ATTENTION CANADIAN FEN!

If you are at all acquainted with one or more Canadian SF FanZines, follow the instructions below and vote for the Canadian Fanzine Fanac Awards (or ‘Faneds’) now!

DEADLINE = Midnight August 30th (Today!) Pacific Standard Time.

You are entitled to vote as many as 11 times for the assorted nominees, but you can vote for fewer if that’s all you want to do. But each and every vote counts!

Four simple steps:

1) copy the ballot below

2) paste into an email directed at me rgraeme@shaw.ca

3) fill in three or fewer choices per category in order of preference (1) (2) (3)

4) hit ‘send’

Fight Fannish Apathy! Vote now!

(Be sure to include info as to what part of Canada you reside in. City and province info will do. Just to establish your ‘Canadianicity’.)

2013 FANED AWARDS BALLOT (for achievements in 2012)

( THIRD ANNUAL CANADIAN FANZINE FANAC AWARDS )

BEST FAN WRITER
[ Note: Taral not eligible since won last year. ]

(    ) – Keith Braithwaite – ( Impulse, Warp )
(    ) – R. Graeme Cameron – ( Space Cadet, etc. )
(    ) – Charles Mohapel – ( Ottawa SF Statement )
(    ) – Cathy Palmer –Lister – (Warp )
(    ) – Lester Rainsford – (Swill )
(    ) – Dale Speirs – ( Opuntia )
(    ) – Garth Spencer – (One Swell Foop )
(    ) – Ken Tapping – ( Ottawa SF Statement )
(    ) – Felicity Walker – ( BCSFAzine )
(    ) – Neil Williams – ( Swill )

BEST FAN ARTIST
[ Note: Scott Patri not eligible since won last year. ]

(    ) – R. Graeme Cameron – ( Beloved Binema ) I’m worst actually…
(    ) – Marquies Boies – ( Warp )
(    ) – Bernard Reischl – ( Warp )
(    ) – Taral Wayne – ( Space Cadet, etc. )

BEST LOC WRITER
[ Note: Michael John Bertrand not eligible since won last year. ]

(    ) – Lloyd Penney – ( Everything )
(    ) – Taral Wayne – ( Assorted )

BEST FANZINE
[ Note: Swill not eligible since won last year. ]

(    ) – BCSFAzine – ( Ed: Felicity Walker )
(    ) – Broken Toys – ( Ed: Taral Wayne )
(    ) – Detritous – ( Ed: Rodney Leighton )
(    ) – One Swell Foop – ( Ed: Garth Spencer )
(    ) – Opuntia – ( Ed: Dale Speirs )
(    ) – Ottawa SF Statement  — ( Ed: Grant Duff )
(    ) – Space Cadet – ( Ed: R. Graeme Cameron )
(    ) – Warp – ( Ed: Cathy Palmer-Lister )

1) Added five issues of  LIFE OF RODNEY (#1-5) 2012-2013, edited by RODNEY LEIGHTON & CHUCK CONNOR, under SF Zines, Zines You Can Read, Nova Scotia Zines, Rodney.

2) Added ( Y ) section of fanzine bibliography, covering YEECH!  to YOU CAN’T GET TO HEAVEN ON ROLLER SKATES INFREQUENTLY and ( Z ) section of fanzine bibliography, covering THE ZERO-G LAVATORY to ZX, under SF Zines, Fanzines (A-Z).

3) Converted ( C ) — from CAFP to THE CYGNUS SCIENCE SOCIETY in LEGENDS & LORE into a complete Canfancyclopedia listing, under Fan History, Canadian Fancyclopedia.

TIME TO VOTE!

Below you see a Ballot. Copy it, paste it into an email to be sent to me at rgraeme[at]shaw.ca, mark 3 or fewer choices for each category, and hit ‘send.’

Or, even easier, send an email to me at the above address, I’ll email you a copy embedded in the body of the email. All you have to do is hit ‘reply’, fill it out, and then hit ‘send.’ Couldn’t be simpler.

Only Canadians can vote. You must be familiar with at least some of the zines and contributors listed. You can fill in three or fewer choices in each category. You don’t have to vote in every category, but every vote counts!

DEADLINE IS FRIDAY, AUGUST 30TH!

