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SCIENCE FICTION & PERSONAL zines.  Posted 29 January, 1993 by Jerod Pore.  
I've included the two together as many SF zines *are* personal zines, and
I've seen plenty of personal zines (or perzines or genzines) in trade
lists in SF zines, and most of the publishers are quite happy to trade
their zine for your zine.  I've included FTT in this file because they
claim to be an SF zine, even though the only mention of SF in the two
issues I is their support of one person to be the president of TAFF.  FTT
will be with all the other leftist political zines in the print version
of F5.

This file is part of FactSheet Five - Electric.  Questions or comments 
regarding FactSheet Five - Electric should be directed to 
jerod23@well.sf.ca.us
If you wish to send zines for review in both the electronic and print
versions of Factsheet Five, the snailmail address is:
Factsheet Five
1800 Market Street
San Francisco CA   94102

Questions or comments regarding Factsheet Five (the printed version)
should be directed to
R. Seth Friedman
P.O. Box 170099
San Francisco  CA   94117-0099

You might notice a change in our format.  This is due to using the official
Factsheet Five data-entry software.  The %Title: section is, for the most
part, the same, although we've added the date of the zine when available.  
%Descr: should start with a general review of the publication, 
indented thanks to the joys of FoxPro(tm).  Overly long titles will overflow 
into the beginning of the %Descr: section.  We're working on it.  Then a 
review of the issue(s) in particular, then, perhaps, a one or two line 
summary.  %Info: has the single issue and subscription prices followed 
by a carriage return, the number of pages, page size and the reviewer 
followed by a carriage return, then the policies on trading, submissions, 
back-issues, age-statements, ads and email address.  This last section will 
still be somewhat error-prone as we aren't always clear on these policies 
when we read a zine.

Another bug is the apparent sorting (All CAPITAL title vs. mixed lower and
upper case) and the sorting of titles starting with 'The'  We should have
these problems resolved for the next file.

The paper sizes translate as follows:
S -  Standard, or 8.5 x 11 inches
D -  Digest, or standard folded in half
L -  Legal, or 8.5 x 14 inches
HL - Half Legal, you figure it out
HS - Half Standard, or long digest 4.25 x 11 inches
T -  Tabloid, usually 11 x 17 or thereabouts
B -  Broadsheet, about 14 x 17
O -  Oversized and way bigger than tabloid or broadsheet
M -  Mini, from digest cut in half to postage stamp sized
A4 - Metric Standard, about 21 x 30 centimeters 
A5 - Metric Digest (don't have any handy to measure, and why does the 
     number get bigger when the paper is getter smaller?)
A2 - Metric Tabloid

Your reviwers for this file are
JP   Jerod Pore (jerod23@well.sf.ca.us)
LRH  L. Reiko Higa (reiko@well.sf.ca.us)

For those who may not know, The Usual means that you can get the zine in
trade for your own zine;  or a thoughtful letter of comment on the zine or
the subject of the zine;  or through the submission of an article or art
work;  or one to three bucks.  Obviously, if you haven't seen the zine, the
first or last options are the best.




%Title:  ATSATROHN  Volume 2  Issue 3  March/April 92                          
%Descr:  Quirky zine of review, poetry and silliness.                
The ongoing contest to guess what ATSATROHN stands for, with clue number 7  
provided.  Reviews of Predator 2 and a bunch of zines.  A short 'horror'    
piece.  Humourous Quayle quotes and exerpts from a 19th century etiquette   
book.                                                                       
%Info:   $0.50 Each  to                                                       
Tamara Price, Merrimack Books, PO Box 158,  Lynn, IN 47355-0158               
(8 Pages/S/JP)                                                                
Trades OK/submissions OK/back issues/takes ads.                               

%Title:  ASTROMANCER QUARTERLY May 1992                                        
%Descr:  Humorous, fun, traditional and hardly stuffy fanzine.  Great
         paper.                                                      
Faanfic, LoCs, Leah Zeldes Smith's distinctions between small press         
magazines and fanzines and reviews of same, Murphy's Laws of SF Cons ("No   
one will be happy with the weapons policy.  *No one.*"), elephant shrews and
asparagus poetry, video and book reviews, an Isaac Asimov memorial, an      
interview with Judith Merril, reviews of movies and TV shows translated into
English (yow!) and more!  Awesome, as we say out here.                      
One wonderful fun fannish fanzine.                                          
%Info:   $2.25 Each,  Subs: $ 8.00 for 4 issues to                           
Joe Maraglino, Niagra Falls SF Association, P.O. Box 500  Bridge Station,     
Niagra Falls, NY 14305                                                        
(42 Pages/HL/JP)                                                              
Trades OK/submissions OK/takes ads.                                           

%Title:  BCSFAZINE  Issue 223  December 1991                                   
%Descr:  The official publication of the British Columbia Science    
         Fiction Association.                                        
Christmas advice from the Leather Coddesses of Phobos.  Leftovers from the  
silent auction fundraisers.  Reviews of movies; the good, the atrocious and 
the ancient.  Exerpts from the Ukranian SF zine Chernoblyzation.  Yet       
another Chicon report.  An entry in the insightful continuing series of what
the future would look like, this time it's personal aircraft from the 50's  
through the 70's.  Reviews and LoCs.                                        
%Info:   The Usual for Each,  Subs: $15.00 for 12 issues to                      
British Columbia SF Association, PO Box 35577  Station E,  Vancouver, BC V6M  
4G9    Canada                                                                 
(32 Pages/HL/JP)                                                              
Trades OK/submissions OK/takes ads.                                           

%Title:  BACK BRAIN RECLUSE  Issue 20  Spring 1992                             
%Descr:  The address given is for North American distribution.  BBR  
         is a zine of bleeding edge SF.                              
This issue is different, though.  After being way late (like it wouldn't be 
a zine if it weren't late), BBR puts out a special non-fiction issue.       
Maureen Speller's article details how publishing is a for-profit industry,  
and the likes of Farmer, Norton, Clarke et. al. have made it impossible for 
new writers to break into the market.  This is news?  That's why there are  
zines.  A profile on the Church of the SubGenius.  Bitching about small     
press zines, reviews and letters.                                           
BBR is always interesting.                                                  
%Info:   $10.00 Each,  Subs: $36.00 for 4 issues to                          
Anne Marsden, 1052 Calle del Cerro #708,  San Clemente, CA 92672-6068         
(28 Pages/A4/JP)                                                              
No trades/submissions OK/back issues/takes ads.                               

