Our spring mailing went in the post to all Fanderson members today.

FAB Express 103 should soon start landing in current members’ homes, and will be included in the welcome package for new members along with FAB Annual 2023.

Click here for an extended review of Presented In Supercolorisation.

We’re planning for FAB Express 104 to follow in the summer. That mailing will also include details of how to renew your membership in time to be included in the winter mailing and get FAB Annual 2024!

Keep your eye out for the postie!

We are absolutely delighted to report that our winter mailing is now underway.

We’re hoping the packages will navigate their way through the ongoing postal disruption in the UK, so that Fanderson members around the world will be enjoying our latest FAB Express (issue 102) plus FAB Annual 2023 in time for Christmas.

As part of our updated membership package launched this summer, FAB Express is published each spring, summer and winter, with a hardback FAB Annual in the winter mailing too. Everyone’s membership expired in the summer, and we’re chuffed that over 80% renewed their membership before the 1st October deadline (that’s one of our best-ever renewals!).

We’ve also heard from a few members who realise they’ve missed the deadline. Of course, we’ll see what we can do to help them to ensure they don’t miss out.

Keep your eye out for the postie!

Today’s the last day for Fanderson members to renew their memberships for 2022/3!

In FAB 100, mailed back in May, we explained that as part of our changes to the membership package, all memberships would expire with the then upcoming FAB Express 101.

All copies of FAB Express 101 mailed in August were accompanied by a letter to explain the changes again, and invite everyone to renew their membership by 1st October. The letter also included details of how we were ensuring those owed issues of FAB under their existing membership would not be out of pocket, and coupon codes included in letters expire today.

We need all renewals in by 1st October so that we can plan to produce the right number of FAB Annual 2023. Producing too many copies would be a waste of members’ money, so we won’t be over-printing for those who don’t renew their membership in time.

We close the database at midnight tonight, so if you haven’t yet renewed your membership (including Friends of Fanderson), get your skates on and do it now!

If you still need a nudge, here’s all five preview pages of the Annual that we’ve shared this week…

Fanderson’s all-new FAB Annual 2023 will be sent to all club members in our winter mailing.

If you haven’t yet renewed your membership since FAB Express 101, you’ve only got until 1st October to be included in the winter mailing and get your copy of the FAB Annual. This 100-page, A4 hardback book includes features on all your favourite Gerry and Sylvia Anderson productions, with a few surprises too!

To ensure we don’t waste members’ money, we won’t be over-printing FAB Annual in case anyone renews after the 1st October deadline. Don’t miss out – if you haven’t already done so, renew your membership now!

The first issue of our new club magazine – FAB Express – has been mailed to all Fanderson members around the world!

As part of our updated membership package FAB Express will be published each spring, summer and winter, with a new hardback FAB Annual in the winter mailing too.

We’re aligning memberships so that everyone expires with the summer mailing each year. This will streamline our operation, helping to control costs by having fewer individual items, and fewer permutations of each mailing. FAB Express 101 is being sent to you as a free extra mailing, so you know what you’re signing up for when you renew your membership.

With every issue is a letter explaining how we’re ensuring that anyone who was owed issues of FAB under their old membership won’t be out of pocket. Please wait until you receive FAB Express before renewing your membership, but be sure to renew by 1st October 2022 to be included in the winter mailing and get your next FAB Express and FAB Annual 2023!

The publication of FAB Express also means that FAB 100 is now available as a back issue, for anyone who missed out.

The first issue of our new club magazine – FAB Express – is go!

Fanderson members who are today at the club’s 40th anniversary event 40 FAB Years are the first to be given copies, as part of their event package. Next week, copies will be winging their way around the world to all current club members, and we’ll confirm this on the website just as soon as we’re sure they’re all in the post.

As we explained in FAB 100, as part of our updated membership package FAB Express will be published each spring, summer and winter and include the all the news, reviews, competitions, club news, merchandise, letters and any other time-sensitive content. You’ll see that FAB’s popular Timelash feature lives on here too, under the new title of Flashback and with a new resident team of ‘flashbackers’.

Meanwhile, club designer and former FAB editor Mike Jones is hard at work on getting the FAB Annual 2023 ready for the winter mailing. He promises it’s all looking good already, and will be packed with all the interviews, cutaways, research and in-depth articles you’ve come to know and love in FAB, with lots of new ideas thrown in for good measure.

Also as we explained in FAB 100, we’re aligning memberships so that everyone expires with the summer mailing each year. This will streamline our operation, helping to control costs by having fewer individual items, and fewer permutations of each mailing.

Every member will receive a letter with this FAB Express that explains how to renew your membership to be included in the winter mailing (and get your first FAB Annual) and how we’re ensuring that anyone who was owed issues of FAB under their old membership won’t be out of pocket.

Please wait until you receive FAB Express before renewing your membership, but be sure to renew by 1st October 2022 to be included in the winter mailing and get your next FAB Express and FAB Annual 2023!

Throughout August we ran a membership survey, both to celebrate some of the great things we’ve achieved over our first 40 FAB years, but also to get members’ input to the future of their club.

Thanks to everyone who participated, and we’re starting to go through the results now. As an incentive to take part, all valid entries went into a draw to win one of these fantastic prizes, and we can now confirm the lucky winners:

• Japanese Thunderbirds Visual Archives book – hard to get outside of Japan – won by Sean Fox
• UFO Screenplays book – a long out-of-print Fanderson book from 2001 – won by Darren Allen
• Earthfall – our 2002 reprint of EC Tubb’s 1977 Space:1999 novel – won by Kenneth Stuart
• Century 21 Diary – our membership gift from 2008 – won by David Green

Prizes will be mailed over the next few days, so keep an eye out for the postman!