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Update from Bill Burns, who writes:

Reminder: Voting on the FAAn awards for work published in 2024 closes at midnight (Pacific time) Saturday March 29, 2025. Full details in Nic Farey’s The Incompleat Register: https://efanzines.com/TIR/index.htm.

A busy week for fanzine production!  These new issues are now at

https://efanzines.com

  • J.L. Farey’s JenZine #11
  • Christopher J. Garcia’s Claims Department #82
  • Robert Jennings’ Fadeaway #68
  • Octothorpe #130, a regular fannish podcast by John Coxon, Alison Scott and Liz Batty, is now on line
  • Henry Grynnsten’s Wild Ideas #57
  • Rich Lynch’s You’re Still on My Mind #8, a letterzine companion to My Back Pages
  • Christopher J. Garcia’s The Drink Tank #461–
    Bill

The Obdurate Eye, From Garth Spencer, who writes:

So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf to make an apple pie; and while she was there, a great she-bear in the street put its head through the kitchen window. “What! No soap?” So he died, and she very imprudently married the gardener; and there were the Joblillies, and the Pickninnies, and the Grand Panjandrum with the little round button at top, and they all fell to playing catch-as-catch-can, until the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots.

Zines from the N3F:

Eldritch Science from the N3F has a gorgeous cover by Alan White.

FanAct202503

Tightbeam366

NAPA275

From Israel: CCMar2025-v01

And from Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society.

De Profundis #606 – March 2025 OCR-C

 

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From Garth in Vancouver: Obdurate Eye 24

And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hillside …. 1
Fanzines I Want …. 3
Fanzines and Letters and My Replies ………………… 4
One Way to Look at It #3 (Teunis Peters) ……………. 6
Around the World Across This Nation and Up My Street …8
Pacific Northwest Conventions in 2023 …….. 12
February 2023 New Fantasy and Science Fiction Releases……. 16
Fanzines Received ……………….. 19
Art credits
Jose Sanchez, “Monster Face” (1990) . cover, p. 6
Clip art ……pp. 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 12

From Leybl in Israel: CCFebruary2023-v01

This month’s roundup:

  • • More Yiddish-related SF material dedicated to my dear departed father, David Botwinik (o”h – ע”ה ): o Part F of the Yiddish SF short story “Kamf-Nign” by Leybl Botwinik (with English translation)
  • • Star trek vs. Star Trek vs. Star Trek – Part II (The Original Series (TOS))
  • • Sheer Science – Interactive game: Learn how a satellite is built + why it’s important for preserving the Earth.
  • • Book review: “More Zion’s Fiction” – Story #16: “Set in Stone” – by Yael Furman
  • • Our usual tidbits from the Web.
    – Your editor, Leybl Botwinik
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Zine to Share: CyberCozen

CyberCozen, from Israel CCJune-2022-v02

This month’s roundup:

• More Yiddish-related SF material dedicated to my dear departed father, David Botwinik (o”h – ע”ה )

• Book review: “More Zion’s Fiction” Part 5: Hila Benyovits-Hoffman’s “Five Four Three Two One”

  • Our usual, interesting tidbits from the Web.
  • Readers reacted very well to Sheldon Teitelbaum’s reprinted article in our last issue. We’d love to see more of his articles regarding SF. – Your editor, Leybl Botwinik
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Fanzine to Share: CyberCozen

From Israel, CyberCozen.The article by Sheldon Teitelbaum is fascinating. It’s not just about SF in Israel, but also Israel in SF stories.CCMay-2022-v01The way the article was scanned into CyberCozen makes it hard to read, but it’s worth the effort.

This month’s roundup:

• Yiddish-related SF material dedicated to my dear departed father, David Botwinik (o”h – ע”ה ): Yoel Matveyev: Review of “Faktazye” – Velvl Chernin’s book of Yiddish SF&F short stories • In lieu of a “More ZF” Book review: a 1990 article by Sheldon Teitelbaum about SF in Israel + some history Our usual, interesting tidbits from the Web. – Your editor, Leybl Botwinik

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We have received more zines to share. Enjoy!

Tightbeam326, SYNERGY November 2021 (3), CCNOV-2021-v01

Synergy has an interesting article on money in SF, poetry, and a short, strange story.

Cybercozen features art for the first time, short book reviews, and lots of internet links.

Table of Contents Tightbeam326

Art
Front Cover … Battlestar Galactica Low and Slow by Jose Sanchez
5 … Feline Lullaby by Angela K Scott
12 … Flower Drop by Angela K. Scott
13 … Dark Unicorn by Angela K. Scott
17 …Winged Cat by Angela K. Scott
Back Cover … The Mandalorian ­ Moff Gideon by Jose Sanchez

Letters of Comment
4 … Will Mayo
4 … Jose Sanchez

Anime
4 … Autumn 2021 First Impressions – Platinum End by Jessi Silver
6 … Banished from the Hero’s Party by Jessi Silver

Comics
7 … A (Probably) Final Word on the Current Iron Man Run by Stephanie Souders
10 … The Legion of Serious But Seriously Unknown Superheroes ­ Tomboy
by George Phillies

Movies
11 … Lucasfilm’s SOLO: A Star Wars Story Review by Jim McCoy
13 … Lucasfilm’s The Rise of Skywalker Review by Jim McCoy

SerCon

16 … Philip José Farmer Bio-Bibliography by Jon D. Swartz, Ph.D., N3F Historian

Gourmet Bureau

19 … Eat This While You Read That: Lee and Miller by Cedar Sanderson

 

 

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A number of zines have arrived in our mail box.