%Title:  BLACK HOLE  Issue 32  Autumn 1992                                     
%Descr:  A bit more than your typical clubzine;  Black Hole is       
         reviews, original fiction, commentary and letters.  OK, so  
         it's not *much* more than a typical clubzine, just better.  
Religion in SF.  A lengthy interview with Stephen Donaldson who talks like  
he writes;  that is, he goes on and on and on.  Reviews of new books, and if
a book has a large DUH coefficient, watch out!  A C.J. Cherryh retrospect,  
letters, original fiction and humor.                                        
Another fine British sfanzine.  I can't get enough of them.                 
%Info:   The Usual for Each  to                                                   
The Editor, Leeds University Union ASF&FS, P.O. Box 157, Leeds University     
Union Leeds,    LS1 1UH    U.K.                                               
(44 Pages/A5/JP)                                                              
Trades OK/submissions OK/no ads.                                              

%Title:  BLUE LIGHTS: The Starman Quarterly  Issue 45  Fall 1992               
%Descr:  Lil Sibbley is to whom to send your money.  The publishers  
         are Vicki Werkley and Victoria Onstine.  The zine comes in  
         two flavors, the big thick Blue Lights and the smaller Baby 
         Blue Lights.                                                
         So what's it all about?  The fans of the short-lived TV     
         series Starman.                                             
This issue is all about the second biennial Starman familiy reunion, four   
days of pizza, filksinging, watching Starman tapes and going to Disneyland. 
Now that Starman is being broadcast on the cable SciFi channel, the         
letter-writing campaign has shifted (for now) to cable carriers to start    
carrying the SciFi channel.  Plus news about fans and the latest sightings  
of the stars of the series in other shows.                                  
If you're devoted to a 22 episode TV show, you need this zine.              
%Info:   $6.00 Each,  Subs: $24.00 for 8 issues to                           
Lil Sibbley, 4945 U Street,  Sacramento, CA 95817                             
(50 Pages/S/JP)                                                               
No trades/submissions OK/back issues/no ads.                                  

%Title:  COMLINK  Issue 50  March 1992                                         
%Descr:  A letterzine about SF TV shows and movies, with almost all  
         of the focus on the newer flavors of Star Trek (The Next    
         Generation and Deep Space 9).                               
First of all, the address given is normally for submissions and letters, not
where to send the cash.  However, the person who gets the cash has, by now, 
moved.  We'll print the right address when we get it.  With the historic    
number 50, the editors trace the evolution of the zine from a Star Wars zine
to a Star Trek letterzine.  Then it's on to the letters about conventions,  
Roddenberry's death, the latest movie, the new series and all the hot new   
Trek arguements.                                                            
%Info:   $2.00 Each,  Subs: $ 7.00 for 4 issues to                           
Linda Deneroff, 704 East Thomas #103,  Seattle, WA 98102                      
(22 Pages/S/JP)                                                               
Trades OK/submissions OK/takes ads. email 70216.172@compuserve.com            

%Title:  DOODLEBUG  Issue 1  July 1992                                         
%Descr:  SFan life.                                                  
Dumping the ultra-toxic weedkiller in their garden; the art of shallowness; 
gossipy articles about and cutsey-poo, but ever so snide cartoons of Vegas  
fans and other SF riff-raff.                                                
%Info:   The Usual for Each  to                                                   
Laurie Yates, 805 Spyglass Lane,  Los Vegas, NV 89107                         
(20 Pages/S/JP)                                                               
Trades OK/submissions OK/no ads.                                              

%Title:  ETHEL THE AARDVARK: More-or-less official publication of the Melbourne
         Science Fiction Club  Issue 40  December 1991                         
%Descr:  Drole publication of the Melbourne Science Ficiton Club with
         reviews, LoC's, reports and the goings-on at the MSFC.      
After much debate, the question of the name of the zine has been resolved,  
and the name stays.  Yay!  The reviews are long, comprehensive and very     
thoughtful, which is necessary in Australia, the land of over-priced books. 
Unless the book really sucks, in which case it gets a couple of paragraphs  
about how bad it is.  There's a report from Vampiricon, tonnes of letters   
(including postcards from a time traveller) and minutes of the Club         
meetings.                                                                   
Makes me nostalgic for being a nerd (or dag) in Melbourne.                  
%Info:   The Usual for Each,  Subs: $15.00 for 6 issues to                       
Alan Stewart, Melbourne Science Fiction Club, PO Box 212,  Melbourne          
Victoria,    3005       Australia                                             
(28 Pages/A4/JP)                                                              
Trades OK/submissions OK/back issues/takes ads.                               

