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Fanzine roundup

Zines to share!

Added today at https://efanzines.com:

Andy Hooper’s CAPTAIN FLASHBACK #75

Perry Middlemiss’s Perryscope #51

Nic Farey’s This Here…#84

Octothorpe #129, a regular fannish podcast by John Coxon, Alison Scott and Liz Batty, is now on line

Christopher J. Garcia’s The Drink Tank #460

Bill Plott’s Sporadic #87, 88, 89 and archive issues 66b, 67

From N3F:

With this mailing I am sending a copy of Tightbeam 366. There has been one change. We are moving the longer articles toward the rear of the magazine, so Jesse Silver’s wonderful anime reviews now appear late rather than early in the magazine.

https://www.monsffa.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Tightbeam366.pdf

Tightbeam REVIEWS

The N3F has published another issue of its review zine Tightbeam, first published in 1959.

Table of Contents

Art
Front Cover … Team Mandalorian by Jose Sanchez
Back Cover … Too Close for Comfort by Jose Sanchez

Letter of Comment
4 … Lloyd Penney

Anime
4 … AMAIM Warrior at the Borderline … Jessi Silver
6 … The Vampire Dies in No Time … by Jessi Silver

Comics
8 … X-Men: Green Tries to Make Nature Girl Into the Eco-Punisher ­ with Disastrous Results …
Stephanie Souders
10 … Will Mayo Reviews Lee Falk’s The Phantom

Movies
11 … The Man Who Fell To Earth … Will Mayo
11 … Will Mayo’s Review Of The Movie Zardoz
11 … Last Night In Soho … Tom Feller
12 … The Eternals … Tom Feller
12 … Will Mayo’s Review Of The Wax Museum
12 … Will Mayo Reviews Gargoyles
13 … The Most Frightening Scene: The Tse-Tse Fly … Will Mayo
13 … Will Mayo’s Review Of The Omen

SerCon
13 … Andre Norton Bio-Bibliography … Jon D. Swartz & John L. Coker III

Video
17 … Will Mayo’s Review Of Kolchak: The Night Stalker
18 … Will Mayo’s Review Of Star Trek: The Satire
18 … Will Mayo’s Review Of The Six Million Dollar Man
18 … On Elvira, Mistress of the Dark … Will Mayo
18 … Will Mayo Reviews Tales From The Crypt
19 … Montage… Will Mayo

Food of Famous Authors

19 … Eat This While You Read That: Amie Gibbons … Cooking by Cedar Sanderson

Zine to share!

Leybl has sent us CyberCozen. He has a very interesting article on science fiction in Yiddish. It’s not very long, I recommend it. In this part, he writes about the sources that influenced Yiddish writers, the Bible being one of them. Lots of fantastic stories in there that fascinated me as a child, but I never thought about Eve being possibly a sort of clone of Adam! I was more inclined to consider the real world implications of stopping the sun, ie, the Earth’s rotation. 

This month’s roundup:

– New series: Yiddish SF&F 101* – Part 1
– Update and yearly wrap-up from Israel’s Space Agency “SpaceIL”
Our usual, interesting tidbits from various websites.

– Your editor, Leybl Botwinik

Local Sensors Detect…

  1. Fanzine to share: Ionishere
  2. ISS over Montreal tonight
  3. CSA proposes Solar Sail
  4.  Awards: Copper Cylinder, Past Words
  5. Go-Fund-Me appeals
  6. Discovery, reviews
  1. Fanzine to share: Ionishere Three Pro Interviews, with Jay O’Connell, Dave Creek and Jay Werkheiser One Fan Interview, with Steve Fahnestalk, poetry, art IO is compiled, assembled and edited by John Thiel

2 ISS over Montreal tonight

Time: Tue Sep 26 8:38 PM, Visible: 2 min, Max Height: 45°, Appears: 10° above WSW, Disappears: 45° above SW

The ISS is very bright, easily visible even in light polluted urban areas.

Artist’s conception of Deep Space Gateway with solar sail


3 CSA proposes Solar Sail : A Canadian Space Agency proposal would place a solar sail on the outside of the Deep Space Gateway in lunar orbit.  Harnessing the slight pressure of solar radiation, a super-thin reflective film might help steer the Deep Space Gateway, or DSG, which is being designed by five space agencies to succeed the International Space Station.  READ MORE  (Thanks to MonSFFan Alexis Despand for pointing us to this story.)

4 Awards: Copper Cylinder, Past Words: The Sunburst Award Society’s “Copper Cylinder Award” is an annual members’ choice award. It takes its name from the novel A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder, by James De Mille (1833-1880), which is considered to be the first Canadian science fiction novel. The winners receive a unique, handcrafted, copper cylinder trophy.  2017 Winners are Company Town by Madeline Ashby [Tor Books] and The Skids by Ian Donald Keeling. [ChiTeen]  http://coppercylinderaward.ca/2017-winners

Past Words: The Historical Writers of America (HWA), an organization for all historical writers, fiction and nonfiction, presented the initial set of PastWords awards at a banquet in New Mexico on September 23. Melinda Snodgrass was the awards banquet’s keynote speaker.

HWA created the PastWords to recognize creators who have produced an outstanding body of work. The 2017 winners include Fantasy writer George R.R. Martin who accepted the award in person.  He wrote: It’s kind of cool to learn that even writers of honest to god real historical fiction and non-fiction enjoy my own fake histories.

