Plokta

Plokta was a fanzine edited by Alison Scott, Steve Davies and Dr. Plokta, with the help of others of the UK-based Plokta Cabal: Steven Cain, Marianne Cain, Jonathan Cain, Giulia De Cesare, Flick, Sue Mason and the late George the Cat.

Plokta is a neepish initialism for “Press Lots Of Keys To Abort” — what you do when a recalcitrant computer fails to respond to other methods.

This group also ran the Plokta News Network or PNN, a fan news website, from late 2001 through early 2007, and organized plokta.con, as well as publishing the convention newsletter for Dublin 2019, the 77th Worldcon.

The Plokta News Newt, a printed version of the Plokta News Network, was created so that Alison Scott and other Plokta Cabal members had “something to hand out at the Dead Nurse (the London SF fan meeting) on the first Thursday of the month. It's not identical to the content on the website. Some items are shortened, and others are expanded. Particularly time-dependent items are normally removed, along with overly webby stuff that wouldn't work on paper.” Five issues were distributed in 2001 and 2002.

Plokta Awards and Honors

• 2000 — Nova Award for Best Fanzine
• 2002 — Nova Award for Best Fanzine
• 2005 — 2005 Best Fanzine Hugo
• 2006 — 2006 Best Fanzine Hugo
• Nominated for the Best Fanzine Hugo every year from 1999 through 2008.

Website. Davies is webmaster.

Plokta

Issue	Date	Pages	Notes
1 V1.1	May 1996	10
2 V1.2	July 1996	14
3 V1.3	August 1996	14
4 V1.4	November 1996	14
5 V2.1	January 1997	14
6 V2.2	February 1997	14
6 1/2 V2.25	Easter 1997	4	Attitude report
7 V2.3	May 1977	14
8 V2.4	August 1997	16
9 V2.5	November 1997	14
10 V3.1	January 1998	14
11 V3.2	March 1998	14
12 V3.3	September 1998	14
12 1/2 V3.5.5	Novacon 1998	8	Novacon Special
13 V4.1	March 1999	14
14 V4.2	June 1999	14
15 V4.3	August 1999	14
16 V4.4	November 1999	14
17 V5.1	January 2000	14
18 V5.2	April 2000	14
19 V5.3	May 2000	14
20 V5.4	August 2000	12
21 V5.5	November 2000	14
22 V6.1	January 2001	16
23 V6.2	May 2001	16
24 V6.3	August 2001	16
25 V7.1	January 2002	12
25.5 V7.12	Easter 2002	2
26 V7.2	June 2002	16
27 V7.3	September 2002	16
28 V7.4	November 2002	14
29 V8.1	April 2003	14
30 V8.2	November 2003	12
31 V9.1	March 2004	12
32 V9.2	November 12004	16
33 V10.1	March 2005	12
34 V10.2	August 1005	14
35 V11.1	May 2006	12
36 V11.2	November 2006	16
37 V21.1	April 2007	12
38 V13.1	March 2008	14
41	April 2011

• Plokta online at fanac.org
• Plokta at plokta.com
• Plokta online at eFanzines.

The Plokta News Newt

Issue	Date	Pages	Notes
1	November 2001	2	For Novacon 31
2	December 2001	2
3	February 2002	2
4	March 2002	2
5	April 2002	2

• The Plokta News Newt online.

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Publication

1996—2011

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