Warped Space

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Warped Space 22 cover
Warped Space 22 cover
Warped Space 29/30 cover
Warped Space 29/30 cover
Warped Space 31/32 cover
Warped Space 31/32 cover
Warped Space 37 cover
Warped Space 37 cover
Warped Space 41 cover
Warped Space 41 cover
Warped Space 45 cover
Warped Space 45 cover
Warped Space 47 cover
Warped Space 47 cover
Warped Space 48 cover
Warped Space 48 cover
Warped Space 49 cover
Warped Space 49 cover
Warped Space 50 cover
Warped Space 50 cover
Warped Space 51 cover
Warped Space 51 cover
Warped Space 52 cover
Warped Space 52 cover
This multifandom fanzine ran for a number of issues. Below is a time line of its publication history:

Contents

[edit] 1975

[edit] 1977

  • Warped Space 28 published one of, if not, the first Star Wars stories this edition. The publishing of this story marked Warped Space as being a mixed fandom fanzine. (Verba, Langley)
  • Warped Space 29
  • Warped Space 30

[edit] 1978

[edit] 1979

  • Warped Space 41 was 94 pages long.


[edit] 1980

[edit] 1981


[edit] 1982

  • Warped Space 47 was published in June and was 96 pages long. It contained Star Wars fan fiction.

[edit] 1983

[edit] 1984

  • Warped Space 50 was published in January. It contained Star Wars fan fiction. It was 99 pages long. In Warped Space #50, Paula Smith contributed an essay to ongoing dialogue about characterization issues in fan fiction. She discussed something known to fanzine readers and writers called “Langsam’s Law.” She is quoted by Langley as saying "special caveat for writing media-based fiction. Don't make an established character do or say something out of line with his established character, of if you must, give good, solid reasons why."
  • Warped Space 51 contained Star Trek, Star Wars fan fiction. It was published in September. It was 99 pages long.


[edit] 1985

  • Warped Space 52 contained Star Trek, Star Wars fan fiction. It was published in May. It was 99 pages long.



[edit] Sources

  • "Star Trek Lives: Trekker Slang" by Patricia Byrd appearing in American Speech, Vol. 53, No. 1 (Spring, 1978) , pp. 52-58.
  • Verba, Joan Marie. Boldly Writing a Trekker Fan and Zine History 1967-1987. Minnetonka, Minn: FTL Publications, 1996
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