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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 , 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 project has been a tribute to Lon Atkins, the dominant member of the Southern 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 /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, , Brad Foster, Allison Hershey, Ulf Skei, Valerie Purcell, Julie Faith McMurray, Anne Stokes.” {Jim's running http://abitofrunning.com/}

Kim Huett sent a note to Andrew Porter about Don Wollheim’s Fanzine Collection, stored at Sydney’s Fisher . 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 Galactic Journey, edited by Gideon Marcus Journey Planet, edited by Team Journey Planet 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 . 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 or fandom-oriented zine published in English. This issue’s approximate coverage: the first third of 2018, less a fortnight.

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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 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 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 (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. #69 is filled with praise for its predecessor, with a short but incisive piece on Heinlein and a delightful account by Jacq Monahan on the writing of her epic TAFF report. Bursting from a terrific opening line (“I was run over by the truth one day”) Mark begins the 69th number with some epic natterings that demand rejoinder. Is it unusual to feel disconnected with SF when you’re so deeply involved with fandom? I’d say not at all, My current reading is a political tome, Russian Roulette. Do we judge ’s fiction by Isaac Asimov’s icky behavior? I say no: the work has its own life, and yes, I watched the Good Doctor salaciously rub a beautiful blonde MC’s butt on the dais of a convention in 1974. (She put up with it. Had such happened in recent years, I’d wax cynical about the incident.) His praise for a certain British BBNF meets with grim silence here. He has done most bitter harm to one who is near my heart. Was Orwell an SF fan? Plummer’s investigation finds not – but the sainted George’s quote re H.G. Wells shows that the greatest political fictioneer of the 20th Century didn’t get H.G.’s Socialist bent. (I’m sure he did, but it doesn’t show in this quote.) He begins with a great line; he ends with a greater one: “Because they didn’t have steel robots, that’s why.” Another highlight of the issue is a chapter of John Purcell’s TAFF report, based in London – where he enjoys a visit to an ancestor’s tomb at Westminster – and * weep * Stonehenge. I wanna see Stonehenge. Everybody I know has seen Stonehenge but me. WAHHHH! Anyway, there’s fun columns from Claire and Coxon and a spectacular lettercol. This is what a fanzine in the nexus of a national fannish community looks like.

BCSFAzine #527 / Felicity Walker, Apt. 601 Manhattan Tower, 6601 Cooney Road, Richmond, BC, Canada V6Y 4C5 / [email protected] / trade, $3@ or eFanzines / Year-old issue of the British Columbia club’s newszine. Some entertaining LOCs, including one from Dave Haren about the steampunkish lead soldiers he’s painting … with photos. The calendar is full, or we should say was full; we could use an up-to-date issue, people. Aches to see the “Passages” listed; there were too many good people lost; there have been too many more. Okay, confusion: these obits include folks who’ve left us this year. Now I’m all confused. Ah – something different for BCSFAzine: a chapter of space opera by Michael Bertrand and some verse by Kathleen Moore. Livens things up nicely!

Beam / Nic Farey and Jim Trash, 3342 Cape Cod Drive, Las Vegas, NV 89122; 273 The Rowans, Milton, Cambridge CB24 6ZA, UK / [email protected]; [email protected] /

Brooklyn! 99 / Fred Argoff, Penthouse L. 1170 Ocean Pkwy., Brooklyn NY 11250-4060 / trade or $10 for four issues / quarterly / “Everybody’s heard of it!” Fred Argoff proclaims in the opening line of the 99th Brooklyn!, and indeed everybody has heard of Coney Island, the playground of and the subject of this special issue. Like the amusement park itself, it’s entertaining and inviting: the photo of the original Nathan’s Famous Frankfurters stand sends delectable gastronomic memories quivering across one’s tongue. Shots of the Coney Island beach from 2017 and 1907 make one weep for the feel of hot sand between one’s toes. The Mermaid Parade sounds like it would be at home on Bourbon Street at Mardi Gras. Fred even makes the Island look inviting in the wintertime. I’d go: anything for a Nathan’s.

Brylcreem & Butter / Andrew Ivamy, PO Box 1138 Milton BC Brisbane Qld Australia 4064 / [email protected] / eFanzines.com

Christian New Age Quarterly Vol. 23, No. 2-3 / Catherine Groves, P.O. Box 276, Clifton NJ 07015-0276 / [email protected] / $3.50@, $12.50/4 issues / Catherine sent a sweet note of condolence after reading of our yorkie’s demise. Occasionally this literate and accessible religious journal slides into SFnal thinking, and here, after a rumination on to-do lists, Catherine presents a reprinted piece on “Jesus as Rorsharch” that is quite compelling. The lead piece in no. 3, “The Life of Metaphors”, mentions “Darmok” from Star Trek TNG, where an alien speaks entirely through metaphor; it’s said to be and sounds like one of the series’ best and most fulfilling episodes. (I’ve never seen it.) Occasional fan-ed Frederick Moe is a contributor.

