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Title:Arcana Caelestia
Notice:Directory listings are in topic 2
Moderator:NETRIX::thomas
Created:Thu Dec 08 1983
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1300
Total number of notes:18728

348.0. "Fanzines?" by LILAP::PETERSEN (Some assembly required.) Wed Jun 25 1986 02:51

    Do any of you subscribe to fanzines?  I have heard much about them,
    but have never seen anything I could readily recognize as a fanzine
    (even at conventions).

    Questions:  where did you find out about fanzines?  Where is there
    subscription information?

    If you are a regular reader of a fanzine, could you briefly describe
    the material published therein, and supply an address?

    Thanks much.

    						Theo
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348.1AKOV68::BOYAJIANDid I err?Thu Jun 26 1986 13:2951
    I'm not particularly a fanzine fan, so I can't really answer in
    very much detail, but I'll give it a shot.
    
    Fanzine contents vary from zine to zine, dependant solely on the
    whim of the editor. Some are strictly news-&-reviews oriented,
    some are personal ramblings, some discuss sf&f in various ways,
    some print fiction, some restrict their focus to certain subjects
    (usually film/tv series or certain book series), etc.
    
    I basicly only read 4 fanzines: LOCUS, SCIENCE FICTION CHRONICLE,
    SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW, and OTHERREALMS. The first two are news-
    oriented zines and are all but indispensible to the serious sf
    reader/fan/collector (well, it's worth getting at least one of
    them --- both are not necessary). Each publishes news items of
    interest to sf fans about sf people and publishing, lists of
    recently published (LOCUS) or forthcoming (SFC) books, articles
    and columns of sf fan interest (eg. reviews), and the like.
    The last is an electronic fanzine circulated from Usenet (I
    suppose that net.sf-lovers/SF-LOVERS DIGEST is also a fanzine
    of sorts as well). SF REVIEW is one of the major discussion-type
    fanzines, and is worth subscribing to.
    
    I don't have an SFR handy to give you subscription info, but here's
    the info for the others:
    
    LOCUS (Charles N. Brown, editor/publisher), P.O. Box 13305,
    	Oakland, CA  94661. US rates (second class/first class) are
    	1 year: $24.00/$32.00 or 2 years: $45.00/$61.00 (make checks
    	payable to Locus Publications).
    
    SCIENCE FICTION CHRONICLE (Andy Porter, editor/publisher), P.O.
    	Box 4175, New York, NY  10163-4175. US rates (first class)
    	are 1 year: $23.40 or 2 years: $44.40 (make checks payable
    	to Science Fiction Chronicle).
    
    OTHERREALMS (Chuq von Rospach, editor/publisher), available
    	free by subscribing to the moderated Usenet newsgroup
    	"mod.mag.otherrealms" (information on subscribing to
    	Usenet newsgroups can be found in the conference
    	ROLL::USENET).
    
    net.sf-lovers is an unmoderated Usenet newsgroup. Every once
    	in a while (usually once a day or two), all of the messages
    	from net.sf-lovers are collected into a digest (along with
    	additional messages from people on ARPANet) and mailed out
    	on the ARPANet. You can get on the DEC re-distribution
    	list (maintained by John Covert) for this digest by sending
    	a request to COVERT::SF_LOVERS_REQUEST. Or you can simply
    	subscribe to the newsgroup.
    
    --- jerry
348.2Media fanzinesDELNI::CLARISSAKRISFri Jun 27 1986 04:5312
    Jerry has told you about the 'mainstream sf' fanzines. There is
    also a large fanzine population that is mostly filled with fan fiction.
    Original stories written using characters from TV shows or movies.
    Since the legality of this is often in question it is harder to
    find out about these publications, but go to any sf convention and
    ask a dealer who has used books. They usually know about them and
    can tell you about them.
    
    Almost any TV show you can think of has stories written about it,
    whether it's sf or not. If you're interested, send mail and I'll
    try to give you some addresses.
    kris
348.3AKOV68::BOYAJIANDid I err?Sat Jun 28 1986 04:1015
    I did briefly mention the existence of media-oriented fanzines,
    though I didn't go into the "fan-fic" type, mostly because I'm
    not well versed in that (a friend's girlfriend, however, has
    what is probably one of, if not *the*, largest collection of
    STAR TREK and STAR WARS fanzines in the world).
    
    Anyways, regarding the legality of this type of zine, while use
    of the characters *is* technically a violation of trademark, the
    studios that control these characters know about the fanzines,
    and tend to ignore them. Since most, if not all, the fanzine
    publishers are responsible enough to give a copyright and/or
    trademark notice to the holders in the zines, there really isn't
    a legal problem as long as said holders don't complain.
    
    --- jerry