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What follows is an (unfortunately incomplete) list of such current fanzines as I can verify, drawn from my emails, and from eFanzines.com. Some fanzines may not have appeared since 2018, for all I know.

Two or three things to note: these are all English-language fanzines (I no longer have any information about French-language fanzines, from Quebec or from anywhere else, and have never gotten a word about Spanish-language fanzines); the great majority are from North America, especially the United States; and since the rise of the Internet, a great many are now produced and distributed online.

Alexiad, Lisa & Joseph Major,  c/o Lisa & Joseph Major
1409 Christy Avenue
Louisville, KY 40204-2040 USA
[email protected]
http:/efanzines.com/Alexiad/index.htm

a Meara for Observers, a personalzine from Mike Meara dated April
2016. That's the zine, not Mike. Mike is dated June 1948.
Writers of locs, and I hope you'll be one, can reach me at [email protected].
Traders of zines can use the same address for their PDFs.

Amanita, Cyril Simsa

Archive, Arthur D. Hlavaty, available from [email protected], https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/, or http://www.maroney.org/hlavaty/. Collecting historical excerpts of Arthur Hlavaty’s classic smartassery. My kind of belly laughs.

Askance, John Purcell, 3744 Marielene Circle, College Station, TX 77845-3926 USA; [email protected].

Askew, John Purcell, 3744 Marielene Circle, College Station, TX 77845-3926 USA; [email protected].

Ayatochtl, Bob Hole

BCSFAzine, Felicity Walker (the editor), at [email protected] or Apartment 601, Manhattan Tower, 6611 Cooney Road, Richmond, BC, CANADA V6Y 4C5 (new address). Monthly newsletter of the British Columbia Science Fiction Association, a social organization. For reasons that escape me although Felicity explained them a couple of times, BCSFAzine is numbered about 14 months behind its actual production date, so much of the news is, um, “olds”. The main distinction this issue is a review of the latest VCON (Vancouver’s general-interest SF convention in the fall).

BEAM, Nic Farey and Ulrika O’Brien (New address) 2657 Rungsted St, Las Vegas, NV 89142, USA, same old email : [email protected] 418 Hazel Avenue N., Kent, WA 98030, USA, email : [email protected]

Breaking It All Down, Alex Case

Bunyip, Bob Hole

Claims Department, Chris Garcia

CounterClock, Wolf von Witting, Via Dei Banduzzi 6/4
33050 Bagnaria Arsa (Ud) - Italia
Email: wolfram1764 - at - yahoo - dot – se

CyberCozen, Leybl Botwinik ed., The Israeli Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy, http://www.sf-f.org.il. Media SF news, with Web links; reviews of SF movies and series; and news of an upcoming anthology release.

Drink Tank, Chris Garcia, email [email protected]

Eldritch Science (N3F) found here:  http://n3f.org/zines/ (George Phillies, November 3, 2018)

Enter at Your Own Risk, Chuck Connor

Event Horizon is an irregularly published science fiction fanzine produced by John Thiel, 30 N. 19th Street, Lafayette, Indiana 47904, [email protected]

Exhibition Hall, Chris Garcia, email [email protected] and John Purcell

Fadeaway is a fanzine devoted to science fiction and related fields of interest, and is produced by Robert Jennings, 29 Whiting Rd., Oxford, MA 01540-2035, email [email protected].

FANAC Update, Joe Siclari’s periodic update on the FANAC.org Fan History project. Email [email protected]. I really must talk to Siclari about the pile of Canadian fanhistory I have accumulated.

Films Fantastic, published by Eric Jamborsky for the NFFF Film Bureau, surveying classic SF and fantasy films, [email protected]

FLAG, Andy Hooper

Fornax, Charles Rector, "a fanzine devoted to history, science fiction & gaming as well as other areas where the editor's curiosity goes." Email: crectorATmywayDOTcom, browser:  http://omgn.com/blog/cjrector

Impulse is put together monthly by Keith Braithwaite of behalf of the Montreal SF and Fantasy Association. PR, Membership, editor of Impulse Keith Braithwaite [email protected] and is available on MonSFFA’s Web site courtesy Cathy Palmer-Lister. Contact Keith in regards to this publication by any of the following means: In person at a MonSFFA meeting ● E-mail: [email protected] ● Voice mail: 450-692-8831 ● Via the club’s mailing address, to the attention of “Impulse”: MonSFFA c/o 4456 Boul. Ste-Rose, Laval, Québec, Canada, H7R 1Y6 - www.MonSFFA.ca

Inca, Rob Jackson

Ionisphere, c/o John Thiel. Contact at 30 N. 19th Street, Lafayette, Indiana 47904. Email [email protected].  a bi-monthly publication distributed by the N3F. Ionisphere’s purpose is to help improve relations among fans and pros, editors and writers, by means of information and increased interchange.

iOTA, Leigh Edmonds

Journey Planet, John Coxon, James Bacon and Chris Garcia, email [email protected]

La S'chinteia, Talossa's Magazine of Everything, (no listed contact information)

Lightning Round, Alexander Bouchard

Mangaverse, edited for N3F by Jessi Silver ([email protected]) and found here:  http://n3f.org/zines/

Mimir's Well, The Asatru Community, theasatrucommunity.org

MT Void, edited by Mark Leeper, [email protected], and Evelyn Leeper, [email protected]; from the Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society. Lots of ideas! And text! And Letters! And no pictures. Not all of us need pictures.

