austin Hamel's Stellar (1944). Scan by Joe Siclari. If Pavlat Evans is to be believed, this is the last issue. Pavlat Evans is indispensible if you're working with fanzines before 1953. While there are errors, it attempts to list ALL the fanzines published until that time.; For the music lovers among us, we've added an autographed program from the Disclave 1975 production of The Mimeo Man. Scan by Joe Siclari.; It's been a while since we posted anything to the list of Irish Fandom related publications. Today, a juicy 40 page addition in John Berry's G.D.A. Casebook 1959. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; On the newszine front, we have newszine hoaxes (and a couple of Westercon special editions). Check out Starfink 69, a "bi-weekly slander and misinformation fanzine". There's also a (fanzines/Starspinkle/Starspinkle457-01.html hoax issue 49}. The real news (of 1963) are the two Westercon special editions in July. They're listed as such in the Starspinkle index. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; We also added the February issue of Leybl Botwinik's CyberCozen. Thanks Leybl!
February 4, 2019: Today we have added a PDF of Spang Blah, Vol 2, N3 from September 1974. This scan was provided by The Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College through the good offices of librarian Elaine Hooker. Thanks Elaine! And thanks to the Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College. The issue also has a note on the last page from jan finder to Wade Center founder Clyde S. Kilby.
February 3, 2019: The lastest update on what we've been doing at the Fan History Project has been doing is online at http://www.fanac.org/FANAC_Inc/update0219.pdf. Older updates can be found at http://fanac.org/fanzines/FANAC-Updates/.; One more Shangri L'Affaires for you. This one (scanned by Mark Olson) is #50 from 1960. It's edited by John Trimble and has a cover by Bjo.; We also have one more issue of the Whole Fanzine Catalog, edited by Brian Earl Brown. This one (issue 22-25 ) isn't a milestone issue like the #50, but it is a quadruple issue covering 2 years, from 1982-1983. Scanning by Mark Olson.; Dale Speirs sent us a PDF of issue #435 (4.4 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
February 2, 2019: Most of the Shangri L'Affaires on the site have been from the 1940s. Today, thanks to the scanning of Mark Olson, we've uploaded 6 issues from the late 1950s/early 1960s. Shaggy had various editors over its lifetime and the editors for these issues were Al Lewis and John Trimble. The issues we added are 42 and 44-48. For more on Shaggy, see the article in Fancyclopedia at http://fancyclopedia.org/shangri-l-affaires.; George Phillies sent us a PDF of the February issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's Tightbeam, edited by George Phillies and Jon Swartz. This months Tightbeam comes in three parts. Thanks George!; George also sent us a PDF of John Thiel's latest Ionisphere. This is the Bulletin of the National Fantasy Fan Federation Fan-Pro Coordinating Activity. Thanks George.; 6 more issues today of Cry of the Nameless. Edited by Wally Weber, and Buz & Elinor Busby, this fabulous zine has contributors like ATom, Terry Carr, Ted White, rich brown, John Berry, Elinor Busby and Buz himself. Today's issues are 115, 169, 171-174, 184. There's also a fake Cry of the Nameless Issue 175 by Wally Weber and Phil Harrell dated "Argh 1964". Scanning by Mark Olson. Thanks Mark!
January 31, 2019: 9 more issues today of Cry of the Nameless. Edited by Wally Weber, and Buz & Elinor Busby, this fabulous zine has contributors like ATom, Terry Carr, Ted White, rich brown, John Berry, Elinor Busby and Buz himself. Today's issues are 115, 121, 126, and 162-168. Scanning by Mark Olson. Thanks Mark!; We've uploaded 15 issues of Rob Hansen's excellent Epsilon. Epsilon ran from the mid70s to the mid80s, and won the Nova Award for Best Fanzine in 1982. Scanning by Mark Olson.; Today, we added the January issue of Leybl Botwinik's CyberCozen. Thanks Leybl!; Dale Speirs sent us a PDF of issue #434 (5.5 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
January 21, 2019: We've one more vintage photo from Kenneth Johnson. It's a picture of a MITSFS meeting in 1973 with guest Theodore Sturgeon. You might be surprised to see who's in the room. You can see it along with the NESFA photos at http://fanac.org/Fan_Photo_Album/n01-p01.html . Thanks Kenneth!; From 1944, we bring you two issues of Russell Wilsey's Felix. There's a little poetry here and a little fiction too. Scans by Joe Siclari.; We've also got another issue of South of the Moon - issue 19.5. This is the fanzine that gives information about current APAs. Editors for this issue were Martin Horvat and Denys Howard. Scan by Joe Siclari.; For our Irish Fandom project, we have 3 issues of John Berry and Arthur Thomson's Veritas. Think late 50s, done for OMPA. In addition to Berry and ATom, there's material by Bob Shaw. Scans by Joe Siclari.; One of the most entertaining zines of the late 70s, early 80s was Stu Shiffman's Raffles. We've added the complete run of 11 issues, from 1-8. Stu's wonderful artwork is there, plus art by ATom, Ross Chamberlain, Reed Waller, and many others. The articles feature bylines such as Hank Davis, Eric Bentcliffe, Arnie Katz, Sandra Miesel, Larry Carmody, Avedon Carol, Joe Siclari, and Taral. What more could you want? Great stuff. Scanning by Mark Olson.; George Phillies sent us a PDFs of January 2019's issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's The National Fantasy Fan. Thanks George.
January 19, 2019: More issues of Bruce Gillespie's SF Commentary. We've added issues 31, and the triple issue 35-37 today. That triple issue is 146 pages long! Bruce, how did you avoid some variation of Nydahl's disease? Scanning for these SF Commentary issues by Mark Olson.; We're still working to save as many 1930s fanzines as possible. Today, we've added one edited by Sam Moskowitz. It's Helios 3, and it's in hecto. These hecto zines are in the greatest danger of disappearing. Helios 3 has material not only by SaM, but by Dick Wilson and Clark Ashton Smith. It promises future issues will also have Henry Kuttner, David Keller and other names you may know. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; Still working on the 30s, we've added issue 11 of Tesseract, edited by C. Hamilton Bloomer. This ran from 1936 - 1938. The issue we posted has materials by HP Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith and Doc Smith. Wow! Scanning by Joe Siclari.
January 18, 2019: It's a YouTube day. We've uploaded another of Rusty Hevelin's excellent interviews from MagiCon, the 50th Worldcon. This time, Rusty interview Frank Robinson. Frank was a long time fan, as well as author and editor. From the YouTube description: "Frank talks about the war years, the fanzines he published, the Ray Palmer era in magazines, his time at Rogue Magazine and lots more. Highlights include: working with Ray Palmer, discussion on the line between fan and pro writing, the story of George Pal's production of 'The Power' from Frank's story of that name, and Frank's views on the impact of science fiction and of fantasy." There's also talk of his not-good relationship with Damon Knight, his brief career as a fan artist (6 color cover on a fanzine!), and how he made his first sale. These interviews provide great insight into a fascinating period in our field. You can find the video at https://youtu.be/QcK_5kmMJ64; Joe Kennedy's fanzine Vampire was one of the most highly regarded fanzine in the late 40s. It had outstanding articles and columns about fanzines, the Shaver controversy, and was the must-have zine of its time. Contributors included Laney, Palmer, Shaver, Tucker and others. Today we added 8 issues of the 9 that were produced, as well as Boff Perry's index to Vampire. Scans by Joe Siclari.; We've uploading more issues of Bruce Gillespie's SF Commentary. We've added 57-66 today. Note that there are a double and a quad issue included. SF Commentary was nominated for the Best Fanzine Hugo three times during the early 1970s. Scans by Mark Olson.
January 17, 2019: Thanks to Kenneth R. Johnson, we have half a dozen photos of a 1971 NESFA meeting and frisbee session. You can find them in the NESFA photo section. Thanks Kenneth!; Two more early issues of the Tolkien Journal. Today, thanks to the scanning of Joe Siclari, we've added issues 1-2. These early issues are very short and not at all like what the zine became.; For our newszine project, we have another issue today of Fantasy News, this one edited by Will Sykora. It's issue 173 from late November, 1944. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; We've started uploading issues of Bruce Gillespie's SF Commentary. We have 6 issues up so far, with more to come. SF Commentary was nominated for the Best Fanzine Hugo three times during the early 1970s.
January 15, 2019: We're migrating the website. If you notice any problems with it, please send a note to fanac@fanac.org; Four more issues of Egoboo, the late 60s/early 70s fanzine edited by Ted White and John D. Berry. Today we added issues 11-13, and 17. Scans by Joe Siclari.; In the early 60s, the NFFF published Fandbooks as background education on fandom. In the 2010s, they've published a couple more. Fandbook 5 is on Pseudonyms, and fanzines/Fandbook/Fandbook06-01.pdf is on Hugo Awards for Best Novel. Thanks to the NFFF for providing them.
January 14, 2019: We're migrating the website. If you notice any problems with it, please send a note to fanac@fanac.org; We've added issue 161 of Buz Busby's Cry of the the Nameless. In this issue: Buz, Red Boggs, Terry Carr, Wally Weber, Elinor Busby, John Berry, and Ted White. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; Three more issues of Egoboo, the late 60s/early 70s fanzine edited by Ted White and John D. Berry. Today we added issues 9-10 and 15. Scans by Joe Siclari.; In the late 1950s, John Magnus edited a little newszine called Rumble. It had fan doings, opinion, reviews and LOCs. We have 13 issues on line for you today.
January 12, 2019: We're migrating the website. If you notice any problems with it, please send a note to fanac@fanac.org; We're scanning a new title today, Pat Mueller's Texas SF Inquirer. These 20 issues are primarily from the mid-80s. The earlier issues were marked "The Best Little Newszine in Texas". Scanning by Mark Olson and Joe Siclari. For those that came in late Pat Mueller is Pat Virzi. Thanks Mark and Joe!; There was a Special Issue of Cosmic Tales done for the 1st Worldcon in 1939. In fact, it was dedicated to the committee. Contains what may be the first piece by Cyril Kornbluth. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; There's a treat for you today. We've uploaded 6 issues of Egoboo, a fine fannish fanzine edited by Ted White and John D. Berry. These issues are from 1968-1972 and include a lot of good personal writing and a plethora of really interesting letters from their friends.; Dale Speirs sent us a PDF of issue #433 (2.0 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
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January 6, 2019: Three more Tolkien Journal, thanks to the scanning of Mark Olson. Today we've added issues 7-8 and 15. Thanks Mark!; George Phillies sent us a PDF of the January issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's Tightbeam, edited by George Phillies and Jon Swartz. This months Tightbeam once again comes in two parts. Thanks George!
January 4, 2019: Before it was "Speculation", Pete Weston's fanzine was "Zenith". We've added issues 3, 5 and 6 today, and you can find them all here - http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Speculation/. Articles by Poul Anderson, Terry Pratchett, Chris Priest, Ethel Lindsay, among others. Scanning by Mark Olson.; Back to the Tolkien Journal, thanks to the scanning of Mark Olson. Today we've added issues 9-14. Contents include part of the proceedings of the first annual Tolkien Conference and art by Tim Kirk. Thanks Mark!
January 3, 2019: More issues of The Voice of the Lobster. Edited by George Flynn, and produced by the committee of Noreascon 2, Voice of the Lobster was published to "discussion of Worldcon management and related topics". Today we added the last 5 issues. This completes the run. Scanning by Mark Olson. Thanks Mark!; Today's newszines have an international flavor. We've added the complete 5 issue run of Science Fiction International News, edited by Keith Freeman and Dave Kyle. This newszine ran from 1976-1976. Scanning by Joe Siclari.
January 2, 2019: South of the Moon was a 1970s fanzine that gave information about current APAs. It has a variety of editors, and today we have uploaded 5 of them. Scanning by Mark Olson and Joe Siclari.; Today's newszines cover June and July of 1970. We have 3 issues of Focal Point for you. The newly added ones are V2, numbers 6-8. These were edited by Arnie Katz and rich brown. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; From 1939, we have issue 2 of Ted Carnell's New Worlds. This early British fanzine ran for 4 issues, and after the war, Carnell edited a prozine by the same name. Cover by Harry Turner. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; If you are interested in conventions, especially Worldcons, you may want to read the discussions in today's newly uploaded title - The Voice of the Lobster. Edited by George Flynn, and produced by the committee of Noreascon 2, Voice of the Lobster was published to "discussion of Worldcon management and related topics". Today we added the first 2 issues. Scanning by Mark Olson. Thanks Mark!; Taral Wayne sent us a PDF (6.5 MB) of his Perzine Rat Sass 11 which we have added to the Rat Sass index. Thanks Taral.; Dale Speirs sent us a PDF of issue #432 (5.6 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
December 30, 2018: Well, it turns out that I was wrong when I said we were done with uploaded Outworlds. We have 2 more issues today - issues 4 and 6 from 1970-1971. Scanning by Mark Olson. Issue 4 has a cover by Vincent Di Fate, and interior artwork by Alicia Austin, Tim Kirk and others.; May 1952 saw the last issue of the short run newszine, Stfanews edited by Clyde Hanback. We uploaded the last issue today, completing the run. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; Moving down under, we have 2 issues of Alan Stewart's Thyme from the early 90s, issues 94 and 95. Alan distributed several other fanzines along with these. Both issues contain an Artychoke by Ian Gunn, and an Australian SF News, edited by Alan Stewart and Merv Binns. Scans by Mark Olson.; Continuing with the newszine theme, Mike Ward has scanned more Sanders for us. We've added issue 0 (really more of a flyer), 1, 13, and 15. Thanks Mike! All we seem to be missing now are issues 6 and 21. Hey, does anyone out ther have issues 6 or 21? We're up to 2746 newszines now.
December 29, 2018: An interesting item for you today, originally distributed in FAPA 87. Edited by Terry Carr, it's The Stormy Petrel. This is a collection of articles about Francis Tower Laney. Laney is best known for two publications. First, his star studded fanzine about Lovecraftian fiction, The Acolyte and second his diatribe on fandom, Ah! Sweet Idiocy!. The Stormy Petrel was put together in response to news of Laney's death. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; We already have part of the Willis Papers online as retyped text version. Today, we're adding a scanned version as well. Now you can see it in all its original glory. Scans by Joe Siclari.; Continuing with Pete Weston's Speculation, today we have 2 more issues - 24 and 26. Here you'll find Chris Priest, FM Busby, and Fred Pohl, not to mention Pete Weston. Scanning by Mark Olson.; Thanks to the scanning of Joe Siclari, we've finished the run of Henry Elsner's fanzine, The Sciencefictionist. This was mid40s, and issue 5 just added has articles by Laney, Speer and E. Everett Evans.; We already had online Shelby Vick's full Hyphen Tribute. Today, for completeness, we added the Hyphen Tribute Thumbnail that Shelby did for the May 1999 FAPA mailing. Different cover, subset of the contents. Thanks to Mark Olson for the scanning.; Added issue 6 of Science Fiction World. This was a Bob Bloch/Bob Tucker newszine of the 1950s published by Gnome Press. One of the leading articles in ssue 6? "Fancyclopedia Project Under Way". Of course, that was Fancyclopedia 2. Read all about it in Fancyclopedia 3 at http://fancyclopedia.org/fancyclopedia-2.
December 27, 2018: Three more issues today of Pete Weston's excellent fanzine, Speculation from the 1960s. These are actually Zenith Speculation issues - 7-8 and 10. You'll find content by Fritz Leiber, Robert Bloch, Walt Willis and Chris Priest. Speculation was nominated for the Hugo for Best Fanzine four times. Scanning by Mark Olson.; Len Moffatt edited a newszine in the mid 1950s named Science Fiction Parade. We've added 5 issues today from 1956 - 1958. You can read it here - there's a Westercon IX report, a report on NYCon II, awards polls, etc. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; One more issue of The Sydney Futurian, this one from 1950. Headline: Futurian Society Will Carry On. Scanning by Joe Siclari.
December 26, 2018: For our Irish Fandom page, we have 2 new entries today. First, we have an April 1, 1957 newszine from Joy and Vince Clarke, Sandy Sanderson and Chuck Harris. It's Goontact 13. Next, the 1961 Willis Fund Papers, including the announcement, invitation and raffle. This was a kickoff for the fund to bring Walt to the 1962 Worldcon. It was very much a group effort - check out the list of fans on the announcement. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; There are 2 additional issues of Pete Weston's Hugo nominated fanzine Speculation from the 1960s as well. We've uploaded issues 13 and 23. You'll find content by Brian Aldiss, F.M. Busby, and Chris Priest among others. Scanning by Mark Olson.
December 25, 2018: Merry Christmas to all who celebrate. For your holiday pleasure, we have two Christmas Art publications from LASFS. From 1960, we have the Shangri L'Affaires Christmas Art Supplement. From 1968, we have another Shangri L'Affaires Christmas Art Supplement. Enjoy! Scanning by Joe Siclari.; For the 1941 Worldcon, Denvention, Fanfare published a special supplement. Although Art Widner published it for the 1941 Worldcon, it contained the text of the GoH speech that Doc Smith had given for Chicon, the 1940 Worldcon. Now you can read it too. Scans by Joe Siclari.; Today's Outworlds are: issues 3, 32-34 along with the first 2 flyers. I believe these 4 issues are the last of the ones we have available to scan. All Outworlds scanning has been by Mark Olson.; Well, it seems to be more of a 40s day than a 30s day. Another offering from the 1940s - issues of the LASFS clubzine, Shangri L'Affaires. Today we have 10 issues - issues 25-26, 29-31, 33-35, 37-38 plus a 1941 promotion zine, a 1945 Fanquet reminder and a 1945 LASFS program schedule. There's also an issue 38 supplement where Burbee explains that this is the last issue he plans to edit. There is a lot of content by F.T.L., art by Rotsler, a review by A.E. Van Vogt, a poem by Tigrina, and generally just what you would expect from Los Angeles fandom in the 40s. Scans by Joe Siclari.
December 24, 2018: Still adding more Outworlds. Today, we added 9 issues: issues 1-2, 10, 13-14, 29.5, 35-37, and Outworlds' Inwords 8, the floating lettercol for Outworlds. Scanning by Mark Olson. Thanks Mark!; We still have more 30s zines too. Today, we put up Ted Dikty's Grab Bag, a fanzine done for the first Worldcon in 1939. Ted notes that he cannot attend.
December 23, 2018: Still adding more Outworlds. Today, we added 9 issues: issues 40-43, 49, 51-54 from 1984-1985. Scanning by Mark Olson. Thanks Mark!; Time for newszines. We've added 27 issues of the British newszine Checkpoint, including some edited by Ian Maule, and many edited by Peter Roberts. These are from the mid 1970s. Today's addition - issues 63-77, 80-84, 86-91, 93-98 and issue 100, the final issue. Issue 100 includes an index of all the Checkpoints. Several of the zines include issues of Eric Bentcliffe's MI. There are also two issues of TAFF Talk, by Peter Roberts. Scans by Joe Siclari. Thanks Joe! By my count, we now have 2731 newszines, ranging from October 1936 to December 2016.
December 22, 2018: Dale Speirs sent us a PDF of issue #431 (6.3 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
December 21, 2018: Thanks to the scanning of Mark Olson, we've uploaded the complete 14 issue run of Denis Quane's Notes from the Chemistry Department. This ran from 1973-1975, and had contributors like Joan Vinge, Jerry Pournelle, Greg Benford and Mike Glyer. Thanks Mark!; Still adding more Outworlds. Today, we added issues 38-39 from 1984. Scanning by Mark Olson.
December 19, 2018: A massive Quandry annish from Lee Hoffman for you today! Quandry 13 from August 1951 is 100 pages long. The table of contents lists contributors like Walt Willis, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Bob Tucker, Bob Shaw, and of course, Lee herself. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; Four more Outworlds today, along with 3 Outworlds flyers. The flyers are more than flyers - they have content! At least some of them were associated with a specific issue of Outworlds. Interesting. Scanning by Mark Olson.; Still working on fanthologies, today we've added "6 in 60", An Incomplete Look at 60 Years of Science Fiction Fandom in Chicago ..and beyond. Done for Chicon 2000, this fanthology edited by Marcy Lyn-Waitsman, has pieces by Bob Tucker, Bob Passavoy, Ross Pavlac, Phil Foglio and many more.
December 18, 2018: Five more issues of Lee Hoffman's Quandry today! Contributors include Walt Willis, Lin Carter, Bob Tucker, Bob Silverberg, Red Boggs, Shelby Vick, and need I list more? If you haven't read it, you should. These are from 1951. Find out why Quandry was a focal point fanzine. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; Three more Outworlds today, along with a couple of unusual items, like the Outworlds 1970 Egoboo Poll. Scanning by Mark Olson.; George Phillies sent us a PDFs of December 2018's issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's The National Fantasy Fan. Thanks George.
December 17, 2018: We've uploaded another choice recording on our YouTube channel. During the filming of the "Demon With a Glass Hand" episode of Outer Limits, Harlan Ellison gave a talk about adapting science fiction for media. This was at the 1964 Worldcon, Pacificon II. Thanks to Jerome Scott, Director of Projects for SCIFI in LA, we have the audio. You can find it at it at: https://youtu.be/pCS7bhYrtY0. The first few minutes of the talk are missing. From the YouTube description: Harlan gives an engrossing talk (audio, enhanced with images) about writing for television and about how Hollywood works. The talk took place during the filming of the Outer Limits episode, "Demon With a Glass Hand", and Harlan speaks very frankly (including complaints) about his experience as the writer on the episode. Includes Harlan's reading of a scene as written, and as changed by management as well as discussion on the casting, the directing and the location. Embedded are photos of Harlan throughout his science fiction career." Enjoy! WARNING: Harlan uses some strong language in this talk.; As it happens, today we've uploaded a Harlan Ellison edited zine. It's Bulletin of the Cleveland Science Fiction Society 16 from 1952. This is the issue that was transitional between the Bulletin and Science Fantasy Bulletin. In fact, if you look at the last page of the zine, it's marked as "Science Fantasy Bulletin". Contributors include Lee Hoffman and Dave Kyle ("In Defense of My Fanhood"). Scans by Joe Siclari.; The NFFF has been the "entry point" into fandom for many fans. In the early 60s, they published Fandbooks to provide fans with background education on the fannish community. Here are 4 of them - http://fanac.org/fanzines/Fandbook . Scans by Joe Siclari.
December 15, 2018: Geri Sullivan has put together Fanac.org's first "Guided Walk" through some of our fannish publications. This is a new thing for us - kind of an online fanthology. Geri's piece is titled "Roadtripping with the Wheels of IF" and will point you to some great fanwriting from the BNFs of Irish Fandom. It also includes personal letters and photos that will give you a feeling of what Wheels of IF were really like. See our splash page for more explanation. Thanks Geri!; Joe Siclari has been scanning more from Irish Fandom. Today's offerings are issue 50 of John Berry's Pot Pourri, and a "Burbee-type one-shot" for FAPA 69 done by Walt Willis in 1954 titled WAWCRHBSJWCATWCMWPMSSACW. Want to find out what that means? Follow the link. Thanks Joe!; Mark Olson has been scanning too. From his prolific scanner we have two more fanthologies. The first is from 1978, put out by Linda Bushyager, Tim Marion and Joyce Scrivner - Of Such Are Legends Made, V1.; The second is not your general fanthology. Edited by Ruth Berman, it's the SHsf Fanthology 3, a collection of writing on Sherlock Holmes from fanzines. Thanks Mark!; George Phillies sent us a PDF of the December issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's Tightbeam, edited by George himself and Jon Swartz. Or rather, George sent us two PDFs. This months Tightbeam comes in two parts. Thanks George!
December 14, 2018: Collections and fanthologies have long been a popular way to share important fannish writing. We've had a few online for a while, like Terry Carr's Entropy (1964). Today, we've added a few more for your reading pleasure. We have The Incompleat Terry Carr, edited by rich brown and Arnie Katz, published by Jerry Kaufman. We have The Portable Carl Brandon, eddited by Terry Carr and published by Jerry Kaufman. By the time you read this, I may have already added The Incomplete Burbee, Volume 2 edited Terry Carr and published by Jeff Schalles. More coming! Enjoy.; Thanks to Mark Olson, we have another Outworlds issue today. It's issue 170, the last that Bill Bowers put out before his death. Another issue was in preparation when he died. This is a whopping 150 pages long, and begins with page 2571. Thanks Mark!; Thanks to Joe Siclari, we have 8 more issues of Lee Hoffman's focal point fanzine, Quandry. The new issues range from 6 to 26, and have contributors from the Wheels of IF, including James White and Walt Willis. You'll also find Harlan Ellison, Bob Silverberg, A. Vincent Clarke, Forrest J Ackerman, and F. Towner Laney! I'm very glad to have these up. Thanks Joe!
December 13, 2018: Thanks to Mark Olson, we have 2 more Outworlds today. Issues 66 and 67 are from the 1990s, and publication dates were not as frequent. Thanks Mark!; It's been a while since we've uploaded more Cry of the Nameless. Today we have 14 more issues, ranging from early issues edited by G. M. Carr to issues from the 1960s edited by Wally Weber and the Busbys. There's material by Buz, by John Berry and others. Scanning by Joe Siclari. Thanks Joe!
December 12, 2018: Matthew Strait, archivist for the Minnesota Science Fiction Society, has sent us listings of the MinnStf fanzine archive. They are in our Bibliography section, along with the Pavlat-Evans Fanzine Index, Ned Brooks' Fanzine Index, and the Fanzine Archive Collection. Thanks Matt!; We're starting to upload issues of Outworlds, edited by Bill Bowers. We begin with 4 issues from 1992-1993. Contributors include Bruce Pelz, Peggy Rae Pavlat, Bill Rotsler, John Giunta, Buck Coulson and many more. Outworlds was nominated for the Best Fanzine Hugo in 1971 and 1974-77. It won the FAAN Award for Best Fanzine in 1975, 1976 and 1999. Scanning by Mark Olson. Thanks Mark!; Continuing with our 1930s theme, we have 3 issues of Science Fiction Progress edited by Don Wollheim and John B. Michel. Issue 2 says "Published for the Committee for the Political Advancement of Science Fiction." John Michel is a name with which you may not be familiar. Read all about him in Fancyclopedia at http://fancyclopedia.org/john-b-michel. Scanning by Joe Siclari. Thanks Joe!
