Journey Planet is an Irish-American science fiction fanzine currently edited by James Bacon, Christopher J. Garcia and various other co-editors. It has been nominated twelve times for the

Hugo Award for Best Fanzine The Hugo Award for Best Fanzine is given each year for non professionally edited magazines, or "fanzines", related to science fiction or fantasy which has published four or more issues with at least one issue appearing in the previous calendar y ...

, winning in 2015.

Description

Journey Planet began as a Fanzine-in-an-hour program item at the 2008

Eastercon Eastercon is the common name for the annual British national science fiction convention. The convention is organised by voluntary self-organising committees, rather than a permanent entity. Overview Eastercon attracts 800-1200 fans of scien ...

at Heathrow. Bacon and Garcia headed up the item and produced the first version of issue 1. After the convention,

Claire Brialey Claire Brialey is a British science fiction fan, writer and editor. She won the 2011 Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer, and was nominated for it in 2005, 2006, 2010 and 2012. She edits the print fanzine ''Banana Wings'' along with Mark Plummer. ...

came on-board as editor, and remained through issue #9. Ever since, Garcia and Bacon have teamed with an ever-changing roster of co-editors on themed issues. Guest editors have included Michael Carroll, John Coxon, Vincent Docherty, Sara Felix, Colin Harris, Esther MacCallum-Stewart, Alissa McKersie, Errick Nunnally, Pádraig Ó Méalóid, Lynda E. Rucker, Chuck Serface, Steven H Silver, Erin Underwood, Linda Wenzelburger, Pete Young, and others. The zine has carried material, both written and artistic, from professionals and fans, including

Gail Carriger Gail Carriger (born May 4, 1976) is an American archaeologist and author of steampunk fiction. She was born in Bolinas, an unincorporated community in Marin County, California, and attended high school at Marin Academy. She received her undergr ...

Rian Johnson Rian Craig Johnson (born December 17, 1973) is an American filmmaker. He made his directorial debut with the neo-noir mystery film ''Brick (film), Brick'' (2005), which received positive reviews and grossed nearly $4 million on a $450,000 budget ...

Mary Robinette Kowal Mary Robinette Kowal (; born February 8, 1969) is an American author, translator, art director, and puppeteer. She has worked on puppetry for shows including The Jim Henson Company, Jim Henson Productions and the children's show ''LazyTown''. As a ...

Seanan McGuire Seanan McGuire (pronounced SHAWN-in; born January 5, 1978) is an American author and filker. McGuire is known for her urban fantasy novels. She uses the pseudonym Mira Grant to write science fiction/ horror and the pseudonym A. Deborah Baker to w ...

, Maura McHugh, Peter Sagal,

Dez Skinn Derek Graham "Dez" Skinn (born 4 February 1951) Miller, John Jackson"Comics Industry Birthdays" ''Comics Buyer's Guide'', 10 June 2005. Accessed 14 August 2010WebCitation archive is a British comic and magazine editor, and author of a number of ...

, and many others. It has also run interviews with figures such as

Neil Gaiman Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman (; born Neil Richard Gaiman; 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, audio theatre, and screenplays. His works include the comic series ''The Sandman (comic book), The Sandma ...

Alan Moore Alan Moore (born 18 November 1953) is an English author known primarily for his work in comic books including ''Watchmen'', ''V for Vendetta'', ''The Ballad of Halo Jones'', Swamp Thing (comic book), ''Swamp Thing'', ''Batman: The Killing Joke' ...

Mel Ramos Melvin John Ramos (July 24, 1935 – October 14, 2018) was an American Figurative art, figurative painter, specializing most often in paintings of Nude (art), female nudes, whose work incorporates elements of Realism (arts), realist and abstract ...

, and

John Scalzi John Michael Scalzi II (born May 10, 1969) is an American science fiction author and former president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. He is best known for his ''Old Man's War'' series, three novels of which have been n ...

. Each issue is themed, with most themes being in the realm of science fiction, fandom, or comics. Other topics have included historical personages, such as

Richard III Richard III (2 October 1452 – 22 August 1485) was King of England from 26 June 1483 until his death in 1485. He was the last king of the Plantagenet dynasty and its cadet branch the House of York. His defeat and death at the Battle of Boswor ...

, historical moments such as

World War I World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I, Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting to ...

, or authors like

Flann O'Brien Brian O'Nolan (; 5 October 19111 April 1966), his pen name being Flann O'Brien, was an Civil Service of the Republic of Ireland, Irish civil service official, novelist, playwright and satirist, who is now considered a major figure in twentieth- ...

. The editors have twice run bilingual issues, the first in English and Russian, and the second in English and Chinese. Journey Planet has 12 Hugo nominations for Best Fanzine (being nominated every year from 2012 to 2024, excluding 2016, and receiving the award in 2015), won the European Science Fiction Society's European Science Fiction Award twice, the Alfie, and a Nova Award for Best Fanzine in 2010.

Awards and nominations

Hugo Award for Best Fanzine

External links

*Website: *List of Issues:

References

{{reflist Science fiction magazines published in the United States Magazines established in 2008 Science fiction magazines established in the 2000s Magazines published in Ireland Science fiction fanzines Online magazines published in the United States