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Corflu news and more zines

Message from Nic Farey:

It’s award season!

Attached is The Incompleat Register 2022, the voters’ guide and pro forma ballot for the 2023 FAAn awards, fanzine fandom’s only dedicated honors, and voting is thus open.

The voting deadline is midnight (Pacific time) Friday March 10 2023, and ballots must be received by then (please note this if you’re sending by snail mail). Your own name and contact details should also be clearly supplied.

The awards will be announced at Corflu Craic in Belfast, Northern Ireland on April 2 2023.

Voting is open to anyone with an interest in fanzines, no memberships of anything are required.

Publicity is welcomed. Feel free to share and distribute this as far and wide as you like.

Nic Farey
(Current FAAn Awards administrator)

 

The following zines have been received and uploaded to our website:

ThisHere60 Reduced

Alex126

ObdurateEye23

Posted to efanzines:

  • Added today at https://efanzines.com are some of the final issues of 2022, and the first issue of 2023.
  • Opuntia #541, edited by Dale Speirs (2023)
  • Alan White’s Pixel Dreams (2022)
  • Nic Farey’s This Here…#60
  • Journey Planet #68 and #69, edited by James Bacon, Chris Garcia et al
  • Garth Spencer’s The Obdurate Eye #23
  • Christopher J. Garcia’s The Drink Tank #443Bill

 

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From Ottawa, the OSFS Statement,

OSFS Statement #512- Nov 2021

From Bill Burns, e-fanzines

On December 8th, 2000, I registered the domain name efanzines.com, and there are now 6,156 PDF fanzine issues hosted on the site!

Thanks to all editors and readers who have contributed to the success of eFanzines over the last 21 years.

New issues at https://efanzines.com today are:

Beam #16, edited by Nic Farey and Ulrika O’Brien

Rich Lynch’s My Back Pages #26

—
Bill

Awards

2021 FAAn Awards Winners

2021 FAAn Awards Winners

The winners of the 2021 Fan Activity Achievement Awards (FAAns) were announced by Corflu 38 administrators in an online ceremony on March 29, 2021.

Best Personal Zine 

  • This Here…

Best Genzine

  • Portable Storage

Best Special Publication

  • Outworlds 71/Afterworlds

Best Fan Writer

  • Claire Brialey

Best Letterhack

  • Mark Plummer

Best Website

  • fanac.org

Best Fan Artist

  • Ulrika O’Brien

Best Fanzine Cover Art

  • BEAM #15, Sara Felix

Lifetime Achievement Award

  • David Langford

Number One Fan Face

  • Claire Brialey

For more information, see the official website.

[via File 770]

MonSFFA Website

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A couple of Canadian zines have landed in the MonSFFA mail box. Enjoy!

From the British Columbia Science Fiction Association, comes BCSFAzine, edited by R. Graeme Cameron.

BCSFAzine #545 – Oct 2020

TABLE OF CONTENTS
03) – EDITORIAL: THE GOD EDITOR SPEAKS – “The Graeme”
03) – ODDS AND SODS ABOUT THIS ZINE – Policies and similar rubbish.
03) – WHAT THE GOD-EDITOR WOULD LIKE TO PUBLISH – Stuff by you!
03) – VOID BREATHER BOMBAST – Interesting outer space regolithism.
07) – BARRY KENT MCKAY ART PORTFOLIO
15) – LITERARY SHENANIGANS – Assorted fake news from the publishing world.
18) – RANDOM MUSINGS – Turnabout Intruder – by Robert J. Sawyer
23) – BOOKS TO BE IGNORED – Slave Ship, by Frederik Pohl.
27) – WHY FREDERICK POHL THOUGHT I WAS A LUNATIC
28) – REVIEWS DRENCHED IN MAPLE SYRUP – Augur Magazine.
29) – THE LIGHT-HEARTED VITUPERATOR AND JOLLY REVILER – by Stan G. Hyde
34) – MILLION WORD YEAR BLOG – I’m Here – Spike Jonez – by Michael Bertrand
38) – MESSED-UP MOVIE MOPES – The Island of the Lost (1921).
44) – FILMS TO SEE BEFORE YOU DIE – Part four: Genre Films 1916 to 1920.
46) – IT IS WHAT IT IS – Mansplaining the State of Fandom – by Garth Spencer
48) – FANNISH FAILURES AND FOLLIES – Westercon, Eurocon & Smofcon.
64) – OOK, OOK, SLOBBER, DROOL! – LoCs from beyond: Graham J. Darling, Greg Slade, Garth Spencer, Lloyd Penney, & Felicity Walker.

From the Ottawa Science Fiction Society:  OSFS Statement #498 Sept 2020

Winners of the Sunburst award and Lloyd’s convention list, some astronomy.

