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  Fanzine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fanzines are not funded or subsidized by commercial or public entities; publishers, editors and contributors receive no financial compensation, and fanzines are traditionally circulated for at most a nominal cost to defray postage or production expenses, in exchange for similar publications or contributions for publication, or free of charge to any interested parties.
Never commercial enterprises, most science fiction fanzines were (and many still are) available for "the usual," meaning that a sample issue will be mailed on request; to receive further issues, a reader sends a "letter of comment" (LoC) about the fanzine to the editor.
The Punk explosion in the United Kingdom led to a massive upsurge of interest in fanzines as an alternative to the mainstream media that was felt to be too exploitative, capitalist, and essentially uninterested in the Punk Movement and the concerns of disaffected youth.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fanzine   (1422 words)

  
 Science fiction fanzine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A science fiction fanzine is an amateur or semi-professional magazine published by members of science fiction fandom, from the 1930s to the present day.
Traditionally, science fiction fanzines were (and many still are) available for "the usual," meaning that a sample issue will be mailed on request; to receive further issues, a reader sends a "letter of comment" (LoC) about the fanzine to the editor.
The term "fanzine" is also used to refer to fan-created magazines in other areas; the earliest rock-and-roll fanzines were edited by science fiction fans.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Science_fiction_fanzine   (518 words)

  
 Science fiction on television
A broadcast of the long-running and popular British science-fiction series ''Science fiction is one of the most eclectic and varied of all the genres of fiction.
Science fiction programmes can go anywhere, do anything, and show and tell stories that could not be done in other, more conventional productions.
Those programmes do not fit into the most common definition of "science fiction" (speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology or both upon society and persons as individuals and are perhaps more comfortably covered under the generic term "telefantasy").
www.kiwipedia.com /science-fiction-on-television.html   (323 words)

  
 The SF Site Featured Review: Science Fiction, The Best of 2002
Part of the answer must be yes, because different editors have (sometimes radically) different views of what science fiction is and what constitutes the "best." It can further be argued that the more anthologies of this type which can exist, the better the state of the genre.
Science Fiction: The Best of 2002 is their second outing in the company of Mssrs.
Their second foray into Best of Year publications within the science fiction field demonstrates that Silverberg and Haber know the field and read a variety of sources in their search to present the gamut that the genre can run.
www.sfsite.com /05b/bs152.htm   (681 words)

  
 SCIENCE FICTION FANDOM
Most have gone onto attend their first science fiction conventions, and have found the experience to be scary and intimating, fun and exciting, and all of the other full-range of emotions in between.
fanzine - a fan magazine – Some of these are devoted to recording the history of science fiction fandom; others print stories written by fans that are not publishable in mainstream science fiction magazines.
            Science fiction conventions, or cons (fannish term for convention), are held all around the country (and the world), and are generally organized and run by fans or fan groups from the local area.
www.towson.edu /~flynn/survive.htm   (1575 words)

  
 Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society
The Science Fiction Association of Bergen County meets on the second Saturday of every month in Upper Saddle River; call 201-933-2724 for details.
Now Evelyn and I had been in science fiction clubs in college and the three and a half years previous that we lived in Detroit.
Science fiction is part of their stock and trade.
www.fanac.org /fanzines/MT_Void/MT_Void-1629.html   (3740 words)

  
 Tangent Online: Editorial -- A Few Good Fanzines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
To place the fanzine phenomenon in some sort of historical perspective, remember that the first professional science fiction magazine to call itself such was Hugo Gernsback's Amazing Stories, "The magazine of scientifiction." The first monthly issue was dated April, 1926.
Because it dealt mostly with science, some regard The Time Traveller, edited by Julius Schwartz and Mort Weisinger (with 16 year-old Forrest J Ackerman as associate editor) to be the first true science fiction fanzine.
One excellent fanzine deals entirely with the history of fandom, for instance, but unless this subject is of more than passing interest there isn't much else for the general fan.
www.sff.net /people/torhyth/tangent/others/dave04.htm   (766 words)

  
 Science fiction fanzine -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A science fiction fanzine is an amateur or semi-professional
(Click link for more info and facts about fanzine) fanzine, and at one time constituted the primary form of science-fictional fannish activity ("fanac").
The term 'fanzine' is now also used, by extension, to refer to
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sc/science_fiction_fanzine.htm   (206 words)

  
 Tomasz Pacynski - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
30 May 2005) was a Polish fantasy and science fiction writer.
He was one of the creators and since 2004 the chief editor of Fahrenheit, the first Polish Internet science fiction fanzine.
He published short stories in such magazines as Science Fiction, SFera, and Fantasy, and in Internet fanzines such as Fahrenheit, Esensja, Fantazin and Srebrny Glob.
www.hartselle.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Tomasz_Pacynski   (374 words)

  
 Science Fiction Resource Guide: Zines, Magazines, Web E-zines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Memory Hole was established to save fanzines for posterity and here at the Memory Hole Annex we hope to do the same for convention publications and memorabilia of all sorts.
The Romanian edition was distributed by the Association of Romanian Science Fiction and the (Romanian) National Federation of Science Fiction Writers.
Fiction magazine, concentrating on "fantasy fiction and absurd humour of the respective genres to which J R R Tolkien and Douglas Adams belong." Edited by Richard Karsmakers.
www.sflovers.org /SFRG/sfrgz.htm   (2925 words)

