Chris Garcia

Exceptional! I love the Watts Towers. I’ve only seen it from a distance while I’m driving other places, but the mere idea of it and the methods used all make me smile.

I’ve never found an issue of Alexiad, but I must say that just seeing the word coelacanth in print makes me smile. I read Ansible, but only to see if I rate a mention in it. I really don’t understand why Dave Langford still wins Fan Writer Hugos. I don’t think Ansible is particularly entertaining and I don’t often see long form writing from him elsewhere. Am I simply in the extreme minority thinking that he’s not putting out stuff at the level of folks like Claire Brailey, Arnie Katz and Tanya Brown?

From the review you so masterfully present, if I don’t get myself a copy of Batteries Not Included, I will be forced to starve myself in a cave somewhere in the Southeast of Kashmir. It just sounds awesome. I very briefly worked in the porn industry. I had an internship at one of the major gay porn studios. Luckily I never had to go on set since I simply filed releases and made sure everything was settled. BNI would make a nice compliment to eI, my favourite zine of the last couple of years.

I love Bento. I was supposed to get back to David Levine the last day of WorldCon and pick up a copy, but I couldn’t make it work, so I still haven’t seen it. It finished 6th in the Hugo nomination round (1 place higher than The Drink Tank) and it was well deserved.

Randy’s piece in the recent Chunga hit me hard too especially since a good friend of mine was in with a couple of the people involved in that shooting. Marvelously written article.

I was very impressed with the CorFlu PR. It was very well done. I liked Last Year’s too, the ones done on Mimeo. I’ll be at CorFlu myself since it’ll be the easiest way to get to meet my buddy John Purcell at the same time as talking to various folks I’ve been reading.

Thanks much for the kind words about The Drink Tank. I’ll remember your kindness when I rise to power and conquer all.

Bless you, o mighty one.

eI is my favorite zine right now, though I thought the latest issue was not quite as full as the last three or four. In fact, I think it was the issue before last where my Dad’s only piece of fan writing appeared. He loved Earl’s old zines and since I had him working on filling various notebooks, he was glad that Earl agreed to print the article, though it did run after his death.

I’ll miss Emerald City. Cheryl’s a BASFAn and a friend and when she announced that EmCit was closing, it made me realize that no good zine lasts forever. When it was announced at a BASFA meeting, Andy Trembley looked at me and said “So, you gonna take over EmCit?” I said no since I couldn’t do it justice.

Neither could I – it’s Cheryl’s and Cheryl’s only.

I love John Purcell’s zines. He’s been quite nice about helping out with my TAFF race (he’s one of my nominators) and the Lloyd and Chris articles were very fun to write.

Your description of Billie Piper as succulent is dead on. She’s so very very hot. Almost distractingly so.

I finally read an issue of The Knarley Knews. Good stuff and I had all sorts of hooks for LoCing it. To me, that’s how you can tell a good fanzine: if you can find all sorts of things to comment on, it’s grrrrrrrrrrr-eat.

The NASFA Shuttle always makes me mad. BASFA can’t even put out a ClubZine and here’s a ClubZine that rates highly on the Chris scale. I’d just LoCed the latest issue yesterday morning.

I liked the latest No Award. I like the idea of plucking pieces of writing out from forums I wouldn’t normally get a chance to see and reprinting them. Nicely done too in the layout department. I still miss Holier Than Thou.

The group of eFen that inhabit eFanzines like Pixel, The Drink Tank and In A Prior Lifetime are an interesting bunch. Dave Burton’s one of the best layout guys I’ve seen working on the net. Pixel’s been on a roll since it added Ten White and the LetterCol has started expanding.

Again, thanks for the kind words on PrintZine. There’s another issue up on eFanzines and it’s all original material, and there’s issue 3 in my mailbox at work waiting for me to finish it up next week.

I gotta agree that Some Fantastic is fantastic and I’m so proud to be a part of it. The ore academic articles are wonderful and remind me of The Riverside Quaterly from back in the day.

Vegas Fandom Weekly is an influential zine. It led directly to Science Fiction/San Francisco, brought about the APA SNAPS and gave us new fan writers and a few returners. It’s one of the zines that I think gets the most attention but still needs a bigger reader base. It’s no longer simply a Vegas reporting zine.

Must read Warp. It sounds like a ClubZine that’d make me jealous.

Must read the new Challenger when it hits. Always a good read and always on my nomination list when the Hugos roll around.

Thanks Guy.

Thanks Chris!