
Science fiction, fantasy, and pulp zines.   Posted 1 August, 1992.  SF
and fantasy zines reviewed by Jerod Pore.  Send your sfanzines to Jerod
Pore  1800 Market St. #141  San Francisco  Ca  94102-6227.  email
jerod23@well.sf.ca.us
Pulp zines reviewed by Michael R. Brown   email Internet:
michaelb@sol.cse.fau.edu

This file is Shareright.  You may freely copy and distribute this
information as long as others may also freely copy and distribute it.
Printing the Shareright notice and the source would be exceptionally
nice.

These are zines of fiction, zines of review and zines of fandom.  At
first, to the outsider, there may not seem to be a whole heck of a lot
of difference between SF review zines and SF fandom zines (or
sfanzines).  Review zines are pretty straight forward:  the writers
drool over the latest space opera flick or cyberpunk novella.
Sfanzines, on the other hand, report on conventions and the gossip and
doings of various members; as well as print many *many* letters
commenting on the reviews and reports and letters commenting on
letters....Plus, sfanzines can be had for 'the usual:'  a long and
thoughtful letter, an article, a zine in trade.   For what it's worth,
sfanzines are what spawned Factsheet Five way, way back when.

Leah Smith, the publisher of Stet has some comments on the above
paragraph:

There are a few points in your discussion of fanzines which are in error
and I hope you won't mind some corrections.
You seem to be reinventing the wheel here, and making it oblong.  As an
active SF fan who has been reading, writing for and publishing fanzines
for nearly 20 years, I can assure you that, to an insider, there isn't
"a whole heck of a lot of difference between SF review zines and SF
fandom zines (or sfanzines)."
The primary divisions among fanzines as recognized by fanzine fans are:

* Personalzines (or perzines): Fanzines primarily written and published
by a single person.  Often these are about the editor's life and
opinions and may be in diary format, but some are more general.

* Genzines:  Fanzines on general topics with a general distribution.
Usually these have a more "magazine-like" format, with articles by
different individuals.

* Clubzines: Fanzines published by a club.  Sometimes they are little
more than newsletters about club events, but sometimes they are barely
distinguishable from genzines, save that members of the club tend to be
heavily represented among the contributors.  Distribution also varies:
some are primarily meant for club members; others have a more general
distribution.

* Apazines: Zines produced for an amateur press association.  (In a
sense, the opposite of a genzine).

* Newszines: Newsletters of the latest information (and, often, gossip)
about either science fiction and pros or fandom and fans.

Across all of these categories, there is also one other division.
Fanzines may be classified as either "sercon" or "fannish" (sometimes
"faanish").  Sercon (from "serious and constructive") fanzines deal with
science fiction and fantasy and may contain reviews, critical articles,
author interviews, etc.  Fannish fanzines can be about anything, but
most often are about fans and fandom itself.

Please note that "sfanzine" is not a term any SF fan would use.  It's a
retronym coined by Mike Gunderloy to distinguish what we simply call
"fanzines" from the other amateur publications which later ursurped the
title and which came to be the bulk of Factsheet Five's material.

The term "fanzine" was coined in the '30s by Louis Russell Chauvenet, an
SF fan who is still around and publishing fanzines.  Its antonym is
"prozine," professional SF magazines like Analog.

        Plus, sfanzines can be had for 'the usual:'  a long and
        thoughtful letter, an article, a zine in trade.

Fanzines are indeed often available for "the usual," but just as
frequently, for cash.  Most faneds offer subscriptions.  And not just
any letter will do -- it is supposed to be a letter commenting on the
fanzine.  And one should not send articles without having seen what kind
of work the fanzine publishes.  So, one doesn't invoke the usual,
generally, until one has seen at least one issue of the zine; to get
that first issue, it is considered polite to send money to cover
postage, etc.  It used to be common to send "sticky quarters" (25-cent
pieces Scotch-taped to a card), but nowadays $2 to $3 is standard.
- Leah Smith leah@smith.chi.il.us

Personal zines, regardless of the author's other hobbies, are in a file
all their own, now available.  "The Usual" is not limited to sfanzines,
and trading zines is *always* a gambling.  There are no obligations one
way or the other.


SF Review zines

%Title:  Samizdat    Number  19
%Descr:  Interview avec Nicole Hibert.  Le Retour du Megalecteur.
Reviews of French-language SF books and zines.  The ads are in English.
%Info:   $2.50 each,  Publications Ianus  33 rue Prince #243  Montreal
PQ H3C 2M7.  36 pages, digest.

