Philosophical Gas
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A long-running fapazine of John Bangsund. For a time he stopped it and published Perergon Papers, but later declared it to be a continuation of Philosophical Gas. It appeared in FAPA, ANZAPA and OMPA.
In issue 32 he described it thusly:
Philosophical Gas, despite my occasional outbursts to the contrary, continues to be very largely concerned with science fiction. I've tried to interest my moronic readers in a better class of literature, such as the works of Thomas Love Peacock, Brian O'Nolan and Lennie Lower, but sf keeps on rearing its ugly head and I guess I just have to live with that if I want to go on publishing (and I do, I do: I don't know why, but I do!) so PG must be regarded as a science fiction fanzine. It is also, as John Clark up there in Queensland remarked a few issues back, my private diary. It isn't as intimate a diary as, say, Dick Geis's, but it's a diary and I like to think I am among friends when I sit down in front of a blank stencil and begin to recount the momentous and other events in my life.
Issue | Date | Pages | Notes |
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1 | September 1970 | 8 | |
2 | October 1970 | 4 | |
3 | December 1970 | 2 | |
4 | April 1971 | 4 | |
4.5 | April 1971 | 2 | |
5 | June 1971 | 3 | |
6 | August 1971 | 6 | |
7 | September 1971 | 4 | |
8 | October 1971 | 3 | |
9 | December 1971 | 2 | |
10 | April 1972 | 3 | |
11 | April 1972 | 6 | In FAPA 13 |
12 | June 1972 | 8 | |
13 | June 1972 | 18 | |
14 | December 1972 | 4 | |
15 | February 1973 | 2 | |
16 | February 1973 | 6 | |
17 | February 1973 | 6 | |
18 | February 1973 | 9 | |
19 | April 1973 | 14 | |
14-19 | 36 | Combined issue. Some parts of this were also published separately. | |
20 | April 1973 | 14 | |
21 | |||
22 | May 1973 | 14 | |
23 | April 23, 1973 | 2 | |
24 | August 1973 | 6 | |
25 | Spring 1974 | 30 | |
26 | Summer 1974 | 28 | |
27 | Autumn 1974 | 26 | |
28 | Winter 1974 | 38 | |
29 | February 1975 | 36 | bound with New Millennial Harbinger 14 |
30 | March 1975 | 26 | |
31 | July 1975 | 18 | |
32 | August 1975 | 8 | |
33 | 1976 | 15 | |
34 | May 1976 | 1 | There was a 1-page July supplement |
35 | November 1976 | 1 | |
36 | December 1976 | 7 | |
37 | |||
38 | July 1977 | 8 | AKA Perergon Papers 1 |
39 | August 1977 | 14 | AKA Perergon Papers 2 |
40 | September 1977 | 14 | AKA Perergon Papers 3 |
41 | September 1977 | 14 | AKA Perergon Papers 4 |
42 | December 1977 | 13 | AKA Perergon Papers 5 |
43 | January 1978 | 14 | AKA Perergon Papers 6 |
44 | February 1978 | 17 | AKA Perergon Papers 7 |
45 | 1978 | 36 | AKA Perergon Papers 8 |
October 1978 | 19 | AKA Perergon Papers 8 Part 2 | |
46 | August 1978 | 7 | AKA Perergon Papers 9 |
47 | October 1978 | 28 | AKA Perergon Papers 10 |
48 | December 1978 | 8 | AKA Perergon Papers 11 |
49 | February 1979 | 14 | AKA Perergon Papers 12 |
50 | November 1979 | 10 | |
51 | July 1980 | 6 | |
52 | |||
53-54 | January 1981 | 8 | |
55-56 | March 1981 | 7 | |
57-59 | May 1981 | 25 | |
60 | March 1982 | 9 | |
61 | February 1982 | 9 | (Date as printed) |
62-63 | Spring 1982 | 16 | Double issue |
64 | Fall 1983 | 6 | |
65 | Spring 1984 | 8 | |
66 | |||
67 | February 1985 | 11 | |
68 | August 1985 | 6 | |
69 | June 1986 | 8 | |
70 | August 1987 | 1 | in FAPA 201 |
71 | August 1987 | 3 | single-sided |
72 | |||
73 | November 1987 | 3 | " |
74 | April 1988 | 11 | |
75 | October 1988 | 8 | in FAPA 205 |
76-77 | Spring 1989 | 12 | for FAPA |
78 | February 1990 | 8 | |
79 | May 1990 | 12 | |
80 | November 1990 | 2 | |
81 | February 1991 | 2 | |
82 | Winter 1991 | 8 | |
83 | Spring 1992 | 8 | |
84 | February 1993 | 8 | |
85 | April 1993 | 4 | |
86.5 | August 1993 | 4 | |
87 | Spring 1993 | 4 | |
88 | |||
89 | |||
90 | |||
91 | |||
92 | Spring 1996 | 6 | |
93 | April 1997 | 6 |
Philosophical Gas online at fanac.org
Publication | 1970—1997? |
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