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The '''Zine Archive & Publishing Project''' (ZAPP) exists to validate independent publications (extant and defunct, past and present), to promote the perpetuation of the art form, and to champion freedom of speech and creative cultural evolution. ZAPP collects [[zine]]s, [[comic]]s, [[chapbook]]s, [[pamphlet]]s, journals, gazettes, city papers, [[mail art]], monographs, short anthologies, personal transmissions, and other not-so-easily classified independent publications for preservation and display. ZAPP is a program of the [http://www.hugohouse.org/ Richard Hugo House], located at 1634 11th Ave in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle.
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'''Horizons''' was edited by [[Harry Warner, Jr.]] for more than 60 years.
  
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ZAPP was started in 1996 with the personal collections of Gary Greaves and Chuck Swain. Since then, the collection has grown to more than 20,000 items, making it one of the largest zine collections in the world. ZAPP was temporarily closed in 2007 and the collection was placed in storage. After moving the stacks, ZAPP was reopened with regular open hours in September 2008. Nora Mukaihata serves as ZAPP's manager. Holdings from the archives include science fiction [[fanzine]]s from the 1940s through current day donations. [[Zine_Archive_and_Publishing_Project|Read More...]]'''
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'''Horizons''' was a science fiction [[zine]] published in Hagerstown, Maryland, U.S.A. The first issue appeared in October, 1939. Harry was also publishing the fanzine [[Spaceways]], which first appeared in 1938, and ''Horizons'' began as his second general circulation fanzine, but after five issues, in mid-1940, it was distributed by the [[Fantasy Amateur Press Association]] and continued almost uninterrupted after that. According to Robert Lichtman, in [[Trap Door]] #22:
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"He missed only one mailing in 1943 due to serious illness and another in the ‘90s because the parcel containing the issue went astray. There was a total of 252 issues, the final one appearing in this year’s February mailing. [[Horizons|Read More...]]'''
  
 
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Horizons Vol.1 No. 1 1939

Horizons was edited by Harry Warner, Jr. for more than 60 years.

Horizons was a science fiction zine published in Hagerstown, Maryland, U.S.A. The first issue appeared in October, 1939. Harry was also publishing the fanzine Spaceways, which first appeared in 1938, and Horizons began as his second general circulation fanzine, but after five issues, in mid-1940, it was distributed by the Fantasy Amateur Press Association and continued almost uninterrupted after that. According to Robert Lichtman, in Trap Door #22:

"He missed only one mailing in 1943 due to serious illness and another in the ‘90s because the parcel containing the issue went astray. There was a total of 252 issues, the final one appearing in this year’s February mailing. Read More...

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