One-Shot

A fanzine most often (but not always) published on one and only one occasion, usually on the spur of the moment, many of them first draft. The latter frequently results in a publication that is forced, stilted and unpleasant. The "classic" oneshots, as published during the Laney/Burbee Insurgency, were different because the participants usually brought previously drafted and even somewhat polished material to it.

See also One off.

Contributors: Dr. Gafia

from Fancyclopedia 2

A fanzine produced (perhaps imagined and cut, perhaps just run and assembled) at a single session. A one-shot session is either the session at which this is done or, sometimes, the fen comprising the session. Originally it meant a publication actually, and avowedly, intended to have only the one issue, as distinguished from "periodicals" which fold after one issue and other fmz which don't indicate whether they're periodicals or non-recurrent pamphlets. One-shots may be produced to commemorate an occasion or take advantage of a gathering of fannish manpower; such are those put out when the cry "Let's put out a one-shot fanzine!" arises. Or they may be intended to deal with their subject thoroly enough not to require further issues — bibliographies and works such as this one fit here. The most famous one-shot sessions were the four at which various issues (1,3,5,7) of WILD HAIR were produced; the Insurgents seem to have been responsible for designation of periodicals as one-shots when they were produced at a one-shot session.

See also One-Shot Publication.