( Which is plenty of time. It takes only seconds to fill out the form and send it off to me. Please do! )

2013 FANED AWARDS BALLOT (for achievements in 2012)

( THIRD ANNUAL CANADIAN FANZINE FANAC AWARDS )

BEST FAN WRITER

[ Note: Taral not eligible since won last year. ]

(    ) – Keith Braithwaite – ( Impulse, Warp )

(    ) – R. Graeme Cameron – ( Space Cadet, etc. )

(    ) – Charles Mohapel – ( Ottawa SF Statement )

(    ) – Cathy Palmer –Lister – (Warp )

(    ) – Lester Rainsford – (Swill )

(    ) – Dale Speirs – ( Opuntia )

(    ) – Garth Spencer – (One Swell Foop )

(    ) – Ken Tapping – ( Ottawa SF Statement )

(    ) – Felicity Walker – ( BCSFAzine )

(    ) – Neil Williams – ( Swill )

BEST FAN ARTIST

[ Note: Scott Patri not eligible since won last year. ]

(    ) – R. Graeme Cameron – ( Beloved Binema ) I’m worst actually…

(    ) – Marquies Boies – ( Warp )

(    ) – Bernard Reischl – ( Warp )

(    ) – Taral Wayne – ( Space Cadet, etc. )

BEST LOC WRITER

[ Note: Michael John Bertrand not eligible since won last year. ]

(    ) – Lloyd Penney – ( Everything )

(    ) – Taral Wayne – ( Assorted )

BEST FANZINE

[ Note: Swill not eligible since won last year. ]

(    ) – BCSFAzine – ( Ed: Felicity Walker )

(    ) – Broken Toys – ( Ed: Taral Wayne )

(    ) – Detritous – ( Ed: Rodney Leighton )

(    ) – One Swell Foop – ( Ed: Garth Spencer )

(    ) – Opuntia – ( Ed: Dale Speirs )

(    ) – Ottawa SF Statement  — ( Ed: Grant Duff )

(    ) – Space Cadet – ( Ed: R. Graeme Cameron )

(    ) – Warp – ( Ed: Cathy Palmer-Lister )

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I am somewhat disappointed no one responded to my request for input, nobody made a comment. Oh well, I carry on.

Hmmm… if you don’t want others to read your comments, just drop me a line at                < rgraeme[at]shaw.ca. >.

Lately I decided I was needlessly complicating the site by trying to separate Fanspeak from Legends & Lore, and by removing certain entries from the Canfancyclopedia to go under headings of their own.

My solution? Leave every entry in the Canafancyclopedia (except fanzines and apae) for you to browse through. But if all you want on a particular day is to look up all the varied types of awards, for instance, I’ll duplicate them in a separate file labelled awards.Trying to make the style as convenient as possible.

Besides, I was going nuts trying to figure out whether certain entries belonged in FANSPEAK or in FAN LEGENDS & LORE…

1) Converted a couple of files in LEGENDS & LORE into complete Canfancyclopedia listings, namely ( A )  from A to AWARDS & ( B ) from BACOVER to BYDCOMZ!

2) Added ( X ) section of fanzine bibliography, covering XENIUM to XYZ, under SF Zines, Fanzines (A-Z).

3) Reviewed BCSFAzine (#483) and OTTAWA SF STATEMENT (#412).

A lot of traffic. A lot of downloads. But no comments lately. I invite you to let me know what you think of this site. I’m also interested in knowing if you consider yourself a SF fan or no, if yes what type of SF fan, and whether you are Canadian or a reader from elsewhere on this planet. I’m eager to find out! So please hit the comment button and give me your response.

1) Added CANADIAN FANDOM (#20) March 1954, edited by Gerald Steward, under Sf Zines, Zines You Can Read, Historic Zines, New Canadian Fandom..

2) Added XENO-FILE (#1) 1987, edited by Chris Stroup, under SF Zines, Zines You Can Read, (click on) Alberta, Misc.

3) Added MLR (#1) August/September 1987, edited by Michael Dennis Skeet, under SF Zines, Zines You Can Read, (click on) Ontario, Misc.

4) Added ( W ) section of fanzine bibliography, covering WAT’S NEW to THE WYVERN’S TALE, under SF Zines, Fanzines (A-Z).

5) Added ( U ) Fan Legends & Lore covering ‘U’ to UNIVERSAL MUSKETEERS, under Fan History, Fan Legends & Lore T.

6) Added ‘Convention Jackpot’ Film material, under Fan Legends & Lore, F.

1) Added SCIENTILLO (#1) Winter 1961, edited by Willy don Rawn & Ron T. Gallant, under SF Zines, Zines You Can Read, (click on) Manitoba, Misc.

2) Added Quebec Conventions under SF Conventions, SF Conventions province-by-province, Quebec. This completes initial listing of Canadian conventions. Tasks now are to update list with recent cons, locations, specific dates, and info on type, GoH’s, etc.This will be ongoing.

3) Added Purpose of Site (explaining the history of my Canfancyclopedia, giving the intro to its first incarnation, and an intro to this web site, the 2nd incarnation of my Canfancyclopedia.

4) Added comprehensive list of Sources, including articles, monographs, books, and individuals.

5) Added ( V ) section of fanzine bibliography, covering VANATIONS to VULCAN MAIL, under SF Zines, Fanzines (A-Z).

