Megavore

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The Science Fiction Collector (which was also called Megavore for issues 9-13) was a printed fanzine published by J. Grant Thiessen of Winnipeg, MB which was devoted to bibliographic material on paperbacks and prozines. Issues were typically around 48 pages. Issues of SF Collector were collected into three volumes published by Pandora's Books.

Its publication history is moderately complicated:

Issue Date Pages Title Publisher
1 October 1976 The Science-Fiction Collector James Grant Books
2 1976 " "
3 February 1977 " "
4 July 1977 The Science-Fiction Collector Pandora's Books Ltd.
5 September 1977 48 " "
6 May 1978 " "
7 " "
8 October 1979 " "
9 June 1980 Megavore Pandora's Books Ltd.
10 " "
11 " "
12 December 1980 " "
13 March 1981 " "
14 May 1981 48 The Science Fiction Collector Pandora's Books Ltd.
15 July 31, 1981 " " #15 was combined with Age of the Unicorn

Subsequent issues were catalogs for Theissen's book-selling business.


Publication 19761981
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