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That’s a cover from Mo Starkey! TheFalse Maria is based on a sculpture from our palRobert Hole! I love Fritz Lang and it does bega question: why did all the old-time directorsend up wearing eye patches? Fritz, John Ford,Otto Preminger, Cecil B. DeMille, even WindsorMcKay all ended up with an eyepatch. It makesyou think.This issue has Mr. Lloyd Penney on thefanzines of 2010. The man should know and he’severywhere! Frank Wu continues his Cal Ripkin-like streak of commenting on the 52 Weeks ToScience Fiction Film Literacy. There’s a ne piecefrom Taral and we look at the most reknownedof all the silent SciFi icks: Metropolis. Plus,there’s some more stuff, as always.And I’ve been meaning to use the Drink Tank Banner that our good friend The Honor-able Brad W. Foster sent me ages ago. I love thatimage!I’ve nally nailed down the program forCorFlu, four main program items featuring somegood folks from all over the place. I’m excited! Afew folks I hadn’t heard were coming are gonnabe joining us! Neil Rest, one of my favorite peo-ple to hang around, is comin’ out here! That’sawesome.I’m watching The Twilight: Saga: Eclipseright now. It’s the best of the Twilight lms, easily.The thing about it is that it’s one of those lmsthat requires a fairly good bit of pre-knowledgeAnd now, the announcement that you’venot been waiting for, but you knew was coming.There’s a new Fan Fund in Town: SWFF(pronounced Swaff) the South-West Fan Fund.It’s designed to increase the ties betweenSouthern and Western fandoms by arrangingan exchange between The DeepSouthCon andWestercon. The Fund will opperate a lot likeTAFF, DUFF, etc, and will send the rst delegateto the 2011 Westercon in San Jose.I’d expect there to be a few people who’llwanna run, and if you’ve got an idea for someoneyou’d like to see run, drop them a line and in-clude me (garcia@computerhistory.org) or theofcial SWFF eMail (which is still to come) andWest Coast folks who end up at DeepSouth-Con, and that made me think ‘Hey, let’s do this!’and when Warren and Glenn Glaser came upwith the idea and I heard about it, I was sold!And so, let’s get on with things! we’ll chat it up!The rst two administratorswill be me and Mr. Warren Buff! Yes,we’re administating a fund that wenever won. This must be what MikeGlyer felt like when he didn’t get totake his DUFF trip. Still, I can’t wait toget it rolling and hope that it starts along line of Winners going across thecountry.One of the big reasons I’mso behind it is that I never knewmany Southern fans until I went toNASFiC in Raleigh. That opened myeyes that so few Southern fans gotout to the West Coast very often. Icould count the number of Southernfans I’ve seen at a Westercon on onehand and still have four ngers leftover. You also don’t hear many of the
 
Top Ten ZInes of 2010byLloyd Penney
I am pleased to say that I get a lot of fanzines, paper or electronic, and perhaps I failto be all that critical of them; I certainly enjoywhat I get. However, I have been asked tochoose ten of the best zines that I have receivedin 2010, and I will do my best here. I know I’vefallen off a few mailing lists, and my selections,while completely subjective, do not mean thatI don’t like the rest. I will offer a few subjectivewords on each one.So, in no particular order…Peter Weston’s
Relapse
(formerly
Prolapse
) is always a large publication, and aninteresting read about the history of Britishfandom. Each issue reveals more details andmore names, and perhaps the best thing aboutthis zine is that it always brings more and morelong-gaated British fans out into the open toreminisce, usually with some fondness.
Relapse
 brings together fans of all fannish generations.I always nd something to comment on, evenif British fandom is totally outside my ownexperience. Peter said I don’t have to respondto each issue, but Peter, yes, I do.Even larger is Guy Lillian’s
Challenger 
,always around a hundred pages or so. Guy isunceasingly positive and his zine is always a goodread. We see episodes from his life as a comicfan, a science ction fan and a lawyer, plus thereare always articles from others. There’s alwayslots of good artwork with that Nawlins avour.I know some people don’t like Guy becausehe self-promotes, and he’d like a Hugo for hisknow of Earl in my earlier non-fanzine days, as thechairman of Chicon III, and I remember readingabout the President’s Report on Pornography; ittook 
eI
to connect the dots. Earl’s had a colorfullife, to put it mildly. Newer issues have shownme some early SF books I had seen before, andmany I hadn’t, and a volume-by-volume history,with illustrations of SF publishing’s early history,and all that courtesy of Earl’s son Terry. I havereferred some non-fanzine friends to this fanzinefor an education on our SFnal past.One of the best British zines is BananaWings, as we well know, and I will happily add itto this list. There’s its regularity, its great articles,its great wit and self-examination in its writing,and just the right amount of art to break up thecolumn-inches. Add in trip reports, guest articlesand a big locol, and this folded A4 zine ts nicelyin the mailbox. It’s a zine I wait for, and a locol Ihope my letters will get into.Steampunk is the newest sub-genreconnected with science ction, and there area number of publications that would count asfanzines, but the one that truly does is ChrisGarcia’s
Exhibition Hall 
, edited with James Bacongood work. You have to have someaspirations in your life, and he givesgood zine; sure, I’d give him that silverrocket, for it would make him a happy,happy man. 
SF/SF 
, or
Science Fiction/SanFrancisco
, is the kind of fanzineevery city’s fan group needs to stayinformed as to what’s happening intheir fannish surroundings. A creationof Chris Garcia [
Well, actually ofWarren Harris before Jean and I took it over 
] (he’s everywhere,he’s everywhere), current editors Jean Martin and España Sherriff ndarticles detailing what’s been currentin BArea fandom, with lots of picturesshowing who’s who, and how theywere dressed, but there’s plenty of research as to what’s coming up.Fandom should have a social plannerlike this one. I wish there was onehere. 
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is a wonderful combinationof autobiography and SFnal history. I
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kwaatlu

Great article on Metropolis!

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