Path: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!faqserv From: johnl@ora.com (John Labovitz) Newsgroups: alt.zines,alt.etext,misc.writing,rec.mag,alt.internet.services,alt.answers,misc.answers,rec.answers,news.answers Subject: Zines on the Internet (4/5) Supersedes: Followup-To: poster Date: 22 Jun 1995 15:57:48 GMT Organization: none Lines: 1563 Approved: news-answers-request@mit.edu Expires: 27 Jul 1995 15:54:13 GMT Message-ID: References: Reply-To: johnl@ora.com (John Labovitz) NNTP-Posting-Host: bloom-picayune.mit.edu X-Last-Updated: 1995/03/20 Originator: faqserv@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU Xref: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu alt.zines:12331 alt.etext:1487 misc.writing:60441 rec.mag:3668 alt.internet.services:54063 alt.answers:10155 misc.answers:2184 rec.answers:12755 news.answers:46869 Archive-name: writing/zines/part4 Last-modifed: 95/3/15 Distribution-agent: ldetweil@csn.org (This document has been brought to you in part by CRAM. See the bottom for more information, including instructions on how to obtain updates.) === ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Oak Ridge National Laboratory Review "The Oak Ridge National Laboratory Review is a quarterly magazine highlighting the latest and greatest happenings in the area of science and technology at the Laboratory. Stylewise, we aim our magazine at people who are interested in science, but who aren't necessarily scientists themselves. The Review is also available in hard copy and is distributed without charge." Format: HTML (Vol. 26, No. 2 and all subsequent issues) ASCII (back issues) Frequency: quarterly (more or less) ISSN: 0048-1262 Access: WWW: http://www.ornl.gov/ORNLReview/rev26-2/text/home.html Contact: Editor(s): Carolyn Krause Jim Pearce Fax: +1 615 574 1001 Phone: +1 615 574 6974 Postal: ORNL Review, ORNL, 4500-S, MS 6144, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6144, USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Obscure Electronic "OBSCURE is the zine that profiles the people in this publishing subculture." Format: ASCII text Note: While back issues of Obscure are still available, I am not putting out any new e-versions. I still do the print version, though. Access: Gopher: gopher.well.sf.ca.us: Publications gopher.etext.org: Zines/Obscure.Electric FTP: ftp.etext.org: /pub/Zines/Obscure.Electric/ Contact: Editor(s): James P Romenesko Postal: POB 1334, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Oceania Oracle "Oceania Oracle's slogan is 'No Nonsense New Nation News'. It is predominently about Oceania, the new country in formation in the Caribbean." Format: ASCII text Frequency: twice-weekly Access: WWW: http://oceania.org/ FTP: oceania.org: /pub/oceania/ Usenet: talk.politics.libertarian alt.culture.virtual.oceania Subscriptions: To: oceandom@oceania.org Text: subscribe oceania-l Contact: Editor(s): Eric Klien Postal: The Atlantis Project, 4132 S. Rainbow Blvd. Suite 388, Las Vegas, NV 89103, USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Omphalos "Omphalos is a quarterly speculative fiction review magazine available in a variety of formats. It's still very new (first issue just out), but we have high hopes for it. Art and text submission guidelines available." Format: PostScript (within the week) ASCII text HTML paper (for $$$) Access: WWW: http://thule.mt.cs.cmu.edu:8001/sf-clearing-house/zines/omphalos Gopher: gopher.etext.org: Zines/Omphalos FTP: ftp.etext.org: /pub/Zines/Omphalos/ Subscriptions: To: jrrl@cs.cmu.edu Subject: SUBSCRIPTION OMPHALOS Contact: Editor(s): John R. R. Leavitt Andrea J. Leavitt ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OneEurope Magazine "The OneEurope Magazine is (so far) the only European students' magazine made and spread in the entire continent. Created by the OneEurope Working Group of AEGEE, the magazine collects opinions on European issues from different nationalities and cultures, thus fostering understanding and integration -- especially in the east-west aspect -- on this continent. Students, politicians, experts, young professionals make up the authors of this three times a year published medium." Format: ASCII WWW Frequency: 3 times a year ISSN: ISSN 1023-6953 Note: The OEM is also printed and distributed at 170 European universities. It experiences support by the German ministry for education and science, as well as by the European Youth Foundation (EYF) of the Council of Europe. Access: WWW: http://www.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/AEGEE/oneEurope/ FTP: ftp.ask.uni-karlsruhe.de: /pub/aegee/papers/ Email: aegee+oewg@abmx.rz.rwth-aachen.de Subscriptions: aegee+suboem@abmx.rz.rwth-aachen.de (for subscribing to the PRINTED magazine!) http://www.