December 10, 2018: A few days ago, I reported that we put up Fanfare issues 5 and 6. What I neglected to mention is that issue 6 was the Earl Singleton memorial issue. Earl wasn't really dead, but he had his roommate announce that he had committed suicide and fandom was in mourning. This fanzine was released before the deception became known. Read more about Earl at http://fancyclopedia.org/earl-singleton; Thanks to Thomas Recktenwald, we have an additional 10 issues of Shards of Babel, a newszine from the Netherlands edited by Roelof Goudriaan. The issues are from 1991 - 1993. Thomas realized we were missing these issues, located them and sent the scans to us. Thank you, Thomas!; More Irish fanzines for you today. We have added facsimile issues of Hyphen 21 and Hyphen 36. Hyphen 36 was already up in part, having been retyped for Fanac.org years ago by Judy Bemis. The new facsimile issues were scanned by Joe Siclari.; We also added several issues of Richard Bergeron's Warhoon. Issues 6 and 7 are now online, with scanning by Joe Siclari.; Steam 16 by Ken Bulmer is uploaded today, with the announcement that Ron Bennett has been elected the 1958 TAFF delegate. Scan by Joe Siclari.
December 8, 2018: Dick Wilson was about 18 when he published The Convention Crier in 1938. There's a little bit of everything here. Dick was a Futurian, and in 1940 had his first science fiction story published.; Tired of all the 1930s zines we're posting? Something more modern today. We have 5 issues of Gus Willmorth's Fantasy Advertiser from the mid to late 1940s (and one from 1951). This haul includes the 1st two issues. There are articles, worldcon ads, and oh yes, book listings. Interested in a December 1932 Weird Tales for 75¢ ? I suspect the offer may have expired by now. Scans by Joe Siclari.; We also have Fanfare issues 5 and 6. Issue 5 has a cover by Damon Knight. Issue 6 has articles by Bob Tucker, Milt Rothman and Doc Lowndes. Tucker's piece is on the financial matters of the Chicon, the 1940 worldcon. He contends that you don't need much money to put on a convention. Scans by Joe Siclari.; From September, 1980. we bring you the Noreascon Two Special Report issue of Mike Glyer's File 770. Get a contemporary view of a great convention. It was great, but I was there toting a 6 week old baby, so I may have missed a few things. Scanning by Mark Olson.; Today, we added the December issue of Leybl Botwinik's CyberCozen. Thanks Leybl!
December 5, 2018: From the late 70s and early 80s, today we have a dozen or so issues of The Whole Fanzine Catalog. This was from Brian Earl Brown in Michigan, and is full of contemporary fanzine reviews. Scanning by Mark Olson. Thanks Mark!; From the 1940s, we have 2 more issues of The Sydney Futurian, issues 6 and 11. I'm not sure who the editor was for these issues - it was either Vol Molesworth or Graham Stone. Scanning by Joe Siclari. These newszines can really give you a feel for Australian fandom in the late 40s.
December 3, 2018: Are you feeling musical today? We have two fannish musicals, originally presented at Boskone in the 70s to share with you today. Scanned by Mark Olson, these were both written by Sue Anderson and Mark Keller. The earliest is Rivets Redux, a science fiction musical from 1978, followed by The Decomposers Songbook or "Rivets Has Risen From the Grave" from 1979. Both were illustrated by the late, lamented Stu Shiffman. There's also a playbill from the Decomposers.; For your 1930s fix, we have the first issue (hecto!) of Fantasy Fiction Digest. This was done by Morris Scott Dollens, and appeared in September of 1936. There were only two issues. As you probably know, Dollens was an artist. Check out the 1930s art in this issue. It's very cool.; George Phillies sent us a PDF of John Thiel's latest Ionisphere. This is the Bulletin of the National Fantasy Fan Federation Fan-Pro Coordinating Activity. Thanks George.
December 2, 2018: News of the 70s. News of the 70s in the UK to be specific. We've added 20 issues of Checkpoint, some edited by Peter Roberts and some by Darroll Pardoe. They range from 1971 to 1975. There are two trial issues, both labeled "Issue 0" from 1971. There are also a couple of issues of MI, a zine by Eric Bentcliffe that were distributed with Checkpoint. Those are in situ with the Checkpoint issues, and also can be found here - http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/MI/. I think we're at 2,681 newszines now. You can find a chronological list here.
December 1, 2018: Smofcon is currently in progress in California, and so today we have some "new" Smofcon photos for you. These however, are not from 2018, but from 1992 and Smofcon 9. Photos and scans by Mark Olson.; Everyone has heard of the Exclusion Act that occurred in 1939 at the 1st Worldcon, right? Here is a contemporary piece of commentary about it by one of the excluded. Check out Leslie Perri's "In your teeth, 'gentlemen'. Plus there are sketches. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; Sticking with 1939, we have 4 new to us issues of Harry Warner's Spaceways. There's also now scan of issue 1 as a complement to the text version that has been on the site. Scanning by Joe Siclari.
November 30, 2018: Thanks to Frank Olynyk, we have added some photos of this year's World Fantasy Convention. You can find them here - http://www.fanac.org/Other_Cons/World_Fantasy_Conference/x18-p00.html . Thanks, Frank!; More Irish publications. Joe Siclari has scanned 5 more issues of the OMPAzine Woz done by Walt Willis. To round out the picture of Irish Fandom, we'll be adding some fanzines where the Wheels of If and their compatriots wrote frequent columns and articles.; Dale Speirs sent us a PDF of issue #430 (7.7 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
November 28, 2018: Twenty-one (21!) newszines added today, all PSFS News or PSFS Bulletins. The earliest of these are from the 1930s (and hecto). The most recent are from 1992. There's some fascinating material here, including a special convention supplementary issue for the 2nd US convention - the 1938 Philadelphia gathering.Scanning by Joe Siclari.; From Mark Olson's scanner, we have 7 more issues of Richard Bergeron's Warhoon. The issues range from 1960 to 1964. Issue 20 from 1964 has quite a lot of discussion about Walter Breen.
November 24, 2018: Our first offering today is another 1930s hectographed fanzine. It's Ted Dikty's Fantasy Digest, issue 4. This fanzine had 8 issues, running from 1939-1940. Scan by Joe Siclari.; Next, we have 9 issues of Richard Bergeron's Hugo winning fanzine, Warhoon. Warhoon won Best Fanzine in 1962, and was nominated a total of 3 times. It started life as a SAPSzine, then moved to FAPA. Contributors include Terry Carr, Bob Bloch, Harry Warner and Walt Willis. Page through yourself and find more (although these are some pretty fine contributors right here). Scans by Mark Olson.; I'm told you can tell a lot about a person by their signature. This is your chance to see a bunch of signatures from the attendees of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th worldcons. Morojo put together an autograph pamphlet as a fanzine, and today we've uploaded 3 issues complete with signatures, including those of Robert Heinlein and his wife Leslyn. Scanning by Joe Siclari. You can find Stephan the STFan here - http://fanac.org/fanzines/Stephan_the_STFan/.
November 22, 2018: Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. Joe Siclari has scanned some rare and fragile zines for today's update. We have 3 additional issues from 1944 and 1945 of Laney's Acolyte. The contributors are legendary. Here you'll find pieces by Fritz Leiber, H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, E. Hoffman Price, Tony Boucher, and others. If you love Lovecraft, this is the zine for you.; In the way of newszines, we have 3 issues of Ahrvid Engholm's Science Fiction Journalen, the longeset running Scandinavian newsletter. These are from 1989 and 1985. Scan by Mark Olson. This brings us up to 2,640 newszines.; We have a 30s addition today. Scan by Joe Siclari. This is the last issue of Fantasy Fiction Telegram from 1938. It's from Bob Madle, Jack Baltadonis, Milt Rothman and Oswarld Train. This was done in hecto, and achieved some really nice color. Check it out.; Thanks to the scanning of Mark Olson, we have 4 issues from 1966 of The Tolkien Journal. These issues were edited by Dick Plotz.
November 20, 2018: One of the Most Important Fanzines Every Published! Today, we added Donald Wollheim's defense on keeping staples in science fiction publications. There are two issues from 1935 of Wollheim's Polymorphaneucleated Leucocyte. Scan by Joe Siclari.; Keeping with the 30s theme of the day, you can now read issue 6 of Maurice Ingher's Science Fiction Digest. It leads off with a story by A. Merritt, and has material by Julie Schwartz, Forrest J Ackerman and Mort Weisinger. There's also an interview with Harry Bates, who later wrote "Farewell to the Master", the story basis of the film, "The Day The Earth Stood Still".; From 1999, we've added Shelby Vick's tribute to Hyphen, titled Hyphen 38. And now we've lost Shelby too.; For those that are keeping score, the lastest update on what the Fan History Project has been doing is online at http://www.fanac.org/FANAC_Inc/update1118.pdf. There's information there not only about our online activities, but also the other things that FANAC has been doing to preserve fan history. Older updates can be found at http://fanac.org/fanzines/FANAC-Updates/.; George Phillies sent us a PDFs of November 2018's issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's The National Fantasy Fan. Thanks George.
November 16, 2018: Adding to our convention publications today, we have 5 Progress Reports from Discon II, the 1974 Worldcon. You can see all the Discon publications at http://www.fanac.org/worldcon/Discon/w74-pubs.html. PR5, the Final Progress Report is really a post-convention report, with a cover photograph taken from the masquerade. Scanning by Mark Olson.
November 15, 2018: More 30s goodness for you today. We have 3 issues of Corwin Stickney's Amateur Correspondent from 1937. These are very cool, with names like E. Hoffman Price, Robert Bloch (fan fiction?) and Clark Ashton Smith. Scan by Joe Siclari.; For those who like more modern fan writing, say 1943, we have the first iteration up of our source page for those interested Retro Hugos. This is a work in progress and there are at least 20 more links that we'll be putting in, but it's there for your perusement at http://fanac.org/fanzines/Retro_Hugos1943.html. We're including links not only to Fanac.org materials, but to relevant fanzines from the University of Iowa collection of Rusty Hevelin's fanzines, and from Bill Burns's efanzines. If you have materials that are not online, and are willing to scan them for us, or make them available for scanning, please let us know. The Retros will be better if interested parties can access the original materials. Thanks to Mark Olson and Joe Siclari for putting this together.; Dale Speirs sent us a PDF of issue #429 (6.6 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
November 13, 2018: Ready for your dose of Irish fandom? We have 2 more issues of John Berry's Pot Pourri today. These are issue 4 (1958) and issue 15 (1960). Pot Pourri was distributed through SAPS.; For those who think the 50s and 60s are too recent to count as fan history, we have issue 12 of Maurice Z. Ingher's fanzine Science Fiction Digest. This includes a chapter of Cosmos too. There are articles by Julie Schwartz, Mort Weisinger, 4sj and others. Very cool. Very old - it's from 1933.; We also have added issues 6 and 10 of the A series of Shangri L'Affaires, from Forry Ackerman. These are from 1941.; For your reference, there's also a useful bit of indexing done by Elinor Busby. It's an index to the people in Laney's Ah! Sweet Idiocy!. Now you can ego scan for your favorite 40s LA fans. All scanning today by Joe Siclari, with Mark Olson contributing on the Pot Pourri. Thanks!
November 11, 2018: We're happy to have a new video up on YouTube for you. Well, it's from 1992, and it's about the early days of fandom. If you go to https://youtu.be/BJvjkRx0v38, you can watch Rusty Hevelin interviewing Art Widner about the early days of fandom. From the Youtube blurb: "The conversation ranges from the first fanzine (arguably published by Lovecraft) to the origins of FAPA to the Singleton suicide hoax. You'll hear about the perils of mimeography, the start of the Strangers Club and even learn the plural of YHOS. If you are interested in Fan History, here's your chance to get a personal view from someone who was there at the beginning. To read many of the fanzines discussed, go to FAFANAC.ORG." It's nice to hear Rusty's laugh again.; We have fanzines too. Today's have been scanned by Joe Siclari. First up, last issue of the Dietz(s)/Raybin fanzine, Ground Zero. This is the Detention issue, and includes Ted Johnstone's convention report.; Two more issues of Charlie Hornig's Fantasy Fan have been added as well. These are from 1933/1934. As I said before, this is the fanzine that got the Charlie a job as editor of Wonder Stories. We added issues 2 and 16, and on the first page of issue 16, he notes his role as "Managing Editor: Wonder Stories". Why not. In 1933, Charlie was 17.
November 9, 2018: We've added a couple more LACon1 publications. Progress Report 3 has a great Tim Kirk cover. The hotel reservation card will give you pause. Room rates were $14/night for a single. You can find the pubs at http://www.fanac.org/worldcon/LA_Con/w72-pubs.html.; For a look at early fandom, we've put up the 1936 issue 4 of the Science Fiction Fan, a fanzine edited by Olon Wiggins. Donald Wollheim contributed FanFarade (see page 1), a column about fan doings. Sample: "A committee was formed to arrange the next and more pretentious gathering of all fans East of the Mississippi next year..."
November 8, 2018: Today we bring you news of the 1950s and 60s, and an interesting Worldcon program book from the 70s. First, thanks to scanning by Mark Olson, we have the L.A.Con 1 Program Book from 1972. There are some interesting things here. For example, see Artists’ Interpretations of Frederik Pohl’s Works.; In the way of news, we have two titles represented. From 1954, there are 3 issues of Futurian Society News, the clubzine of the Futurian Society of Sydney. There’s also a 40th anniversary meeting publication of the society. This newszine and the next are from the scanning of Joe Siclari.; Last but not least, we have 28 issues from 1959-1966 of Ron Bennett’s Skyrack, a regional newszine from Liverpool. Our newszine collection now has 2637 zines, with the early issues predating the first worldcon.
November 6, 2018: A couple of interesting newszines for you today, scanned by Joe Siclari. First, we have a February 1939 issue of The Futurian News, edited by John B. Michel. News for Futurians, by Futurians, before the first worldcon.; Next, we have two issues of the Rick Weiss fanzine, The Filking Times from 1991. We don't have much filk related material on line yet, so this newszine is a welcome addition. Thanks for the newszines, Joe!; From the scanning of Mark Olson, we also have the Program Book from Discon II, the 1974 Worldcon. You can find it at http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Discon/Discon2pb-00.html. Thanks Mark!; We have added the latest issue of the Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society's newsletter The MT Void, MT Void Vol. 37, No. 18, that was sent to us by Mark and Evelyn Leeper. Thank you both
November 5, 2018: George Phillies sent us a PDF of the latest issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's Tightbeam, edited by George himself and Jon Swartz. Thanks George!; Today, we also added the November issue of CyberCozen. Thanks Leybl!; Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issue #427 (5.8 MB), and #428 (4.9 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
October 25, 2018: Some newszines, another musical, and an Irish fanzine for you today. First, the musical. Thanks to the scanning of Mark Olson, we have for you Mik Ado About Nothing (Back to Rivets, Part 1). Written by Sue Anderson and Mark Keller, this was produced by the RISFA players, and performed at Boskone 14 (1977). Thanks Mark!; The Irish fanzine today is another issue of Pot Pourri, to wit, Pot Pourri 8. It's John Berry's SAPSzine, this one from August of 1959. Read your Irish zines! They are homework for worldcon (sort of). Scanning also by Mark Olson.; Joe Siclari has been scanning newszines. Today we have 8 more, across 3 titles, from 3 continents. First up, Bay Area News #3, from 1946. It opens with a discussion of the controversial "open letter to the NFFF".; Next, we have 2 regular and one special issue of the Merv Binns newsletter, Australian SF News.We've added the 1st issue, the 50th issue and the special issue given away at Seacon in 1979. Headline? "Come and See The Largest Coathanger in the World!"; Finally, there are 2 issues of a Checkpoint from England. These two were edited by Darroll Pardoe, and are from the mid-70s. Three titles. Three continents. Thanks Joe!
October 19, 2018: From the days of early fandom, thanks to Joe Siclari's scanning, we bring you today the complete run (4 issues) of Sully Roberd's Fantasy Fictioneer. This is from 1939-1940, and has the subheading, "Official organ of the Illini Fantasy Fictioneers, sponsors of the 1940 Chicago Science-Fiction Convention!". It has articles by Erle Korshak, Bob Tucker, 4sj, Don Wollheim and others. Conventions were still a very new thing for science fiction.; The rest of the materials on Discon I are up now. Today's addition consists of 2 more progress reports, a hotel form, an art show form (from Bjo Trimble's Art Show Project!) and the Hugo ballot. They are here - http://www.fanac.org/worldcon/Discon/w63-pubs.html. Scanning by Mark Olson.; George Phillies sent us a PDF of October 2018's issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's The National Fantasy Fan. I also managed to miss September while on vacation. That's up now too. Thanks George.
October 18, 2018: Three very different fanzine treats today, all scanned by Joe Siclari (and thanks, Joe!). First, for the Poul Anderson fans (and who amongst us is NOT a Poul Anderson fan?), we have Smorgasbord. He never pubbed any other issues of this fanzine, but here in issue 1, you will find poetry (including translations of old Norse poetry), and thoughtful articles. It's a fascinating look at some of the things Poul thought interesting.; Still on the west coast, we have the 1944 article by T. Bruce Yerke, Memoirs of a Superfluous Fan. This was intended to be in multiple parts, but he only completed part 1 of his life in fandom. If you want another view of what LASFS was like (besides Laney's tirades), check it out.; The last of the fanzine offerings today comes from 1934-35. We have two issues of Charlie Hornig's fanzine, The Fantasy Fan. This is amongst our oldest fanzines on line, and for me, it's the oldest fanzine we've scanned pubbed by someone I've known. This is the fanzine that got the young fan a job as editor of Wonder Stories. Number 18 is the last issue. Fantasy Fan was produced on a monthly basis for all 18 issues, regular as clockwork. Charlie was a nice guy, even when faced with being talked over by Julie Schwartz.; For your time travelling convention pleasure, today we have a batch of publications from the 1963 Worldcon, Discon I. Scanned by Mark Olson, you can see the Fan's Guide to Washington, the first 3 progress reports, and a fabulous Convention Annual, chock full of pictures and the occasional snarky comment in the photo key. Photos by the incomparable Jay Kay Klein. It's all to be found here - http://www.fanac.org/worldcon/Discon/w63-pubs.html. Check out the way cool photo of the Stopas on the back cover. Thanks Mark!
October 16, 2018: Dale Speirs sent us a PDF of issue #426 (5.4 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
October 14, 2018: Dale Speirs sent us a PDF of issue #424 (4.7 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.; George Phillies sent us a PDF of the National Fantasy Fan Federation's latest Tightbeam. Thanks George!; Today, we also added the October issue of CyberCozen. Thanks Leybl!; We have updated the Fanac Names Cross Reference. There are currently 26,781 names in these listings.
October 10, 2018: Dale Speirs sent us a PDF of issue #425 (6.7 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. He also sent an updated subject index of all 425 issues. The index is at the top of the page http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Opuntia/. Thanks Dale.
September 18, 2018: The Heicon materials are all up now, including scans of receipts and such that you can find in the Heicon photo section. There are more Heicon photos here.; What comes after Heicon? Noreascon 1 of course. After all, it was the 1971 worldcon. We've started adding publications for N1, starting with 3 progress reports - http://www.fanac.org/worldcon/Noreascon/w71-pubs.html. More to come for N1 as we go forward. Scanning for Heicon and N1 by Mark Olson. Thanks Mark!; We've also added 3 more issues of Space Magazine. This was published by the American Rocketry Association but was a fanzine. First issue has 3 science fiction articles, including one by John W. Campbell. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; Last but not least today, we have another musical. This is Galactic Gaieties 3 by Steve and Virginia Schultheis. There are a couple pages of comment up front, and the primary material starts afterward. This was performed at the Pittcon in 1960, with cast including Dave Kyle, Roger Sims, Lou Tabakow, and Wally Weber. Scanning by Joe Siclari. Thanks Joe!
September 15, 2018: Ireland and Germany for you today. Thanks to Mark Olson's scanning, we have the program book and some PRs from the Heicon, the 1970 worldcon held in Heidelberg, Germany. More to come and you can see them here - http://www.fanac.org/worldcon/Heicon/w70-pubs.html.; Joe Siclari has scanned more Irish fanzines. You can find them all at http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Irish_Fandom/. Today we uploaded 1) the 8th edition of the Enchanted Duplicator, with the Dan Steffan illos, 2) The Harp Stateside by Walt Willis, 3) Through Darkest Ireland with Knife Fork and Spoon by Chuck Harris, 4) two issues of Ken Bulmer's Steam, 5)Inphantasmagoria, a one shot by Walt Willis and 6) The Enchantment, a 1989 trip report by Walt Willis. I have a particular fondness for that last. The Enchantment was a trip report about Walt and Madeleine's trip to Tropicon VII, the only convention I ever chaired. I thought it was swell.
September 14, 2018: Lots of interesting material today, from YouTube, Worldcon, fanzine fandom and even a musical. Let's start with YouTube. Today's offering can be found at https://youtu.be/2awsfD6eGqI. It's an audio interview of Lee and Barry Gold, enhanced with 35ish images. From the writeup: "Lee and Barry Gold tell stories about Los Angeles fandom and filking in the 1960s...there are charming anecdotes about Poul and Karen Anderson, LASFS, and a great story about Bruce Pelz and Ted Johnstone obtaining permission from John Myers Myers to print the Silverlock songs." If you're interested in filk, especially the history of filk, you'll like this.; The Worldcon entry today is courtesy of the scanning of Mark Olson. We've added PR4 and PR5 to the Noreascon 2 publications list. Thanks Mark.; Mark has also been scanning more fanzines. He's sent us 4 more issues of Buz Busby's Cry of the Nameless. These are issues 155-158 from 1961-1962.; There's also issue 8 of Luna' by Frank Dietz. Thanks Mark!; From Joe Siclari's scanner come more fine fanzines from Irish Fandom. Today, it's 4 additional issues of John Berry and ATom's Retribution from from the late 1950s/early 1960s.; If you like parody zines and convention running, you should look at Sad3Party, a sideways look at convention planning. Better read an issue of Mad3Party afterwards, lest you keep the wrong earworm. (Also from Joe.); Today's musical is from 1961. Captain Future Meets Gilbert & Sullivan or Alas! Who Loves a Spaceman? It was produced with a stellar West coast cast, including Bruce Pelz, Bjo Trimble, and Ron Ellik, and was written by Steve and Virginia Schultheis. Scanning by Joe Siclari. Anyone up for a revival?
September 11, 2018: Ever wish you had memories of the first Worldcon in 1939? Now you can relive the highlight by reading Sam Moskowitz's New Fandom. Issue 6 is virtually a proceedings of what went on, including speeches, attendee lists, finances and more. Not surprising since New Fandom was the organizer of the convention. Issue 7 is also online. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; Today, thanks to the scanning of Joe Siclari, we have another 5 issues of John Berry and ATom's Retribution. This batch include the last issue, #17.; We have another of Gus Willmorth's Fantasy Advertisers. This one is from 1947. You can find V2#3 at http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Fantasy_Advertiser/Fantasy_Advertiser0203-01.html.
September 9, 2018: Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #423 (6.3 MB) and #66.3 (5.5 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. This batch completes the last of the archive issues. Thanks, Dale! We're looking forward to more new issues.
September 7, 2018: Worldcon 76 is over, and we are now anticipating Dublin 2019! To that end, we are focused on adding more publications from Irish Fandom. Today, thanks to the scanning of Joe Siclari, 5 issues (and an index) of Retribution, edited by John Berry and Arthur Thomson. Retribution was the official organ of the Goon Defective Agency, or G.D.A. The G.D.A. is probably the most famous fannishly mythological organization created in science fiction fan circles. There's artwork by ATom, articles by Walt Willis, Robert Bloch, Harry Warner and others, a speech by Poul Anderson, and above all, the doings of the legendary G.D.A.; Need a convention fix? How about a Worldcon fix? If the Worldcon you're faunching after was held in 1980, you're in luck. Thanks to the scanning of Mark Olson, we have added three Noreascon Two publications. The pubs are listed here at: http://www.fanac.org/worldcon/Noreascon/w80-pubs.html. You'll find the Memory Book, the Souvenir Book and Progress Report 3. Leslie Turek chaired Noreascon Two, and it was delightful.; Today, we also added the September issue of CyberCozen. Thanks Leybl! Somehow, we had inexplicably failed to add all the issues from 2015 and 2016. My fault, and that's now been remedied.
September 6, 2018: More Cry of the Nameless! Thanks to Mark Olson's scanning, we have 11 more issues of this important zine. I cannot imagine how much work it must have been to turn these out once a month. Just the production, collation, and mailing would have been brutal. Issues average about 50 pages each, and January 1960 was over 100 pages. Features writers like John Berry, Dean Grennell, Terry Carr, Harry Warner, rich brown, Art Rapp....; Still working on the newszines. Joe has scanned three more issue of early 90s Ansibles. Thanks Joe.
September 4, 2018: A real treat today. We have 8 issues from the beginning of the major period of Cry of the Nameless. Edited by Buz Busby, this fanzine began as a clubzine for the Seattle "Nameless Ones" club. Many of these issues have columns by John Berry, articles by Buz and/or Elinor Busby, Wally Weber, art by ATom, Terry Carr's column "Fandom Harvest", and more. Scanning of these issues (all from 1959) by Mark Olson. Thanks Mark!; For the Tucker fans amongst us (and who isn't?), we have 5 more issues of his fanzine Le Zombie. These are from the 40s. There are some interesting photos in issue 58 -- see them at http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Le_Zombie/lezom58-06a.html. Issue 55 has a list of fans (and their ranks) in uniform. Remember, this was 1943. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; Continuing our newszine focus, Joe has also scanned 6 more issues of the Australian newszine, Thyme. These are from the early 90s, and some include Merv Binn's Australian SF Newsletter. Thanks Joe!
September 2, 2018: Thanks to the scanning of Mark Olson, we've added 14 issues of Shangri L'affaires, dating from 1962 to 1992, published by the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society. Today's addition includes 4 from the "C" series and 10 from the "B" series. There's a lot of content here!; A couple of choice fanzines scanned by Joe Siclari. First, the Spring 1946 Acolyte 14, edited by Francis T. Laney and Sam Russell. It has a Rotsler cover, and an interesting mix of articles, poetry and reviews.; Second, is the very first issue of Granfalloon, edited by Linda Eyster (Linda Bushyager) and Suzanne Thompkins. This completes the run on FANAC.ORG of a focal zine of the time. Thanks to Linda Bushyager for supplying the copy, and to Joe Siclari for the scans.; Evelyn Leeper has sent us her report on the 2017 Philcon. Thanks Evelyn!
September 1, 2018: Rich Lynch sent us some photos of both LoneStarCon 3 and Sasquan. The Lonestar photos included a few taken of the baseball game that was played (indoors) in homage to the game played at the first Worldcon in 1939. Thanks Rich!; Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #422 (3.4 MB), #66.1 (5.3 MB), and #66B (4.6 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
August 31, 2018: Added the August issue of CyberCozen. Thanks Leybl!; Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #421 (5.2 MB), #65.5 (5.5 MB), and #66A of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
August 23, 2018: Gary Farber sent us a scan of Leonard Moffatt's 1950 Fan Directory, sponsored The Fantasy Foundation and The National Fantasy Fan Federation. You can find it here with other "Who's Who" publications - http://www.fanac.org/Fannish_Reference_Works/WhosWho/index.html. As you look through the pages, you realize how few fans there were. It's a proud and lonely thing. This is the first scanned pub from Gary. Thanks Gary! Looking forward to many more.; Worldcon is over and we have a whack of photos for you (where whack=100). These were taken by Rich Lynch, Mark Olson, Joe Siclari, Lisa Hayes and Edie Stern (me) and I suspect more are coming from others. Especially note the photos from our pictorial project "1000 Years of Fandom", started by Mark Olson. We actually captured 6707 years of fannish experience. You'll find them all at the Con Jose photo index, or just find Con Jose under Worldcons.; George Phillies sent us a PDF of the latest issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's Tightbeam, edited by Bob Jennings. Thanks George!