CounterClock #32 / Wolf von Witting, Dia Bei Banduzzi 6/4, 33050 Bagnaria Arsa (Ud) – Italia / [email protected] / All of the clues to this latest CounterClock are right there on the cover – a beautiful painting of a fairy “steering” a watch and the two lead articles. As a sucker for convention reports I’m drawn immediately to Anders Bellis’ account of the Helsinki Worldcon. His was a raucous event indeed, complete with monsoons and parties, a righteous panel on heavy metal and much discussion of fandom and folly in Greece. He promises more. Wolf’s ruminations on why outstrips SF in popularity can be summed up in an early sentence: “Fantasy represents freedom, while science fiction increasingly is understood as the technology used to enslave us.” His subsequent arguments – especially the economic – hold merit. Einar Leif Nielsen’s piece on Icelandic fandom – with that name, you expected Ireland? – paints a happy picture of a tru-krewe in its youth, enthusiastically fiction (any zines?) and putting on cons. The next IceCon is this October. In “Short Pieces” von Wittig reviews short posted on YouTube, sending me thither to see Judy and Rakka as soon as this notice is done. There’s more: a piece on rock music of a late era, LOCs (yes, Lloyd is here) and a list of forthcoming European conventions illustrated with their colorful emblems. Note the antique ATom artwork – the way the future was, once upon a time.

CyberCozen Vol. XXX, No. 2 / Leybl Botwinik, [email protected] / February ’18 issue of the monthly journal of the Israeli Society for SF & F, this time blest by a number of articles on The Orville, movie cyborgs, Black Mirror, robots, and a forthcoming exhibit in NYC called “Jews in Space”. Enthusiastic stuff. The colorful underscoring is always fun.

Dagon #693-697 / John Boardman, Room 108, 2250 S. Semoraa Blvd., Orlando FL 32833 NEW ADDRESS / trade / Monthly Apa-Q zines, ranging over many opinions, theories, and events. By far the saddest and most significant of these is the death of John’s wife last November, a tragedy I should have caught at the time. If late condolences mean anything, here they be. From future issues I find that not everyone in fandom is as myopic as I. Ever eclectic, Boardman declaims in these issues on matters from temperature gauges to political developments in the Balkans, the birth of submarine exploration to the advisability of learning a foreign language. (I tried for seven years. Donde esta el bano? is about as far as I got. I see that John has moved to Orlando; that’s within hailing distance; I’ll go annoy him sometime.

DASFAx February 2018 / TayVon Hageman, 4080 S. Grant St. Englewood, CO 80113 / [email protected] / This is the latest issue of the Denver clubzine I’ve received. Like all, it features club stuff from Rose Beetem and an entertaining article from Sourdough Jackson, this time dealing with Tunnels & Trolls, an offshoot of Dungeons & Dragons that dominated Denver fandom and Sourdough’s mind for an extended time.

De Profundis #540 / Marty Cantor, [email protected] / There’s some nonsense in the colophon about this zine being an unofficial publication of LASFS, the great SF club of the lotus-eating west, but it has the club’s schedule, prints its hilarious “menace” (that’s “minutes” to the rest of mankind) and is sent by e-mail to everyone in the organization and subscribers. Loving LASFS as I do, I couldn’t care less about such distinctions. This month: Marty announces that he still seeks a replacement for himself as editor, several meetings feature nifty scientific trivia, the Pasadena Museum of History is exhibiting SF and fannish rarities, including the door to the second LASFS clubhouse. The door is insured for $110,000. This may be why the Angelenos have yet to find a new clubhouse.

Eldritch Science March 2018 / George Phillies, 48 Hancock Hill Drive, Worcester, Massachusetts 01609 / [email protected] / The N3F poetry/fiction zine. Since I don’t usually comment on fan-writ fiction or verse, I’ll just restrict myself to “Groovy cover!”

