Space Diversions

A clubzine published by the Liverpool Group in the 1950s. It had a number of editors, including Norman L. Shorrock, John Roles and Tom Owens. The editors apparently referred to themselves as the Space Divers, the Space Dive being the rented cellar the LaSFaS used as a clubroom.

According to Eric Bentcliffe’s tribute to the club in Waldo 1:

In July of *52 the first issue of SPACE DIVERSIONS appeared. Co-edited by John Roles and Tom Owens, produced by David Gardner and Norman Shorrock. The magazine published some pretty good material from the first issue. A Symposium on Sex and Sadism in S‑F, hit the fannish headlines of the times, and was later published in one volume. The contents were generally fairly equally divided between comment and conjecture on s‑f, and the fannish goings on. Issue No.7 had 108 pages and it*s probably not purely coincidental that shortly, after this issue SD passed, temporarily, into limbo. 

Issue	Date	Pages	Editor	Notes
1	July 1952	18	John Roles, Tom Owens	contained “A Symposium on Sex and Sadism in S-F”
2	September 1952	32	"
3	October 1952	24	"
4	January 1953	56	John Roles
5	March 1954	36	John Roles, David Gardner, Norman Shorrock
6	April 1953	30	Norman Shorrock
7	December 1953	112	John Roles, David Gardner, Norman Shorrock	Included Xmas Greetings from the 'Space Divers' as an insert
7A	June 1954	10	"
8	Summer 1954	46
9	Summer 1957	30	John Roles
10	1958	28	"
11	June 1960	56	Norman Shorrock	In OMPA 24; Final issue.

• Space Diversions online at fanac.org

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Publication

1952—1960

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