Orion
(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 |
- Orion online at fanac.org
| Publication | 1953—1962 |
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