Enter at Your Own Risk #6 / Chuck Connor, 81 Peterborough Road, Crowland, PE6 0BB, Lincolnshire, UK / [email protected] / eFanzines.com / I usually don’t hearken back three months to review a zine, and EAYOR #6 dates from January ’18, but it’s too important a publication for me to miss. There is a lot here, but primary is Chuck’s account of his friendship and sponsorship of Rodney Leighton. It’s the best, the most moving writing, and the most indicative of what I consider to be the spirit of fandom I’ve read for this Zine Dump. A salute to Connor.

File 770 / Mike Glyer, 1507 1/2 S. Sixth Ave., Arcadia, CA 91006 / [email protected] / Read it.

Flag #20 / Andy Hooper, 11032 30th Ave. NE, Seattle WA 98125 / [email protected] / Fully aware of the cliché, Andy begins his latest award-winning perzine with an explanation of its lateness. As this involves the sale of John D. Berry fanzines and the preparation of a classic Chunga piece, delay is most forgivable. Nor can I blame any fan-ed for holding back when, like Hooper, he’s lost so many friends since the last issue. It hurts to read of Randy Byers and the others. It’s good, therefore, to find a report on Corflu immediately following. A tour of the famous Huntington Library which accompanied the event obviously impressed Andy, as did Octavia Butler, GoH at Wiscon, which he also attended. He recounts her career with zest. He’s just as articulate, though far less happy, discussing the sexual misbehavior dust-up that be-deviled Wiscon recently, and the convention’s draconian response. (My own opinion of the con’s actions belongs in Spartacus, but in brief, I disapprove.) A review of William Breiding’s fan writing leads to a rich, lively (and enviable) lettercol and some righteous fanzine reviews. Andy is very kind to TZD. Hope it can live up to his review. (Sorry about Challenger’s sloppy copy. Blame senility.)

For the Clerisy #88 / Brant Kresovich, P.O. Box 404, Getzville NY 14068-0404 / [email protected] / trade / “Reviews of old or neglected books for people who read for pleasure (i.e., the clerisy).” / Here’s an issue from the end of 2017, including the usual number of gems. Hardly any SFnal content this time, but a heady mix of subjects. For instance, a great review of the great book about the great Hollywood couple Gable & Lombard is among the first item offered, and with enthusiasm. Other books touched on include one on aging, which I could stand to read, and an enticing volume about sin in New York City. Corinne Alphen’s dance in New York Nights surges to mind.

Forgotten Toys / Taral Wayne, 245 Dunn Ave. #2111, Toronto, Ontario Canada, M6K 1S6. / (416) 531-8974, or [email protected] / Says the great Taral: “[M]ainly an index to the full run of Broken Toys, with brief explanations. I also have a key to the layered logos that appeared at the top of page 1 of most issues. But the principal reason for publishing this concordance was to print whatever letters I got for the final issue. It seemed a shame to let them go to waste.” Broken Toys was Taral’s former perzine, showcasing his writing ability; he joins Steve Stiles and Alan White among those who can write as cleverly as they draw. The lengthy concordance is actually fun to scan.

Fornax #21 / Charles Rector, [email protected] NEW ADDRESS / e-mail & eFanzines / Here’s a zine that’s both a delight and a challenge to review, since one of its several serious, real-world articles is addressed to me. It deals with my defense of Senator Al Franken on sexual harassment charges, a stance from which I do not shrink – but my argument belongs in a LOC. I’m just glad to see the issue being debated. Rector also discourses on the Korean War, his dearth of LOCs on the last issue (a frequent gripe in this abode, too – thank God for Lloyd Penney), powerful personal stories about road rage and “official bullying,” being shunted aside during PE at school because of his “handicap.” He asks some potent questions about what, besides labels, has changed for such children. His piece on the new restrictions on free speech, rife with links, is most informative. He goes on with some rather cool fiction – one piece disguised as just another article, so the reference to 2042 causes a brain flinch – and a thoughtpiece by Gerd Maximovic. Robin Bright’s “Doom Laden”, another paean to “woman’s seed,” finishes matters in this extremely provocative production. Bright quotes my favorite poem, Yeats’ “The Second Coming”, from which I drew the name of my first SF fanzine, Spiritus Mundi. There’s some pleasing verse in the zine itself, too.

Fugghead / Dan Steffan, 2015 NE 50th Avenue, Portland, OR 97213 / [email protected] / trade, eFanzines or editorial whim /

The Insider / Michelle Zellich, 1738 San Martin Dr., Fenton MO 63026 / [email protected] / $10/year

Instant Message #946-9 / NESFA, P.O. Box 809, Framingham MA 01701-0809 / [email protected] / The monthly report of the stupendous New England club, centering in its latest issue on a Boskone 55 “debrief,” with short accounts from each department. “Our badges looked nice.” Among all the NESFA business covered, and there is much of it, I find myself drawn to the NESFA Press, where beauties await.