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/AEGEE/oneEurope/oem-sub.html Contact: Editor(s): Michael Waibel Philipp von Klitzing Lorenz Spillner Sebastian Huebner Frank Brehm John Wouters Fax: 49-241-80 35 41 (att. OEWG) Phone: 49-241-51 29 54 (M.Waibel), 49-241-8 32 55 (P.v.Klitzing) Postal: OneEurope Working Group, at AEGEE-Aachen e.V., Templergraben 55, D-52056 Aachen, Germany ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Online World Monitor "While the book The Online World describes the online world as it is, the newsletter tracks changes. It can more freely focus on selected offerings or phenomena than can be done within the strict framework of the book. The newsletter contains tales about discoveries that never made it to the book...Glimpses of the changes in the online world...Trends... Spotlight on important new developments around the world." Format: ASCII text Frequency: bi-monthly ISSN: 0805-6315 Access: WWW: http://login.eunet.no/~presno/monitor.html Gopher: cosn.org: Networking Information/Reference/The Online World - Odd de Presno Email: LISTSERV@VM1.NODAK.EDU (put the command "GET TOW MONITOR" in the BODY of your mail) Contact: Editor(s): Odd de Presno ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ooze "Ooze is the product of 25 years of government research into the effects of recomibinant DNA tests on very small children. Ooze is their spawn. Banned from 38 countries, Ooze has been known, on occasion, to actually cause spontaneous anerisms in rats. Beware." Format: ASCII Mac Application format (with graphics) Frequency: quarterly Access: WWW: http://www.io.com/user/ooze/ FTP: sumex-aim.stanford.edu AOL: Keyword: MGM (mac games area) in Publications archive Compuserve: Go MACFUN; Ooze is located in the Game Aids/Add-ons library GEnie: ??? Usenet: alt.zines Subscriptions: in mac or text format at drbubonic@aol.com Contact: Editor(s): Matt Patterson Postal: 968 Tularosa Dr. #2, Los Angeles, CA 90026, USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Parthenogenesis "A ragtag, fugitive zine on a lonely quest for a planet known as Chicken." Format: ASCII text WordPerfect 5.1 (selected printers) paper Access: Gopher: gopher.etext.org: Zines/Parthenogenesis FTP: ftp.etext.org: /pub/Zines/Parthenogenesis/ Usenet: alt.zines rec.arts.prose rec.humor Contact: Editor(s): Dan Herrick Postal: Parthenogenesis, PO Box 1424, Fort Collins, CO, 80522-1424, USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PC NEWS Review "News and reviews of PC related subjects (including on-line and multimedia topics)." Frequency: monthly Access: FTP: ftp.cica.indiana.edu: /uploads/ ftp.cica.indiana.edu: /misc/ Email: RBARCLAY@TrentU.ca (Subject: GET PNR) Contact: Editor(s): Steve O. Steele ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Pete and Bernie's Philosophical Steakhouse "Surreal humour, straight humour, general articles which make the people who write it laugh long and hard. Possibly offensive use of language. Averages 5-7000 words per issue." Format: ASCII Frequency: first week of every month Access: Gopher: gopher.etext.org: Zines/PAB FTP: ftp.etext.org: /pub/Zines/PAB/ Subscriptions: To: DL@CATES.DEMON.CO.UK Text: Subscribe PAB Contact: Editor(s): D. Lawrence ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Funk Press "A mythical and satirical news service published in the form of a small online ezine. It reports what did not happen but probably should have happened in current events and modern culture. Don't believe everything you read in it... just like the media." Format: ASCII text Frequency: approximately twice a month Access: Gopher: gopher.etext.org: Zines/FunkPress FTP: ftp.etext.org: /pub/Zines/FunkPress/ ftp.crl.com: /users/ro/blanning/ AOL: PDA Forum (keyword PDA). Mac users choose the Ezine libraries button; PC users select "Palmtop Paperbacks" then the Ezine libraries folder. From there both users select "Humor" then "Other Humor." Compuserve: in the EFF Forum in Zines from the Net; in the Cyber Forum in Cyberlit/Zines The WELL: In the Statements Conference (stmt) topic 81, in the Zines Conference (f5) on the ezine menu. Usenet: alt.zines alt.journalism rec.humor Contact: Editor(s): Byron Lanning or ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Phrack "An electronic publication covering all facets of the Computer Underground. Phrack magazine has been published since 1984 and has grown to become one of the best sources for information about operating systems, bugs, telephony and the world-wide hacker culture." Format: ASCII text Frequency: quarterly ISSN: 1068-1035 Access: WWW: http://freeside.com/phrack.html FTP: freeside.com: /pub/phrack/ AOL: PhrackMag Email: phrack@well.com Contact: Editor(s): Chris Goggans (aka Erik Bloodaxe) Phone: +1 512 448 5098 Postal: Phrack Magazine, 603 W. 13th #1A-278, Austin, TX 78701, USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Planet Magazine "Science Fiction, fantasy, horror, humor, and poetry written by new or little-known writers. The next issue will be dated March 1995. Two versions: text only (any pc), and fully formatted (Mac only) with color, illustrations, and sounds." Format: ASCII Macintosh DOCmaker Frequency: quarterly Access: AOL: Writers Club Forum (keyword: WRITERS; the path is The Writer's Club: Writer's Club Libraries: Writers Club E-Zines) or Science Fiction & Fantasy Forum (keyword: SCIENCE FICTION; Science Fiction & Fantasy: The Science Fiction Libraries: Member Fiction & Scripts Library). eWorld: Community Center's Trading Posts (Community Center: eWorld