Cloud Chamber is another bloody Langford fanzine – an occasional slim outbreak formerly contributed to a variety of APAs (amateur press associations). For many years, since issue 40 in 1993, it appeared in Maureen Kincaid Speller's Acnestis – known to some as Acne – but this died in 2005. Now CC tends to be an occasional round-up of miscellanea that didn't fit into Ansible, plus reviews of recent reading. #163 should be regarded as a shameful aberration, and a long gap followed....
Jon Langford, 1970s
2021
- #165, Christmas [PDF]
2020
- #164, August [PDF]
2015
- #163½ [abandoned notes for a different #164, found and added to the website in 2021]
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
- #157, December
- #156, April ... largely, alas, a letter column
2005
2004
2003
- #145, November
- #144, September
- #143, August
- #142, July
- #141, June
- #140, May
- #139, April
- #138, March
- #137, February
- #136, January
2002
- #135, December
- #134, November
- #133, October
- #132, September
- #131, August
- #130, July
- #129, June
- #128, April
- #127, March
- #126, February
- #125, January
2001
- #124, December
- #123, November
- #122, October
- #121, September
- #120, August
- #119, July
- #118, June
- #117, May
- #116, April
- #115, March
- #114, February ... with guest movie grumbling by Yvonne Rousseau
- #113, January
2000
- #112, December ... with guest book review by Greg Pickersgill
- #111, November
- #110, October
- #109, September ... with guest book plug by Yvonne Rousseau
- #108, August
- #107, July
- #106, June
- #105, May
- #104, April
- #103, March
- #102, January
1999
- #101, December ... with guest review by Yvonne Rousseau
- #100, November
- #99, October
- #98, September
- #97, August
- #96, July
- #95, June ... with bits about James Agate and verse-forms
- #94, May ... with ramblings on my Josh Kirby project
- #93, March
- #92, January
1998
- #91, December ... Thog meets Fanthorpe again
- #90, November
- #89, October
- #88, September ... with bard-flinging and nitpicking
- #87, August
- #86, July ... with Bloodstained Tale of Terror
- #85, June
- #84, May
- #83, April
- #82, March
- #81, January
1997
- #80, December
- #79, November
- #78, October
- #77, September ... with Gene Wolfe Q&A re The Book of the Long Sun
- #76, August ... with notes on Douglas Hofstadter's Fluid Concepts ...
- #75, July
- #74, June
- #73, May
- #72, March
- #71, January ... with essay on Richard Condon's The Ecstasy Business
1996
- #70, November ... with banter on The Umtilate Encyclopode of SF
- #69, August
- #68, July
- #67, June
- #66, May
- #65, March
1995
- #64, December
- #63, October
- #62, September
- #61, August
- #60, July
- #59, June
- #58, April ... with review of John Whitbourn's To Build Jerusalem
- #57, March
- #56, February
1994
- #55, December ... with introduction to "Best of Lionel Fanthorpe" book
- #54, October ... with silly "Japanese" computer instructions
- #53, August
- #52, July
- #51, May
- #50, April
- #49, February
- #48, January
1993
- #47, November
- #46, October
- #45, September ... with rant about the first (later cancelled) SF Encyclopedia CD-ROM
- #44, August
- #43, July ... with Paul Barnett's rant about Before the Sun Falls
- #42, June ... with G.K. Chesterton panel intro
- #41, May ... with Helicon after-dinner speech
- #40, March
1992
These two issues were for a short-lived political APA (suggested name Reds In Space) whose principal aim was to be, er, political. Also, not Tory. - #39, July
- #38, May
1987
1986
1985
1984
1983
- #25, November
- #24, November (dated October)
- #23, October
- #22, October
- #21, October
- #20, April
- #19, March
1982
- #18, December
- #17, October
- #16, October
- #15, July
- #14, July
- #13, July
- #12, May
- #11, January
- #10, January
1981
1980
1979
1977
- #2, March (postdated 1 April)
1976
- #1, December (distributed 1977)
Pre-1985 issues of Cloud Chamber were produced without benefit of word processors. Special credit to Mark Plummer for scan/OCR of #3 and Robert Lichtman for providing scans of the "lost issue" #24 (no longer in my own files). This archive was brought fully up to date – with all back issues included and Next/Previous navigation links throughout – in January 2009.