Orion

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(Did you mean a Mark Shainblum fanzine or issue 2 of O'Ryan)

Orion, originally titled LSF Orion, was a UK fanzine published first by Paul Enever in conjunction with George Richards, and later by Ella Parker. There were 29 issues from 1953 to 1962. Orion place top-five in the Skyrack Readers Fan Poll from 1959 to 1962, winning in in 1960.

The first four issues were officially titled LSF Orion and were published for the Lakeland S.F. Organisation (LSFO). From #5 it became Orion and an independent publication. Enever passed the editorship to Parker in 1958 after publishing twenty issues. Parker published an additional nine issues between 1958 and 1962. In 1961, Orion included several installments of TAFF Tales, Ken Bulmer's TAFF report.

Note: #5 exists in two variants. #3 had included a piece by George Richards on a proposed 'Encyclopedia Fan-Britannica', effectively a UK-focused version of Fancyclopedia. This drew some negative reactions from Chuck Harris. The original version of #5 included a twenty-page section titled 'The HarrisProCon' which was in some senses a continuation of this discussion. Enever seemingly then had second thoughts about it ('...lost its humour when rancor and personal illfeeling crept in...') and replaced the section with two pieces intended for future issues. This was explained in an editorial in the second, amended variant. It was also supposed to have had a cover sticker although evidence suggests this hasn't survived the ages.

Issue Date Pages Notes
1 December 1953 18 'Published for the LSFO by Paul Enever'
2 February 1954 32 'Published for the LSFO by Paul Enever'
3 April 1954 24 Edited by PE and George Richards; published by PE
4 June 1954 30 Editor PE, Associate editor GR; published by PE
5 August 1954 36 Edited by PE and GR; published by PE
6 October 194 28 Published by PE; subs (etc) to GR
7 December 1954 32 Published by PE; subs (etc) to GR
8 February 1955 26 Published by PE; subs (etc) to GR
9 April 1955 26 Published by PE; subs (etc) to GR
10 June 1955 32 Published by PE; subs (etc) to GR
11 August 1955 36 Published by PE; subs (etc) to GR
12 October 1955 47 Published by PE; subs (etc) to GR; includes 'Random Atoms'
13 December 1955 32 Published by PE; subs (etc) to GR
14 February 1956 36 Published by PE; subs (etc) to GR
15 April 1956 36 Published by PE; subs (etc) to GR
16 June 1956 22 Published by PE; subs (etc) to GR
17 November 1956 32 Published by PE; subs (etc) to GR
18 February 1957 40 Published by PE. subs (etc) to GR
19 June 1957 38 Edited and published by PE and GR
20 1958 24 Edited and published by PE and GR
21 February 1959 46 Edited by Ella Parker, assisted by Bobbie Wild and Sandra Hall
22 July 1959 40 Edited by EP, assisted by BW
22 supplement July 1959 12 a letter supplement, titled 'You Said It'
23 October 1959 46 Edited by EP, assisted by George Locke
24 Jan 1960 44 Edited by EP
25 June 1960 58 Edited by EP
26 November 1960 56 Edited by EP; subs (etc) to Ted Forsyth
26 supplement November 1960 24 a letter supplement, titled 'You Said It'
27 April 1961 77 Edited by EP
Christmas December 1961 3
28 January 1962 30 Edited by EP
29 April 1962 41 Edited by EP
- April 1962 1 single-page flyer for 1963 Eastercon accompanying #29


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