Warhoon

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A fanzine published by Richard Bergeron in Vermont and New York. (The title comes from the name of one of the Green Martian hordes which infest Barsoom.) It began as an apazine for SAPS, but later moved to FAPA.

Warhoon won the 1962 Best Fanzine Hugo. It was nominated for the 1963 Best Fanzine Hugo and the 1969 Best Fanzine Hugo.

Warhoon 28, the “Willish,” is a huge hardcover mimeographed (!) volume published in 1978 and is a complete anthology of the writings of Walt Willis, editor of Slant and Hyphen.

Contributors to Warhoon included Brian Aldiss, John Baxter, John Bangsund, John Berry, James Blish, Virginia Blish, Redd Boggs, Terry Carr, Harlan Ellison, Philip José Farmer, Peter Graham, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Lee Hoffman, Dave Langford, Robert A. W. Lowndes, Vincent Omniaveritas, Tom Perry, Alva Rogers, Nancy Share Rapp, Bob Shaw, Arthur Thomson, Bob Tucker, Shelby Vick, Harry Warner, Jr., Charles Wells, James White, Ted White, and Walt Willis.

Issue Date Pages Notes
1 January 1952 8 SAPS 8
2
3 1953
4 Winter 1953 2
5 Summer 1954 8 SAPS 28; last issue from Vermont
6 January 1960 20 SAPS 50
7 April 1960 24 SAPS 51
8 July 1960 18 SAPS 52
9 October 1960 42 SAPS 53
10 January 1961 SAPS 54
11 April 1961 48
12 July 1961 50
13 October 1961 66 SAPS 57
14 January 1962 58 SAPS 58
15 April 1962 74 SAPS 59
16 July 1962 52 SAPS 60
17 October 1962 92 SAPS 61
18 January 1963 46
19 February 1964
20 August 1964 50
21 November 1964 20
22 August 1965 34
23 May 1968 40
24 August 1968 64
25 November 1968 56
26 February 1969 60
27 September 1970 56
28 May 1978 622 The page count is correct. This is the famous hardbound Walt Willis issue. See Warhoon 28 for more.
29 October 1981 64
30 September 1982 88
31 June 1985 26 Final issue

Warhoon 28[edit]

The Willish of WarhoonWarhoon 28 is a huge hardcover(!) 622-page (!!) exquisitely mimeographed (!!!) volume published by Richard Bergeron as an issue of his fanzine. It is dated May 1978 but did not in fact appear until 1980.

It comes close to being a complete fanthology of the pre-1980 writings of Walt Willis, editor of Slant and Hyphen. It contains all of Willis' columns "The Harp That Once or Twice", "The Harp Stateside", and "Twice Upon A Time", as well as Willis Discovers America, The Enchanted Duplicator and much other writing.

It was nominated for the 1981 Best Non-Fiction Book Hugo.

Copies are still available from NESFA Press and Joe Siclari.

See a long review by Taral in File 770 24, p. 10.

The apparent page count is 618, since the last numbered page is 614 followed by two blank pages each with artwork on the verso side. However, because a column was accidentally omitted when the stencils were first typed, Warhoon 28 also contains four bonus pages numbered 510a to 510d that restore the missing material, giving a total of 622.

Warhoon online at fanac.org.



Publication 19521985
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