We received an actual printed zine! Our thanks to Joe Aspler who scanned it so we could post it on line.
We used to trade with Memphis, then they disappeared. This may be a resurrection? Memphen 283 fanzine
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The Weird Aliens of Early Science Fiction
From the BBC, a look at some interesting early ideas on what aliens might look like.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20231019-the-weird-aliens-of-early-science-fiction
Humanity’s ideas about aliens have been evolving for millennia – but in the era before television, they were considerably stranger.
In October 1961, Betty and Barney Hill sat down with an astronomy lecturer at their home in New Hampshire, and made an extraordinary claim. The previous month, they had been snatched by aliens! Their description of the little grey creatures became the archetypal alien of movies and TV. But before then, the aliens that came from our fevered imaginations were much weirder!
Lots more zines to share
Lots more zines have been arriving in the mail! In order of reception:
First, some updates to e-fanzines administered by Bill Burns
- Heath Row’s The Stf Amateur, October 2023 (apazine bundle)
- Garth Spencer’s The Obdurate Eye #32
- Opuntia #558, edited by Dale Speirs
- David Grigg’s The Megaloscope #9
- Taral Wayne’s Dark Toys #76
- Perry Middlemiss’s Perryscope #37
- Henry Grynnsten’s Wild Ideas #40
- Alexiad #130 edited by Lisa & Joseph Major
- Christopher J. Garcia’s Claims Department #55 through 59
- Octothorpe #94, a regular fannish podcast by John Coxon, Alison Scott and Liz Batty, is now on line
From Garth Spencer:
At last, from the fevered imagination that brought you mocha tea and the Mad Science Forum, we present OBDURATE EYE #32, the personalzine that should have appeared a week ago!
And also from Garth:
From the N3F:
Time’s Arrow_Jean-Paul L Garnier
And from Leybl in Israel, the war issue
Canada’s biggest and best triceratops skull on display in Alberta
‘Calli’ specimen is most preserved, nearly complete triceratops skull known from Canada
A museum new release calls the specimen “unique” because of where it was discovered, the age of the rock around it, and how well it was preserved.
Another zine to share!
From Los Angeles:
Zines to share!
We have an update from Bill Burns over at e-fanzines, and a few more zines to share.
Update from Bill:
- The October 2023 distribution of e-APA, the members-only electronic APA, is free for all to read
- Nic Farey’s This Here…#68
- Andy Hoope’s CAPTAIN FLASHBACK #58
- Alexiad #129 edited by Lisa & Joseph Major
- Octothorpe #93, a regular fannish podcast by John Coxon, Alison Scott and Liz Batty, is now on line
- Christopher J. Garcia’s The Drink Tank #451
Impulse for October is now available on line
Impulse is available for download. Click here here:
http://www.monsffa.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/ImpulseOctober2023PDF.pdf
We archive our documents on our website, so if you wish a look back in time, look for WARP and Impulse on the top menu bar.
The Solar System Ain’t What it Used To Be
Join us for our October 14 meeting! The first of two presentations is by Joe Aspler:
The Solar System Ain’t What it Used To Be
From the earliest days of science fiction, space travellers travelled to the Moon, to Mars, to Venus, and to other planets as they were discovered. Early science fiction – before the late 199th century – treated the planets as just different earths. Science fictional tropes from the late 19th century right to the Space Age declared Mercury to be an oven on the side facing the sun and a freezer on the other. Venus was a planet of swamps, jungles, and dinosaurs. Mars was a cool desert planet, with all the water in the canals.
Then, science had its little say. Starting in the early 1960s, the first interplanetary probes knocked down the tropes of science fiction. Or as T.H. Huxley (1825 – 1895) put it: “The great tragedy of Science is the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.”
But have no fear, there were plenty of other ways to look at the planets … and more planets to look at.
View photos of the club’s visit to the MAM
Pictures and short video of MonSFFA’s visit to the Montreal Aviation Museum in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue have been uploaded to our website and ca
n be accessed by clicking the field trips menu item under activities. Or go directly to http://www.monsffa.ca/?page_id=28425
Hallowe’en to loom over MonSFFA meeting!
MonSFFA meets on the 14th of October, close enough to Hallowe’en for a celebration of monsters, Jack-o’-Lanterns, and their ilk.
Come costumed, bring your crafty ornaments and decorations! There might be prizes!
All fans invited to join us at the Royal Canadian Legion branch in Lachine: 3015 Rue Henri Dunant, Lachine, H8S 1R5