August 22, 2018: George Phillies sent us a PDFs of August 2018's issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's The National Fantasy Fan. Thanks George.
August 7, 2018: Today's unusual offering is fannish musicals. I've put together a new section for these at http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Musicals, and added John Pomeranz's Smoflahoma!, subtitled "The Discon III Memorial Musical Review". We've also linked to Midwestside Story, the musical written and produced by the Minnesota Science Fiction Society and performed at Minicon 12. Thanks Deny Lien and Matt Strait for making it possible!; More Niekas today. Mark Olson has scanned for us issues 3 and 4 of Ed Meskys' important fanzine. Thanks Mark!; In the way of Irish fan publications, Joe Siclari has scanned a potful of Pot Pourri, John Berry's zine from the early 60s. We have 12 new issues, plus the index to the first 25 issues. Thanks Joe!
August 5, 2018: It's a YouTube day. Thanks to the Southern California Institute for Fan Interests (SCIFI), we've added a video of the Guest of Honor speeches from the 1984 Worldcon, LACon II. Fan Guest of Honor Dick Eney talks about his life outside of fandom (which is full of interesting anecdotes from his overseas experiences), and Gordy Dickson talks about his life, his mother, and the inspiration for his Childe cycle of stories. The last part of Gordy's speech is particularly poignant now. You can watch it on https://youtu.be/tv-B1Gqta14 or just search on our YouTube channel: youtube.com/c/fanacfanhistory.; Filling in the fanzine blanks. Thanks to the scanning of Mark Olson, we have added issue 5 of Ed Mesky's Niekas. This one has an article and artwork by Poul Anderson, and a reprint of a SAPSzine by Karen Anderson. Choice.; Mark also scanned the November 1946 issue of Gus Wilmorth's Fantasy Advertiser. Contents by Forry Ackerman, Walt Leibscher, Walter Gillings, and Art Widner. Thanks Mark!; More newszines today. Newszines from Australia, the UK and the US, all scanned by Joe Siclari (thanks Joe!). We've added 28 of them. From Australia, we have issue 4 from 1948 of Vol Molesworth's Sydney Futurian. We also have 24 issues(!) of Graham Stone's Science Fiction News. These issues are from the 50s and 60s with one lone 1999 issue.; From Liverpool, we have issue 65 of Ron Bennett's Skyrack. This one is from 1964.; We have an April 1950 issues of Ron Friedman's Science Fiction Weekly. This title didn't last too long. Also, we've completed the set of Bob Tucker's Science Fiction Newsletter with the addition of issue 26 and the supplements to issues 28 and 29.
August 4, 2018: Quite a few zines to tell you about today. Both Mark Olson and Joe Siclari have been scanning.; We have two issues of Bob Tucker's Le Zombie. Joe has scannied issues 57 and 60 from 1944-45. Issue 60 includes a proposed constitution for the NFFF.; We also have a newsletter from the NFFF in it's early days. Joe has scanned Vol 5, No. 6 from September 1945 for your reading pleasure.; During Harlan Ellison's fannish days, he was indeed a fan editor. Check out Dimensions 14 from 1954, which includes an article by Fletcher Pratt on the Harold Shea novels. Scans by Joe Siclari.; Mark Olson has scanned a huge number of pages in 7 issues of Gus Wilmorth's Fantasy Advertiser. There's an article by Arthur C. Clarke taken from a paper he delivered to the British Interplanetary Society on page 15 of Vol 5, No 1.; From the UK also comes issue 2 of Archie Mercer's Anglofanac. Scan by Joe.; Finally, we have some choice offerings from Irish Fandom. All of these from the scanning of Joe Siclari.; --Two issues of Slant by Walt Willis. Issues 5 & 6 to be precise.; --Two issues of Pot Pourri by John Berry. Issues 30 and 31.; --The lovely The Goon Goes West by John Berry.
August 2, 2018: Today's contribution to the fanzines of Irish Fandom consists of 6 more issues of Walt Willis's Hyphen. Thanks to the scanning of Joe Siclari, we added issues 25-29 plus issue 22.; From the scanning of Mark Olson (thanks Mark!) we have 7 issues of Gus Wilmorth's Fantasy Advertiser, running from 1947 to 1952. We also have the continuation under a new name - Science Fiction Advertiser. Roy Squires edited some of that title. The titles say "Advertiser" but these are chock full of interesting articles, Example: Taking Science Fiction Seriously by Reginald Bretnor.; We have one issue of a newszine, and it's a new title for fanac.org as well. It's issue 2 of Graham England's Don't Panic from 1979. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; Some unusual Worldcon ephemera for you today. We have hotel cards and postcards from 3 different Worldcons, spread over 58 years. From the 1961 Worldcon, Seacon, comes this spiffy Hotel Postcard and Reservation Card. This is old enough that it predates zip codes. From the 1965 Worldcon, Loncon II, this Hotel Reservation Card. Check the prices. And, from the 2019 Dublin worldcon, this attractive Postcard. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; George Phillies sent us a PDF of John Thiel's latest Ionisphere. This is the Bulletin of the National Fantasy Fan Federation Fan-Pro Coordinating Activity. Thanks George.; Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #420 (8.1 MB), #65.1 (5.3 MB), and #65.3 (5.6 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
July 28, 2018: A varied collection of fannish material for you today.; First, I've set up a spot for proposed classifications of fantasy and science fiction. There are two here so far, and there's at least one more that will be here eventually. Scanning by Mark Olson.; In the category of fanzines, we have several new offerings. From Andrew Porter, we have 12 issues of his fanzine Twentieth Century Unlimited. These were originally distributed in FAPA and scanning is by Mark Olson.; Today's progress in the way of Irish publications is in the form of two Walt Willis titles. We've added two issues of Woz, done for OMPA, and two issues of Pamphrey, done for FAPA. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; Mark Olson also scanned the Summer 1964 issue of Inside. This one is unique as it is combined with Riverside Quarterly. Sam McDonald has written a nice description of the name and editor changes from Inside to Inside and a summary will make its way onto the index pages shortly.; Lastly, another interesting item scanned by Mark Olson. This one is the IguanaCon Operations Manual used by the operations staff at the 1978 Worldcon, IguanaCon.
July 27, 2018: We've added a convention report by Evelyn Leeper on the 2013 Philcon. Thanks Evelyn!; The Shangri-LAs are not all up yet, but we have added issue 17 from January 1950. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; For our continuing project to make available fanzines from Irish Fandom, we have for you today 2 more issues of Hyphen (23-24) and 2 more issues of Slant (2-3). Scanning by Joe Siclari.; Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #419 (7.6 MB), #64.5 (4.7 MB), and #65 (5.2 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
July 24, 2018: Yesterday, we added more fannish video to the Youtube station. From the wilds of 1997, and thanks to the kind permission of Chairman Karen Meschke and of ALAMO (Austin Literary Arts Maintenance Organization), you can now see the 1997 Hugos, with the entertaining preamble by Toastmaster Neal Barrett, Jr. The video is up in two pieces at https://youtu.be/4RpBF1wx5S8 and https://youtu.be/5fsrBmBTmaY. There are many departed friends (as well as many very much alive friends) here as award announcers and recipients. Among the luminaries are Pat Cadigan, Ellen Datlow, Gardner Dozois, GoH Don Maitz, Robert Silverberg, Michael Moorcock, Connie Willis (with at least one Harrison Ford joke), Algis Budrys and George RR Martin. If the links are too gnarly, you can do what I do. Just go to the channel and look. It's at youtube.com/c/fanacfanhistory; Not all fannish publications fit into tidy categories of fanzines or con pubs. So we have organized a new category of unusual items, for things that don't fit in other places. You can find it at http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Unusual_Items.html. Our first entry is The Game of Fandom, from 1964, by Dian and Bruce Pelz, greatly expanded by Lee Gold. Here you can find the rules as well as the gameboard. There'll be more to come, and we may move some stuff around so don't be too surprised. Thanks to Lee Gold for her kind permission and to Mark Olson for the scanning.; Are graveyards your thing? Check out these newly uploaded Howard DeVore business cards. There are more on the previous page too, albeit not involving graveyards. Scans by Joe Siclari.; In our quest to make more Irish fan writing available, we have added our first issue of John Berry's Pot Pourri from 1960. Hopefully more of these to come. We've also added a promo for This Goon For Hire. Scan by Joe Siclari.; Not Irish, but British. You can see the 3 issues of Walter Gillings' Cosmos, with pieces by Arthur C. Clarke, Judith Merrill, and others. Cosmos only ran these 3 issues. Scan by Joe Siclari.; We're moving still on adding 1943 fanzines. Today it's Al Ashley's Nova. We've added issue 3. Scan by Joe Siclari.; Another zine of 1943 interest is the poetry zine Sappho. This zine from the early 40s was edited by Bill Watson and George Ebey. We've put up 4 issues. Scans by Joe Siclari.; From the 1950's we have 2 issues of Belle and Frank Dietz's Ground Zero. Want to know what the 1958 Disclave was like? Here's your chance on page 9 of issue 2. Scan by Joe Siclari.; Two more issues of Ron Smith's Inside today, thanks to the scanning of Mark Olson. These are issues 17 and 52 for those keeping track. We'll get an explanation of the numbering up soon. It's not completely intuitive.
July 19, 2018: George Phillies sent us a PDFs of July 2018's issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's The National Fantasy Fan. Thanks George.; I've been remiss in posting updates, even though we have been putting more material on the site. Here's what's new since the last update.; First, we posted 4 more issues of the Walt Willis zine, Hyphen. Those are issues 15-18, dated from 1955 - 1957. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; Issue 3 of Jack Chalker's Mirage is up. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; Fanfare 1 is up, edited by Francis Paro. Fanfare later had other editors, including Art Widner and Earl Singleton. I think this was also scanned by Joe.; Patty Peters sent us 6 photos of (mostly) Detroit fans at Fan Fair 3, in Toronto. Thanks Patty!; Joe also scanned issues 2-4 of New Frontiers from the early 60s.; Mark Olson has been scanning Inside (first series) and Inside (second series). We've add 4 issues altogther, with 2 from each series. Thanks Mark! These are long zines. The second series is a decade later than the first and has a different editor.
July 14, 2018: Yesterday, we put up a new FANAC Update newsletter. Today, we added some of the older newsletters so that inquiring minds can contemplate the changes in the website. You can find them at http://fanac.org/fanzines/FANAC-Updates/. You might notice that there's a gap between the early newsletters and the later ones. The updates at that time went out to individuals via phone and email, and probably carrier pigeon. I think this is better.; Two more issues of Ron Smith's Inside today, thanks to the scanning of Mark Olson. These are issues 14 and 15 for those keeping track.; Taral Wayne sent us a PDF of his Perzine Rat Sass 9 which we have added to the Rat Sass index. Thanks Taral.
July 13, 2018: There's a new FANAC Update newsletter today. You may have received it via email. If not you can find it at http://www.fanac.org/FANAC_Inc/update0718.pdf. If you did not receive the newsletter and would like to, you can get on our mailing list by filling in the form on the home page of fanac.org.; We have more from the scanning of Mark Olson today. We have 2 parts of The British Fanzine Bibliography done in the 70s by Peter Roberts, covering fanzines from 1951 to 1970. Over time, we plan to corral other bibliographic efforts here as well.; There are also 4 more issues of Ron Smith's Inside. Thanks Mark!
July 10, 2018: Sorry all, but I screwed up yesterday and missed the fact that we already had a number of issues of Jane's Fighting Smofs online. I've corralled them all in one directory now. The proper link is http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/FightingSmofs/.
July 9, 2018: A long update today, full of choice material.; Next year is the Dublin worldcon, and we're supporting it by putting some focus on Irish Fandom and the Wheels of If. We will be scanning as many classic Irish fanzines as possible, and making them available via a central webpage. We've started. The webpage is Irish Fandom Publications. You can see we've linked to zines like Hyphen, and are starting to add one-shots too. Towards that goal, today we've added the following zines (all scanning by Joe Siclari):; -- 6 more issues of Hyphen, issues 7-9, 10-11, 13-14; -- This Goon for Hire by John Berry; -- The Thomson Saga by John Berry; -- 7 issues of Toto, the Walt Willis reprint zine. There are also TOCs for the issues we don't have online yet. They're marked with "index only" in the comment section.; Added the July issue of CyberCozen. Thanks Leybl!; Back to classic zines. Joe also scanned issue 3 of Fan Slants from 1944, and 2 issues of Nick and Noreen Falasca's 1958 fanzine about (against?) WSFS Inc, Fandom's Burden, completing that run. He also scanned issue #1 of Bob Bloch & Bob Tucker's Science Fiction World from 1955.; Two new fanzine titles today. We've added isse 6 and 7 of Luna', by Frank Dietz. This fanzine started life as Luna, and changed its name to Luna' with issue 6. There's also a completely different fanzine called Luna Monthly by Ann Dietz. It's a little confusing, but there are far more confusing fannish naming practices in the world. Consistency has never been a preoccupation of faneds. Scans by Mark Olson.; The second title is Jane's Fighting Smofs, a fanzine dedicated to convention bidding by Jane and Scott Dennis from the 1980s. We have 3 issues up so far, with 2 from Mark's scanner and 1 from Joe's.
July 8, 2018: Four more issues today of Ron Smith's Inside. Issues 6-9 have been added, thanks to the scanning of Mark Olson. Includes articles by Ross Rocklynne, Paul Blaisdell, and part of a story by Harlan Ellison among others. These issues are from 1954-1955.; With the addition of issues 7 and 8 of Edward Ludwig and Sam Sackett's Fantastic Worlds", we now have the complete run on line. These issues, and the rest of today's classic fanzines, were scanned by Joe Siclari.; We've upgraded our issue 40 of Julius Unger's Fantasy Fiction Field. We now have most of the photos that were distributed with the fanzine. This issue is a special Denvention issue, from 1941. Alas, some of the photos are faded now. Issue is courtesy of Andrew Porter.; Another newszine. Added the August 1973 issue of Norstrilian News, produced by Robin Johnson. This issue announces that the Australia bid has won the right to host the Worldcon for 1975. Remember who chaired Aussiecon One? It was Robin Johnson.; And now for something quite different. We've added a photo album of The Cult. You can see it here - http://www.fanac.org/Fan_Photo_Album/c06-p00.html. Scanning by Joe Siclari, and album courtesy of Andrew Porter.; Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #418 (8.3 MB), #63 (5.2 MB), and #64.3 (5.2 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
July 6, 2018: More Hyphens today. We've added issues 34 and 35, thanks to Joe Siclari's scanning prowess, along with issue 63 of Tucker's Le Zombie.; Mark Olson has been scanning too. We've added 4 issues of Ron Smith's Inside. It's from the 1950's and the first two issues have page counts over 50. Issue 3 has an article by William Nolan on Ray Bradbury, from the perspective of Bradbury's first 13 years in the field. Thanks for the scanning Mark!; More Shangri L'Affaires today too. 11 issues of the B series from issue 18 to 52, almost all of them from the 1940s. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; Joe also scanned 4 more issues of Ted White's Stellar. These are issues 9&10, 21 &22. Thanks Joe!
July 5, 2018: You can now read 4 more (facsimile) issues of the Walt Willis fanzine, Hyphen. Thanks to the scanning of Joe Siclari, issues 2-5 are newly added.; Issue 4, C series, of Shangri L'Affaires is online too. This issue, edited by Charles Lee Jackson II, is from 1987. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; Ron Bennett's Skyrack is represented today with the upload of issue 52 from 1963. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; Two issues of James Taurasi's Fantasy Comics added today. Issues 6 and 14 from 1953 have been uploaded. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; Joe also scanned 6 issues of FMZ Digest, edited by Arthur Joquel II. These are from 1941.; Lest you think we've given up on the news, we've added issues 1 and 3 of STEF Headlines, edited by Walter Coslet. These cardzines are from 1951. There are also 3 issues of the Daily Dynamic, the newsletter for the 1958 Worldcon, Solacon. You can see all the pubs we have up for Solacon here - http://www.fanac.org/worldcon/Solacon/w58-pubs.html. All scanning today by Joe Siclari.
July 2, 2018: Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #417 (3.7 MB), #62.5A (5.5 MB), and #62.5B (5.2 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.; Catching up on the materials that Mark Olson has scanned, we have 4 titles represented today.; First, we have an issue of Fandom's Burden. This one is called Son of Fandom's Burden. It's a 1958 zine by Nick and Noreen Falasca, where they express their displeasure with WSFS, Inc.; Next, an issue of Wally Weber's SAPSzine, Key Hole from 2001.; We also have 3 more issues (completing the run) of the Journal of Science Fiction, from the early 50s. This was the fanzine of the University of Chicago Science Fiction Club, edited by Lester Fried and Ed Wood.; Last, we have 3 issues of Fantastic Worlds, edited by Edward Ludwig or Sam Sackett. This is also from the early 50s.; Thanks Mark, for all the scanning!
June 28, 2018: Mark Olson and Joe Siclari have been scanning again.; Thanks to Joe, you can now find issues 11-16 of 4sj and Morojo's Voice of the Imagi-Nation added to the list. These are issues from 1941, with some cool covers. You can also see issue 1 of Mel Brown's Fan Slants from 1943, with articles by Laney, Daugherty and others.; Mark has been working on Abstract. We put up issues 7 and 8, which are 126 pages between them. Includes features by Bob Bloch, Dean Grennell, Harlan Ellison (*sigh*), Terry Carr and others. Thanks Mark.
June 24, 2018: A frothy bit of miscellany today for you. First, there's an additional issue of Bob Tucker's Le Zombie. It's #21.; We're also working on our 1943 fanzines. We have Beak Taylor's 8-Ball from Canada, and Len Moffat's Asteroid. Scanning by Joe Siclari. Thanks Joe!; Not from 1943, but from 1941, we've added 4 issues of the A series of Shangri L'Affaires. This was an Ackerman/Morojo effort that was sometimes distributed inside Voice of the Imagi-Nation aka VOM. Scanning (and more impressive, finding, these issues) by Joe Siclari.; Slightly later in time, we have the first 6 issues of Peter Vorzimer's Abstract. You'll find contributors here like Terry Carr, Dick Geis, Peter Graham and letter writers like Bob Bloch, Bob Tucker, and Dean Grennell. Scanning by Mark Olson. Thanks Mark!; Another of today's new titles is Ted White's Stellar. You can see 6 issues from the late 50s. Contributors include SaM, Robert Madle, and Dick Geis.; George Phillies sent us a PDF of the latest issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's Tightbeam, edited by Bob Jennings. Thanks George!
June 23, 2018: Feeling a lack of humor in the world? Try these. We have put up 4 more issues of Walt Willis's Hyphen. Joe Siclari has scanned issues 30-33.; We've also added a couple of Bob Tucker's Le Zombie. The new ones are issues 2 and 61. Scanning by Joe Siclari. Thanks Joe!; At last. FAPA 26 is completely up. This was a 461 page mailing. Scanning by Mark Olson. Thanks again, Mark. To pseudoquote Tom Purdom, FAPA is the internet of the time, but slow. This completes the 1943 FAPA issues. We're getting ready for the 2019 Retro Hugos which will cover material published in 1943.
June 22, 2018: Two treats today. First, we have put up the fabled fannish musical The Mimeo Man. The book is by Moshe Feder, lyrics by Moshe Feder, Debbie Notkin and Eli Cohen, and music by Meredith Wilson. I wish we had a video of one of the productions to show you. If anyone has one, please get in touch.; Second, we have a new YouTube piece. It's at https://youtu.be/iAliwsNZ_1E. This one is an audio of a conversation in the Philcon 2017 consuite between Tom Purdom and Chip Delany. From the Youtube description: "Chip Delany and Tom Purdom talk informally about their experiences in science fiction in this audio tape with images. You'll hear some startling stories about the Nebulas, and about writers such as Judy Merrill, Walter Miller, and Fred Pohl. Tom talks about his introduction to science fiction and fandom in the 50s, and the fannish equivalent of the internet. This is a low key, entertaining session, held in the Philcon con suite. It's an interesting take on how different fandom is for these two authors". There is some choppiness in the audiFAPA 26 o during the last 15 minutes.; More of FAPA 26 is online. The last of it is coming soon. Today, we also added the June issue of CyberCozen. Thanks Leybl!; George Phillies sent us a PDFs of June 2018's issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's The National Fantasy Fan. Thanks George.; Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #416 (4.8 MB), #62.1B (5.1 MB), and #62.3 (4.9 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
June 18, 2018: I hope there are some FAPA fans out there. FAPA 25, September 1943, is complete now. FAPA 26, December 1943 is well begun. FAPA 26 is over 400 pages long, so it may take a while. Included, and already are online are some interesting pieces. For example, Jack Speer's In Memoriam - Sprit of Foo Foo and Art Widner's 54 page fanzine Fanfare 10. FAPA 25 and 26 were scanned by Mark Olson. Thanks Mark!
June 12, 2018: Most of FAPA 25, September 1943 is online now. Scanning by Mark Olson. More coming. This is R. D. Swisher's first issue as Official Editor.
June 11, 2018: Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #415 (7.4 MB), #61.5 (5.2 MB), and #62.1A (5.0 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
June 4, 2018: Two more newszines today, with hot off-the-presses news from 1951 and 1952. These are two issues of Clyde Hanback's Stfanews. It only went for three issues. Scanning by Joe Siclari. Thanks Joe!; Joe also scanned the 1955 Bob Tucker Fan Survey. This was Bob's second fan survey. It asks not only demographic questions, but questions on religion, fan activity, and opinions on the future. Do you have what it takes to be an actifan in 1955? Read this survey and decide. Thanks Joe!; George Phillies sent us a PDF of John Thiel's latest Ionisphere. This is the Bulletin of the National Fantasy Fan Federation Fan-Pro Coordinating Activity. Thanks George.; In preparation for this year's Worldcon in San Jose, we've added some of the daily newszines from Con Jose, the 2002 Worldcon. The pubs can be found at http://www.fanac.org/worldcon/ConJose/x02-pubs.html. These are from the backlog, so I'm not sure who to thank for them.
May 30, 2018: Phew. Thanks to the scanning of Mark Olson, we have FAPA 24 on line. This includes THE FIRST PUBLICATION of Lovecraft's "The Funghi From Yuggoth" Cycle by Bill Evans - http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/FAPA-Misc/FAPA-Misc11-01.html.; This June 1943 issue of FAPA was very large - with 35 zines under the covers, additionally including several Donald Wollheim zines, Doc Lowndes, Harry Warner Jr, Bob Tucker, Art Widner, Al Ashley, Jack Speer, Walt Liebscher, and the like.; Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #414 (6.0 MB), #61 (5.1 MB), and #61.3 (4.6 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
May 26, 2018: Thanks to the scanning of Mark Olson, we have FAPA 23 on line. There are a couple of zines missing from the mailing, so if anyone has it and is willing to scan them for us, that would very welcome. We're working towards having 1943 material on line for the 2019 Retro Hugos. Thanks for the scanning Mark!; There are photos to brag on today too. Check out the SmofCon 11 photos that Mark scanned. This is the 1994 SmofCon. Hard to believe we're now up to 36.
May 24, 2018: George Phillies sent us a PDFs of May 2018's issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's The National Fantasy Fan. Thanks George.; Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #413 (5.4 MB), #60 (5.2 MB), and #60.1 (5.2 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
May 15, 2018: Interesting curiosities today, both listed under Fan Artifacts. First, a quote card which started in the 1950s, with signatures of some BNFs like Terry Carr and Lee Hoffman - http://www.fanac.org/Fan_Artifacts/q01-p00.html. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; Second, a prepublication solicitation by Hugo Gernsback (Hugo Gernsback!) for subscribers to his new magazine - Amazing Stories. Yes, this is a one page mailing (presumably to readers of other magazines) to encourage them to subscribe to a new kind of magazine - one that exclusively offered scientifiction stories. The first issue of Amazing Stories came out in April 1926. Scanning for this by Bill Burns. You can find it at http://www.fanac.org/Fan_Artifacts/a01-p00.html.; Thanks Joe and Bill! Special thanks to the Merrill Collection for allowing us to photograph the Gernsback material.
May 14, 2018: Our thanks to Lee Breakiron for providing the missing pages of Acolyte 11! When you're seeking missing pages for a 1945 fanzine, there are not many folks that can help. But, with Lee's help, now it's online in all its glory. Thanks Lee!; We've added some of Mark Olson's 1994 Armadillocon photos. There's a great shot of fans engaged in bat-watching, and there's one (somewhat hard to see I fear) shot of the bats themselves. Thanks Mark!
May 12, 2018: Some photos and more convention pubs, all thanks to Mark Olson's scanning.; First, we have 17 photos from Armadillocon 9, 1987. Lots of great dead dog photos here.; Next, we have a slew of convention publications from Noreascon III. You'll find all the PRs, the souvenir book, the memory book and the ballots. The site selection ballot includes the excruciatingly painful bidder's questionnaire that was given to the Orlando and the DC bids. This later gave rise to the 'tar and feather' ceremony for the originator of the questionnaire at MagiCon. As you all may know, Mark Olson was the chair of Noreascon III.
May 11, 2018: We've added issues 19 and 20 of Linda Bushyager's Granfalloon to the site. Scanning is courtesy of Mark Olson. Thanks Mark!
May 10, 2018: Working some of the scanned materials backlog, and today we have a slew of interesting materials from the 1962 worldcon, Chicon III. You can find a list of the publications at http://www.fanac.org/worldcon/Chicon/w62-pubs.html and it includes such interesting items as the photo filled convention annual, put together by Jay Kay Klein, the Progress Reports, several of which have articles about Theodore Sturgeon, and the invitation to a special reception for Walt and Madeline Willis. Great stuff. Scanning courtesy of Mark Olson. Thanks Mark!
May 8, 2018: Added the April and May issues of Leybl Botwinik's CyberCozen. Thanks Leybl!; Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #412 (1.6 MB), #58.1 (5.3 MB), #58.3 (4.8 MB), and #58.5 (5.3 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
May 1, 2018: We've added 18 photos from the collection of Edie Stern and Joe Siclari, from 1979 to 1983. Most of these are of the South Florida fan group, with a few from Disclave and Lunacon in 1979. We were very young, all of us. You can see the Florida photos at here and here. For the Disclave and Lunacon photos, look under those conventions on http://www.fanac.org/Other_Cons/. Joe, thanks for scanning and identifying everyone!
