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This file/document is ShareRight 1994; you may copy, reproduce, use and/or
distribute this information however and as often as you like as long as
this sentence is included.
Posted April, 1994 by Jerod Pore. This file is part of
FactSheet Five - Electric. Questions or comments regarding
FactSheet Five - Electric should be directed to jerod23@well.sf.ca.us
If you wish to send zines for review in both the electronic and print
versions of Factsheet Five, the snailmail address is
Factsheet Five
PO Box 170099
San Francisco CA 94117-0099
SCIENCE FICTION
%Title: ALTERNATE HILARITIES: The Magazine of Speculative Humor! Issue
4
%Descr: Winter, 93/94
Sorta funny fiction in that Twilight Zone mode.
This issue had parodies of various genres. The funniest two are
the comic "Oh, Gord!" - a Conan parody, and Don Webb's truly
hilarious satire on Lovecraftian fiction "Dentondagon!".
"Stopping at a Stuckey's on the way, I inquired of the directions
to the accursed village. The counter person was able to answer
my queries, albeit whilst making a curious sign with her middle
finger to ward off evil and ringing up the price of a pecan log."
%Info: $3.00 Each , Subs: $ 8.00 for 4 issues to
Alexandra Zale, PO Box 6732, Syracuse, NY 13217-6732
(28 Pages/S/JP)
No trades/submissions OK/back issues/takes ads. email
Talestwiceto@genie.geis.com
%Title: ASTROMANCER QUARTERLY August '93
%Descr: Humorous, fun, traditional and hardly stuffy fanzine. I
really like the production -- colorful Victorian-styled
illos and clear photos. Great paper.
Editorial columns by Joe Maraglino and Curt Phillips. Pamela
Sargent told us about her college science years. Joy Moreau
related the story about growing up in the corcus. The con photos
are really enjoyable.
One wonderful fun fannish fanzine.
%Info: $2.25 Each , Subs: $ 8.00 for 4 issues to
Joe Maraglino, Niagra Falls SF Association, P.O. Box 500, Bridge Station
Niagra Falls, NY 14305
(42 Pages/HL/RSF)
Trades OK/submissions OK/takes ads.
%Title: ATSATROHN Volume 3 Issue 5 Oct. '93
%Descr: Quirky zine of reviews, poetry, and silliness from the
publishing company Merrimack Books.
With the arrival of the new Fall comes a new contest. This one is
to develop new words to replace overused profanity.
Tacked on is an catalog/order form for Merrimack
%Info: $2 Each to
Tamara Price, Merrimack Books, P.O. Box 158, Lynn, IN 47355-0158
(14 Pages/S/RSF)
Trades OK/submissions OK/back issues/takes ads.
%Title: BLUE LIGHTS: The Starman Quarterly Issue 48 Fall 1993
%Descr: Lil Sibbley is to whom to send your money. The publishers
are Vicki Werkley and Victoria Onstine. The zine comes in
two flavors, the big thick Blue Lights and the smaller Baby
Blue Lights.
So what's it all about? Originally I had this zine *all
wrong*. What did I know, I never saw the movie or any of
the episodes of the TV show. I thought Spotlighters (as
they call themselves) were just another buncha sfans with
little or no lifes. Was I ever mistaken. After seeing the
movie and catching one episode on TV at some motel with
ubiquitous cable TV I've learned that the Spotlighters, like
the Klin, have taken the mythology of a SF movie/TV show and
adopted it as their own. Unlike the Klin, the Starman
mythology is one of love, family and understanding - the
sort of thing that Christianity markets itself to be but
rarely is. The kind of mythology that you can apply to your
everyday life. The kind of mythology that almost makes me
want to put this zine under Spirituality.
I'm *never, ever* going to accuse Spotlighters of not having
lives. There's as much pain and joy in this issue as in _Body
Memories_ or _Glenburnieland_. "It's been a rough
year-and-a-half for Joyce Fossek. First she lost her 87-year-old
mother to congestive heart failure. Then her 49-year-old brother
took his own life after a long struggle with alcoholism. This
was about the time her husband Ray found out he had cancer."
