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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• 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 (1981 fanzine)
8. Dark Star (1996 fanzine)
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. Parasec
20. Pegasus
21. Queskania
22. Security Leak
23. Shadis
24. Signal-GK
25. Starburst
26. Starfarer's Gazette
27. Stellar Reaches
28. Third Imperium (fanzine)
29. Tiffany Star
30. Traveller Chronicle
31. Traveller Times
32. Variant
33. Vanrex
34. Voyages
35. 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)

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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