Ionosphere 10 / John Thiel, 30 N. 19th Street, Lafayette, Indiana 47904 / [email protected] / Here’s a mouthful: “Bulletin/Journal of the National Federation Fan/Pro Coordinating Bureau”. Reflecting on the purpose of the N3F and Ionosphere, John looks back on the history of the zine – first published in the eighties. Interviews with Asimov’s editor Sheila Williams and Amazing publisher Steve Davidson seek to coordinate matters between fans and pros. They provide interesting insights. It’s dismaying to see an article on U.F.O.s, but that’s an intolerance on my part; more to my taste is the short piece on SF media that follows. Nice covers on this issue.

IOTA #16 / Leigh Edmonds, [email protected] / Seemingly embittered by a lack of encouragement, Leigh declares this the last issue of his zine of Australian fan history. This is very much too bad; iOTA – “a progress report on [Edmonds’] … history of Australian fandom,” is always fascinating and fun. The fascination comes from encountering a righteous fandom from an exotic and wondrous land, where spiders grow to the size of cats and snakes to the size of locomotives. The fun comes from the energy and wit and history of those fans, and the memory of two grand journeys there for this household. Aussies are the coolest critters on this planet. This issue focuses on 1955 and Sydney’s Albion Futurian Society, 2018 and Hobart’s street festival, which actually promoted zines!, 1968, 1970 … Oh, can this nonsense about quitting, Leigh; we need iOTA.

Johan for TAFF / Ron Gemmell and Caroline Mullan, 8 Kinsale Drive Locking Stumps Warrington Cheshire WA3 6LX, UK / [email protected] / eFanzines / The editors champion the candidacy of Johan Anglemark to be East-to-West TAFF delegate this year. It worked; he won. Hope we get to shake hands with the TAFF winner in San Jose!

Journey Planet #39 / James Bacon, Christopher J Garcia, [email protected] / eFanzines / The Judge Dredd issue, and magnificent. Discovering the Judge got me through my first semester of law school alive, and 35 years later it’s a trip to see the book so elaborately and perfectly celebrated. Most of the issue comes from Michael Carroll, who obviously knows the character like he knows his own fingers. Journey Planet is a treasure, the only fanzine in recent years to resist the tide of blogs and win Hugos. Each issue features special content, quality and the only common factors with the one before and the one after. Very highly recommended.

Kalien / James A. Allen, a.k.a. Jocko, 43 Prendergast Street, Pascoe Vale south 3044 / [email protected] / eFanzines

Lightning Round Vol. 4 No. 2 / Alex Bouchard, 586 Kinglet St., Rochester Hills MI 48309 / [email protected] / eFanzines / In his latest perzine Alex reveals his new vlog (whatever that is), AlexanderFilmWorks, up now on YouTube and devoted to the making of amateur movies. He adds that he’ll be at San Jose – see you there, we hope. Five haiku finish the issue – not lyrical but quite SFnal.

Lofgeornost #129-130 / Fred Lerner, 81 Worcester Ave., White River Junction VT 05001 / [email protected] / Fred’s opening essays are almost always akin the most fascinating lectures one heard in college—I think of Mark Schorer telling us about modern literature or our Genetics professor disemboweling Lysenkoism (on the day Bobby Kennedy died) – and that remains true in these winter issues. #129, from November ’17, discusses “The Education of ”. If you’ve read A Study in Scarlet you know the sequence he quotes. It’s a lopsided mental inventory, weighted entirely towards forensic criminal investigation, and like many before him, Lerner wonders where Sherlock obtained his Ps and Qs. He rejects Baring-Gould’s hypothesis and suggest a public school like Kipling’s United Services College would have suited a non-conformist like Holmes. #130 opens with a brief account of the Helsinki Worldcon, wherein Fred concentrated on Nordic and Jamaican SF (thanks to his discovery of Nalo Hopkinson’s work) and no mention of WOOF anywhere! He goes on to pan, with some exuberance, a local operatic performance. The letters he receives and his responses are of like quality. Delightful to find he’s heard from Hal Hall!

