Fanzines and World SF:
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@rachelcordasco.bsky.socialAnd then Rachel discovered Shards of Babel magazine and fell down a rabbit hole.
@rachelcordasco.bsky.socialA major figure in the history of #worldsf and #SFinTranslation
@rachelcordasco.bsky.social"What western languages like French provide is a way-station for international sf going both east and west."
- Mark Purcell, "SF in French," Luna Monthly, December 1971
@rachelcordasco.bsky.socialThis was part of a multi-issue discussion about world SF and awards. With input from all over the world. In 1970. That decade was really something for #worldSF and #SFinTranslation. (See Japan's world SF conference & the creation of the World SF organization).
@rachelcordasco.bsky.socialLuna Monthly was talking about international sf awards 6 years before the formation of the World SF organization...keeps pushing the timeline earlier!
@rachelcordasco.bsky.social"National awards & a distinguished real international award should be separated. The present Hugo and Nebula awards are only American awards. [Also,] The creation of an international theoretical/critical journal is by all means necessary."
- Peter Kuczka (Hungary), Luna Monthly, Aug 1970
@rachelcordasco.bsky.socialICYM, I've been reading and posting mini-summaries of the stories in AfroSF here over the past month. They're wonderfully varied and deal with everything from terraforming to globalization, from robot bureaucrats to population control...GOOD STUFF.
@rachelcordasco.bsky.socialLuna Monthly 👏👏❤️❤️👏👏
Writing an "International Scene" month after month. Before the internet. I am humbled and impressed.
@rachelcordasco.bsky.socialApparently Luna Monthly had a special section in their magazine in the 70s devoted to "the International Scene"!
@rachelcordasco.bsky.socialAnyone have scans of the World SF Newsletter #9-11 and 13-17? Thanks!
@rachelcordasco.bsky.social“World SF is, we feel, a step in the right direction. Its General Meeting should be an exercise in communication, a bridging of a vast gap, a cross-fertilization." - from "World SF General Meeting 1983: A Proposal For Zagreb, Yugoslavia, June 21-25, 1983"
@rachelcordasco.bsky.socialCiting the Webster's New World Dictionary (1974) population numbers, B. Ogorelec says, "It seems to be there are that many CARS in Zagreb, judging by the problem I have trying to find a parking space downtown." 😆
@rachelcordasco.bsky.socialReading this proposal for a World SF meeting in Zagreb, Yugoslavia from 1983 (sent to World SF org members) and it is something else- funny, whimsical, confident.