April 28, 2018: We've uploaded another Worldcon recording to Youtube today. Thanks to SCIFI, we have the Hugo and special tributes presentation at the 1984 Worldcon, LAcon II. From the Youtube writeup - "Toastmaster Robert Bloch's introductory remarks are tantamount to standup comedy, and the video also includes several special and moving tributes along with the Hugos. The first tribute is presented by Robert Silverberg and Harlan Ellison to fan and editor Larry Shaw (who died within the next year) and the second to Robert Bloch himself. There's also some fun with Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle on stage having to do with a rocket shaped object." You can find it at https://youtu.be/bUBL5jOSVok; Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #411 (7.6 MB), #57 (2.6 MB), and #58 (5.1 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
April 27, 2018: George Phillies sent us a PDF of the latest issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's Tightbeam, edited by Bob Jennings. Thanks George!
April 26, 2018: Two more issues of Linda Bushyager's Granfalloon. You can now find issues 15 and 18 line, thanks to the scanning of Mark Olson.; The full set of MagiCon bookmarks, with original illustrations and short short stories is online at http://www.fanac.org/worldcon/MagiCon/w92-pubs.html. Scanning by Joe Siclari. These were an entertaining bit of worldcon bidding, with a heavy emphasis on Florida writers and artists. Full disclosure - I was part of the bid committee.
April 21, 2018: Thanks to John Bray, we've added the pubs from the 2018 Eastercon, Follycon. You can find them here: http://www.fanac.org/Other_Cons/Eastercon/f18-pubs.html . Thanks John!
April 19, 2018: More convention materials and fanzines. All scanning to day by Mark Olson. Thanks Mark!; In the way of fanzines, we have added issue 66 of Bob Tucker's Le Zombie and issue 14 of Linda Bushyager's Granfalloon.; For worldcon publications, we have added a couple of Noreascon 2 progress reports. Noreascon 2 of course was the 1980 worldcon.; For other conventions, we have added the program book from ChattaCon 5, the 1980 ChattaCon. We've also added the program preview for Odyssey, the 2010 Eastercon. This last was from John Bray. Thanks guys!; Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #410 (4.4 MB), #56.1 (5.3 MB), and #56.3 (5.1 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
April 18, 2018: George Phillies sent us a PDFs of April 2018's issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's The National Fantasy Fan. Thanks George.; A miscellaneous set of changes today, all thanks to scanning by Mark Olson. First, we've added issue 12 of Linda Bushyager's Granfalloon.; Second, we have the Pocket Program and PR0 from the 2nd NASFiC, North Americon.; Lastly, there's a Report From the Chairmen of Baycon, the 1968 Worldcon. Thanks Mark!
April 12, 2018: More convention pubs thanks to Geri Sullivan. Today we've added the Souvenir Books from Renovation and Noreascon 4. You can find them with the Noreascon and Renovation pubs. Thanks Geri!; Taral Wayne sent us a PDF (14.5 MB) of his Perzine Rat Sass 8 which we have added to the Rat Sass index. Thanks Taral.
April 6, 2018: Joe Siclari has combed through the rest of the 1942 fanzines we can access, and has provided a list of the letters and articles written by the 1942 Retro Fan Writer candidates. It's all up now and you can find it at http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Retro_Hugos.html. The links to other sites will bring you to the first page of the fanzine. The links to fanac.org hosted fanzines will bring you directly to the article or letter. Thanks Joe!; Mark Olson has done another mammoth scanning job, this time on the Souvenir Book from the Worldcon he chaired. You can find all 190+ pages of the 1989 Noreascon 3 Souvenir Book at http://fanac.org/fanzines/Noreascon3/Noreascon33pb-00.html. Thanks Mark!; Theodore Krulik has sent us a few photos from the 2002 I-Con. They are at http://www.fanac.org/Other_Cons/I-Con/i21-p00.html. Thanks, Ted!; Added the March issue of Leybl Botwinik's CyberCozen. Thanks Leybl!
April 5, 2018: Ok guys, the Retro Hugo fan candidates have been named. With the help of Jack Weaver (Fanac.org's Webmaster for the first 20 years}, we are putting a good list of reading materials together for your consideration. Go to http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Retro_Hugos.html for the list. What's novel here? We're pulling out individual articles and letters written by the Fan Writer nominees and giving you links. We're also giving you links to fanzines on other sites. This is a lot of work, so I sure hope you guys are taking advantage of it.; Mark Olson has been scanning convention materials. Check out the 145 page Denvention 2 Program Book. Thanks Mark!
April 1, 2018: George Phillies sent us a PDFs of John Thiel's Ionisphere. This is the Bulletin of the National Fantasy Fan Federation Fan-Pro Coordinating Activity. Thanks George.; John Bray has sent us material on Conine, a UK convention held in 1988. Here you'll find a number of publications on the convention. http://fanac.org/Other_Cons/Conine/c88-pubs.html. Thanks John!
March 29, 2018: More bounty from SCIFI, thanks to Jerome Scott (Director of Projects for SCIFI in LA)! We've put up another talk from the 1964 worldcon. Fritz Leiber speaks on "Monsters and Monster Lovers". This talk starts lightly but ends up seriously (and gets what sounds like a standing ovation from the crowd). From the Youtube blurb: "In this interesting audio with images, Fritz Leiber speaks eloquently about his favorite literary monsters (from Yog Sothoth to the forest in Peer Gynt), the relationship of science fiction to traditional monsters, why we are drawn to these characters, and on horror in a time of war. The first 10 minutes or so are a loving listing of characters, and the meat of the talk starts after that." https://youtu.be/c1B_EEFq1Bw; Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #409 (4.0 MB), #55.5 (5.3 MB), and #56 (5.6 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
March 25, 2018: A (very) belated thank you to Sam McDonald for providing the list of 1942 fanzines available from the Rusty Hevelin collection. With the list of fanzines published in 1942 generated by Joe Siclari and the software support of Mark Olson, we used that to put up this list for Retro Hugo nominators - http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/1942fanzinesconsideration.html. Thank you Sam. Sorry the appreciation comes so late.; George Phillies sent us a PDFs of March 2018's issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's The National Fantasy Fan. He's also sent us a PDF of the latest issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's Tightbeam, edited by Bob Jennings. Thanks George!; Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #408 (2.7 MB), #55 (5.1 MB), #55.1 (5.5 MB), and #55.2 (3.3 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
March 13, 2018: I know it's a little late, but we now have a page of 1942 fanzines for the Retro nominations with individual issue links, not only to FANAC.ORG, but to other sites if they have them and we don't. It would have been up earlier, but we lost power in the storms (NY) and didn't get it back for 9 days. Listing of the fanzines by Joe Siclari and software for the integrated list by Mark Olson. Thanks guys! http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/1942fanzinesconsideration.html.; Something different for you on Youtube. Thanks to the technical wizardry of David Dyer-Bennet and Video Archeology, we have a brief MAC clip of the awards being presented for the masquerade. It's under 8 minutes and shows all the winners, including some very beautiful costumes and a most impressive Martian. You'll also see presenters Sally Rand and Bruce Pelz, and some snappy footwork by Filthy Pierre. It's at https://youtu.be/ZRezxlB8uZg .; More photos coming from Ted Krulik. Here are a few from I-CON 20 in 2001. Thanks Ted!
March 12, 2018: Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #407 (6.0 MB), #54.3 (5.3 MB), and #54.5 (5.4 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
March 1, 2018: Helsinki Worldcon photos today. We have uploaded the rest of Frank Olynyk's photos, and you can find them all at http://www.fanac.org/worldcon/Helsinki/x17-p00.html. Note that there's a change of directory since yesterday. Use this new link. There are 123 photos altogether, including a number of folk that don't normally come to US conventions. Thanks Frank!
February 28, 2018: Mostly photos today, and one fanzine. First, the fanzine comes courtesy of Kirby Bartlett-Sloan. It's an issue of Arkfandom, a 1977 clubzine by Margaret Middleton. I understand that this started out as a clubzine for two Little Rock clubs - The Little Rock Science Fiction Society and Fantasy Fellowship. We'll have more issues coming up soon. Thanks Kirby!; There are a couple of photos from Kirby as well. These are from Illinois fandom. Perhaps there will be more of these too.; From Balticon 40 in 2006, we have half a dozen photos from Ted Krulik. Thanks Ted!; Last but not least, we're starting to upload photos from this year's worldcon in Helsinki. You can see 45 photos from the autograph sessions taken by Frank Olynyk here - http://www.fanac.org/worldcon/Helsinki-Worldcon75/x17-p00.html. Also more to come. Thanks Frank!
February 26, 2018: We've added some photos and some seriously old fanzines. Ted Krulik has provided us another 10 photos, this time from Noreason 4. We also have new art related photos from Loncon 3, received from artist Maurizio Manzieri. Thanks all!; For our old fanzines, we have two titles today. First, David Ritter has scanned 4 more issues of Allen Glasser's 1930 fanzine, The Planet. Thanks for sharing David!; An old motto of the LASFS is said to be "Even Death Will Not Release You" (or at least that's what Laney said). It's true of the fanzines too apparently, as they are still worth reading. Even if you're not a LASFS member, you might want to check out these 8 newly scanned issues of Shangri L'Affaires. In these issues (13-17, 32, 51), you'll find Frank Robinson, F.T. Laney, Charles Burbee and more. Scanning by Joe Siclari. Thanks Joe.
February 23, 2018: It's another Youtube day. Today we have uploaded a 35 minute audio clip (with images)of both Hugo Awards and two Guest of Honor speeches from the 1964 worldcon, Pacificon II. The Guests of Honor were Leigh Brackett and Ed Hamilton. The tape is brought to us by SCIFI, specifically by Jerome Scott, Director of Projects for SCIFI in LA. From the Youtube intro: Toastmaster Tony Boucher awards the Hugos (in under 7 minutes!), and Guests of Honor Leigh Brackett and Edmond Hamilton give their speeches. It's great fun; Tony Boucher is witty and thoughtful, Leigh Brackett is open and sincere, and Ed Hamilton is surprisingly funny, with anecdotes and personal reminiscences. Learn the secret of the Boys Club of Science Fiction. Hear the tale of throwing a body out of a spaceship near Saturn. Get a real understanding of what it feels like to sell your first story." Of Ed Hamilton, Tony Boucher says, "No one has ever destroyed so many suns so well." You can find it at https://youtu.be/504j2tU0VZg.; More photos from Ted Krulik. He's provided 16 photos split between Lonestar (1997) and the Milennium Philcon (2001). Thanks Ted!; George Phillies sent us a PDF of the latest issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's Tightbeam, edited by Bob Jennings. Thanks George.
February 20, 2018: Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #406 (5.0 MB), #53.1B (5.4 MB), and #54 (4.1 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
February 13, 2018: Back to 1976. There's another video from the 1976 Worldcon, Big MAC at https://youtu.be/n0kAn3h_Fok . This short (20 minute) talk is Jim Gunn's "Fifty Amazing, Astounding, Wonderful Years". From the Youtube blurb: (1976) "was also the 50th anniversary of the first science fiction magazine. In this video, Professor Gunn talks about the impact of the magazines on science fiction and the creation of fandom. There's also an entertaining description of the responses of H.G. Wells and Jules Verne to each other, a brief account of how to create a science fiction writer, and a sense of what the field was like in the early days, all delivered with charming wit. This essay later appeared in Gunn's "Inside Science Fiction", published by Scarecrow Press. (1992)." Thanks again to Video Archeology.; More photos. We've added the beginnings of an album for photos from the collection of Mark Hickman. Mark has photos of his own plus those of his father, Lynn, that go back for many years. Thanks Mark! And thanks to Joe Siclari for scanning.; Plus there are a few photos from Bill and Mary Burns' party in 2014. There are some additional Suncon shots too.; From 1942, we've added a letter from Harry Warner, Jr. about the end of Spaceways. Scanning by Joe Siclari.
February 11, 2018: We've added an album for photos taken by Theodore Krulik. This is the the first small batch, and there are others being added to the appropriate convention photo pages. We've had some photos from Ted for different Readercons and one from the 2000 Lunacon so far. Thanks Ted! Great photos.; Added a 1987 issue of Pete Presford's UK newszine, Scantle. "Send your scandle for 'Scantle' ". Don't get too excited; not much scandal here.; Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #405 (5.7 MB), #52.5 (5.1 MB), and #53 (4.9 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
February 10, 2018: Today, thanks to the scanning of Mark Olson, you can immerse yourself in Pittcon, the 1960 Worldcon. We've added the Hugo nomination and voting ballots, 3 Progress Reports and best of all, Jay Kay Klein's Con Annual. This has 158 photos, with identifications. The key to the photos is in one section, and the photos are in another. You'll figure it out. The pubs for Pittcon can be found here - http://www.fanac.org/worldcon/Pittcon/w60-pubs.html. Thanks Mark!; More of jan finder's Spang Blah. Thanks to the scanning of Joe Siclari, we've added 5 issues from the 1970s. Jan was in Italy for some of these. In prep for your 2019 Worldcon in Dublin, you might want to read Bob Shaw's Tyme Travel Talk here in issue 20.
February 7, 2018: Whoo-hoo! We've completed the run of Walter Gillings's Fantasy Review. Issue 17, added today, has articles such as the one introduced by "THOMAS SHERIDAN tells the romantic life story of shy JACK WILLIAMSON, who might have been a cowboy but instead became a Space-Time Ranger". Love it.; More European news, this time from the 1980s. We've added 7 issues of Roelof Goudriaan's Shards of Babel, including 5 issues co-edited with Lynne Ann Morse. Issue 16 includes the SweCon85 Progress Report. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; From 1943, we've an issue J. Michael Rosenblum's Futurian War Digest. He kept this up all during the war, with amazing regularity despite the British paper shortages. We've included the zines that were bundled with it. His Booklist, Terry Overton's Galaxy, and Ron Holmes Review Section. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; Taral sent us Forgotten Toys. Is it issue 51 of Broken Toys? Maybe. Thank you Taral.; Added the February issue of Leybl Botwinik's CyberCozen. Thanks Leybl!; George Phillies sent us a PDF of the February 2018 issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's Tightbeam, edited by Bob Jennings. Thanks George.; Today's Granfalloon is number 11. Thanks to Mark Olson for scanning.
February 6, 2018: Today's newszines are from the UK. We have 4 issues of Fred Robinson's Straight Up from 1952. Page 2 of issue 3 for instance, has letters from the late and lamented Wheels of If - Bob Shaw, Walt Willis and James White. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; Today's Granfalloon is number 10. Thanks to Mark Olson for scanning.
February 5, 2018: It's another newszine-rich day, with 14 more added. All scanning by Joe Siclari unless otherwise noted. First, we've added another 1950 issue of Ronald Friedman's SF Weekly. "All the News while it's News".; The reason that SF Weekly is marked II is that there was a I. Today we've added 6 issues, a hoaxzine and an introductory letter for Doc Lowndes's Science Fiction Weekly from 1940. The hoax is called "Science Fiction Weakly" and was an April 1 publication. Headline: Sykora Stubs Toe!; From Australia, we've added 7 issues of Vol Molesworth's newszineThe Sydney Futurian. These are all from 1947 and 1948 and is a newsletter of the Futurian Society of Sydney. If you're wondering what life was like then and there, the price for Americans is one prozine in exchange for 6 issues of the zine (and "Exchange; We've added 4 issues of 1942 Le Zombies for your Retro research. Scanning thanks to Keith Stokes.; Today's Granfalloon is number 9. Thanks to Mark Olson for scanning.; Mea culpa. Two errors to report. Yesterday, I mentioned adding the April 1950 issue of SF Weekly, edited by Ronald Friedman. It's really "Science Fiction Weekly" not "SF Weekly". The webpage has been fixed. Joe has an eagle eye.; Also, I had added the Phil Bronson zine Scienti-Comics. My error. It was already on our site with two issues scanned by Tom Veal almost ten years ago. I've removed the duplicate pages. Sorry for any confusion.
February 4, 2018: A strangely mixed bag for you this evening, with items from 5 decades of fandom. All scanning by Joe Siclari unless otherwise indicated. (Thanks Joe!) First, 3 issues of Sam Moskowitz's Helios. These; Next up is an issue of Walter Gillings British Scientifiction Fantasy Review from 1938. It includes an article by Arthur C. Clarke on "Science Fiction for Beginners".; Moving along to 1940, we have the first issue of Phil Bronson's Scienti-Comics. It's exactly what the name would imply. This is starting to fade. As we put these old fanzines online, it really feels like a rescue mission for some of them.; Merry belated New Years. Here's your 1946 Greetings Gazette from Walt Dunkelberger's Fanews. Best wishes from Dunk and Lorraine, Forry Ackerman and others.; Getting our first newszine fix, we've added the April 1950 issue of SF Weekly, edited by Ronald Friedman. It starts with what happened at a gathering when it was announced that L. Ron Hubbard had just had a baby.; Another version of Fanspeak is up too. This one is from 1951, and was one of the welcome leaflets from the NFFF. It was edited by Bill Venable, with appreciations to Art Rapp.; Getting our 2nd newszine fix, we've added 2 issues of Harvey Inman's Fantasy Fiction Field from 1963. This was the second series of the zine founded by Julius Unger.; And finally, the 70s. Today's Granfalloon is number 17. Thanks to Mark Olson for scanning.
February 3, 2018: Retro stuff: Today we've uploaded Joe Siclari's list of 1942 fanzines with notations as to which are eligible for Best Fanzine. The PDF is here- http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/1942fanzines.pdf. Our plan is to make this linkable so you can go from the full list directly to the fanzines. Watch this space.; Today's Granfalloon is number 13. Thanks to Mark Olson for scanning.
February 2, 2018: More photos today. First, a correction. Yesterday's Roc*Kon 3 photos are from 1979, not 1978. Thanks to Kirby Bartlett-Sloan for the photos and the corrections.; We've added another set of 30ish photos from the Gil Gaier album. These are photos by Gil that were scanned by Patty Peters. Included are a couple of great photos of Patrick Hayden and of Patty Peters. There's a very fine photo of Mal Edwards too.; Some miscellaneous fanzines today, including 3 issues of 1942 publication (and a couple more from 1943). We've added the March 1975 issue of jan finder's Spang Blah, along with issue 8 of Linda Bushyager's Granfalloon. Scanning for Spang Blah by Joe Siclari, and for Granfalloon by Mark Olson. We've also added the latest issue of John Thiel's Ionisphere. This is the Bulletin of the National Fantasy Fan Federation Fan-Pro Coordinating Activity. Thanks!; The older fanzines today are VOMs. There are 3 issues from 1942, and 2 from 1943, along with a few supplements. Alas one of the 1943 issues is partial, with only a few pages online. We'll keep lookng for the remainder.
February 1, 2018: Thanks to Kirby Barlett-Sloan, we have photos of Roc*Kon 3, from 1978. There are Klingons, there is filking, and a car with an admirable license plate. Thanks Kirby! We look forward to more Roc*Kon photos.; Today's newszines (this will stop at some point): we've added 18 more issues of Walt Dunkelberger's Fanews Newsletters. This includes the second 2nd annual issue, this one dedicated to Earl Kay, after a briefer one so marked earlier in the year. Earl Kay was co-editor until he was killed in the war. There's also a 4 page Pacificon supplement (1947). There are issues from 1945-1948 represented, and scanning is by Joe Siclari.
January 31, 2018: All scanning today by Joe Siclari, except where otherwise noted.; We have a new update for FANAC.ORG. If you're not on our mailing list (and why aren't you on our list?) you can find it here - http://www.fanac.org/FANAC_Inc/update0118.pdf. Just to throw some numbers are you. we have reached 50,000 pages of fan material online, over 2500 newszine issues and more than 33,000 views on our Youtube channel. Round numbers and lots of zeros. Help us keep it going.; Retro Hugo materials: We've added two more of Harry Warner, Jr.'s Spaceways, although one is from 1941. There were continuations from it into the 1942 first issue so it seemed like a good idea to add it now. We've also added issue 9 of Art Widner's Fanfare. As always, all Retro candidates on the site can be found here - http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Retro_Hugos.html; Added issue 7 of Linda Bushyager's Granfalloon. Sample titillating article in that issue - "Ravished - Piers Anthony Reviews Dick Geis's latest sex novel". Scanning by Mark Olson.; Last but not least, 21 more newszines. We've added a slew of 1946 and 1947 issues of Walt Dunkelberger's FANEWS newsletters. There's an HG Wells obituary, there are reports of fan gatherings, and there are anecdotes. My favorite is in issue 278. It's about Tigrina's experience on the show "Queen for a Day". The part I liked best is the intro - "In keeping with the plan for LASFS members to get on all the radio quiz shows and split the profits with the LASFS, Memorial Day found Tigrina on the "Queen for a Day" program..."
January 30, 2018: All scanning today by Joe Siclari.; More Retro Hugo material today. We've added two more 1942 fanzines. First, we've added VOM22 from October 1942.; We've also added Space Tales 4 from July 1942. BTW, Space Tales is listed as a 1941 fanzine in the Pavlat Evans index. However, internal evidence in multiple places in the zine puts it as a 1942 publication.; 26 newszines added from 1945-1946. These are issues of the Fanews newsletters. As you may know, the zine was also published in card form. You can find all the issues listed in one place whether they are cards or newsletters. For that look here http://fanac.org/fanzines/FanewsCard/.
January 29, 2018: Many thanks to Sam McDonald for scanned material, background information, and for very useful recommendations. Today, thanks to Sam, we've put up issue 58 of STEFNEWS, and thereby completed the run.; Sam sent us Retro Hugo materials too. We have 3 1942 issues of Bonfire, and 2 more 1942 issues of Shangri L'Affaries, along with a 1941 issue - http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Shangri-laffaires/Shangri-laffaires04a-01.html.; When we put up VOM 21 a few days ago, we asked for help with the photo index. IT was there all the time. Sam pointed out that the key to the cover photos can be found on page 3.; Speaking of photos, we've put up another 100 or so of Gil Gaier's photos and you can see them here - http://www.fanac.org/Fan_Photo_Album/g02-p00.html. Patricia Peters scanned them all and provided them to us. Thank you Patty!; Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #404 (7.3 MB), #51.5B (5.3 MB), and #52 (5.2 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
January 28, 2018: Now that we've scanned as many issues of Niekas as we can, Mark Olson has started scanning issues of Linda Bushyager and Suzanne Thompkins' Granfalloon. We have 5 issues from the late 60s up so far. Thanks Mark!; Added the January issue of Leybl Botwinik's CyberCozen. Thaks Leybl!
January 24, 2018: Confiction was more than 27 years ago. But thanks to Thomas Recktenwald, you can listen to the Guest of Honor speeches and a few panels. You can find them here - http://www.fanac.org/worldcon/ConFiction/w90-audio.html. There will be a few more coming too. Thanks Thomas! Some or all of these may end up on Youtube with appropriate image accompaniment, but there are so many great audio tapes that we're putting them on FANAC.ORG as we can rather than wait till they're all tricked out for Youtube.; Ok, the December 1942 FAPA mailing is entirely online. 235 pages, all scanned by Mark Olson.
January 23, 2018: The December 1942 FAPA mailing is mostly online now. This is a vast mailing, and many thanks to Mark Olson for the scanning. These are part of our Retro Hugo efforts so that you can nominate and vote with knowledge. You can always see what he have for the Retros at http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Retro_Hugos.html.; We've put up about 70 of Gil Gaier's photos and you can see them here - http://www.fanac.org/Fan_Photo_Album/g02-p00.html. These are identified photos, and as we start to put up the unidentified photos, we'll be asking for your help to get the right names on the right faces. Patricia Peters scanned them all and provided them to us. Thank you Patty! These are great.
January 22, 2018: Lots of material today, both for the Retro Hugos and for the news junkies among you.; First, Mark Olson has scanned the last of the Ed Mesky Niekas that we have. If you have issues that are not online, please let us know (especially if you are willing to scan or loan them!).; Next, Mark has also scanned another 1942 issue of FAPA. You can find the September issue there now, with more by Jack Speer, Art Widner, Russell Chauvenet and others. All this is reflected in the listing of materials available for those considering Retro nominations. You can find it all here - http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Retro_Hugos.html. Thanks Mark - that's an enormous effort.; And for the folks eager to know what happened in the 40s, we have an additional 52 issues of Fanews. To make it easier to read, I've broken them up into newsletters and cardzines. All the issues are in the index here - http://www.fanac.org FanewsCard/ but if you click on a newsletter you'll find yourself with the newsletter index and need to click on a FanewsCard link to get back. The advantage is that you can easily click through from card to card without getting bogged down in a 10 page newsletter. Actual coherent explanation will be posted on the relevant pages soon. This herculean scanning effort provided by Joe Siclari. Thanks Joe!
January 21, 2018: Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #403 (5.4 MB), #51.1A (5.2 MB), and #51.5A (5.2 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
January 19, 2018: It's Youtube time again. Today, we've uploaded a 1996 interview of Forry Ackerman by Richard Lynch. Forry talks about the beginnings of "Famous Monsters of Filmland" and Vampirella, and about the man behind the Big Heart award, E. Everett Evans. There's a very sweet anecdote about Dr. David Keller, and lots of talk of film cameos, along with world class name dropping. What else would you expect from the man who won the first fan Hugo, for #1 Fan. It's an audio recording, enhanced with more than 50 images and you can find it at youtu.be/ZlQCHHGbhhQ.; Some random and not so random fanzines uploaded today. Mark Olson has scanned another one of Ed Meskys' Niekas. It's #15. Thanks Mark. Joe Siclari has added a flock of fanzines today. First, we've uploaded Speculation 21, edited by Pete Weston.; Joe has been scanning many 1942 and 1943 zines in preparation for the Retro Hugos. Today from 1942, we've added two issues of Larry Shaw's Leprechaun and two issues of VOM. VOM (Voice of the Imagi-Nation) was edited by Forry Ackerman and Morojo, and has letters from folks like Ted Carnell, Harry Warner, Jr., Art Widner, and Milt Rothman. Issue 21 has a great cover made up of fan photos. Our page 2 is blank. If anyone has a page 2 with (maybe) a key to the photos, please let us know. Remember, you can always find a directory of candidate retro materials at fanac.org/fanzines/Retro_Hugos.html.; From 1943, Joe has scanned an issue of Phil Bronson and Walt Daugherty's Fantasite. Contributors include Ross Rocklynne, Carl Jacobi, Gordon Dickson, and Bob Tucker. This is 1943. Gordy's first published story was 1950.
