Science Fiction
Flag [20 issues]
Seattle: Self-published by the author, 2013-2018. Pamphlet. Twenty issues of the fanzine, spanning the period between January 2013 and May 2018. Issues present are Nos. 1-15 and 17-21. Various pagination, stapled wraps, 8.5x11 inches, most issues fold-creased else generally very good condition. More
Cat.No: 302501
Chunga [20 issues]
Seattle: self-published by the editors, 2003-2019. Pamphlet. Twenty issues of the fanzine, spanning the period between August 2003 and November 2019. Issues present are Nos. 5-15, 17-24, and 26. Various pagination, stapled wraps, 8.5x11 inches, illus., generally very good condition. More
Cat.No: 302522
The Chaos
New York: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2012. Hardcover. 241p., hardbound in purple boards with a black backstrip lettered red, and enclosed in the dust jacket. Author Hopkinson has autographed her titlepage (nicely). A very good copy in every respect: sound, clean and otherwise unmarked. The African-Jamaican novelist resides in Toronto..... More
Cat.No: 305797
Report From Planet Midnight; plus...
Oakland: PM Press, 2012. Paperback. 111p. 5x7.5 inches, wraps, New. PM Press Outspoken Authors series. Two short stories, an interview, and a critical speech on sexism and racism in publishing by the black science fiction author. More
Cat.No: 169792
Ron, the Writer: the legend begins issue #1
[Los Angeles?]: L. Ron Hubbard Library, 1989. Magazine. 72p., 8.5x11 inches, coated paperstock throughout, illustrated plentifully with old photos and images from LRH's early publications, magazine in lightly worn pictorial wraps. Very possibly the only issue of "Legend Begins," but maybe they ran out of old family snapshots.. it IS..... More
Cat.No: 100173
Mota #30 [fanzine]
Arlington, VA: Terry Hughes, 1979. Pamphlet. 20p., 8.5x11 inches; evenly toned throughout, else in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 303257
Larry Ivie's Monsters and heroes: #6, October 1969; Flash Gordon & The World of John Carter
New York: M & H Pub. 1969. Pamphlet. 48p., 8.25x10.75 inches, illustrated with drawings, photos from early scifi films, comic strip etc, pages evenly toned else very good fan magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Includes a section of drawings of designs for the Tharks from "John Carter of Mars" More
Cat.No: 165821
Inca [8 issues]
Chicester, W. Sussex: self-published by the editor, 2008-2016. Pamphlet. Eight issues of the fanzine, spanning the period from April 2008 to April 2016. Issues present are Nos. 3 and 6-12. Various pagination, stapled wraps, 8.25x11.75 inches, very good condition. More
Cat.No: 302529
Some Notes on the Configuration and Conduct of Laureate Polls in Fan-oriented Amateur Journalism Organizations
Marietta, GA: Lee Jacobs, [1966?]. Pamphlet. 4p., wraps. “Mimeography by Bill Pettit.” Top right corner creased, otherwise very good. Jacobs, an active member of the Fantasy Amateur Press Association, comments on the procedures for polling, a way to recognize and award “merit” among amateur press association members. More
Cat.No: 311808
Aussiecon: World S.F. Convention 33 (14th-17th August 1975)
Wonthaggi: Image Projects, 1975. Paperback. 144p., moderately worn wraps, illustrated with drawings, a number of portrait photographs, and publishers' promotionals. Guest of Honour was Ursula K. Le Guin. More
Cat.No: 137257
Secret matter
South Norwalk, CT: Lavender Press, 1990. Paperback. 200p., very good first US edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Gay science fiction novel. Lambda Literary Award-winner. More
Cat.No: 19833
The Peace Witness [14 issues]
Los Angeles; El Monte, CA: Society of Juridica, 1942-1943. Newsletter. Fourteen issues of the staplebound mimeographed pacifist newsletter, 5.5x8.5 inches; all have holes punched at left for storage in a binder (not affecting printed portion). Issues present are vol. 4 nos. 1-8; vol. 5 nos. 1-4; and vol. 7 nos..... More
Cat.No: 288136
