Editing Factsheet Five (section)

==History==
The magazine was originally published in 1982 by Mike Gunderloy on a [[spirit duplicator]] in his bedroom in a [[slanshack]] in [[Alhambra, California]], though the first issue notes he was located at Hyde Park neighborhood in [[Boston]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Issue 1 |url=https://f5archive.org/issue-1/ |website=Factsheet Five Archive Project |date=9 March 2022 |access-date=12 March 2022}}</ref> He started publishing this [[zine]] due to frustrations over the infrequent publication of ''The Stark Fist of Removal'', of which he was a fan.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Greer |first1=J. C. |title="Zines," Dictionary of Contemporary Esotericism |url=https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55c5d9b8e4b0d420518ad021/t/5dff9e8c58924f4510c059e0/1577033357622/Zines.pdf |access-date=10 October 2023}}</ref> The original focus was [[science fiction fanzines]] (the title comes from a short story by science fiction author [[John Brunner (novelist)|John Brunner]]), but it included other reviews. [[Bob Grumman]] contributed a regular column on [[avant-garde]] poetry from 1987 to 1992.

Gunderloy later moved to [[Rensselaer, New York]], where he continued to publish. By 1987, he was running a zine [[Bulletin board system|BBS]], one of the first associated with an underground publication.<ref>Shane Williams, Holly Cornell, Al Kowalewski, et al., "Factsheet Five: The Fanzine Fanzine," ''Flipside,'' whole no. 53 (Summer 1987), pp. 23-25.</ref> In 1990, Cari Goldberg Janice and (briefly) Jacob Rabinowitz joined as co-editors.<ref name="FF38">{{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/factsheet_five_38 |title=Factsheet Five 38 (1990 Oct) |pages=15}}</ref> Gunderloy quit publishing ''Factsheet Five'' following the completion of Issue #44 in 1991.<ref name="worldofzines"/>

Hudson Luce purchased the rights to ''Factsheet Five'' and published a single issue, Issue #45, with the help of BBS enthusiast Bill Paulouskas, cartoonist Ben Gordon, writer [[Jim Knipfel]], and artist [[Mark Bloch (artist)|Mark Bloch]], who had authored a [[mail art]]-related column called "Net Works" during the Gunderloy years.<ref>{{Citation|author=Bob Grumman|title=Daily Notes on Poetry & Related Matters|work=Bob Grumman's po-X-cetera Blog|date=1998-10-07|url=http://www.comprepoetica.com/newblog/blog00880.html|access-date=2009-04-14|archive-date=2009-08-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090802184504/http://www.comprepoetica.com/newblog/blog00880.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

R. Seth Friedman then published the magazine for five years in San Francisco, with the help of Christopher Becker, Miriam Wolf and Jerod Pore,<ref>{{cite news|newspaper = Factsheet Five|issue = 48|date = July 1, 1993|url= http://www.oss.net/dynamaster/file_archive/040320/a41bf6fad9c9107da759f7c720f6bcdd/OSS1993-01-15.pdf |access-date = February 26, 2015 |title = Staff}}</ref> until Issue #64 in 1998. Circulation grew to 16,000 during that time.<ref>{{Citation
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Gunderloy later worked as a computer programmer before retiring in 2020. He co-authored the book ''SQL Server 7 in Record Time.''