 

 

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TNFF202005 is very informative–many organizations working on preserving fan history.

Origin27  has interesting articles on SF and Fantasy, how they are alike and how they differ,  an article about James V. McConnell (the RNA guy) & rare these days–some  poetry.

 

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Another fanzine arrived!

Purrsonel Mewsings, edited by R-Laurraine Tutihasi,  has arrived in our in box. Laurraine and Mike are, like us, dealing with the pandemic, but keeping safe. They are very much into astronomy, and Mike has been taking some wonderful astropics.

Download: PurrMew72

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We have received two fanzines courtesy of the The National Fantasy Fan Federation, Founded 1941

TNFF201901

NAPA238Final

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And yet another fanzine!

Never fails, the day after I round up the fanzines received to post on the site, another arrives!

This is Tightbeam from the NF3, in two parts:

Tightbeam292A

Tightbeam292B

      Cathy

 

The National Fantasy Fan Federation, Founded 1941

Tightbeam 292, yours for the reading.

Table of Contents

Art

1 … Mars Project (Jose Sanchez)

5 … Dragorn Crossing (Angela K. Scott)

20 … Battling, Anime Girl (Angela K. Scott)

28 … Space Probe (forwarded by Bob Jennings)

Letters

4 … Letters of Comment (Bob Jennings)

Anime

6 … Father of the Year – 2018 ( Jessi Silver)

9 … Sanrio Boys ( Jessi Silver)

Novels

11 … Average Guy with Fangs ( Tom McGovern)

12 … We All Float ( Tom McGovern)

13 … The Expanse—The Novels ( Bob Jennings)

15 … Dragon Award Finalist Warhammer ( Pat Patterson)

17 … Dragon Award Finalist: Minds of Men ( Pat Patterson)

18 … Dragon Award Finalist: Shoot the Messenger ( Pat Patterson)

20 … Review: Black Tide Rising ( Cedar Sanderson)

Short Fiction

21 … How Sere Looked for a Pair of Boots ( Greg Hullender and Eric Wong)

21 … The Book of Magic ( Greg Hullender and Eric Wong)

22 … Flint and Mirror ( Greg Hullender and Eric Wong)

23 … The Lady of Butterflies ( Greg Hullender and Eric Wong)

SerCon

23 … Dragons and Hugos (Bob Jennings)

Food of Famous Authors

24 … Torgersens’ Poor Boy Beef Soup (Cedar Sanderson, Brad Torgerson)

26 … Toni Weisskopf’s Christmas Buckeyes (Cedar Sanderson, Toni Weisskopf)

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A lot of fanzines arrived in the past few weeks while I was overloading on Christmas and panicking over changes to Word Press.

I put the Canadian zines first, but otherwise they are in order I received them.

Enjoy!

BCSFAzine 533 [150 DPI]

IDIOTS GUIDE Dec 2018

Obdurate Eye No 4

Alex102

TZD45

TNFF201812

FADEAWAY #58A

FADEAWAY #58B

CCDecember 2018-v011

MT VOID 2044

MT VOID 2045

Origin10

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Several fanzines have arrived for sharing with our readers and can be downloaded form our site.

This might be a good time to remind fans interested in zines that there is a website dedicated to archiving fanzines.  Lots of interesting stuff here!   http://efanzines.com/

Origin6

Origin is published once monthly and is sent out at the time of the mailing of The National Fantasy Fan, the organization’s central magazine. It is made available to general fandom via efanzines, where it is displayed, and may be found along with previous issues at the National Fantasy Fan Federation website, n3f.org .

TNFF201808

Official pub for the National Fantasy Fan–reviews and club news, sercon report on oft-neglected authors

TIGHTBEAM 288

TIGHTBEAM is officially produced on a bi-monthly basis (but sometimes comes out every month) by the N3F –The National Fantasy Fan Federation, a world-wide club for fans of science
fiction/fantasy and related subjects.

Lots of reviews, and an interesting story on page 11–it seems Rene Auberjonois is a direct descendent of Napoleon’s younger sister.

Alex100

I love it when a zine has a ToC!

Table of Contents
Editorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Reviewer’s Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Dragon Awards Nominees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Eclipse News. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Hugo Short Fiction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Sidewise Awards Nominees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
On Jewelry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Vision Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Weight Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Worldcon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Book Reviews
JTM Benson, Space Odyssey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
JTM van den Boom, Kaiserkrieger 4: Der Aufstand . . . . . . . . . . . 3
JTM Heller, Decision at Antietam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
JTM Campbell, Ascendant: The Genesis Fleet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
JTM Hynes, The Red Führer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
JTM Larson, To the Edges of the Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
JTM Palter/Rohde, The Fall of Malta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
JTM Rogan, On to Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
JTM Turtledove, Hail! Hail!.