Issue 84 - Workers' Rights in SFF

SFF's occasionally turbulent relationship to work and working people is put in the spotlight in the latest issue of Journey Planet.

The celebrated fanzine released its 84th issue on Friday, September 13, with co-editors Olav Rokne and Amanda Wakaruk bringing together an all-star list of contributors for an examination of the various ways in which employment relationships are depicted (or misrepresented) in the genre. Best-known for their Hugo-finalist fanzine Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog, Rokne and Wakaruk have been delving into labour rights issues in SFF since 2019.

"The best part of working on a project like this is being able to collaborate with talented writers focused on a subject that we're passionate about," Rokne said.  "Science fiction became a defined genre at the end of the industrial revolution, when rapid technological and societal change was creating new types of work and new types of workers. From its inception, the genre was connected to work and to working people, making this a fecund area for intellectual exploration."

The issue includes contributions from Brian Collins, Rich Horton, Octavia Cade, Will McMahon, A.L. Yakimchuk, Kira Braham, Bob Barnetson, Joachim Boaz, Camestros Felapton, James Bacon, Mark McCutcheon, Brett Sheehan, David McDonald, Kris Vyas-Myall, Gautam Bhatia, Farah Mendlesohn, and Jim O’Brien, as well as art by Autun Purser and Collin MacNeil. This stunning list of contributors may also have set a record for the most footnotes ever included in a single issue of a fanzine.
Introduction by Olav Rokne & Amanda Wakaruk
Alientation and Automation by Brian Collins
Pohl Position by Rich Horton
Unpaid Green by Octavia Cade
Learning to Write Science Fiction from
John Steinbeck by Will McMahon
Fit for Purpose (Fiction) by A.L. Yakimchuk
Making Work Sexy With William Morris by Kira Braham
Rule of Acquisition 211 by Bob Barnetson
We Must Start Over And Find Some New Way of Life by Joachim Boaz
A Nightmare of Shopkeepers by Camestros Felapton
Workers of 2000AD UNITE! by James Bacon
Jumping the Shark on the Moon by Mark McCutcheon
The Translator (Fiction) by Brett Sheehan
They Who Build Beneath the Stars by David McDonald
Fighting the Suits by Kris Vyas-Myall
Gesturing Towards the Labour Question by Gautam Bhatia
Kritzer and a Theory of Labour by Farah Mendlesohn
Unions in SFF Recommendations by Olav Rokne
‘Commie nutters turn Tintin into picket yob!’ by Jim O’Brien
ENDitorial by James Bacon 

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