Warhoon

A fanzine published by Richard Bergeron in Vermont and New York. (The title comes from the name of one of the Green Martian hordes which infest Barsoom.) It began as an apazine for SAPS, but later moved to FAPA.

Warhoon won the 1962 Best Fanzine Hugo. It was nominated for the 1963 Best Fanzine Hugo and the 1969 Best Fanzine Hugo.

Warhoon 28, the “Willish,” is a huge hardcover mimeographed (!) volume published in 1978 and is a complete anthology of the writings of Walt Willis, editor of Slant and Hyphen.

Contributors to Warhoon included Brian Aldiss, John Baxter, John Bangsund, John Berry, James Blish, Virginia Blish, Redd Boggs, Terry Carr, Harlan Ellison, Philip José Farmer, Peter Graham, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Lee Hoffman, Dave Langford, Robert A. W. Lowndes, Vincent Omniaveritas, Tom Perry, Alva Rogers, Nancy Share Rapp, Bob Shaw, Arthur Thomson, Bob Tucker, Shelby Vick, Harry Warner, Jr., Charles Wells, James White, Ted White, and Walt Willis.

Issue	Date	Pages	APA mailing	Notes
1	January 1952	8	SAPS 8
2
3	1953
4	Winter 1953	2
5	Summer 1954	8	SAPS 28	last issue from Vermont
6	January 1960	20	SAPS 50
7	April 1960	24	SAPS 51
8	July 1960	18	SAPS 52
9	October 1960	42	SAPS 53
10	January 1961		SAPS 54
11	April 1961	48
12	July 1961	50
13	October 1961	66	SAPS 57
14	January 1962	58	SAPS 58
15	April 1962	74	SAPS 59
16	July 1962	52	SAPS 60
17	October 1962	92	SAPS 61
18	January 1963	46	SAPS 62
19	February 1964
20	August 1964	50
21	November 1964	20
22	August 1965	34
23	May 1968	40
24	August 1968	64
25	November 1968	56
26	February 1969	60
27	September 1970	56
28	May 1978	622		The page count is correct. This is the famous hardbound Walt Willis issue. See Warhoon 28 for more.
29	October 1981	64
30	September 1982	88
31	June 1985	26		Final issue

Warhoon 28

The Willish of Warhoon — Warhoon 28 is a huge hardcover(!) 622-page (!!) exquisitely mimeographed (!!!) volume published by Richard Bergeron as an issue of his fanzine. It is dated May 1978 but did not in fact appear until 1980.

It comes close to being a complete fanthology of the pre-1980 writings of Walt Willis, editor of Slant and Hyphen. It contains all of Willis' columns "The Harp That Once or Twice", "The Harp Stateside", and "Twice Upon A Time", as well as Willis Discovers America, The Enchanted Duplicator and much other writing.

It was nominated for the 1981 Best Non-Fiction Book Hugo.

Copies are still available from NESFA Press and Joe Siclari.

See a long review by Taral in File 770 24, p. 10.

The apparent page count is 618, since the last numbered page is 614 followed by two blank pages each with artwork on the verso side. However, because a column was accidentally omitted when the stencils were first typed, Warhoon 28 also contains four bonus pages numbered 510a to 510d that restore the missing material, giving a total of 622.

Warhoon online at fanac.org.

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Publication

1952—1985

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