Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 48 — page 135: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

FANZINES Reviewed by H. J. C. Once, I was not all that strong on belief in miracles, but now I won’t bat an eye- lid to any that come along. The reason for this change of heart is that London now has a fanzine. For long, London, with the biggest single fan group in the world, has been behind the youngest, smallest groups in this respect. Now, thanks to some heavy spadework by Stuart McKenzie, E. C. Tubb and Vincent Clark, the metropolis can boast of a publication all its very own. These three are its editors— Stuart having come in from Space Times, which died under peculiar circumstances that I haven’t yet got to the bottom of, and which may have been resuscitated under new management by now. Anyway, here we have 2, as tenuous, amorphous, aimless and proteus as the London Circle itself (see page 105 in this issue). 2, by the way, is the mathematical symbol for the square root of minus one, which, if you think about it long enough, drives you mad, for it has no real existence. . But z is not to be looked upon as an Official organ of the London Circle—nothing as formal as that, by jove! Nor does it intend to be consistent. Each issue will differ as much from the ones before it as the editors can manage—and I. hear they have a few nifty dodges up their sleeves. One rather remarkable difference between iz and all other fanzines is that it is not sold by subscription, in case you don’t like it once you've paid your money. What you do is, fill up a coupon and_ send it with 1s. 6d. for the next issue, and so on until you or they tire of the arrangement. Typical London approach, this. Good, too. As for content, well, the 134 connicloooks.comn : Z 4 ‘ : 4 See ee ee eee ae