"Jennifer Sappington competed in teh Miss Ohio USA Pageant. The
awards went to girls who were older and more experienced in
pageants, but she had a terrific time, picked up some modeling
jobs, and someone has offered to sponsor her next year." Plus
with all the disasters of late, fires, storms and earthquakes
here in California, the blizzards in the Midwest and east,
there's more networking in store. The Spotlighters sincerely
care about each other, and are willing to go above and beyond to
help each other.
The chronicles of an amazing, distributed family.
%Info: $6.00 Each , Subs: $24.00 for 8 issues to
Lil Sibbley, 4945 U Street, Sacramento, CA 95817
(24 Pages/S/JP)
No trades/submissions OK/back issues/no ads. email novablue@aol.com
%Title: BRUCE THE PSYCHIC GUY: Kill Fandom News Volume 4 Issue 3
Autumn '93
%Descr: The goal of this fanzine is to destroy fandom within our
lifetimes. Check out the anime news and stories about
slaving away as an illustrator for more information.
This one had a fun intro to a SubGenius view of luck, a
discussion about the future of Robotech, some of Bruce's
sketches, and more great travel diaries.
%Info: $5 Each , Subs: $20.00 for 4 issues to
Bruce Lewis, Debate Comics, 5321 Sterling Center Dr., Westlake Village,
CA
91361-4613
(28 Pages/S/RSF)
Trades OK/submissions OK/takes ads.
%Title: CCSTSG ENTERPRISES Issue 39 December, 1993
%Descr: That stands for Central Connecticut Star Trek Support Group.
But this most excellent, I mean really outstanding ST zine
goes way beyond the usual ST zine fare of rumors, episode
reviews and previews, local convention listings and
community college courses on "The Cultural Relevance of Star
Trek" (I kid you not, Jeff teaches the course). _CCSTSGE_
has all of that, but the articles and humor pieces make it
worthy of international readership.
There's a BIG Rumor Mills section, what with a new show, the TNG
movie and everything else happening you would kind of expect
that. Captured from AOL is a discussion on the appropriateness
or neccessity of a female captain for ST: Voyager. Plus a
synopsis of Walter Koenig's appearence on QVC and great Deep Shit
Nine gossip lifted from _Cinefantastique_.
The best Federation zine we've seen to date.
%Info: $1.50 Each , Subs: $16.00 for 12 issues to
Jeff Mills, 7 Quarry Street, Vernon, CT 06066-2614
(14 Pages/S/JP)
Trades OK/submissions OK/back issues/takes ads.
%Title: CENTAURS GATHERUM Issue 28 December, 1993
%Descr: An eight-year-old publication dealing with a 3,000-year-old
subject: Centaurs. Artwork, stories, whatever, as long as
the protagonists are half-horse and half-something-else.
The artwork is all stunningly good and in a wide variety of
styles, from Elf Quest and Anime style cartoons to 'serious'
pen-and-ink and even brush styles. Nor are the Centaurs limited
to a Grecco-Roman milleu, there are samauri, alien and medieval
ones as well.
Furries from Horse Country??
%Info: $2.50 Each , Subs: $12.00 for 6 issues to
Victor Wren, PO Box 1347, Claremore, OK 74018-1347
(56 Pages/D/JP)
No trades/submissions OK/back issues/no ads.
%Title: CHRONICLES OF THE MUTANT RAIN FORES: Frazier, Robert & Bruce
Boston
%Descr:
Boston and Frazier are longtime Science Fiction poets whose work
combines a surrealist sensibility with a hard technological edge.
Their CHRONICLES OF THE MUTANT RAINT FOREST invokes a jungle gone
botanically mad: "It is a Sphinx that lifts the world upon its
back and grows./ Its veins are road maps that lead nowhere,/ its
breath a cypher,/ its inscrutable eyes spin mandalas that drift
and blue/ shift in toward Armageddon." Eerie and evocative,
these poems effectively explore a terrain most poets don't even
realize exists.--tw zzz--to stickney 11/11
%Info: $8.95 Each to
Horror's Head Press, 140 Dickie Ave, Staten Islnad, NY 10314
(80 Pages/TO)
No trades/no ads.
