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The Zine Dump THE ZINE DUMP no. 43 * Guy Lillian III 1390 Holly Ave Merritt Island FL 32952 * [email protected] * 316- 218-2345 GHLIII Press Publication #1232 * March-April ‘18 Illo by Neal Adams (apologies) March was a sad month in the Greenhouse, as my in-laws’ home is known. Rosy and I lost our beloved yorkie Paprika to a drowning accident; I interred her beneath our window and marked the site with azalea bushes. We were very proud of our happy dog. There is some good news, too – Patty Green’s cancer fight goes well (that lady is tough), my eyes are doing well after cataract surgery, Rosy and I both have teaching gigs for the summer and fall (and our current classes are going well) and la belle still maintains hopes for the Worldcon, which means I do too. In the larger world, we note the passing of Stephen Hawking, a friend of our friend Greg Benford and of course, a unique cultural icon. A bit of controversy blew up on Facebook – not that FB has any other troubles – when admirers imagined Hawking in the afterlife, and other admirers took offense. The physicist was an atheist, they said, and to assume a fate different than he anticipated is somehow insulting. I call pish to that posh; good wishes are good wishes, and it is fun to imagine him chatting with Newton and Einstein – with his own voice. Let us to move to the subject of The Zine Dump. My most recent fanzine project has been a tribute to Lon Atkins, the dominant member of the Southern Fandom Press Alliance for the first 50 years of its existence. The rebel apa is what brought me into fanzining – I joined in 1971 and have never missed a bimonthly mailing – and Atkins’ Melikaphkaz was always my model apazine, with witty fan/faan fiction, strong mailing comments, impeccable mimeography – when we used such – and deathless commitment to the community. Inspired by Larry Montgomery, another of Southern Fandom’s founders, I got permission from Lon’s wife and daughter to memorialize him as he would have liked. I hope I have. Should be up on eFanzines soon. From TAFF delegate Jim Mowatt: “I've just received my printed TAFF trip report [Wherever I Lay My Hat]. It looks really good. “I'm really pleased with how it's turned out. Some glorious art in there from some great fan artists. I'm confident all the copies will sell even though I'm going to have to charge quite a high price (I'm suggesting 20 pounds a copy as it cost 10 pounds to print. 20 pounds is 28.32 dollars.) “Alan White did the cover. Here's front and back cover https://photos.app.goo.gl/ELcl0uS1Gm6BPE3A3 I was very fortunate in having much incredible artwork. List of artists: Alan White, Al Sirois, Stu Shiffman, D. West, Carrie Mowatt, Taral Wayne, Brad Foster, Allison Hershey, Ulf Skei, Valerie Purcell, Julie Faith McMurray, Anne Stokes.” {Jim's running blog http://abitofrunning.com/} Kim Huett sent a note to Andrew Porter about Don Wollheim’s Fanzine Collection, stored at Sydney’s Fisher Library. Apparently, Ron Graham bought it and donated it and Leigh Edmonds clued Huett as to its existence, and that’s a lot of bold-faced names. Anyway, Huett attached a PDF spreadsheet to his epistle listing the collection from the forties, and it’s awesome. Acolyte. Banshee. Phantagraph. Voice of the Imagi-Nation. Le Zombie. And so many titles from people a neo like me has never heard of. Inspiring – will someone, anywhen, look back on the early 21st Century and wonder about the lives that produced Alexiad or Swill or, God help us, Challenger? The biggest fanzine news reaching our ears involves the 2018 Hugo nominations … specifically, the nominees for BEST FANZINE, File 770, edited by Mike Glyer Galactic Journey, edited by Gideon Marcus Journey Planet, edited by Team Journey Planet nerds of a feather, flock together, edited by The G, Vance Kotrla, and Joe Sherry Rocket Stack Rank, edited by Greg Hullender and Eric Wong SF Bluestocking, edited by Bridget McKinney Hey … no Puppies! Two of the above are past winners, all are electronic, three are blogs. Is there a listing of such publications available? Obviously, to return to any sort of relevancy in today’s fandom, TZD needs to acquaint itself and its readership with them as well. The idea makes my back hurt. Will there be a W.O.O.F. collation at this year’s Worldcon? If so, who’s in charge? I am desperate to contribute. Finally, great congratulations to Bruce Gillespie for scoring a decades-overdue Ditmar Award for his magnificent fanzine SF Commentary. At least blogs didn’t dominate the Australian awards this year. And so, let’s rock. The Zine Dump wants to see every science fiction or fandom-oriented zine published in English. This issue’s approximate coverage: the first third of 2018, less a fortnight. 