Cuyler "Ned" Brooks papers

Descriptive Summary
Title: Cuyler "Ned" Brooks papers
Creator: Brooks, Cuyler W., Jr.
Inclusive Dates: 1940-2015
Language(s): English
Extent: 22 Linear Feet 20 boxes, 2 oversized boxes
Collection Number: ms3951
Repository: Hargrett Library

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Collection Description

Historical Note

Cuyler Warnell "Ned" Brooks (1938-2015) was an editor, collector, and fan of science fiction. He worked for NASA as a wind tunnel engineer while collecting books and fanzines, and created his own publications. He was an active part of many science fiction fan organizations and kept robust correspondence over his lifetime, creating zines featuring the writing and reviews of his contacts. He also created crowd sourced indexes and book reviews, championed private presses, self published sci fi writers, and artists of the genre in his own publications. An avid collector of historic typewriters, a large part of the output of his zines were created using a typewriter and mimeograph machine.

Scope and Content

The collection contains correspondence and various files related to the production of multiple indexes and fanzines in the genre of science fiction and fantasy from the mid 1960s through 2015. Included are original zine art, writing submissions, sci fi book catalogs, photographs, and a small pencil portrait of Ned. Also included are miscellaneous fanzines from 1940-2015.

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Cuyler "Ned" Brooks papers, ms3951, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.

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Related Materials and Subjects

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Series Descriptions and Folder Listing

 

1. Correspondence
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1	1-13	Alphabetical - A-P, 1968-1974
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2	1-5	Alphabetical - Q-Z, 1968-1974
2	6-14	Miscellaneous, 1967-2013
2	15	Miscellaneous - undated
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3	1-2	Miscellaneous, 2014-2015
3	3-6	Collectors Bureau , 1964-1969
3	7	Mail fraud issues
3	8-12	It Comes In The Mail (ICITM) - A-H, 1974-1976
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4	1-7	It Comes In The Mail (ICITM) - I-Z, 1974-1976
4	8-11	Chester Cuthbert, 1992-1997
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5	1-5	Chester Cuthbert, 1998-2007
5	6-7	Inmates
5	8-10	Email - invoices, 1998-2004
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6	1-7	Email - invoices, 1998-2004
6	8-10	It Goes On The Shelf (IGOTS), 2000-2002
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7	1-12	It Goes On The Shelf (IGOTS), 2002-2010
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8	1-5	It Goes On The Shelf (IGOTS), 2004-2010
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19	11	Sharon Ann Towle, 1970-1973
19	12	Miscellaneous, 1960-1999
19	13	Miscellaneous, 2000-2016
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20	1-2	Alphabetical - S-Z
20	3	Miscellaneous

 