%Title:  FOSFAX: The Falls of the Ohio Science Fiction and Fantasy Association 
         Newsletter  Issue 161  July 1992                                      
%Descr:  Dense, tiny-type, single-spaced clubzine loaded with        
         reviews, commentary and tons of letters.  Unfortunately it's
         also loaded with trite and tiresome right-wing rhetoric.    
Minicon, Lunacon, I-Con and other conventions, book and movie reviews,      
anti-abortion rhetoric.  A very interesting column on SETI's Cyclops study  
of possible methods of interstellar communications in the 1 to 10 GigaHertz 
frequencies.  Sucking up to Heinlein and P.J. O'Rouke.  Letters, letters and
more letters.                                                               
Probably the most reviled zine in sfandom.                                  
%Info:   The Usual for Each,  Subs: $12.00 for 6 issues to                       
Timothy Lane, FOSFA, P.O. Box 37281,  Louisville, KY 40233-7281               
(70 Pages/S/JP)                                                               
Trades OK/submissions OK/takes ads.                                           

%Title:  FTT  Issue 14  November 1992                                          
%Descr:  "FTT is a science fiction fanzine which, like most such,    
         never mentions the stuff at all, and is principally         
         concerned with history, politics and travel."               
Issue #13 (named, once again, Fuck The Torries) has a personal report from  
Judith Hanna on working for Michael Palin's weird company during the last   
general election.  Mr. Palin could run the British transit system far better
than the Torries, it seems.  A proposal to make Prince Chuck the Tsar of    
Russia and the need to find an enemy, this time in the environmental        
movement.                                                                   
#14 (Fatuous Turgid Toads) has an article on how market economies are one   
big con game, and especially disastorous to the global environment.  Three  
pages of answers to the ridiculous right-wing rhetoric spewed from FOSFAX.  
Both have dozens of letters on similar subjects and anti-Conservative       
cartoons.                                                                   
*Somebody* has to make fun of FOSFAX.                                       
%Info:   The Usual for Each  to                                                   
Judith Hanna Joseph Nicholas, 5A Frinton Road,  Stamford Hill  London,    N15 
6NH    United Kingdom                                                         
(26 Pages/A4/JP)                                                              
Trades OK/submissions OK/no ads.                                              

%Title:  FIGMENT: Tales From The Imagination  Issue 10  Summer 1992            
%Descr:  A good little zine of fiction and fandom.                   
Good stories from people I've never heard of.  All genres are covered in    
figment, from the neo-Lovecraftian and Ellison-like to CyberPunk space      
opera.  I'm really liking these anthology zines.  Plus book and movie       
reviews, letters and interviews.                                            
%Info:   $4.00 Each,  Subs: $14.50 for 4 issues to                           
J.C. & Barb Hendee, POB 3128,  Moscow, ID 83843-1906                          
(64 Pages/D/JP)                                                               
No trades/submissions OK/back issues/takes ads.                               

%Title:  FOR DICKHEADS ONLY  Issue 3                                           
%Descr:  Extensive essays on the life and works of Phillip K. Dick.  
Issue #2 features Dick's novel "The World Jones Made," about a fanatic      
trapped one year out of phase with the rest of the twisted Dickian          
characters.  Essays on the plot and characters, history of the book,        
photocopies of the covers of various editions.                              
Issue #3 has essays on "The Cosmic Puppet."  Not only are the plot and      
setting disected for your enlightenment, but comparissons are made between  
the original publication in _Satellite_ and the novel.                      
The title of this zine sums it up.  If you're a Dickhead, here's your zine. 
%Info:   The Usual for Each,  Subs: $ 5.00 for 4 issues to                       
Dave Hyde, Ganymedean Slime Mold Productions, PO Box 112,  New Haven, IN 46774
(27 Pages/S/JP)                                                               
Trades OK/submissions OK/back issues/no ads.                                  

%Title:  FUSION: Magazine of the Harvard-Radcliffe SF Association  Volume 4    
         Issue 1                                                               
%Descr:  Ivy league SF.                                              
What is it about universities that utterly saps the imagination from        
otherwise intelligent people.  Four fiction pieces, all devoid of           
originality, all rehashes of stuff from prior eras or (worst of all) the    
great oxymoron of collegiate "humor."  Lamely illustrated, too.  Plus AD&D  
variants.                                                                   
Yes, it's as boring as you image Ivy League SF to be.                       
%Info:   The Usual for Each  to                                                   
Lee Valentine, H.R.S.F.A., P.O. Box 78,  Cambridge, MA 02238                  
(24 Pages/S/JP)                                                               
Trades OK/submissions OK/back issues/takes ads. email freedber@husc.edu       

%Title:  IMAGINATION  Issue 9  September 1991                                  
%Descr:  In-depth interviews, fine fiction, muckraking articles on   
         The Business of SFiction, great background articles, comics,
         reviews and gaming make up this great British zine.         
Interviews with Roger Zelazny, James Herbert and Michael Moorcock that probe
the origins of their most famous stories.  Details, from the authors, about 
the nature of the Trumps and Stormbringer.  Licensing sfiction to RPGs,     
along with a trip to most of the big RPG companies and an interview with    
Erick Wujcik who has turned the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Zelazny's  
Amber series into RPGs.  There's reviews, some really great fiction,        
convention listings and reports, a general explanation of heraldry (with a  
few minor errors), RPG reviews and an original RPG.  In all, a lot of bang  
for the buck.                                                               
Great zine.  I hope its still publishing.                                   
%Info:   L1.00 Each  to                                                       
Ian Murphy, Imagination, 63 Beeches Crescent,  Crawley  W. Sussex,    RH10 6BU
United Kingdom                                                                
(84 Pages/A4/JP)                                                              
No trades/submissions OK/back issues/takes ads. email                         
imurphy@cix.compulink.co.uk                                                   

