Fanzines

[watervole]

It strikes me that paper fanzines (I'm talking about lit SF zines here, as opposed to media zines) still have some advantages over blogs.

My favourite of those I've read recently is definitely 'Thought Experiments'. I like zines that make me think and want to reply. If I have a day when I'm not feeling mentally alert and I read an interesting LJ post, I won't bother comme
nting. With a zine, I'll come back to it later on and pay it better attention.

When I've worked out a logical way of expessing my thoughts as to why we study history (which are different thoughts to those of greengolux, the editor), then I shall attempt an intelligent summary - I'll probably post it here a
s well as sending it to the editor. If you fancy reading the original article, why not ask her for a copy?

Comments

[greengolux.livejournal.com]

I find exactly the same thing. I like that fanzines give me the time to think about what I've read and compose my thoughts into a coherent response. I know it's technically possible to do the same with LJ posts, but if I leave it too long I find that the debate/discussion is all over and done with so there's not much point my contributing. It does mean that sometimes I end up not commenting on things I'd like to comment on just because the moment passes. The moment is a lot longer in fanzine terms.

I look forward to hearing your thoughts on history. :)