%Title:  Interociter    Number  3
%Descr:  Another French-language zine, this one focusing on stuff in
France.  Reviews of movies, books, role-playing games, comics and
models.
%Info:   220 francs a year,  Science-Fiction Allicance  BP 39  13883
Gemecons Cedex  France.  52 pages, digest.

%Title:  Fantasy Commentator   Volume 7  Issue 2
%Descr:  For those living in the Gernsback Continuum.  This issue is
dedicated to Stanley Weinbaum, who was the first author to write a
sympathetic story from an alien's perspective, one that is truly alien
and not just a human with a funny haircut and makeup.  Interview with
Weinbaum's widow, letters from Gernsback, notes on his college days and
unpublished poetry.  Also, part 12 of a history of science fiction up to
H. G. Wells.
%Info:   $5.00 each to A. Langley Searles  48 Highland Circle
Bronxville NY 10708-5909.  82 pages, standard.

%Title:  Interference on the Brain Screen   Number 3
%Descr:  Science Fiction sucks, except for Paul DiFilippo, who is
interviewed.  Plus a Processed World-like look at the corporate wetdream
that is the information age.
%Info:   $2.00 each to Patrick Clark  PO Box 2761  St. Paul  MN 55102.
28 pages, half legal.

%Title:  Sector 9737   Issue 4
%Descr:  Reviews of the latest and greatest cyberpunk books and role
playing games, also neural network software.
%Info:   $5.00 each to Tim Mayer PO Box 782213 Witchita KS 67278.  12
pages, standard.


Sfanzines.

%Title:  The Lavender Dragon  Volume 2  Number 1
%Descr:  SF from a gay/lesbian perspective.  As most SF and Fantasy is
blind to, if not outrightly hostile to, homosexuality, there ain't a lot
to review outside of Vampire genre and slipstream.  Simon LeVay's so-
called research on 'gay' brains being 'different.'  Worldcon vs. Chicon.
%Info:   $1.00 each to Kindered Spirits  P.O. Box 160225  St. Louis  MO
63116-0225.  8 pages, standard.

%Title:  Radio Free Thulcandra   Number 26
%Descr:  SF from a Christian perspective, for fans interested in "the
courteous and accurate representation of Christian viewpoints in the
fannish community." with 64 pages of letters debating just how to go
about it. Plus results of the novel-in-progress everyone was to pray
for.
%Info:   $3.00 each (or the usual) to Marty Helgesen  11 Lawrence Avenue
Malverne  NY 11565-1406  email mnhcc@cunyvm.cuny.edu  74 pages,
standard.

%Title:  BCSFAzine   Number 222
%Descr:  A lighthearted and entertaining report of fandom in & around
British Columbia.  Leather Goddesses of Phobos Advice.  Ultarman's 25th
anninersary.  Availability of mainstream SF books in Ukraine.  Imaginary
aircraft through the decades.  Tons of letters, of course.
%Info:   $15.00 a year or the usual to BCSFA  P.O. Box 35577 Station E
Vancouver BC V6M 4G9  32 pages, half legal.

%Title:  FOSFAX  Number 158
%Descr:  Road trips to distant and obscure conventions.  Detailed and
capsule reviews of books.  Letters, letters, letters.
%Info:   $2.00 each or $18.00 a year to FOSFA PO Box 37281  Louisville
Kentucky 40233-7281.  66 pages, standard.

%Title:  Ethel the Aardvark  Number 39
%Descr:  The sfanscene in Melbourne.  Reviews of horrendously overpriced
books, and the ones available 6 for A$10.00 ("Or would you be better off
reading the phone book?")  Doings of the MSFC.  Convention reports,
letters.  All done in this witty tone that kinda makes me miss
Melbourne.
%Info:   A$15.00 a year, or the usual to Melbourne Science Fiction Club
PO Box 212  Melbourne  Victoria  3005  Australia.  24 pages, A4.

%Title:  The Texas SF Inquirer   Number 39
%Descr:  Interview with Pat Cadigan.  Rated book reviews (from Waste of
Trees to Orgasmic).  Art at the cons.  Letters.
%Info:   $1.00 each to FACT PO Box 9612 Austin TX 78766 or the usual to
Dale Denton  2016 Ravinia Circle  Arlington  TX 76012  16 pages,
standard.

%Title:  SFSFS Shuttle   Number 81
%Descr:  How to get a pass to a shuttle launching (email your
Congressman on Compuserve).  Convention reports.  Letters.  Aliens land
in the wild West.  Occassional reviews.
%Info:   $1.00 each or $15.00 a year to SFSFS  PO Box 70143  Fort
Lauderdale  FL 33307-0143  email Compuserve 76137,3645.  14 pages,
standard.