2. Production files
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8	6	It Goes On The Shelf (IGOTS) - art
8	7	It Goes On The Shelf (IGOTS) 6 - originals, 1989 November
8	8	It Goes On The Shelf (IGOTS) 8 - originals, 1991 September
8	9	It Goes On The Shelf (IGOTS) 9 - originals, 1992 October
8	10	It Goes On The Shelf (IGOTS) 10 - originals, 1993 October
8	11	It Goes On The Shelf (IGOTS) 11 - originals, 1994 January
8	12	It Goes On The Shelf (IGOTS) 13 - originals, 1994 October
8	13	It Goes On The Shelf (IGOTS) 14 - originals, 1995 July
8	14	It Goes On The Shelf (IGOTS) 15 - originals, 1996 January
8	15	It Goes On The Shelf (IGOTS) 16 - originals, 1996 September
8	16	It Goes On The Shelf (IGOTS) 17 - originals, 1997 February
8	17	It Goes On The Shelf (IGOTS) 18 - originals, 1997 August
8	18	It Goes On The Shelf (IGOTS) 18 - production copy
8	19	It Goes On The Shelf (IGOTS) 19 - originals
8	20	It Goes On The Shelf (IGOTS) 20 - originals, 1999 May
8	21	It Goes On The Shelf (IGOTS) 21 - originals, 2000 January
8	22	It Goes On The Shelf (IGOTS) 22 - originals, 2000 September
8	23	It Goes On The Shelf (IGOTS) 23 - originals, 2001 October
8	24	It Goes On The Shelf (IGOTS) 22,23 - production copy
8	25	It Goes On The Shelf (IGOTS) 24 - originals, 2002 October
8	26	It Goes On The Shelf (IGOTS) 25 - originals, 2003 November
8	27	It Goes On The Shelf (IGOTS) 26 - originals, 2004 December
8	28	It Goes On The Shelf (IGOTS) 27 - originals, 2005 December
8	29	It Goes On The Shelf (IGOTS) 28 - originals, 2006 October
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9	1	It Goes On The Shelf (IGOTS) 29 - originals, 2007 November
9	2	It Goes On The Shelf (IGOTS) 30 - originals, 2008 November
9	3	It Goes On The Shelf (IGOTS) 31 - originals, 2009 November
9	4	It Goes On The Shelf (IGOTS) 32 - originals, 2010 November
9	5	It Goes On The Shelf (IGOTS) 33 - originals, 2011 November
9	6	It Goes On The Shelf (IGOTS) 34 - originals, 2012 November
9	7	It Goes On The Shelf (IGOTS) 35 - originals, 2013 November
9	8	It Goes On The Shelf (IGOTS) 36 - originals, 2014 November
9	9-21	Correspondence for It Goes On The Shelf (IGOTS) 9-16
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10	1-11	Correspondence for It Goes On The Shelf (IGOTS) 18-22
10	12	Collectors Bureau - lists, indexes
10	13	Collectors Bureau material - no.2, 3
10	14	Collectors Bureau material - no.5, 6, 7
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19	10	Fadeaway, 2013-2015
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11	1	It Comes In The Mail (ICITM) - originals, 1972-1977
11	2	It Comes In The Mail (ICITM) - cover art
11	3	It Comes In The Mail (ICITM) - mailing lists
11	4	Spagyric Quest , 1970-1972
11	5	The New Newport News News , 1970
11	6	The New Port News , 1981-2011
11	7	The New Port News - cover art, miscellaneous
11	8	Slanapa - various originals
11	9	Slanapa - Art, covers, miscellaneous
11	10	Slanapa - writing
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21	1	Slanapa - binder of various printouts, 1983-1985
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11	11	Who is the Star Spangled Torquemada? - Slanapa, 2005-2011
11	12	Apazines - various titles
11	13	Art - miscellaneous
11	14	Purple Mouth Press - art
11	15-17	Purple Mouth Press - writing submissions
11	18	Purple Mouth Press - publications
11	19	Purple Mouth Press - production
11	20	Purple Mouth Press - Fortran printed list
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21	2	Purple Mouth Press - production
21	3	Purple Mouth Press - copyright, ISBN
21	4	Purple Mouth Press - Spagyric Quest of Beroalus Cosmopolita production - original art by Mae Strelkov
21	5	Purple Mouth Press - Guinevere, Lancelot and Others production, 1986
21	6	Purple Mouth Press - Bogey Beasts production
21	7	Purple Mouth Press - The Hannes Bok Illustration Index production
21	8	Purple Mouth Press - Island of the Moon production, 1998
		Purple Mouth Press - Quest for the Star Stone production
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21	10	Purple Mouth Press - The Quest for the Green Hills of Earth production
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11	21	The Conspiracy
11	22	Convention art
11	23	Convention programs
11	24	Directories
11	25	Book promotions
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12		Book catalogs
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13	1	Collector's Bulletin - compilation correspondence
13	2	New England Science Fiction Association - directory, 1968
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1		Piers Anthony's Index of Book Reviews in Science Fiction Magazines - bound photocopy, 1970
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20	4	It Lives in the Vault - galleys
20	5	Cover art - It Comes In The Mail, It Goes On The Shelf
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2		Ventura II - cover art

 

3. Personal
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13	3	Portrait sketch
13	4	Biographical - miscellaneous
13	5	Photographs
13	6	Typewriter collection
13	7	Atlanta Wesleyan Alumni
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1		Scrapbooks (2)
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20	6	Photographs - friends, identified
20	7	Photographs - Ned's house
20	8	Photographs - DSC 14, 35
20	9	Photographs - Mae Strelkov
20	10-11	Photographs - miscellaneous cons
20	12	Photographs - photo album, 1980-1981
20	13-15	Photographs - photo album
20	16	Negatives
20	17	Slides - Australia
20	18	Photo album - cons - identified
20	19	Scrapbook - articles, zines
20	20	Scrapbook - with writing

 

