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

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Publication

1953—1962

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