%Title:  Cleveland ANSIBLE  Number 15
%Descr:  Funny, albeit brief interview with Gates McFadden.  Local
conventions.  Book & movie reviews.  A visit to L. Frank Baum's
birthplace.
%Info:   $12.00 a year to Cleveland ANSIBLE  P.O. Box 14841  Cleveland
OH 44114.  16 pages, standard.

%Title:  STET  Number 4
%Descr:  Coca-Cola and the collapse of communism.  Chicon: letting young
fans down and electronic zines.  Letters.
%Info:   The usual to Leah Zeldes Smith  17 Kerry Lane  Wheeleing  IL
60090-6415  email leah@smith.chi.il.us  22 pages, standard sized oddly
textured paper that doesn't hold the printing too well.  Leah says:
"The paper, by the way, is twiltone, and once nearly all fanzines were
printed on it.  That is because once nearly all fanzines were
mimeographed, as Stet still is.  What the medium lacks in crispness, it
more than makes up for in economy, and I would recommend the process
over photocopying to anyone who can find the equipment."


Zines about one author. "Everyone else sucks!"

%Title:  A Checklist of Samuel R. Delaney
%Descr:  Brief bio and list of all of Delaney's work with synopses.
%Info:   $1.00 each to Rusty Crump  PO Box 620  Saltillo  MS  38866.  12
pages standard.

%Title:  Resnick at Zineth  Number 2
%Descr:  "I'm making a concerted effort no to be a fan-boy geek about
this whole business.  I don't think of Mike Resnick as a god.  Nor do I
want him to adopt me."  Oh, go on, be a geek!  Letters (including one
with Resnick about *another* fan), interview with Resnick, six hour road
trip to an obscure convention, Resnick fiction.
%Info:   $2.00 each to Doug Roemer  674 Newbridge Ct.  Arnold  MD
21012.  32 pages standard.

%Title:  For Dickheads Only  Number 1
%Descr:  Guess who it's about?  Favorite PKD stories.  Critique of Barry
Malzberg's *afterword* to Clans of the Alphane Moon.  PKD crossword
puzzle.  Visit to Dick's grave.
%Info:   $1.00 each, or the usual, to Dave Hyde  Box 112  New Haven  IN
46774.  32 pages standard.


SF TV zines.  For those seriously in need of a life.


%Title:  Quantum Quarterly
%Descr:  How to demand more Quantum Leap products from MCA.  Interview
with the costume designer.
%Info:   $1.50 each to Jim Rondeau  1853 Fallbrook Ave  San Jose  CA
95130.  12 pages standard.

%Title:  The Frame   Number 19
%Descr:  Dr. Who fanzine, most upset with the BBC's indecision on
continuing production of their beloved TV show.  Interviews with the
costume designer for incarnation number six, and the set designer.
Compares Dr. Who to Adam Adamant and reviews Whovian merchandise.
%Info:   L2.50 each  to The Frame  61 Elgar Avenue  Tolworth Surbiton
Surrey KT5 9JP.  32 pages, A4.

%Title:  Whovian Times   Volume 20
%Descr:  American version of the above.  Rumors regarding the BBC and
possible 'novelization' of Dr. Who plots and characters.  Interview with
Doctor #5 Jon Pertwee and John Levine.
%Info:   $7.50 a year to  Whovian Times  P.O. Box 6024  Cherry Creek
Station  Denver  CO 80206.   20 pages, standard.

%Title:  Agonizer   Volume 3 Number 2
%Descr:  Klingon fanzine.  That's right, forget those wimpy Trekkies,
here's the real stuff.  People who want to rape all those 'sensitive'
characters on ST:TNG before stuffing them into an airlock.  Twenty-eight
pages of letters.  Often exposing the DUH factor in scripts (TV & movie)
and books.  Rating Romulan Ales.  Lotsa background data for ST RPGs.
Pictures of a wedding done in Klingon garb.  Beyond the SCA.  Even if
you hate ST, you would find this zine amusing.
%Info:   $6.00 each to Len & Sue Frank  2508 Pine St.  Philadelphia  PA
19103.   88 pages, standard.

%Title:  COMLINK   Number 48
%Descr:  Mostly (15 of 20 pages) letters about ST, ST:TNG and ST fandom.
Some ads, plot synopses and such.
%Info:   $2.00 each to Allyson M Dyar  PSC 1013  Box 73  APO AE  09725-
0073   20 pages, standard.