Velocities: A magazine of speculative poetry. No. 1 (Summer 1982)
Berkeley: Velocities, 1982. 40p., 5.5x8.5 inches, illustrations, poetry, very good chapbook journal in stapled gray pictorial wraps. San Francisco poets and Speculative Poetry (Science Fiction/Fantasy). More
Cat.No: 249253
The Dawning Karin Kallmaker writing as Laura Adams
Tallahassee: Naiad Press, 1999. Paperback. 201p., very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Lesbian science fiction romance set in New Mexico. As Kallmaker the author pens lesbian romances. As Adams she writes DF, Fantasy and supernatural tales. More
Cat.No: 243035
Xtreme, issue 4 (May 1997)
Las Vegas, NV: Arnie Katz :: Fantasy Amateur Press Association, 1997. Pamphlet. 6p., 8.5x11 inch pictorial staplebound wraps; in very good condition. Science fiction fan zine. More
Cat.No: 294584
Xtreme, issue 5 (August 1997)
Las Vegas, NV: Arnie Katz :: Fantasy Amateur Press Association, 1997. Pamphlet. 15p., 8.5x11 inch pictorial staplebound wraps; in very good condition. Science fiction fan zine. More
Cat.No: 294583
Stealing some time: book I: world without you, Book II: chance encounter
New York: iUniverse, 2003. Paperback. vii, 265p., very good first edition vanity press trade paperback in pictorial wraps. The first two "books" of a trilogy in one volume. Science fiction. More
Cat.No: 162984
Stealing some time: book III: journey's end
New York: iUniverse, 2003. Paperback. vii, 233p., very good first edition vanity press trade paperback in pictorial wraps. The final "book" of a trilogy. Science fiction. More
Cat.No: 162985
U.F.O. Investigator; Facts About Unidentified Flying Objects [broken run]: Volume II, Nos. 7, 9, 10, 11, 12; Volume III, Nos. 1 thru 11; Volume IV, Nos. 1 thru 3 [19 unduplicated issues], plus seven enclosures; 26 separate related items together as a small lot.
NICAP - National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, 1963-1967. Pamphlet. Issues run 8p. each, folio leaves of alkaline paperstock printed, folded and paste-fastened into standard 11x8.5 inch newsletter-brochures; illustrations are portraits (of human investigtators) as well as photos (of possible extra-terrestrial vehicles), also diagrams and pix of applicable engineering. Each..... More
Cat.No: 263604
Time Gypsy
San Francisco: Tachyon Publications, 2003. 33p., 5.5x8.5 inches, very good first edition booklet in stapled pink pictorial wraps. Lesbian Romance and Time Travel. More
Cat.No: 203475
The Stars
Berkeley: Regent Press, 2016. 94p., softbound in 8.5x5.5 inch glossy black wraps. Clean unblemished copy. A play in skilled verse (Shakespeare-inspired iambic pentameter), of dubious readability, plus a short end-section of love poems, these an odd combination of abstruse scientific factoids and postmodern surprise turns. Boggling. The influence of both..... More
Cat.No: 242091
The realist [no.86-B];
New York: the magazine, Mar.-Apr., 1970. Single leaf folded once to make 4p., paperstock browned. A Realist supplement, free to subscribers. Cover story by Robert Wolf, "Reporter at small," the people he heard at meeting of psychics and UFOlogists, 2p. Plus a page of Saul Heller's musings and a pretty..... More
Cat.No: 106185
The realist [no.86-B];
New York: the magazine, Mar.-Apr., 1970. Single leaf folded once to make 4p., paperstock browned. A Realist supplement, free to subscribers. Cover story by Robert Wolf, "Reporter at small," the people he heard at meeting of psychics and UFOlogists, 2p. Plus a page of Saul Heller's musings and a pretty..... More
Cat.No: 231270
The realist [unnumbered issue] Misadventures in space and time, by Eric Norden
New York: the magazine, May, 1969. Newspaper. Single leaf folded once to make 4p., paperstock browned. A Realist supplement, free to subscribers. Cover story notes a resurgence in "hollow earth" theories, with UFO content. Norden also nominates the three best "alternate history" novels of the last ten years, Sarban's The..... More
Cat.No: 106193