%Title: GALAXY Volume 1 Issue 1 February, 1994
%Descr: Mainstream Science Fiction stories from some fairly big
names.
*Really* mainstream stuff. The stories from Robert Silverberg
and Frederik Pohl are 30 and 40 years old. Chuck Rothman's
"Perfectly Preserved" is the logical end to cryonics, and
Jacqueline Lichtenberg's first chapter of "Vampire's Fast" is a
well-crafted and different vampire story, but the rest of the
stories were just too normal for me.
%Info: $2.50 Each , Subs: $18.00 for 6 issues to
David Franco, IDHHB Inc., PO Box 370, Nevada City, CA 95946
(56 Pages/S/JP)
No trades/takes ads.
%Title: HABAKKUK Volume 3 Issue 2 December, 1993
%Descr: Expanded from mostly personal "letter replacement" to a
living document of fanzine fandom history. The letter
column is slightly under half the content of the zine.
This issue has more memories of the 1968 Baycon, along with other
cons of the fifties and sixties, where many Big Names are
involved. There's also some rumination on the current crop of
SFTV. Debbie Notkin, an editor at Tor Books, reviews some *good*
SF, and Ted White of the incredible zine _Blat!_, provides Chuck
Connor-_Thingummybob_-style zine reviews that seem longer than
the zines themselves. Sandwiched between all that and the
massive amount of missives is an enjoyable account of fifties
fanlife in New York.
%Info: The Usual Each to
Bill Donaho, 626 58th Street, Oakland, CA 94609
(62 Pages/S/JP)
Trades OK/submissions OK/no ads.
%Title: INTERSEPTED Volume 10 Issue 17
%Descr: A Sci Fi APA Fanzine variaion nicknamed a "multiversal party
line" which is essentially a roll-playing game without dice,
character sheets, or rules. Several simultanious plots
including a party at Westport Organics.
The stories are really getting involved here. Even the intro is
confusing. It sounds like everyone is engaging in fueds.
%Info: $1.75 + 2 stamps Each to
Kay Shapero, Intercepted, 12536 Short Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90066
(16 Pages/S/RSF)
Trades OK/submissions OK/back issues/no ads.
%Title: LOST WORLDS: The Writers' and Artists' Science Fiction and
Fantasy
%Descr: Forum Volume 6 Issue 4 February, 1994
Showcase of new SF&F writers, presumably for publication in
'real' magazines and/or anthologies. All authors are
identified by name and a code and publishers are invited to
obtain reprints, and what the fees will be for such. Holley
has *excellent* taste in S&S and similar fantasy genres.
Always a fun read, _Lost Worlds_ presented some rather dark
holiday pieces, which I truly appreciated. Plus the usual
high-quality fantasy stories in the genre that I really like.
Even the straight SF is good!
If you want a monthly fix in good-to-great SF&F, then subscribe
to _Lost Worlds_.
%Info: $1.25 Each , Subs: $13.00 for 13 issues to
Holley Drye, HBD Publishing, P.O. Box 605, Concord, NC 28025
(24 Pages/S/JP)
No trades/submissions OK/no ads.
%Title: MIMOSA Issue 12 July '92
%Descr: A woderfully produced and printed fanzine. Simple yet
elegant. They definetely have raised zine production to an
artform. Comments from the authors, con reports, and LOCs.
Dick and Nicki report back from their trip to Los Angeles, David
Kyle paid tribute to Isaac Asimov, Terry Jeeves read some fun old
science magazines, Richard Brandt told us of his illness, and Ted
White explained to us how he won a bet against Harlan Ellison.
18 pages of LOCs too.
%Info: the usual/$3 ??? Each to
Dick & Nicki Lynch, MIMOSA, PO Box 1350, Germantown, MD 20875
(71 Pages/S/RSF)
Trades OK/submissions OK/no ads.
%Title: MATRIX: The news magazine of The British Science Fiction
Association
%Descr: Issue 108 November, 1993
More than just a clubzine, as _Matrix_ is packed full of
news about SF.