January 17, 2018: Retro Hugo nominations will be open soon. We're putting materials up on fanac.org so you can have as much grist for your Hugo mill as possible. You can always see what we have available by looking at our Retro Hugo candidate materials page. Lots of good stuff, and more everyday.; Thanks to the scanning of Joe Siclari, today we've added another external criticism of Claude Degler's Cosmic Circle, this one by Larry Shaw as well as more Shangri L'Affaires, with 4 more issues from the 40s. We've also added issue 17 of Sanders, and the first two issues of Bill Kroll's Scientifantasy, completing the run. If you're yearning for some news of Australia, there are also 6 more issues of Roger Weddall's Thyme from the mid80s.; George Phillies sent us a PDFs of January 2018's issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's The National Fantasy Fan. Thanks George.
January 10, 2018: Many new pages added since the last update. All scanning by Joe Siclari unless otherwise noted. Thanks Joe! That's a LOT of scanning. First in the way of newszines, we have Nebula V2, #3 from July, 1942, edited by Rusty Barron, better known to us youngsters as Rusty Hevelin. We also have issue 1 of Newfangles by Don and Maggie Thompson.; On the non-newszine side, we have issue 6 of Ed Meskys' Niekas from 1963 (scanned by Mark Olson) and we have Fanfare 8 from February, 1942, edited by Art Widner.; Joe has added a wealth of 1942 issues of Harry Warner Jr's Spaceways, with issues 25-29 covering almost all of 1942.; Thanks to Joe Siclari's scanning, we also have the June 1942 FAPA 20 mailing. This issue of FAPA had zines by some of the best known names in fandom, includng Donald Wollheim, Jack Speer, Bob Tucker, Harry Warner Jr. Forrest J no period Ackerman, Milt Rothman, Russell Chauvenet and many others.; Are you detecting a chronological pattern in most of these pages? The 1942 Retro Hugos are coming. More about that later.; Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #402 (4.3 MB), #50.1B (5.3 MB), and #51 (4.7 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
January 8, 2018: George Phillies sent us a PDF of the January 2018 issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's Tightbeam, edited by Bob Jennings. Thanks George.; We've added 3 more issues of Ed Mesky's Niekas, scanned by Mark Olson. Issue 46 is about Strange Sports Stories, and there are other issues dedicated to a single topic. Thanks Mark!
January 5, 2018: Two more Niekas today, scanning by Mark Olson. Thanks Mark! (and thanks Ed!)
January 2, 2018: Happy New Year! Our first offerings for 2018 are 2 more issues of Ed Meskys' Niekas from the 1990s, the last 3 issues of Taral's Rat Sass and 4 issues of Opuntia. Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #401 (3.6 MB), #49 (5.0 MB), #50 (5.1 MB), and #50.1A (5.3 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks to Dale for the Opuntias, and to Taral for the Rat Sass. Scanning of the Niekas issues done by Mark Olson. Thanks Mark!
December 30, 2017: We've added 13 more issues of Ed Meskys' Niekas for your holiday pleasure. Thanks to scanning by Mark Olson, we have issues covering most of the 1980s, including the Arthurian issue and the Andre Norton issue. Enjoy!; Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #48 (4.8 MB), #48.1B (5.2 MB), and #48.5A (5.2 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.; George Phillies sent us a PDFs of December 2017's issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's The National Fantasy Fan. Thanks George.
December 17, 2017: To round out the year, another tidbit of Video Archeology for you. This time, we present the Robert Heinlein Guest of Honor speech from the 1976 Worldcon, MidAmeriCon (with video provided by the inestimable Video Archeology team) You can see it at https://youtu.be/LoSnjYLw2A0.* In this speech, a few years after Heinlein's brain surgery, you get a variety of topics. It's sometimes uncomfortable (as it was in 1976), and there are boos as well as applause. Boos. At a GoH speech. The talk touches on Heinlein's belief in the inevitability of atomic war and his belief that mankind will go to the stars. There are comments on Russia and China, the role of men, and more than a few very bad jokes. If you like Heinlein, or if you don't, this video is a rare opportunity to hear that legendary figure. Thanks again to the Video Archeology team (especially Geri Sullivan and David Dyer-Bennet) for providing the video, and to Jeff Schalles who kept the tapes safe for so long.; *It's easier to remember our channel address - youtube.com/c/fanacfanhistory.; Thanks to Kim Gibbs, our archive of File 770 is now complete! The elusive issue 81 is online in PDF format. Kim, thanks so much for responding to our request for help. This site is really a community effort.; Somehow we missed the fall issue of the TNFF Tightbeam, edited by Bob Jennings. Thanks go to George Phillies for sending us another copy of issue 280.
December 15, 2017: Another issue of Ed Meskys Niekas, thanks to Mark Olson's scanning. Thanks Mark! These are big issues, so it's a lot of scanning. And of course our thanks to Ed Meskys for his support of this effort.; George Phillies sent us a PDF of the December 2017 issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's Tightbeam, edited by Bob Jennings. Thanks George.
December 14, 2017: A new fanzine title today! Thanks to Mark Olson's scanning, we have 4 issues of Ed Mesky's Hugo award winning fanzine Niekas online. Niekas was the first fanzine focused on Tolkien. Per the article in fancyclopedia.org, contributors included Piers Anthony, ATom, John Boardman, Vaughn Bode, Anthony Boucher, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Charles N. Brown, Don D'Ammassa, Philip K. Dick, an ongoing "Glossary of Middle Earth" by Robert Foster, who later published Tolkien's World From A to Z: The Complete Guide to Middle-earth, Clyde Kilby, Jack Gaughan, Jack Harness, Ben Indick, S. T. Joshi, Tim Kirk, Fred Lerner, Dave Locke, Sam Moskowitz, Andrew J. Offutt, Diana Paxson, Bruce Pelz, Darrell Schweitzer, Bjo Trimble, and Roger Zelazny.
December 13, 2017: Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #400 (8.0 MB), #47.1A (5.2 MB), and #47.5 (5.0 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
December 11, 2017: ONE MISSING FILE 770! That's all that's left. Does anyone have issue 81? Mark Olson has scanned the last 4 issues that he has, and we're now only missing issue 81. If you have it and could scan it, please send a note to fanac@fanac.org . We will keep looking for that issue. You can see them (almost) all at the FIle 770 index page.; Thanks to the scanning of Joe Siclari, we've added 6 issues of Shangri L'Affaires, the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society (LASFS) newsletter. There's one from the 1st series and 5 from the 2nd series, both from the early 40s. This zine lasted over 80 issues, until the 1980s.
December 9, 2017: A plethora of once current events is now yours for the looking, with 25 newszines added today.; We've added our earliest newszine title, Science Fiction News, with 2 issues from 1936. This was an official publication of the Oklahoma Scientifction Association, edited by Dan McPhail, with Jack Speer as an assoicate editor. Marked as Volume 5, Number 3, one of the articles makes mention that was the first printed issue. Scanning by Joe Siclari. Thanks Joe!; We have more File 770's up too, with 5 issues from 145-149 scanned by Mark Olson. Thanks Mark!; There are another 18 issues of Graham Stone's Science Fiction News, this title from Australia. The issues range from 1954 to 1983. Scanning by Joe Siclari. Thanks Joe!
December 8, 2017: Another voice from the past for you today, thanks to Evelyn Leeper, we've added an audio with images of Theodore Sturgeon's Guest of Honor speech at the 1972 Lunacon. You can find it at https://youtu.be/QPjVcgZcC24. With an Isaac Asimov introduction, there are corny puns and jokes from both of them, but primarily the talk is a serious, constructive discussion of Sturgeon's "best beloved field", and a defense against those that would marginalize and dismiss it. There are a few heartfelt minutes at the end about the (1972) US government amassing citizens' private data, without any ability to challenge it. More than 40 years later, it's still important, and worth listening. This is an audio tape enhanced with images. Thanks Evelyn!; Added the latest issue of John Thiel's Ionisphere. This is the Bulletin of the National Fantasy Fan Federation Fan-Pro Coordinating Activity. Thanks!
December 7, 2017: Mashable.com has discovered the FANAC YouTube channel! Or at least one item on it. They did an article on our Video Archeology footage of the MidAmeriCon Star Wars panel, and the hits shot up to over 10,000. It's great to have all that hard work by the Video Archeology crew pay off. That's far more than the entire attendance was at Big Mac.; Newszine update: We've added 6 more issues of File 770 from 2001 and 2005. Scanning by Mark Olson. Thanks Mark!; Joe Siclari has been locating and scanning Shangri-LAs! 9 issues added today from 1941 to 1956. There are some choice issues here, includng one with a cover by Charles Schneeman. Thanks Joe!; Added Evelyn Leeper's report on Philcon 2014. Thanks Evelyn!; More to come. Smofcon 35 was last weekend, and we'll be putting up a batch of photos. We're also working on a new audio piece for Youtube. Actually it's an old audio piece - from 1972. Does anyone have any 1972 Lunacon photos? We could sure use them.
December 4, 2017: Newszine update: We've added 11 more issues of File 770, with Mark Olson providing 5 issues from 2000 and 2001, and Mike Glyer giving us the last 6 issues from 2012 to 2016. Thanks to you both!; Added the last two issues of Leybl Botwinik's CyberCozen. Thaks Leybl!; Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #399 (5.8 MB), #46.5D (5.3 MB), and #47 (4.4 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale!
November 28, 2017: Don't Miss: A real treat today. Do the names Mort Weisinger and Julius Schwartz mean something to you? Today, we put up an issue of the 1932 fanzine, The Time Traveller that they put out with Allen Glasser and Forry Ackerman. This is one of the earliest fanzines devoted to science fiction. This fanzine is so old that the masthead lists one Forrest J. Ackerman, with a period after the J!; If you got the FANAC newsletter, you know that we've been adding issues of Mirage, Jack Chalker's Hugo nominated fanzine. If you didn't get the newsletter, and you would like to, then please drop a line to fanac@fanac.org and I'll make sure you get on the list. Joe Siclari has scanned issue 5 from the Spring of 1962.; Another fanzine we've been working (see the newsletter ) is Shangri-LA. Today we added issues 11, 15 and 26. Scanning courtesy of Joe Siclari.; Newszines: We've added 4 newszines today. Mark Olson scanned two more File 770s for us, these from the latter part of 1999. Joe Siclari scanned two issues of CHAT for us, these from 1978. Not quite a newszine....but in the ballpark. Joe also provided a scan of Fantasy Faction Field purportedly from 1941. It's issue &@ .
November 25, 2017: We've posted the latest FANAC Fan History project update. This gives you a tops down view of what we've been doing over recent months. Sometimes it can be easy to get lost in all the detail you see in what's new. The update can make sense of it. You can find the update in the section About Us which also contains interesting info on who we are, what we're doing, and most importantly, who our contributors are. If you should be listed and you're not, then it's the webmaster's error, so please send a note to fanac@fanac.org and we'll get that little problem corrected.; Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #398 (5.0 MB), #46.5B (4.9 MB), and #46.5C (4.5 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.; George Phillies sent us a PDFs of November 2017's issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's The National Fantasy Fan. Thanks George.
November 20, 2017: Thanks to the Video Archeology folks (especially Geri Sullivan and David Dyer-Bennet), we've uploaded another bit of fannish history. Today, it's an excerpt from the Weird and Horror Genre Luncheon panel discussion. This features Poul Anderson, Charles Grant, Ted White, Kirby McCauley (mod), Tom Reamy and Stuart Schiff talking about Lovecraft, ghost stories, fairy tales and why they are attracted to the genre. There is some damage to the film, but DDB has made it very watchable. You can find it here or just search for the FanacFanhistory channel on YouTube.com .; We've also added 9 more issues of File 770, these from 1998 to 1999. Scanning by Mark Olson. Thanks Mark, for the photos and the fanzine scanning!
November 18, 2017: Who are these people? We've added about 100 new photographs from two Worldcons, and a bunch of other conventions. Check out these photos provided by Mark Olson for ConFrancisco and ConAdian. New photos (also from Mark) for Westercon 48, 1995, Boskone 31, 1994, Smofcon 7, 1991, Eastercon, 1996 and Fourth Street Fantasy, 1994. As always, we appreciate any corrections or people identifications you can give us.; We've added 5 more issues of File 770, these from 1997 to 1998. Scanning by Mark Olson. Thanks Mark, for the photos and the fanzine scanning!
November 15, 2017: An unusual treat for you today, that will hopefully help bring a light mood for the holiday season. We've added 15 years/issues of Irish Fandom's Christmas greetings, Peace on Sol III. These were edited by Walt and Madeline Willis, and always started with the phrase "Goodwill to Mellow fen". Some of the issues were not internally dated. If you have a correction for the dating that we have determined, please let us know. All scanning by Joe Siclari. Thanks again Joe!; Thanks to Richard Lynch, we have 4 more issues of CHAT, the newszine of the Chattanooga Science Fiction Assocation. One of these is from 1977 and the remaining three are from 1979. Thanks Rich!; We've added 5 more issues of Shangri-LA, from 1949-1951. Scanning also by Joe Siclari. Thanks Joe!; Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #397 (6.2 MB), #46.1 (4.9 MB), and #46.5A (5.1 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
November 14, 2017: Fanzines and photos are the order of the day.; First, for photos. We've added about 115 photos today, all from Mark Olson, spread across the decade between Conspiracy in 1987 and BucCONeer in 1998. You'll find new photos online for both of these Worldcons. Also, we have new photos for:; --1992 Boskone; --1993 Readercon, including photos of photos Brian Aldiss, another great writer who we've lost this year; --1994 Tropicon XII, including photos of another friend lost this year, the recently deceased Francine Mullen; --1997 Albacon; Now to the fanzines. We've added 8 more issues of File 770, these from 1995 to 1997. Scanning by Mark Olson. Thanks Mark, for the photos and the fanzine scanning!; We have added the latest issue of the Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society's newsletter The MT Void, Vol. 36, No. 19, that was sent to us by Mark and Evelyn Leeper. Thank you both.
November 10, 2017: Today's "What's New" from FANAC Fan History Project Chair, Joe Siclari:; Around 1960, Dick Eney was a fannish reference and publishing machine. He was a frequent contributor to quite a few apas, and published material for other fen. Dick published two of the major fannish reAlference works of all time. The first was Fancyclopedia 2 and its supplements, containing hundreds of pages of material. Fancyclopedia 2 was the basis and starting point for FANAC's Fancyclopedia 3 (online at http://fancyclopedia.org/ ).; The other major work was the 388 page collection/history A SENSE OF FAPA. We have just finished scanning and uploading this to FANAC.org. SENSE OF FAPA contains several major publications that were originally distributed in FAPA (FanBtasy Amateur Press Association), the earliest being from 1937 in the first issue of FAPA.; Among the major articles uploaded today in A SENSE OF FAPA are:; John Michel's Mutation or Death - politics in fandom; Jack Speer's Up to Now - a compact history of fandom, without the digressions of Moskowitz's The Immortal Storm; F. Towner Laney's Ah! Sweet Idiocy! - also online separately at http://fanac.org/fanzines/Ah_Sweet_Idiocy/; Joe Kennedy's Before the Bomb! - New York Fan History from the same period as ASI; A SENSE OF FAPA includes many articles by the best that fandom has produced including: James Blish, Redd Boggs, Charles Burbee, P. Schuyler Miller, Milt Rothman, Bill Rotsler, Harry Warner, Jr., C, S. Youd (John Christopher) and many others.; Help yourself to one of best publications fandom has produced.; ---Joe Siclari; All scanning for A SENSE OF FAPA by Joe Siclari. Thanks Joe!....Fanac webmaster
November 9, 2017: Where were you in 1991? If you were at a science fiction convention, maybe we can spot you in the FANAC photos. Today we've added photos from 3 1991 conventions, all courtesy of photographer Mark Olson. You can see 15 new photos of Chicon V, the 1991 Worldcon. There are 11 new photos from the 1991 Smofcon in Portland, and there are 16 photos of the 1991 4th Street. Thanks Mark! (Hint: There are more to come.); Today's fanzine updates are all about the news. We've added 4 issues of the Lynch's CHAT, the newszine of the Chattanooga Science Fiction Assocation. These are from 1977-1978. Scanning by Richard Lynch. Thanks Richard!; Five issues added today of Mike Glyer's File 770. These issues are from 1994-1995. Scanning by Mark Olson. Thanks Mark!
November 8, 2017: Return with us to those thrilling days of 1991 - 1992, in winter time Boston. Today, we've added 40ish pictures from Boskone 28 and 29, thanks to Mark Olson. Thanks Mark!
November 7, 2017: We've completed the run for Joe Siclari's Fanhistorica, adding issues 3 and 5. There are some choice bits of history in here. Check out the TOC for the issues to see what's there. Don't miss the wonderful Stu Shiffman covers on Issues 3 and 4. Scanning by Joe Siclari. Thanks Joe!; More newszines, this time from 1994. Two newly posted issues of Mike Glyer's File 770 from the scanning of Mark Olson. Thanks Mark.
November 6, 2017: Today's "What's New" from Fanac Fan History Project chair, Joe Siclari -; Francis Towner Laney's memoir Ah! Sweet Idiocy! is, without a doubt, the single most important polemic about science fiction fandom. Laney claimed that this would be his farewell and last stand in fandom. It didn't work out that way as he kept somewhat active into the 1950s. It did, however, make him the most controversial fan of his period (standing out in importance and notoriety even over Claude Degler and his Cosmic Circle.; This memoir is not only long (130+ pages) and detailed but it is the major primary source of information (some would say disinformation) about fandom in the 1940s. Laney was a prolific, opinionated writer credited with saying "Anything worth writing is worth putting on stencil". This statement is belied by the fact that he wrote numerous tightly spaced, full and multipaged letters, often directly to the people he was criticizing.; Ah! Sweet Idiocy! has been the single most requested item to be put online. Laney takes some liberties with the facts to suit himself, however, he is often candid about his own problems and biases. To put this material in some context, I devoted many pages of my fanhistory zine, FanHistorica, to articles written by, about, and against FTL and ASI (including excerpts from ASI). You can find these at FanHistorica. To see other sides of Laney look at his sercon fanzine The Acolyte and his FAPA zine, Fan-Dango. More material by Laney will be put online here in the future.; As you can easily tell, I have been fascinated/engrossed ??? by Laney and his oversized influence in S-F Fandom for years.; --- Joe Siclari
November 5, 2017: We're happy to tell you that we have 2 more Voids on line today. Thanks to the scanning of Joe Siclari, we now have issues 2 and 3 on line. Thanks Joe!; More newszines, this time from 1993 and 1994. Four newly posted issues of Mike Glyer's File 770 from the scanning of Mark Olson. Thanks Mark.; You may have heard that we've lost another fan, D. Potter. *sigh* Thanks to Andrew Porter, we posted a few beautiful pictures of her from the 1980s. They're on two different pages, so please page through. Start on the bottom right of this page.; Here's your daily dose of esoteric fannish interest. Mark Olson has provided us a number of photos from the MagiCon exhibit setup, along with some photos of the preparation work that went on in Boston, before the con. If you work on exhibits or are thinking of volunteering you can find a sample of what to expect starting here. Thanks Mark, for the photos, and the exhibits.
November 3, 2017: Grins and giggles for your Friday afternoon. On our Youtube channel we've added a fabulous audio recording (with pictures) of Harry Harrison's Eastercon 22 talk on Stonehenge and Sex. It includes a roaringly funny discourse on the introduction of sex into science fiction stories in the 60s, with anecdotes about well loved authors and editors including Brian Aldiss, Mack Reynolds, Ted Carnell and George O. Smith. You'll hear about Starship 69, and how to get "dirty bits" past editorial assistant Kay Tarrant. The last part of the talk is an absolutely fascinating view of John W. Campbell, editor of Astounding (later Analog) and how it was to work with him. Audience interruptions include Anne McCaffrey and John Brunner. Worth a listen!
November 2, 2017: Take a look at these recent photos, added courtesy of Mark Olson. We have photos for the 1989 Tropicon 8 and for the 2001 Boskone 38. Thanks Mark! There are a few fans to be identified in these photos, so if you know someone, say something.; We've added Evelyn Leeper's 2015 Philcon report. Thanks Evelyn!; More news of the 90s. Mark Olson has provided scans of three more issues of File 770, this time from 1992 and 1993. Thanks for the scanning Mark!; Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #396 (6.8 MB), #45.5 (4.9 MB), and #46 (4.9 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
October 31, 2017: It's almost time for Philcon this year. Thanks to Evelyn Leeper, we've added her report on last year's Philcon. Thanks Evelyn!; Mark Olson is still scanning. We've added 5 issues of File 770 to the list, from 1991 and 1992. Thanks Mark!
October 29, 2017: Today, we've added 3 issues of Jack Chalker's Hugo nominated fanzine Mirage. Here you'll find articles, stories and bibliographies related to the field. Thanks to Eva Chalker for her kind permission, and to Joe Siclari for scanning (especially for the 80+ page issue)!; We've added 3 more issues of Shangri-LA, from 1949-1951. Scanning by Joe Siclari. Thanks Joe!; Time for some convention publications. Today, we've added pubs from several Eastercons. If you didn't get a chance to attend, you can live vicariously by looking at the pubs for Olympus, Satellite 4, and Innominate. Publications were scanned and otherwise provided by John Bray. Thanks John!
October 27, 2017: Five more File 770s, all from 1986. Scanning by Mark Olson.
October 24, 2017: Mark Olson scanned and sent us 7 more issues of File 770 from 1985 and 1986. Thanks Mark!; Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #395 (3.2 MB), #44.1D (5.0 MB), #45 (4.7 MB), and #45.1 (4.9 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
October 20, 2017: Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #394 (6.6 MB), #44.1A (4.9 MB), and #44 (4.8 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.; George Phillies sent us a PDFs of October 2017's issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's The National Fantasy Fan. Thanks George.
October 16, 2017: Two more of Mike Glyer's File 770s, this time from 1984. Scanning by Mark Olson. Thanks Mark!; Five more issues of the Lynch's CHAT, the newszine of the Chattanooga Science Fiction Assocation. These are from 1979-1981. Scanning by Richard Lynch. Thanks Richard!
October 14, 2017: Continuing today with Newszines. Five more File 770s, 1983 and 1984. Scanning thanks to Mark Olson. By my count, we have put online 2267 newszines so far, with the earliest from April 1938, and the most recent from 2011. That April 1938 newszine, Science Fiction Newsletter, published by Dick Wilson, appeared only 12 years after the first science fiction magazine hit the newsstand. Dick was 17 at the time, and his first short story was published in Astonishing Stories two years later.
October 13, 2017: More Shangri-LAs! Today, 5 issues from the 1940s, edited by either Dale Hart or Walt Daugherty. Scanning by Joe Siclari. Shangri-LA was one of the official organs of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society.; A big drop of fannish history today. Ever hear of Claude Degler? You can read the Fancyclopedia 2 article about him here. Degler and his Cosmic Circle were the center of fannish furor in the 1940s (and deservedly so). Here is a whack of the original materials published by and about the Cosmic Circle. Here you'll find both external criticism (so marked) and the Cosmic Circle fanzines. Today, a whack equals 44 publications. Included are almost the entire run of Cosmic Circle Commentator and three Fanews Analyzer. All scanning by Joe Siclari. Thanks Joe!; We have added the latest issue of the Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society's newsletter The MT Void, Vol. 36, No. 15, that was sent to us by Mark and Evelyn Leeper. Thank you both
October 12, 2017: A slew of new things today. We've added issue 23 of Rhodomagnetic Digest, scanning by Gideon Marcus. Thanks Gideon!; With the permission of the LASFS board, we have started putting up some Shangri-LA issues. Today, 5 issues from the 1950s. Scanning by Joe Siclari. Shangri-LA was one of the official organs of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society.; Added issue 13 of Bruce Sterling's Cheap Truth from 1985.; Who was who in 1940 in fandom? We have the answer here. What we don't know is who it was that produced this publication. If you do, please let us know. Send the info to fanac@fanac.org .
October 8, 2017: You can't tell the BNFs without a scorecard, or at least a Who's Who. We've added L.D. Broyle's Who's Who from 1961 under Fannish Reference Works. Here you can read about folks like Roger Ebert, Dick Eney, Rick Sneary and more. What did the world (or at least Broyle) think of Harlan Ellison in 1961? Of Bjo? Read it here. Broyle even included what kind of audio equipment each fan had. Scanning by Mark Olson.
October 6, 2017: Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #393 (4.6 MB), #43.1A.pdf (5.0 MB), and #43.1B.pdf (5.3 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
October 5, 2017: Two more File 770s, from March and April 1983. Scanning thanks to Mark Olson.
October 3, 2017: More fannish news today, this time from the 70s and 80s. First, thanks to the scanning of Mark Olson, we've added 5 more issues of Mike Glyer's File 770, from 1982 and 1983. If you remember Chicon IV with fondness, you might want to check out the File 770 issue that includes the convention report. Thanks Mark!; Thanks to the scanning of Richard Lynch, we have another 16 issues of CHAT, the newszine of the Chattanooga Science Fiction Assocation. With co-editor Nicki Lynch, the zine also covered fannish news of the region and the nation.
September 29, 2017: Today's update includes Ron Bennett's TAFF report. The report was published in 1961 and covers his TAFF trip in 1958. Want to see what fandom was like almost 60 years ago? Read the report.; Thanks to the scanning of Mark Olson, we've added 11 more issues of Mike Glyer's File 770, including all the issues from 1981 and a couple from 1980 and 1982. Thanks Mark! As all you viewers of this page know, File 770 is still a very living newszine and can be found at file770.com.
September 26, 2017: Thanks to the scanning of Richard Lynch, we have added two issues of CHAT, the newszine of the Chattanooga Science Fiction Assocation. He edited it with his wife, Nicki Lynch, and the zine also covered news of the region and the nation.; Added the latest issue of John Thiel's Ionisphere. Thanks!; Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #392 (6.8 MB), #42.5 (5.1 MB), and #43 (5.1 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
September 18, 2017: Ready for your close up? Maybe it's already online. Today we added photos from the 2016 SMOFcon. Many of these were taken by Rick Katze. Thanks Rick! The rest were taken by Edie Stern. We also put up a batch of photos from 2000 from Tropicon 19, including many South Florida fans. These are from the collection of Joe Siclari. If you can identify the folks marked as ???, please let us know who they are. It's easy to fill in an update form. You'll see the "Click Here" button near the caption.; Added 6 issues of Mike Glyer's File 770 from 1979 - 1980, including the 1980 Yearbook. Scanning courtesy of Mark Olson.; Added issues 27 and 29 of the 40s cardzine QX. These issues happen not to be cards, and are not dated, but I think they are from 1945. Warning - these are not the best zines of the run. Scanning courtesy of Joe Siclari.; Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #391 (6.4 MB), #42.1.pdf (2.5 MB), and #42.pdf (5.2 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
September 16, 2017: It's 25 years since MagiCon! To celebrate, we've uploaded a video of MagiCon Guest of Honor Vincent Di Fate speaking on "Science Fiction, Spirit of Youth". You can find it here. This far ranging talk includes an illuminating discussion of Frank R. Paul and how he affected the field. Vin also talks about his own influences, and science fiction film. At a 1980s Tropicon, Vin's Guest of Honor speech centered on being a science fiction guy. That enthusiasm comes out loud and clear in this video. Check it out!
