Friday Fanzine
No Time, No Energy and Not Much To Say #12 for your fannish reading pleasure
ABSOLUTE ZERO: Cool Websites, Absolutely Cool
Visit with Karl Kofoed’s Galactic Geographic and Lee Hoffman
FAN FOTOS: Bill Plott Visits J. T. Oliver
Bill Plott shares photos from a visit to J. T. Oliver of southern fandom fame.
HOW NOT TO EDIT A PROGRAM BOOK: OR THE ADVENTURES OF A TWENTIETH CENTURY COMPUTER ILLITERATE AMID THE SPLENDOURS OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY.
Want to make sure your contributions arrive on time? Threaten them. Tell them you’ll make up stuff and place their name prominently at the head of the gibberish you’ve concocted. Articles will pour in.
A Fan’s History — Fanzines, Continued….
Fanzines, continued: Okay, Mr. Smartypants, what’s a “sercon” zine? Actually, I’m glad you asked that question. It’s another of those annoying (well, to an outsider) fannish neologisms and acronyms. In this case, we have “serious” […]
A Fan’s History – Fanzines
Fanzines: What the heck is a ‘zine, anyhow? Well, ‘zine (usually abbreviated without the apostrophe) is short for fanzine, which should be self-explanatory. Unless I’m very much mistaken, SF fans were the first ones to […]
A Fan’s History, Part 1
I’m going to assume that you are a science fiction reader of some kind, since you’re here at Amazing Stories magazine’s website. Are you a science fiction fan? (I’m going to abbreviate it “SF” to […]
Deep in the Heart of Texas, Part 1
Before I really get into the meat and potatoes of this entry, allow me to apologize for being absent a few months. Since some readers might know me – which on this website may not […]
REVISTAS VIRTUALES Y REALES DE CIENCIA FICCIÓN EN ESPAÑOL
¿Es necesario tener un blog en español en Amazing Stories? Para comenzar: ¿Se hace ciencia ficción en español? Se preguntarán muchos. La respuesta es simple, sí que se hace y mucha. Claro, la cosa es […]
Oh the Hugos, Ahh the Hugos, Ewww The Hugos
Every year, the Hugo Awards -presented by the World Science Fiction Association at its annual event, Worldcon – are announced amidst much internet and real-world coverage and every year the announcement is immediately followed by […]
The Clubhouse: Roger Ebert, Death of a Gafiate
The death of Pulitzer Prize-winning Chicago film critic Roger Ebert has already been eulogized far and wide. Most of the accolades concentrate, rightfully so, on Ebert’s storied career as a newspaperman and critic and his […]
The Clubhouse: Widowers, fandom’s answer to the limerick
Fans are nothing if not creative and, over the decades, fandom has come up with not only our own jargon and customs, but also our own art forms. We even have a unique verse form, […]
The Clubhouse: Save your stuff!
I had hoped to bring you a little photo journal of some of the fans I knew in Detroit and Ann Arbor in the ’70s and ’80s, but alas, such limited pictures as I had […]
E-Zines vs. Dead Tree Zines: the more things change…
I have been producing fanzines off and on since 1976, shortly after encountering science fiction fandom and this particular aspect of that hobby interest. As anybody who has ever pubbed (that is fanspeak for “published”) […]
The Clubhouse: Five words every fan should know
“I have a Cosmic Mind — now what do I do?” Fanspeak is what we call the jargon of fandom that grew up in fanzines and is still in use in the internet age. It’s […]
The Clubhouse: Common language
I said last time that I wasn’t going to debate the definition of “fan” here. But one of the most important defining characteristics of fandom is our shared language. From founding fan Forrest J Ackerman […]
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