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Fanzine: Fantasy Review

Editors (alphabetically listed): Neil Barron  |  Robert A. Collins  |  Rob Latham  |  Carol McGuirk

Language: English

ISSN:

Issues: 40, 1984 – 1987 (103 combined with Fantasy Newsletter)

Websites:  ISFDB  |  Wikipedia

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Bibliographic comments: Sequel to US fanzine Fantasy Newsletter, with continued numbering and an emphasis on reviews.

Winner of the 1984 Balrog Award for Best Amateur Publication and the 1984 World Fantasy Special Award: non-professional.

• Only issues with contents of interest to this library are listed here, highlighted in white.

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Fantasy Review, #64

Robert A. Collins, ed.

<  January 1984

Florida Atlantic University

Quarto, 42 pages

$2.50

Notes:

  •  Editorial 'The Editor's Notebook' is uncredited.

  •  Only essays are listed here.

Essays: Karl Edward Wagner, On Fantasy: Lost Turkeys of the Ether Waves  //  Mike Ashley, The British Scene  //  

William F. Wu, Dr. Wu's Lost & Found Emporium: Three Kingdoms  //  Cornelia Theys, Steve Theys, Eye of the

Basilisk: Why We Ain' Got No Respect  //  Jack L. Chalker, On Specialty Publishing, Random Notes and Conventional

Thoughts  //  Andreas Decker, Der Cabbage setzt sich zur Wehr - - [or] The Kraut Strikes Back: A Survey of SF in West

Germany, 1950 to Now  //  Craig Shaw Gardner, It Came from the Silver Screen  //  Douglas E. Winter, Shadowings  

//  Algis Budrys, Bridges to Verity  //  Darrell Schweitzer, Alas, Poor Fursey!  //  Timothy Robert Sullivan, Liquid Sky  

//  Marshall B. Tymn, Bifocals

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Fantasy Review, #65

Robert A. Collins, Neil Barron, eds.

<  March 1984

Florida Atlantic University

Quarto, 56 pages

$2.50

Notes:

  •  Only essays are listed here.

Essays: Bob Collins, A Hasty Note from Bob  //  Fritz Leiber, On Fantasy: My Life & Writings, Part 5: A Living from

Writing? Sober on the Coast!  //  Douglas E. Winter, Shadowings  //  Jack L. Chalker, On Specialty Publishing: Grand

Dreams & Little Fish  // Somtow Sucharitkul, A Certain Slant of 'I': The Mother-Scare Quotient  //  Neil Barron, A

Note from the Editor

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Fantasy Review, #66

Robert A. Collins, Neil Barron, eds.

<  April 1984

Florida Atlantic University

Quarto, 44 pages

$2.50

Notes:

  •  Only essays are listed here.

Essays: Robert A. Collins, The Editor's Notebook  //  S. P. Somtow, A Certain Slant of 'I': Galactic Garbage Art  //  

Guo Jianzhong, A Brief History of Chinese SF  //  Jack L. Chalker, On Specialty Publishing: On Small Press

Publishing: "Daddy" Dies & The Show Goes On  //  Neil Barron, Reviews: A Note from the Editor

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Fantasy Review, #68

Robert A. Collins, Neil Barron, eds.

<  June 1984

Florida Atlantic University

Quarto, 44 pages

$2.50

Notes:

  •  Only essays are listed here.

Essays: Bob Collins, The Editor's Notebook  //  Leslie Fiedler, Fantasy as Commodity, Pornography, Camp and Myth  

//  Stephen King, Dr. Seuss & the Two Faces of Fantasy  //  Donna Wodianka, Genesis of the Akhimage: Ken

McGregor  //  S. P. Somtow, A Certain Slant of 'I': On the Set of Clonan the Barbarian

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Fantasy Review, #74

Robert A. Collins, Neil Barron, eds.

<  December 1984

Florida Atlantic University

Quarto, 36 pages

$2.75

Notes:

  •  Only essays are listed here.

Essays: Bob Collins, The Editor's Notebook: The New Electorate: Five Finger Exercises  //  S. P. Somtow, A Certain

Slant of 'I': An Ellis Island of the Mind  //  Harry Harrison, The World West of Eden  //  Neil Barron, Editorial Notes

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Fantasy Review, #79

Robert A. Collins, ed.

<  May 1985

Florida Atlantic University

Quarto, 36 pages

$2.75

Notes:

  •  Only essays are listed here.

Essays: Bob Collins, Theodore Sturgeon: A Biographical Sketch  //  James Gunn, I Remember Ted  //  Gary K. Wolfe,

Eudiche: Theodore Sturgeon  //  Lahna F. Diskin, A New Disciple  //  S. P. Somtow, A Certain Slant of 'I': Worst Week

of My Life  //  Bob Collins, We Are Hoaxed by Gabby Snitch!

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Fantasy Review, #91

Robert A. Collins, Carol McGuirk, eds.

<  May 1986

Florida Atlantic University

Quarto, 46 pages

$2.75

Notes:

  •  Only essays are listed here.

