Authentic Science Fiction Monthly, No. 51 — page 136: what you’re looking at

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

FANZINES SATELLITE is a fairly well produced quarto fanzine which, unlike so many other British amateur productions, seems to be a one-man job. No bevy of editors and art editors and poetry editors here. The whole boiling is done by Don Allen of 3 Arkle Street, Gateshead 8, Co. Dure ham. It costs 1/- per copy or 3s. for four issues. Exchanges with other fanzines are welcomed. Issue No. 2 to hand con- tains a story, five articles (one by Authentic writer Bryan Berry) and five features. A fine balance is maintained between serious and humor- ous material. Though SATEL- LITE could hardly be described as an outstanding fanzine, it certainly takes an honourable place among the others— which is a great credit to the lone hand that runs it. TRIODE is also fairly good to look at—as is to be expected from editors with as much experience of these things as Eric Bentcliffe, Terry Jeeves and Eric Jones, all of whom 135 were once tied up with Space Times. TRIODE is now their independent voice in fandom. — And a fine voice it is, apart from, here and there, a cer- tain amount of acrimony— which is also to be expected from these three misfits in fandom. The first number to hand has a wide range of contents, all of which is fully up to the general standard. Again, this fanzine is not to be shouted about from the roof- tops, but is a competent job nonetheless. It can be obtained at 9d. a copy or four copies for 3/- from Eric Jones, 44 Bar- bridge Road, Hesters Way, Cheltenham, Glos. VARIOSO is an American fanzine which is impeccably and cleverly produced in several colours (of ink and paper). Understandably, it deals almost exclusively with the affairs of American fan- dom and unless you are interested in this there is not much point in taking the fanzine. Even so, reading VARIOSO would be a good way comiclooks.corn