%Title:  The Picardian   Volume 3 Number 11
%Descr:  For those who lust after Patrick Stewart's shiny bald head.
Sightings, newsclips, the Duh factor.  Serialized and funny ST satire,
"Attack of the Stupid Science."
%Info:   $10.00 a year to Marilyn Wilkerson  829 S. E. Riverside Drive
Evansville  IN  47713   18 pages, standard.  email Compuserve 72371,2517

%Title:  Blue Lights #39 / Baby Blue Lights / Best Buddies
%Descr:  For fans of the defunct, and mostly unkown TV seriers Starman.
Repetetive news on zines, fans, cons.  The zines come attached to each
other, and have this Big Mail feel to them.
%Info:   $1.00 each to Victoria Onstine  2405 Togo Street  Eureka CA
95501.   8 to 22 pages, standard.


At last, some actual fiction.  Remember, if these zines pay at all, in
something besides copies, we're talking maximum rates of $0.05 a word.


%Title:  Lost Worlds Science Fiction & Fantasy Forum   Volume 4 Number 4
%Descr:  "For beginning writers and artists" and pretty entertaining
stuff for beginners.  Fantasy in the D&D vein, SF in the Twilight Zone
tradition.
%Info:   $1.00 each or $15.00 a year to Holley Drye PO Box 605  Concord
NC  28025  24 pages, standard.

%Title:  Neophyte   Volume 2 Number 1
%Descr:  Another zine for SF beginners.  This with an interesting
format.  Two to four sf stories of 2,000 to 7,000 words, along with a
criticism/self-criticism letters section.  Be beaten up by other failed
writers!  What a blast.  The writing is no worse than much of the crap
published by so-called professionals.
%Info:   $2.00 each or $10.00 a year to Jeff Behrnes  11220 Hooper Road
Baton Rouge  LA  70818  32 pages, digest.

%Title:  Notes from the Retarded Cafe  and  The Further Adventures of
Andy the Android
%Descr:  Two pieces of sfiction sliced'n'diced like Burroughs.  Artful
presentations, but often hard to read.  Sometimes worth the effort.
%Info:   $4.50  to Lanny Quarles  4905 Reginald  Witchita Falls TX
76308  16 and 20  pages, standard.

%Title:  Forbidden Lines   Number 6
%Descr:  Most notable for the truly strange cover photos.  Interview
with Lisa Cantrell.  "Experimental" fiction that crosses genres; from
CyberPunk to executive toilet training.  Highest price/performance ratio
I've seen so far.
%Info:   $2.50 each to PO box 23  Chapel Hill  NC  27514  64 pages,
standard.

%Title:  The Dwarves of Dahlstrom   Number 1
%Descr:  Classic Amanita Muscaria cover to go with classic northern-
European medieval fantasy tales and poems involving lepruchans, faeries,
trolls, nymphs and other stuff I read to my kid at bedtime.
%Info:   $4.00 each to Michael While  805 Applegrove St. NW Apt. #1002
North Canton OH  44720-8618  28 pages, standard.


Miscellaneous stuff.

%Title:  The HardCore    Number 5
%Descr:  CyberPunk fiction and comix from England.  Plus reviews of
bookstores, comix, zines, movies and California.  Interesting shit.
%Info:   L1.80 each or to Scott Dorward  PO Box 1893  London  N9 8JT  36
pages, A4.

%Title:  Ozone    Number 16/17
%Descr:  Sfiction and sfandom APA, with some poetry, collage and
politics thrown in.  The fiction is, depending upon which part of the
zine you're at, interesting but serialized, complete but trite, or
illegible.  Perhaps worth investigating.
%Info:   Write for membership details to E. Owen DuBose  4516 Randolph
Rd #92  Charlotte  NC  28210-2964  141 pages, standard.

%Title:  Planetary Previews   Volume 2 Number 3
%Descr:  Interview with a vampire (one with Congenital Erythropoetic
Porphyrea and a claimed descendant of Valimir Tepps).  Space opera and
quasi-religious fiction.  NASA notes and local politics.
%Info:   $2.00 to Triad Press  PO Box 49562  Atlanta  GA  30359  48
pages, digest.

%Title:  Sozoryoku   Number 4
%Descr:  Short fantasy and genre pieces that go nowhere fast.  Poetry,
reviews and confest news.
%Info:   $2.00 to Ralph E. Vaughan  265 Fifth Avenue  Chula Vista  CA
91910 30 pages, digest.

%Title:  Illiterati   Number 5
%Descr:  Maybe the whole damn thing ties together in some Illuminatus
type way.  Then again, maybe it's just an excuse to print fragments that
pass as stories.
%Info:   $1.50 to Brian Grimm  10950 E. 14th St. #206  Oakland  CA
94603 20 pages, digest.

