Editing Cheap Truth

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'''''Cheap Truth''''' was a free series of one-page, double-sided newsletters (i.e., [[fanzine]]) published in the period between 1983 and 1986.<ref>{{cite web|title=Cheap Truth. Vincent Omniaveritas. Bruce Sterling.  Fanzine|url=https://fanac.org/fanzines/Cheap_Truth/|publisher=Fanac|access-date=12 June 2022}}</ref><ref name="sfe">{{cite web|title=Cheap Truth |url=https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/cheap_truth|publisher=SFE |access-date=12 June 2022}}</ref> Its headquarters was in Austin, Texas.<ref name="sfe"/> It was not-copyrighted and explicitly encouraged "xerox pirates" to circulate the zine for their own monetary gain or otherwise.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Sterling|first1=Bruce |title=Cheap Truth 3
|url=http://fanac.org/fanzines/Cheap_Truth/Cheap_Truth03-01.html|website=Cheap Truth
|publisher=Fanac|accessdate=2 January 2019}}</ref> It was the unofficial organ of a loose group of authors. This group called themselves many things, including "The Movement" but was later known as the [[Cyberpunk]] movement.{{Citation needed|date=May 2020}}

The [[zine]] was edited by the American [[science fiction]] author [[Bruce Sterling]] under the alias Vincent Omniaveritas (as in ''vincit omnia veritas''). There were several contributors such as "Sue Denim" (as in [[Pseudonym|pseu-donym]], in this case [[Lewis Shiner]]), but the real identities behind some aliases are still not commonly known. The newsletter was critical towards what its editors regarded, at the time, as the "stagnant state of popular science fiction".

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==External links==
* The (uncopyrighted) newsletters [http://cheap-truth.blogspot.com/ republished as a weblog]
* Uploads of the scanned [http://fanac.org/fanzines/Cheap_Truth/index.html? newsletters]
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[[Category:Magazines established in 1983]]
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[[Category:Speculative fiction magazines published in the United States]]
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[[Category:Non-fiction Cyberpunk media]]
[[Category:Magazines published in Austin, Texas]]