Ruth Berman

Ruth Berman is a prolific fanzine writer, editor and publisher, mainly of science fiction and fantasy zines. Berman also contributed many poems, fics, filks, and illos to media fanzines. 
Her work also appeared in the commercially produced Star Trek: The New Voyages, see Visit to a Weird Planet Revisited .
In 1973, Ruth was nominated for the first John W. Campbell Award for the Best New Science Fiction Writer.
In 2004, she received the Minnesota Fantasy Award at the Fall 2004 Arcana, a convention of the Dark Fantastic.
Ruth Berman was one of the editors of the Mark Lenard International Fan Club.
Her comments were included in an article comparing Star Trek to Star Wars in All About Star Trek Fan Clubs #6 (1977).
==Interviews==
* Ruth Berman & Juanita Coulson: Created Worlds (1974)
* TV Bookshelf Interview with Ruth Berman (2004)
* Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with Ruth Berman (2017)
==Essays==
* Some Thoughts on Trekkies in "Trumpet #11 (1974) (in part, a response to David Gerrold's The Awful Offal and Harlan Ellison's The Words in Spock's Mouth
==Some Bios==
From Fan History Archive, chapter 3: 
From her bio page: 
From a 1972 introduction by Anthony Tollin as part of his introduction at Minicon #6: 
From a 2013 private correspondence, Ruth herself wrote: 
==Bibliography==
===Academic and Professional===
An extensive bibliography of Berman's creative and academic works is here. It does not include any mention of her fanworks. 
===Science Fiction and Fantasy Zines===
An incomplete list of science fiction and fantasy zines: All Mimsy | Amra | Cry of the Nameless | Dinky Bird | Fantasy Macabre | Janus | Kevas and Trillium | The Literary Magazine of Fantasy and Terror | The Magazine of Speculative Poetry | Mythic Delirium | NeoLithic | Innisfree | Niekas | No | Pas-Tell | Pantopon | Pooka | Rime Royal | Roquet | Rune | Shangri L'Affaires | Space and Time * Star*Line | Testament of Lael | Trumpet | Yandro.
===Media Zines===
Berman contributed fiction, poems, illustrations, filks, articles and photos to Star Trek, Sherlock Holmes, Blake's 7, Doctor Who, Tolkien, Mission Impossible, and Wizard of Oz zines.
 
Andúril | Archives | Babel | Back Trekkin' | The Best of... (Scotty) | Chekov's Station | Clipper Trade Ship | Communication the Hard Way | Deck Five Digest | Despatch | Eel-Bird Banders' Bulletin | Energize! | The Enterprise Papers: Warp One | Entmoot | The Faces of Time | Fesarius | Gambit | Guardian | Grup | The Holmesian Federation | Inside Star Trek | Interphase | Kraith Collected | Leonard Nimoy Association of Fans Yearbook Loose Ends | Masiform D | Menagerie | Metamorphosis |The Middle-earth Songbook | Minara Nova | Mission Impossible | Neutral Zone Outpost | One Trek Mind | The Other Side of the Coin | Obsc'zine | Oziana | Pastaklan Vesla | Plak-Tow | Raising Hell | Return of the 7 | Rigel | The SH-sf Fanthology | ST-Phile | A Sherlockian Christmas Carroll | Spockanalia | Starbase M.T.L. | Additions and Corrections to the Star Trek Concordance and Supplement | Star Trek Nuts & Bolts | The Star Trek Songbook | Star Trek: The New Voyages | And Starry Skies |T-Negative | Universal Transmitter | Warped Space | Zeta Minor
Letters to media fanzines: Darkover Newsletter | Engage! | Interstat | Multi-Species Medicine | Trexperts.
==References==
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