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Revision as of 03:03, 29 July 2011
Fantasy-Times was a science fiction fanzine by James V. Taurasi and Raymond Van Houten.
Fantasy Times was first released in 1941. While in the service in World War II. Taurasi and Van Houten published their fanzine in LaHavre, France. It was issued free to the fans in the Armed Forces.
Upon return from the war Fantasy-Times was published in New Jersey, U.S.A.
Contributors of writing included Forrest J. Ackerman (Voice of the Imagi-Nation), with the column "The Ackerman Report"; Michael Corper, Arthur Jean Cox, Donald E. Ford, Sam Moskowitz (Helios), Ken Slater (Vector), and Stephen J. Takacs.
Photographs were by Jean Carrol and Bob Sheridan.
In 1955, Fantasy-Times won the first Hugo Award for Best Fanzine.
Raymond Van Hounten has previously edited Tesseract from 1937 till 1938, stepping in for departing editor C. Hamilton Bloomer. James Taurasi had previously published Cosmic Tales from 1937 till 1941. During the run of Fantasy-Times, Taurasi and Van Houten, with Frank R, Prieto, Jr., also published The Science Fiction Yearbook 1957. Later, the three editors would go on to publish Science Fiction Times.
