Hello!
Attached is the September 2023 edition of /Shooting My CUFFs/, the newsletter of the Canadian Unity Fan Fund 2023-2024 campaign. Enjoy! Shooting My CUFFs #6
This is my first attempt to set up a public Discord group. I invite you to join the CUFF Discord group at
Let’s see how this works!
Yours, Garth Spencer, 2023 CUFF delegate
With this mailing. N’APA 266. The issue is large enough that there is no room in the mailing for anything else.
More zines have arrived in our mailbox, enjoy!
Probe from South Africa features an impressive cover created by AI. An article near the end of the ish explains the process and includes yet more AI generated images. The key words were storm, dragon, spaceship. It appears that AI is not quite sure of what a spaceship is.
Beyond the cover, we have book reviews and some very interesting fiction worth the read.
New today at https://efanzines com:
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Bill
A bumper crop of fanzines came in while we were busy organizing the fieldtrip to MAM. Enjoy!
De Profundis #589 – September 2023
Added today at https://efanzines.com are:
Bill Burns has sent us an update, and the N3F has sent us Fanac now edited by Mindy Hunt. FanAct202308
Catching up after a few days away, I’ve added nine new issues at https://efanzines.com:
From the N3F, zines to share:
Also, an experiment, a free sample issue of a fiction zine. If you want to see more, you need to subscribe to it. I hope you like them.
More zines to share, enjoy!
Added today at https://efanzines.com are:
Bruce Gillespie’s SF Commentary #112
Ray Palm’s The Ray X X-rayer #171
Leybl Botwinik’s CyberCozen – Jul 2023
Henry Grynnsten’s Wild Ideas #37
Garth Spencer’s The Obdurate Eye #29
Christopher J. Garcia’s Claims Department #47
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Bill
Just a brief update on CUFF 2023 before Pemmi-Con! – Garth Shooting My CUFFs #4
Be pleased to learn that Mindy Hunt will be the new editor of Fanactivity Gazette. She takes over for the August issue.
This weekend I will be bringing out the next issue of the National Fantasy Fan. Please have your club news in by Saturday.
The deadline for Laureate Award ballots is July 31. Please have your votes to me before then. FanAct202307
Two more zines have arrived in our mailbox. Enjoy!
THE OBDURATE EYE #29, July 2023, a personalzine from Garth Spencer Obdurate Eye 29
From the N3F, Origin for July & the re-issue of Eldritch Science #10 which needed a correction. ORIGIN202307 and ES2023061
This week’s new issues at https://efanzines.com:
John Purcell’s Askance #55
Opuntia #553, edited by Dale Speirs
Rich Lynch’s My Back Pages #28
Christopher J. Garcia’s Claims Department #46
Octothorpe #87, a regular fannish podcast by John Coxon, Alison Scott and Liz Batty, is now on line
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From Lebyl in Israel:CCJuly2023-v01
From the N3F, Tightbeam
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Table of Contents
Art
Front Cover… Armada by Jose Sanchez
12… Tigana Dragon by Artist Fish
Back Cover… Big Splash by Tiffanie Gray
Letter of Comment
4… Lloyd Penney
Anime
4… Action Heroine Cheer Fruits… Review by Jessi Silver
Poetry
7… The 2019 Rhysling Anthology Edited by David C. Kopaska-Merkel…Review by Jean-Paul Garnier
ProZines of Years Past
8… Review by Heath Row
SerCon
10… H. Beam Piper Bio-Bibliography by Jon D. Swartz, Ph.D.
Television
13… Musings on Picard and the Star Trek Franchise by Chris Nuttall
Short Stories
15… F&SF May/June 2023… Review by Heath Row
Television
16… Fantastic Television: Travelers Review by Heath Row
Food of Famous Authors
18… Eat This While You Read That: Margaret Ball… Cooking by Cedar Sanderson