ВАЛДАЫ
A bi-weekly, two-page but unpaginated apazine published by Bruce Pelz for the Valley Science Fiction Association’s ValAPA, a year after he launched the longer-lived HET BPEMЯ for the weekly APA-L, also named in (not quite correct) Russian. As Pelz wrote in issue 4:
It’s VALDAY, not VALDAI — and for the benefit of the rest of the crew, it is the name of a city in Russia, besides being appropriate for a ValAPAzine. I wonder if I should translate "Zukunftkitsch," Dian’s art page title?
Except… well… some people just work too hard at their titles. The small town of wikipedia:Valday, Novgorod Oblast, until it made headlines by the country's dictator selecting it for his dacha, had been known merely through eponymous wikipedia:Valdai Hills (note the inconsistency in transcription!), the only interruption of the flatland between Moscow and St. Petersburg. Clearly, Pelz went through an encyclopedia looking for whatever would be closest to "ValAPA", and finding a Russian place, decided to write in Cyrillic. Who knows, he may have been studying at least elementary librarian Russian then? However, he used the letter for Y the vowel, not consonant – actual Russian spelling is Валдай (capitalised ВАЛДАЙ), sometimes also transliterated Valdaj; Russian speakers would read his version close to "Vull-duh-üh".
(And for completeness, the art page title would mean "future kitsch"… except that German, when making the compound word, would use a connective/genitive -s-, Zukunftskitsch; compare "Zukunftsstreben" – pronounced separated, "-unfts-shtre-" – as popularised, in vain, by Benson Herbert.)
| # | Date | Pp | -Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | July 15, 1966 | 2 | "Published for the 10th Distribution of ValAPA … IncuNebulous pub. 494." Page of mailing comments under the title District of Calumny: "apologize for the messy repro on the front of the second issue. It was a result of having to run the zine in a hurry before leaving for the meeting, and not waiting long enough between sides for the front to dry. I’ll try to start earlier in the future — today is only the 14th, and I'm starting this issue already!" Verso Chapter 1 of a faan fiction And the Mists Lie Low "[To be Continued, maybe]" |
| 4 | July 29, 1966 | 2 | IncuNebulous Publication 500. District of Calumny, verso photos from unspecified masquerade, marked "PAGE 30". |
| 5 | August 12, 1966 | 2 | IncuNebulous Pub 506. "DEPARTMENT OF UNFINISHED FICTION: As some of you have decided to take over the story I started two issues ago, I’ll give you free rein on it. It probably wouldn't have been very good anyway. And if you are really ambitious, here’s another story you can take over:" KID FANAC by Bruce Pelz and Ron Ellik. Verso Tolkienesque fan art, framed as a mock cover of I Palantir. |
| 6 | August 26, 1966 | 2 | IncNeb (sic, so as not to overflow a line) Pub 507. Kid Fanac (Continued); verso "JUBLICATION 5 by Dian Pelz … The pictures on this page were taken at the Pittcon, 1960." |
- Valday online at fanac.org
| Publication | 1966 |
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