September 12, 2017: George Phillies sent us a PDFs of September 2017's issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's The National Fantasy Fan. Thanks George.; Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #390 (6.5 MB), #41.1D.pdf (5.4 MB), and #41.5 (5.1 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
September 9, 2017: Added 5 more issues of Mike Glyer's newszine File 770 from 1978 and 1979, thanks to the scanning of Mark Olson.
September 7, 2017: We can call today "Bob Tucker Day", as we have added 27 issues of his seminal humor zine Le Zombie. Combined with news and gossip, this "Ghoul's Ghazette" was a must read of the time, and is still entertaining. He often quoted people or commented in such a way that the feuds of the day were clearly exposed. Lee Hoffman was Bob's fannish granddaughter, and we have added all 3 issues of her 1956 history zine Fanhistory. You might notice a similarity in the covers for Fanhistory and in the covers of Lee's earlier focal point zine, Quandry.
September 6, 2017: Want some truth? Some Cheap Truth? 16 issues of the Vincent Omniaveritas (Bruce Sterling) fanzine from the mid80s are now online. Scanning is thanks to Joe Siclari.; Thanks to Joe's scanning, we also have added news of the day. For days in March 1947, see Tympany 2.; For Austalian days in May 1959, see Merv Binns's Australian Science Fiction Newsletter 3. For more Australian news, this time from October 1978, we have Merv Binns's Australian SF News 5. If you like your Australian news more media oriented, we've added the first issue of Sweetness and Light.; For news of Europe, we've put up 6 issues (mostly from 1984) of Shards of Babel.; George Phillies sent us a PDFs of the August 2017 issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's The National Fantasy Fan. Thanks George.
September 4, 2017: Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #389 (4.7 MB), #41.1B (5.7 MB), and #41.1C (4.9 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.; MagiCon was the 50th Worldcon, held in 1992 in Orlando, Florida. It was the first project of FANAC, Inc. and eventually provided the seed money for the Fan History Project. Our Guests of Honor were Jack Vance, Vincent Di Fate and Walt Willis. To see our photos from the convention, click here. Mike Glyer has celebrated the anniversary by republishing his contemporaneous convention report at File 770.; We have fond memories of the Enchanted Duplicator miniature golf course, of the amazing History of Art retrospective led by GoH Vincent Di Fate, and of our Fan Lounge, which people have said is the standard by which all subsequent fan lounges are judged. At the closing ceremonies we celebrated the field by creating a time capsule, which was surprisingly emotional. After a quarter of a century, we're planning to open it soon. soon. Watch this space.; Thanks again to all the people who worked so hard and made this convention, a surprising number of whom are still working on worldcons today.; Hope you enjoy the memories. Joe Siclari and Edie Stern
August 22, 2017: Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #388 (6.1 MB), #40.2 (2.4 MB), #40.5 (5.0 MB), and #41.1A (5.0 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
August 19, 2017: Back to the 40s today. We've added 26 issues of the newszine FanewsCard from late 1943 - mid 1944. Scanning courtesy of Joe Siclari. Thanks Joe!
August 16, 2017: News today about Western North American fandom in David Nee's Sanders. We've added 12 issues from 1971 and 1972. Scans by Joe Siclari.
August 15, 2017: Thanks to Jack Weaver, our site builder and webmaster for FANAC's first 20 years, we have a new FANAC.ORG feature! If you look at the fanzine list (either classic or modern ) you'll see a count on the right of how many issues are online at FANAC.ORG and an indicator if the fanzine is new or updated, or if the run of fanzines is complete. Check it out!; Today we've added 3 newszines: 2 1978 issues of Mike Glyer's File 770 and one 1991 issue of the European newsletter Shards of Babel. Scans by Mark Olson.; We added a small picture of Carol Hoag, Iguanacon registration head, thanks to Tim Kyger.
August 14, 2017: Adding a few more issues of various newszines. First, issue 4 of Vince Clarke's Science Fantasy News from 1949. Two issues of Graham Stone's Science Fiction News from 1985. That last is from Australia. And finally two 1978 issues of Mike Glyer's File 770. Want to know more about these people? Check out the articles about them in Fancyclopedia.; Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #387 (4.3 MB), #40.1 (5.2 MB), #40.2 (2.4 MB), and #40 (4.7 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.; News and anecdotes (including one about Isaac and Harlan) from 1953 in 9 issues of a newly scanned fanzine Saturday Morning Gazette. This was edited by John Mangnus, and scanned by Joe Siclari. The editor's nickname for the magazine? "Smug".
August 11, 2017: Not at Worldcon this year? Stop by the FANAC site and browse through some prior Worldcon photo albums: http://www.fanac.org/worldcon/ . Laurie Mann will be posting a few at the FANAC Twitter account. Follow along at: https://twitter.com/FANACFanHistory.; Today, we added the August issue of Leybl Botwinik's CyberCozen. Thanks, Leybl!; Mark Olson has been scanning. Thanks to him we have issue 15 and issue 17 of Pete Weston's Speculation. We also have issue 3 and issue 4 of Mike Glyer's newszine File 770. Thanks Mark!
August 6, 2017: Evelyn Leeper has written a convention report on this years NASFIC. Thanks Evelyn!
August 5, 2017: It's always interesting to see how others view us. In modern times, science fiction has permeated popular culture, but as we all know, it was not always thus. Today we've added the very first mainstream press review of a science fiction convention. Have a look at the TIME magazine report on the first worldcon, published July 10, 1939. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; Thanks to Tim Kyger, we have put online Bill Patterson's memoir of Arizona fandom and how IguanaCon, the 1978 Worldcon, came to be. The Little Fandom That Could is up under Fan Histories. Thanks Tim!; Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #386 (7.2 MB), #39 (4.7 MB), and #39.5 (5.2 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
August 2, 2017: Added the latest issue of John Thiel's Ionisphere. Thanks!; More newszines. Added 12 issues of Andrew Porter's SF Weekly from 1967 and 1968. Scanning thanks to Mark Olson.
July 27, 2017: A whopping 84 newszines added today, all scanning by Joe Siclari:; 4 issues of Focal Point, volume 2 from 1970. These were edited by Arnie Katz and rich brown.; 80 issues of STEFNEWS, edited by Jack Speer from 1945 - 1947. This newszine was amazingly regular for the first couple years.
July 26, 2017: Continuing now with the newszines, we've added these zines scanned by Joe Siclari (thanks Joe!):; 20 issues of Tympany, a zine edited by Redd Boggs and Robert Stein. These are issues from 1947-1948. One of the 20 is a hoax zine. (Don't worry, it's labeled in the index.); 4 issues of Shards of Babel from 1982-1983. This is a newszine from the Netherlands edited by Roelof Goudriaan.; 3 issues of Ron Ellik's Starspinkle from 1963, along with a checklist of the fanzine.; 3 issues of jan finder's Spang Blah from 1976.; 5 issues of (mostly) Roger Weddall's Thyme, with issue numbers in the 20s. The most recent issue (from 1987) added today was edited by Lyn and Peter Burns.; Issue 1 (1992) of Joyce Katz's Spin Dizzy. The opening lines? "Joe 'Houdini' Siclari pulled off a neat trick at the worldcon, when he managed to turn an oversized gathering of anonymous convention goers into a warm and intimate room full of fandom's finest. Such was the feeling of walking from the thousands, into the true heart of the convention, the fan lounge, where a glow of goodwill filled the room." Joe chaired MagiCon, and Geri Sullivan ran the fan lounge.; Issue 441, April 67 of Science Fiction Times.
July 25, 2017: Steven Brust and Geri Sullivan tell the true story of Minneapolis fandom on today's new Youtube piece. Listen to this audio recording (with supplemental images) to hear great anecdotes about how the music parties got started, the Minneapolis style of convention running, the first Minneapolis World Fantasy Convention and much more. Geri does a great job of moderating as well as participating in this discussion. Check it out!
July 24, 2017: Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #37.1 (5.2 MB), #37.2 (1.5 MB), #38 (3.6 MB), and #385 (7.9 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
July 22, 2017: Newszines today. Added 4 issues of a newszine published by Gnome Press, and edited by Bob Tucker and Robert Bloch. The issues are from 1956 and 1957, and it's called The Science Fiction World.
July 21, 2017: Added 5 issues of the Australian newszine Futurian Observer from 1940. Issue 8 begins the reporting on the Australian government's ban of all SF magazines in 1940, and what was done about it. Very interesting. Material provided and scanned by Joe Siclari.
July 18, 2017: Issue 1 of Ian Gunn's art zine Artychoke is up. The other issues are now accessible under Artychoke as well as under Thyme where many of them were distributed. Thanks to Joe Siclari for scanning that first issue. Mark Olson scanned the Thymes.; Evelyn Leeper has sent us photos of NorthAmeriCon '17, this year's NASFIC. Thanks Evelyn!
July 17, 2017: Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #35.5.pdf (3.6 MB), #36.pdf (4.3 MB), and #384 (9.9 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.; George Phillies sent us a PDFs of July 2017's issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's The National Fantasy Fan. Thanks George.
July 16, 2017: We've added 3 more issues of Joe Siclari's Fanhistorica. Included are articles from luminaries such as Bob Tucker, Ray Nelson, Walt Willis and Alva Rogers. You'll also find 2 parts of the reprint of F. Tower Laney's Ah! Sweet Idiocy!. If you haven't read it, you should.
July 15, 2017: George Phillies sent us a PDF of the July 2017 issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's Tightbeam, edited by Bob Jennings. Thanks George.
July 13, 2017: Newszines today. We've added 7 issues of Fandom on Parade, a cardzine from 1945. Sample headline? STATEMENT BY SHAW: "Yes, DAW's sueing us" . Scans by Joe Siclari.
July 11, 2017: More issues of Greg and Jim Benford's VOID! You can now read online issues 11, 12, and 13. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; We've finally added issue 1 of Joe Siclari's Fanhistorica. This history focused zine has fabulous material reprinted from the past as well as current insights. If you haven't read the true story of Baycon in Ginjer Buchanan's "I've Had No Sleep and I Must Giggle", this is your chance. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; More material provided by Kerry Kyle and scanned by Joe Siclari:; Issue 2 of the Jack Baltadonis fanzine, Fantasy Herald. Hecto!; Issue 12 of the International Observer of Science and Science Fiction. Editors were John Michel, Fred Pohl and Donald A. Wollheim.; We also have more newszines today. There are 5 issues from the early 60s of the British newszine by Ron Bennett, Skyrack, along with the last issue of Mike Ward's Winnie. There's also issue 151 of Ansible.
July 10, 2017: Kerry Kyle has provided us with some choice 1930s publications to scan. Thanks to Kerry, and to the scanning of Joe Siclari, we have added:; Issue 1 of the Fantasy Amateur from 1938, the official organ of the Fantasy Amateur Press Association (FAPA). FAPA is the oldest and longest running fan APA. Check out the membership list on page 3. It's a who's who of the era. First editor? Fred Pohl.; Issue 1 of The Atom, a 1937 fanzine by Richard Wilson.; Arcturus 8 from 1936.; Issue 1 of James Taurasi's Cosmic Tales Quarterly (1937).; Issue 1 of the Bulletin of the Leeds Science Fiction League. After a few issues, news of Leeds was to be found in the Futurian.; Issue 1 of Weir's Fantasmagoria (1937).; Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #34.5 (5.3 MB), #35.1 (5.1 MB), and #383 (8.7 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
July 6, 2017: More fan news of WWII. Today, we added 25 issues of FanewsCard from 1944 and 1945. Most of them are issues between #64 and #91. All scanning thanks to Joe Siclari. Thanks Joe!; One more issue of Andrew Porter's Degler too. It's #252, and scanning is by Mark Olson.
July 4, 2017: David Speakman sent us 22 issues of Tightbeam, ranging from 1962 to 2014. This is an NFFF production. Thanks David!; Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #33.1 (5.5 MB), #33.5 (5.2 MB), and #381 (4.8 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
July 3, 2017: Today, we added the July issue of Leybl Botwinik's CyberCozen. Thanks, Leybl!; George Phillies sent us a PDFs of the issue June 2017 issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's Tightbeam. Thanks George.; Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #34.1 (3.6 MB), #34 (5.1 MB), and #382 (8.7 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
June 23, 2017: George Phillies sent us a PDFs of June 2017's issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's The National Fantasy Fan. Thanks George.
June 20, 2017: Newszines! Another 10 issues of QX from 1944, including the first 5 issues. Scanning thanks to Joe Siclari. News of the day, including what's being published, and fannish wartime stories.
June 19, 2017: Back we go to newszines. Thanks to the scanning of Joe Siclari, we have added 7 more issues of QX from 1944 to January, 1945. The first line of the last January issue - "Ye Ed in infant ry".
June 18, 2017: More Eastercon publications, still thanks to the scanning of John Bray. Today, we have added pubs from Concourse (2004) and from Contemplation (2007). Thanks John!
June 17, 2017: Started adding Eastercon publications, thanks to the scanning of John Bray. To begin with we have pubs from Dysprosium (2015) and from Mancunicon (2016). Thanks John!
June 13, 2017: Added the latest issue of John Thiel's Ionisphere. Thanks!; Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #32 (4.2 MB), #33 (4.5 MB), and #380 (6.8 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
June 6, 2017: New photos and photo caption updates are being added all the time. In the last week, Joe Siclari has corrected and updated a number of captions, new MAC2 photos were added thanks to Rich Lynch and Thomas Recktenwald, and photo updates were supplied by Amy Wolfthal. Thanks, all!; Today, we added the June issue of Leybl Botwinik's CyberCozen. Thanks, Leybl!
June 5, 2017: Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #31 (4.7 MB), #31.1 (5.1 MB), and #379 (5.3 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
May 30, 2017: Added some photos from the Fan History program from last weekend's Balticon. Thanks to Balticon Fan GoH Geri Sullivan for arranging it.; Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #29.1(4.0 MB), #29.2 (1.6 MB), #29.5 (2.4 MB), #29 (2.3 MB), and #378 (3.8 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
May 25, 2017: George Phillies sent us a PDFs of May 2017's issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's The National Fantasy Fan. Thanks George.
May 20, 2017: Added PR6 for Noreascon 3, the 1989 Worldcon. Scanning by Mark Olson.
May 19, 2017: Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #28.1B (5.5 MB), #28.5.pdf (5.2 MB), and #377 (8.6 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
May 18, 2017: We've started listing our contributors on the website. If you've contributed to FANAC.ORG, or Fancyclopedia, or sent us materials for the Youtube channel, then you should be there. We're not done yet, but if you're not listed and should be, please let us know. If you're listed and would prefer not to be, then let us know that too. There are many fans that have contributed scanning, photos, identified people in photos or corrected information, written articles for Fancy3, sat at the FANAC table at conventions, done interviews, etc. This is a community effort. Take a look at our community!
May 17, 2017: More newszines today, this time from 1969 and 1970. We added issues 2, 6, 10, and 11 of Winnie, edited by Michael Ward. Scanning by Mark Olson.
May 16, 2017: Added 6 more issues of Fantasy Newsletter from 1981 and 1982. Here you'll find columns by Fritz Leiber, Bob Weinberg and others. Issue 44 and 45 were edited by Bob Collins, and published by Florida Atlantic University. Scans for these issues by Mark Olson.
May 15, 2017: Remember the 60s? Remember 1963 very well? If not, then you can check out Issue 3 of the Science Fiction Yearbook. This was edited by the James Taurasi and Frank Prieto, the fans that brought us Science Fiction Times. Scanning by Ned Brooks.
May 14, 2017: Added 4 Progress Reports and a flyer on the Willis Fund from the 1961 Worldcon, Seacon. Scanning from Mark Olson. Thanks Mark!; Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #28 (5.4 MB), #28.1A (5.3 MB), and #376 (5.4 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
May 12, 2017: The run of Mad 3 Party is now complete. With scanning by Mark Olson, the last 12 issues have been added. This is the zine (winner of the 1990 Hugo for Best Fanzine) that started as part of bidding for Noreascon 3, and morphed into worldcon planning once the bid was won. Thanks Mark!
May 9, 2017: Were you at Aussiecon I in 1975? If you answered no (and I did), then catch our latest Youtube upload. We are happy to have provided video of Ursula K. Le Guin's Guest of Honor speech. It's a funny, thoughtful speech covering the state of the field, the place of women writers, her own experiences and her hopes for science fiction. There are more than a few zingers too. You also get Le Guin in a propeller beanie. Enjoy! Thanks to S.C.I.F.I. for digitizing, and to Elayne Pelz for providing us the footage.; Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #26.2, #27, and #375 (7.0 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. He has also updated the Cumulative Index to cover issues through #375. Thanks Dale!
May 4, 2017: Added the May issue of Leybl Botwinik's CyberCozen. Thanks, Leybl.; We have added the latest issue of the Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society's newsletter The MT Void, Vol. 35, No. 44, that was sent to us by Mark and Evelyn Leeper. Thank you both
April 29, 2017: Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #26 (5.1 MB), #26.1 (5.4 MB), and #374 (7.0 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.; Added Taral's Rat Sass 4. Thanks Taral.; George Phillies sent us a PDF of the National Fantasy Fan Federation's latest Tightbeam. Thanks George. This is an N3F publication, edited by Bob Jennings.; Added the April issue of Leybl Botwinik's CyberCozen. Thanks, Leybl.
April 14, 2017: Dale Speirs sent us a PDF of issue #373 (3.6 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
April 12, 2017: Did you realize that Harry Harrison was a comics artist as well as a science fiction writer? Check out our latest Youtube upload, the comics panel from Baycon (1968). This audio recording with images features moderator Paul Moslander with Marv Wolfman and Harry Harrison. Harry is a fabulous story teller, talking about EC Comics, Bill Gaines, and the story of the comic that was almost published as the "Man with No Balls At All" among other things. Marv was just at the beginning of his career, with all the accomplishments at DC and Marvel to come, and talks about the state of the contemporary comics scene. Thanks to Tom Whitmore and Pacifica Radio for the recording, and to Mark Olson for format processing.; The MT Void, Vol. 35, No. 41, that was sent to us by Mark and Evelyn Leeper. Thank you both
April 4, 2017: Remember Noreascon 3? Now you can refresh your memories by looking at the Noreascon 3 Memory Book. Scanning courtesy of N3 Chair, Mark Olson. Thanks Mark!
April 3, 2017: Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #23.1Bi (1.6 MB), #23.5 (5.5 MB), #25 (5.1 MB), and #372 (4.2 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Issue 23.1 Bi is a Parody issue from 1995! Thanks Dale.
April 2, 2017: George Phillies sent us a PDFs of March 2017's issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's The National Fantasy Fan. Thanks George.; The MT Void, Vol. 35, No. 40, that was sent to us by Mark and Evelyn Leeper. Thank you both; Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #371 (5.6 MB), #41 (4.6 MB), and #53.1A (5.3 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
March 22, 2017: Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #22.5 (5.6 MB), #23.1A (5.7 MB), and #23.1B (5.2 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
March 15, 2017: Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #21.1 (5.5 MB), #22.1 (5.3 MB), and #370 (3.9 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
March 8, 2017: Added 13 more issues of Fantasy Newsletter from 1979 and 1980. Scanning courtesy of Mark Olson. Thanks Mark!; Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #20 (1.2 MB), #20.2 (729.1 KB), and #21 (5.5 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
March 3, 2017: Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #19.1 (5.5 MB), #19.5 (5.6 MB), and #369 (5.0 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.; Added the March issue of Leybl Botwinik's CyberCozen. Thanks, Leybl!
March 1, 2017: Woot! Another fabulous piece of video from the Video Archeology team. Here is "Gonad the Barbarian", presented at MidAmeriCon, the 1976 Worldcon, by Duck's Breath Mystery Theatre before they famous. If you are a Conan fan, or if you're not, this is worth watching. There are great sketches afterwards as well, my favorite being the recreation of famous pieces of art. Thanks to Geri Sullivan, David Dyer-Bennet, Scott Imes, Jeff Schalles and others, we have another piece of delightful video history. Thanks!
February 28, 2017: Today's additions: Issue 2 of the west coast newszine Sanders from February 1971, edited by David Nee, and scanned by Joe Siclari.; Five issues of Fantasy Review (UK), edited by Walter Gillings from 1949/1950. Fantasy Review was retitled Science-Fantasy Review with issue 16. The last issue of Science-Fantasy Review as a fanzine was #18. Science-Fantasy Review was incorporated into the first issue of the prozine Science-Fantasy, published in July, 1950. It continued to be edited by Walter Gillings. All scanning by Joe Siclari. Thanks Joe!
February 25, 2017: Added two more issues of Convention, Andy Porter's fanzine of news for convention planners (circa 1970). Scanning by Mark Olson. Thanks Mark and Andy!; George Phillies sent us a PDF of the National Fantasy Fan Federation's latest Tightbeam. Thanks George. This is an N3F publication, edited by Bob Jennings.; 1970. Akos was edited by Eli Cohen and Janet Megson (aka Janet Kagan). Thanks Eli!; We have added the latest issue of the Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society's newsletter The MT Void, Vol. 35, No. 35, that was sent to us by Mark and Evelyn Leeper. Thank you both
February 22, 2017: Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #18 (5.0 MB), #19 (5.5 MB), and #368 (4.3 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.; We've added more of Andrew Porter's zines today. First, two issues of Chronicle, a predecessor to SF Chronicle, but this one is focused on fannish news only. Second, three issues of Convention news for convention planners. Chronicle is from 1973, and Convention began in 1969.; These are scanned by Mark Olson, as are the 92 issues of Degler we put up today, beginning with issue 108.
February 21, 2017: George Phillies sent us a PDFs of February 2017's issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's The National Fantasy Fan. Thanks George.
February 20, 2017: More Video Archeology footage! in 1976. Before the film was released, before Star Wars and George Lucas were household names, producer Gary Kurtz, star Mark Hamill and marketing director Charles Lippincott came to MidAmeriCon to promote Star Wars. This Q&A session is full of fascinating background information about the film, the filming and the attitudes of the Star Wars team. Thanks to Geri Sullivan and David Dyer-Bennet for all their hard work and to Jeff Schalles for storing this material. Remember, you can find all our Youtube videos at http://youtube.com/c/FanacFanHistory.; Added the February issue of Leybl Botwinik's CyberCozen. Thanks!; Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #16.5 (5.5 MB), #17 (5.3 MB), and #17.1 (5.5 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
February 12, 2017: Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #15 (4.6 MB), #16 (5.0 MB), and #367 (7.3 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
February 9, 2017: Thanks to your interest, we've reached a milestone. We now have 105 subscribers and a readable URL for our Youtube channel. The url is easy -- it's youtube.com/c/FanacFanhistory. More audio and video coming up soon, so please subscribe or watch here for notice of new uploads.; Today we've posted an interesting late 40s fanzine from the UK. Full of reviews and some news as well, Walter Gillings' Fantasy Review is a window on the preoccupations of UK fandom in the time period. Twelve issues now available here.; Ever notice just how many newszines were being published during the 40s? Today, thanks to the scanning of Sam McDonald, we have 6 more issues of Julius Unger's Fantasy Fiction Field from the early 40s, including the 10 page Denvention issue. Thanks Sam!; Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #13.5 (5.2 MB), #14 (5.1 MB), and #14.5 (5.5 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
February 8, 2017: A decade and continent spanning collection of newly scanned and uploaded fanzines for you today.; First, we have 7 more of Mike Glyer's File 700's for you from 1987, including the 10th anniversary issue. If you want to get a feel for what that period was like, check out the inside front cover and the inside back cover of that anniversary issue.; We have completed the (short) run of Dave Kyle's 1937 fanzine, Fantasy World, aka Phantasy World. This was one of the first comics fanzines, and we've added the last issue.; For a little hoax with your news, we give you Panac 99. Read it and learn how LASFS was to have a fan column in the Times.; More wartime reporting, with issue 4 of Phan. Fandom was much smaller. News of the day had to do with who was travelling, who was coming home from the wars and who was going to college and where.; The first issue of Ron Ellik's Starspinkle has been added. The "...bi-weekly news and chitter-chatter fanzine" was started in 1962.; Down under contribution for today is two 1948 issues of The Sydney Futurian. This news and clubzine has a very earnest feel to it, and it's interesting to compare to zines from the US from the same period.; One more Thyme. Mark Olson has scanned issue 136 from 2002 for us.; And finally, we have added 18 more issues of Andrew Porter's apazine Degler from 1965-1966.
February 5, 2017: Six more of Alan Stewart's Thymes today thanks to the scanning of Mark Olson. You can now find issues 129 (1999) through 135 (2001) online for your reading pleasure.
February 4, 2017: Added the January issue of Leybl Botwinik's CyberCozen and the latest issue of John Thiel's Ionisphere. Thanks!
January 31, 2017: Today is about the early-mid 60s. We're filling the VOIDs for one thing. Check it out - amond other issues, we've added the three part fifth annish and the Willish which is completely about or by Walt Willis and was used to help kick off the special fan fund to bring him to the 1962 Chicon. Altogether there are 5 issues newly up today.; We've also added our earliest Youtube entry so far. From Loncon II, the 1965 Worldcon we have the Banquet speeches featuring Guest of Honor Brian Aldiss. It also features Robert Bloch commenting on fandom, Arthur C. Clarke talking about working with Stanley Kubrick, TAFF winner Terry Carr, and Forry Ackerman giving the Big Heart award to Walter Ernsting. I was vastly entertained to hear the 1965 version of Robert Silverberg giving out the Hugos. It took 6 minutes!
January 29, 2017: More Tucker! Today, we added issue 8 of Tucker's Le Zombie from 1939.; Added 11 more issues of the Alan Stewart's Australian newszine Thyme from 1997 - 1999. Scanning courtesy of Mark Olson. Thanks Mark!; Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #13 (5.1 MB) and #366 (5.6 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.; Added Taral's Rat Sass 3. Thanks Taral.
January 23, 2017: Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #12 (4.9 MB), #12.1 (5.4 MB), and #365 (2.4 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
January 17, 2017: Added a number of photos from AussieCon 4, courtesy of Thomas Recktenwald. Thanks Thomas!; Thanks to Joe Siclari's scanning, today we've added two more VOIDs. Edited by Greg Benford, Terry Carr, Pete Graham and Ted White, issue 26 has artwork by Steve Stiles, Bhob Stewart, Bill Rotsler, Ray Nelson and more. Issue 28 has articles by the esteemed editors, and a few others you may have heard of, including Avram Davidson.; We've added a "recent" newszine today. with 17 issues of Paul Allen's Fantasy Newsletter. Paul Allen started this in 1978 and handed it over to Robert Collins in 1980.
