Outworlds

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Outworlds was a much admired fanzine, largely a genzine, published by Bill Bowers (co-edited with Joan Bowers until 1971) starting in January, 1970, and running for at least thirty years. It was nominated for the Best Fanzine Hugo in 1971 and 1974–1977. It won the FAAn Award for Best Fanzine in 1975, 1976 and 1999.

It featured writing from many BNFs and pros, top-notch fanart, superb graphic design and extensive lettercolumns.

It followed the odd custom of numbering pages sequentially through the run (with a reset) so, for example, issue 33 started with page 2005 and ended with page 2026.

Issue Date Pages Notes
I January 1970 26
II 1970 34
III May 1970 30
IV July 1970 40
V October 1970 42
6 1971 32
7 Spring 1971 50
8 June 1971 40
8.5 1972 6 Special Supplement, restricted to consenting adults
8.75 June 1971 14 Lettercol for the Second Cycle of Outworlds
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10 V3.1 January 1972 24
11 V3.2 1972
12 V3.3 1972
13 V3.4 August 1972 28
14 V3.5 November 1972 40
15 January 1973 90 Includes Inworlds Pt 2
16 June 1973 48
17 August 1973 38
18 October 1973 36 Includes Inworlds 10
19 January 1974 44
20 V5.2 March 1974 36
21 November 1974 32
22 November 1974 40 Includes index to first five years
23 1975 36
24 May 1975 32 Includes Inworlds 15
25 1975
26 December 1975 36 Included Interface (locs)
27 January 1976 44 Includes Egoboo Poll
27.5 April 1991 40
28-29 October 1976 68 Double issue
29.5 1976 60
30 1980 6
31 Spring 1983 24
32 June 1983 20
33 Summer 1983 20
34 August 1983 24
35 October 1983 12
36 December 1983 12
37 January 1984
38 April 1984 46
39 July 1984 12
40 June 1984 24
41 December 1984 24
42 December 1984 12
43 January 1985 60
44 June 1985 12 #44 b/w #45
45 July 1985 24
46 August 1985 28
47 September 1985 12
48 December 1985 20
49 April 1987 28
50 June 1987 40
51 June 1987 This was a 90-min video on tape produced by Larry Tucker. Online.
52 September 1987 24
53 December 1987 30
54 January 1988 28
55 March 1988 34
56 June 1988 30
57 July 1988 30
58 September 1988 40
59 October 1988 6
60 April 1991 60
61 July 1991 46
62 January 1992 120
63 October 1992 72
64 June 1992 40
65 February 1993 40
66 May 1993 40
67 June 1997 26
68 October 1997 68
69 May 1998 84
70 August 1998 150
71 November 2020 506 Issue was partly finished when Bowers died. Fifteen years later, Pat Virzi, Jeanne Bowman, Alan Rosenthal and Rich Coad completed and published it, together with a festschrift Afterworlds. Available via Amazon. It won the 2021 FAAn Award for Best Special Publication

Outworlds online at fanac.org


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