About File770.com
File770.com is the online version of Mike Glyer’s science fiction fan newzine, reporting on fanzines, sf clubs, conventions, fan funds and fanac. File 770 is named for the party in Room 770 at the 1951 Worldcon that upstaged the convention.
File 770 also continues as a paper fanzine, with PDF versions of every issue posted at eFanzines.com. The zine appears several times a year.
File 770 began life as a mimeographed fanzine in 1978, then joined the desktop publishing revolution in the 1990′s. It received the Best Fanzine Hugo in 1984, 1985, 1989, 2000, 2001 and 2008.
Mike received the Best Fan Writer Hugo in 1984, 1986 and 1988.
File 770 and Mike can be contacted at MikeGlyer [at] cs.com
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So I’ll admit to Googling myself more often these days, looking for any new coverage of my book….and got such a kick out of coming upon File 770. Boffo!–but really that’s you, all those Hugoes, many congratulations. And then that Eric Mayer comment–he dropped me a note a few years ago, the first fan I’d heard from in years. When I got away from it all I guess I really did, sometime halfway through my freshman year in college. Sold my fanzines in graduate school (I think I used the money to buy wine….) and no longer even have copies of my own. Too bad, I suspect my fourteen year-old daughter would like to see them, she’s a big reader of Anne McAffrey and Orson Scott Card, and has gotten me into Game of Thrones, which I very much admire. Mysteries long ago became my genre of choice, but I’ve been dipping back into sf/fantasy just a touch. It’s odd to find that so many of the “mainstream” writers of our day–Michael Chabon et al—were devoted sf readers, and that the books that were once a kind of private world are now bestsellers.
I’ve had some contact with two people I knew from fandom–do you remember a guy named Chris Couch? He taught at Smith for a few years, pre-Columbian art, and has lately been publishing on Will Eisner. And some email with Michael Carlson, more peripherally involved in the mid-70s, who eventually found a beat living in England and covering the NFL for European newspapers and TV. Also I once Googled John D. Berry–a book designer, lots of work for poetry presses.
Anyway, there are papers to grade, and this memory trip has for the moment to end. But thanks once more for the plug. Fandom kept me sane all through high school, an escape into a larger world. I’ve got good memories of our correspondence in those years–great to know that faandom is still alive, and that you’re keeping it so.
all best,
MG
Published several times a year? That has to be one of the more wildly optimistic statements I’ve heard in fandom for a number of years.
So what’s your suggestion? Maybe change that to, “published only as often as Taral is able to kick Mike’s butt to the finish line”?
Fanzines are a gift. Crabbing at someone because you haven’t gotten your gift yet is Scrooge-ish at best. I’m always happy to get a gift and accept it when it comes.
David Gerrold said in 1973 in The World of STAR TREK that most fanzines were published with the regularity of a spastic colon and the lifespan of an Italian government. That’s still true, but with all the troubles in the world those are things to be celebrated, not complained of.
@David: All true. But Taral and John Hertz deserve a lot of credit for my publishing any zines in 2012. So my snarky little comment to Taral is really one of those truths said in jest.
If what Taral says provides you with positive motivation, then I certainly have no wish to complain. (Thanks, Taral, and a thank you to John Hertz as well.)
Dear Mike-
I came across your blog doing research for a piece I was writing; you had a link for the covers of some old Houston Yellow Pages phonebooks. I credited your blog for the image. I wonder if anyone has ever collected all of those old hand drawings, and assembled them into an art book. Would be a fine volume, I would imagine.
Kind regards,
-brenet
So, I tried to send you email at the address above, which I know has worked before, and it bounced. Twice. Would you kindly email me with your current address? Thanks.
My e-mail address is still the same but I have sent an e-mail as you asked. Hope that helps.
I just read your obit about my dad dated Jan 3,2013. He was best known for his science fiction work, however he prefered to do landscape. He never sold any of his landscape work except prints for a view of Bare Hill across Canadaigua Lake viewed from the top of Bopple Hill Rd. I still have hundreds of them.
He did a number of entries for the federal Duck Stamp but was never chosen for the stamp.
He also did a large number of architectural paintings for new buildings in the Rochester, NY area. A picture of the proposed building was required for zoning approval.
As kids we were drafted to pose for his sci-fi drawings. We would have to pose and not move for what seamed hours, but was probably only a few minutes, while he took photos. He was most interested in the shadows created so that he would get them right on the finished drawing.
Besides covers he did a large amount of black and white pen drawings for inner pages of sci-fi magazines.
This is odd. It seems that all of File 77 (minus the comments) is showing up here:
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Hi Mike! I came across this site thanks to a post by Jim Burns at comicbookfanzines, and I said to myself, “Hey, I remember Mike from Gil Gaier’s PHOSPHENE, VERT or GUYING GYRE from back in the ’70s!” Good to see you’re still active and I hope you’re doing well.
Yep, I recall you too.