January 12, 2017: Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #11.1 (5.1 MB), #11.5 (5.1 MB), and #364 (3.3 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
January 11, 2017: Everyone has heard of Nydahl's disease, right? After putting out a 100 page anniversary issue of his fanzine Vega, he was so burned out that he gafiated. Today we've added issue 4, and the fabulous annish. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; Before there was Speculation there was Zenith Speculation. We've added 2 issues of Pete Weston's zine from 1965 and 1966. Scanning by John Boston.
January 10, 2017: We're all very sorry to hear of the death of Peter Weston, the 2004 Noreascon 4 Guest of Honor, and a friend to many reading this. Today, through the courtesy of the scanning of John Boston, we bring you 13 additional issues of his Hugo nominated fanzine, Speculation. There are fabulous contributors here -- folks like James Blish, Larry Niven, John Brunner and more. There's also an issue there of Speculaton Data, with news and other material not normally in Speculation.; Thanks to the scanning of Mark Olson, we've added 5 more issues of Alan Stewart's fanzine Thyme. Check the index for issues 113 - 117 from the 90s, and see what the news was in Australia.; Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #63.5B (5.1 MB), #64.1B (5.6 MB), and #64.1C (5.1 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
January 8, 2017: Another wonderful video today, this one from the Video Archeology folks. Today's blast from the past is a fanzine panel from the 1976 Worldcon, MidAmeriCon. Featuring Moshe Feder, Patrick Hayden (aka Patrick Nielsen Hayden), Victoria Vayne, Gary Farber, Linda Bushyager (moderator), Jon Singer, and Taral, this video is a detailed look at fanzine mimeography. It has a brief but fabulous segment with Jon imitating a mimeo, and is rich with the details of how faneds produced those priceless zines. Thanks to Geri Sullivan and David Dyer-Bennet for the Video Archeology program, and to Jeff Schalles for keeping these recordings safe through the decades.
January 4, 2017: We've added 13 issues and now have the complete run of Fanscient on line. This Donald B. Day fanzine from the late 40s, early 50s, boasts contributors such as David Keller, MD, artist Jon Arfstrom, Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury and Anthony Boucher. Scanning by Joe Siclari, with one issue by Tom Veal.
January 3, 2017: Continuing our push to add VOID issues, today thanks to Joe Siclari's scanning, we've put up issues 19, 20 and from 1960, issue 21.; Another Thyme, thanks to Mark Olson's scanning. We have added issue 112 from 1996. Check it out -- there's an issue of Ian Gunn's Artychoke in this issue.
January 2, 2017: Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #363 (6.6 MB), #64A (5.1 MB), and #64B (5.4 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
January 1, 2017: Happy New Year! If this time doesn't suit you, then how about some Thyme? Today we added issue 111 of Alan Stewart's Thyme from 1996, scanning by Mark Olson.
December 27, 2016: Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #362 (4.7 MB), #63.1E (4.9 MB), #63.3 (5.1 MB), and #63.5A (5.1 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
December 26, 2016: George Phillies sent us a PDF of the National Fantasy Fan Federation's latest Tightbeam. Thanks George.; We've put up issue 3 of Bob Madle's Fantascience Digest. This is a 1938 issue from a stalwart of First Fandom (and in fact, the first leader of the organization). First Fandom has a distinctive triangular membership patch and the motto, "First Fandom is not dead, only doddering." For more, see the Fancyclopedia.org article on First Fandom.
December 25, 2016: Added Thyme 110, the Australian newszine. This issue is from 1996 and comes to us through Mark Olson's scanning prowess. Thanks Mark.; We've added the Guest of Honor Speeches by Jack Williamson (partial audio) & Bob Madle (complete audio) for Suncon, the 1977 Worldcon on our Youtube channel. Jack tells how he found science fiction and became a writer, and Bob talks about his fannish career. This is an audio recording embellished with photos. You can find it here.; We have added the latest issue of the Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society's newsletter The MT Void, Vol. 35, No. 26, that was sent to us by Mark and Evelyn Leeper. Thank you both; More Australian news today. Through the efforts of Mark Olson and his scanner, we have added 4 1995/1996 issues of Thyme. Thanks Mark!; We have added the latest issue of the Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society's newsletter The MT Void, Vol. 35, No. 26, that was sent to us by Mark and Evelyn Leeper. Thank you both
December 21, 2016: George Phillies sent us a PDFs of December 2016's issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's The National Fantasy Fan. Thanks George.
December 20, 2016: Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #10.5A (5.5 MB), #10.5B (5.3 MB), #11 (2.6 MB), and #361 (6.3 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.; Nostalgic for the 1970s? For your reading pleasure, today we have 10 issues of Luna Monthly from 1972 - 1976. Scanning provided by Mark Olson; thanks, Mark!
December 15, 2016: Another Youtube extravaganza! Today we uploaded FAANS, a video produced in in 1983 by Larry Tucker. Featuring Roger Sims and a multitude of midwest fans this "mystery" story of hotel detective Mundane at his first convention is full of fun and contemporary jokes and references. Please subscribe to the Youtube Channel if you haven't already. Once we have another 23 subscribers, we can get our vanity URL!
December 14, 2016: More newszines coming your way. First, thanks to the scanning of Joe Siclari, we have 2 more issues of Fanews, both multipage. Issue 338 is from the end of 1947, and the big issue is the fourth anniversary issue also from 1947.; Mark Olson has been busy scanning as well. From him we have an additional 8 issues of Luna from 1970 and 71. One of these is a double issue, from May-June 71. Thanks Mark!; Added 4 issues of Bob Tucker's Le Zombie. Thanks to the scanning of Joe Siclari, you can read issues 37, 41, 65 and 67.
December 13, 2016: Continuing our plan to have the complete run of VOID online, today we've added issues 10, 17, and 18. Issue 10 is edited by Greg and Jim Benford, and the other two by Greg Benford and Ted White, with scanning of all issues by Joe Siclari.
December 8, 2016: This week's Youtube addition is the oldest one yet. Today we added a unique panel discussion from Baycon, the 26th WorldCon. This entertaining, funny recording of the the panel "Remembrance of Things Past" features personal anecdotes about Lovecraft and writing for the pulps. Here's your chance to hear stories about Lovecraft (and Robert E. Howard), from Fritz Leiber, Robert Bloch, Edmond Hamilton, Emil Petaja, E. Hoffman Price, and Jack Williamson, with accompanying photos. The panel is moderated by Baycon co-chair Alva Rogers (who wrote Requium For Astounding). This excellent recording is courtesy of the Pacifica Radio Archives. Thanks to Tom Whitmore for providing the material and getting permission from Pacifica Radio Archives. Contact Pacifica Radio Archives to purchase a CD. Thanks also to Mark Olson for audio formatting. If you enjoy this, please subscribe to the FANAC YouTube channel.
December 6, 2016: We've added 3 issues of the Alberta Science Fiction Society fanzine from 1971-1972, courtesy of Dale Speirs. You can find them at either Alta-Ego or at Great Nor'Western News. There are some familiar names in the ToC, including Mike Glicksohn, Susan Glicksohn (Wood), and John Mansfield. Thanks, Dale!; George Phillies sent us a PDFs of Issue 2 of Ionisphere, the Bulletin of the National Fantasy Fan Federation Fan-Pro Coordinating Activity. Thanks George.; Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #10 (5.0 MB), #360 (3.7 MB), #9.1 (4.8 MB), and #9.5 (5.4 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
November 30, 2016: More newszines. Lots more newszines. Thanks to the scanning efforts of Joe Siclari, we have put up 35 issues of Andrew Porter's SF Weekly from mid 67 to mid 68. Headlines include "Hugo Gernsback Dead" and "SFWA Settles with Sol Cohen of Ultimate Publications".; We also put up 4 hoaxzines of the UK newszine Skyrack. Publication dates like May 35 should tell you when you're not reading the news.; In honor of Smofcon, due to start imminently in Chicago, we have posted the first flyer for the first SMOFcon. Started in 1984 by co-chairs Joe Siclari, Theresa Renner and Ben Yalow, this convention has done wonders for the standard of operations for science fiction conventions. I have personally seen a concom change their minds about running a local convention after attending a Smofcon and realizing how ill prepared they were to do so.; To continue yesterday's newszine focus, today we have posted 2 more issues of Luna Monthly from 1970. Issues 10 and 11 await your reading pleasure. All the Lunas have been scanned by Mark Olson.; We've also put up another 9 issues of Ron Bennett's newszine from the UK, Skyrack. Issues range from 1963 to 1966. All the Skyracks have been scanned by Joe Siclari.Soon to come -- hoax zines for this newszine.
November 29, 2016: Headlines getting you down? There is plenty of news waiting for you in the past. Today, we've added 3 more issues of Luna Monthly, from December 1969 - February 1970. Scans are courtesy of Mark Olson. Read about Isaac Asimov's "To Tell the Truth" appearance in Issue 7, or about Seabury Quinn in Issue 9. What a difference a handful of decades makes.; Do you feel the need for a good tendril-session? Do you miss the Wheels of IF? Has someone asked you to join their Cosmic Circle? If you have no idea what these words mean, then you need to understand Fanspeak. Enjoy this expanded version of Art Rapp's glossary, as published in 1952 by Lee Hoffman and Redd Boggs.; Another tidbit today from the Video Archeology crew. Thanks to Geri Sullivan, David Dyer-Bennet, Jeff Schalles and others, we have some Minneapolis fandom film that was used on the closed circuit channel at Big MAC in 1976. Welcome to Know the Hotel Staff, a film made "in cooperation with the Institute for Transtemporal Fannish Studies".
November 25, 2016: Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #359 (3.6 MB), #67 (5.1 MB), #67.1A (5.4 MB), and #67.1C (5.1 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
November 22, 2016: George Phillies sent us a PDFs of November 2016's issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's The National Fantasy Fan. Thanks George.
November 17, 2016: Comics? Early comics? We added two issues of David A. Kyle's early fanzine Fantasy World. This is one of the earliest (1936) comics fanzines.; We added 4 newszines today, ranging from 1940 to 1968. All scans by Joe Siclari (and thanks Joe!).; -- The April 1940 issue of MidWest News & Views, edited by Mark Reinsberg.; -- A May 1968 issue of SF Weekly, edited by Andrew Porter.; -- Two issues of the German SF Times from 1961.; Another Video Archeology piece is now up on Youtube. A very young Joe Haldeman sings "Stan Long".; An interesting artifact added today. Thanks to Kerry Kyle, we have added a diary/autograph book from Dave Kyle's 1965 trip to England for the British Worldcon, Loncon 2.
November 15, 2016: Added a number of photos from World Fantasy 2016. Taken by Frank Olynyk, these are photos of the author/artist autograph session. Thanks Frank!; Added two issues of Taral Wayne's new fanzine, Rat Sass. Thanks Taral!
November 12, 2016: Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #358 (4.1 MB), #8.1 (5.2 MB), #8.5 (5.2 MB), and #9 (5.2 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
November 9, 2016: On our Youtube channel, we've added an audio recording with images of the Guest of Honor speeches from Noreascon 2, the 1980 Worldcon. Bob Silverberg, as Toastmaster, gives great introductions, including a story about working with editor Damon Knight. Damon Knight's talk is full of life history and anecdotes including how he ended up with the Futurians ("Fred Pohl saved my life"). Kate Wilhelm's talk is a serious discussion of the nature of our reality. Several photos provided by Leslie Turek and by Andrew Porter. The photos from the Program Book were taken by Jay Kay Klein.; Added a few images for Noreascon 2. These are primarily PR covers and a few Guest of Honor pictures from the program book. Photos were taken by the estimable Jay Kay Klein.; Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #44.1B.pdf (5.0 MB), #7.1 (5.0 MB), #7.5 (5.3 MB), and #8 (5.0 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
November 7, 2016: Courtesy of the Video Archeology program, we've added another MidAmeriCon(1976) Worldcon panel. My Favorite World Tomorrow features Jerry Pournelle, Spider Robinson, Arsen Darnay, Jim Baen and Karl T. Pflock. Each of the panelists (except for Jim Baen) talks about a future. Jim provides editorial comment. Arsen contributes a somewhat mystical "favorite tomorrow", with the others staking out very different futures. The guideline was to predict at least 50 years out, which would make these visions no earlier than 2026. Hey that's only 10 years away.; Added the current issue of CyberCozen. Thanks, Leybl!; George Phillies has sent us the current issue of Askance, a genzine by John Purcell. Thanks George and John!
November 4, 2016: Added some photos for the 1971 Worldcon, Noreascon. These are taken from the Noreascon Proceedings, and were from the talented camerawork of Jay Kay Klein.
November 1, 2016: Added issue 20 of Sanders from June 1972.; Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #357 (5.5 MB), #67.1E (5.3 MB), #67.1F (5.6 MB), and #67.3 (4.9 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
October 31, 2016: Filling in the blanks on the newszines. Here's an opportunity to find out what the movers and shakers of UK fandom were talking about in the 50's. We've added 4 issues of Vince Clarke's Science Fantasy News, "Fandom's answer to The Times". If you're not familiar with Vince Clarke, check out the article in FANCYCLOPEDIA.ORG .; Today we added 3 issues of Mike Glyer's File 770, with 2 from 1987 and one from 1993. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; We also added an issue of Andrew Porter's Science Fiction Chronicle from January, 1980.; Ready for more comic fandom news? Today we added 2 issues of Don and Maggie Thompson's Newfangles from 1971. The March issue marks the 10th anniversary of comics fandom, and the fifth anniversary of Newfangles.
October 30, 2016: Thanks to Bill Burns for the scanning, we've added 14 issues of Fanews Card from 1944 and 1945. Thanks!
October 27, 2016: And now for something completely different. Check out the short video, Ms. Marian's Bedtime Story, we've posted on our Youtube channel. This was created in the summer of 1976 to be used as filler on the MidAmeriCon closed circuit channel in the hotels. It's a fannish life, suitable for children.
October 26, 2016: Some MidAmeriCon (1976) history for you today. We've added another of the daily newsletters, Bullsheet#0, which was distributed before the convention. We've also added the Hugo voting tallies, which according to Ken Keller, have not been published before now. You can find them on the MidAmeriCon publications page. So if you always wanted to know just how large Joe Haldeman's margin of victory was for THE FOREVER WAR, here's a chance to find out.
October 25, 2016: Added another issue of Shards of Babel from 1983. This is a newszine from the Netherlands.; Time for more VOID! Added 4 more issues of Greg Benford and Ted White's fanzine (from 14 to 16.5), and have included at the end the original LOC from Rick Sneary. Here's a chance to see what Greg and Ted excerpted from the letter to print in issue 16.5.; Added about 175 photos from Loncon 3. Most of these are individual shots taken at the autograph sessions. Thanks to Frank Olynyk for the photos!; George Phillies sent us a PDFs of October 2016's issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's The National Fantasy Fan. Thanks George.
October 23, 2016: So far today, we've added three 1979 issues of Andrew Porter's Science Fiction Chronicle, with scans by Joe Siclari.; We've also added an unusual piece done for FAPA 61. It's Fen Crittur Comical Books, with original story by Walt Willis and Bob Shaw, and with drawings by Bob Shaw assisted by Vince Clarke. Scanning was done by Andrew Porter. Thanks Andy!
October 20, 2016: George Phillies sent us a PDFs of MONTH YEAR's issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's The National Fantasy Fan. Thanks George.; Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #356 (4.2 MB), #68 (5.4 MB), #68.1A (5.2 MB), and #68.1B (5.0 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
October 18, 2016: We've posted a video of the Constellation Masquerade on our Youtube channel here. This video was briefly up a month ago, but blocked because of a copyrighted bit of music used by one group of contestants (and it was also wrongly identified as Bucky at that time). Thanks to Kathi Overton, the offending music has been silenced. See costuming state-of-the-art circa 1983; hear the explanation of the judging approach; check it out. Please subscribe to the channel if you haven't already done so. When we get another 40 subscribers, we can get an easy to remember URL for the channel.; Sam McDonald has provided us with scans for 14 more issues of Fantasy Fiction Field from 1941 - 1945, along with much improved pages for several other issues. Thanks Sam! Your scans are very much appreciated.; We've added an issue of Ahrvid Engholm's e-zine Intermission.; John Thiel is starting Ionisphere as a TNFF Bulletin publication for the Fan-Pro Co-ordination activity of the N3F. First issue has an interview with Adam-Troy Castro.; We have added the latest issue of the Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society's newsletter The MT Void, Vol. 35, No. 16, that was sent to us by Mark and Evelyn Leeper. Thank you both
October 13, 2016: Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #354 (5.2 MB), #355 (4.2 MB), #68.1C (5.6 MB), #68.3 (5.2 MB), #6.5 (4.9 MB), and #7 (4.5 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.; Another outstanding video from the Video Archeology Project! Today, we have posted a video captured at MidAmeriCon, the 1976 Worldcon, with George Barr's Fan Guest of Honor speech, and with many tributes to Robert Heinlein by folks like Alfred Bester, Fred Pohl, Bob Tucker, Jerry Pournelle, L. Sprague de Camp, Larry Niven and George Scithers. You can find it here on our Fanac Fanhistory Youtube Channel. Thanks to David Dyer-Bennet and to Geri Sullivan.; George Phillies sent us a PDF of the new issue of the National Fantasy Fan Federation's Tightbeam edited by Bob Jennings. Thanks George.
September 20, 2016: More news! Added 3 Skyracks from 1959 and 1960. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; Added about a dozen MidAmericon 2 photos provided by Rich Lynch. Thanks Rich!; George Phillies sent us a PDFs of September 2016's issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's The National Fantasy Fan. Thanks George.
September 18, 2016: Added the first two issues of Fantasy Fiction Field, from the collection of (and scanned by) Tom Whitmore. Thanks Tom!; Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #18.5 (5.6 MB) and #353 (12.6 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
September 17, 2016: Taral Wayne sent us a PDF (11.2 MB) of his Perzine Broken Toys 50 which we have added to the Broken Toys index. Thanks Taral.
September 16, 2016: Hooray for the fen that are filling in the blanks! Today, we've put up 14 issues of Fantasy Fiction Field from 1940 and 1944. They come from the collection of Tom Whitmore, with scanning by Joe Siclari. If you see gaps that you can fill in our Newszines or other areas, please let me know at fanac@fanac.org . I can send you a dropbox link for the scans or we can perhaps make arrangements to do the scanning. Thanks Tom, and thanks Joe!; Another issue of VOID is up. Here's the VOID 9 with a spiffy ATom cover. Scanning by Joe Siclari.
September 14, 2016: We've now added the Newszine index to the site. If you were at MidAmericon 2, you may have visited the FANAC table and learned about our newszine collection. Now, you can access it from anywhere easily. Thanks to Mark Olson for the index and the impressive scanning feats of Ned Brooks, Mark Olson and Joe Siclari, we have a substantial number of zines that provide a contemporary take on the news of the day. You can find them here.; Added a flock of Andrew Porter's APAzine Degler from 1964 - 1965. All together, we put up 78 short issues.; Also put up 2 issues of Andy's Science Fiction Chronicle, from November and December of 1980.
September 11, 2016: Several "new" fanzines (and one new one) today. We've added 3 more issues (circa 1956) of Void, with scanning by Joe Siclari. We've added 2 more 1939 issues of VOM courtesy of Bob Madle, and with scanning by Joe Siclari. We've also added a new issue of Tightbeam! from the National Fantasy Fan Federation, edited by Bob Jennings.; Several more MAC2 photos today, from Joe Siclari and Mark Olson.
September 10, 2016: We've added a 2004 video of David Hartwell interviewing David Drake on the youtube channel. You can access it here. If you're not already a subscriber to the channel, what are you waiting for?
September 9, 2016: Starting to get some photos up from this year's worldcon, MidAmeriCon 2. So far we have about 40 photos, taken by Frank Olynyk, and a couple by Geri Sullivan. Thanks Frank, and thanks Geri! You can see them here.; Two more issues of VOM up today. The new ones are #1 and #4. There's also a VOM promo. Thanks to Bob Madle for loaning them to us for scanning, and thanks to Joe Siclari for the scanning.; We've put up an issue of the focal point fanzine VOID, by Greg and Jim Benford. More to come!; Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #352 (5.7 MB), #68.1D (5.4 MB), and #68.1E (5.4 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
September 7, 2016: We have another 8 issues of Algol on line, scanned by Mark Olson (thanks Mark!). These contain articles and art by folks like Ted White, Chip Delany, Steve Stiles, rich brown, Anne McCaffrey, and Fred Pohl. If you didn't read them when they came out (1960s), they're well worth your time now.; The current issue of CyberCozen is up too. Thanks, Leybl!; Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #351 (4.6 MB), #68.5B (6.0 MB), and #69 (4.4 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
September 5, 2016: Thanks to Sam McDonald, we have an additional 33 issues of Fantasy Times online. These issues range between #12 and #64. Thanks Sam!
August 26, 2016: We've posted an hour long interview with Alfred Bester on Youtube. This video is from the 1976 Worldcon, MidAmeriCon and was conducted by Ro Nagy. If you're looking for a funny, anecdote-filled, interesting way to spend an hour, this could be it. It's the first full length video we've posted from the Video Archeology Project, coordinated by Geri Sullivan, and with technical magic by David Dyer-Bennet. Thanks!
August 24, 2016: Thanks to those that came by the table at MidAmeriCon 2. We had a great turnout, and were able to showcase the newszines we've been scanning. More about this later!; Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #350 (4.9 MB), #69.1A (5.2 MB), and #69.1B (5.5 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.; George Phillies sent us a PDFs of August 2016's issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's The National Fantasy Fan. Thanks George.
August 9, 2016: As part of our newszine project, we've added several hundred more in the last few days. Come and see us at our table at MidAmericon 2, in the Fan Fair. Here are a few of the recent newszine highlights:; Ansible 180 issues; Australian SF News 45 issues; Axe 38 issues; fanzines/Barsoomian_Times 7 issues; fanzines/Bay_Area_News 2 issues; Bloomington Newsletter 11 issues; Fanew Sletter 12 issues; File 770 30 issues; Focal Point 14 issues; Futurian Observer 9 issues; Luna 40 issues; Nebula 7 issues; Newfangles 2 issues; Norstrilian News 2 issues; Organlegger 4 issues; Sanders 1 issue; Sanders 1 issue; Skyrack 5 issues
August 4, 2016: Some new, regional newszines have been added, and more issues of various fanzines all scanned by Joe Siclari.; You'll find 17 more of Dave Langford's Ansibles from 1981 - 1982, from the U.K.; 1 more of Mike Glyer's File 770s.; 5 more Focal Points from the mid-1960s, edited by rich brown and Mike McInerney.; 3 more of Jan Finder's Spang Blahs from the mid 70s.; 3 more of Larry Shaw's Nebulas from 1944.; 2 issues of Bay Area News from 1946, with, yes, news of the Bay Area.; 1 issue of David Nee's Sanders from 1972, with US western regional news.; 2 real issues and one hoax issue of Ron Bennett's Skyrack from Yorkshire.; 4 issues of one Mike Glyer's newszine before File 770. This one is Sylmarillion and it's from 1974.; 7 more issues (mid 90s)of the Australian newszine Thyme, these scanned by Mark Olson. Editor for these issues is Alan Stewart.; 14 issues of Michael Ward's Winnie from 1969 - 1971.; 2 issues of the Australian newszine Sweetness and Light, edited by Jack Herman.; 1 more issue of Ron Ellik's Starspinkle from 1963.; 15 more Fanews Card issues from the 1943 - 1944.; 1 issue of Scream from Birmingham, England, edited by David Sutton. This issue is from 1970.; 1 issue of John-Henri Holmberg's Swefanac, a newszine from a Swedish perspective. This issue is from 1964.; Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #349 (8.2 MB), #5.5 (4.7 MB), and #6 (4.4 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
August 2, 2016: Today we have 73 issues of more recent news. We've started putting up issues of Ansible. Permission courtesy of the estimable Dave Langford, and scans by Joe Siclari.
July 29, 2016: News, news and more news. Today's crop:; 12 issues of Luna primarily from 1972 - 1975, but with 2 from 1969.; 1 issue of Thyme, the Australian newzine.; 5 issues of Fanew Sletter, also Australian, from 1974.; 7 issues of Futurian Observer, also Australian from 1941. Sample headline: "Hoaxers Trick American Fandom"; 5 issues of Fantasy News from 1940. Sample headline: "Chicon Boys & Girls Had Fun".; 3 "extra" issues of Fantasy News ranging from 1944 to an editorial extra in 1950, and 1 flyer for their 3rd annish.; 8 issues of Axe from 1962 - 1963. Careful - I fell into this one for a while. Walt Willis trip report section in issue 36 was full of fun, and old friends.; 1 issue of Rally from 1967.; 1 issue of Spang Blah from the Summer of 77.; 1 issue of Mid-West Fan News from 1940.
July 28, 2016: "WEIRD TALES TO BE REVIVED", "AVRAM DAVIDSON TO WED". These and other items of news and propaganda can be found in the 30 issues of Axe edited by Larry and Noreen Shaw that we put online today. Axe was intended to raise money for the Willis fund, to bring Walt Willis from Ireland to the US.; "AUSTRALIAN FANDOM GOES TO WAR". This one is from issue 30 of Bert Castellari's Futurian Observer, an Australian newzine from the 40s. We've uploaded two issues from 1941 today.; Filling in some gaps, we also have added Tympany 1 from 1947, and 5 issues of Fantasy Fiction Field from 1942. Filling in another gap, we've uploaded issues 11 and 12 of Fanew Sletter.
July 27, 2016: What was the news in the exciting 1970s? Take a look at Luna, edited by Ann Dietz. We have 12 issues from 1972 - 1974, with news and interviews in the field. You'll find interviews with Andre Norton, Roger Zelazny, Keith Laumer and more. Scans by Mark Olson.
July 26, 2016: Still filling in the gaps today. Added 19 issues of Australian SF News, 18 of which are from the 1980s and 1 from 1992. This is the Merv Binns newszine focusing on, yes, Australian SF News.; Added 7 issues of Focal Point from 1965 (edited by Mike McInerney and rich brown).; Added 1 issue of Starspinkle, the Ron Ellik newszine.; Added one more issue of Rally today, this one from 1978.
July 25, 2016: Filling in a few things today. Added 7 issues of the Bruce Pelz fanzine, Ratatosk from 1965-1966.; Added 5 later issues of Fanews Card from 1945 - 1947.; A new fanzine for us, Focal Point added today. It was edited by rich brown and Mike McInerney. The 13 issues added today are from 1965 - 1966.; On the international scene, from the Netherlands, we added one issue of Shards of Babel, a regional newszine edited by Roelof Goudriaan from 1983.; Another singleton so far, we added one issue of Spang Blah, a newszine with international flair by jan finder. This issue is from 1977.; One more singleton today, with the addition of Tympany, issue 6, edited by Redd Boggs and Robert Stein.; We've added another 42 issues of Fantasy Fiction Field from 1941 - 1944. Sample headlines - "Doc Lowndes Released From Service; Couldn't Pass Medical Exam", "Bok Sells to Campbell!" and "Moskowitz Drafted!"
