Fanzines on ISFDB

[randy_byers]

When peteyoung was in town on a stopover last year, he mentioned to me that he had started indexing fanzines on the Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Perhaps he was trying to encourage me to take up that work myself, but if so the clue failed to take. Nonetheless I was very pleasantly surprised a couple of days ago when the formerly-long-haired fishlifter pointed out that I'm now in the ISFDB. You might want to poke around to see if you are too. And maybe take up this work yourself.

Comments

[kim-huett.livejournal.com]

I'm really far too busy indexing my collection to contribute to this. Currently stage one of my index, title & issue number, is up to 5112 items while stage two, editor(s), date & notes, is up to 2252 items. Once stage two is up to date then I begin indexing selected fanzines in greater detail, ie. written contributions including letters and artwork.

Perhaps it's just me but I do think a fiction database to be a strange place to be indexing fanzines.

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

It is a bit strange, but perhaps it got started by completists wanting to get in everything by a favorite writer, including fanzine articles.

[kim-huett.livejournal.com]

It does seem a bit like storing bananas and banana shallots together but if nobody seriously objects I can't see any reason not to do it. If nothing else it makes an interesting contrast to the fanac.org names cross reference.