We received an actual printed zine! Our thanks to Joe Aspler who scanned it so we could post it on line.
We used to trade with Memphis, then they disappeared. This may be a resurrection? Memphen 283 fanzine
Daily Archives: 2023-10-26
The Weird Aliens of Early Science Fiction
From the BBC, a look at some interesting early ideas on what aliens might look like.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20231019-the-weird-aliens-of-early-science-fiction
Humanity’s ideas about aliens have been evolving for millennia – but in the era before television, they were considerably stranger.
In October 1961, Betty and Barney Hill sat down with an astronomy lecturer at their home in New Hampshire, and made an extraordinary claim. The previous month, they had been snatched by aliens! Their description of the little grey creatures became the archetypal alien of movies and TV. But before then, the aliens that came from our fevered imaginations were much weirder!