Live: Trading Posts: Newsletters Folder) or the SF, Fantasy & Horror Forum (Arts & Leisure: Forums: SF Fantasy & Horror: Alexandria Restored files folder) Compuserve: SF literature library (SF & Fantasy Forum; go: SFLIT; look in the SF literature library). Contact: Editor(s): Andrew McCann ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Play by EMail "Electronic 'zine about free play-by-electronic-mail games. Reviews, game openings, information." Format: ASCII text, HTML (back issues), WinHelp, Acrobat, etc. Access: WWW: http://fermi.clas.virginia.edu/~gl8f/pbem_magazine.html FTP: ftp.erg.sri.com: /pub/pbm/magazines/ ftp.funet.fi: /pub/doc/games/play-by-mail/magazines/ Usenet: rec.games.pbm Contact: Editor(s): Greg Lindahl ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Poet's Park "An attempt to mix art and poetry. We solicit poetry, short stories, and art (as well as any combination thereof)." Format: NEOBOOK (PC-DOS based, executable file) Frequency: quarterly ISSN: 0146-695X Access: AOL: ??? Contact: Editor(s): soos@aol.com Postal: 2745 Monterey Hwy #76, San Jose, CA 95111-3129, USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Poll Position "Summary of the weekly AP Top 25 Poll for Men's Division I college basketball. Contains a variety of poll-related statistics, comments and observations by the staff and game of the week picks." Format: ASCII HTML Frequency: weekly, during the NCAA basketball season (approx. Nov. 15-Apr. 1) Access: WWW: http://law.uark.edu/bball/poll.htm AOL: sports section Usenet: rec.sport.basketball.college Contact: Editor(s): Gillmer J. Derge ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PovZine "PovZine is an magazine distributed in Common Ground format for users of the PovRay freeware raytracer. It contains lots of 24 bit color graphics, tips, and other useful information for PovRay users." Format: Common Ground PostScript Frequency: every other month Access: FTP: ftp.povray.org: /pub/povray/ezine/ Contact: Editor(s): Keith Rule ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Power to the People Mover "Concerned with unusual and noteworthy behavior observed on mass transit systems, particularly the bus lines." Format: ASCII text Access: Gopher: gopher.etext.org: Zines/People.Mover FTP: ftp.etext.org: /pub/Zines/People.Mover/ Contact: Editor(s): Minister Altair-Five Postal: Altair-Five, P.O. Box 232741, Leucadia, CA 92023, USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Practical Anarchy Online "An electronic zine concerning anarchy from a practical point of view, to help you put some anarchy in your everyday life. The anarchy scene is covered through reviews and reports from people in the living anarchy." Format: ASCII text Access: WWW: http://www.cwi.nl/cwi/people/Jack.Jansen/spunk/Spunk_Home.html http://www.wam.umd.edu/~ctmunson/Infoshop.html Gopher: gopher.well.sf.ca.us: Publications gopher.etext.org: Politics/Spunk FTP: ftp.etext.org: /pub/Politics/Spunk/ Email: cm150@umail.umd.edu Contact: Editor(s): Chuck Munson Postal: Practical Anarchy, PO Box 179, College Park, MD 20741-0179, USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Practice "Personal Arts & Letters. Vacillating between personal zine and litmag, with ambitions toward printing comics, sequential art, and hypertexts." Format: HTML Access: WWW: http://cssun9.vassar.edu/~misuba/PracticeWeb/ Contact: Editor(s): Mike Sugarbaker Postal: Box 1473 Vassar College, Poughkeepsie NY 12601, USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Practice Hall "The electronic version of Tooth & Claw, a newsletter on myth and martial tradition. I am the editor and publisher." Format: HTML Frequency: monthly Access: WWW: http://www.nesc.k12.ar.us/ph_stuff/ph.html Contact: Editor(s): Darryl Caldwell Phone: +1 509 456 3723 Postal: P.O. Box 511, Spokane, WA 99210, USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Prayers to a Broken Stone "...a zine dedicated to all things Goth in general, and the Sisters of Mercy in particular." Format: ASCII text Frequency: whenever i get around to it (approx quarterly) Access: WWW: http://gothic.acs.csulb.edu:8080/Zines/ FTP: ftp.maths.tcd.ie: /pub/gothic/ Contact: Editor(s): corey Postal: Prayers, 2918 cascade ave, bellingham, wa 98225 USA (for sending material to be reviewed ONLY) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Psybernet Digest "The exploration of psyberspace, the soul of cyberspace. Topics typically include psychotherapy, the unconscious, the imagination, archetypes, dreams, myths and metaphors, personal identity. There is an emphasis on working psychologically within the medium of cyberspace. Contents are in part from the Psybernet Mailing List." Format: ASCII text Access: FidoNet: 3:770/270 BBS: Psybernet (+64-3-365-6876) Email: walter@link.equinox.gen.nz Subscriptions: To: listserv@link.equinox.gen.nz Text: subscribe psyber-l Contact: Editor(s): Walter Logeman Fax: +64-3-377-1207 Phone: +64-3-377-1206 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PSYCHOSIS Magazine "PSYCHOSIS is a magazine dedicated to a forum of literary, visual, and other art forms. The art included on each CD is always a