''Lan's Lantern'' was a

science fiction fanzine A science-fiction fanzine is an amateur or semi-professional magazine published by members of science-fiction fandom, from the 1930s to the present day. They were one of the earliest forms of fanzine, within one of which the term "''fanzine''" was ...

edited by George "Lan" Laskowski. It was nominated for the

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for Best Fanzine for 1986 through 1996, winning in 1986 and 1991. It is often referred to as an appreciation

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because it specialized in issues with articles celebrating a science fiction single author such as issue #11 which focused on

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or issue #9 which focused on the writings of

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, an early 1950s science fiction author whose work appeared in

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. The first issue was published in April 1976 and the final issue #47 was published in December 1998. Issues ranged from 30 to 120 pages each. George "Lan" Laskowski passed in 1999 and a memorial website was set up at the

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.George J. Laskowski, Jr, 1948-1999
(Retrieved April 24, 2014).

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