Category: Fanzines

A practical guide to finding old science fiction fanzines online through fan archives, university collections, bibliographies, scans, and search strategies.

A curated guide to digital archives and research sources for reading old science fiction fanzines and fan-history material.

A clear comparison of zines, fanzines, and magazines, with examples from science fiction fandom, DIY publishing, and commercial periodicals.

A direct comparison of fanzines and prozines in science fiction publishing, including amateur vs. professional production, audience, and purpose.

A practical guide to preserving and digitizing old fanzines, including storage, scanning, metadata, file formats, permissions, and archival care.

A guide to the earliest science fiction fanzines, including The Comet, The Planet, The Time Traveller, and the fan networks that produced them.

A guide to newszine, the fanzine or fan publication devoted mainly to news, announcements, convention information, and community updates.

A guide to one-shot fanzines, single-issue fan publications made for a specific moment, joke, event, argument, or experiment.

A practical history of how science fiction fanzines were typed, duplicated, mailed, traded, reviewed, and preserved before the web.

A curated guide to influential science fiction fanzines and why they mattered to fan publishing, criticism, archives, and fandom history.