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Zine
Title: Strange Matter
Publisher:
Editor(s): Sian O’Neale
Date(s): 19890?
Series?:
Medium: print
Genre:
Fandom: Doctor Who and other things
Language: English
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Strange Matter is an apazine covering a variety of topics including Doctor Who, music and tea drinking. It also contains fiction. It was published in Australia and winner of a Double Gamma.

cover of issue #1

Issue 1

Strange Matter 1 was published in 1989.

Issue 12

Strange Matter 12 was published in 1995 and contains lots of fiction and articles, and an interview with a local comedian.

Reactions and Reviews: Issue 12

Editor Sian O’Neale was at our August meeting spruiking this fine little zine. And I’m happy to say that I liked every contribution to this issue! A cool futuristic cover, lots of fiction and articles, and an interview with a local comedian. Now if only I had part one of the comic in this issue! Highly recommended – this wins best zine this time around! Rating: • • • • out of five.[1]

Issue 13

Strange Matter 13 was published in May 1995 and contains 44 pages.

Reactions and Reviews: Issue 13

Strange Matter covers not only Doctor Who but music, tea drinking – whatever! There’s energy and variety here in a hefty 44 pages. Regular features of the zine review and letter columns are well-inhabited. A good solid read. Rating: • • • 1/2 out of five.[2]

Issue 14

Strange Matter 14 was published in 1995.

Reactions and Reviews: Issue 14

Sian has gone for a minimalist style to the layout for this issue, and I must admit it looks really good for it. The letter column continues the debate on geeks in Who fandom, there’s a column on why Star Trek fandom is buggering it up for all the rest of us, a few quite thoughtful articles, and a few stories. Less Who stuff than previous issues, but the overall standard embarrasses many other non-apazines. Rating: • • • 1/2 out of five.[3]

Issue 15

Strange Matter 15 was published in 1996.

  • "Trekkies: The Best Ways to Upset Their Worlds"
  • other unknown content

Reactions and Reviews: Issue 15

Articles like "Trekkies: The Best Ways to Upset Their Worlds" are really great (hee hee!). That is one of the funnier bits in this zine (actually, it’s fairly serious!), just ranking ahead of all the bits proclaiming Strange Matter is a new-look Doctor Who fanzine. Doing some re-marketing, hey, Sian? Lots of photos, a focus on Resurrection of the Daleks and one really bad comic that Sian keeps apologising for. Just one question: has Paul Ewins (also editor of Ethel the Aardvark for the Melbourne Science Fiction Club) ever said anything positive in his life?! Rating: • • • out of five [4]

Issue 16

Strange Matter 16 was published in 1997 and contains 40 pages.

  • zine reviews
  • fiction
  • a stack of clips to do with the telemovie and film reviews
  • seven-page comic strip by regular contributor Martin Cash

Reactions and Reviews: Issue 16

Issue 16 shows editor Sian O’Neale once more declaring it isn’t really just a Doctor Who zine (he changes his mind every second issue), and has the usual six zillion zine reviews (yes, Sian, you can stop bugging Andrew for the return of "Mag Bag" now!), fiction, a stack of clips to do with the telemovie and film reviews. The funny bit is a seven-page comic strip by regular contributor Martin Cash — I can see why he’s claiming he did it when he was much younger… Still, forty pages of value: three-and-a-half Who-only zines out of five.[5]

Issue 17

Strange Matter 17 was published in 1997.

  • a review of "State of Decay"
  • how to create your own Star Trek series by Lee Zachariah
  • tale by Daniel Payne
  • other unknown content

Reactions and Reviews: Issue 17

It features covers showing why Sian should leave artwork to the specialists, the breaking down of his PC to ensure half the issue was done on a typewriter, Sian doing his 78th review of State of Decay (I dare anyone to ask him if he likes it — if they’ve got a day or two free, of course) and lots of other goodies. Just to be incestuous, the best bits are probably Lee Zachariah telling us how to create your own Star Trek series (bagging Trek? Woo-hoo!) and yet another bloody long and bloody nasty tale by Daniel Payne. Good stuff — four Sandwich Men out of five.[6]

Issue 18

Strange Matter 18 was published in 1997.

Issue 19

Strange Matter 19 was published in 1997.

Reactions and Reviews: Issue 19

Thank goodness for Strange Matter. Issue 19 is again a bit of a relief from the deadly serious, but ultimately self-obsessed, zines everywhere. You’ve got fun reviews of fan types, articles you’ll think about for more than a second after you finish them, another classicly bad comic strip by Martin Cash and a serving of Trekkie-bashing. What more could you want? Four-and-a-half weird drawings by Phil Wlodarczyk out of five.[7]

References

  1. ^ October 1995, from Mag Bag, Archived version by David J. Richardson
  2. ^ August 1995, from Mag Bag, Archived version by David J. Richardson
  3. ^ from Mag Bag by David J. Richardson
  4. ^ from David J. Richardson at First Published: Sonic Screwdriver #95
  5. ^ from David J. Richardson at First Published: Sonic Screwdriver #100
  6. ^ from David J. Richardson at First Published: Sonic Screwdriver #100
  7. ^ from David J. Richardson at First Published: Sonic Screwdriver #104
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