News, news and more news. Who won which awards and who is
writing what or appearing where, and some very current news about
the 1995 Worldcon to be held in Glasgow. Much of the information
comes straight from the writers/luminaries themselves, so there
would appear to be very little in the way of bogus rumours. This
issue included some of the SF and perzine reviews from F5-E.
_Matrix_ covers the full spectrum of what can pass for SF, and
has SF-themed crossword puzzles.
Way better than _Locus_ and without all the fuzzy snapshots.
%Info: L1.25 Each to
Jenny Glover, 16 Aviary Place, Leeds, LS12 2NP England
(24 Pages/A4/JP)
Trades OK/submissions OK/back issues/no ads. email
jenny@chaos.royale.org
%Title: NEW YORK REVIEW OF SCIENCE FICTION Issue 66 February, 1994
%Descr: Long, detailed, professional reviews of mainstream and
not-so-mainstream SF books and short pieces.
Hey, with Samuel Delany as a contributing editor and Don Webb as
a reviewer, you might want to take heed. This issue also has a
contribution from Joyce Carol Oates on the grotesque.
%Info: $3.00 Each , Subs: $30.00 for 12 issues to
Dragon Press, PO Box 78, Pleasantville, NY 10570
(24 Pages/S/JP)
No trades/submissions OK/back issues/takes ads.
%Title: ROBO FROG: The 1993 Killer Frog Anthology Issue 118 December,
1993
%Descr: All the winners of the _Scavenger's Newsletter's_ 1993
Killer Frog contest are here. And what, you might ask, is a
Killer Frog? "A horror poem or story so bad or overdone it
becomes humorous." *Bad* and *Overdone* are
understatements. These stories are uniquely bad,
over-wrought and half-baked, these are the champions of the
small press so-bad-it's-good style of writing. The 1994
contest opens in April and closes in June, so send a SASE
(or, better yet, buy this) for the guidelines if you want
your chance of ridicule and $25.00
%Info: $3.00 Each to
Janet Fox, 519 Ellinwood, Ossage City, KS 66523-1329
(36 Pages/HL/JP)
No trades/submissions OK/no ads.
%Title: RUNE Issue 84 January '93
%Descr: Clubzine of the Minnesota Science Fiction Society. Lots of
contributors commenting on many areas of fandom.
Jeff Schalles commented on recent events and production on this
issue, a strange story by Terry Sarey, Glenn Tenhoff told us
about the art he bought at the Minicon, Andrew Hooper wrote some
valid comments about fanzines, James White reported back from
ReinConation, and Jeanne Mealy went to WesterCon. I really
enjoyed Teddy Harvia's fanzine comic.
Plus minutes of meetings and lots of LoCs. Nice production,
clean but still very personal.
%Info: The Usual Each to
Rotating Editors, Minnesota Science Fiction Society, P.O. Box 8297 Lake
St
Station, Minneapolis, MN 55408
(45 Pages/S/RSF)
Trades OK/submissions OK/back issues/no ads.
%Title: SF CONVENTION REGISTER Autumn '93
%Descr: This is the *Factsheet Five* of Science Fiction-related
conventions. I knew there were lots of 'em but not this
many. World-wide schedules up to 20002 and beyond so you
can really plan your social calender.
Erwin redesigned his format for a new easy-to-read layout. The
type is still like 2 point, but it's much easier to browse and
find the information you want now. The main listings starts with
October '93 and go on from there.
It says that the ABA will be in Los Angeles so maybe I can get
there easily.
%Info: $4 Each , Subs: $10.00 for 3 issues to
Erwin S. Straus, P.O. Box 3343F, Fairfax, VA 22038
(30 Pages/S/RSF)
No trades/no ads.
%Title: SCAVENGER'S NEWSLETTER Issue 118 December, 1993
%Descr: The essential source for the smaller Science Fiction,
Fantasy, Horror and, occassionally, Mystery genre markets.
Who's paying what, who's folding, who's being an asshole.
Plus tips on writing or illustrating in the genres.
This issue has fifteen pages of detailed listings of new and
established small press magazines, their submission guidlines,
what they pay (from nothing to copies to a wopping .25 - 3 cents
a word), what they're looking for, what they're not looking for
and so forth. The zines are in both North America and the UK.