spectacle to see!" Format: CD-ROM, 640x480x256 Windows interface Frequency: semi-annually Access: FTP: wizard.usis.com: /mags/psy Contact: Editor(s): Ari Jay Comet, Mike Comet, Robin Lynn Phone: +1 216 464 6033 Postal: PSYCHOSIS Magazine, P.O. Box 22604, Beachwood, OH 44122, USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Pure Sheng "An on-line version of a fanzine that we print and distribute in the north of England. We (FAMILY db) throw parties in this area, and are keen to promote good techno music, in fact good music of any genre (especially techno). There are interviews with techno celebs; up to the minute reviews; information about parties; flier gallery; general bollocks; and a phatt page of hip-hop/trip-hop stuff, as well as a well-stocked links page." Format: HTML Frequency: all the time Access: WWW: http://www.ac.uk/~rvdh1/db.html Contact: Editor(s): dh ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Purple Thunderbolt of Spode (PURPS) "The Purple Thunderbolt of Spode is the Electronic House Organ of the Otisians, the followers of the God(dess) Otis and her huge pantheon of assorted dieties and saints, some of whom exist on the internet in mysterious places such as hongkong and poland. Each issue contains announcements of current events, various editorials and commentaries, letters, dream intepretations, texts of translated ancient writings, various stories and or parables, news events pertaining to Otis and an assortment of generally intersting stuff. Even though we are considered as a serious religious order people often find our material humorous." Format: ASCII text Frequency: irregular Access: WWW: http://www.tiac.net/users/ighf Gopher: sit.sop.fau.edu gopher.etext.org: Zines/Purps quartz.rutgers.edu: journals/Purps FTP: ftp.etext.org: /pub/Zines/Purps/ quartz.rutgers.edu: /pub/Journals/Purps/ Subscriptions: To: listproc@sit.sop.fau.edu Text: subscribe hailotis Contact: Editor(s): Mal Postal: IGHF, P.O. Box 390783, Cambridge, MA 02139-0783, USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- QL Hacker's Journal "The QHJ is published as a service to the QL Community. (QL is the Sinclair QL computer that came out of Britain about 1983, and hit the US about 1985.)" Access: Email: tswenson@dgis.dtic.dla.mil Contact: Editor(s): Tim Swenson Phone: +1 513 233 2178 Postal: QL Hacker's Journal, c/o Tim Swenson, 5615 Botkins Rd., Huber Heights, OH 45424, USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Quanta "Quanta is the electronically produced and distributed magazine of science fiction and fantasy. As such, each issues is packed with fiction from amateur and professional authors from around the world and across the net." Format: HTML PostScript ASCII text Access: WWW: http://www.etext.org/Zines/Quanta/ Gopher: gopher.etext.org: Zines/Quanta gopher.cic.net: e-serials/alphabetic/q/quanta FTP: ftp.etext.org: /pub/Zines/Quanta/ lth.se: /documents/Quanta/ catless.newcastle.ac.uk: /pub/Quanta/ ftp.cic.net: /pub/e-serials/alphabetic/q/quanta/ AOL: PDA:Palmtop Paperbacks:Electronic Articles & Newsletters Compuserve: "Zines from the Net" area of the EFF forum (accessed by typing GO EFFSIG) Subscriptions: To: listserv@netcom.com Text: subscribe quanta-ascii (for ASCII version) Text: subscribe quanta-postscript (for PostScript version) Text: subscribe quanta-notice (to receive a notice by email when a new issue comes out, instructing them where they can retrieve it by ftp or other means) Contact: Editor(s): Daniel K Appelquist Postal: Quanta Magazine, 1509 R. St. NW #3, Washington, DC 20009, USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- R.A.D! ON-LINE "Review And Discussion of Rock & Roll Culture. The Rock & Roll newsletter that's not afraid to be original, each heart-stopping issue of R.A.D! ON-LINE features interviews, editorials and lots of CD reviews, as well as columns covering singles releases, reissues, zines, video and Rock & Roll news. Oh yeah, we've been known to give away some cool stuff every now and then, too! Published by the fine folks at CONSPIRACY M.E.D.I.A." Format: ASCII text Access: Gopher: gopher.etext.org: Politics/RAD FTP: ftp.etext.org: /pub/Politics/RAD/ AOL: "Palmtop Paperbacks" section Usenet: alt.zines alt.music.alternative Contact: Editor(s): Reverend Keith A. Gordon Jesse Garon, West Coast Editor Postal: CONSPIRACY M.E.D.I.A, Box 158324, Nashville TN 37064, USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Reality Sandwiches "RS is an independent, New Jersey-based zine featuring original poetry, prose, essays, fiction and editorials. It is written as an alternative to pop-culture and features commentary on society, religion, popular culture, music, and the issues of the times. Introspective and unique writing lends an agnostic charm to this zine." Format: ASCII text Frequency: monthly (or close to it) Access: BBS: The Porch (+1 201 966 2848) Szafran InfoServices (+1 908-598-9122) Summit PCBoard (+1 908-665-5992) Ranger Blue 4 (+1 908-580-1945) Contact: Editor(s): Darth%porch@cjbbs.