Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 52 — page 127: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION half pages are in French this time—but the rest is in better English than is to be found in some British fanzines. Still a good buy, is Alpha. Hyphen No. 10 is edited by Walt Willis, 170 Upper New- townards Road, Belfast, Nor- thern Ireland, with the help of Chuck Harris and Vincent Clarke. It costs Is. 6d. or 25 cents for two issues. The tenth issue contains pieces by Bill Temple, Vincent Clarke, Stuart Mackenzie, Bob Shaw and Chuck Harris; some re- prints and some letters. Most has to be read more than once and all of it is good. Readers’ letters seem still to be thrash- ing out points about the last convention; it will surely go on now, until the next one comes. Satellite No. 3 seems to us the best issue of this fanzine, so far. It is edited and published by Don Allen at 3 Arkle Street, Gateshead 8, Co. Durham, and costs 3s. for 4 issues or ls. a copy. It contains a story, articles and several features including poems, readers’ letters and fanzine reviews. Some of the illustrations, including the cover, are good. This fanzine does not aim to be much more than the “house organ”’ of the North East Science Fiction Society, but is certainly on its way up. Fie is a quarterly Canadian fanzine and is edited and published by Harry Calnek, Granville Ferry; Nova Scotia. It costs 15 cents a copy— other rates do not seem to be mentioned. The size, duplicat- ing and paper, compared with our fanzines, are good—but of course, the contents have a strong Canadian slant, and would tend to be unintellig- ible to fans in Britain—so much the worse for the latter. There is no fiction here— maybe Canadian fans aren’t so puffed up as the British and are satisfied getting good stories from the prozines. At any rate, the thing seems more like what our idea of a fanzine should be—about fandom. Do you know your Moon? (Answers to questions on page 65) (1) 2160 miles. (2) 29.5 days. (3) 0.5 miles per second. (4) 0.6 of Earth’s. (5) 1/81 of Earth’s. (6) 1/6 of Earth’s. 126 comicloooks.comn) { ;