Poutník, The Pilgrim Bulletin

This zine was published in Prague about one month after the end of the Velvet Revolution that ended Communist rule in Czechoslovakia and brought about a democratic parliamentary republic. The editorial section of the zine notes that the Jules Verne Club had for six years, functioning “on a half-legal basis,” publishing 40 issues in runs of ten to 200 copies. Addressing the change in political systems directly, the editorial notes that “all totalitarian regimes persecuted science fictoon [sic] as one of its enemies in the domain of culture….Now we have broken the power of one political part at last. When we look around, we can see the damages caused by that party in 40 years. And not only in the economy, ecology, ethics, and culture, but in science fiction, too.”

The Jules Verne Club. Prague.
Poutník, The Pilgrim Bulletin. January 2, 1990.