Clear Ether!
(Did you mean the Lensman phrase?)
All-purposes personalzine of Samuel Edward Konkin III (aka SEK3).
It was not available by subscription, only in APAs (volume 1 was published in apa-nu) and in exchange. Started April 1974, and ended October, 1985. Consisted mostly of fannish material and comments, but covered variety of topics from politics to D&D. According to SEK3 Clear Ether!, was his publication for personal gratification for those who are gratified similarly. It was not meant as an ideological publication, but his philosophy was inseparable from his way of thinking so it showed through. Nevertheless, CE! was his creative, aesthetic, artistic outlet - and unabashedly fannish, faanish... and sercon when he's out to to pick a good fight.
According to SEK3 himself (see CE! vol. 4 No. 1 and vol. 2 No. 10), CE! was named after the expression of heroic friendship in Doc Smith's Lensman series; it sums up what Ayn Rand would call SEK3's "sense of life." (His sometimes accompanying commentzine ...And on Green was the Lensman's way of saying "of course" or "on target" from "All clear and on green, Kimball!") And if you don't know what a sense of life is, read Ayn Rand's Romantic Manifesto.
Starting with volume 4, Konkin stopped the practice of announcing on the first page of Clear Ether! which APA (and which mailing) current issue was primarily intended for and where to look for the next issue, it makes it harder to systematize available scans.
| Vol. | Issue | Date | Pages | Notes | APA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | April 11, 1974 | 2 | The very first issue. | APA-nu 1 |
| 1 | 2 | June 6, 1974 | 2 | APA-nu | |
| 1 | 3 | July 4, 1974 | 2 | APA-nu | |
| 1 | 4 | August 1, 1974 | 2 | APA-nu | |
| 1 | 5 | August 31, 1974 | 2 | Discon issue | APA-nu |
| 1 | 6 | November 7, 1974 | 4 | Double issue numbered as numbers 5 and 6. | APA-nu |
| 1 | 7 | November 30, 1974 | 2 | APA-nu | |
| 1 | 9 | January 9, 1975 | 2 | No. 8 is missing, maybe there wasn't any -- to make issue number equal to APA-NYU disty number. But there is not enough information. | APA-nu |
| 1 | 11 | April 17, 1975 | 2 | No. 10 is missing too. | APA-nu |
| 1 | 12 | May 29, 1975 | 2 | The last issue published in NYC. | APA-nu 12 |
| 2 | 1 | December 18, 1975 | 2 | The first one published in California. The first typeset one as well. | APA-L 553, APA-nu 14 |
| 2 | 2 | December 25, 1975 | 2 | APA-L 554 | |
| 2 | 4 | February 18, 1976 | 4 | The De-liberation of D&D | A&E 7 (intended for 8), APA-L 557 |
| 2 | 7 | April 1, 1975 | 2 | Filler Reviews: review of Winter of the World by Paul Anderson | APA-nu 15 |
| 2 | 8 | April 4, 1976 | 3 | Illuminati Strike in Long Beach! | A&E 10 |
| 2 | 9 | April 24, 1976 | 1 | Anderson for Hugo | Frefanzine 3 |
| 2 | 10 | May 17, 1976 | 4 | A&E 12 | |
| 2 | 11 | June 1, 1976 | 4 | APA-nu 16 | |
| 2 | 12 | July 8, 1976 | 2 | Frefanzine 4, CarbAPA 4 | |
| 2 | 13 | July 14, 1976 | 2 | A&E 13 | |
| 2 | 13 | August 19, 1976 | 4 | Yes, it's No. 13 again for some reason. | A&E 14 |
| 2 | 16 | November 13 (October 17), 1976 | 6 | My copy shows pages misdated from page 2 on out, marked as CE17 | LASFAPA 2, APA-nu 19, CarbAPA 7 |
| 2 | 18 | November 4, 1976 | 3 | A&E 17 | |
| 2 | 19 | February 8, 1977 | 4 | A&E 19 | |
| 2 | 20 | February 11, 1977 | 4 | Romanticism, Star Wars, Strange Horizons | LASFAPA 5, APA-nu 23, Frefanzine 4 |
| 2 | 21 | March 9, 1977 | 4 | A&E 20 | |
| 2 | 23 | April 6, 1977 | 4 | LASFAPA 7, APA-nu 25, Frefanzine 5 | |
| 2 | 25 | July 18, 1977 | 3 | Lords of Chaos (new D&D APA), A&E 24 | |
| 2 | 26 | July 2, 1977 | 3 | Frefanzine 7 | |
| 2 | 29 | August 21, 1977 | 2 | LASFAPA 11 | |
| 3 | 2 | March, 1978 | 6 | LASFAPA 18 | |
| 3 | 3 | April, 1978 | 4 | Frefanzine 12 | |
| 3 | 11 | September 1, 1978 | 1 | Frefanzine 14 | |
| 4 | 1 | January, 1979 | 4 | I'm here, I'm here, Let the Bells Ring Out and the People Cheer!... Introduction to new (bimonthly) format | |
| 4 | 2 | March, 1979 | 4 | Nice big article Future Societies: Libertarian Alternative | |
| 4 | 4 | September, 1979 | 4 | Scapa Flow 7 | |
| 4 | 5 | July 8, 1980 | 4 | "With this issue, Volume Four of Clear Ether! ends. It's gone through various incarnations and will reincarnate at least once more. But volume 5 will be limited to comments to APA-NYU, of considerably less general interest than the five issues in this volume." | Scapa Flow 11 |
| 5 | 1 | September, 1980 | 2 | APA-nu, Scapa Flow 12 | |
| 5 | 2 | October, 1980 | 4 | (Plus 2 pages of Tarzine of the APAs with comments) | APA-nu |
| 5 | 4 | November, 1982 | 4 | APA-nu 90 | |
| 5 | 5 | December, 1982 | 2 | APA-nu 92 | |
| 5 | 6 | August-November, 1983 | 2 | APA-nu 100 | |
| 5 | 7 | September, 1984 | 2 | (Erroneously numbered as Vol. 5 No. 6) | APA-nu 112 |
| 5 | 8 | September, 1985 | 2 | APA-nu 124 | |
| 5 | 9 | October, 1985 | 4 | APA-nu 126 |
| ...And on Green! | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vol. | Issue | Date | Pages | Notes | APA |
| 1 | 15 | February, 1980 | 4 | Scapa Flow 9 | |
| 1 | 18 | May, 1980 | 4 | Scapa Flow 10 | |
| Publication | 1974—1985 |
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