The Satellite

(Do you mean the Don Allen fanzine Satellite?)

The Satellite was a fanzine nicknamed Sally and edited by John F. Burke and David McIlwain from Liverpool, UK. The first two issues were subtitled the 'Official Organ of the Liverpool Branch of the SFA.' It published early fiction by C. S. Youd, Charles Eric Maine and Arthur C. Clarke and from #4 a round-robin serial written by (in order) McIlwain, Frank Wilson, Youd and Burke.

From Fancyclopedia 1, ca. 1944

Sally – Pet name for The Satellite, British Fanzine.

Issue	Date	Pages	Notes
1.1 #1	October 1938	24
1.2 #2	November 1938	24
1.3 #3	December 1938	24
2.1 #4	January 1939	12
2.2 #5	February 1939	12
2.3 #6	March 1939	14
2.4 #7	April 1939	14
2.5 #8	May 1939	12
2.6 #9	June 1939	14
2.7 #10	July 1939	14
2.8 #11	August 1939	16
2.9 #12	November 1939	14
3.1 #13	December 1939	10
3.2 #14	January 1940	8
3.3 #15	February 1940	10
3.4 #16	March 1940	12
3.5 #17	August 1940	14	Final issue

The Satellite online at fanac.org.

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Publication

1938—1940

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