4. Ephemera
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14	1	Advertisements, 1963-2009
14	2	Old Fan's 2000 Almanac, 2000
14	3-4	Anthologies, 1958-2006
14	5	APA contributions, 1965-1985
14	6	Bibliographies, undated, 1975-1978
14	7	Bulletins, undated, 1968-1976
14	8-12	Catalogs
14	13	Directories, 1973-1978
14	14	D.U.F.F., 1974-2012
14	15	Hugo
14	16	Indexes
14	17	Letters
14	18	Newsletters
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15	1-2	Periodicals
15	3	Poetry
15	4	Programs
15	5	Rosters, 1965-1967
15	6	Songbooks/songsheets
15	7	T.A.F.F., 1955-2013
15	8	Miscellaneous
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21	11	Fanzine index, 1952 December
21	12	Writing - various authors
21	13	Art
21	14	Fanzine contributing authors list
21	15	Tolkien buttons
21	16	Art - Gerry Collins, 1978
21	17	Writing - Laura Mundo Marxer - Flying Saucer Information Center

 

5. Miscellaneous fanzines
Arranged alphabetically by fanzine title.
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15	9	2am-2001 Light Years From Home, 1968-1988
15	10	Aardvark-Agent Provocative, 1944-2006
15	11	Ah, Yes-ArgoNote, 1972-2003
15	12	Ariel-Axe, 1954-1992
15	13	Bab-Binnacle, 1970-2008
15	14	Bite It!-BW, 1950-2013
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16	1	C6-Clerk's Journal, 1940-2011
16	2	Closeup-Convertible Bus, 1966-2003
16	3	Correlate-Dataphile, 1952-1999
16	4	DCTC-Don't Go Columbus, 1963-2012
16	5	Dragon Path-Edge, 1961-2001
16	6	Eh Bien-Existentialism's a Cruel Business, 1958-1997
16	7	Faans 2: The Script-Fantabulous Crud, 1948-1988
16	8	Fantastic Cornflu-Fladnag, 1960-2004
16	9	Flickers 'n' Frames-George, 1957-1996
16	10	George Schithers'-Gothic Sunshine, 1965-2007
16	11	Graffiti-Hauppauge Procrustean, 1957-2002
16	12	Heartworm-Hog on Ice, 1969-2015
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17	1	Holland SF-Hypo, 1964-2004
17	2	I Am Not a Number!-Inquisitor, 1960-2006
17	3	Invasion of the Bambiods-Just Another Dream Going By, 1964-2013
17	4	Kaleidoscope-Leonard Nimoy National Association of Fans, 1965-2013
17	5	Letterfounder-Lusitania, 1952-2014
17	6	Madame Frog's Catalogue of the Occult-Minac-Mania, 1968-2014
17	7	Mini Mag-Mumak, 1962-1988
17	8	Name-Nyxbag Bi-eraly, 1948-2013
17	9	Oblique-Out-burst, 1959-2009
17	10	Out of Reitsch?-Penny Paradox, 1964-2014
17	11	Pepsi-coma-Phoenix, 1966-2007
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19	9	Pieces-Purple Procrastinator, 1962-1995
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18	1	QS&WU Sunday Supplement-Ragnarok, 1950-1999
18	2	Rainbow-Resounding Haldeman Stories, 1957-1995
18	3	"Revised" Collector's Portfolio of The Bambioid-Rowrbrazzle Quarterly, 1955-2000
18	4	Royal Swiss Navy Gazette-SFanzine Review, 1957-2003
18	5	Shattered Like Clockwork Orange-Slide, 1967-2001
18	6	Slower Than Infinity-Space Varmits Comix, 1962-2006
18	7	Spangler-Starworlds, 1953-1991
18	8	Static, Flutter, & Pop-Strawberry Funnies, 1970-2001
18	9	Struthiomimus-This, 1958-2001
18	10	Tholian Registry-Trail of Four Cities, 1962-2002
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19	1	Trained Cormorants of Gifu-Two Magicians, 1970-2012
19	2	U&U-Utopia, 1957-1986
19	3	V-Voyage, 1959-2014
19	4	Walking Tour of Pickman's Boston-Why Your Life Sucks, 1966-2015
19	5	Wide World of Wendy the Warped-Wyrd, 1961-2006
19	6	York Science Fiction club presents...-Zymurgy, 1973-1995
19	7	Miscellaneous
19	8	Miscellaneous
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21	18	A Handbook of the [Current] Middle Ages , 1968
21	19	Miscellaneous mailings
21	20	Scientifiction - No.45, 46, 49, 2015-2016
21	21	The Fearsome Island - Albert Kinross