6) Added ( T ) Fan Legends & Lore covering TAPERA to TORONTO INSURGENTS, under Fan History, Fan Legends & Lore T.

7) Added ( T ) Fanspeak covering THISH to TWILTONE, under Fan History, Fanspeak, T.

Decided to take a bit of a rest today. So just:

1) Added ONTARIO CONVENTIONS province by province under SF Conventions.

2) Added ( U ) section of fanzine bibliography, covering UBC SF FEN NEWSLETTER to UP THE TUBES, under SF Zines, Fanzines (A-Z).

3) Converted SF CONVENTIONS year-by-year from PDF to displayed text, and made text more readable.

I am hurrying to get as much info as possible loaded on this site before I take a break of a week or more to work on the program book for VCON 38 upcoming October 4-6, 2013.

1) Added ZX (#1) July-August 1993, edited by Andrew C. Murdoch, under SF Zines, Zines You Can Read, British Columbia, Andrew.

2) Added BROKEN TOYS (#20) August 2013, edited by Taral Wayne, under SF Zines, Zines You Can Read, Ontario, Taral.

3) Added NEW CANADIAN FANDOM (#2-3) Jun-Jul-Aug-Sept 1983, edited by Robert Runté, under SF Zines, Zines You Can Reac, Alberta, Robert.

4) Added THE FROZEN FROG (#8) January 1984, edited by Benoit Girard, under SF Zines, Zines You Can Read, Quebec, Benoit.

5) Added THE MONTHLY MONTHLY (#2) November 1980, edited by Dave Vereschagin, under SF Zines, Zines You Can Read, Alberta, Gang of Four.

6) Added an entry for THE SPECULATIVE FICTION SOCIETY OF MANITOBA under SF Clubs/Orgs ( A to Z ), Manitoba.

7) Added ( T ) section of fanzine bibliography, covering TAL-SHYA to A TRIP REPORT FOUND IN A PLAIN MANILA ENVELOPE, under SF Zines, Fanzines (A-Z).

8) Added ( N ) Fanspeak Terms covering NEOTRIC to NISH,   ( O ) Fanspeak terms covering OBLITERINE, ( P ) Fanspeak Terms covering P.A.R. to PROZINE, ( Q ) Fanspeak Terms covering QUOTE CARDS to QUOTE COVER,  ( R ) Fanspeak terms covering RAYGUN to REPRODUCTION, ( S ) Fanspeak Terms covering SCIENCEERS to STF, under Fan History, Fanspeak, ( A to Z ).

9) Added ( N ) Fan Legends & Lore covering NEWARK NEANDERTHAL to NYDAHL’S DISEASE, ( O ) Fan Legends & Lore covering OBLIQUE HOUSE to OZARK LOVE CAMP, ( P ) Fan Legends & Lore covering PAN-GALACTIC GARGLE BLASTER to THE PROFESSOR,  ( R ) Fan Legends & Lore covering ROOM 770 to ROSCOE, ( S ) Fan Legends & Lore covering THE SENATORS OF FANDOM to STAPLE WAR (FIRST), under Fan History, Fan Legends & Lore, ( A to Z ).

1) Added THE MAPLE LEAF RAG (#2) December 1983, edited by Garth Spencer, under SF Zines, Zines You Can Read, British Columbia, Garth.

2) Added SFA DIGEST (#1) 1982, edited by Jim Welch, Margaret Galbraith-Hamilton, under SF Zines, Zines You Can Read, (click on) British Columbia ]

3) Added CALLISTO RISING (#1) 1981, edited by E. B. Klassen, Under SF Zines, Zines You Can Read, British Columbia, Klassen.

4) Added Alberta SF Conventions (A to Z) under SF Conventions, Alberta, (A to Z).

5) Added ( S ) section of fanzine bibliography, covering SACRED TRUST to SYNAPSE, under SF Zines, Fanzines (A-Z).

6) Added ( K ) Fanspeak Terms covering KTP,   ( L ) Fanspeak terms covering LACKTIVITY to LITHOGRAPHY, ( M ) Fanspeak Terms covering MIMEOGRAPHY to MIMEOZINE, under Fan History, Fanspeak, ( A to Z ).

7) Added ( N ) Fan Legends & Lore covering NEWARK NEANDERTHAL to NYDAHL’S DISEASE, ( O ) Fan Legends & Lore covering OBLIQUE HOUSE to OZARK LOVE CAMP, ( P ) Fan Legends & Lore covering PAN-GALACTIC GARGLE BLASTER to THE PROFESSOR,  ( R) Fan Legends & Lore covering ROOM 770 to ROSCOE, ( S ) Fan Legends & Lore covering THE SENATORS OF FANDOM to STAPLE WAR (FIRST), under Fan History, Fan Legends & Lore, ( A to Z ).