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We have received an update regarding Garth Spencer’s website, “Across the Fandomension with Garth Spencer” . This is shaping up to be a valuable resource for fans of SFF.  –Cathypl

Dear Guys,

My SF information website, “Across the Fandomension with Garth Spencer” (https://www.vcn.bc.ca/~garth2), is now extended and updated. I intend to make additions and updates monthly.

This is still a bare-bones information website, so to begin with I have focused on simply finding the links to resources. If you spot errors and omissions in the information about clubs, conventions, fanzines, fandoms, writers’ resources, markets, or websites, please comment and criticize and suggest amendments. If you have suggestions for improved layout and format, I am open to them, too.

 

Yours cordially,

 

Garth Spencer

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Announcing the Launch of an information website

Dear Guys and Gals,

Canadian fan, Garth Spencer

I am now launching a fannish information website, listing Canadian and Pacific Northwest clubs and conventions, as well as less regional information for fanzine fans and aspiring writers. Please check out https://www.vcn.bc.ca/~garth2/ and let me know if you find it useful. The plan is to edit the web page monthly.

Any critical comments or helpful suggestions are welcome, so I have put an email link on every web page to make it easy to contact me. I have no aesthetic sense, so this month’s edition is almost entirely text-only. (My smiling face is on the welcome page, but it’s a bit large – I think I must cut it down.)

Many thanks are due to the Vancouver Community for hosting this website, and to their Help Desk and to Kalin Stacey of the Canadian SF and Fantasy Association for getting me over some glitches.

Yours cordially,

Garth Spencer

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Update from Bill Burns, who writes:

Reminder: Voting on the FAAn awards for work published in 2024 closes at midnight (Pacific time) Saturday March 29, 2025. Full details in Nic Farey’s The Incompleat Register: https://efanzines.com/TIR/index.htm.

A busy week for fanzine production!  These new issues are now at

https://efanzines.com

  • J.L. Farey’s JenZine #11
  • Christopher J. Garcia’s Claims Department #82
  • Robert Jennings’ Fadeaway #68
  • Octothorpe #130, a regular fannish podcast by John Coxon, Alison Scott and Liz Batty, is now on line
  • Henry Grynnsten’s Wild Ideas #57
  • Rich Lynch’s You’re Still on My Mind #8, a letterzine companion to My Back Pages
  • Christopher J. Garcia’s The Drink Tank #461–
    Bill

The Obdurate Eye, From Garth Spencer, who writes:

So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf to make an apple pie; and while she was there, a great she-bear in the street put its head through the kitchen window. “What! No soap?” So he died, and she very imprudently married the gardener; and there were the Joblillies, and the Pickninnies, and the Grand Panjandrum with the little round button at top, and they all fell to playing catch-as-catch-can, until the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots.

Zines from the N3F:

Eldritch Science from the N3F has a gorgeous cover by Alan White.

FanAct202503

Tightbeam366

NAPA275

From Israel: CCMar2025-v01

And from Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society.

De Profundis #606 – March 2025 OCR-C

 

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From Garth Spencer, the Obdurate Eye 15.

ObdurateEye15

Contents
A Wooden Leg Named Psmith ………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 1
Look! It’s Roy Orbison! …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 1
The Cherokees Is Invaded Fort Mudge! ………………………………………………………………………………………….. 1
The Turks Have Taken Vienna!………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 1
Houses Sprout New Ears! ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 2
From A Fool’s Errands ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 3
Excerpt from How to Human ………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 4
LoCs …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 5
It Came in My Email …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 8

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From Garth Spenser, who writes:

Estimataj samideanoi,
Happy Canada Day!
Mi prezentas cxi tie mian personan jxurnalon.

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There is a very interesting article about first fandom and the political context of the times.  –Cathy

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An invitation to join eAPA

An invitation  from Garth to join the eAPA:

Dear Everybody,

You are cordially invited to join eAPA, an Amateur Publication Association conducted online.

An Amateur Publication Association (APA) is a participatory group publication, in which each of the members regularly contribute a few pages of writing and art to a regular collection, and the collection is mailed out on a periodic basis (ranging from monthly to annually) to all of the members. You might think of APAs as the pre-Internet version of social networks or bulletin boards, but there have also been several APAs conducted by email, such as eAPA. APAs have been founded to share a wide variety of interests, ranging from Sherlock Holmes and James Bond fandom to manga, hentai, independent comics, alternate histories and anarchism. WOOF, an annual APA, is regularly produced at every Worldcon. I think one of the benefits of eAPAs over other activities is that we can look back and double-check what we and other members actually wrote, or how the subject of a conversation can wander away from its beginning.

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If you have things to say and want a place to say them, check out the attached guidelines and contact me. I’m the Official Editor.

Yours truly,

Garth Spencer

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Art of Garthiness #8

I get the impression a lot of fan-eds have resolved to get their zines pubbed on schedule this year. There has been a deluge of new issues! (Also a reminder that I have WARP to pub–deadline for submissions Jan 30.)

Garth is a long-time MonSFFriend. Always interesting stuff to be found in his perzine, Art of Garthiness.

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