July 24, 2016: Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #348 (3.9 MB), #69.3 (5.5 MB), and #69.5 (4.8 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
July 23, 2016: A new (and very short) video is up on Youtube. This is a snippet from the Video Archeology Project, coordinated by Geri Sullivan. At the 1976 Worldcon, the release of Star Wars was featured with an exhibit, and appearances by Mark Hamill and film execs. This video is a preview of a featured discussion held in 1976 at the convention. The full video, along with many others produced by Scott Imes at the 1976 Worldcon will be shown at the 2016 Worldcon, MidAmeriCon 2. After the convention, the FANAC Fanhistory Channel will be hosting all the videos from MidAmericon thanks to the Video Archeology Project coordinated by Geri Sullivan. Subscribe to our channel! You'll be notified of new videos as we put them online.; Today's newszines are from 1941. We've put up 28 issues of Fantasy Fiction Field from that period. Sample headline: Wollheim reports Cosmian League Newest Pro Organization is Growing Leaps and Bounds.; We've put up two more Barsoomian Times and one more Fantasy Comics today for your reading pleasure.
July 22, 2016: News for you. Added 60 issues of Fantasy Fiction Field from 1942 - 1945. Con reports, obituaries, and so on from the days when everyone was a paper fan.
July 20, 2016: Happy Moon Landing Day! Today we have 9 more issues of Fantasy Fiction Field from 1942 and 1943 in the way of newszines.; If you want a more focused view of the news, check out Barsoomian Times and Fantasy Comics. More of these to come.
July 19, 2016: Three different continents are represented in today's score of newzines. First, from Australia, we have 14 issues from 1980 - 1982 of the Australian SF News. In 1982, an Australian author was GoH at the Worldcon in Chicago. Take a look at how his countrymen responded to that honor.; From the UK, we have 4 1939 issues of L.V. Heald's Science Fantasy Review. Their motto is "Science Fiction: Seeker of a Better To-morrow".; And from US, we have one additional newszine issue today. Issue 22 of Dick Wilson's Science Fiction Newsletter from April 1938 is now online.; George Phillies sent us a PDFs of July 2016's issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's The National Fantasy Fan. Thanks George.; to fans, leaving professional news to other zines. We have the run of 9 issues up. Over the course of the run, it was edited by Craig Miller, Elliot Weinstein, Glen Mitchell and Mike Glyer.; We have updated the Fanac Names Cross Reference. There are currently 23,656 names in these listings.
July 18, 2016: A newszine from Brooklyn put online today, from Julius Unger. Check out Fantasy Fiction Field issues from 1940-1941. Today we have put up 10 of them. Scanning by Joe Siclari.; More issues of Rally available as well today, with 2 from the '60s, and 8 from the '70s. Scanning by Joe Siclari.
July 17, 2016: It's our week for Australian newszines. We have 26 more issues of Fanew Sletter up, covering parts of Sept 1976 - Jan 78. Ever wonder how the Ditmar's are awarded? Here's a chance to learn more about the process. Take a look at the nomination form and explanatory material in issue 74.; It's really our week for Australian newszines. A new title has been put up today. Check out Merv Binns' newzine, Australian SF News. We have 12 issues from 1979 and 1980 online, with convention reports, the professional scene and more!; For your Retro Hugo reading pleasure, today we have put up a 1940 issue of Wiggin's Science Fiction Fan. This issue contains an article by Retro Hugo nominated fan writer, Harry Warner Jr. on Dracula. You can see the full list of Retro Hugo Fan materials here.; Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #347 (6.5 MB), #4.5 (4.9 MB), #5 (5.0 MB), and #70 (5.3 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
July 15, 2016: Australian newszines! Today, we've put up 43 issues of Fanew Sletter, Leigh Edmond's newzine. There's occasional supplementary material, including the Daily Newsletters from Aussiecon, and FanWords. Here's your chance to get a view of Australian fandom in the 70s.
July 14, 2016: For Bastille Day, we've put up the first 7 issues of Andy Porter's Algol. Algol received 6 nominations for the Best Fanzine Hugo, winning in 1974. By issue 7, contributors included Dave Van Arnam, rich brown, Richard Wilson and Steve Stiles.; One more newszine is up as well. Issue 40 of Dick Wilson's Science Fiction Newsletter from September 1938 is now online. It was pubbed on a mimeo; take a look - earlier issues online were hecto.
July 13, 2016: Today's newzine is Science Fiction Newscope, edited by Lawrence Ray Campbell. This zine is from the early 1950s, and reports pro and fan news. We've added 8 issues from 1951 and 1952.
July 11, 2016: 1930s and 1940s not your beat? Today we have some newszines from a later period. Take a look -- we've added 16 1960s issues of Rally, a "news and chatterzine with a Southern accent".; From the 70s, we've added 6 issues of Joyce and Arnie Katz's fanzine, Fiawol.; We've also added issue 77 of FANAC, giving us a complete run of this 1950s/1960s newszine.
July 10, 2016: Great stuff today. We've added a batch of Fantasy News, including 25 issues from 1939, and 4 from 1940. What was it like to be at the very first World Science Fiction Convention? Feel the joy and excitement in this contemporary report, here in issues 55, 56, and 57. That last one has a detailed description of the ballgame!; One of the fans nominated for Best Fan Writer in the Retro Hugos is Bob Tucker. We've added fanzines from a slightly later period than the Retros today, with all 15 issues (1945-1949) of the Bloomington Newsletter, and 12 issues (1950-1952) of the fanzine after it changed to Science Fiction Newsletter.; We've also added Le Zombie #5 from 1939.
July 8, 2016: Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #346 (6.1 MB) and #70.1C (5.5 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
July 7, 2016: Asimov sings! Added the third segment of the 1971 Hugos banquet to our Youtube channel. You can find it here. This features banter by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg,and also Asimov singing an original limerick.; Added two special editions of Starspinkle, towards the end of the run. Both the specials announce the broadcast of adaptations of Harlan Ellison stories. "Harlan Ellison wants you to watch television Saturday night."
July 6, 2016: During the past week, our Fancy 3 site, Fancyclopedia.org, added 67 new pages and updated around a hundred others. The entry of the week is "Fanac". Pages for Hal Clement and Filthy Pierre were among those updated. Fancyclopedia is a wiki based encyclopedia, and knowledgeable fans are encouraged to add to it. New pages added include New Zealand Natcon 19, Marv Wolfman, the Vogon Interdimentional Poetic Society and Fred Prophet.; On fanac.org today we added 3 issues of Phan, a little newszine from 1944. Interesting headline (reeking of fannish legend) - "Outsiders, Los Angeles Radicals, Disband!"
July 5, 2016: Much to report today. We've put online 43 issues (almost the entire run) of Starspinkle, a "news and chitter-chatter fanzine" by Ron Ellik from 1963-1964. There's a good illo in each of the issues, and I do believe I saw art by Roy Krenkel, Dan Adkins and Bill Rotsler to name a few.; Two more issues of Bob Tucker's Le Zombie are up. These are issues 3 & 4 from 1939.; Filling in the gaps on Fantasy News. Today, we've added 12 issues, with 4 from 1939, 4 from 1941, 3 from 1943 and 1 from 1944. These wartime issues are poignant, with news of fans being called up for service intermixed with news of the science fiction field.
July 2, 2016: Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #345 (6.4 MB) and #64.1A (5.5 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.; Added 7 1949 issues of Fantasy News from the April to September period.
July 1, 2016: Is February 1939 important to you? We've added 4 issues of Fantasy News from that period.
June 28, 2016: In response to some Facebook conversation, today we've added a fanzine by Walt Willis and James White, "From the Enchanted Duplicator to the Enchanted Convention". Enjoy!; Joe has scanned another three Fantasy Times, filling in holes in 1947 and 1948. Today we added issues 60, 61, and 70. Thanks Joe!
June 27, 2016: Today, we've added fanzines nominated for the Retro Hugos. First, there's another 1940 issue of Spaceways, this one #11. Thanks to the help of Bob Madle, we also have 3 more issues of 1940's Voice of the Imagi-Nation. Zines provided by Bob, and scans of those zines courtesy of Joe Siclari. Thank you both.
June 26, 2016: Finished putting up the run of FANAC, adding 7 later issues by Walter Breen as well as Terry Carr's 28 page 3rd anniversary issue, the Fannish III. Great anniversary issues for this fanzine -- check out the first two anniversary issues as well. They're #34 and #53. Note that it took Terry until 1964 to get that third anniversary issue out.
June 25, 2016: FANAC was a Hugo award winning fannish newszine, edited by Terry Carr and Ron Ellik, and later by Walter Breen. Today, we put online 39 issues from 1960 - 1962. In addition to the news, contents include columns by Walt Willis, cartoons by artists such as Bill Rotsler, Ray Nelson and ATom.; For our Retro Hugo reading list, today we have added a 1940 piece written by H.P. Lovecraft and Duane W. Rimel, published in Paul Freehafer's September 1940 Polaris.
June 24, 2016: Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #344 (1.8 MB) and #70.1E (5.1 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
June 22, 2016: Now, filling in some of the gaps in Science Fiction Times. Joe Siclari has scanned 6 more issues, with 3 from 1958, 1 from 1959, 1 from 1960 and 1 from 1967. We're working to have as broad a calendar coverage with the newszines as possible. Thanks Joe!; George Phillies sent us a PDFs of June 2016's issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's The National Fantasy Fan. Thanks George.
June 21, 2016: Filling in some of the gaps in Fantasy Times. Joe Siclari has been searching for the zines to fill in the gaps for Fantasy Times, and today we've put up 9 issues from 1946, 1947, 1951 and 1955. One of the zines came from Lee Hoffman's collection and one from Ross Rocklynne. Thanks to Joe for the searching and scanning.
June 20, 2016: Added a segment to the Noreascon 1 (1971) Worldcon Hugo Banquet on Youtube. This is part 2 of the banquet and has the Guest of Honor Speeches by Harry Warner, Jr. and by Clifford Simak. It also has an explanation and awarding of the Pat Terry Award by Gordy Dickson and of the Big Heart Award by 4sj.
June 17, 2016: Today's offering - another 24 Science Fiction Times. This set includes 8 from 1967, 12 from 1968 and 4 from 1969.
June 16, 2016: Almost done now with the Science Fiction Times run that Ned Brooks scanned. Today you'll find 16 more issues, with 13 from 1965, one from 1966 and two from 1967. The newszine had been in publication for 25 years with very regular issues. Issue 433 marks the death of Doc Smith with many appreciations by fans and pros. If you are a Burroughs fan, you might be interested in the Barsoomian Times, found on the last 4 pages of Issue 433, and edited by Jeremy Barry. There are more Barsoomian Times in other issues, including in 1965, Issue 432, Issue 424 and Issue 426.
June 14, 2016: More newszines. Today you will find 8 1962 and 7 1964 issues of Science Fiction Times. Fun stuff - there's a financial report for Seacon, the 1961 Worldcon on page 3 of this issue and a report on the 15th Westercon in here.
June 13, 2016: An interesting set of newszines today. First, we've added 4 issues of the Australian SF News from 1954 and 1958. If you'd like to check out the differences between the United States and Australia in how and what the news of science fiction and fandom was reported, you can compare the Australian fanzine with Fantasy Times and Science Fiction Times from the same month and year.; Wonder how worldcons were different decades ago? Check out the daily newsletter from the 1961 Pittcon.; We've also added the June issue of CyberCozen edited by Leyble Botwinik. Thanks Leybl.; Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #343 (6.4 MB) and #70.1G (5.4 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
June 8, 2016: Dale Speirs sent us a PDF of issue #14.1 (5.4 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
June 5, 2016: Added Progress Report 1 from Seacon, the 1961 Worldcon. It includes a final financial report on Pittcon, the 1960 Worldcon, showing a cash flow of all of $5013.68.; Continuing to add Science Fiction Times, you can now find 3 more issues from 1963 and 7 more from 1964. 1964 was the 23rd year of this newszine's publication, and at the time it was the world's oldest amateur SF publication.
June 3, 2016: Taral Wayne sent us a PDF (6.1 MB) of his Perzine Broken Toys 49 which we have added to the Broken Toys index. Thanks Taral.; We have added the latest issue of the Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society's newsletter The MT Void, Vol. 34, No. 48, that was sent to us by Mark and Evelyn Leeper. Thank you both
June 2, 2016: Today we have more newszines. We've added 23 issues from 1961 of Science Fiction Times and 6 more from 1962. This includes a blockbuster 20th anniverary issue with articles by Fred Pohl, James Blish, Otto Binder, Forry Ackerman and others.
June 1, 2016: Added four 1940 issues of the Retro Hugo nominated fanzine, Voice of the Imagi-Nation. Letters from Wm. Temple, Arthur C. Clarke, Art Widner, Jack Speer and others, with many facsimile signatures included.; Dale Speirs sent us a PDF of issue 342 of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
May 30, 2016: Today, we've added Hyphen 6, the January 1954 issue of Walt Willis's fanzine. In addition to articles by Walter, there are contributions from Bob Shaw, Vince Clarke, F. Towner Laney and others, along with letters by Eric Frank Russell, Robert Bloch, Shelby Vick and more.; For newszines, we've added a May, 1944 issue of Fantasy Times along with 24 issues of Science Fiction Times from 1960.
May 29, 2016: Added 1959 issues (23 of them) of Science Fiction Times. This is the same fanzine as Fantasy Times which changed its name in mid 1957. Headlines include: "First Worldcon SF Con Held 20 Years Ago", "Detention - Huge Success, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Blish - Freas & Bloch Win Hugos", and "'Astounding' to Change Name".; Sample headlines: "Twenty Years of Asimov to be Celebrated in March '59 Amazing", and "Detroit Wins '59 Site, 'Fantasy and Science Fiction' Wins 'Hugo', Solacon Withdraws from WSFS"; We have added the latest issue of the Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society's newsletter The MT Void, Vol. 34, No. 47, that was sent to us by Mark and Evelyn Leeper. Thank you both.
May 26, 2016: Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #341 (3.3 MB), #48.5B (4.7 MB), #62 (4.5 MB), and #70.3 (5.5 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.; Added issue 275 of Fanews Card. This issue is from 1947.; Now online - the remaining 12 1957 issues of Fantasy Times.; Glicksohn, DUFF Winner Rusty Hevelin, as well as Robert Silverberg, Ben Bova, Forry Ackerman and others. 2016 video editing thanks to Kathi Overton.; Now online - the very first issue of Fantasy Times. The banner headline - "Tremaine Quits as Editor of Comet!!".; Added 20ish 1945 issues of the Walt Dunkelerger & Earl Kay card newszine Fanews Card. Sample headlines - "Trip to Moon in 1948 says R.L. Farnsworth" and "Rocket 2 the Morgue out in pocket book".; Also added the first 6 months (12 issues) of 1957's Fantasy Times. This newszine was the Locus of its day. Sample headline - "Fred Pohl to edit new SF mag".; We have updated the Fanac Names Cross Reference. There are currently 17,128 names in these listings.
May 24, 2016: Added a dozen 1944/1945 issues of the Walt Dunkelberger & Earl Kay card newszine Fanews Card. Headlines include "4sj's kid brother KIA" and "HPL's Dunwich Horror out from Bart H".
May 23, 2016: Today, we've added 4 issues of Larry Shaw's Nebula, the newszine he called the Fantasy Fan Record. These are from 1943 and 1944.; We've also added the 24 1956 issues Fantasy Times. The first September issue is the 15th anniversary issue, and runs 48 pages with articles by Forry Ackerman, Ray Palmer, Robert Lowndes and others, as well as congratulations on the anniversary from the prozines of the period, including Astounding, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and all the Ziff-Davis publications.
May 22, 2016: Added issue 13 of Rune from 1968. Scans for this issue, and some retyping for the faded parts of the zine are courtesy of Matthew Strait. There's a pointer to the retyped parts right there in the fanzine index.; The remaining 1955 issues of Fantasy Times are up now. Today's count - 11 added.
May 21, 2016: One more issue of the Fan-Vet up, this one from 1955.; We now have 1955 issues of Fantasy Times through July with the exception of Issue 222. Scans by Ned Brooks. Today's count - 13 added.; Added a 1938 issue of The Futurian, a British zine edited by J. Michael Rosenblum.
May 20, 2016: Today, added the remaining 9 1954 issues of Fantasy Times.; Last night, added an audio with images of the 1971 Noreascon Hugo Banquet (part 1). This features comments by Bob Silverberg and an insightful tribute to John W. Campbell by Lester Del Rey. See it here.
May 19, 2016: Today, added the first 15 1954 issues of Fantasy Times. This includes the 32 page 200th issue.
May 18, 2016: Added a new video to our Youtube channel. You can find video of the 1989 Noreascon 3 Brunch banquet celebrating 50 years of Science Fiction Fandom. It's a family reunion and you can find it here.; George Phillies sent us a PDFs of May 2016's issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's The National Fantasy Fan. Thanks George.; The last 6 months of 1953 issues of Fantasy Times are up. Scans by Ned Brooks. This morning's update was 12 issues.
May 17, 2016: Fantasy Times issues from the first six months of 1953 are up. Scans by Ned Brooks. This morning's update was 11 issues.
May 16, 2016: The remaining 11 issues from 1952 of Fantasy Times have been put on line. Enjoy!
May 15, 2016: Thirteen issues from January through first July issue of 1952 added for Fantasy Times. These scans are courtesy of Ned Brooks. One of the April issues included an issue of The Fan-Vet.; We have added the latest issue of the Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society's newsletter The MT Void, Vol. 34, No. 45, that was sent to us by Mark and Evelyn Leeper. Thank you both
May 13, 2016: We now have the complete year of 1950 issues of the newszine Fantasy Times. All scans by Ned Brooks. That's another 12 issues made available today. If you were born in 1950, look here to see the news of the field in the month you were born.
May 12, 2016: Added a 1940 issue of Fantascience Digest with an article by Harry Warner, Jr., this year nominated for a Retro Hugo as Best Fan Writer.; Added issue #1 of Shangri-LA with an article by Forrest J Ackerman, this year nominated for a Retro Hugo as Best Fan Writer.; Added the first 6 months (11 issues) of 1950 Fantasy Times. All scans courtesy of Ned Brooks.
May 10, 2016: With the permission of Keith Stokes, who did the scans, we have added a dozen 1940 issues of Bob Tucker's Retro Hugo nominated fanzine, Le Zombie.; We've added 15 more issues of 1949 Fantasy Times. All scans by Ned Brooks. Ned did a Herculean amount of work in getting these all scanned.
May 9, 2016: Added a 1939 issue of Will Sykora's Fantasy News. Scans by Joe Siclari.; Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #340 (6.4 MB) and #70.5B (7.0 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.; Added five more 1949 Fantasy Times, as well as the one page "Extra" announcing that Street and Smith was dropping all their pulps other than Astounding.
May 8, 2016: More Fantasy Times. Today we've added issues #71 - #75 from Nov 1948 to Feb 1949. Scans by Ned Brooks. Enjoy!
May 7, 2016: Added two fall 1947, six 1948 and one 1953 issue of Fantasy Times, one of which is a 24 page issue! Scans are courtesy of Ned Brooks.
May 6, 2016: Issue 2 of Robert Madle's fanzine Fantascience Digest is now up.; Added an issue of Tom Reamy's fanzine Crifanac from 1957.; The new issue of CyberCozen from Leybl Botwinik is now up. Thanks Leybl!; We have added the latest issue of the Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society's newsletter The MT Void, Vol. 34, No. 44, that was sent to us by Mark and Evelyn Leeper. Thank you both; More 1940 issues of the newszine, Fantasy News thanks to scans by Joe Siclari.
May 5, 2016: We've added a very old fanzine today. The Planet was published in 1930 by the Scienceers, edited by Allen Glasser with Associate Editor Mort Weisinger.
May 3, 2016: Today's addition to our Youtube channel. This one is an audio interview with Joe Siclari, chair of the 1992 Worldcon, MagiCon. Warren Buff is our interviewer, and Joe talks about the making of the MagiCon golf course, the special transport used by MagiCon's Keynote Speaker, John Young of NASA, and what went into those special Hugos.
May 2, 2016: Added issue 16 of F. T. Laney's Fan-Dango from 1948.
April 29, 2016: Thanks to scans by Joe Siclari, we have two more 1940 issues of the newszine, Fantasy News. Joe has also scanned some issues of the 1963 Fantasy News, New Series.; Added issue 7 of Francis Tower Laney's Acolyte. This is a 1944 issue.
April 28, 2016: We have five more issues of Fantasy News from 1940, courtesy of scans by Joe Siclari. Thanks Joe.
April 27, 2016: Another addition to our Youtube channel. This one is an audio interview with Ron Zukowski, co-chair of the 1986 Worldcon, ConFederation. Warren Buff is the interviewer, and Ron talks about the background, bidding and running of ConFederation.; Joe Siclari has provided scans of 5 issues of Fantasy News from 1940. Thanks Joe.; We've also put up the second part of the audio recording, with images, of the Hugo Awards at Suncon, featuring Toastmaster Robert Silverberg. You can find them on our Youtube channel or directly here.
April 25, 2016: Thanks to scans by Joe Siclari, we have added isses #15 and #16 of Spaceways. These are from 1940.; Added the set of Linda Bushyager's outstanding 1970's fanzine Karass. Scanning courtesy of Mark Olson.; We've just put up a terrific artifact on the Youtube channel. This is the 1975 Aussiecon 1 Bidding film, "Anti-Fan". It was the first bidding film ever made. You can find it right here.; George Phillies sent us a PDFs of April 2016's issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's The National Fantasy Fan. Thanks George.
April 24, 2016: We've put up two more videos on Youtube. One is an introduction to the history of science fiction and the worldcon that was done for Conadian, the 1994 Worldcon. The other is an audio recording, with images, of the Hugo Awards at Suncon, featuring Toastmaster Robert Silverberg. You can find them on our Youtube channel.; All the FANACs through 49 are now up. Page scans all courtesy of Mark Olson.
April 23, 2016: Added even more issues of FANAC edited by Ron Ellik and Terry Carr. We now have the first 41 issues. Page scans are courtesy of Mark Olson. Thanks Mark.; Thanks to scans by Joe Siclari, we have added four issues of Spaceways from 1940. This Harry Warner, Jr fanzine was one of the best of 1940 and is a potential Retro Hugo nominee.
April 22, 2016: Added more issues of FANAC edited by Ron Ellik and Terry Carr. We now have the first 34 issues. Page scans are courtesy of Mark Olson. Thanks Mark.
April 21, 2016: Added additional issues of FANAC edited by Ron Ellik and Terry Carr. Page scans are courtesy of Mark Olson. Thanks Mark.
April 20, 2016: Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #339 (5.6 MB) and #71.1D (5.4 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.; Added the first 15 issues of FANAC edited by Ron Ellik and Terry Carr. Page scans are courtesy of Mark Olson. Thanks Mark.
April 17, 2016: Added a number of 1940s Fantasy Times edited by James Taurasi and others. Page scans done by Ned Brooks.; We have added many more Ratatosks. This is a newszine by Bruce Pelz from the 60s. Thanks to Mark Olson for the page scans.; that was sent to us by Mark and Evelyn Leeper. Thank you both
April 14, 2016: We have the first 19 issues of Bruce Pelz's Ratatosk up, thanks to the scanning efforts of Mark Olson. Thanks Mark!
April 6, 2016: Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #338 (4.0 MB), and #71.1C (5.2 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
April 1, 2016: We have a new video up on the Fanac Fanhistory Project channel on Youtube. Featuring Fred Pohl, Bob Madle, Earle Korshak and Dave Kyle, you can view the MagiCon panel discussion on the first Worldcon.; We've posted the new April issue of Leybl Botwinik's fanzine Cyber Cozen along with earlier 2016 and 2015 issues. Thanks, Leybl.
March 30, 2016: We have a new video up on the Fanac Fanhistory Project channel on Youtube. Check out the playlist for Outworlds Live!, the live performance of Bill Bowers' fanzine Outworlds 50 from the 1987 Corflu.
March 29, 2016: We've posted the new Broken Toys 48 issue of Taral's fanzine Broken Toys. Thanks, Taral.; You can also find the February issue of The National Fantasy Fan thanks to George Phillies.
March 21, 2016: Two new issues of Opuntia added, both the new Opuntia 337, and an archive issue, Opuntia 248. Thanks Dale!
March 15, 2016: A number of fanzines that were added in February and March dropped off the "what's new" list. Don't worry, the Fantasy Times, the Ratatosks, and the others are still there.; In addition to the February and March issues, today we added two issues of Opuntia, both the new one, Opuntia 336, and an archive issue, Opuntia 30. Thanks Dale!; One of our most exciting new projects is to make historic video and audio available. We have begun the Fanac Fanhistory Project channel on Youtube! To begin with, we have made available a couple of items from MagiCon. the 50th Wordcon held in 1992. On the channel you will find an interview with Fan Guest of Honor, Walt Willis, and the Isaac Asimov Memorial.
January 29, 2016: Edie Stern has added Fantasy Times #2A, #4, and #5 edited by James V. Taurasi during October to December 1944 to the Fantasy Times index. Thank you Edie.; These scans were provide by Ned Brooks before his accidential death and include most, if not all, of the issues of the zine that were published from September 1941 to July 1956. Edie will be putting them on-line here over the next few months.
January 28, 2016: Edie Stern has added Fantasy Times #8 and #10 edited by Sam Moskowitz in April and June 1944 to the Fantasy Times index. Thank you Edie.
January 26, 2016: Taral Wayne sent us a PDF (11.6 MB) of his Perzine Broken Toys 46 which we have added to the Broken Toys index. Thanks Taral.
January 18, 2016: George Phillies sent us a PDFs of January 2016's issue of The National Fantasy Fan Federation's The National Fantasy Fan. Thanks George.
January 15, 2016: Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #251 (5.4 MB) and #332 (1.9 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
January 8, 2016: Edie Stern uploaded a PDF (1.96 MB) of the first Progress Report for the 2015 Operacon that was held March 12–15 in Milwaukee, WI. Thanks Edie.; It was a four-day relaxacon in conjunction with the Milwaukee world premiere of “The Snow Dragon”, the latest opera by award-winning sf, fantasy and horror writer Somtow Sucharitkul (aka S.P. Somtow).
January 5, 2016: Dale Speirs sent us PDFs of issues #331 (3.0 MB) and #61.1 (5.3 MB) of his perzine Opuntia. Thanks Dale.
January 1, 2016: Taral Wayne sent us a PDF (1.1 MB) of his Perzine Broken Toys 45 which we have added to the Broken Toys index. Thanks Taral.

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