We have received a number of zines to share!
From Garth: ObdurateEye43
From the N3F: Tightbeam360
And an update from Bill Burns:
New today at https://efanzines.com are:
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Bill
We have zines to share!
From Nic Farey, TH 78
An update to efanzines from Bill Burns:
Added today at https://efanzines.com are:
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Bill
The N3F sends us TNFF202408 and a letter from the president, George Phillies, copied below. -CPL
Greetings from your President!
I attached yet another issue of The National Fantasy Fan. There’s a great deal in it. I hope you enjoy the contents. Note in particular the Round-Robin Bureau. The project uses a lot of Judy Carroll’s time, but if round-robin’s are becoming something of the past we should maybe try something different. Your opinions to me or her (Judy Carroll <blueshadows2012@gmail.com>) will be most welcome.
Mentioning projects that have gone on for a while, I’ve been President of our club for close to a decade now. I’m happy to continue for the foreseeable future, but I just had my seventy-seventh birthday and would certainly be happy to start passing off aspects of this job to other people. At some point, matters will come to a stop, hopefully a smooth stop rather than something chaotic.
I currently edit this magazine, Eldritch Science, Tightbeam, and The N3f Review of Books. We just had a guest editor for Eldritch Science and could certainly use more. The magazine that’s actually the least work, though it doesn’t look that way, is The N3f Review. It’s long, but it’s all cut-and-paste, the only complicated part being to insert the cuts and pastes so the books are reviewed in alphabetical order by title. I have a list of sources, so all I do every month is go to those sources, see if they have produced book reviews for me, and put the reviews together. I also have wonderful people like Robert Runte and Tom Feller who send me reviews spontaneously. Those are most appreciated. Sending me more book reviews would also be appreciated. I confess that as I am myself an author I would certainly not complain if people would send me reviews of my own novels, but that’s too much to ask.
On a different note, we are two thirds of the way through the year. Once again, next January will launch the process that lets us create the annual N3F Laureate awards. If you see things that are Laureate-worthy, please jot down the nomination and send it to me. I’m perfectly happy to keep a file of those and put everything together at the end of the year. More nominations are good. Nominations in obscure categories like motion pictures, television, shorter fiction, and the like are certainly of great interest. If you see a fan writer or fan artist or fan poet you like, please consider nominating them to.
As always, I am phillies@4liberty.net.
Update from Bill Burns:
First site update after my return from Worldcon, and the following new issues are at https://efanzines.com
David Grigg’s The Megaloscope #13
Leybl Botwinik’s CyberCozen – August 2024
Henry Grynnsten’s Wild Ideas #50
Garth Spencer’s The Obdurate Eye #42
Opuntia #579 , edited by Dale Speirs
Octothorpe #116 the Hugo-winning fannish podcast by John Coxon, Alison Scott and Liz Batty
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Bill
An update from Bill Burns at efanzines:
From the Los Angles SF Society: De Profundis #600 – August 2024 OCR
The N3F: Review of Books, Incorporating Prose Bono
Professor George Phillies, D.Sc., Editor
July 2024 N3FReview202407
Novels
2 … A Lake Most Deep by Rob Howell … Review by Jim McCoy
3 … The Backbone of Surprise by C.S. Ferguson and Greg Ferguson … Review by Jim McCoy
5 … Confessions of a D-List Supervillain, by Jim Bernheimer … Review by Graham Bradley
7 … trl Alt REVOLT! by Nick Cole … Review by Graham Bradley
8 … The Crack in Space by Philip K. Dick … Review by Thomas E. Simmons
9 … The Dead Mountaineer’s Inn by the Strugatsky Brothers … Review by Jean-Paul Garnier
10 … Deeper than the Darkness by Gregory Benford … Review by Jean-Paul Garnier
10 … Destroyer of Worlds by Larry Correia … Review by Graham Bradley
11 … The Downloaded by Robert J. Sawyer … Review by Robert Runté
13 … Fanta-Fly Postcards, Edited by by C.V. Walter … Review by Pat Patterson
15 … Gun Runner by Larry Correia and John D. Brown … Review by Graham Bradley
16 … The Heights of Perdition by C. S. Johnson … Review by Caroline Furlong
19 … I Have a Question by Macintosh Steele … Review by Jason P. Hunt
20 … Khyber by Chadwick Ginther & Shared World by Ball, Chomichuk, Gillespie and Ginter
… Review by Robert Runté
21 … The Last Ancestor by Alexander Hellene … Review by J.E. Tabor
23 … League of Angels by Thomas Tan … Review by Caroline Furlong
24 … Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus … Review by Tom Feller
25 … Lost Cargo by Noah Chinn … Review by Robert Runté
26 … The Lost Expedition by Douglas Smith … Review by Robert Runté
27 … Lost Planet Homicide by Larry Correia … Review by Graham Bradley
28 … Lost Souls by Tim Rangnow … Review by Becky Jones
29 … The Marchioly Project by P.A. Piatt … Review by JE Tabor
30 … Pinup Noir, Edited by Steve Diamond … Review by Pat Patterson
32 … Rimworld- Diversions by J.L. Curtis … Review by Pat Patterson
33 … Shadow Matter by S.W. Mayse … Review by Robert Runté
34 … Super-Earth Mother by Guy Immega … Review by Robert Runté
36 … The Supply Closet of Eternal Terror by Roy Griffis … Review by Michael Gallagher
38 … System Collapse by Martha Wells … Review by Tom Feller
39 … Tower of Silence by Larry Correia … Review by Graham Bradley
41 … Warmaster 2: Winter’s Peril … Review by JR Handley
46 … White Ops #1 by Declan Finn … Review by J. R. Handley
50 … Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction Vol.1 (2023)
Edited by Stephen Kotowych … Review by Robert Runté
Literary Criticism
52 … Literary Criticism: Prozines by John Thiel
53 … Discussing: “Destiny” by Declan Finn
Prose Bono
55 … How to Make a Story: A Recipe by Jim McCoy
57 … Batman and Spiderman … A Thought Experiment by Declan Finn
From NIc Farey: TH 77r
Update from Bill Burns:
A somewhat monochromatic set of six new issues now at https://efanzines.com
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Bill
From the N3F, NAPA271, with a fabulous cover by Alan White.
In this issue:
Front Cover: Donated by Alan White
The Official Organ #271
Mini-Editorial, by Jefferson P. Swycaffer
Snow Poster Township #16, by Heath Row – 8
Intermission 143.5, by Ahrvid Engholm – 6
The Murdered Master Mage, by George Phillies – 3
Intermission 144, by Ahrvid Engholm – 16
Archive Midwinter, by Jefferson P. Swycaffer – 4
Ye Murthered Master Mage #271, by George Phillies – 3
Brandy Hall Issue 7 July 2024, by Mark Nelson – 8
Fan Fic 2, by George Phillies – 4
Renovation and Innovation Letter, by Adrian Kresnak – 3
Samizdat… Ish #26, July/August 2024, by Samuel Lubell – 8
Brownian Motion #9, by Garth Spencer – 15
Snow Poster Township #17, by Heath Row – 7
Just added at https://efanzines.com are:
A number of zines have arrived in the mailbox. We start with the update to e-fanzines from Bill Burns:
Added today at https://efanzines.com are:
CyberCozen CCJul2024-v01
Purrmew PurrMew91