MarkTime #119 / Mark Strickert, PO Box 1171, Rialto CA 92377 / [email protected] / trade, e-mail / Some fans, e.g. Rich Lynch or Janice Gelb, due to their jobs or interests, are members of the Jet Set, traveling constantly continent to continent by air. Mark Strickert belongs to the Bus&Train Set, constantly hitting the road for destinations attainable by Greyhound or Amtrak. His zine reports on his adventures. In these pages he visits the desert cities of Southern California, including Barstow and the Calico ghost town (alas, there’s no mention of Mojave, my birthsite) and the liberal climes of the north. I envy him and his their time in San Francisco. Much of the zine is taken up with titles of other zines on which he has slaved. As they are for Lynch, the touristy photos are corny, but for some reason they make me want to put pedal to the metal again myself!

MT Void Whole Number 2009 / Evelyn C. Leeper, [email protected] / http://www.geocities.com/evelynleeper / free subs through [email protected] / Every week the Leepers, Evelyn and Mark, publish through e-mail a collection of opinions and reviews that are sharp, individual and enlightening. This week (4-6-18) the emphasis is on the finalist, with an excellent commentary on Annalee Newitz’ Autonomous by a guest writer and some excellent personal stuff from Mark. (Even the idea of Parkinson’s Disease makes one gaze pleadingly to the sky. A big fat * whew * on his behalf.) Not to be overlooked. Next week: something completely different.

My Back Pages #19 / Rich Lynch, P.O. Box 3120, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20885 / [email protected] / trade, whim / Rich recently cleaned my clock in the Southern Fandom Press Alliance egoboo poll, and part of the reason must be these skillful, articulate essays on his many travels and interests, published singly in SFPA and collected here. Among these articles is one I published in Challenger no. 21 on the Bradbury Building, a piece on Mozart, a long travelog covering historic sites near NYC and Mt. Vernon, a cool reflection on earliest Batman and a trip report on a bizniss jaunt to Japan. Rich writes about such exciting places in a calm, almost detached manner, and often illustrates his accounts with corny “here-I-am-at-the-Eiffel-Tower” photos, but by dog this publication makes 19 issues in which our man has made it work.

The NASFA Shuttle Dec 2017-March 2018 / Mike Kennedy, P.O. Box 4857, Huntsville AL 35815-4857 / [email protected] / The foremost clubzine in the South spreads the word about Hugo nominating, DeepSouthCon choosing, Worldcon rates-ing, awards mentioning better than any other fannish news outlet; as said many times, the Shuttle’s “Awards Roundup” is the most comprehensive there is, period, endquote, paragraph, thirty. The latest number hits on everything from the Oscars, where an SF/fantasy won Best Picture (to this viewer’s partial dismay; I thought The Shape of Water was lame), to ’s Ursa Major Awards (Mike declines to list the nominees). A great source of information, this zine is top-o’-the-range – but I don’t mind saying, I miss the club’s Con*stellation.

The National Fantasy Fan Vol. 77 No. 3 March 2018 / George Phillies [email protected] This is the zine to go to for info on the N3F itself. It’s not just club news. There’s a nice piece on charter N3Fer Henry Ackerman, and I wish my late friend Pat Adkins could read Jon Swartz on E. Hoffman Price, which includes a bibliography; my non-late friend John Guidry will appreciate it. Moving to books, Cedar Sanderson and editor Phillies provide some good reviews.

Nice Distinctions 32 / Arthur D. Hlavaty, 206 Valentine Street, Yonkers NY 10704-1814 / [email protected] / The master of the fannish one-liner has lost none of his power. Herein he wittily marks the demise of Hugh Hefner, whose materialist posturing made him look foolish and was eventually overwhelmed by – but nevertheless contributed much to the loosening of social attitudes. Gears shift smoothly to allow Arthur to declaim upon C.S. Lewis’ emphasis on satisfying reader expectations as an indication of a work’s success. The quote from Catharine Asaro on expectations for SF vs. Romance is brilliant. His discussion of Ezra Pound is enlightening; my teacher Fred Chappell told a terrific story about glimpsing him once. Hlavaty blasts past lingual matters to touch on New Math, or as he puts it, the New New Math, Hlavaty’s one-liners – “Nasty, Brutish, and Short” – rollick as e’er. What’s to say? Arthur’s an idol.

OASFiS Event Horizon / Juan Sanmiguel, P.O. Box 323, Goldenrod FL 32733-0323 / [email protected] / $12/year, includes club membership / on-line via e-mail / Newsletter of the Orlando club, which I hope returns to conventioneering quickly. Minimal club business (nobody showed up due to cursed Daylight Savings Time), April events in the central Florida area (we should get to some of these), Hugo nominees, Oscar and Stoker winners, and a few photos from ICFA 39. That’s the Indonesian Crucifixion of Ford Autos. Or the International Conference of the Fantastic in Arts. Something like that.

