Etherline

A aanzine mostly arranged and edited by Ian J. Crozier, and produced by Mervyn Binns. (At least one issue was edited by Lee Harding, as Leo J. Harding.) The name "Ether-line", inspired by a column in Startling Stories, had been used by Lee Harding as the name of a news column in the first issue of Perhaps. There also seems to have been a short-lived Third Series.

Etherline began as a newszine of Amateur Fantasy Publications of Australia, incorporating news from the Melbourne Science Fiction Group, which was to become the Melbourne Science Fiction Club (MSFC).

There was a second series labelled Etherline II all edited by Leigh Edmonds. The first issue in this series was printed as issue 101 of Etherline, but subsequent issues were titled Etherline II, following a suggestion of Pat Terry.

Etherline later became a clubzine of the MSFC.

Issue 6 of iOTA reproduces the covers of several issues of Etherline.

Issue	Date	Pages	Notes
1	March 1953	12
2	March 16, 1953	14
3	March 30, 1953	12
4	1953
5	March 1953	8
6	June 1, 1953	12
7	June 14, 1953	12
8	June 29, 1953	12
9	1953
10	July 30, 1953	12
11	August 20, 1953	12
12	September 3, 1953	16
13	September 17, 1953	20
14	August 1, 1953	20
15	October 15, 1953	20
16	October 29, 1953	20
17	November 12, 1953	20
18	November 26, 1953	28
19	December 10, 1953	20
20	December 24, 1953	22
21	January 7, 1954	24
22	1954
23	1954
24	February 18, 1954	24
25	March 11, 1954	24
26	March 25, 1954	20
27	April 8, 1954	48	Third Australian Science Fiction Convention issue
28	April 28, 1954	24
29	May 17, 1954	24
30	June 1954	26
31	June 1954	24
32	1954	20
33	July 1954	24
34	August 19, 1954	24
35	September 3, 1954	24
36	September 23, 1954	24
37	October 7, 1954	24
38	October 1954	24
39	November 4, 1954	24
40	1954	24
41	December 1954	24
42	December 24, 1954	28
43	January 20, 1955	24
44	February 1955	24
45	February 1955	24
46	March 1955	44
47	March 31, 1954	10
48	April 21, 1955	24
49	May 1955	24
50	1955	24
51	1955	28
52	1955	28
53	July 1955	28
54	July 1955	28
55	1955	28
56	September 1955	28	reports on a party in Brisbane held Monday August 22, 1955
57	1955	24
58	1955	28
59	1955	28
60	November 1955	28
61	December 1955	28
62	1955	24
63	December 1955	28
64	1955	28
65	1956	28
66	1956	28
67	1956	24
68	April 1956	28	reports on the Canberra Science Fiction Conference (held at Easter)
69	April 1956	32
70	1956	20
71	1956	24
72	July 8, 1956	24
73	1956	24
74	1956	28
75	1956	24
76	1956	24
77	1956	24
78	1956	20
79	November 1956	68	the Convention Issue for Olympicon (held early in December 1956)
80	1956	40
81	1957	32
82	1957	32
83	1957	32
84	1957	32
85	1957	28
86	July 1957	28
87	August 8, 1957	32
88	August 29, 1957	28
89	September 19, 1957	32
90	October 10, 1957	28
91	October 31, 1957	32
92	1957	28
93	1957	36	reports that the Melbourne Science Fiction Club was to close after its Thursday December 19th (1957) meeting, and re-open Tuesday January 7th (1958), and that the next issue of Etherline was to be the January 23rd (1958) issue.
94	January 23, 1958	28
95	February 13, 1958	28
96	March 1958	24
97	April 5, 1958	52
98	1958	24
99	June 1958	28
100	1958	64	Announced as the last issue "for a while"
101	December 1959		Issue 33 of Mumblings from Munchkinland reports that there was an issue 101, edited by Ian Crozier, in late 1959.
Series II
1	December 1967	20	(This issue is marked Etherline, but is part of the Etherline II series)
2	1968	28
3	February 10, 1968	28
4	April 1968	68	Conference issue -- probably related to the Melbourne Science Fiction Conference
5	May 25, 1968	50	Post Conference Post Mortem issue
Series III
100 V2.8	January 19, 1970	1
101 1/2	November 1973	4	ed. by Mervyn Binns

Second series of the clubzine Etherline, edited by Leigh Edmonds.

• Etherline online at fanac.org

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Publication

1953—1973

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