Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2009 16:48:18 -0400
From: Ted White <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Old WSFA fanzine
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Keith F. Lynch wrote:

>  Ted White <twhite8 at cox.net> wrote:
>
> > Keith F. Lynch wrote:
> >
> >> After Quanta and before the WSFA Journal started in 1965, the
> >> club had another fanzine, Speculative Review, about which I have
> >> even less information.
>
> > I don't think so.  I think that was a Dick Eney fanzine, not a club
> >  publication.
>
>  The November 1979 WSFA Journal says, "More recently, SPECULATIVE
>  REVIEW was sponsored by WSFA."  That issue was edited by Joe Mayhew.

I missed that one.

>  The October 2004 WSFA Journal says, "Keith said it will take him at
>  least a decade to finish off The WSFA Journal and The Son of the WSFA
>  Journal.  And that there's at least one other WSFA fanzine published
>  after Quanta but before The WSFA Journal.  Alexis responded that
>  there were several such fanzines."  (The "one other" I was referring
>  to was of course Speculative Review, as I had read in the November
>  1979 WSFA Journal.)
>
> > Have you seen any?
>
>  No.  A Google search does confirm that Dick Eney was its editor, but
>  gives no evidence other than the above that it had any link to WSFA.
>  Or that it didn't.
>
>  Too bad neither Dick Eney nor Joe Mayhew is around to answer.  But
>  Dick's widow is still on this list.  Maybe she knows.
>
>  Any idea what any of the other "several" WSFA fanzines Alexis was
>  referring to were?  Or was he confused?

I have no idea.  I do know that in the late '40s and early '50s more
WSFAns were into doing fanzines than when I joined the club in 1954.

--Ted White