The Occasional Biased & Ignorant Review of Canadian Speculative Fiction Dedicated to Promoting the Absurd Personal Literary Taste of R. Graeme Cameron a.k.a. Obir Magazine / R. Graeme Cameron, 13315 104th Ave, Apt 72-G, Surrey, B.C. Canada V3T 1V5 / eFanzines / http://www.obirmagazine.ca/wp- content/uploads/2015/06/Obir-Magazine-3-July-2015.pdf

Opuntia / Dale Speirs, [email protected] / eFanzines / Definitely readable series of zines from Canada’s most prolific SF fan – topics range from postage to pot-bellied stoves. Many beautiful photos, in ripe color. I apologize to Dale for shorting Opuntia in terms of detail, but when you hit eFanzines, you’ll never regret checking it out.

Origin #1 / John Thiel, see Pablo Lennis / The first issue – well, duh – of the N3F’s Introductory Bureau, apparently devoted to informing newcomers as to the past and present purpose of . A page and a half synopsis of the hobby follows. I’m not sure I learned anything except the name of HPL’s fanzine, the Providence Amateur, which for some reason I never knew before. Tom Collins, Meade Frierson, devotees of the dark master, forgive me.

Pablo Lennis #361-2, Dec. 2017-Jan. 2018 / John Thiel, 30 N. 19th St., Lafayette IN 47904 / $2@ or trade, contribution / “A magazine of the Cosmos,” boasts John. Well, the second of these issues is devoted – editorially, anyway – to apologizing for the December number, which was apparently incomplete and, in Thiel’s eyes, sloppy. John takes this hobby both lightly – it’s fun – and seriously – you do it right. To quote: “To edit a goodzine a fan must have the right spirit, and I don’t really have that as a consistent thing, but I have enough of it to try to edit a goodzine, so those who think I edit a crudzine or ever have are liars and followers of Roscoe, who likes to see his followers screw up.” What he said. Here we have a typical Pablo, fan-wrought fiction and verse (with a few thought pieces), all quite diverting. John closes #362 with sad truth: “Editing a fanzine is in many ways like being in the position of a human sacrifice.” Preach, brother.

Purrsonal Mewsings #61-2 / R-Laurraine Tutihasi, P.O. Box 5323, Oracle AZ 85623-5323 / [email protected] / Beautiful cover photos on these two zines for Stipple-Apa – the eclipse on the first, a desert flower on the second. Nice nature photos throughout, if you call shits from the eclipse viewing and a rocket launch a “nature” photo. Laurraine’s account of the eclipse is detailed and exciting; no day enthralled America so much in 2017. Her reviews, to switch gears, include The Iron Heel, Jack London’s anti-fascist novel; I have a student doing a on London, and I’d like to direct him to it. Feel complimented, letterhacks; Ms. Tutihasi sometimes prints her correspondents’ LOCs in red, just like some Bibles do with Jesus.

Planetary Stories / Shelby Vick, planetarystories.com / How you doin’, Shel?

Random Jottings 11 / Michael Dobson, 8042 Park Overlook Dr., Bethesda MD 20817-2724 / [email protected]

Rat Sass 7 / Taral Wayne, 245 Dunn Ave. #2111, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5K 1S6 / E-mail [email protected] / e-mail and eFanzines.com / In this perzine, a replacement/continuation of Broken Toys, Taral natters about placing a story in a professional anthology (it must be professional; they haven’t paid him), the delights of getting older (tell me about it), furry art, and adds a fun story about a Fraggle song. Who else remembers Fraggle Rock?

The Ray X X-Rayer #139 / Ray Palm, a/k/a Boxholder, PO Box 2 Plattsburgh, NY 12901-0002 (postal correspondence: Only use Boxholder as addressee) / www.x-rayer.com [email protected] / This must be the season for comic book covers to appear en masse in fanzines. Nestled amidst the text of this Ray X-Rayer are a slew of Superboy covers featuring Ma and Pa Kent in various freaky manifestations. I always thought they were too old for a teenaged son. Off this topic, a terrific lead article about a ufologist who made a life out of purchasing and displaying the mortal remains of alleged aliens. Often the remains are concoctions by crazed taxidermists – in which case they’d ridiculous – or human – in which case they’re reprehensible. Great article!

