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Zines for your reading pleasure!

MonSFFA trades zines with various other editors and clubs. We have received the following fanzines recently.

Spartacus, a perzine by Guy Lillian:  most interesting articles on current US politics and the messy justice system.

Alexiad, perzine by Joe Major:  Long article on James Bond and Thunderball.

Art of Garthiness, perzine by Garth Spenser:  Garth’s continuing efforts to teach common sense. Also, funny graphic of Vancouver and fanzine reviews.
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BCSFAzine,  clubzine edited by Felicity Walker: Notes on club meeting and upcoming events.

OSFS Statement: Clubzine: We receive paper copies from the Ottawa SF Society. They have a website, but they do not seem to upload their zines to the site. They carry a lot of astronomy news. If interested in seeing it, ask me at a meeting.

Broken Toys is a really good perzine by Taral Wayne. You can download it from http://efanzines.com/Taral/BrokenToys-48.pdf and you really should have a look at last year’s editions as they are nominated for an Aurora.

FanZines for your reading pleasure!

From time to time, MonSFFA receives zines in the e-mail, or we get word of a zine being posted on e-fanzines. Always worth reading, they are often funny and thought provoking.

Broken Toys 46 Edited by Taral Wayne : A most interesting description of the Pompeii exhibition at the ROM (starts on page 32). I’m amazed he was allowed to take photographs, many reproduced in Broken Toys. This exhibition is now in Montreal, and I’m planning a visit. I wonder if we will also be allowed photos here.

I think it is fair to say that there is a broader scope of material in this issue. Apart from the usual self-pity and whining about the vicissitudes of aging, there is a tribute to File 770’s eight years on-line, a terrifying journey into the bottom of my deep freezer, and a pleasant little jaunt to the scenic resort town of Pompeii, in the autumn of 79 AD. Bring a stout hat and respirator.

Opuntia 334 : Edited by Dale Speirs: Starts with Part 2 of Dale’s photographs of Calgary’s Chinese New Year Celebration. I also enjoyed the article on mystery stories/SF, and was reminded of the RNA experiments where some researchers claimed that RNA could transfer memories, an idea that was picked up by SF writers. (Of course, who could resist an idea like that??)
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The Art of Garthiness 10:  Edited by Garth Spencer: Static in my Attic, hilarious comments on all sorts of unrelated topics.

Where are the mad scientists in Vancouver? We need a few mad scientists. Is it just me, or are all the heathens living in Surrey? Are there any abandoned properties or forgotten subterranean structures in Vancouver where criminal supervillains could set up their lairs? Is it true that Canadian water supplies are doped with Prozac? When the Arctic ice cap finally melts, will we find evidence of lost human civilizations, or mind-melting Lovecraftian horrors that time forgot, or just more mineral resources to fuel a 22nd-century gold rush? Is there an English word that rhymes with orange?

Garth then goes on to discuss Micronational Politics, another progress report on the Common Sense Life Skills Book, Phan Nuiuz (fan news–Yeah, I know, took me a couple of seconds), and Semiprozines and other marketlike news.

Spartacus 12 Edited by Guy Lillian:  Guy is also known to MonSFFA as editor of Challenger and the Zine Dump. (Always has nice things to say about WARP.  🙂 ) Spartacus is a zine in which he gives personal views on current events. In this issue, the death of Antonin Scalia, gravitational waves, the American elections, the diversity controversy at the Oscars and the way the Academy is shutting out older actors (he reprints Bill Mumy’s letter, adding the comment, send them to the cornfield, Bill) winding up with his own list of preferred candidates for the Hugo Awards.

 

Zines — We have Zines!

  • Polar Borealis (Graeme Cameron)  DOWNLOAD
  • The Art of Garthiness ( Garth Spencer)  DOWNLOAD
  • Alexiad( (Joe Major)  DOWNLOAD

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POLAR BOREALIS PREMIERES.   DOWNLOAD The first issue of R. Graeme Cameron’s semipro fiction magazine Polar Borealis has been posted. In an article on Amazing Stories website, Cameron explains

(Snipped from longer article in Amazing Stories website)

“Some of the contributors are beginners; several are pros. The latter lent their talent to my project to help get it off the ground, to lend credence to the zine. Pros like Robert J. Sawyer, Eileen Kernaghan, and Rhea Rose; award winners all. And Casey J. Wolf, who’s well known on the West Coast, and Karl Johanson, editor of Neo-opsis magazine. I’m very grateful for their help. Lifts the standards of Polar Borealis well above my usual fanzines. Should go a long way toward convincing potential readers PB actually IS a semi-pro mag well worth checking out.”

In Issue #1:

  • Art by Jean-Pierre Normand, Lynne Taylor Fahnestalk, and Taral Wayne.
  • Poems by Rissa Johnson, Eileen Kernaghan, and Rhea Rose.
  • Stories by Christel Bodenbender, R. Graeme Cameron, Steve Fahnestalk, Karl Johanson, Rissa Johnson, Kelly Ng, Craig Russell, Robert J. Sawyer, T.G. Shepherd, Casey June Wolf, and Flora Jo Zenthoefer.

The Art of Garthiness ( Garth Spencer)  DOWNLOAD

One grey temple of an awful rite,
Ring within ring of wizard stones circled about some central place,
Every circle an initiation,
Every initiation eternal loss …

Is this a vision of the Motor Vehicle Bureau, or of the Conservative Party caucus?     –Garth Spencer

Alexiad( (Joe Major)  DOWNLOAD

But fanzines seem to be fading away. Chris Garcia, that
effervescent exemplar of fannish energy, is now devoting more and
more time to his penguins — that is, his children, and we should all
shower him with pictures of Burgess Meredith, Danny DeVito, and
Robin Lord Taylor. And other faneds are fading away. Arnie Katz, for
example.
Instead, we have the blogosphere, where irrelevancy, derailing, and
venom seem to be the prevailing way. And so ends the trend begun by
Comet, so long ago and so near by.    — Joe