Earth Calling Biscuit Barrel
The UK's first electronic APA, organized by John Bray.
Started March 1991, gathering input from his friends and publishing issues by email once a month. It ran for 5 issues until October 1991, when increasing pressures from his involvement with Illumination, the 1992 Eastercon, caused him to shelve it. "I'd viewed my role as administrator, rather than major contributor, but I was struggling to commission enough new content, and didn't want to make it a personal fanzine. All issues were named after biscuits, for no good reason."
Contents: Issue 1: Earth Calling Biscuit Barrel Contributors: John Bray, Paul Cray, Paul Marrow, Tom Yates. The contributions appear to be rolled into one.
Issue 2: Fig Roll (1st April 1991)
- Down a dirty Line. John Bray
- Bollox.* John Bray
- Tarnover City, Mark Nelson
- You Can't Get There From Here. Paul Marrow
- Solutions for Trope Exhaustion. Neal T.
- The Ballad of Polly Nomial. Anon
- Talking Point. Paul Cray
Issue 3: Abbey Crunch (2nd May 1991)
- Editorial. John Bray
- Bollox (with extra Nipplez!) John Bray
- Hyperion. Paul Marrow
- Generation Starships II. Paul Marrow.
- What is a Skeptic. Lucy Fisher
- Million & Murder One. John Bray.
- Tarnover Two. Mark Nelson.
- Neo at a Lucon. Jim Trash
- Where to Find a Good Book at the End of History. Phil Raines
- Godel's Theorem and Fifth. Simon McLeish
- All you wanted to know about Ufology
- The Whale
- Nebula Award Winners 1991
- Adverts for:
- Volgacon,
- Quanta,
- Glasgow in 95
Issue 4: Fruit Jasper (9th June 1991)
- Editorial. John Bray.
- Bollox (with great Gonadz). John Bray.
- Old John's Kentish Ways. John Bray.
- John Bray. Euro-Contact.
- Matt Bishop. The end of SF as we know it.
- Paul Marrow & John Bray. "You can't get There from Here" parts 3,4,5.
- Simon McLeish. Tehanu review.
- Matt Bishop. Armageddon the Musical - review.
- Mel Dymond. Cuckoo's Egg review.
- Odds & Sods.
- Product Warning Labels
- EEC Motoring Phrases
- Theasaurus poetry
- Faces
Issue 5: Chocolate Hob-Nobs (13th October 1991)
- Editorial. John Bray.
- Bollox. John Bray.
- Dead Genre Sketch. Phil Raines.
- They Won't Come here from There. Paul Marrow.
- John's rambing reply to it.
- The Wonders of ASCII graphics.
- Usenet and mailing list reviews.
- Old Bray's Kentish Ways.
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