The Reluctant Famulus 121 / Thomas D. Sadler, 305 Gill Branch Road, Owenton KY 40359 / [email protected] / trade / I keep praising the consistency of TRF (which at least imposes some consistency on me), and here’s what I mean. The issues come out regularly, with pretty slick covers and a stable of constant contributors – all invested in the zine. For instance, Alfred Byrd’s arcane tales of Kentucky history, this time centering on state mysteries – the lost Jonathan Swift (not the one you’re thinking of) silver mine; the disappearances of James Harrod and John Filson. Matt Howard on the Bradbury collection at IU and Purdue. Michaele Jordan on the Peter Pan “” by Gerald Brom. And of course Gayle Perry on “New Ancient Earthlings”, some of our weirdest antecedents. I must also mention the cool pages of reprinted pulp covers – full color – which adorn this issue. Only downers are the sparse lettercol and Tom’s editorial, which hint at “a break from TRF.” Could they be connected? If so, shame on us for failing to reward with ‘boo this dedicated publication.

Revenge of Hump Day / Tim Bolgeo, [email protected] / Weekly craziness, warm and friendly, politically Cro-Magnon, jokes you wouldn’t drop on Assad … what more do you want? Subscribe!

Sam / Steve Stiles, 8631 Lucerne Rd., Randallstown MD 21133 / [email protected] / Corflu and trade / Up for another Hugo this year. Let’s make bookends with last year’s rocket.

SideTrekked #58 / Stephanie Hanna & Nark Ambroglio, [email protected] / “the official journal of Science Fiction London” / eFanzines.com / The group meets at the London Public Library. Herein find a piece on the similarities between John W. Campbell’s “Who Goes There?” and John Carpenter’s The Thing plus reviews of the Wayfarers Series and Ben Elton’s Time and Time Again. Pretty art! Steampunk on the front and Algolish sensawunda on the back.

SF Commentary 92 / Bruce Gillespie, 5 Howard St., Greensborough VIC 3088 Australia / [email protected] / At last a Ditmar winner! About damn time!

Skyliner #1-2 / Alan White / eFanzines / You want craziness and color? Two ways to get it, guaranteed, in SF fanzines: get Ditmar to do you a painting, or find a fanzine from Alan White. I must quote him; I cannot do better: “This is a tongue-in-cheek zine (or any other place you want to put it), for those who routinely dunk one or more appendages into the realm of creative fannishness; or at least appreciate such things. Then they take a gander at that well dunked appendage and say, “Christ, I’m gettin’ old; I’d better do something before I kick the bucket, and leave merely a room of idolatry to the works of other people.” Herewith find fantastically illustrated accounts of comic conventions, fannish weddings, fannish putt-putt, an appreciation of fabulous Las Vegas-based artist (Lubov), parties, parties, , parties with costumes, thoughts on fandom, links to the Hugo Art nominees … and in the second issue, pod life, Esperanto (love the magazine covers), a graphic tale, an interview from 30 years back with Vincent Price (a fine analysis of the American International films), art, photos, faces, more art, more faces … FAAn Award. Hugo Award. Heisman Trophy. Damned if Alan doesn’t merit them all.

The Southern Fandom Confederation Bulletin / http://www.sfconfederation.org / Official journal of the unifying body of Southern fandom. Gary Robe is the new SFC President, and hopefully will be soon publishing his first Bulletin.

Stapledon Sphere #13 April 2018 issue / Reece Morehead [email protected] / Newsletter of the Middle Tennessee Science Fiction Society (aka the Nashville sf club). E-mailed. Aside from a few notes here and there on club matters – and anyone in the area, look up these true believers – mostly links to cool sites, wittily introduced. I’m checking on that Pacificon II link. A nice remembrance of Kate Wilhelm opens matters.

Swill #31 / Neil Jamieson-Williams, [email protected] /

TAFF News #4 / John Purcell, 3744 Marielene Circle, College Station TX 77845 / [email protected] / Attractive presentation of the East-to-West Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund candidates for this year. We don’t know the people so we just voted “No Preference.” The main TAFF website is http://taff.org.uk/vote.php. Check it for news.

Tightbeam #285 / Bob Jennings, 29 Whiting Road, Oxford MA 01540-2035 / [email protected] / Official publication of the National Fantasy Fan Federation. You can tell by the issue number how long the zine, and the organization, have been around. Jennings is almost as experienced. This zine is colorful and ranges freely over films, books, fanzines and even . If I weren’t still p.o.ed at Erle Stanley Gardner over his reprehensible response to the People’s Park incident, in which I took part, I’d be ecstatic over Jon D. Swartz’ article on the author’s SF and fantasy; as it is, I’m merely gleeful. The accompanying piece on Perry Mason movies from the thirties is likewise cool. The book reviews – with excellent input from several – touches on The Graveyard Book, probably the least appropriate Hugo winner of all, and an exhaustive study of Goering’s War. Not all SF. Andy Hooper adds a fine study of Iain Banks’ work, reprinted from Flag. Bob’s fanzine reviews include one of my Spartacus, quite generous. What I don’t see much of in this excellent genzine is propaganda for the N3F, but that’s okay. I read the other official zines put forth by the group (The National Fantasy Fan; Ionosphere) and know about all I need to know.