  
 Silverberg bio
His literary background would surface eventually in his writing, but for a time, he seems to have kept the "straight" separate from the science fiction he wrote, as it was pure adventure stuff with little that would indicate interests beyond the typical science fiction of the day.
His writing in the early sixties was mostly outside the field of science fiction.
In the field of science fiction, the major awards are the Nebula, voted on by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and the Hugo, voted on by the members of the WorldCon science fiction convention.
www.owmyhead.com /silverberg/oldsite/silvbio.htm   (1582 words)

  
 Isaac Asimov Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Asimov developed the Three Laws (with the help of his editor John W. Campbell) because he was tired of the science fiction stories of the 1920s and 1930s in which the robots, like Frankenstein's creation, turned on their creators and became dangerous monsters.
Science Fiction writer Michael A. Burstein pays homage to Isaac in Cosmic Corkscrew, his Hugo Award nominated story which appeared in the June 1998 issue of Analog, and honors the 60th anniversary of Asimov's submission of his first story to Astounding Science Fiction.
The Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections, Combined Edition by William Contento should help you find an enormous number of science fiction stories and anthologies published before 1984, and Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror: 1984-1998 covers everything since then.
www.asimovonline.com   (3421 words)

  
 The SF Site Featured Review: Nebula Awards Showcase 2001
Whether the Nebula Awards, given out annually by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, truly represents the best fiction of the year is open to debate.
There's a general perception that, whereas the Hugo Awards -- voted on by fans attending the annual World Science Fiction Convention -- are given to the most entertaining stories of the year, the Nebulas tend to go towards more literary works.
He writes science fiction and fantasy short fiction and has several in-progress novels lying around in various stages of decay.
www.sfsite.com /10a/ns113.htm   (1434 words)

  
 E-zines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Using the mimeograph duplicating machine, science fiction fanzine publishers and members of discussion groups had the ability to contact each other.
The fanzine was out of the mainstream, and alternative publishing in general saw a revolution during the mid-60s in response to the need for rebellion and growing social unrest.
The science fiction fanzines of the 30s and 40s and the alternative newspapers of the 60s evolved into the punk fanzines of the late 70s.
iml.jou.ufl.edu /projects/Fall98/Gartlgruber/when.html   (316 words)

  
 Gegenschein Science Fiction Fanzine from Eric Lindsay
Rambling writings, mostly reviewing written science fiction, science fiction conventions, science fiction fandom, and travel relating to these, together with letters from readers, and some diary notes.
There is a long established literary tradition of fanzines, as a special form of communication amongst science fiction fans.
Various science fiction authors have written acounts of their fannish past, including Damon Knight's The Futurians (John Day, NY, 1977), Frederik Pohl's The Way The Future Was (DelRey, NY, 1978), while some of Robert Bloch's early fannish writing appeared in The Eighth Stage of Fandom (Advent, Chicago, 1962).
www.ericlindsay.com /sf   (443 words)

  
 BRITISH FANZINE BIBLIOGRAPHY: 1931-1990
This bibliography concentrates on fanzines devoted to written Science Fiction and to the fandom associated with it.
Science Fiction fandom grew out of the lettercolumns of the pulp SF magazines of the 1920s and 30s.
The term 'fanzine' was coined by US fan Louis Russell Chauvenet circa 1940 and swiftly superceded the older term.
www.fiawol.demon.co.uk /biblio   (1440 words)

  
 IGN: Comics in Context #32: The Living Legend
The first magazine entirely devoted to science fiction was Amazing Stories, which debuted in 1926: Julius Schwartz was eleven, and he was one of the magazine's devoted fans.
Both as a fan and as agent he established connections with science fiction and fantasy authors of a generation older than his own: in their eulogies for him Alan Moore and Harlan Ellison seem especially impressed that one of his clients was H. Lovecraft.
With the decline of the science fiction magazine market during World War II, Schwartz landed a job as an editor at what is now DC Comics.
filmforce.ign.com /articles/503/503225p1.html   (1351 words)

  
 Stromata Blog: Science Fiction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Fanzine Lounge, though out of the way (as if that hasn’t happened before), was well laid-out, with good snack food, a selection of TAFF and DUFF trip reports for sale, and Steve Forty’s famous collection of Gestetners, still in working order.
Unrelated to Cascadia Con but too nifty to overlook is this chart showing the relative sizes of an array of science fictional spaceships, at a scale of 10 meters to the pixel.
In fact, I was one of two non-Europeans to show up for the European Science Fiction Society business meeting, whose highlights were a quickie constitutional amendment (to rectify last year’s forgetfulness about electing officers) and 2007 bid presentations.
stromata.typepad.com /stromata_blog/science_fiction/index.html   (9075 words)

