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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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Added today at https://efanzines.com:

Andy Hooper’s CAPTAIN FLASHBACK #75

Perry Middlemiss’s Perryscope #51

Nic Farey’s This Here…#84

Octothorpe #129, a regular fannish podcast by John Coxon, Alison Scott and Liz Batty, is now on line

Christopher J. Garcia’s The Drink Tank #460

Bill Plott’s Sporadic #87, 88, 89 and archive issues 66b, 67

From N3F:

With this mailing I am sending a copy of Tightbeam 366. There has been one change. We are moving the longer articles toward the rear of the magazine, so Jesse Silver’s wonderful anime reviews now appear late rather than early in the magazine.

https://www.monsffa.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Tightbeam366.pdf

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A bumper crop of zines to share!

From Bill Burns:

Added today at https://efanzines.com:

Nic Farey’s The Incompleat Register 2023 Results. Full details of the FAAn Awards presented at Corflu Craic, 2 April 2023.

Opuntia #546, edited by Dale Speirs

Octothorpe #80, a regular fannish podcast by John Coxon, Alison Scott and Liz Batty, is now on line

Christopher J. Garcia’s The Drink Tank #446

Garth Spencer’s The Obdurate Eye #26

David Grigg’s The Megaloscope #6


Bill

From the N3F,

With this mailing, you are being sent the March 2023 issues of Ionisphere and of The N3F Review of Books Incorporating Prose Bono.

And note our new feature in the N3F Review of Books. On the second page, these authors have agreed to send you one of their ebooks, for free, in exchange for your promising to write a review of the book and posting it on Amazon, Goodreads, or social media sites, and sending The N3F Review a copy.

From Garth Spencer in Vancouver, BC, the Obdurate Eye.
From Nic Farey who send us news of the FAAn Awards:

Other news from the awards given at Corflu Craic in Belfast, NI earlier today:

fwa (fanzine writers’ association) Past President election:
2022 Past Presidents: Nigel Rowe, John D. Berry
1959 Past President: Keith Freeman

Corflu Lifetime Achievement Award: Rob Hansen

Corfu 41 awarded to Las Vegas, NV and will take place at the Gold Coast hotel and Casion, February 29 – March 3 2024.

FAAn winners summary:
FANZINE CATEGORIES
Best Genzine: Portable Storage (ed. William Breiding)
Best Perzine: This Here… (ed. Nic Farey)
Best Special Publication: 1957: The First British Worldcon (ed. Rob Hansen)

INDIVIDUAL CATEGORIES
Best Letterhack (Harry Warner Jr. Memorial Award): Jerry Kaufman
Best Fanartist: Ulrika O’Brien
Best Fanwriter: (TIE) Justin E.A. Busch, Nic Farey
Best Fanzine Cover: BEAM 17 (Alan White)

For a breakdown of voting, click  Incompleat2023results

 

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From the N3F:

As updates, we do need a new Editor for Films Fantastic, failing which it will be merged for the nonce back into Tightbeam. We are also running short of writers for various reasons. In particular, FanActivity Gazette has lost in one fell swoop most of its writers. Please recruit fellow fen who write, whether they are current Neffers or not, as writers.

Tightbeam340

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[eFanzines] Pre-Corflu update at eFanzines

Added today at https://efanzines.com are:

BEAM #17 edited by Nic Farey and Ulrika O’Brien

Ethel the Aardvark #217 and archive issues 15, 183

Octothorpe #68, a regular fannish podcast by John Coxon, Alison Scott and Liz Batty, is now on line

Guy H. Lillian III’s Spartacus #60

Garth Spencer’s The Obdurate Eye #20

Henry Grynnsten’s Wild Ideas #28

From Joseph Major, Alexiad

Alex125

From the N3F, 3 zines and sad news.