%Title:  JEWS IN SPACE: Newsletter of the Jewish Science Fiction Society       
%Descr:  Volume 3  Issue 3  Iyar 5752                                          
         It's for members of the society only.  As far as I can tell,
         the sub price is one's membership dues.                     
Two pages on sfandom in Israel, where SF fans attend lectures on slimemolds,
supernovas and cracking the Enigma code.  Two pages of guilt and who        
qualifies as a member of the J.S.F.S.                                       
I'll refrain from any tasteless, goyim jokes.                               
%Info:    Each,  Subs: $10.00 for 12 issues to                               
Lucy Schmeidler, Jewish Science Fiction Society, 470 West End Avenue,  New    
York, NY 10024-4933                                                           
(4 Pages/S/JP)                                                                
No trades/submissions OK/no ads.                                              

%Title:  JOEY'S INSIDE OUTLOOK  Volume 1  Issue 5  Nov. 30, '92                
%Descr:  Amusing personal zine by a 70-something husband-and-wife    
         team.                                                       
A potpourri of letters, cartoon strips, humorous and rambling articles on   
topics like sex (the F-word, the O-word, the A-word), eradicating the       
national debt and other unrelated subjects.                                 
%Info:   $1.00 Each  to                                                       
Joka Press, P.O. Box 74,  Nokomis, IL 62075                                   
(8 Pages/S/LRH)                                                               
No trades/no ads.                                                             

%Title:  LA GANG BANG: The news of Gary, Lee, May & Valorie  Issue 50  Dec. 92 
%Descr:  Generic "personal" zine that those of us not in the intimate
         circle of the publisher/editor's friends can easily do      
         without.                                                    
Movie and threatre reviews, letters from readers ("friends" of the          
publisher/editor), cartoons and the usual grabbag of aimless mental         
meanderings and utterances typify this non-descript impersonal "personal"   
zine. Its title sounds like a zine that could provide valuable insights into
LA gangs but alas, tis not the case here.  Just another noxious emission    
from the land of the bland, pointless for anyone except the friends of Gary,
Lee, May & Valorie, whoever they may be.                                    
%Info:   The Usual for Each,  Subs: $ 9.00 to                                    
P.O. Box 7550,  Burbank, CA 91510                                             
(6 Pages/S/LRH)                                                               
Trades OK/submissions OK/no ads. email 76116.130@compuserve.com               

%Title:  LHYFE  Issue 3                                                        
%Descr:  One time SF perzine devolves into a sfanzine.               
Under most circumstances, I'd think it a Good Thing to change the focus of  
an SF zine from personal and other non-SF activities to that of interviews  
and critiques.  In this case, however, it was a Dumb Move.  An interview    
with Terry Carr from 1979 and a review (from 1970!) of a critique of SF viz 
the New Wave SF of the late sixites qualifies as a great waste of trees.  At
least the LoC's deal with cons and awards and such.                         
A sad waste of trees.                                                       
%Info:   The Usual for Each  to                                                   
Roger Weddall, PO Box 273,  Fitzroy  Victoria,    3065       Australia        
(20 Pages/A4/JP)                                                              
Trades OK/submissions OK/back issues/no ads.                                  

%Title:  LOST WORLDS: The Writers' and Artists' Science Fiction and Fantasy    
%Descr:  Forum  Volume 4  Issue 6  March 1992                                  
         Showcase of new SF&F writers, presumably for publication in 
         'real' magazines and/or anthologies.  All authors are       
         identified by name and a code and publishers are invited to 
         obtain reprints, and what the fees will be for such.        
In trying to showcase several writers at once, the publishers decided to    
use the serialization method.  So I'm reading parts three, four and five of 
stories that go on for I don't know how long.  Yes, these people can sorta  
put sentences together, but I'm clueless about their plotting and character 
development abilities.                                                      
A good idea, but I think it would be better with fewer writers, and more    
complete stories, per issue.                                                
%Info:   $1.25 Each,  Subs: $13.00 for 13 issues to                          
Holley Drye, HBD Publishing, P.O. Box 605,  Concord, NC 28025                 
(24 Pages/S/JP)                                                               
No trades/submissions OK/no ads.                                              

%Title:  PANDORA  Issue 28  December 1992                                      
%Descr:  Well produced SF and Fantasy fiction zine showcasing unknown
         writers.  Padded with dumb poetry and really stupid         
         cartoons.                                                   
I love and hate this zine.  I found all the fiction to be well written      
(although with the occassional gap in the narrative, which could've been a  
common stylistic or editorial glitch), and the accompanying illustrations   
were apt and added to the stories instead of just filling space.  While the 
fantasy pieces were imaginative (I really liked Wendy Wheeler's "Tears of   
Tjahja"), the SF pieces were too standard-issue.  The fantasy bits had      
strong women characters in unconventional roles.  The SF bits had some      
strong women in very conventional roles.  The poetry was trite and the      
cartoons really sucked.  All the poems could be replaced by another good    
story, and the cartoons by more great illustrations.                        
Hey, it's worth it, but it could be a *great* zine.                         
%Info:   $5.00 Each  to                                                       
Meg Mac Donald, Pandora, 2844 Grayson,  Ferndale, MI 48220                    
(74 Pages/D/JP)                                                               
No trades/submissions OK/back issues/takes ads.                               

%Title:  PEANUTBUTTER AN'JELLICLE CAT: Sandwiches  Issue 5                     
%Descr:  Individually dot matrix printed personal ruminations on cats
         and SF.                                                     
Letters from readers that occassionally mention SF stuff.  On naming cats   
from Greek myths.  We've got all five of them, and it seems to be some sorta
fannish inthing.                                                            
Too inbred for me.                                                          
%Info:   The Usual for Each  to                                                   
Bill Bridget, 4040 Mt. Creek Road  Apt. 803,  Chattanooga, TN 37415           
(8 Pages/S/JP)                                                                
Trades OK/submissions OK/back issues/no ads.                                  