Plus listings of zines that send out form-letter rejects, that
sent encouraging rejections, that disappeared off of the face of
the earth, that printed a story 40 days after receipt, get the
picture?
If you want to break into the exciting and glamorous world of
small-press, genre fiction, Scavenger's Newsletter is the
ultimate source of information.
%Info: $2.00 Each , Subs: $14.00 for 12 issues to
Janet Fox, 519 Ellinwood, Ossage City, KS 66523-1329
(28 Pages/HL/JP)
Trades OK/submissions OK/takes ads.
%Title: SCAVENGER'S NEWSLETTER Issue 116 Aug. '93
%Descr: Probably the best source of markets for SF/F/H magazine
writers. Not exclusively small press, nor exclusively
Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror. Zine news, payment
statistics, average response time, letters, reviews, and
writing tips.
M.R. Scofidio wore a behind-the-scene glimpse into the British
scene and Richard Levesque contributed a column on poetry.
Absolutely indispensible if you want to break into the exciting
and glamorous world of small-press, genre fiction, Scavenger's
Newsletter is the ultimate source of information.
%Info: $2 Each , Subs: $14.00 for 12 issues to
Janet Fox, 519 Ellinwood, Osage City, KS 66523-1329
(30 Pages/HL/RSF)
Trades OK/submissions OK/takes ads.
%Title: SNARKIN' SURFARI Issue 5 September, 1993
%Descr: Hey, a sfanzine that's actually about SF! I *love* these, I
really do.
Barnaby digs up The Shaver Mystery. He heard a mention of
"Gar-worms" during the Kirk Poland Memorial Bad Prose Competiton
at Readercon. Somebody picked Shaver's work for the contest.
Anyone unfamilar with Shaver should read this issue of _Snarkin'
Surfari_ (or, better yet, get a copy of _Shavertron_ as reviewed
in F5 #47). Most propeller heads familiar with Shaver seemed
embarassed by his existance. There's also a couple of lengthy
zine reviews and Worldcon stuff. #4 is all letters, mostly in
response to a prior issue's article that compared certain fan
writers to certain pop groups.
%Info: The Usual Each to
Barnaby Rapoport, PO Box 565, Storrs, CT 06268
(12 Pages/S/JP)
Trades OK/submissions OK/back issues/no ads.
%Title: SPENT BRASS Issue 24 January, 1994
%Descr: Faanzine from the perenially Hugo nominated Andy Hooper.
_Spent Brass_ joins the growing ranks of sfanzines printed with a
basement Gestetner on that weird twilltone pulp just like the
zines of 60 years ago. I love the high irony of forward-looking
SF readers keeping the past so very much alive. This issue
features results of the reader poll, Ted White's fanzine reviews,
Luke McGuff's comments on train wrecks and Northwestern cons, and
Bill Rotsler provides the only reports (that I've seen) from
WorldCon where people had fun.
Always entertaining, and published frequently enough to be
current.
%Info: The Usual Each to
Andy Hooper, 4228 Francis Ave. N. #103, Seattle, WA 98103
(12 Pages/S/JP)
Trades OK/submissions OK/no ads.
%Title: SPUD Issue 2
%Descr: Fandom, fanzines and reminisence about fanlife.
A transcript of the never-to-be-aired roast of Arnie Katz and
other in jokes.
%Info: The Usual Each to
Gary Deindorfer, 447 Bellevue Ave. #9-B, Trenton, NJ 08618
(8 Pages/S/RSF)
Trades OK/submissions OK/no ads.
%Title: TALES OF THE UNANTICIPATED Issue 12 Winter '94
%Descr: Great fiction original fiction in albeit familiar forms. All
the stories are good. Well crafted, full of imagination and
character development and all that good stuff. Past issues
have had a few big-name contributors. All of these people
should go somewhere.
I liked the bit by Sandra Lindow called *Family Feud*, very
Ballard-like. Part Two of the George Effinger interview. Also
long short stories by Christine Beckert, K.D. Wentworth, John
Hartnett, and Eric Heidman.
