Spacewarp

(Did you mean the phenomenon?)

Spacewarp, edited by Art Rapp, was nominated for the 1951 Best Fanzine Retro Hugo. It had over forty issues from April, 1947 to September, 1950 and for some early issues, Bill Groover was co-editor.

Redd Boggs' column, "File 13", was especially important. Other contributors included Forrest J Ackerman, Henry Ackerman, Michael De Angelis, Warren Baldwin, Wrai Ballard, Donn Bratton, Donn Brazier, Guerry C. Brown, W. E. Bullard, Charles Burbee, Lyon de Coeur, Wilkie Conner, Arthur Jean Cox, Ed Cox, Paul D. Cox, Jim Craig, Ralph Fluette, Vaughn Greene, Andy Gregg, John Grossman, Charles Hames, Jim Harmon, William James, David H. Keller, Joe Kennedy, F. Towner Laney, Carl Lawrence, Al F. Lopez, Don McConnell, C. Stewart Metchette, Ray Nelson, Robert Parris, Rog Phillips, Bill Rotsler, Hal Shapiro, Ben Singer, Rick Sneary, Genevieve K. StephensBob Stein, , Charles Stuart, Bob Tucker, Bill Venable, James A. Wade, T. E. Watkins, and Wally Weber.

A 10-part round-robin space-opera by Rapp and five others appeared in most of the 1949 issues and was reprinted in 1960 by Ed Cox as STF Broadcasts Again!.

He then turned it over to F. Towner Laney and Charles Burbee to edit. They put out two issues in 1950, the last was called the "Insurgent Issue".

In 1983, Rapp resumed publishing Spacewarp as a member of SAPS.

See Redd Boggs' “The Purple Dawn” for a lengthy review of Spacewarp.

From Fancyclopedia 2, ca. 1959

Something that when you go into it in a straight line you come out at a different place, and/or going in a different direction, than you should according to Newtonian physics. Fans are always wandering into such things in strange cities and getting losted. A slightly different affair was the turntable on which the Shirley-Savoy in Denver was mounted, so that the Denvention attendees could start near the hotel, walk for blocks and blocks, and still be near the hotel. Mention we must Art Rapp's fanzine of this name, keystone of Fifth Fandom, which introduced such things as Steinpix, the helicopter beanie, and R*O*S*C*O*E to fandom.

Issue	Date	Pages	Notes
1	April 1947
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3
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5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14	May 1948	20
15	June 1948	20
16	July 1948	24
17	August 1948	22
18	September 1948	22
19	October 1948	22
20	November 1948	22
21	December 1948	30
22	January 1949	24
23	February 1949	22
24	March 1949	22
25	April 1949	22
26	May 1949	22
27	June 1949	22
28	July 1949	26
29	August 1949	24
30	September 1949	28
31	October 1949	26
32	November 1949	26
33	December 1949	40	Includes index through September 1949
34	January 1950	22
35	February 1950	24
36	March 1950	26
37	April 1950	32
38	May 1950	26
39	June 1950	28
40	July 1950	24
41	August 1950	16	This was the first Insurgent issue, co-edited with Charles Burbee and F. T. Laney
42	September 1950	82	This was the real Insurgent issue, co-edited with Charles Burbee and F. T. Laney
	2001
131			Includes Robert Lichtman's Here There Be Saps #1 (Second Series)

Spacewarp online at fanac.org

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1947—1950

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