Essays: Robert A. Collins, A Personal Note to the Readership  //  Bob Collins, The Editor's Notebook: Read the

Letters First, Friends!  //  C. W. Sullivan, III, Women of Power: Mythic and Cultural Sources  //  Robert L. Forward,

Touchstones: A Very Heavy Touchstone  //  Somtow Sucharitkul, A Certain Slant of 'I': Censorship!  //  John

Morressy, Touchstones: A Near Perfect Shaping of Words  //  Carol McGuirk, Plan 9 from the Sunbelt  //  Mike

Ashley, The British Scene:  The Man Who Gave Us the Creeps

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Fantasy Review, #93

Robert A. Collins, Carol McGuirk, eds.

<  July 1986

Florida Atlantic University

Quarto, 52 pages

$2.75

Notes:

  •  Only essays are listed here.

Essays: Bob Collins, The Editor's Notebook  //  Darrell Schweitzer, Mervyn Wall and the Comedy of Despair  //  

Carol McGuirk, SFRA in San Diego  // Ben Bova, John Campbell and the Modern SF Idiom  //  Elizabeth Anne Hull,

World SF Meets in Vancouver  //  S. P. Somtow, A Certain Slant of 'I': Ta-da! Hollywood!  //  Carol McGuirk, Plan 9 from

the Sunbelt

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Fantasy Review, #95

Robert A. Collins, Rob Latham, eds.

<  October 1986

Meckler Publishing Corporation

Quarto, 48 pages

$3.50

Notes:

  •  Editorial by Rob Latham.

  •  Only essays are listed here.

Essays: Bob Collins, The Editor's Notebook  //  Matthew J. Costello, Other Worlds: Lovecraft in the Media  //  S. P.

Somtow, A Certain Slant of 'I': Stand by Stephen King  //  Douglas E. Winter, The Funhouse of Fear  //  Jack L.

Chalker, On Specialty Publishing: Worldcon Debuts & Other Stories  //  Chuck Miller, Tim Underwood, Ten Years of

Underwood-Miller: Part III: Conclusion  //  Mike Ashley, The British Scene

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Fantasy Review, #96

Robert A. Collins, Rob Latham, eds.

<  November 1986

Meckler Publishing Corporation

Quarto, 52 pages

$3.50

Notes:

  •  Only essays are listed here.

Essays: Bob Collins, The Editor's Notebook  //  Marshall B. Tymn, I.A.F.A. Update  //  Stanley Wiater, WFC 12: A

Sellout Crowd Survives the Bumbling Biltmore in Providence  //  Gary K. Wolfe, The Photosynthesis of Gregory

Benford  //  Eric S. Rabkin, Cowboys and Telepaths  //  Matthew J. Costello, Other Worlds: Stuart Gordon Films HPL

with Humor  //  Somtow Sucharitkul, A Certain Slant of 'I': Weddings, Parties & More Movies  //  Rob Latham, Review

Notes

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Fantasy Review, #98

Robert A. Collins, Rob Latham, eds.

<  January 1987

Meckler Publishing Corporation

Quarto, 52 pages

$3.50

Notes:

  •  Editorial by Rob Latham, Guest Editorial 'Put Out More Black Flags!' by R. L. Horton.

  •  Only essays are listed here.

Essays: Bob Collins, The Editor's Notebook  //  Matthew J. Costello, Other Worlds: The World of "The Watchmen"  //  

Somtow Sucharitkul, A Certain Slant of 'I': My Christmas Story  //  Russell Letson, Identity, Freedom & Will: Jack

Vance  // Brian Stableford, The Rise and Fall of "Scientific Romance"

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Fantasy Review, #99

Robert A. Collins, Rob Latham, eds.

<  March 1987

Meckler Publishing Corporation

Quarto, 56 pages

$3.50

Notes:

  •  Only essays are listed here.

Essays: Bob Collins, The Editor's Notebook  //  Somtow Sucharitkul, A Certain Slant of 'I': Another Identity Crisis!  //  

Sam Moskowitz, Willy Ley: Forgotten Prophet of the Space Age  //  Darrell Schweitzer, Bradbury's Horror Fiction  //  

Tim Sullivan, Magazine Fiction in Review  //  Jack L. Chalker, On Specialty Publishing: Relections on the Industry  //  

Rob Latham, What Next, Cyberpunks?

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Fantasy Review, #103

Robert A. Collins, Rob Latham, eds.

<  July 1987

Meckler Publishing Corporation

Quarto, 68 pages

$3.50

Notes:

  •  Only essays are listed here.

Essays: Robert A. Collins, The Editor's Notebook: After Nine Years, We Go Back to the Drawing Board  //  Matthew J.

Costello, Other Worlds: "Outer Limits" Is Resurrected on Videotape  //  Karl Edward Wagner, On Fantasy: The Raw

Edge  //  Somtow Sucharitkul, A Certain Slant of 'I': Alice in Tiptree Land  //  Charles de Lint, Dean R. Koontz  //  

George Zebrowski, International Science Fiction  //  George Zebrowski, A Checklist of Major Non-English Language

Science Fiction Published in English Since 1970  //  Darrell Schweitzer, One Fine Day in the Stygian Haunts of Hell:

Being the Whole Truth About the Fabled "Eye of Argon"  //  Rob Latham, Goodbye, Norma Jean