The Lainzine is a free, not-for-profit zine created (largely) by / for fans of the late-90s anime Serial Experiments Lain and the many relevant communities, websites, and dusty art-projects it has inspired over the last decades. topics covered include "digital life", the intersection of art and computers, cyberpunk themes, programming and opsec, pseudo-religious technobabble, and whatever else people feel like sharing, all presented in a lain-inspired a e s t h e t i q u e format.
If any of the topics above seem interesting to you, have a look at the archive. "production quality" varies a bit, as it's taken a while to figure out how best to present things and make them all pretty, but there's still interesting stuff to read no matter which you pick up.
And, if you like what you see there and have something you want to share as well, please don't hesitate to read the submission guidelines and do so! as a free community project, the lainzine is what people make of it, with those people being anyone at all who feels some sort of affiliation with lain and the many things the name has come to mean. so don't feel like your work or ideas don't belong just because they differ a bit from what's been in past zines. we're all connected, after all.
If you’re looking for texts by, for, or about people who transverse or transcend western gender norms, you’re in the right place! Trans Reads is the world’s largest collection of free trans-focused literature. We offer a wide variety of books, essays, zines, chapters, articles, and more!
An HTML page with Javascript that edits and arranges PDFs into printable zine layouts.
Supports the following zine formats:
- Minizine (Eighth-Size)
- Quarter Size
- Half Size
With options for:
- Portrait/Landscape orientation
- Single/Double sided printing (for Mini's & Quarter Size)
- Side/Top fold (for Mini's & Quarter Size)
- Paper size (US Letter / A4 / Custom)
This zine aims to give a voice to the people, forced into continued COVIDing. On Mastodon we asked for contributions from COVID cautious people. By describing day to day situations, the concrete problems that might arise, we hope to show what living under these conditions can look and feel like. We hope that this illustrates our demand, as expressed in our previous zine, for a radical left that keeps taking this horrendous disease seriously and is willing to protect ourselves and our comrades.
A note to the license: Some works are under various CC licenses, while others are under CC-0. Please check the individual works for the correct license. That is why for the PDF we have chosen the most "restrictive" CC license.
Back Issues of Legowelt’s ‘Shadow Wolf Cyberzine’ Internet’s No.1 lifestyle opinion glossy for the modern Cyberpunk Electronic Music afficinado. Originally an e-zine in classic ASCII BBS txt haxor style, from Issue 11 onwards it comes out on paper. Released yearly around Christmas with some special issues at other times.
In 2023 I decided to release the Shadow Wolf Cyberzine in paper zine format, so from Issue 11 on it will be on paper, I will scan it soon and put it here, it will be available on the Legowelt bandcamp very soon or ask for it at shows and sometimes recordstores have some copies etc.
NEUROBLAST HyperCard DiskZine Cyberdelia Special is a cyberpunk-centric and HACKERS (1995) love letter entertainment tech-stack zine of music, art, and game materials, built and compiled in ancient Apple HyperCard software on a vintage iMac G3 (grape) in August 2023. Made in celebration of DNA Lounge's HACKERS screening and Cyberdelia after-party. Editor: James Sime.
CYBERDELIA - A massive, sprawling, Floppy Disk-bursting article and orgasmic dither-picture-show featuring years of Cyberdelia celebrations at San Francisco's legendary DNA LOUNGE. Including delightfully 1-bit memories of Cyberdelia's creation and the herculean effort to bring these parties to the public. Written by NEUROBLAST's featured special guest... promoter, programmer, and SF Bay Area icon jwz / Jamie Zawinski the owner of DNA LOUNGE.
Interactive fiction, games, zines, stories, and more from the creator of the Midnight Pals on birbsite.
The original homepage of IFJ. Maybe I can find someplace that still sells their stuff?
Reign of Toads was a well-regarded zine from the prehistoric 1990s. Here are some links and summaries of its four mighty issues.
Lots of classic stuff - cyberpunk magazines like Mondo2k and the original Boing Boing, books, music, CD-ROM disk inserts.
This is the news morgue of the zine Fifth Estate Magazine.
A site that indexes and archives classic cyberpunk stuff which is otherwise forgotten. Hacker cons, software, shows, and more. Everything gets uploaded to the Internet Archive.
Commodore Free is a free-to-download Commodore enthusiasts' zine that includes everything from new software releases to howtos, reviews, hardware mods, and more. Every retrocomputing afficionado should give at least one issue a read.