%Title:  PROTOCULTURE ADDICTS: The anime & magna fan magazine  Issue 15        
         December 1991                                                         
%Descr:  News, reviews and backgrounds on anime and magna (Japanese  
         animation and comic books).                                 
Interviews with animators and translators; story synopsis, character bios   
and robot designs (could somebody please tell me where the one-eyed military
hero that's in every third anime series comes from?); reviews and news from 
studios and fanclubs.                                                       
Raging hard data for anime addicts.                                         
%Info:   $3.00 Each,  Subs: $18.00 for 6 issues to                           
Claude Pelletier, Ianus Publications, 2360 de LaSalle Ave Studio 211,         
Montreal, PQ H1V 2L1    Canada                                                
(36 Pages/Q/JP)                                                               
No trades/submissions OK/back issues/takes ads. email                         
70621.1653@compuserve.com                                                     

%Title:  PSYCHIC SLEUTHS: The Reluctant Ghost-Hunter  Issue 3                  
%Descr:  Original fiction in the odd cross-genre of supernatural     
         decetive stories.  Although printed in the U.K., the address
         and price given is for North American distribution.         
This issue features three of the four (to date) Ernie Pine stories by       
Australian author Rick Kennet.  Ernie is a delightful Australian slacker who
is happy working in a laundromat and riding his motorcycle.  Ernie does have
a good deal of occult knowledge, and a kind heart, so he often finds himself
evicting ghosts from alleys, transplanting bunyips from washing machines, or
rescuing his neice from the proverbial Chinese laundry from Hell.  While    
most of these stories have been printed in Australian anthologies or        
magazines, it's great to have them all together in one place.               
I'd like to read the next one in the series.                                
%Info:   $5.00 Each  to                                                       
Richard Fawcett, Haunted Library, 61 Teecomwas Drive,  Uncasville, CT 06382   
(36 Pages/A5/JP)                                                              
No trades/back issues/no ads.                                                 

%Title:  QUANTUM QUARTERLY  Issue 14  Winter 1992                              
%Descr:  For fans of the NBC series Quantum Leap                     
Like most every SF TV show that's been produced in America, Quantum Leap    
might die before its fans are ready to accept its death.  So yet another    
network letter-writing campaign is in the works.  Addresses for NBC bigwigs 
and network sponsors.  (The Post Office must love sfanzines.)  A 10:00 pm   
time slot is being suggested here.  Plus part two of an interview with Don  
Bellisario (part one, in issue #13 covered all sorts of JFK conspiracy      
stuff).  Also, an interview with Mr. Bellisario's secretary, Harriet        
Marguiles.  Letters and episode ratings.                                    
TV can mean a lot to people.                                                
%Info:   $1.50 Each,  Subs: $ 6.00 for 4 issues to                           
Jim Rondeau, 1853 Fallbrook Ave.,  San Jose, CA 95130                         
(12 Pages/S/JP)                                                               
No trades/submissions OK/back issues/takes ads.                               

%Title:  RUNE  Issue 82  April 1992                                            
%Descr:  Clubzine of the Minnesota Science Fiction Society.          
This is a somewhat unusual, almost-all-cartoons issue.  Some are complete   
one-page storylines or panels, others works in progress, still others are   
sketchbook exerpts, most involve furries.  All are well done, but only half 
are able to stand on their own.  Plus minutes of meetings and lots of LoCs. 
%Info:   The Usual for Each  to                                                   
Rotating Editors, Minnesota Science Fiction Society, P.O. Box 8297  Lake St   
Station,  Minneapolis, MN 55408                                               
(38 Pages/S/JP)                                                               
Trades OK/submissions OK/back issues/no ads.                                  

%Title:  SFSFS SHUTTLE: The Official SFSFS Newsletter  Issue 89  August 1992   
%Descr:  Clubzine for South Florida.                                 
The publisher's three day road trip to Tulsa to attend OKon, with her pet   
bird!  Monthly days of interest, with birthdays like Jerry Garcia, Franz    
Kafka, Roman Polanski and Ed Gein.  Yow!  Death days, too.  Meeting minutes,
including the decision to donate the proceedings from the ever-popular SFan 
auction to an AIDS group.  This issue was lighter than most, since everyone 
seemed crazy over the MagiCon in September.  As always, LoCs and shuttle    
news.                                                                       
%Info:   The Usual for Each,  Subs: $15.00 for 12 issues to                      
Fran Mullen, South Florida SF Society, PO Box 70143,  Fort Lauderdale, FL     
70143-0143                                                                    
(10 Pages/S/JP)                                                               
Trades OK/submissions OK/takes ads. email 76137.3645@compuserve.com           

%Title:  SCAVENGER'S NEWSLETTER  Issue 107  January 93                         
%Descr:  The essential source for the smaller Science Fiction,       
         Fantasy, Horror and, occassionally, Mystery genre markets.  
         Who's paying what, who's folding, who's being an asshole.   
         Plus tips on writing in the genres.                         
Fourteen pages of detailed listings of new and established small press      
magazines, their submission guidlines, what they pay (from nothing to copies
to a wopping .25 - 3 cents a word), what they're looking for, what they're  
not looking for and so forth.  Plus listings of zines that send out         
form-letter rejects, that sent encouraging rejections, that disappeared off 
of the face of the earth, that printed a story 40 days after receipt, get   
the picture?  Two pages of brief reviews and two pages of detailed reviews. 
Tips on writing good horror.  The letters column this issue is dedicated to 
the on-going war between pompous asshole editors and clueless, talentless   
writers.                                                                    
If you want to break into the exciting and glamorous world of small-press,  
genre fiction, Scavenger's Newsletter is the ultimate source of information.
%Info:   $2.00 Each,  Subs: $12.50 for 12 issues to                          
Janet Fox, 519 Ellinwood,  Ossage City, KS 66523-1329                         
(32 Pages/HL/JP)                                                              
Trades OK/takes ads.                                                          