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- RealPoetik "We publish the new, the lively, the witty and the exciting in vernacular English. Any mutually comprehensible dialect will do, as long as it represents a vernacular. We're modeling ourselves after little magazines like Exquisite Corpse, New American Writing and Another Chicago Magazine who have shown an openness to new writers and new work. And who are not bound to some weirdly academic/fascist/factional clique of selfpromoting hacks." Frequency: one or two pages twice a week Access: WWW: http://www-bprc.mps.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/hpp?RealPoetik.html Email: list archives: our entire first year of publishing (1994) may be obtained through email by writing listserv@listserv.wln.com, no Subject: line, and a single line of text reading: "get rpoetik Vol1-94" (no quotes; note spelling and capitalization) Subscriptions: To: listserv@listserv.wln.com Text: subscribe rpoetik Contact: Editor(s): Sal Salasin Postal: 206 Lilly Rd NE, Apt K-8, Olympia, WA 98506 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Reverb "Techno/Hip Hop Digizine" Format: Macintosh stand-alone application Frequency: monthly Access: WWW: http://hyperreal.com/zines/reverb/index.html eWorld: in the Music Universe (keyword "MU") section BBS: New York Online (+1 718 596 5881) Contact: Editor(s): Dan Sicko Phone: +1 810 398 1025 Postal: Reverb, Inc., P.O. Box 3395, Farmington Hills, MI 48333-3395, USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Roadmap to the Information Superhighway "The Official Roadmap to the Information Superhighway is now a newsletter. Top Pick by AOL, now goes monthly. All the latest info about how to do things and where to find people, places and things on the Internet." Format: Windows Help file Frequency: monthly Access: FTP: garnet.msen.com: /pub/vendor/lighthouse/ BBS: EXEC-PC Channel1 Contact: Editor(s): Mike Mathiesen, Lighthouse Productions ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SAKU "A Finnish-language electronic magazine published by Finnish Amiga Users' Association. It is intended for anyone interested in the Amiga range of computers. Sometimes it also contains English information, and English abstract is available." Format: HTML ASCII text (on disk) AmigaGuide (on disk) Frequency: bi-monthly Access: WWW: http://www.modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~avs/saku.html http://proffa.cc.tut.fi/~v150105/saku.html FTP: ftp.funet.fi: /pub/amiga/misc/diskmags/Finnish/ FidoNet: Region 22 internal echo area: SF.AMIGA.SAKU contains weekly bulletins and conversation. Contact: Editor(s): Janne Siren (Editor-in-Chief) Antti Vaha-Sipila (WWW Maintainer) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sam Johnson's Electronic Revenge "_Sam Johnson's Electronic Revenge_ is a freelance-written essay/opinion, non-technical Web-based magazine for those with a skeptical, inquiring turn of mind. We value the outlandish and the iconoclastic but will embrace a defense of the status quo or the eternal verities, if presented with zest and enthusiasm." Format: HTML Access: WWW: http://pobox.com/slt Subscriptions: Through Web form only (free until end of April, $20 a yr. afterwards) includes book discounts. Contact: Editor(s): Derek Davis Phone: +1 215 222 4956 Postal: Silly Little Troll Publications, 3311 Baring St., Phila., PA 19104, USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sarko "Sarko is a journal of works-in-progress, published bi-monthly, that is an ongoing attempt at world-building. Someone once accused Sarko of being "weird Gothic Chinese Cyberpunk." I dunno, if it isn't perhaps it should be..." Format: ASCII text ISSN: 1022-1069 Access: WWW: http://www.hk.super.net/~bradc/sarko-home.html Gopher: gopher.etext.org: Zines/Sarko FTP: ftp.etext.org: /Zines/Sarko/ Email: sarko-request@mach.hk.super.net Contact: Editor(s): Brad Collins Fax: (852) 605 7238 Phone: (852) 6057212 (GMT +008) Postal: dih Press PO Box 1010 Shatin, NT., Hong Kong ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Science Fiction Journalen "SFJ has as a paper fanzine been the leading Scandinavian sf newsletter since 1978. The electronic edition - identical to the paper edition, except for the layout - is a recent addition. SFJ covers news about books, authors, awards, clubs, conventions etc, in articles, reports, lists, reviews, even gossip in primarily the Nordic region, but the most important international news are also covered." Format: ASCII text (with 7-bit Swedish character remapping) Frequency: 4-6 times/year Access: FTP: ftp.lysator.liu.se: /pub/sf-texts/swedish_fandom/ BBS: SF-BBS (+46 8 642 40 77) Contact: Editor(s): Ahrvid Engholm Phone: +46 8 641 34 05 Postal: Ahrvid Engholm, Renstiernas Gata 29, S-116 31 Stockholm, Sweden (subscription to the paper edition costs 40 SEK to Swedish postal giro 436 32 00-9) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SCRATCH "One of the things that kept me from doing something sooner was the idea that you sort of had to have a focus to do a proper zine. I got over it. I found a new desire and enjoyment in rambling about whatever seems appropriate at the time. So here we are." Format: ASCII text Access: Gopher: gopher.etext.org: Zines/Scratch FTP: ftp.etext.org: /pub/Zines/Scratch/ Contact: Editor(s): James Barnett Postal: J. Barnett, 28 North Avenue, New Rochelle, NY 10805, USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Scream Baby "What do I want? Besides world peace, a sexy Mexican maid, and someone to use their fucking brains around here, I want a really good all-encompassing-sub-culture zine. Music, literature, art, television, film, weird space-time kinks, events, information, news, humor, interviews, and re:views of 'Stuff I Think Is Cool.' Not all at once, of course. Each issue of Scream Baby will come out whenever I can scrape together 25-30 kilobytes of really good stuff." Format: ASCII text Access: Gopher: gopher.etext.org: Zines/ScreamBaby gopher.well.sf.ca.us: Publications FTP: ftp.etext.org: /pub/Zines/ScreamBaby/ BBS: Tejas (+1 512 467-0663) (16.8 HST modem) Subscriptions: To: majordomo@bga.com Text: subscribe scream Other: WWIVNet: 1@15115 Contact: Editor(s): Blade X ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Screaming in Digital ""Screaming in Digital" is a weekly net-digest about the musical group Queensryche. It includes news, commentary, discussion, and classified ads, among other things. The digest is available via WWW and e-mail; an "express" edition containing only news and ads is also available via e-mail." Format: ASCII HTML Frequency: weekly (Mondays, since 1991) Access: WWW: http://www.ios.com/~qryche/ FTP: ios.com: /pub/users/qryche Email: qryche@ios.com Subscriptions: To: qryche@ios.com Body: message containing your first and last name Contact: Editor(s): Dan Birchall (Shag Aristotelis) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Screams of Abel "Soae gives you the latest information on Christian metal and thrash, including new releases, tours, lineup changes, and any other points of interest." Format: ASCII HTML Frequency: Thursday nights weekly Access: WWW: http://music.acu.edu/www/jr/metal/soae.html Gopher: gopher.etext.org: Zines/Screams.of.Abel FTP: ftp.etext.org: /pub/Zines/Screams.of.Abel/ Usenet: alt.rock-n-roll.metal rec.music.christian rec.music.misc Email: metalhed@cap.gwu.edu Contact: Editor(s): Phil Powell Postal: Screams of Abel, P.O. Box 2861, Springfield, VA 22152-2861, USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SEMA "SEMA is the undergraduate journal for the University of Toronto Semiotics department. Semiotics is the study of the sign or of the nature of representation. We include in our discussions art theory, post-structuralism, linguistics, anthropology, philosophy, film theory, feminist theory, and more. SEMA features articles written by students and faculty on various topics, which include in this issue: tabloids, advertising, video games, communication, teen magazines, and more." Format: ASCII text WordPerfect Frequency: once a year Access: Gopher: gopher.etext.org: Zines/SEMA FTP: ftp.etext.org: /pub/Zines/SEMA/ Contact: Editor(s): Christopher Woodill ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Silver's LARP Rag "Silver's Rag is an in depth e-zine to support Interactive (Live Action) Roleplaying for the Heartland of America. Interactive Roleplaying is the next big wave in gaming and the Rag covers all of the cons, events and clubs that play them. We also cover how to articles, and cover the resources that both inspire and inform ENTIRE roleplaying community. So the Rag also covers fan cons, renaisance fairs, the WEB, Usenet, and anything of general interest to gamers. Specifically the Rag focuses on the states of Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania." Format: ASCII text Frequency: bi-monthly Access: Other: Cleveland Freenet's "Gaming Forum" Contact: Editor(s): Scott Bachmann (Silver) Phone: +1 216 521 6219 (Ask for Scott) Postal: 2053 robin st dn, lakewood oh 44107, usa ---------------------------------------------------------------------- skew "skew is a graphic magazine of both local and wider interest. It contains reviews and essays on current movies, publications, etc.; hyper-linked features about topics both common and esoteric; entertainment guides and suggestions; opinion columns, diatribes, rants, and musings; and anything else we happen to come up with in the course of the month." Format: HTML, use of Netscape Navigator recommended Frequency: published on or around the 15th of every month Access: WWW: http://www.ot.com/skew Contact: Editor(s): Anabella Wewer ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SLAP "SLAP has no goals. This is not a subversive underground e-zine. It doesn't tell you what is cool and what is not. But it will try and make you LAUGH." Format: ASCII text Frequency: monthly Access: FTP: ftp.teleport.com: /users/derek/ Usenet: alt.zines Contact: Editor(s): Derek Gottfrid ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slippery When Wet "bisexual. penetration-positive. queer." Format: HTML ASCII Frequency: bimonthly ISSN: 1072-7590 Access: WWW: http://www.best.com/~slippery/home.html Contact: Editor(s): Sunah Cherwin ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Slither "inSobordinate Leftists Intellectual Trash Hopefully Earmarked for Revolution." Format: ASCII text Access: Email: anon14b4@nyx.cs.du.edu Contact: Editor(s): anon14b4@nyx.cs.du.edu Phone: +1 415 487 6209 (voicemail) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Snake Oil "Your Guide to Kooky Kontemporary Kristian Kulture - for secular fans of televangelists, etc. E-zine contains highlights from the print version." Format: HTML Frequency: updated/changed periodically -- no set schedule Access: WWW: http://fender.onramp.net/~analyst/snake/Snakeoil.html Contact: Editor(s): Brother Randall Postal: 6102 East Mockingbird #374, Dallas, TX 75214, USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Snuff It "Snuff It is the quarterly magazine of the Church of Euthanasia. If you've seen those *Save The Planet, Kill Yourself* stickers and wondered what it all means, this is the magazine for you. What do suicide, abortion, cannibalism and sodomy all have in common? Of course they're all good fun, but the real answer is they all help reduce the population. Americans must die to save the planet. Also the home of Kevorkian Records, Eat People Not Animals, Thank You for Not Breeding, and Demons In My Head." Format: ASCII HTML Access: WWW: http://www.paranoia.com/coe/ Gopher: gopher.well.sf.ca.us gopher.etext.org: Zines/Snuffit FTP: ftp.etext.org: /pub/Zines/Snuffit/ Contact: Editor(s): Rev. Chris Korda (both electronic and printed version) Postal: The Church of Euthanasia, POB 261, Somerville, MA 02143, USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sparks "A literary zine for creative people. Fiction, poetry, essays, art, culture, rants, politics, pictures, and other meta-pseudo-stuff..." Frequency: quarterly ISSN: 1077-4149 Access: Gopher: gopher.etext.org: Zines/Sparks FTP: ftp.etext.org: /pub/Zines/Sparks/ Contact: Editor(s): Jim Esch Stacy Tartar Postal: Sparks, 232 North Kingshighway, #616, St. Louis, MO 63108-1248, USA (paper copies of SPARKS, including artwork, are available for $2.50; subscriptions (4 issues per year) for $8 (U.S)) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Spill "The Spill Magazine consists of music news, concert and album reviews, and much, much more. We wish to act as a springboard for new bands and record labels that may otherwise be overlooked by mainstream press." Format: ASCII text Frequency: monthly Access: Usenet: alt.zines BBS: Computer Link (+1 416 233 5410) in the Spill Mag forum Ajax Shuttle BBS (+1 905 686 9297) in the file area Hamlet's Hamlet (+1 905 457 2917) in the Magazine Stand Email: spillmag@cml.com Subscriptions: David Widmann Contact: Editor(s): Arvin Kashyap Postal: Arvin Kashyap, 3055 Harold Sheard Drive, Mississauga, Ontario L4T 1V4, Canada ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Spilled Ink "A literary e-'zine consisting of all sorts of literary works -- poetry, prose, songs, short stories, and philosophy -- tending to deal with the darker side of things, such as: betrayal, anguish, angst, darkness, doom, question of existence, etc." Format: ASCII text Frequency: a number of times a year Access: Gopher: gopher.etext.org: Zines/Spilled_Ink FTP: ftp.etext.org: /pub/Zines/Spilled_Ink Usenet: rec.arts.poems BBS: Actual Reality (+1 512 873 1900) After Ours (+1 512 320 1650) Ice Castle (+1 713 722 5400) Ace of Spades (+1 512 794 0076) Demented Dimensions (+1 512 918 1836) Howl (+1 713 862 1415) Peace (+1 512 440 7664) Sprawl (+1 512 458 3409) Other: Worldlink Net: Electronic 'Zines and Poetry forums Contact: Editor(s): Twilight ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SPONGE! "SPONGE! (Simple People Opposing Neverending Gaudy Endeavors) is a parody of a cult. Our 'bible' is the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and our ever supreme Lord is Marvin the Paranoid Android. The logic is as twisted as Douglas Adams but there is a distinct style/taste. (This is not Hitchhiker's Guide regurgitated!)" Format: ASCII HTML Frequency: sermons are sent bi-weekly via e-mail Access: WWW: http://neuromancer.ucr.edu/sponge FTP: neuromancer.ucr.edu: /pub/www/sponge Email: sponge@neuromancer.ucr.edu Contact: Editor(s): Steve(oid) Shah ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Spontaneous Combustion "Spontaneous Combustion is an underground music magazine with it's feet firmly planted in punk rock. We cover many other types of music as well. For lack of a better description, if you have never seen a copy of SC, it's like a cross between Maximum Rock n Roll and Flipside. We have been at it for 8 years now. Recently we expanded our efforts to encompass the WWW. The WebZine contains much of the contents of the hard copy zine as well as back issues, sounds and graphics." Frequency: hard copy of the zine on quarterly basis; WebZine updated almost weekly Access: WWW: http://www.spontaneous.com/scol/ Contact: Editor(s): Ron Jones ---------------------------------------------------------------------- St. Louis Sports Online "StLSO is an online newsletter that aims to provide sports-crazed St. Louisans (and transplanted St. Louisans) with an additional source of news, information, and humor about St. Louis-area sports events and St. Louis-area sports teams. Most issues of StLSO will include some coverage and