Xeron

Xeron was a science fiction and fantasy fanzine by Mike Ashley and John Quattromini.

The first issue appeared in October 1965 from Kent, England, UK. Seven issues were published through the APA "PaDS".

Issue 1 featured cover art by Dave Baldock. Articles were by Richard Gordon, and Jack Newman. Prose was by Bill Aitken, Terry Jeeves(ERG), Chris Villars, and W. T. Webb. Poetry was by Graham Hall. Included was an SF bibliography by Mike Ashley.

Issue 5 featured the short story "The Vines' by Brian Craig.

Rob Hansen, in his history of fandom called "Then", writes of Xeron: XERON 1 (Oct'65), was the first fanzine from John Quattromini and Mike Ashley, two young fans who lived next door to each other at Sittingbourne in Kent. XERON had the same mix of material as contemporary zines but was somewhat different in that it also had a strong bibliographic element, reflecting Ashley's interests in this area. XERON was distributed via PADS from its second issue and would see seven issues in all, the last one dated December 1967. This was not Ashley's first experience with fanzines, however. He had earlier co-edited FUSION with Jim Grant, which saw four issues between January 1965 and February 1966. FUSION, too, had contained Ashley's SF lists."