semiprozine n.

a periodical that is between the levels of fanzine and prozine in some category such as circulation, quality of printing, etc.; a well-produced or widely circulated fanzine

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  • 1946 A. Widner The Blatant Beast in Fantasy Advertiser Nov. 39 page image Arthur L. Widner, Jr.

    Alas, this is the last issue of this sterling publication, but the editor hints of even better things to come if present plans mature. It seems that ACOLYTE may become the semi-prozine suggested by Inman. Evidently this is why the price has been raised to two bits.

  • 1947 G. Swenson Swimming Through the Sewers in Dream Quest (vol. 1, iss. 1) July 31 page image

    Now for the promised dissection of the new semiprozine as promised earlier in this review. ((Something wrong with that sentence...)) It is obvious to see that it is impossible to criticize this thing on a common basis with the prozines.

  • 1953 K. F. Slater Index to Advertisers in Operation Fantast Handbook 1953 64 page image Ken Slater bibliography

    FANTASTIC WORLDS…(semi-prozine).

  • 1965 T. Shibano SF in Japan in Niekas (#14) Dec. 38 page image 柴野拓美

    I am afraid that my Uchujin is no longer a fanzine, but a semi-prozine at the middle of pro-writers and fans.

  • 1975 E. Weinstein Fillostrated Fan Dictionary 114 Elliot Weinstein bibliography

    Semi-prozine…Slick, proffessional [sic] looking fanzines that charge prozine prices.

  • 1977 S. Wood Propellor Beanie in Algol Summer–Fall 23/2 page image Susan Wood

    You can either pick a really serious stfnal name like, oh, Starship or Science Fiction Essays and go the semi-prozine route, or you can pick an off-the wall name and be crazy-fannish.

  • 1981 M. Glyer Letters in Science Fiction Review Summer 39/1

    At least in 1980 a rule that chopped out semi-prozines would still have left unrecognized the fanzines I personally consider best.

  • 1995 D. Langford Awards Fever in SFX (#2) July 39/3 page image David Langford bibliography

    Or there’s Semiprozine, a bastard Hugo category invented to stop commercial SF newsletters like Locus winning the Hugo for Best (amateur) Fanzine.

  • 2003 D. G. Hartwell & K. Cramer in Year’s Best Fantasy 3 Introd. p. xv Kathryn Cramer David G. Hartwell

    The semi-prozines of our field mirror the ‘little magazines’ of the mainstream in function, holding to professional editorial standards and publishing the next generation of writers, along with some of the present masters.

  • 2023 J. Shurin About the Authors and Translators in The Big Book of Cyberpunk 1095 page image Jared Shurin bibliography

    David Langford…. His twenty-nine Hugo awards span several categories: fanzine and semiprozine for the science fiction newsletter Ansible.

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Research History
Jeff Prucher submitted a 1993 cite from Doug Frantz in Quantum.
Malcolm Farmer submitted a 1977 cite from Susan Wood's magazine column "Propellor Beanie".
Jeff Prucher submitted a 2003 cite from David Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer's introduction to their "Year's Best Fantasy 3".
Jeff Prucher submitted a 1981 cite from a letter by Mike Glyer in SF Review.
Bee Ostrowsky submitted a 1947 cite from Dream Quest.
Jeff Prucher submitted a 1946 cite from Fantasy Advertiser.
Clive Shergold submitted a 1953 cite from the Operation Fantast Handbook.
Clive Shergold submitted a 1965 cite from Niekas.
Clive Shergold submitted a 1995 cite from David Langford in SFX.
Clive Shergold submitted a 2023 cite from Jared Shurin's "Big Book of Cyberpunk" (the link in this entry is to a hacked version; page number was confirmed in a physical copy).

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