Warhoon
A fanzine published by Richard Bergeron in Vermont and New York. (The title comes from the name of one of the Green Martian hordes which infest Barsoom.) It began as an apazine for SAPS, but later moved to FAPA.
Warhoon won the 1962 Best Fanzine Hugo. It was nominated for the 1963 Best Fanzine Hugo and the 1969 Best Fanzine Hugo.
Warhoon 28, the “Willish,” is a huge hardcover mimeographed (!) volume published in 1978 and is a complete anthology of the writings of Walt Willis, editor of Slant and Hyphen.
Contributors to Warhoon included Brian Aldiss, John Baxter, John Bangsund, John Berry, James Blish, Virginia Blish, Redd Boggs, Terry Carr, Harlan Ellison, Philip José Farmer, Peter Graham, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Lee Hoffman, Dave Langford, Robert A. W. Lowndes, Vincent Omniaveritas, Tom Perry, Alva Rogers, Nancy Share Rapp, Bob Shaw, Arthur Thomson, Bob Tucker, Shelby Vick, Harry Warner, Jr., Charles Wells, James White, Ted White, and Walt Willis.
Issue | Date | Pages | APA mailing | Notes |
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1 | January 1952 | 8 | SAPS 8 | |
2 | ||||
3 | 1953 | |||
4 | Winter 1953 | 2 | ||
5 | Summer 1954 | 8 | SAPS 28 | last issue from Vermont |
6 | January 1960 | 20 | SAPS 50 | |
7 | April 1960 | 24 | SAPS 51 | |
8 | July 1960 | 18 | SAPS 52 | |
9 | October 1960 | 42 | SAPS 53 | |
10 | January 1961 | SAPS 54 | ||
11 | April 1961 | 48 | ||
12 | July 1961 | 50 | ||
13 | October 1961 | 66 | SAPS 57 | |
14 | January 1962 | 58 | SAPS 58 | |
15 | April 1962 | 74 | SAPS 59 | |
16 | July 1962 | 52 | SAPS 60 | |
17 | October 1962 | 92 | SAPS 61 | |
18 | January 1963 | 46 | SAPS 62 | |
19 | February 1964 | |||
20 | August 1964 | 50 | ||
21 | November 1964 | 20 | ||
22 | August 1965 | 34 | ||
23 | May 1968 | 40 | ||
24 | August 1968 | 64 | ||
25 | November 1968 | 56 | ||
26 | February 1969 | 60 | ||
27 | September 1970 | 56 | ||
28 | May 1978 | 622 | The page count is correct. This is the famous hardbound Walt Willis issue. See Warhoon 28 for more. | |
29 | October 1981 | 64 | ||
30 | September 1982 | 88 | ||
31 | June 1985 | 26 | Final issue |
Warhoon 28[edit]
The Willish of Warhoon — Warhoon 28 is a huge hardcover(!) 622-page (!!) exquisitely mimeographed (!!!) volume published by Richard Bergeron as an issue of his fanzine. It is dated May 1978 but did not in fact appear until 1980.
It comes close to being a complete fanthology of the pre-1980 writings of Walt Willis, editor of Slant and Hyphen. It contains all of Willis' columns "The Harp That Once or Twice", "The Harp Stateside", and "Twice Upon A Time", as well as Willis Discovers America, The Enchanted Duplicator and much other writing.
It was nominated for the 1981 Best Non-Fiction Book Hugo.
Copies are still available from NESFA Press and Joe Siclari.
See a long review by Taral in File 770 24, p. 10.
The apparent page count is 618, since the last numbered page is 614 followed by two blank pages each with artwork on the verso side. However, because a column was accidentally omitted when the stencils were first typed, Warhoon 28 also contains four bonus pages numbered 510a to 510d that restore the missing material, giving a total of 622.
Warhoon online at fanac.org.
Publication | 1952—1985 |
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