UnCon
Fortean Times issue 200
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| Editor | David Sutton |
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| Former editors |
Bob Rickard (Founder) Paul Sieveking |
| Staff writers | Jen Ogilvie |
| Categories | Paranormal |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Total circulation (December 2016) |
13,904 |
| Year founded | 1973 |
| First issue | November 1973 (as The News) June 1976 (as Fortean Times #16) |
| Company | Dennis Publishing Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Website | forteantimes.com |
| ISSN | 0308-5899 |
Fortean Times is a British monthly magazine devoted to the anomalous phenomena popularised by Charles Fort. Previously published by John Brown Publishing (from 1991 to 2001) and then I Feel Good Publishing (2001 to 2005), it is now published by Dennis Publishing Ltd.
In December 2015 its print circulation was just under 14,000 copies per month. This does not include digital sales. The magazine's tagline is "The World of Strange Phenomena".
The roots of the magazine that was to become Fortean Times can be traced back to Bob Rickard's discovering the works of Charles Fort through the secondhand method of reading science-fiction stories:
In the mid-1960s, while Rickard was studying Product Design at Birmingham Art College he met several like-minded science fiction fans, particularly crediting fellow-student Peter Weston's fan-produced Speculation 'zine as helping him to "[learn] the art of putting together a fanzine," some years before he created his own. Attending a science fiction convention in 1968, Rickard obtained Ace paperback copies of all four of Fort's books from a stall run by Derek Stokes (later to run Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed and take a role in the day-to-day running of The Fortean Times).
After reading an advert in the underground magazine Oz (in 1969) for the "International Fortean Organisation" (INFO), an American group "founded in 1966... by Paul and Ronald Willis," who had acquired material from the original Fortean Society (started in 1931, but in limbo since the 1959 death of its founder Tiffany Thayer), Rickard began to correspond with the brothers, particularly Paul. Rickard was instrumental in encouraging the Willises to publish their own Fortean journal — the "INFO Journal: Science and the Unknown" began intermittent publication in Spring, 1967 — and sent them many British newspaper clippings, although few saw print.
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