Mumblings from Munchkinland, Chris Nelson

My Back Pages, life and times and thoughts of Rich Lynch, P.O. Box 3120, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20885 USA; rw_lynch (at) yahoo (dot) com

The N3F Review of Books "is published by the National Fantasy Fan Federation, POB 1925, Mountain
View CA 94042. and distributed for free to N3F Members and archival sites. Editor: George Phillies,
48 Hancock Hill Drive Worcester MA 01609, [email protected]."

New Church, Cyril Simsa

New Lamps For Old! SF Genie, ed. robin usher <[email protected]> [is] “currently available for download on  YouScribe, although it's rather large. Around 100 pages usually, and occasionally 200 pages. I've been writing a monthly issue for 7 years, and I'm a published science fiction critic and author. Each issue of NLFO - SFG contains 10 articles on the theme of science fiction as well as critical pieces on individual authors.” (Robin Usher)

Opuntia is a personalzine published by Dale Speirs of Calgary, Alberta. Dale's email is [email protected], and Opuntia is archived at eFanzines.com.

Origin, the official publication of the N3F History and Research Bureau. Edited and published by John Thiel, 30 North 19th Street, Lafayette, Indiana 47904. Contact Origin at [email protected] or at street address. More fanhistorians!

SF Commentary, Bruce Gillespie, 5 Howard Street, Greensborough, VIC 3088, Australia. (2016 email) [email protected]

SideTrekked, from Science Fiction London (Ontario)

Skyliner, Alan White, showing professional-grade fan artists;  [email protected]

Spartacus, a genzine by Guy H. Lillian III, 1390 Holly Ave. Merritt Island FL 32952 + [email protected]

Sporadic, Bill Plott, published by Bill Plott, 190 Crestview Circle, Montevallo, AL 35115 for Southern Fandom Press Alliance.  Email: [email protected].

Surprising Stories, John Thiel

Swill, a thing published three times a year by Neil Jameson, [email protected],  or see swill.uldunemedia.ca

The Incompleat Register, Nick Farey
(2018 address)
2657 Rungsted Street,
Las Vegas NV 89142
[email protected]

The Kommandeur, AHIKS / Brian Stretcher, 117 Camellia Trail, Brevard, NC 28712 military wargaming

The National Fantasy Fan, N3F, Editor, TNFF: George Phillies [email protected]

The N3F Review of Books, the National Fantasy Fan Federation, POB 1925, Mountain View CA 94042. and distributed for free to N3F Members and archival sites. Editor: George Phillies, 48 Hancock Hill Drive Worcester MA 01609, [email protected].

The Obdurate Eye, Garth Spencer,  4240 Perry Street, Vancouver, BC   CANADA  V5N 3X5,  [email protected]. An irregular personalzine.

The Ottawa SF Statement, Grant Duff ed., [email protected]. Monthly newsletter of the Ottawa SF Society. A bit thinner than in previous years, featuring some upcoming astronomical events, recent and upcoming movies, and a calendar of upcoming conventions in the region.

The PDF Dragon, John Thiel

The Portable Musem of Science Fiction Newsletter

The Ray X X-rayer, Ray Palm

The Reluctant Famulus, Tom Sadler

The Science Fact & Fiction Concatenation, a seasonal review of science fact and science fiction. http://www.concatenation.org/

The View from Entropy Hall, Ed Meskys

The White Notebooks, Pete Young

The Zine Dump, Guy H. Lillian III, "A fanzine about fanzines by
Guy Lillian III
1390 Holly Ave. Merritt Island FL 32952
[email protected]"

This Here, Nic Farey, published on efanzines.com by the Grace of Burns. Locs & that to: 2657 Rungsted Street, Las Vegas NV 89142, or Email [email protected]

Tightbeam, an occasional N3F publication. Editors: George Phillies, [email protected],  48 Hancock Hill Drive, Worcester, MA 01609, and Jon Swartz, [email protected]. Reviews of anime, novels, short fiction, and films, relieved with fan art.

Trap Door, Edited and published by Robert
Lichtman, 11037 Broadway Terrace, Oakland, CA 94611-1948, USA. Please
send trade fanzines and letters of comment to this address (or
[email protected]).

Vibrator, Graham Charnock, 45 Kimberley Gardens, London N4 1LD. My email
address is [email protected]

WARP, from the Montreal SF & Fantasy Association; Web Master & Editor of WARP Cathy Palmer-Lister, [email protected], [email protected]

Watch the Skies, from Harrisburg, Pa. SF reading group

What It’s All About, Geri Sullivan