While rereading DNQ #16 I came across the announcement of Patrick and Teresa Nielsen Hayden’s marriage on March 23, 1979. Being a whiz at basic arithmetic, I promptly realized they recently celebrated their 30th anniversary. Needless to say, they marked the date. Congratulations! And the same to those other March 1979 newlyweds, Bruce Gillespie and Elaine Cochrane. Many more joyous years to you all.
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An Idea Whose Time
Has Come Again
Bruce Gillespie touts Steam Engine Time #9, the latest issue of the fanzine he co-edits with Janine Stinson:
This magazine of longer essays about SF and fantasy includes my convention report on Conflux 5 (Canberra 2008), a tribute to Tom Disch and a long article about Michael Chabon; George Zebrowski’s tributes to Stanislaw Lem and Daniel Galouye; Rob Latham’s and my articles about the links between fanzines and the New Wave; Frank Weissenborn’s article about Michael Moorcock; Gillian Polack on Geoff Ryman, an article about short stories by Cy Chauvin; and a long letter column. 100 pages.
Steam Engine Time #8
Bruce Gillespie announces: “In a fannish resurgence, Jan Stinson sends issue 8 of Steam Engine Time, the fanzine she co-edits with Bruce Gillespie. Layout design this issue is by Jan, and as SET is now primarily an ezine it’s arranged for easy screen viewing. The 66-page issue is now available at eFanzines.”
A list of contents is behind the cut.
File 770 30th Anniversary Issue
File 770’s 30th Anniversary issue is now available at eFanzines.com. Thanks to the indefatigable Bill Burns for taking time out from his Eastercon trip to post it.
Here you can read John Hertz chronicling the Nippon 2007 Worldcon. There’s a classic photo of John Pomeranz in Japanese formal clothing next to George Takei at the Hugo ceremony. And Bruce Gillespie adds his salute to Big Heart Award winner Robin Johnson.
Chris Garcia, Taral Wayne, Mark Leeper, Marie Rengstorff, James Bacon and Francis Hamit celebrate the anniversary with their own special features.
Tim Marion tells about the massive project to organize his old fanzines and his nostalgic rediscovery of apas populated by
Brad Foster’s cover on this issue is also his 71st contribution to File 770, going back to 1984.
The PDF file contains information about how to subscribe to the paper edition, too.
Gillespie Wins McNamara Award
In the wake of Swancon 2008, the Australian National SF Convention, Bruce Gillespie writes, “You might be interested that I won at the weekend
“Robin Johnson accepted the Big Heart Award in
“I’ve rarely made any money out of my interest in SF and publishing, but I can claim to have been around a long time. I published my first magazine at school at the age of 14, before I had heard of fandom. When in 1963 I heard about these little magazines called fanzines, in which I could publish whatever I wanted, I knew that was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. My thanks to all the people who have helped me since January 1969, when SF Commentary first appeared. Thanks to John Bangsund, Lee Harding, John Foyster and George Turner, my original mentors, the many people who have contributed reviews, articles and letters since then, and in recent years, the amazing people, such as Thomas Bull and David Lake, who have kept alive my magazines through their financial contributions. Thanks also to my international co-editors of Steam Engine Time, Paul Kincaid and Maureen Kincaid Speller for the first few issues, and Jan Stinson recently. Thanks also to Carey Handfield and Rob Gerrand, my partners in Norstrilia Press, which blazed the trail from 1975 to 1985 for Aphelion Books and the many small-scale publishers that came after. And thanks most of all to Elaine, my wife, who has put up with all this publishing for the last thirty years.”