Fanzine

A Fanzine is a kind of periodical produced by fans. Fans of Traveller in this case.

• Please see the Periodicals article for more information.

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Please see the following Traveler RPG Wiki articles for more information:

• Traveller (Where it all started...)
  • Artifacts (Objects)
    • Miniatures
    • Publications
      • Bibliography (books)
        • Classic Traveller Bibliography
        • Cryptobibliography (lost books)
        • Generic Bibliography
      • Ludography (games)
        • Cryptoludography (lost games)
      • Periodicals (magazines, journals, etc.)
        • Fanzines

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Description (Specifications)

Fanzines are fan-produced magazines.

• They are often inexpensive (a few dollars an issue) or free.
• In their original form they would often be hand written, hand copied, and mailed to a small subscriber list.
• Current fanzines are most often produced through desktop publishing software and distributed as PDFs through the internet.
• In many cases the older fanzines, though no longer publishing new issues, are also available as PDFs scanned from the originals.

Fanzine Listing

Some of the many fanzines produced for Traveller have included:

1. AAB Proceedings (AABP)
2. Alien Realms (fanzine)
3. Alien Star
4. Between Worlds
5. Continuum
6. Coreward (fanzine)
7. Dark Star I
8. Dark Star II
9. Far and Away
10. Frontier Report
11. Guildsman
12. Imperial News Service
13. Imperium Staple
14. Into the Deep (fanzine)
15. Jumpspace (fanzine)
16. Kfan Uzangou
17. Le Mercenaire
18. The Meshan Saga
19. Morgonstjärnen (fanzine)
20. Parasec
21. Pegasus
22. Queskania
23. Security Leak
24. Shadis
25. Signal-GK
26. Starburst
27. Starfarer's Gazette
28. Stellar Reaches
29. Third Imperium (fanzine)
30. Tiffany Star
31. Traveller Chronicle
32. Traveller Times
33. Variant
34. Vanrex
35. Voyages
36. Working Passage (fanzine)

History & Background (Dossier)

Traveller's fanzines have been produced since the early Classic Traveller days.

Meta-history & Background

The publishers of Traveller on the whole have been extremely generous allowing fans of produce a wide variety of fanzines and homebrew products. Even today FFE is very generous with the Traveller franchise and has a very permissive copyright.

• Please see the article on Copyright for more information.

References & Contributors (Sources)

This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Far Future Enterprises or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• 1982 GDW Understanding Traveller pamphlette
• Author & Contributor: Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science