File 770

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Name: File 770
Owner/Maintainer: Mike Glyer
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Fandom: science fiction fandom
URL: file770.com/
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File 770 is the online version of Mike Glyer’s science fiction fan newzine, reporting on fanzines, sf clubs, conventions, fan funds and fanac. The print fanzine was started in 1978; the blog's archive dates to September 2004.

It was named after a particularly epic room party held in Room 770 during the 1951 Worldcon.

File 770 and Mike Glyer have won Hugo Awards several times for best fanzine and best fanwriter (respectively), most recently in 2016.[1]

About

File 770 began life as a mimeographed fanzine in 1978, then joined the desktop publishing revolution in the 1990’s. A File 770 website, reproducing paper issues as webzines, was hosted at CompuServe’s Ourworld community from 2000 until the community was shut down in 2009. Screen captures of the website are available on the Wayback Machine. File 770 has produced paper issues every year from 1978 through the present. eFanzines.com began hosting PDF versions of the paper issues in 2005. The File 770 blog went online on January 15, 2008.

File 770 received the Best Fanzine Hugo in 1984, 1985, 1989, 2000, 2001, 2008 and 2016.

Mike received the Best Fan Writer Hugo in 1984, 1986, 1988 and 2016.

File 770 and Mike can be contacted at [email protected]

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