%Title:  It Goes on the Shelf   Number 8
%Descr:  Thoughtful book reviews of the strange and fantastic.
Primarily, but not exclusively SF, fantasy, UFO, mysticism and such.
Interspersed with news and oddities that came in the mail.
%Info:   $1.00(? or trade?) to Ned Brooks  713 Paul Street  Newport News
VA  23605  14 pages, standard.

%Title:  Horizon   Number 74
%Descr:  Flemish language zine, so I'm guessing at the contents other
that than three pages of English which cover how to be a paperback book
collector.  Hell, you should write to John Marr about that.  Anyway:
Essay on the cult of Sherlock Holmes.  Something about Antoon Van Dyck
(1599-1641).  Reviews of books of various fiction and non-fiction
persuasions.  Included here as the only titles I recognize belong.
%Info:   $3.50 to Johnny Haelterman  Stationsstraat 232A  1770
Liedekerke  Belgium  36 pages, A4.

%Title:  Scavenger's Newsletter    Number 92
%Descr:  Probably the best source of markets for cheap SF/F/H magazines.
Not exclusively small press, nor exclusively Science
Fiction/Fantasy/Horror.  Updates on where some zines are at, who pays
what and how much stuff costs.  Plus letters, reviews, average response
time from magazines and tips on writing ("1 Don't go for the grossout
with your opening shot.  'I saw Francis Boniface yesterday,' she said
between mouthfuls of calf's brains.").
%Info:   $1.50 each to Janet Fox  519 Ellinwood  Osage City KS  66523-
1329  32 pages, half-legal.


From the USENET newsgroup alt.pulp.  Distributed with permission.

The following is the list of pulp fanzine I have put together.
At present I have only seen BRONZE GAZETTE and GOLDEN PERILS.
I am working on getting the others listed here.  If any one has
corrections/additions to this list, I would appreciate it.
This section is part of the planned alt.pulp FAQ list I am working on.

Q: Are there any magazines devoted to pulps?

A: There are several being published.  Some of these 'zines have
put out other works on the pulps.  If your are requesting info, such as
latest price info, back issue availablity, etc, please include a SASE.
Where indicated, make checks payable to the publisher, not the 'zine.
At present I have not seen all these mags, so cannot vouche for their
quality.

  BRONZE GAZETTE (was DOC SAVAGE GAZETTE)

        c/o Howard Wright
        PO BOX 1145
        Modesto, CA 95353

    Small (8.5 x 5.5) 'zine devoted to Doc Savage.
    Subscriptions are $8/3.  Make checks payable to Howard Wright.
    At present subscriptions are for issues #5,6,7. (first 2 are
available)

  GOLDEN PERILS

        Golden Perils Press  (Howard Hopkins)
        5 Milliken Mills Rd
        Scarboro, ME  04070

     Small (8.5 x 5.5) 'zine.  Has occasion 'theme issues'.
     Subscriptions are $12/3 issues, single issues are $4.
     Make checks payable to Howard Hopkins.  #20 most recent.
     Some back issues available and has other booklets available.

  ECHOES
  BEHIND THE MASK

        Fading Shadows, Inc  (Tom Johnson)
        504 E Morris St
        Seymour, TX 76380

      _Echoes_ is the longest running `zine.  #61 is most recent.
      Subscriptions are $21/6 issues, single issues are $3.60.
      _Behind the Mask_  reprints hard to find pulp characters.
      Not sure about subscriptions, single issues are $4.85.
      _Behind_ is published 6 times a year, #14 is most recent.
      Some back issues of both mags are available as are other booklets.
      I believe checks should be made out to Tom Johnson.

  PULP COLLECTOR
  PULP REVIEW

        Pulp Collector Press
        4704 Col Ewell Crt
        Upper Marlboro, MD 20772

      _Pulp Review_ reprints classic pulp stories.  $5 for single issue.
      No other information available at present.  Most recent issue of
      _Pulp Review_ is #3.

  PULP VAULT

        Tattered Pages Press  (Doug Ellis)
        6942 N. Oleander
        Chicago, IL  60631

       Large 'zine publishing both articles and story reprints.
       Subscriptions are $22/4 issues, single issues are $6.
       Most recent issue is #9.

   NEMESIS, INC.  (was DOC SAVAGE CLUB READER)

         c/o Frank Lewandowski
         2438 S Highland Ave
         Berwyn, IL  60402

       Still being published????

   Others???

   Defunct fanzines

      DOC SAVAGE & ASSOCIATES (one-shot)
      THE MAN OF BRONZE (one-shot)
      SAVAGE SOCIETY OF BRONZE (at least 4 issues)
    others???
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