From Leybl in Israel, CyberCozen, which has news regarding “More Zion’s Fiction” and lots and lots of interesting links to various Cyber spaces fans might like to explore.  CCAUG-2021-v01

From Ottawa fandom we have OSFS #508 which this month is dedicated to the Perseid Meteor Shower. I do beg to differ about the Perseids being the best shower of the year, though. It’s the best known, but if you really want to see shooting stars, the Geminids are best by a long shot. OSFS #508 July, 2021

From Guy Lilian in Florida, we have Spartacus, his perzine. Spartacus 491 He opens with an opinion piece on the police–the good and the bad.

The N3F sent us Tightbeam and two issues of Mount Void.

Tight beam: Table of Contents Tightbeam323
Art
Front Cover … Steam Hero by Alan White
11 … Shadow by Jose Sanchez
20 … Dragon Bust by Angela K Scott
Back Cover … Crystal Page by David Russell
Letters of Comment
4 … Lloyd Penney
4 … George Horace Wells
Editorial
5 … Editorial … George Phillies
Anime
5 … D_Cide Traumerei the Animation … Jessi Silver
7 … Peach Boy Riverside … Jessi Silver
Books
9 … Will Mayo Reviews H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine
9 … Queen of the Unwanted by Jenna Glass … Chris Nuttall
12 … Will Mayo’s Review of Edgar Lee Masters’s Spoon River Anthology
12 … Overlooked Again by Jon Mollison … Declan Finn
Comics
14 … An Interview with Scott Bieser by Tamara Wilhite
Films
16 … A Nightmare On Elm Street … Will Mayo
16 … An Interview with Robert Arvanitis by Tamara Wilhite
SerCon
18 … Miriam Allen deFord Bio-Bibliography … Jon D. Swartz, Ph.D.
22 … Catching Up with Author Jon Del Arroz … Interview by Tamara Wilhite
Video
24 … Will Mayo reviews Space: 1999
24 … The Long Halloween Takes a Holiday From the Book … Jason P. Hunt
Food of Famous Authors
26 … Chris Smith’s Cedar-Planked Salmon … Cedar Sanderson

MT VOID 2180

Table of Contents
STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES (television retrospective by Evelyn C. Leeper)
Jazz (letters of comment by Richie Bielak, Paul Dormer, and John Kerr-Mudd)
AIRPLANE! (letters of comment by Art Stadlin, Gary McGath, and Paul Dormer)
Midway, Historical Dates, and Timelines (letters of comment by Dorothy J. Heydt,
Keith F. Lynch, Kevin R, Tim Merrigan, and R. Looney)
This Week’s Reading (SUPERNOVA ERA) (book comments by Evelyn C. Leeper)
Quote of the Week

MT VOID 2181

Bond Songs (Part 1) (DR. NO, FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE, GOLDFINGER)
(comments by Mark R. Leeper)
Labels and Alphabetizing (comments by Evelyn C. Leeper)
Mini-Reviews, Series, and Psychohistory (letter of comment by John Hertz)
SUPERNOVA ERA, the Ata Boys, and Sea Level Rise (letters of comment
by Kevin R, Scott Dorsey, Keith F. Lynch, and Peter Trei)
STAR TREK and the Venus Drug (letters of comment by Gary McGath,
Dorothy J. Heydt, Tim Merrigan)
This Week’s Reading (THE ONCE AND FUTURE WITCHES) (book comments by Evelyn C. Leeper)
Quote of the Week

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Lots of Fanzines to share!

Many fanzines to share this week. Two Canadian, one from Israel, two American.

I always enjoy Purrmews for the pictures of the animals and the fabulous astro photos.

Opuntia-504

Tightbeam322

PurrMew81

CCJul2021-v01

ObdurateEye-12

 

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Lots of free fanzines to enjoy and share!

Quite a few zines have landed in our mailbox recently!

Greetings from the N3F. With this mailing, free fanzines:

Ansible 405
Ansible 406
MT Void 2165,  2166,  2167,  2168,  2169

First, most humble apologies to Mindy Hunt. The review of The Conductors in the last issue of The N3F Review of Books was hers, not Jason P. Hunt’s.

Second, the latest issue of Tightbeam, #320, is attached.

From Leybl Botwinik, the latest CyberCozen:

Welcome to  our latest issue of CyberCozen

— Israel’s longest running and only English language SF fanzine
(we’ve been around since 1989)

Greetings from the N3F!

With this mailing, you are being sent an issue of Origin, our fannish history zine, and an issue of Eldritch Science, our fiction zine.

And also from the N3F

I attach N’APA 252 and two issues of MT VOID, 2170 & 2171