Cloud Chamber

Cloud Chamber is Dave Langford's apazine containing "slim collections of random personal jottings". The first 37 issues were produced from 1976 to 1987 for various APAs including OMPA, FEAPA, FAPA, FLAP, APA SF&F, EURAPA, Frank's APA, and WOOF (whew!). Between 1993 and 2005 (#40–#155) it appeared in Acnestis. Subsequent issues from 2007 were online only, making it more of a personalzine ("an occasional round-up of miscellanea that didn't fit into Ansible, plus reviews of recent reading"), and Cloud Chamber went into apparent stasis with #163 at the end of 2011. After almost a decade, #164 (2020) and #165 (2021) appeared in PDF and printed form as Christmas Card substitutes.

Issue	Date	Pages	Notes
1	December 1976	4	OMPA
2	April 1977	6	OMPA #85
3	August 1979	2	WOOF #4
4	March 1980	6	FEAPA
5	March 1980	2	FEAPA, b/w #4
6	February 1981	2
7	February 1981	2	FAPA 175
8	September 1981	2
9	December 1981	6
10	January 1982	4
11	January 1982	2
12	May 1982	2
13	July 1982	6
14	July 1982	2
15	July 1982	2
16	October 1982	2
17	October 1982	2
18	December 1982	2
19	March 1983	2
20	April 1983	A4
21	October 1983	4
22	October 1983	2
23	October 1983	2
24	October 1983	2	bound with #21
25	November 1983	4
26	February 1984	2
27	February 1984	4
28	May 1984	2
29	July 1984	2
30	September 1984	4
31	October 1984	2
32	October 1984	2
33	January 1985	1
34	February 1985	1
35	April 1985	1
36	December 1987	1
37	October 1987	2	last in the first series; mooted an idea of Ansible 51 "with many "snapshot" convention reports from many viewpoints" (not realised). "An Unwanted Postscript" on verso available only scanned at Fanac
pause over 4 years
38	May 1992	1?	"These two issues were for a short-lived political APA (suggested name Reds In Space) whose principal aim was to be, er, political. Also, not Tory."
39	July 1992
40	March 1993		first for Acnestis
41	May 1993	4
42	June 1993	2
43	July 1993	4
44	August 1993	2
47	November 1993	1
48	January 1994	2
49	February 1994	1
50	April 1994	1
51	May 1994	1
52	July 1994	1
54	October 1994	1
58	April 1995	2
60	July 1995	4
62	September 1995	1
63	October 1995	1
68	July 1996	2
70	November 1996	1
71	January 1997	2
74	June 1997	2
75	July 1997	2
78	October 1997	3
80	December 1997	2
81	January 1998	4
83	April 1998	1	single-sided
84	May 1998	3
85	June 1998	2
89	October 1998	2
110	October 2000	4
111	November 2000
112	December 2000	2
113	January 2001	2
136	January 2003	2
137	February 2003	2
138	March 2003
139	April 2003
140	May 2003
141	June 2003
142	July 2003
143	August 2003
144	September 2003
145	November 2003
147	February 2004
148	June 2004
149	July 2004
150	September 2004
151	November 2004
152	January 2005
153	May 2005
154	July 2005
155	December 2005		Acnestis ends
156	April 2007		"largely, alas, a letter column"
157	December 2007
157	June 2008
159	December 2008
160	December 2009
161	June 2010
162	December 2010
163	December 2011
163½	2015		Abandoned draft of #164, eventually added to website in 2021
164	December 2020	2
165	Christmas 2021	2

• Cloud Chamber complete archive at ansible.uk
• Cloud Chamber online at fanac.org (very few issues)

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1976—2021

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