Plokta is a British science fiction fanzine, first published in 1996, which has won two Hugo Awards.
[1] Subtitled "The journal of superfluous technology" the magazine includes articles (largely unrelated to science fiction), photographs, illustrations and cartoons.
Plokta has been nominated nine times for a Hugo Award for Best Fanzine, and won in 2005 and 2006.
[4] The name Plokta is taken from the humorous acronym for "Press Lots Of Keys To Abort", a technique for stopping computer program execution when one does not know the proper procedure to do so.
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