''Mainstream'' was a

science fiction fanzine A science-fiction fanzine is an amateur or semi-professional magazine published by members of science-fiction fandom, from the 1930s to the present day. They were one of the earliest forms of fanzine, within one of which the term "''fanzine''" ...

founded in 1978, headquartered in

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and edited by Jerry Kaufman and Suzanne Tompkins. It was nominated for the 1991

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 ...

, losing to '' Lan's Lantern''. It ceased publication in December 1998 with #17.

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