Factsheet Five

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Factsheet Five
Factsheet Five #25, cover dated February 1988
Editor	Mike Gunderloy ("Æditor", 1982-1991) Hudson Luce (1991) R. Seth Friedman (1992-1998)
Categories	Zine reviews & culture
Frequency	quarterly (varied)
Circulation	10,500/issue (as of 1991)^[1]
Publisher	Mike Gunderloy (1982-1991) Hudson Luce (1991) R. Seth Friedman (1992-1998)
First Issue	1982^[2]
Company	Pretzel Press (?-1991)
Country	United States
Language	English
Website	[1]
ISSN	0890-6823

Factsheet Five was a periodical consisting almost exclusively of short reviews of privately produced printed matter (originally mostly science fiction fanzines), along with contact details.

In the 1980s and early 1990s, its comprehensive reviews (literally thousands in each issue), made it the most important publication in its field, heralding the wider spread (beyond science fiction fandom) of what would eventually be called fanzine or zine culture. Before the adoption of the web & e-mail beginning around 1994, publications such as Factsheet Five formed a vital directory for connecting people of like-mind: one of many examples of this is the queer 'zine culture.

(Compare to the periodical Sound Choice in the cassette culture.)

The magazine was originally published in 1982 by Mike Gunderloy while he lived in a slanshack in Alhambra, California. Gunderloy later moved to Rensselaer, New York, where he continued to publish. In 1990, Cari Goldberg Janice and (briefly) Jacob Rabinowitz joined as co-editors.^[3] Gunderloy quit publishing Factsheet Five following the completion of Issue #44 in 1991.^[2] Hudson Luce resumed publishing with Issue #45, after which R. Seth Friedman published the magazine in San Francisco until 1998.

Gunderloy currently works as a computer programmer and farmer. He co-authored the book SQL Server 7 in Record Time ISBN 0-7821-2155-1.

1 In other media
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

[edit] In other media

Jerod Pore took the bits that generated the paper Factsheet Five and produced Factsheet Five - Electric, which was one of the first zines to use the Usenet newsgroup alt.zines. Gunderloy and Pore also established a substantial online presence on the WELL, an influential, private dial-up BBS based in San Francisco, beginning in the late 1980s.

Three books were published based on Factsheet Five: "How to Publish a Fanzine" by Gunderloy (1988; Loompanics), The World of Zines, by Gunderloy and Janice (1992; Penguin) ISBN 0-14-016720-X, and The Factsheet Five Zine Reader by Friedman (1997; Three Rivers Press) ISBN 0-609-80001-9.

Mike Gunderloy's Factsheet Five Collection is now held at the New York State Library and Archives in Albany, New York, where it occupies 300 cubic feet. 240 zines that R. Seth Friedman donated are in the collection of the San Francisco Public Library.

[edit] See also

Harvest

[edit] References

^ 1991, Factsheet Five (no. 44): p. 1, ISSN 0890-6823
^ ^a ^b Gunderloy, Mike; Cari Goldberg Janice (1992). "Introduction", The World of Zines. New York: Penguin Group, p. 4. ISBN 0-14-016720-X.
^ 1990, Factsheet Five (no. 38): p. 15, ISSN 0890-6823