40 years after the publication of the first issue, its founders are crowdfunding in order to preserve its high quality issues and stories for future generations.
The magazine Fantasia 2000 was a unique phenomenon. In the XNUMXs there was a renewed flourishing (and in Israel also relatively late compared to the rest of the world) of the science fiction genre. Hundreds of books were translated in that decade, many of them collections of short stories that introduced space, robots and time travel. At the end of that decade, Eli Tana and Aharon Hauptman, two science fiction enthusiasts, decided that it was time for Israel to have a science fiction magazine like the ones that had been circulating in the US since the XNUMXs and which featured short stories of fantasy and fantasy, when the former were at least based on scientific knowledge.
Since no publisher wanted to risk such an adventure, even though it took place many years before the collapse of the media business model, the two decided to start such a journal with Tana as the first publisher and editor-in-chief, and Hauptmann as the second editor (and Fantasia 2000 had two other editors Later - Gabi Peleg and Emanuel Lotem).
As an avid reader and collector of all the pamphlets, and even as a writer (in a small way - news in the cosmic flashes about ore mining in asteroids, and a translation of the short story The Terrible Snowman by Frederick Brown (issue 36). In Fantasia 2000, I first became deeply acquainted with Carl Sagan, who later became a role model for me, And for the object of admiration, when I bought and read all his books published in Hebrew, it is difficult to exaggerate the influence that the magazine had on me, even though I started reading science fiction at the age of 10 (fantasy 2000 appeared in my life at the age of 17). Recently, the presidential candidate running for office on behalf of the Democratic Party, Joe Biden: Unlike Trump, we rely on science, not fiction.
Later in the nineties, when I wrote for Haaretz newspaper, I published, at the request of the late David Landau, a futuristic column, which ran for almost four years, and prepared the readers for the third millennium (that was its name). One of the first things I wrote about was the possibility of a car driving itself, Although it required a supercomputer in the trunk. The materials were new, but it can be said that the spirit of Fantasia 2000 served both on that section and on the science site that was then in its infancy.
Hauptman, later a researcher of futurism (to this day) at Tel Aviv University, the magazine "Fantasy 2000", which ran from 1978 to 1982, presented thousands of readers with the best works of speculative fiction in translation, encouraged original writing in Hebrew, and left his mark on the community of readers and writers in Israel in the era that before the internet (which was completely science fiction at the time...) "Why don't you upload all the Fantasia 2000 content to the web?" - This question has been asked many times in recent years. The time has come. To this end, the magazine's founders initiated a crowdfunding campaign which, if successful, will enable the construction of a high-quality website that will store and access all "Fantasy 2000" content, including the mythological issue 45 produced in 2008 to mark the 30th anniversary of the first issue.
to the project page on the Hestart website
More of the topic in Hayadan:
Fantasia 2000 returns to a festive one issue
Time in a side view The late Prof. Nachman Givoli from Fantasia 2000
Towards immortal life (A fascinating article on the consequences of eternal life for humanity, by Aharon Hauptman) from Fantasy 2000
Experiment -By Frederick Brown from Fantasia 2000 #5
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The Internet was definitely not a modern day in the years when Fantasia 2000 was published.
The protocol (IP) already existed, and there was already a network that connected several academic institutions, and several institutions in Israel were also connected.
I just wanted to do this with my brochures.
I wonder if there will be an additional charge for the brochures on the website.
Eli Tana is a publisher and entrepreneur bursting with cash. If he wanted to, he would have picked up the project by himself in a minute.