FanAct202210

TNFF202210

OriginOCTOBER2022

Alas, I must start with sad news about Justin E. A. Busch:
Hi George,
This is Erin, Justin’s partner. Sadly, he has been in a state of decline since his cancer came back, and he is not currenty capable of writing. In all likelihood, there won’t be any other Fanfaronades.
There’s some more here: https://www.caringbridge.org/visit/justin.busch
Please feel free to forward the news. I am checking his email periodically and people can also contact me directly if need be
Sorry to be the bearer of sad news,
Erin

 

 

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From the N3F:

TNFF202208

The sercon article is very interesting, being about Fawcett Publications beyond superhero comics.  The author, Jon D. Swartz,  puts to focus their limited runs and one-offs, such as Destination Moon, When Worlds Collide and Captain Video.

ToC

Laureate Awards
Swag!
President Reports — Your Volunteer Team
Letters of Comment
John Thiel —Bob Jennings
Treasury
Bureaus
Art Bureau — History and Research Bureau — Round Robins Bureau
Fan-Pro Coordinating Bureau — Correspondence Bureau — Anime & Manga Bureau
Pro Bureau — Writers Exchange — Book Review Bureau — Welcommittee
SerCon
Fawcett Science Fiction Comics
Nichelle Nichols
The Magazine of Fantasy
September Calendar

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Two zines from the N3F: Origin53 and Tightbeam334

Origin Contents
Editorial, by John Thiel, “How Do We Rate?”, page four
E. Everett Evans, by Jon Swartz, page seven
Into the Past, by Martin Lock, page eleven
Science Fiction Art, by Judy Carroll, page sixteen
Some Words, by Jeffrey Redmond, page nineteen
Wrap-up, by John Thiel, page twenty
Farscapes, by Will Mayo, page twenty-three

Tightbeam Table of Contents
Front Cover … Eavesdropping by Jose Sanchez
Back Cover … Flight by Jose Sanchez

Editorial
4 … A Tribute to Our Writers

Letters of Comment
4 … Lloyd Penney
5 … Eric Jamborsky
6 … Bob Jennings
6 … Will Mayo

Anime
6 … Yurei Deco by Jessi Silver
8 … Phantom of the Idol By Jessi Silver

Books
10 … The Joke That Made The Novel by Will Mayo

Movies
10 … Will Mayo Reviews The Beguiled, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and
Night Of The Living Dead

SerCon
11 … Wilson Tucker Bio-Bibliography by Jon D. Swartz, Ph.D.

Song
15 … Will Mayo Reviews Bobby Gentry’s Ode To Billy Joe, The Grateful Dead’s My Brother
Esau, Uriah Heep’s Lady In Black, Lana del Rey’s Gods And Monsters, Dave Matthews’s
Gravedigger, and Ghost’s Little Sunshine

Stage
16 … Will Mayo Reviews Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex

Verse
17 … Will Mayo Reviews Edgar Allan Poe’s Ulalume

Food of Famous Writers
17 … Cuban Sandwiches and Sushi with Misha Burnett and Louise Sorenson
… Cooking by Cedar Sanderson

 

 

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From the N3F, Tightbeam: Tightbeam331

On page 4, an interesting LoC from GrayJay, one of our members, regarding unicorns.

Table of Contents

Art
Front Cover … Stormtrooper by Jose Sanchez
Back Cover … C3PO by Jose Sanchez
4 … Editorial
4 … News
4 … Letter of Comment (GrayJay)

Anime

5 … Winter 2022 First Impressions – Shenmue the Animation … by Jessi Silver
7 … Winter 2022 First Impressions – FreakAngels … by Jessi Silver
Comics
9 … Shogun Warriors … by Thomas E. Simmons
13 … Mister Jinx, Recalled by Will Mayo
13 … Will Mayo Reviews Dick Tracy

SerCon

13 … Frederik Pohl Bio-Bibliography by Jon D. Swartz, Ph.D.
Short Stories
16 … Will Mayo Reviews Ray Bradbury’s The Pedestrian
Music
16 … Will Mayo’s Review Of Elton John’s Rocket Man

Food of Famous Authors with Cedar Sanderson

17 … This Month: George Phillies and Greek Stew