Ciencia y Fantasía is a Mexican pulp magazine published September 1955 to December 1957, running 14 issues, editor unknown. It reprinted select stories from the magazine Fantasy & Science Fiction. According to the “Chronology of Latin American Science Fiction, 1775-2005,” Ciencia y Fantasía is among the first “Mexican versions of U.S. Pulp magazines,” proceeding “the first generation of Mexican authors to become known for writing science fiction” in the late 1960s.
Uchujin, or “Cosmic Dust”, is the first Japanese science fiction fanzine. Founded in 1957 by Takumi Shibano, the fanzine launched the careers of many major Japanese science fiction writers. This is perhaps the first, certainly one of the most influential, international sf fanzines.
In the 1970s, Jeff Smith published zines, Kyben, Phantasmicon, and Khatru, important to the developing feminist movement inside sf, and for feminist sf zines like the ground-breaking Janus, the first feminist sf zine, in 1975.
Smith’s zines include contributions by reclusive author James Tiptree, Jr., the gender-switching pseudonym of Alice Sheldon, whose gender-bending fiction greatly impacted 1970s sf. Khatru published the pioneering symposium, “Women in Science Fiction,” with participants such as Tiptree, Samuel Delaney, and Joanna Russ. Smith remains on the “Motherboard” for the Otherwise Award (formerly the Tiptree), which celebrates gender-bending sf today.
These zines feature emergent diverse futures and foretell our project's theme, “Imagining Diverse Futures.” Proceed on for more on futures now that these zines only dreamed of...