English

Noun

crudzine ‎(plural crudzines)

1. (dated, fandom slang) A low-quality fanzine.
   • 1969, Amazing Stories, Volume 43, page 134:

     Perihelion shares with the rankest crudzines a penchant for printing amateur (or almost-amateur) fiction, and a generally gosh-wow outlook.

   • 1981 November, Hughes, Terry, “The Modified Big Bang Theory”, in Science-Fiction Five-Yearly, number 7, page 27:

     This is one of the questions that has long puzzled mankind (along with why dropped toast always lands buttered-side down and how come crudzine editors always find your mailing address).

   • 1997 October 19, Sandra Bond, “Re: Jubilee”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom, Usenet, message-ID <877221185snz@ho-stree.demon.co.uk>:

     <nostalgic sigh> I remember the cover I stuck on my crudzine at the time of the first Jersey Eastercon... two top-hatted and tiara'd toffs saying "Hurrah! what fun at Jersey in '89".
     Nobody seemed to take any notice. But then, it _was_ a very _cruddy_ crudzine.

Hypernyms

• fanzine

References

• Jeff Prucher, editor (2007) Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-530567-8, pages 29–30