A science fiction fanzine is an amateur or semi-professional magazine published by members of science fiction fandom Science fiction fandom or SF fandom is a community of people actively interested in science fiction and fantasy literature, and in contact with one another based upon that interest. SF fandom has a life of its own, but not much in the way of formal organization, from the 1930s to the present day. They were one of the earliest forms of fanzine A fanzine is a nonprofessional and nonofficial publication produced by fans of a particular cultural phenomenon (such as a literary or musical genre) for the pleasure of others who share their interest. The term was coined in an October 1940 science fiction fanzine by Russ Chauvenet and first popularized within science fiction fandom, from whom it, and at one time constituted the primary type of science-fictional fannish activity ("fanac").
Contents |
Origins and history
The first science fiction fanzine, The Comet, was published in 1930 by the Science Correspondence Club in Chicago Chicago ( /ʃɨˈkɑːɡoʊ/ or /ʃɨˈkɔːɡoʊ/) is the largest city in both Illinois and the Midwest, and the third most populous city in the United States, with over 2.8 million residents. Its metropolitan area, commonly named "Chicagoland", is the 26th most populous in the world, home to an estimated 9.7 million people spread. The term "fanzine" was coined in October 1940 by Russ Chauvenet Louis Russell "Russ" Chauvenet was a champion chess player and one of the founders of science fiction fandom. "Fanzines" were distinguished from "prozines", that is, all professional magazines Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles, generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three. Magazines can be distributed through the mail; through sales by newsstands, bookstores or other vendors;. Prior to that, the fan publications were known as "fanmags" or "letterzines." (See fanspeak Fanspeak is the slang or jargon current in science fiction and fantasy fandom, especially those terms in use among readers and writers of science fiction fanzines.)
Traditionally, science fiction fanzines were (and many still are) available for "the usual," meaning that a sample issue will be mailed on request; to receive further issues, a reader sends a "letter of comment" (LoC) about the fanzine to the editor. The LoC might be published in the next issue: some fanzines consisted almost exclusively of letter columns, where discussions were conducted in much the same way as they are in internet newsgroups A usenet newsgroup is a repository usually within the Usenet system, for messages posted from many users in different locations. The term may be confusing to some, because it is usually a discussion group. Newsgroups are technically distinct from, but functionally similar to, discussion forums on the World Wide Web. Newsreader software is used to and mailing lists A mailing list is a collection of names and addresses used by an individual or an organization to send material to multiple recipients. The term is often extended to include the people subscribed to such a list, so the group of subscribers is referred to as "the mailing list", or simply "the list" nowadays, though at a relatively slow pace.
Since 1955, the annual Worldcon Worldcon, or more formally The World Science Fiction Convention, is a science fiction convention held each year since 1939 . It is the annual convention of the World Science Fiction Society (or WSFS). The members of each Worldcon are the members of WSFS and vote both to select the site of the Worldcon two years later and (since 1955) to select the has awarded Hugo Awards The Hugo Awards are given every year for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. The award is named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories. Hugo Awards have been presented every year since 1955 for Best Fanzine The Hugo Award for Best Fanzine is given annually to fanzines. These are amateur magazines for science fiction/fantasy-related subject, which do not pay their contributors. Fanzines are generally produced out of the love of the genre, its authors, books and films. Historically, fanzines were produced by inexpensive copying processes such as; awards for Best Fan Writer The Hugo Awards, the most prestigious awards in science fiction fandom, are given every year for science fiction or fantasy, and related areas in fandom, art and dramatic presentation, of the previous year, by members of the annual World Science Fiction Convention and Best Fan Artist The Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist is given to an artist whose work appears in low- or non-paying publications such as semiprozines or fanzines; this category is thus distinguished from that for highly-paid professional artists. Artists nominated in the pro category are ineligible in the fan category, and vice versa. This rule was established were added in 1967 and have continued since then.
Semiprozines
During the 1970s and 1980s, some fanzines - especially sercon Sercon is a word used to denote "Serious and Constructive" science fiction criticism, as well as the science fiction fanzines in which such criticism is published. The term was originally coined in the 1950s by Canadian fan Boyd Raeburn as a pejorative to mock those fans who took science fiction, its criticism, and themselves too (serious and constructive) zines devoted to sf and fantasy Fantasy literature is fantasy in written form. Historically speaking, the majority of fantasy works have been literature. Since the 1950s however, a growing segment of the fantasy genre has taken the form of films, television programs, graphic novels, video games, music, painting, and other media criticism, and newszines such as Locus - became more professional journals, produced by desktop publishing Desktop publishing combines a personal computer and WYSIWYG page layout software to create publication documents on a computer for either large scale publishing or small scale local multifunction peripheral output and distribution programs and offset printing Offset printing is a commonly used printing technique where the inked image is transferred from a plate to a rubber blanket, then to the printing surface. When used in combination with the lithographic process, which is based on the repulsion of oil and water, the offset technique employs a flat (planographic) image carrier on which the image to. These new magazines were labeled "semiprozines", and were eventually sold rather than traded, and paid their contributors. Some semiprozines publish original fiction. The Hugo Awards The Hugo Awards are given every year for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. The award is named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories. Hugo Awards have been presented every year since 1955 recognized semiprozines as a separate category from fanzines in 1984 after Locus won the award for best fanzine several years running. (See Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine The Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine is a Hugo Award given annually to "semi-professional" science fiction/fantasy/horror magazines, which live in a nebulous area between the non-paying amateur fanzines and the high-paying professional magazines). Well-known semiprozines include Locus, Ansible An ansible is a hypothetical machine capable of instantaneous or superluminal communication. Ansibles are used as plot devices in science fiction literature, The New York Review of Science Fiction The New York Review of Science Fiction (ISSN 1052-9438) is a monthly science fiction critical journal, founded in 1988. It generally includes works of science fiction criticism, essays, and in-depth critical reviews of new works of fiction and scholarship, and Interzone Interzone is a British fantasy and science fiction magazine, published since 1982. Both genres are covered in the critical articles, but the original stories are mainly science fiction.
