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Prolapse (often bearing the slogan The Time-Travelling Fanzine!) was a fanzine devoted to British fan history published by Peter Weston with two issues in 1983, restating in 2006. With issue 13 it was renamed Relapse and continued with the same numbering sequence.
It won a Nova Award for best fanzine in 2007 and 2008.
| Issue | Date | Pages | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 1983 | 12 | named Prolapse; in APA-B #1 |
| 2 | August 1983 | 14 | in APA-B #2 |
| long pause: "as David Redd says, you wait 23 years and then two come along" (#4) | |||
| 3 | November 2006 | 22 | |
| 4 | December 2006 | 26 | No ToC as such but the cover (cartoon by Daily Express’s Giles re-purposed with a fannish caption) says "INSIDE: ‘Disappointment at Brumcon’ - What went wrong at the first BSFA Convention? ‘Weir Tales’ - or ‘Who was the Mystery Man in Birmingham?’ PLUS: Steve Green; Joseph Nicholas; Ian Sorensen and more!" |
| 5 | February 2007 | 28 | |
| 6 | April 2007 | 36 | INSIDE [no colon now] ‘A Convention Called Seacon’ by Rob Hansen; ‘I Remember Fandom’ by Mike Moorcock; ‘The Doc Weir File – A Story of Good Intentions’; PLUS: Greg Pickersgill; John-Henri Holmberg and more!" |
| 7 | June 2007 | 40 | |
| 8 | August 2007 | 40 | |
| 9 | November 2007 | 40 | |
| 10 | February 2008 | 40 | |
| 11 | May 2008 | 40 | |
| 12 | August 2008 | 44 | |
| 13 | February 2009 | 44 | Now named Relapse |
| 14 | May 2009 | 36 | |
| 15 | Autumn 2009 | 36 | |
| 16 | February 2010 | 44 | |
| 17 | Spring 2010 | 44 | |
| 18 | Autumn 2010 | 44 | |
| 19 | Spring 2011 | 40 | |
| 20 | Autumn 2012 | 40 | |
| 21 | Spring 2013 | 40 | |
| (Supplement) | August 2014 | 8 | Forgotten Fans #6 / D.R SMITH / – The Sage of Nuneaton / By Rob Hansen. No mention of "Supplement" in the zine itself; one-para intro: "It’s been a while since I last ran the Forgotten Fans feature (#12, on Alan Dodd) which is a pity because it rather gets to the heart of what Relapse is about – documenting the lives of our predecessors […] – pw [Nov. 2013]" [brackets his this time] |
- Prolapse at eFanzines.com – official distribution channel, print PDFs
- Prolapse online at fanac.org (scanned and imperfectly OCRed back from paper copies, often faded)
| Publication | 1983—2014 |
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