979Represent vol 9 nos. 11-12, vol. 10 no. 2 / Kelly Minnis & Kevin Still, 15530 Creek Meadow Blvd. N., College Station TX 77845 / [email protected] / Like their fellow Texan John Purcell I strain to make out the tiny type. Little SF content but plenty of righteous leftish politics and music of the metal sort in these three issues. Alexiad Vol. 17 No. 1 / Joe & Lisa Major, 1409 Christy Avenue, Louisville KY 40204-2040 / [email protected] / efanzines.com / Though up to his neck in snow, Joe Major produces another excellent issue. Speaking of snow, one wonders what Joe, an expert on Arctic exploration, thinks of the miniseries of The Terror, from Dan Simmons overlong novel. Herein, to start, Major tackles a heavy and ongoing SFnal issue: “[Does fandom] want a small but connected community that is poor, and every new publication immensely valued? Or one that is the world, with so many forms of SF that a dozen people in a town can all call themselves fans, and yet not one of them has any likes in common with any of the others? [W]e are seeing a transition from participants to consumers.” I look forward to his next lettercol – they’re always ace – for answers. Here, we find Monarchist News and many reviews. including one on I, Libertine (I recently threw away five copies – the box was water-stained. APRIL FOOL). Long pieces follow by Rodford Edmiston (on the Milky Way) and Robert S. Kennedy on Loscon 44. Haven’t heard enough from Kennedy in recent years. As usual, a lively lettercol and enviable WAHF box. How often must I say it? Alexiad is one of the most literate, interesting and amusing zines running. (And another issue pops up even as I finish this TZD …) Amanita #1-3, New Church / Cyril Simon, 18 Muswell Ave., London N10 2EG, but the address is from 1980, so don’t trust it / eFanzines / Any fanzine featuring Stonehenge on the cover is a guaranteed hit with me, even if it is almost as old as the stones. Ansible no. 369, April 2018 / Dave Langford, 94 London Road, Reading, Berks, RG1 5AU, UK. / Website news.ansible.uk / An incredible quotation from Sean Penn’s novel Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff ends this issue of the invaluable newszine, but it is hardly all there is to it. The RIP listings include Karen Anderson, a benefactress and patient friend in my rankest days of neohood (along with Poul) and Kate Wilhelm, whose Where Late the Sweet Birds Dang took the Hugo in one of the strongest years the award has seen. Lotsa awards news this time, sadly relevant Brad Foster ‘toon atop all. The Art of Garthness / Garth Spencer, 4240 Perry Street, Vancouver, BC Canada V5N 3X5 / [email protected] / Askance #43 / John Purcell, 3744 Marielene Circle, College Station TX 77845 / [email protected] / trade or whim / The big “J” is back with a terrific issue. Most diverting is the opening chapter of John’s Trans- Atlantic Fan Fund report, enviable and exciting, even when describing a bouncy flight from Texas and a six-hour layover in Newark. Taral Wayne continues on theme with “Traveling Woes”, one of two articles he contributes to this issue. (“Incident at Babel” reminds me of my visits to Brooklyn, where sometimes I went whole days without hearing English.) Valerie Purcell’s dietary advice is excellent but terrifying: I’d better not let Rose-Marie, anti- sugar and anti-carb, see it. Reviews of novels picked up in Helsinki and a few fanzines (he’s kind enough to mention TZD), a Teddy Harvia Chat ‘toon (we don’t see enough Harvia art lately), a lettercol illoed with photos from the TAFF trip – including a British candy bar. (Come back, Phlox!) Askew #23 / John Purcell, see Askance / Where there’s a genzine, there’s a perzine. Here’s Purcell’s. As North American TAFF Administrator he reviews his election activities and the progress of his trip report, which is being scattered hither and yon among fanzines. (See above.) A dismayed piece about Trump and the “Trumpocalypse” follows, segueing with relief into book reviews (does he think this Foundation might become popular? How about A Wizard of Earthsea?) and LOCs. Nice to see John D. Berry’s name again, even complaining about long paragraphs. Banana Wings 68-9 / Claire Brialey & Mark Plummer, 59 Shirley Road, Croydon, Surrey CR0 7ES U.K. / [email protected] / Formed years ago by the merger of the authors’ perzine titles, Banana Wings is the preeminent British genzine. Claire has won a Hugo for her fan writing (and Mark deserves one, himself) and the zine has several nominations and loads of UK awards.
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