  
 Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections
Anthologies have to contain mainly science fiction stories, while collections have to be written by authors associated with science fiction.
For the purpose of this Index a science fiction story is defined as one which deals with social and technical extrapolation and innovation.
I began adding new material and showing the Index at science fiction conventions until it had evolved to the point where it was ready for publication.
contento.best.vwh.net   (1745 words)

  
 A Wealth of Fable   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Harry Warner, Jr., was the historian of Science Fiction Fandom.
Through the years he gained fame in the science fiction world variously as a fanzine publisher, correspondent, fan writer, and historian.
His fanzine Horizons had been a mainstay of the Fantasy Amateur Press Association since 1939, and his correspondence appeared in the letter columns of seemingly every science fiction fanzine title published since the 1930s.
www.nesfa.org /press/Books/Warner-2.htm   (272 words)

  
 Ilan Ramon--in memoriam by Avi Katz
And indeed I had started working on the painting within minutes of hearing of the disaster.Usually my covers for the fanzine are parodies of science fiction and fantasy movies and stories, leaving the real world outside the halls of fantasy.
For the science fiction community, space travel is the inevitable first step into the next era of human endeavor, a stepping beyond the confines of this little rock into a solar system, galaxy, a universe of infinite possibilities.
Ilan was delighted by the idea, and confirmed that everyone he knew at NASA had not gotten there by chance, but had grown up on science fiction.
www.avikatz.net /sf/ramon2.htm   (751 words)

  
 Chicago in 2000 - Julius Schwartz Card   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
First literary agent to specialize in science fiction [1934-1944].
Helped organize the first World Science Fiction Convention in New York City [1939].
Although Julie has numerous achievments in the field of science fiction, he's probably best known for his work as an editor at DC Comics starting in 1944.
www.chicon.org /chi2000/card37.htm   (101 words)

  
 Northwest Science Fiction Resources
The IKV T'Mar is an independent Klingon based general Science Fiction club in Tacoma, WA who perform random acts of charity and community service, in and out of costume.
The IKV Raptor is a Klingon enthusiast based general Science Fiction club located in the Portland, Oregon area and who also does acts of chairty and community service.
The Empire of the Elan is a theatrical live role-playing group that invites other science fiction groups to come and participate in an environment that promotes interaction between all the diverse groups at the local conventions.
www.sfnorthwest.org /clubs.html   (4321 words)

  
 eFanzines.com
A fanzine anthology edited by Arnie Katz to celebrate the fact that Toner II is now scheduled for August, 2006, the weekend before the LA WorldCon and to remind people of the 1976 original.
The upcoming 18th annual gathering of SF fanzine fans, to be held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 14-16 October 2005.
If you're a fanzine fan, you probably know about the various fan funds which send worthy fans (who will, it is hoped, publish a trip report) to conventions in foreign lands.
www.efanzines.com   (2220 words)

  
 Robert Silverberg Biography
After those initial sales, he started publishing short stories in the pulp SF magazines, turning them out at a tremendous rate and earning a Hugo award for his promise (the youngest person ever to do so).
Some of my favorite novels of the post-Valentine era are Star of Gypsies, Tom O'Bedlam, and most of the Majipoor books (especially the initial three: Lord Valentine's Castle, Majipoor Chronicles, and Valentine Pontifex).
I've also greatly enjoyed two books which are not science fiction: Gilgamesh the King and Lord of Darkness.
www.majipoor.com /biography.html   (1477 words)

  
 Golden Age (1938-1955): Science Fiction, Science Fiction (Fanzine) Group Lot of #2-5 (Siegel and Shuster, 1933)....
Golden Age (1938-1955): Science Fiction, Science Fiction (Fanzine) Group Lot of #2-5 (Siegel and Shuster, 1933)....
Science Fiction (Fanzine) Group Lot of #2-5 (Siegel and Shuster, 1933)....
A "Buyer's Premium" is charged in addition to the successful bid according to the rate defined in our terms and conditions.
www.heritagecomics.com /common/auctions/viewlot.asp?s=805&l=6092&SID   (437 words)

  
 Science Fiction Resource Guide: Fandom - Associations and Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
"Falcon Science Fiction and Fantasy Society is a non-profit group which organizes events for fans of science fiction and fantasy.
Here you might find your favorite fanzine, pictures from the 1992 Worldcon, the words to an early filk song, information about an SF con near you AND all sorts of strange and wonderful information about fandom's past.
The purpose of the SFF is to make science fiction and fantasy available to those who are interested.
www.sflovers.org /SFRG/sfrgl.htm   (2712 words)

  
 The Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster Interview - Part 1 of 10
This was the first science-fiction fanzine in the U.S., and for all I know, in the whole world.
As a matter of fact, I even recall that I called the thing The Fantastic Fiction Publishing Company or something like that; and I actually Mimeographed and sold through the mails pamphlets that I wrote under the pseudonym Hugh Langley—or whatever.
I don't have copies of those, but I do remember that when I showed the material to my English teacher, she gave me a little lecture that it was a pity I was wasting my time writing such trash when there were so many wonderful types of literature I could be writing instead.
superman.ws /seventy/interview?part=1   (870 words)

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