bOING bOING #8 (Los Angeles)

With issue #8, bOING bOING made several big changes. Editors Mark & Carla Frauenfelder picked up and moved the zine from Boulder CO to the Los Angeles area. This issue jumped up in size to a healthy page count of 56, and the staff now included Gareth Branwyn, Factsheet Five's Mike Gunderloy, and Paco Zander Nathan as well as interesting writers like Antero Alli and Richard Kadrey. Maybe it was just me, but I seemed to be understanding more and more of the normal bOING bOING fare with each issue. This one includes a good interview with underrated sci-fi/cyberpunk author Lewis Shiner, an intriguing piece by Antero Alli on "World Entertainment Wars" (seeing through advertising), and a new music review section written by Gunderloy and Steven Ellis White. In this case, change was good for bOING bOING.

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VITAL STATISTICS:
• Issue #8
• Spring 1992
• B&W, 56-pages (plus color covers)
• Style: cyber zine

ARTICLES/INTERVIEWS
Lewis Shiner interview
Nina Graboi interview
Antero Alli's "World Entertainment Wars"
"Metanoids Untie" (?)
"Everything I Know I Learned From Editing Pihkal"
"International Drug Paranoia"
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