%Title:  SLUBBERDEGULLION  Issue 5  9/10/92                                    
%Descr:  Nigel whinges about his awful life, the shitty state of     
         British SFandom and sfanzines, the economy (or lack thereof)
         and politics.  BUT he whines so well, so snidely, and in    
         such an entertaining fashion, that you can't help but wish  
         more suffering upon him that he may continue to produce one 
         of the wittiest zines in the universe.  As for his          
         definition of 'The Usual,' "Available in exchange for your  
         onw zine (unless it's *really* dismal), sophisticated       
         correspondence, spiritually uplifting artwork,              
         life-affirming weirdness, Kim West catalogues, signs of     
         affection, amusing sums of money or any other sign of life."
Nigel is exiled to the awful town of Redcar for an eight week contract of   
rewritting ICI's system security instructions that they meet ISO 9000       
certification.  How awful is Redcar?  "Redcar really takes any prize going  
in the Arsehole Of The Universe stakes.  It is definitely Nowhere-on-Sea.   
The shops all shut at 5.00pm unless you want to rent a Chuck Norris video or
buy spark plugs.  You need a criminal record to get served in any of the    
pubs.  Neanderthals in shellsuits swagger through the streets, all with     
identical moustaches and tattoos, limited vocabularies and grizzly 'Are you 
lookin' at my pint?' expressions.  This is Biffa Bacon territory.  But I    
shouldn't be too harsh on these guys, seeing how most of them are doomed to 
stay here for life, whereas I've just got a two month sentence before I can 
flee south to the namby-pamby, sissy-boy comforts of, uh, Leeds...."        
All that after working 7.5 hours a day with look-alike chemical engineers   
with beards named Bob, Bob, Dave, Dave, Tom, Bob and Bob.  Nigel's reward   
for this Hell?  126 pounds a day and ten minutes on the bus with the one    
good-looking girl in town, but he's too shy to talk to her.                 
Get this!  Send him life-affirming weirdness AND amusing sums of money!     
%Info:   The Usual for Each  to                                                   
Nigel Richardson, Driftglow Data Ltd., 9 Windsor Green,  East Garforth, Leeds,
LS25 2LG   United Kingdom                                                     
(10 Pages/A4/JP)                                                              
Trades OK/no ads.                                                             

%Title:  SOZORYOKU: Quarterly Journal of the Imagination  Issue 5  March 1992  
%Descr:  Dotmatrix timewarp from the fifties.                        
Except for the crappy printing and nice paper, I'd say this publication was 
from 1952 instead of 1992.  Twilight-zone wannabe fiction that put me to    
sleep, when I could read it.                                                
%Info:   $2.00 Each  to                                                       
Ralph Vaughn, 265 Fifth Avenue,  Chula Vista, CA 91910                        
(34 Pages/D/JP)                                                               
No trades/submissions OK/back issues/no ads.                                  

%Title:  SPACE & TIME  Issue 80  Summer 1992                                   
%Descr:  Perhaps the last issue of an apparently great SF&F fiction  
         zine.                                                       
Under most circumstances, we wouldn't review the final issue of a zine from 
the middle of 1992, but we have our reasons.  This zine is good, they have  
lots of back issues and chapbooks and the publisher hinted that someone else
might take up the publication of Space & Time.  That said, you may want to  
send an SASE first, to inquire about availability of back issues and books. 
Space & Time contains some good to great works of original SF&F writings.   
There's some standard issue stuff, and stupid cartoons and poetry, but at a 
lower ratio that some other zines.  What a shame that the first issue I see 
of this is the final issue.  Sob.                                           
Get it while you can.                                                       
%Info:   $5.00 Each  to                                                       
Gordon Linzner, 138 W. 70th St. (4B),  New York, NY 10023-4432                
(120 Pages/D/JP)                                                              
No trades/back issues/no ads.                                                 

%Title:  SPENT BRASS  Issue 15  12/22/92                                       
%Descr:  More a perzine (or genzine) than a sfanzine, but at least SF
         and related topics are mentioned.                           
The death of a clubzine and a member of DUFF.  Physics and perspective      
explained to a four year old at a Hofbrau.  A strange coincidence for a     
Civil War miniature wargame.  Poetry.  All on that weird twilltone paper.   
%Info:   The Usual for Each  to                                                   
Andy Hooper, 4228 Francis Ave. N. #103,  Seattle, WA 98103                    
(4 Pages/S/JP)                                                                
Trades OK/submissions OK/no ads.                                              

%Title:  SPLASH PAGE: An irrecgular irruption of irreverence December 92       
%Descr:  A humourous look at SF.                                     
Letterman style Top Ten reasons Stephen King MUST continue to write.  How to
revamp the entertainment infrastructure, including Madonna-only retail      
outlets and the All Star Trek network.  Olive Oil as a fuel substitute and  
how to read Locus in five minutes.                                          
Funny, if you follow sfandom.                                               
%Info:   SASE Each  to                                                        
Paul DiFilippo, 2 Poplar Street,  Providence, RI 02906                        
(1 Pages/L/JP)                                                                
Trades OK/no ads.                                                             

%Title:  SPLATTERLISP  Issue 1  November 1992                                  
%Descr:  An APA-like publication for people who wish they were       
         vampires.                                                   
I'll admit that after reading "Interview with the Vampire" that I thought it
would be a hell of a lot of fun to be a blood-sucking, night-dwelling,      
solipistic, immoral imortal.  I think Ron and crew have had the same sort of
idea, which is a continuing story around the parallel evolution of the      
vampire as human predator (like the background for Striber's "The Hunger.") 
and the interaction of vampires and humans.  What's different is that       
readers are encouraged to contribute their own stories to the chronicles.   
There's also some unrelated tales of necrophilia and generic horror.        
Don't just read about vampires, be one.                                     
%Info:   $5.00 Each,  Subs: $15.00 for 6 issues to                           
Ron Damon, PO Box 7326,  Erie, PA 16510                                       
(54 Pages/S/JP)                                                               No trades/submissions OK/takes ads.                                           