Nice illustrations too. Not bleeding edge fiction; but good,
solid stories from good writers.
%Info: $5 Each , Subs: $15.00 for 4 issues to
Eric Heidman, Minnesota SF Society, P.O. Box 8036, Lake St. Station
Minneapolis, MN 55408
(60 Pages/S/RSF)
No trades/submissions OK/back issues/takes ads.
%Title: THE FROZEN FROG Issue 7 August '93
%Descr: Quebecois sfanzine in Enlgish.
There's a fine collection of reviews and a lengthy LOC section. I
liked Benoit's responces to the letters. Even a bit of fiction by
Helen Davis thrown in.
%Info: The Usual/$2 Each to
Benoit Girard, 1016 Guillaume-Boisset, Cap-Rouge, PQ G1Y 1Y9 Canada
(31 Pages/HL/RSF)
Trades OK/submissions OK/back issues/no ads.
%Title: THE LAVENDER DRAGON Volume 3 Issue 4 October, 1993
%Descr: The newsletter of Kindred Spirits, an Affiliate of the
Gaylatic Network. The one and only (that we've seen) gay
sfanzine.
This issue takes part in the growing bitchfest about
WorldCon/ConFiasco. Of all the places in the world, you'd think
that San Francisco would be open to having a "Gay Fandom Suite,"
but noooooooooooooooo, closeted minds prevailed. Plus the bogus
'science' of "Jurassic Park" and a detailed review of "China
Mountain Zhang".
%Info: The Usual Each to
Kindred Spirits: AAOTGN, PO Box 160225, St. Louis, MO 63316-0225
(6 Pages/S/JP)
Trades OK/submissions OK/back issues/takes ads.
%Title: THINGUMYBOB: The Woman's Realm Issue Issue 9 October,1993
%Descr: A closeknit British sfanzine that's usually almost all LoCs
and sfanzine reviews on multi-colored, foolscap paper.
And now for something completely different... following the All
Male issue, chuck turns over the pages of _Thingumybob_ to that
rarest of rarities, the female fen. Jenny Glover writes about
spenching exotic foods; Ann Green gives a rather funny A-to-Z of
sex (or lack thereof) at conventions; and Jane Carnall writes
about the soul-numbing loss of a very dear friend to the
pandemic.
%Info: The Usual Each to
Chuck Connor, Sildan House, Chediston Road, Wissett, Near Halesworth
Suffolk,
IP19 0NF England
(24 Pages/FC/JP)
Trades OK/submissions OK/no ads.
%Title: VANGUARD DOSSIER Issue 18 August, 1993
%Descr: "A shared-universe magazine, dealing with a superheroic
setting mixed with fantasy and science fiction, yet with a
realistic beant."
What it turns out to be is a bunch of folks *writing* an
intricate comic book without the drawings. Yeah, there's some
illustrations, but they don't live up to the writing. Unless one
is somewhat versed in the whole genre of superhero comics, say
from the mid-seventies on, one would miss a lot. I certainly
miss a lot. Although the "Concordance" supllement was included,
it's still work to keep up with who is doing what to whom. The
last couple of issues had still more illustrations, but they were
just that. Issue 18 even had a funny Ren & Stimpy parody.
Get some good artists, kids, and you'd have the most awesome
comic in the world.
%Info: , Subs: $35.00 for 6 issues to
Steven Savage, 1683 Summit Street, Apartment 3B Columbus, OH 43201
(97 Pages/S/JP)
No trades/back issues/no ads.
%Title: WEBER WOMAN'S WREVENGE Volume 7 Issue 5 May, 1993
%Descr: A really nice personal science fiction zine, the highlight
being her wonderful home pictures.
Jean's been busy working for IBM, Sue Peukert's been moving
around a lot, and Lyn McConchie just got a new cat. Oh, don't
forget Jean's 50th birthday bash.
%Info: The Usual Each to
Jean Weber, 7 Nicoll Avenue, Ryde New South Wales, 2112
Australia
(18 Pages/S/RSF)
Trades OK/submissions OK/back issues/no ads.