Aporrheta

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Aporrhēta (Old Greek for "Forbidden"; nicknamed Ape or Apē[1]) edited by Sandy Sanderson has been called one of the best British fanzines of the late 1950s — the last issue notes it "was recently voted the best British fanzine in both the Fanac and Skyrack poll."

Covers were by ATom. Sanderson wrote a regular column, “Inchmery Fan Diary.”

Sanderson’s landlord and Inchmery Fandom fellow Vin¢ Clarke did some writing (one of his columns was "Apidiascope"), but also the excellent repro (mimeo) which characterized the fanzine; in Ex-Inchmery Fan Diary, Clarke said it was "the only link I had maintained with fan-publishing in the last two weary years, [i. e. since daughter's birth] and on which I had spent so many hours of spare (!) time."

In June 1960, Vince's “wife”[2] Joy Clarke left him for Sanderson; they moved to the U.S., and Aporrheta imploded (even though Sanderson reportedly "was thinking of continuing" it).

Issue Date Pages Notes
1 July 1958 28
2 August 1958 32
3 September 1958 28 3&4 were bound together
4 September 1958 24
5 November 1958 40
6 December 1958 44
7 January 1959 44
8 February 1959 38
9 March 195 40
10 April 1959 36
11 May-June 1959 52
12 July-August 1959 52
13 September-November 1959 52
14 December 1959 52
15 February 1960 52
16 March-April 1960 52
17 May–June 1960 52 Final issue
Aporrheta online at fanac.org.
  1. On the cover, the accent was arguably closer to acute é, on the typewriter, it was emulated by overtyping the e with a hyphen.
  2. she took his name, though they never married.




Publication 19581960
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