Science Fiction Review (Monthly), The
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Digest-sized semiprofessional critical Magazine (see Semiprozine) published by Bran Dougal. Edited by Martin Last, with Baird Searles and Don Yee as associate editors, the latter dropping out after issue #9 (November 1975). Twenty monthly issues, March 1975 to October 1976, with #17/#18 for July/August 1976 being a double issue.
The first issue was titled The Science Fiction Review and featured reviews by all three editors and several others including Alice K Turner (her first appearance in print); it was then The Science Fiction Review (Monthly) until August 1975 and The Science Fiction Review Monthly thereafter to the final issue #20 in October 1976. Issues normally ran to 24pp, though some were shorter at 16pp (#6 and #7 for August and September 1975); the one and only double issue, #17/#18 for July/August 1976, extended to 36pp. The intention was to review, in fairly popular terms, every sf book published in the USA in a given month; but the overall quality of the reviews was not as high as those in Delap's F & SF Review, which began a month later, and it seems there was no room in the market – especially with the distribution problems of such small magazines – for two competing titles. Further outside contributors included Jon Gustafson, David G Hartwell, Beth Meacham and Baird Searles. [DRL/PN]
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