| Oh, no - not again...! |
[Apr. 15th, 2009|04:42 pm] |
That's right: yesterday's mail brought another dead tree fanzine to my mailbox. This time it wasn't a new zine, but an old one. Tim Marion, who produces So It Goes, told me in an e-mail last week that he had a copy of an issue of Cepheid Variable, the zine published by fans who belonged to the Texas A&M University science fiction fan club of that name. Since I am still researching - off and on - an article about that club, I agreed to pay the postage for this zine that Tim had. That's what arrived yesterday: Cepheid Variable #6 (December, 1971).
I haven't read all of it yet, but a quick glance revealed that it's not a clubzine. Instead, it appears to simply be the fanzine pubbed by Bob Stahl, and this particular issue has some good folks involved; articles are by Steven Utley, Darrell Schweitzer,Steve Miller, J. F. Peirce, George W. Proctor, Bill Kostura, and Annette Bristol, fan fiction by Lynne Hoverson, and artwork by Mark Gelotte, Bill Rotsler, Mario Navarro, Dan Osterman, Steven Utley (him again!), Buddy Saunders, and George Proctor (him again, too). The fanzine reviews include one of Energumen #9 and BeABohema #18, plus other fanzines, and the loccol has only locs from Harry Warner, Jr. and Steven Utley, but the editor apologizes for severely editing the locs because this was the second annish (gee, that sounds familiar...) and promises to include more locs in the next issue.
The zine is in great shape, and proves that the Bryan-College Station, Texas area has a long stfnal and fannish history to it. Getting this zine in the mail is rekindling the fan historian in me. And all along I thought I had thoroughly digested that guy...
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