Banana Wings

Banana Wings is a British fanzine edited by Claire Brialey and Mark Plummer. It has been nominated many times for the Hugo Award for Best Fanzine. It also won the Nova Award for Best Fanzine in 1996-1998, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2012, and 2013. It won the FAAn Award for Best Fanzine in 2007, 2010, and 2013--2015, 2017, 2019. It has been published since 1996. Issue 56 also won the FAAn Award for Best Cover in 2015.

Contributors have included Tanya Brown, Graham Charnock, Dave Langford (Ansible), Catherine Pickersgill, Greg Pickersgill (Rastus Johnson's Cakewalk), Yvonne Rousseau, Maureen Kincaid Speller, Michael Abbott, Sandra Bond (QuasiQuote), rich brown (crifanac), Cardinal Cox, Chris Garcia (The Drink Tank, Journey Planet), John Hertz, Tony Keen, Paul Kincaid, Robert Lichtman, Curt Phillips, David Redd, Andy Sawyer, James Shields, Steve Stiles, Shelby Vick (Confusion), and Taral Wayne (DNQ)

The name comes from the combination of Mark's former zine, Banana Skins, and Claire's former zine Waxen Wings.

The editors say of it:

"Banana Wings is a science fiction fanzine published from Croydon since 1996. It has been variously described as too long, too small, too serious, too fannish, too irregular and too frequent, but some people like it anyway. "It has been appearing quarterly since late 2004, and remains resolutely a paper publication. But the editors have at least embraced the twentieth century sufficiently to use eFanzines.com to help to answer the question: ‘How can I get hold of a copy then?' "Contact fishlifter at gmail dot com for more information about that."

Issue	Date	Pages	Notes
1	1995		#1 was separate issues of Banana Skins and Waxen Wings.
2	April 1996	52	Issued under the title Waxen Wings and Banana Skins
3	July 1996	64	Issued under the title Waxen Wings and Banana Skins
4	November 1996	58	First under Banana Wings title.
5	February 1997	60
6	Easter 1997	66
7	September 1997	64
8	November 1997
9	November 1997	56
10	April 1998	34
11	August 1998	68
12	November 1998	70
13	Easter 1999	64
14	August 1999	58
15	April 2000	54
16	September 2000	58
17	May 2002	52
18	October 2002	48
19	March 2004	20
20	November 2004	36
21	February 2005	28
22	May 2005	32
23	August 2005	36
24	November 2005	40
25	February 2006	36
26	May 2006	36
27	Aug 2006	32
28	Nov 2006	32
29	Feb 2007	36
30	May 2007	36
31	Aug 2007	32
32	Nov 2007	32
33	Feb 2008	32
34	May 2008	36
35	Aug 2008	50
36	Nov 2008	56
37	Mar 2009	48
38	May 2009	60
39	Aug 2009	56
40	Nov 2009	60
41	Mar 2010	56
42	May 2010	60
43	Aug 2010	52
44	Nov 2010	56
45	Feb 2011	58
46	Jun 2011	58
47	Sep 2011	56
48	Dec 2011	56
49	Apr 2012	56
50	Aug 2012	56
51	Nov 2012	60
52	Apr 2013	60
53	Aug 2013	60
54	Dec 2013	60
55	Mar 2014	56
56	Aug 2014	60	Cover by D. West won FAAn Award for Best Cover in 2015.
57	November 2014	56
58	March 2015	52

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