Outworlds

(Did you mean a Robert Lichtman fanzine?)

Outworlds was a much admired fanzine, largely a genzine, published by Bill Bowers (co-edited with Joan Bowers until 1971) starting in January, 1970, and running for at least thirty years. It was nominated for the Best Fanzine Hugo in 1971 and 1974–1977. It won the FAAn Award for Best Fanzine in 1975, 1976 and 1999.

It featured writing from many BNFs and pros, top-notch fanart, superb graphic design and extensive lettercolumns.

It followed the odd custom of numbering pages sequentially through the run (with a reset) so, for example, issue 33 started with page 2005 and ended with page 2026.

Issue	Date	Pages	Notes
I	January 1970	26
II	1970	34
III	May 1970	30
IV	July 1970	40
V	October 1970	42
6	1971	32
7	Spring 1971	50
8	June 1971	40
8.5	1972	6	Special Supplement, restricted to consenting adults
8.75	June 1971	14	Lettercol for the Second Cycle of Outworlds
9
10 V3.1	January 1972	24
11 V3.2	1972
12 V3.3	1972
13 V3.4	August 1972	28
14 V3.5	November 1972	40
15	January 1973	90	Includes Inworlds Pt 2
16	June 1973	48
17	August 1973	38
18	October 1973	36	Includes Inworlds 10
19	January 1974	44
20 V5.2	March 1974	36
21	November 1974	32
22	November 1974	40	Includes index to first five years
23	1975	36
24	May 1975	32	Includes Inworlds 15
25	1975
26	December 1975	36	Included Interface (locs)
27	January 1976	44	Includes Egoboo Poll
27.5	April 1991	40
28-29	October 1976	68	Double issue
29.5	1976	60
30	1980	6
31	Spring 1983	24
32	June 1983	20
33	Summer 1983	20
34	August 1983	24
35	October 1983	12
36	December 1983	12
37	January 1984
38	April 1984	46
39	July 1984	12
40	June 1984	24
41	December 1984	24
42	December 1984	12
43	January 1985	60
44	June 1985	12	#44 b/w #45
45	July 1985	24
46	August 1985	28
47	September 1985	12
48	December 1985	20
49	April 1987	28
50	June 1987	40
51	June 1987		This was a 90-min video on tape produced by Larry Tucker.
52	September 1987	24
53	December 1987	30
54	January 1988	28
55	March 1988	34
56	June 1988	30
57	July 1988	30
58	September 1988	40
59	October 1988	6
60	April 1991	60
61	July 1991	46
62	January 1992	120
63	October 1992	72
64	June 1992	40
65	February 1993	40
66	May 1993	40
67	June 1997	26
68	October 1997	68
69	May 1998	84
70	August 1998	150
71	November 2020	506	Issue was partly finished when Bowers died. Fifteen years later, Pat Virzi, Jeanne Bowman, Alan Rosenthal and Rich Coad completed and published it, together with a festschrift Afterworlds. Available via Amazon. It won the 2021 FAAn Award for Best Special Publication

Outworlds online at fanac.org

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Publication

1970—1998

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