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Pangalia
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| Title: | Pangalia |
| Publisher: | Ego Trip Publications |
| Editor(s): | Edwina Harvey, out of Australia |
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| Date(s): | 1981-1990 |
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| Fandom: | Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy with some crossovers |
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| Language: | English |
| External Links: | citation at the National Library of Australia |
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Pangalia is a gen anthology published in Australia.
There are at least ten issues, each containing about twenty-six pages.
It had a ten year run, and is quite possibly the world's longest-running Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy zine.
From a 1985 description:
...thes zines consist) of bright, well-written stories about the exploits of Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, Trillian, Marvin and, of course, Zaphod Beeblebrox. [1]
In 1986, Harvey mentioned this zine in her essay, The Need for the Capitalist in Fandom.
Issue 1
Pangalia 1 was published in July 1981.
- Robot Going Cheap, fiction
- So Buy Him a Cat, fiction (deals with Arthur’s problem of coming to terms with his new lifestyle.)
- Dear Zaphod, column where he answers the agonies of a variety of beings
Reactions and Reviews: Issue 1
The characterisations are spot-on and the quotes from the book are relevant and witty. [2]
Issue 2
Pangalia 2 was published in December 1982.
- Dear Zaphod, column where he answers the agonies of a variety of beings
- Big Mac, fiction (Arthur's fixation for a certain extinct hamburger)
- Time, fiction (a quote from the HHG and gives a summary of what ’enlightened temporalists’) * * Tea for Two, fiction (wherein Zaphod gets a hankering for some old-fashioned, Earth-style cooking and he’s nice to Arthur.)
Issue 3
Issue 4
Issue 5
Reactions and Reviews: Issue 5
The cover sets the tone. Witty and entertaining, well presented, with artwork of a uniformly high standard. This is a zine HHG fans cannot afford to miss. For that matter, it's a zine nobody can afford to miss (especially a lot of other zine editors).
Packed with HHG paraphernalia; if you want some Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster recipes guaranteed to send you into orbit, get your hands on a copy. Crossword puzzles seem to be in vogue in SF media zines at the moment, and there’s a good one in this. The "Galactic Cop Intelligence Test" should have a warning before it (I had a pain in the stomach while rolling round on the floor). "Dear Zaphod" is a laugh a minute too.
Don't miss it! [3]
Issue 6
Pangalia 6 was published in 1985. It is a Special Vogon issue.
In DATA #64, Edwina Harvey asked for fans' "Vogon Literature " no more than 5000 words. Prizes will be awarded to the top three winners, and these fanworks would be printed in this issue.
Issue 7
Pangalia 7 was published in 1986 and contains 25 pages.
The editor writes:
Pangalia 7 [was] a 25 page illustrated A4 b&w photocopied fanzine inspired by The Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. It features 3 fan-fic stories (One a mash-up of HHG and Star Wars, another a mash-up of HHG and Dr Who) An article on 25 things to do with a dead mattress, the answers to a crossword that appeared in a previous issue, a regular "Dear Zaphod" column and a page devoted to ads, complete with typos, punctuation and spelling errors. [4]
front cover of issue #7
Issue 8
Issue 9
Pangalia 9 was published in 1987.
[This is a] fanzine I used to produce as a mad-keen fan in the 1980's. This issue dates from 1987, and is truly cringe-worthy. It features a HHG/Professionals alternate universe short story, with illustration, an article on the significance of tea in english comedy (with Young Ones references thrown in), and at least two pieces of HHG fan fiction (as well as a free tea-bag taped to the inside cover that i really wouldn't recommend you using). It was produced using a golf-ball typewriter, the cover was made by one of those then "whizz bang state of the art things" known as personal computers, in fact, I think it was generated on a Commodore 64. The fanzine is photocopied, and is 30 pages of slap-dash thrown together mayhem that might now be defined as "old", "vintage" or even "antique". [5]