APAs
- See main article Amateur press association
Amateur press associations (APAs) publish fanzines made up of the contributions of the individual members collected into an assemblage or bundle called an apazine.
The first science fiction APA was the Fantasy Amateur Press Association (FAPA) formed by a group of science fiction fans in 1937. Some APAs are still active as hardcopy publications, and some are published as virtual "e-zines," distributed on the internet The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet Protocol Suite to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope that are linked by a broad array of electronic and.
Other types of fanzines
The term "fanzine" is also used to refer to fan-created magazines concerning other topics: the earliest rock-and-roll Rock and roll is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily from a combination of the blues, country music and gospel music. Though elements of rock and roll can be heard in country records of the 1930s, and in blues records from the 1920s, rock and roll did not fanzines were edited by science fiction fans. A significant part of modern computer/Web/Internet slang, abbreviations, etc. is derived from the jargon of the fanzine fans. See fanzine A fanzine is a nonprofessional and nonofficial publication produced by fans of a particular cultural phenomenon (such as a literary or musical genre) for the pleasure of others who share their interest. The term was coined in an October 1940 science fiction fanzine by Russ Chauvenet and first popularized within science fiction fandom, from whom it, fanspeak Fanspeak is the slang or jargon current in science fiction and fantasy fandom, especially those terms in use among readers and writers of science fiction fanzines.
The fanzine movement is now well represented on the Web; see webzine An online magazine shares some features with a blog and also with online newspapers, but can usually be distinguished by its approach to editorial control. Magazines typically have editors or editorial boards who review submissions and perform a quality control function to ensure that all material meets the expectations of the publishers and the.
Conventions
Fanzine readers and producers naturally gather at science fiction conventions Science fiction conventions are gatherings of fans of various forms of speculative fiction including science fiction and fantasy. Historically, science fiction conventions had focused primarily on literature, but the purview of many extends to such other avenues of expression as movies and television, comics, animation, and games, but there are also small conventions dedicated to fanzines. The first fanzine-only annual convention was Autoclave, held by a Detroit-based fan group for several years in the 1970s. In 1984, the first Corflu Corflu is a science fiction fanzine convention held each spring in North America . It is named after a slang term for the "correction fluid" used in mimeograph printing, a common way to produce fanzines before the arrival of low-cost photocopying and online fanzines was held in Berkeley, California Berkeley is a city on the east shore of the San Francisco Bay in Northern California, United States. Its neighbors to the south are the cities of Oakland and Emeryville. To the north is the city of Albany and the unincorporated community of Kensington. The eastern city limits coincide with the county line (bordering Contra Costa County), which. A second convention, Ditto Ditto is a science fiction fanzine convention held annually in the autumn in North America. It is named after the ditto machine, which was commonly used to print fanzines before the advent of cheap photocopying, started in Toronto in 1988. Both of these conventions continue to take place each year.
External links
- British Fanzine Bibliography
- efanzines.com This site contains recent fanzines from fans working in the traditions of fanzine fandom. These zines are in pdf format. There are also links to other sites which will be of interest to those who like (or want to know more about) fanzine fandom.
- Fanzines and Articles about Fandom
- M. Horvat Fanzine Collection at U. of Iowa and Science Fiction Fanzine Index, Iowa Digital Library.
- Memory Hole: an SF Fanzine bibliography
- Fanzines at the Open Directory Project The Open Directory Project , also known as Dmoz (from directory.mozilla.org, its original domain name), is a multilingual open content directory of World Wide Web links. It is owned by Netscape, but it is constructed and maintained by a community of volunteer editors
- Science Fiction Fanzines article by Steven Perkins
- Science fiction fanzines and ephemera collection (Syracuse University)
- Temple University Fanzine Collection
Categories: Science fiction fanzines | Science fiction fandom
|
Yozone
AD : Je ne pense jamais un texte en termes de genre, je ne me preoccupe pas de savoir s'il releve plus du fantastique ou de la science - fiction , ...
and more »
417px x 576px | 38.20kB
[source page]
a gigantic ape s head Painted in watercolors with ink accents on heavy textured paper signed and dated May 24 1964 11 by 15 in very good condition $325 00 Science fiction art Back Larger images Image Back
MXV
hu, 18 Feb 2010 19:48:38 GM
The man practically invented the . fanzine. as he had been doing so many of them either about . science fiction. or his own neighborhood or music. I'm willing to bet if it wasn't for him, music . fanzines. wouldn't have become as big as they ...
