Difference between revisions of "Fanzine"

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

Please see the Periodicals article for more information.

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

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:

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)

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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

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 [[Fanzine]]s are fan-produced magazines.
 * They are often inexpensive (a few dollars an issue) or free.
-* In their original form they would be hand written, hand copied, and mailed to a small subscriber list.
+* In their original form they would often be hand written, hand copied, and mailed to a small subscriber list.
-* Current fanzines are produced through desktop publishing software and distributed as PDFs through the internet.
+* 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.