Megavore
- Not to be confused with the 1930s Science Fiction Collector (although it also sometimes included The and hyphen).
The Science-Fiction Collector (retitled Megavore: The Journal Of Popular Fiction for issues 9–13 and then returning to The Science Fiction Collector with no more hyphen) was a printed fanzine or possibly semiprozine (SFE calls it amateur magazine) published and edited by the collector and bookseller/dealer J. Grant Thiessen of Winnipeg, MB, devoted to bibliographic material on paperbacks and prozines.
Issues of SF Collector were collected (or apparently just re-bound) into three hardcovers produced by Thiessen's Pandora's Books in 1980–1 (ending with #14) in 140 to 250 numbered signed copies.
Its publication history is moderately complicated. All issues were 48 pages, some with advertising supplements/inserts.
| Iss. | Date | Pp | Title, Notes, Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 1976 | The Science-Fiction Collector. Published by James Grant Books, Calgary. Cover: Ace Book Index, $1.25 | |
| 2 | 1976 | ||
| 3 | February 1977 | ||
| 4 | July 1977 | 48 | Publisher changed (for the rest of the run) to Pandora's Books Ltd., Thiessen's business. Cover (art Dave Gallon) feature is Science Fiction Pornography by Kenneth R. Johnson |
| 5 | September 1977 | 48 | |
| 6 | May 1978 | ||
| 7 | |||
| 8 | October 1979 | ||
| 9 | June 1980 | 48 | Cover says and shows “The Science-Fiction COLLECTOR Combined with: Age of the Unicorn. Now Combined as Megavore: The Journal Of Popular Fiction". AotU was a fanzine devoted to various pulp fiction by Michael Cook, who suffered a heart attack. |
| 10 | August 1, 1980 | 48 | simply Megavore: The Journal Of Popular Fiction; no further mention of Age of the Unicorn even in the editorial |
| 11 | |||
| 12 | Dec 1980 | ||
| 13 | March 1981 | ||
| 14 | May 1981 | 48 | The Science Fiction Collector is back, now without hyphen |
| 15 | July 31, 1981 | 48 | Tabloid format. Articles up to p. 19, the rest advertisements only. |
Reportedly there was Issue #15½ (30 November 1981), simply a catalogue, also in tabloid format.
A final issue was printed in an 11,000 copy run (instead of the usual 3,000), in a newsprint, tabloid-size format, in conjunction with my catalog #41 from my company, Pandora's Books. My subcribers got a copy, plus all of my customers for my mail-order business, and the remainder were given out at the World Science Fiction Convention in 1981. At that point, my mail-order business, and growing children, ate up all my time, and the magazine ceased publication.
- Collector rescanned (alas, without OCR) for eFanzines, with Thiessen's introduction
- Collector at Internet Archive, with OCR
- Entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
- Science-Fiction Collector detailed bibliography at ISFDB
| Publication | 1976—1981 |
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