Vanamonde No 1286 / John Hertz, 236 So. Coronado St., LA CA 90057 / The latest issue I have of John’s one- sheet journal for Apa-L – a January issue, it comes bedecked with this year’s new Brad Foster logo. Has Hertz ever published a collection of these? As usual, the short length of the zine is no indication of the wit entailed in creating it. Here we have a congruence of Twelfth Night celebration (John would love Mardi Gras) complete with Elizabethan party songs (culture reigns in L.A.), and National Gorilla Suit Day, with an account of how the second attempt to loft such a garment to the International Space Station succeeded. Scott Kelly donned the suit, accounting for the subsequent discovery of a difference in DNA with his twin brother.

Vibrator No. 48 / Graham Charnock, 45 Kimberley Gardens, London, N4 1LD / [email protected] / Charnock breaks a lot of hearts when he tells the scandalous tale of Vibrator’s latest resurgence. His account is refuted by Claire Brialey, forever a lady, but the whole tale makes the accompanying bad news much more palatable. #48 is to be the final issue of his award-winning perzine. At least he celebrates with some nifty articles from nifty contributors. Taral Wayne comes up with “Ten Tales that Should Not Be Told”, and when he deals with Patrick Hayden’s nasal excretions, I agree. Graham James offers an appreciation of his fellow Graham, the editor. (If he lived in my beloved South we could say, “the cracker.”) Andy Darlington’s piece on SF media brings up CGI issues that I suspect the world will be dealing with for many decades. And the editor himself writes a travelogue about a Greek adventure that has me ordering gyros for lunch. Please, Graham: this neo begs you to change your mind and keep the ether vibrating.

Warp 100 / Cathy Palmer-Lister, via MonSFFA, c/o Sylvain St-Pierre, 4456 Boul. Ste-Rose, Laval, Quebec, Canada H7R 1Y6 / [email protected] / Here’s the link to the low res pdf: http://www.monsffa.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/WARP-93-LR.pdf. Website: www.monsffa.ca. / The Montreal group’s happy clubzine reaches three figures, a milestone for any fanzine! Yay team! It’s a colorful beauty, too. Keith Braithwaite tries to convince us that his gorgeous cover – a winged mammoth – is a still from a Ray Harryhausen; if it really is, I’ll … uh … buy Cathy dinner! (I’d do that anyway.) Beyond the illo, a history of Warp, as could be expected in a centennial issue, a Worldcon 75 report (ridiculous with fine photos, and well- turned by Sylvain St-Pierre), a Trek story, a pan of Justice League (I loathe most DC movies – except for Wonder Woman and some early Supes and Bats), superheroes on TV, photo-illustrated meeting minutes, even an autograph page. Cathy champions a cohesive, talented krewe in a jolly publication. 100 issues are just a start.

The White Notebooks #11 / Pete Young, 136/200 Emerald Hill Village, Soi 6, Hua Hin, Prachuap Khiri Khan 77110, Thailand / [email protected] / editorial whim / This award-winning perzine opens with a warm, personal remembrance of the late and universally admired Randy Byers, and immediately softens its sadness with a funny thoughts on dealing with famous authors – and famous people in general. (I know whereof he speaks: Woody Allen once flinched from my recognition; Kevin Costner once sneered at me – but Sissy Spacek gave me a gracious smile and nod.) Excursions to a writers’ festival in Singapore and a fabulous book sale there in Thailand lead to the tale of the cover to Iain M. Banks’ latest – last? – Culture novel and the latest Thai Literary Supplement, reviews of titles published in that faraway land. Young is an excellent writer with excellent editorial judgment, and the result is a zine setting excellent standards. Go thou and do likewise, new fan-ed!

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Friday the Thirteenth … and we finish this Zine Dump. Apologies to all fan- eds we’ve neglected or missed. Next issue this summer – hopefully before Worldcon.

Right  The cover by Joe Staton (creator of E-Man, now drawing Dick Tracy) to Lon Atkins’ Melikaphkaz #81, for the 100th mailing of the Southern Fandom Press Alliance. A featured page in Lon: a Tribute, on eFanzines Real Soon Now.