Philosophical Gas

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A long-running fapazine of John Bangsund. For a time he stopped it and published Perergon Papers, but later declared it to be a continuation of Philosophical Gas. It appeared in FAPA, ANZAPA and OMPA.

In issue 32 he described it thusly:

Philosophical Gas, despite my occasional outbursts to the contrary, continues to be very largely concerned with science fiction. I've tried to interest my moronic readers in a better class of literature, such as the works of Thomas Love Peacock, Brian O'Nolan and Lennie Lower, but sf keeps on rearing its ugly head and I guess I just have to live with that if I want to go on publishing (and I do, I do: I don't know why, but I do!) so PG must be regarded as a science fiction fanzine.

It is also, as John Clark up there in Queensland remarked a few issues back, my private diary. It isn't as intimate a diary as, say, Dick Geis's, but it's a diary and I like to think I am among friends when I sit down in front of a blank stencil and begin to recount the momentous and other events in my life.


Issue Date Pages Notes
1 September 1970 8
2 October 1970 4
3 December 1970 2
4 April 1971 4
4.5 April 1971 2
5 June 1971 3
6 August 1971 6
7 September 1971 4
8 October 1971 3
9 December 1971 2
10 April 1972 3
11 April 1972 6 In FAPA 13
12 June 1972 8
13 June 1972 18
14 December 1972 4
15 February 1973 2
16 February 1973 6
17 February 1973 6
18 February 1973 9
19 April 1973 14
14-19 36 Combined issue. Some parts of this were also published separately.
20 April 1973 14
21
22 May 1973 14
23 April 23, 1973 2
24 August 1973 6
25 Spring 1974 30
26 Summer 1974 28
27 Autumn 1974 26
28 Winter 1974 38
29 February 1975 36 bound with New Millennial Harbinger 14
30 March 1975 26
31 July 1975 18
32 August 1975 8
33 1976 15
34 May 1976 1 There was a 1-page July supplement
35 November 1976 1
36 December 1976 7
37
38 July 1977 8 AKA Perergon Papers 1
39 August 1977 14 AKA Perergon Papers 2
40 September 1977 14 AKA Perergon Papers 3
41 September 1977 14 AKA Perergon Papers 4
42 December 1977 13 AKA Perergon Papers 5
43 January 1978 14 AKA Perergon Papers 6
44 February 1978 17 AKA Perergon Papers 7
45 1978 36 AKA Perergon Papers 8
October 1978 19 AKA Perergon Papers 8 Part 2
46 August 1978 7 AKA Perergon Papers 9
47 October 1978 28 AKA Perergon Papers 10
48 December 1978 8 AKA Perergon Papers 11
49 February 1979 14 AKA Perergon Papers 12
50 November 1979 10
51 July 1980 6
52
53-54 January 1981 8
55-56 March 1981 7
57-59 May 1981 25
60 March 1982 9
61 February 1982 9 (Date as printed)
62-63 Spring 1982 16 Double issue
64 Fall 1983 6
65 Spring 1984 8
66
67 February 1985 11
68 August 1985 6
69 June 1986 8
70 August 1987 1 in FAPA 201
71 August 1987 3 single-sided
72
73 November 1987 3 "
74 April 1988 11
75 October 1988 8 in FAPA 205
76-77 Spring 1989 12 for FAPA
78 February 1990 8
79 May 1990 12
80 November 1990 2
81 February 1991 2
82 Winter 1991 8
83 Spring 1992 8
84 February 1993 8
85 April 1993 4
86.5 August 1993 4
87 Spring 1993 4
88
89
90
91
92 Spring 1996 6
93 April 1997 6

Philosophical Gas online at fanac.org


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