%Title:  TALES OF THE DECLINE OF THE: Delirious Heyday of Facts                
%Descr:  Black humor, interior monologue-essay written in the strange
         persona of the "natural man."                               
Hand-lettered, stream-of-consciousness rant-monologue with an egregious tone
throughout from the "natural man" extemporaneously commenting on the sorry  
state of mankind and our modern world, punctated by Mr. Geeble's            
characteristic starkly glacial, emaciated, naked figures executed in        
Japanese sumie-ink style brushstrokes.                                      
%Info:   The Usual for Each  to                                                   
Nib Geebles, 627 E. 6th Ave. #2,  New York City, NY 10009                     
(16 Pages/LRH)                                                                
Trades OK/no ads.                                                             

%Title:  TALES OF THE UNANTICIPATED  Issue 11  1993                            
%Descr:  Great fiction original fiction in albeit familiar forms.    
All the stories are good.  Well crafted, full of imagination and character  
development and all that good stuff.  Again, I don't recognize any of the   
names, but past issues have had a few big-name contributors.  All of these  
people should go somewhere.  Plus an interview with George Alec Effinger,   
letters, reviews and poetry.                                                
Not bleeding edge fiction; but good, solid stories from good writers.       
%Info:   $4.00 Each,  Subs: $10.00 for 3 issues to                           
Eric Heidman, Minnesota SF Society, PO Box 8036   Lake St. Station,           
Minneapolis, MN 55408                                                         
(60 Pages/S/JP)                                                               
No trades/submissions OK/back issues/takes ads.                               

%Title:  THE AGONIZER  Volume 3  Issue 4  Spring, 1992                         
%Descr:  The biggest, funniest and certainly the most bent Star Trek 
         related fanzine I've seen.  No wimpy fedders here, these are
         True Klingons!  As soon as we get a current issue, this     
         baby's going over to Publishers' Choice!  By far the most   
         bang for the buck in sfandom.                               
This issue comes in two parts.  The first is 76 pages of "normal" Agonizer. 
24 pages of letters from distant outposts, including this bit of fine       
apocrypha:  "My father-the-actor has been to auditions with several other   
gentleman of advanced years....some thirty years ago, a screenwriter named  
Gene Roddenberry came to him with an idea for a TV series he wanted to      
produce, and asked for a loan...The actor refused...and he's kicking himself
for refusing a piece of "Star Trek" action.  Roddenberry got his            
revenge--the actor's name is John Klingon!"                                 
Color pictures of over-the-top fans in full Klingon gear, some of which     
looks more intricate that what you see on TV.  Klingon poetry, in Klingon!  
Political cartoons, why Romulans are wimps (part XXVII), information about  
conventions and other Klinzines.  Plus a big article on converting your     
mundane vehicle into Klin land transportation.  It's more than just getting 
your state's KLINGON license plate.  All that and more!                     
The second part is a 24 page handbook (also packed with photos and stuff) on
the game Klin Zha, the Klingon analogue to Chess.  Rules of the game, what  
the pieces look like, strategy and variants.                                
Awesome, simply an awesome zine.                                            
%Info:   $6.00 Each  to                                                       
Sue Frank, 2508 pine Street,  Philadelphia, PA 19103                          
(100 Pages/S/JP)                                                              
Trades OK/submissions OK/back issues/takes ads.                               

%Title:  THE FROZEN FROG  Issue 2  March 1992                                  
%Descr:  Quebecois sfanzine in Enlgish.                              
Book and movie reviews.  Ben loved Freejack and hated Naked Lunch, so       
there's some perspective.  Ben's trip to Peru in 1987 which made me want to 
hop a llama to Machu Picchu.  And, of course, many LoC's and a reader       
survey.  Most of the letters were from other sfanzine publishers, praising  
issue 1 of The Frozen Frog.                                                 
%Info:   The Usual for Each  to                                                   
Benoit Girard, 1016 Guillaume-Boisset,  Cap-Rouge, PQ G1Y 1Y9    Canada       
(20 Pages/HL/JP)                                                              
Trades OK/submissions OK/back issues/no ads.                                  

%Title:  THE RUNNING DINOSAUR  Issue 12  Spring 1992                           
%Descr:  News and reviews.                                           
A contributor to Mr. Vaughan's other publication, Sozoryoku, wins a prize in
Elron's posthumous Writers of the (same old) Future contest.  Drooling over 
Golden Age fiction.  Strange places to visit.                               
%Info:   SASE Each  to                                                        
Ralph Vaughan, 265 Fifth Avenue,  Chula Vista, CA 91910                       
(4 Pages/S/JP)                                                                
Trades OK/no ads.                                                             

%Title:  THE SECRETS  Volume 1  Issue 1  1992                                  
%Descr:  Personal almost "rant-like" meditation on the savageries of 
         war, and other eclectic topics in all of their ugly         
         permutations throughout world history.                      
Essays on distasteful subjects such as "War-The Killing Urge," poetry,      
fantasy short fiction, art and photography, ranging from Nazi SA and SS     
officers to a Venetian head crusher torture device dating from circa 1500   
a.d.  A veritable cornucopia of weird.                                      
%Info:   $4.00 Each  to                                                       
Robert Sutter, 1625 Orchard St.,  Santa Rosa, CA 95404                        
(47 Pages/S/LRH)                                                              
No trades/no ads.                                                             