reviews of recent major St. Louis sports events, evaluation of the St. Louis sports media, sports-related hobbies, fantasy league updates, interviews with St. Louis-area sports figures, and reader contributions." Frequency: published every Sunday Access: Email: StLSports@aol.com Contact: Editor(s): Mark Bausch ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Stay Free! "Stay Free! is an all-volunteer, bimonthly zine distributed throughout the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill Triangle of North Carolina." Format: HTML Frequency: published the first week of every other month Access: WWW: http://sunsite.oit.unc.edu/pub/electronic-publications/stay-free/home.htm Email: stayfree@email.unc.edu Contact: Editor(s): Carrie McLaren Postal: Stay Free!, P.O. Box 702, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, USA (subscriptions for hard copies are $6.00 for four issues, check payable to Carrie McLaren; check for current rates) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Strangeness "I must admit it... by nature I am a packrat. I see all kinds of strange stuff around the net and I go "HEy! I miGHt neED ThAt," so I stick it in my scrapbook. Only, usually I never use the information again. This is my way of reusing the info i've found... so anyway, content varies depending on my interests at any given time. Maybe it'll amuse you... maybe not. I dunno. Oh yeah... it always comes with a g00d uuencoded picture." Format: ASCII text Frequency: weekly? Access: FTP: ftp.etext.org: /pub/Zines/Strangeness gopher.etext.org: Zines/Strangeness Usenet: alt.music.alternative alt.zines alt.music.ween Contact: Editor(s): ph00dz aka jon aka Phone: +1 602 884 7171 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Streetsound "street-level DJ-written music magazine & e-zine - techno rap house rock reggae acid jazz dancehall freestyle industrial bhangra soul funk alternative r&b latin hi-nrg jungle ambient media hardware style" Format: HTML Access: WWW: http://www.phantom.com/~street Contact: Editor(s): street@phantom.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Strobe "Alternative/New Music magazine (print) based in L.A., covering international biggies of interest as well as unsigned locals, and other goodies in between. We're a year and a half old, but this is our net debut (vol2, #9)." Format: HTML Frequency: WWW: monthly print: bi-monthly Access: WWW: http://www.iuma.com/strobe/ Contact: Editor(s): Victor Bornia John Bitzer Robin Emerson Doran Meyers Postal: P.O. Box 48558, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA ($9.99/US, $18/outside US) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Super Stupid Slambook "An e-zine that I've put together to review various eclectic things that I think deserve reviewing. There is no high and lofty goal in the pages of this thing. In fact, the only goal is to let other people know about things that are either (a) really good or (b) horrendously bad. That's it. Lofty goals aren't my forte. But sharing information is always a good thing. If there's anything you'd like to share with me, you can drop me a line." Format: ASCII text Frequency: monthly Note: For all intents and purposes, the SLAMBOOK is on hiatus. Maybe one day the SLAMBOOK will come back from the dead -- I may be doing a print version of it. Access: Gopher: gopher.well.sf.ca.us gopher.etext.org: SuperStupid FTP: ftp.etext.org: /pub/Zines/SuperStupid/ Contact: Editor(s): Jack Szwergold Postal: P.O. Box 242, Village Station, New York, NY 10014, USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SuperClamp "A Chapel Hill NC (US) chick zine. SuperClamp is now. SuperClamp touches on all worlds, dealing each month with money, travel, health, movies, books, fashion, society, decorating, and celebrities. Our specialty, however, is the emotional life of today's young woman, goading you into becoming your best possible self by understanding both the inner and outer worlds of the Triangle area. Forget the recession, the flooded job market, the aimlessness of others -- you CAN! Features include Pick-Up Lines, Hair Today, the Outrage of the Month, Truth or Dare, and others..." Format: HTML Access: WWW: http://sunsite.unc.edu/superclamp/ Contact: Editor(s): the Clampettes ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The SURFPUNK Technical Journal "The SURFPUNK Technical Journal is a dangerous multinational hacker zine originating near BARRNET in the fashionable western arm of the northern California matrix. Quantum Californians appear in one of two states, spin surf or spin punk. Undetected, we are both, or might be neither." Format: HTML Access: WWW: http://www.acns.nwu.edu/surfpunk/ Subscriptions: surfpunk-request@osc.versant.com Contact: Editor(s): surfpunk@osc.versant.com Submissions: surfpunk@osc.versant.com === DISTRIBUTION: How to obtain this document This document has been brought to you in part by CRAM, involved in the redistribution of valuable information to a wider USENET audience (see below). The most recent version of this document can be obtained via the author's instructions above. 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