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File 770 #165 Available

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Another New Year’s Eve tradition — ring out the year with the fanzine version of File 770.

Click here — File 770 #165, [5MB PDF file]

With a cover by Steve Stiles, the issue features these original articles:

  • One Month a Grand Master by Larry Niven and John Hertz
  • The Rotsler Winners: Personal Musings by Taral Wayne
  • John Hertz’s Westercon Notebook, a report of the 2014 convention
  • Red Letter Days, Taral Wayne muses about the calendar

Plus reprints of three popular articles:

  • The Man From U.N.C.L.E by James H. Burns
  • My Father, And The Brontosaurus by James H. Burns
  • Viewing The Remains of Bradbury’s House by John King Tarpinian

A Hive With Good Beer

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Thanks to Greg Machlin for organizing tonight’s File 770 meetup at the Saranac, two blocks from the convention center.

I took a cab over — yes, it was unnecessary — driven by a cabbie who’d been on the job for only two weeks, drove a total of about five miles around the downtown network of one-way streets trying to find the place. She made up for it by insisting on confusing me with George R.R. Martin, whose photo she’d just seen in the weekly pop culture paper (because of our white beards), and asking me questions about my writing.

When I arrived at the Saranac there were about 25 fans already contentedly drinking beer and talking up a storm. I remember a lot of the names of those I talked to, but because lots of you post under a handle I probably shouldn’t blab all those names. I’ll just say I enjoyed meeting you very much. Special thanks to Daniel Dern for my yellow button that reads: “File 770, That Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy.” (The food and beer at the Saranac is good, too!)

There were a couple other unexpected highlights.

At one point I looked through a window and saw David Hartwell, in full plaid regalia, taking a table with a couple other folks.

Then, on my way out, I passed Lou Antonelli and quickly introduced myself. Talk about a small world!

File 770 #164 Available

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Ring out the year 2014 with the new issue of File 770!

Featuring:

  • My Short Career as a Chess Non-Prodigy by Rich Lynch
  • A Switch In Time: Mr. Peabody and Sherman by Taral Wayne
  • World Fantasy Convention 2014 report by Martin Morse Wooster
  • NASFiC, My NASFiC by John Hertz
  • The Glicksohn Memorial Service… and Other Memories of Mike by Joel Zakem
  • Remembering the “Dean” of 1950s Fandom by Rich Lynch

Plus, Cover by Steve Stiles (in which the artist makes a Hitchcockian cameo appearance…), bacover by Jose Sanchez, illos by Brad Foster, Alexis Gilliland, Sue Mason, Steve Stiles, and Taral Wayne.

Also news, selected features from the blog, and letters of comment.

Click here — File 770 #164

File 770 Issue #163 Available

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File770-163I couldn’t let a year go by without a new issue of File 770 and, with creative help from Taral, John Hertz and John King Tarpinian, I managed to get one done just before the last page was torn from the calendar.

File 770 #163 [PDF file] boasts Taral’s diplomatic memoir about his brief time as an artist for an sf publisher, a full LoneStarCon 3 report from John Hertz, and Martin Morse Wooster’s account of Readercon 24, the first one since It Happened.

This is an especially good a day to visit to Bill Burns’ eFanzines site. The latest three zines to be posted, besides my own, are Robert Lichtman’s Trap Door #29, Steven H Silver’s Argentus #13 — and Journey Planet #18, guest edited by Helen Montgomery, where anonymous contributors say what they think about the effects of social media on fandom.

File 770 Issue #159: Anatomy of a Fanzine

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Cover by Alan White for File 770 #159

The April 2011 issue of File 770 is now available in PDF.

Alan White’s cover leads off Issue #159, a dramatic color tribute to Weird Tales.

The art inside is by Taral, Alexis Gilliland, Alan Beck, Steve Stiles, Brad Foster and Bill Rotsler. Photos have been contributed by Robert Sawyer, Andrew Porter, Diana Glyer, Helen Montgomery, Marty Cantor, John King Tarpinian, Lynn Maudlin, and the late Bruce Pelz.

The issue is posted here in four sections because I’m forced to work around WordPress’ size limit on uploaded files. I have asked Bill Burns to post it on eFanzines as well, which I expect will happen when he comes back from Eastercon.

I. File_770_159_pages_1-23 [PDF file]

John Hertz reports from the 2010 NASFiC and Worldcon
The Annual Fanzine Fans’ Get-Together: The 2011 Corflu in Sunnyvale, California by Marty Cantor
Capclave, by Martin Morse Wooster
Obituaries:  appreciations of Len Moffatt, Mike Glicksohn, Glen GoodKnight, George Scithers, Ruth Speer and others.
John King Tarpinian covers LA’s  week-long celebration of Ray Bradbury’s 90th birthday.

II. File_770_159_pages_24-34 [PDF file]

This entire section is devoted to Taral’s epic faanish trivia quiz The Only Gameshow in Town, 150 Questions for the Trufan

III. File_770_159_pages_35-44 [PDF file]

The History of the Keith Kato Chili Party by Keith G. Kato
The Heart of a City, Amsterdam by James Bacon

IV. File_770_159_pages_45-54 [PDF file]

There are two fannish commentaries on Wiscon’s withdrawal of its GoH invitation to Elizabeth Moon:
MoonFail, wow. by España Sheriff
The Moondoggle: Can’t Win, Don’t Try by Chris Garcia
The balance of this section is the letter column, The Fanivore.

I hope there won’t be restrictions on how many megabytes people can download from this site. I haven’t used this arrangement before — we will all find out together!