%Title:  THE SEMI-CIRCULAR OF JANUS: Special Semi-Annual editon of the Circular
%Descr:  of Janus  Issue 3  January 1992                                       
         A lighter(?) supplement to the regular zine.                
I'm amazed that the Dunn's were able to get this puppy out, what with a     
near-fatal auto accident and all.  Such dedication  Offered this time is an 
interview with, and retrospective of Larry Niven.  Some convention reports, 
book reviews and letters, of course.  But the truly funny and worthwhile    
fiction is what makes this zine a must-have.                                
%Info:   $3.00 Each  to                                                       
Greg & Linda Dunn, Circle of Janus SF Club, P.O. Box 19776, Central Indiana   
Indianapolis, IN 46219                                                        
(38 Pages/S/JP)                                                               
Trades OK/submissions OK/no ads.                                              

%Title:  THE TEXAS SF INQUIRER  Issue 44  Spring 1992                          
%Descr:  Clubzine from the Fandom Association of Central Texas.      
We have #43 & #44.  43 has convention reports, including yet another ChiCon 
report, and then up-coming conventions.  44 has club news, lots of book     
reivews, a new column of British fandom and Tucker Award nominitons.  Both, 
of course, have plenty of LoCs.                                             
%Info:   The Usual for Each,  Subs: $15.00 for 6 issues to                       
Dale Denton, Fandom Association of Central Texas, PO Box 9612,  Austin, TX    
78766                                                                         
(16 Pages/S/JP)                                                               
Trades OK/submissions OK/takes ads.                                           

%Title:  TRAJECTORIES: The Science Fiction Journal of the Southwest  Issue 6   
%Descr:  January 1992                                                          
         Big, thoughtful tabloid of sfiction, reviews, humour and    
         politics.                                                   
A look at unresponisve or irresponsible editors.  Interviews with writers,  
ecologists and actual SCIENTISTS.  How's that for helping to put the        
*science* back into science fiction.  Lots of good fiction, great art and   
poetry.                                                                     
The best local-flavored, U.S. sfanzine I've seen to date.                   
%Info:   $3.00 Each,  Subs: $ 9.00 for 4 issues to                           
Richard Shannon, Trajectories Publishing, Box 49249,  Austin, TX 78765        
(52 Pages/T/JP)                                                               
No trades/submissions OK/back issues/takes ads. email BBS (512)-448-4861      

%Title:  TRUE REVIEW  Issue 15  October 1992                                   
%Descr:  Way overpriced book review zine.  $4.00 a pop, for 6 pages  
         of opinion?  C'mon, get real!                               
From the death of Asimov into reviews of Wetbones, Generation X, Thebes of  
the Hundred Gates, Daniel Martin, Lost Futures, Sheltered Lives, Fool For an
Agent, Tramp Royale and some anthologies.  Pretty good reviews, but my      
question is if "99.999999 percent of *everything* is crap", why did all but 
one of the books get a good review?                                         
Overpriced, somewhat generic review zine that idolizes Asimov.              
%Info:   $4.00 Each,  Subs: $12.00 for 4 issues to                           
Andrew Andrews, Gallifrey Press, 110 Buchland Road,  Ephrata, PA 17522        
(6 Pages/S/JP)                                                                
No trades/submissions OK/no ads.                                              

%Title:  UNSETTLED  Volume 3  Issue 3  Nov. '92                                
%Descr:  Personal zine by comedian-theatrical                        
         performer-setbuilder/costume-maker.                         
Donald J. Morrison writes movie reviews, and club reviews of local comedic  
talent and shows in the Chicago-Cleveland area, plus personal ramblings on  
the various activities in his life as a jack-of-all-trades theatre          
person/budding comic in this his post-Halloween issue.                      
%Info:   free Each  to                                                        
CIA Entertainment Productions, P.O. Box 562,  Columbia Sta., OH 44028-0562    
(8 Pages/D/LRH)                                                               
No trades/no ads.                                                             

%Title:  WICKED MYSTIC  Issue 19  November 1992                                
%Descr:  Standard grade 'horror' poetry, shortstories, poetry,       
         illustrations and poetry.  Letters, hate mail (write about  
         what you hate) and penpal listings.                         
None of the stories scared me.  A few were effective in a gross-out sort of 
way, but nothing frightening.  Maybe I haven't been fully acclimated to all 
the cues.  Many of the tales dealt with the same aspects of madness that    
I've seen so many times before, such as guilt-induced hallucinations that   
lead to suicide or parental murder.  There's an interview with Michale A.   
Arnzen.                                                                     
Must be the place for all the gothguys and gothgirls who don't like the ads 
in MRR.                                                                     
%Info:   $4.00 Each,  Subs: $39.95 for 12 issues to                          
Andre Scheluchin, PO Box 3087,  Astoria, NY 11103                             
(80 Pages/D/JP)                                                               
Trades OK/submissions OK/takes ads.                                           

%Title:  ZOOMORPHICA  Issue 1  Summer 1992                                     
%Descr:  Original furry fiction and reviews of furry-dominant works. 
OK, the publisher just *hates* the term "furry."  So be it, we know what    
we're talking about and if you don't, then you should buy this zine.        
Eschewing all arguements about just what constitutes a furry (and hence the 
new&improved term of zoomorph), we get right into a highly original story   
from Lawrence Watt-Evans.  Then there's an extended bibliography, with      
synopsies, of dragon stories.  A zoomorphic comic, another story, and       
reviews.                                                                    
"Fringe, my ass.  Ultimately it is our mythology," from the editorial.      
%Info:   $3.50 Each,  Subs: $12.00 for 4 issues to                           
Watts Martin, Wyvern's Den Page Studio, P.O. Box 292513,  Temple Terrace, FL  
33687-2513                                                                    
(38 Pages/S/JP)                                                               
No trades/submissions OK/takes ads.                                           

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