5 Go-Fund-Me appeals: 2 well-known and respected fans have launched Go-Fund-Me appeals.

Guy Lillian is appealing for help to support his wife Rosie’s legal costs. She is being denied the inheritance from her mother despite the stated wishes of her mother and an agreement made at a legal deposition in December, 2016. The inheritance includes paintings by Frank Kelly Freas, a long-time personal friend. https://www.gofundme.com/save-rosys-inheritance?

Pierre Pettinger’s father died recently due to a house fire, and Pierre has set up a Gofundme campaign to help cover the funeral expenses — Pierre Pettinger [Sr.] Funeral Fund. Fans know of Pierre and Sandy Pettinger from their masquerade appearances.Pierre is Archivist for the International Costumers Guild, and both are fan GoH at Westercon 76.

6 Discovery:  reviews are everywhere! Everyone’s got an opinion, pro or con the new Star Trek Series.  A Google search will bring up enough articles to keep a fan busy to the end of the TV show’s season.  MonSFFA’s facebook group is asking for YOUR thoughts on the new series.  https://www.facebook.com/groups/3668900441/

Fanzine to share!

From the National Fantasy Fan Federation which claims to be “The oldest international Science Fiction and Fantasy fan club on planet Earth.”  Could be–the club started in April of 1941!

Click to Download TNFF201703

Directorate—Treasurer—Kaymar Award
Eldritch Science—Your Project
Membership Report—Birthday Bureau
Fan-Pro Coordinating Committee—Franking Bureau
Games Bureau—Membership Recruitment
Round Robins—Writers Exchange Bureau
Welcommittee
Letters of Comment
Neglected Genre Authors: D. K. Broster
N3F Founding Members: Jack Gillespie
Give and Take
February SF Novels
Short Story Contest

Probe: Fanzine from South Africa

Good news! We have reconnected with the Science Fiction and Fantasy South Africa. We used to trade paper copies back in the days when we could afford postage.  🙂

This issue has a fabulous cover entitled “Are we there, yet?”

Download Probe 111

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Established in 1969 and based in Johannesburg, Science Fiction & Fantasy South Africa (SFFSA) is a club for fans of both science fiction and fantasy.

More information about this club can be found here:

www.sffsa.org.za
Twitter address: – http://twitter.com/SciFiZa
Facebook address:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/SFFSA/

Fanzine to share: Purrsonal Mewsings #57

Purrsonal Mewsings #57 is edited by  Miss R-Laurraine Tutihasi whose husband seems to be an astronomer. Great collage of his astrophotos. 

Fanzine to share

Miss R-Laurraine Tutihasi has sent us her per/gen zine, Purrsonal Mewsings 56.

Table of Contents

Editorial / Introduction—p. 2
Local Outings—REVIEWS OF  George Takei’s Allegiance, Rogue One, Fiddler on the Roof, Celestial Concert (a combination of music and astronomy.) and  Hidden Figures.
My Trip to Hawaii—p. 3
Kritter Korner—p. 6
Book Reviews—p. 7 The Fifth Season, by N. K. Jemisin, Simon Bloom, the Gravity Keeper, by Michael Reisman, Mark Twain’s Letters from Hawaii, by Mark Twain
StippleAPA—p. 7
Letters—p. 9
Closing Remarks—p. 12

International Connection: CyberCozin

Cathy, Danny, René, and Nathaniel, Leybl is behind the camera

When Leybl Botwinik, the editor of CyberCozin, Israel’s longest running fanzine, contacted MonSFFA asking for a meet-up in October, I jumped to the occasion. His visit to Canada just missed our October meeting, and since he was in Canada to meet with family during the Jewish High Holy Days, finding a date and Kosher restaurant proved awkward indeed. In the end, only 3 of us were able to meet Leybl and his son, Nathaniel, at Chez Benny. While there are many restaurants serving Kosher food, there are very few Kosher restaurants! And of course, those are all closed on Saturdays…   There’s a gap between what I know, and what I KNOW.

Anyway, it was a very enjoyable meeting.  I meant to write it up for WARP, but as it happened, we didn’t have enough material to publish an autumn edition. Leybl wrote an excellent article for CyberCozin, which you will find in his December issue.

We agreed to keep in touch, and hopefully trade articles for our respective zines. If Leybl agrees, I’m thinking his review of our meeting would be a fun way to start our collaboration!

Nathaniel gave me a copy of his book which I will bring to our next meeting.

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THE-VCON-VANGUARD #3 February 2016

THE-VCON-VANGUARD #3 February 2016

From R GRAEME CAMERON:

I delayed sending this out till new VCON website, link to hotel booking & link to buying memberships ready. All three in zine.

Cheers! Graeme

VCON is Canada’s oldest ongoing science fiction and fantasy convention. The first VCON was held in 1971 at the Hotel Georgia with Ursula K. Le Guin as Guest of Honour. The upcoming VCON will be our 41st!
The theme of VCON in 2016 is “Muppets, Puppets, and Marionettes” which includes everything from giant puppets to stop motion models to Supermarionation. Expect panels and lectures on these and many other SF&F topics, plus demos, workshops, and numerous audience-participation live action games like “Human Battleship” and “Fan Feud.” A mid-sized SF&F convention run by fans for fans, we average 700 to 800 attendees.
The secondary theme is “The Small Press Cabal” which will celebrate independent Small Press Canadian Book and Magazine publishers who have created the environment for a veritable renaissance of Canadian SpecFic. Participating professionals will include publishers, editors, authors, artists and poets.