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. 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 | November 1995 | #1 was separate issues of Banana Skins (by Mark, 20 pages, A4, photocopied) and Waxen Wings (by Claire, 20 pages, A5, photocopied). | |
| 2 | April 1996 | 52 | Issued under the title Waxen Wings and Banana Skins; from this point on, copies are A4, duplicated |
| 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 | 56 | |
| 9 | March 1998 | 56 | |
| 10 | April 1998 | 34 | contains reprint material concerning previous Eastercons in Manchester |
| 11 | August 1998 | 68 | |
| 12 | November 1998 | 70 | |
| 13 | Easter 1999 | 64 | |
| 14 | August 1999 | 58 | from this point on, copies are A4, photocopied |
| 15 | April 2000 | 54 | cover by Sue Mason; a trip report for Aussiecon 3 |
| 16 | September 2000 | 58 | Cover by Steve Stiles; included the first part of Fred Smith’s Once There was a Magazine… |
| 17 | May 2002 | 52 | Cover by Dave Hicks; included the second part of Fred Smith’s Once There was a Magazine… |
| 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 | from this point on, copies are A5, photocopied |
| 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 | Cover by Colin Odell |
| 48 | Dec 2011 | 56 | Cover by D. West |
| 49 | Apr 2012 | 56 | |
| 50 | Aug 2012 | 56 | Cover by Dan Steffan |
| 51 | Nov 2012 | 60 | |
| 52 | Apr 2013 | 60 | Cover by Steve Stiles |
| 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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| 61 | March 2016 | 60 | Cover by Ivor Latto |
| 62 | May 2016 | 60 | Cover by Brad Foster |
| 63 | August 2016 | 60 | Cover by Ivor Latto |
| 64 | November 2016 | 60 | Cover by Steve Stiles |
| 65 | March 2017 | 60 | Cover by Atom |
| 66 | June 2017 | 60 | Cover by Steve Stiles |
| 67 | September 2017 | 60 | Cover by Rob Hansen |
| 68 | November 2017 | 60 | Cover by Atom |
| 69 | February 2018 | 60 | Cover by D. West |
| 70 | April 2018 | 60 | Cover by Atom |
| Publication | 1995— |
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