Diaspar

Terry Carr's FAPAzine, named after the billion-year-old city in Arthur C. Clarke's novella "Against the Fall of the Night" (1949, reworked into 1956 novel The City and the Stars).

Issue	Date	Pages	FAPA mailing	Notes
1
2	1953	8
3	November 1954	6
4	August 1955	12
4 2/3	March 1956	3	74	(yup, a fractional number! datestamped MAR 1953 which is the FAPA date; Fanac.org says January and "postmailing"). "Bound and sent out" with David Rike's It Came from Box 203 – just 1 page, then empty recto and on the back address page with checkboxes for reasons of sending, clearly folded in half for solo mailing
4 27/33	(? 1956)	5		"comes to you without benefit of dummying, previously-written copy, correction fluid, or clergy. There’ll be nothing herein but mailing comments, because it’s got to be either a full DI minus comments or comments minus anything else. […] Nextime you may get the full treatment, which includes artwork, dummied edges, master pieces of fanfiction (tsk, and in a family fanzine, too), comments and discussion on last DI, acid, vitriol, and the Rack." Still, the last half page and two digresses on "ATFON [being] the greatest stf novel ever written". Double-sided, last verso empty; no date specified, Fanac claims March
5	1957
6	1957
7	November 1957	12
8
9	August 1958
10	February 1963
11	November 1968	10
12	November 1969	10		Printed single-sided
13	November 1970	26
14	February 1971	26
15	May 1973	10	143
16	November 1974	24
17	November 1975	14
18	November 1976	10	157
19	November 1977	14
20	November 1978	12
21	November 1979	22
22	June 1981	38
23	February 1985	14	190
24	August 1986	12		Final issue

• Diaspar online at fanac.org

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Publication

1953—1986

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