Nic Farey has sent us This Here.
The ish opens with an interesting article about the settlement movement, a friend he shared a settlement flat with and a terrible murder that occurred near there which remains unsolved.
Nic has been diagnosed with a form of leukemia. There is a reasonably effective treatment, he says, but we’ll keep him in our thoughts through what must be a difficult time.
From Nic Farey, This Here 62
The Faniverse in general, and I believe the fanzine bit of it in
particular, does have a common spirit which is shared at
some level, as much as individual expressions of it may
differ wildly. The spirit of the FAAns smells like, what, inky
fingers? Weed? Strong Drink ((c) L Huntzinger)? Snark?
Desperation? Perhaps all of the above, yet I contend that it
behooves the disparate members to have at it and participate
in what’s still fanzine fandom’s only dedicated awards…
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I always enjoy the astronomy photos and pics of animals we don’t see here. This ish also has a really interesting trip report to Iceland.
Editorial / Introduction—p. 2
Kritter Korner—p. 2
Astronomy—p. 3
Books & a Play—p. 5
Iceland—p. 7
StippleAPA—p. 15
Letters—p. 16
Closing Remarks—p. 28
From Nic Farey in Las Vegas: This Here
“In my experience by the time they find out that you know nothing about it, you know something about it.”
Five hours in line for a Covid test, only to be told they had closed for the day? The photo of all the cars lined up on the highway for as far as forever is shocking. Mostly, though, I go looking for the footy stories.
From the N3F,Massachusetts, three zines:
TNFF202201 : The first issue of the National Fantasy Fan for our 81st year of existence.
With this mailing, issues of Ionisphere and of The N3F Review of Books Incorporating Prose Bono.
POLL!
In the last National Fantasy Fan, a correspondent proposed that we should have separate Neffys for books from commercial publishers and books from independent publishers (your President, for example). It might be proposed that this division would be read as meaning that books from one of those sources is inferior to books from the other of those sources. It might be proposed that multiplying the number of Neffys may or may not be a good thing.
Also, you may think that there are Neffy awards we should add or delete.
Please write Letters of Comment on this issue Send by February 10 to this address.
From Nic Farey:
“For better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure…than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”
Also attached: OPERATION FANTAST V1 #6 (published by Ken Slater in September, 1950) via Kim Huett, which is about wire recorders…
From Nic Farey: This Here 46 TH 46: Music, football, and what’s a fanzine? Always interesting!
From the N3F: NAPA254
In this issue:
Front Cover: The Fly by Jose Sanchez
The Official Organ #254
Intermission 111, by Ahrvid Engholm – 14
Archive Midwinter, by Jefferson P. Swycaffer – 3
Intermission 112, by Ahrvid Engholm – 18
Synergy August 2021, by John Thiel – 15
The Contents of a Good Life, by Will Mayo – 7
Ye Murthered Master Mage, by George Phillies – 5
Samizdat Ish 9 Sept/Oct 2021, by Samuel Lubell – 4
Fanizine from Nic Farey–great column for footy (soccer) fans, beautiful water colour illos, interesting LoC.
How does one define “fanzine”? It used to be obvious, but then the Internet came along… A good read!
THIS HERE… is (mostly) written, edited and produced by:
Nic Farey, Art credits: Ulrika O’Brien (pp 9, 11, 12, 15, 16)
Ulrika’s water colours are gorgeous! If you are interested in soccer, be sure to read the footy column.
TH 44
This Here is a perzine from Nic Farey.
Very outspoken, always interesting, and Ulrika’s water colours are gorgeous.
Download TH 43
This Here, 42 is a perzine from Nic Farey.
The water colour illos by Ulric are really, really beautiful.
From Nic Farey, This Here TH 41
There is a lot about the FAAn Awards, some lovely art work, and an incendiary article by David Hodson regarding the ESL in which he explodes the myth of football being created by the poor and bought by the rich.