Newszines

Entry updated 3 February 2025. Tagged: Fan, Theme.

Fan Language abbreviation for aFanzine orMagazine primarily devoted to sf news and perhaps gossip; most also feature at least some book listings and/or reviews. Newszines with entries in this encyclopedia are:Ansible,British Fantasy Society Bulletin,Checkpoint,Critical Wave,Fanac,Fantasy Review (1),Fantasy Times,File 770,Futurian War Digest,Locus,Luna Monthly,TheScience Fact & Science Fiction Concatenation,Science Fantasy News,Science Fiction Chronicle,Skyrack andTheSteampunk Explorer. Several are archived online, have a current web presence, or both [see underlinks below].

Further newszines of note includeFanew Sletter (Australia, 100 issues 1974-1978) edited by LeighEdmonds;Karass (US, 38 issues 1974-1978) edited by Linda Bushyager;Matrix (UK, 1975-2011) published by theBritish Science Fiction Association and discussed in that entry;DNQ (Canada, 34 issues 1978-1983) edited by Taral Wayne Macdonald and Victoria Vayne; andThyme (Australia, 136 issues 1981-2002) edited by Irwin Hirsh and various successors, the last being Alan Stewart.

A number of long-running newszines double as club newsletters for local groups, such asBrum Group News (1971-current, initially asB.S.F.G.) for the Birmingham (England) Science Fiction Group,Instant Message (1967-current) for the New England Science Fiction Association,Shangri L'Affaires (1940-1997, also nicknamedShaggy) for the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society,PSFS News (1937-circa 2004, also asPSFS Bulletin,PSFS Bulletin,PSFS News Bulletin andVariant) for the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society, andThe WSFA Journal (1965-current, also asSon of the WSFA Journal) for the Washington (District of Columbia) Science-Fiction Association. There are many more. [DRL]