Zine

Short for fanzine. In more current usage, these are mundane fanzines that come out of the Factsheet Five phenomenon and hence are distinct from an sf fanzine, which comes from the sf microcosm or one of its off-shoots. A "zeen" is almost always a mundane fanzine (even though Earl Evers used zEEn as the title for his fanzine published in and for sf fanzine fandom; Earl was using and emphasizing his initials) while "zine" can at times be short for "fanzine" and hence may be used to apply to The Real Thing. The word “’zine”–with an apostrophe–is credited to Sarge Saturn in a fanzine review column he wrote for Startling Stories.

Contributors: Dr. Gafia