Astra's Tower
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| Zine | |
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| Title: | Astra's Tower |
| Publisher: | Marion Zimmer Bradley and Stephen Weber (the first two issues), then Bradley alone |
| Editor(s): | |
| Date(s): | 1947-1961 |
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| Fandom: | Science Fiction |
| Language: | English |
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| Click here for related articles on Fanlore. | |
Astra's Tower was an early fanzine, with at least 5 issues printed, by Marion Zimmer Bradley. There are also some Special Leaflets.
It originally had the name "Altitudes," something Bradley explains in the third issue, the first one after the death of her co-editor, Stephen Weber.
Main Volumes
MZB's work:
- The Chimes in the Cathedral (Astra’s Tower 1.2 (Dec. 1947): 7)
- The Place in the Marshes (Astra’s Tower 1.2 (Dec. 1947): 11)
- The Priestess (Astra’s Tower 1.2 (Dec. 1947): 11)
- The Vigil (Astra’s Tower 1.5 (Dec. 1950): 4)
- Veteran (Astra’s Tower 1.3 (July 1949): 1-2)
- Women…At War (Astra’s Tower 1.5 (Dec. 1950): 3)
- Ode on Imitations of an Immortal (Astra’s Tower 1.2 (Dec. 1947): 6, 9)
- Of Cabbages and Kings (Astra’s Tower 1.4 (May 1950): 4)
- Speaking of Hacks (Astra’s Tower 1.4 (May 1950): 2)
- Variations on an Old Theme (Astra’s Tower 1.3 (July 1949): 5-6)
- Astra Logically Speaking (Astra’s Tower 1.2 (Dec. 1947): 1)
- Editorial (Astra’s Tower 1.1 (Summer 1947): 1-2)
Leaflets
MZB's work:
- Introduction Letter (Astra’s Tower Special Leaflet 1 (Aug. 1952): 1)
- Breather [Editorial] (Astra’s Tower Special Leaflet 3 (Mar. 1959): 14-16)
- Appendix Letter (Astra’s Tower Special Leaflet 3 (Mar. 1959): 39-40)
- Sword of Aldones/Planet Savers (Ace, 1962) (Astra’s Tower Special Leaflet 1962: 29)
- Cassandra Marceau-Leynier (Astra’s Tower Special Leaflet 1 (Aug. 1952): 7-10)
- Marga of the Darriells (Astra’s Tower Special Leaflet 1 (Aug. 1952): 2-4)
- A Meeting in the Hyades (Astra’s Tower Special Leaflet (1962): 14-29)
- Dio Ridenow of Serre (Astra’s Tower Special Leaflet 1 (Aug. 1952): 4-7)
- Men, Halflings & Hero Worship (Astra’s Tower Special Leaflet 5 (1961): entire issue)