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FANTASY REVIEW [later SCIENCE-FANTASY REVIEW]. (all published).
Ilford, Essex: Walter H. Gillings, 1947-1950. Octavo, eighteen issues, pictorial self wrappers, stapled. A complete file of the eighteen issues published prior to incorporation as supplements in Gillings' professional magazine SCIENCE-FANTASY. "FANTASY REVIEW" was the title Gillings gave to his postwar revival of SCIENTIFICTION. Professionally printed as a neat twenty-page booklet (later growing to thirty-two and even forty pages), it was edited with Gillings' usual polish. Gillings also wrote most of the contents, often under such pen names as Thomas Sheridan and Geoffrey Giles, and the magazine contains an immense amount of news of all kinds, as well as intelligent reviews and criticism. FR was certainly the most mature news magazine British fandom had produced, and it is still one of the most elaborate of its kind." - Tymn and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 824-25. Pavlat and Evans, Fanzine Index (1965), p. 40 and p. 96.
SCIENTIFICTION: THE BRITISH FANTASY REVIEW.
Ilford, Essex: Walter H. Gillings, 1937-1938. Octavo, six issues, printed wrappers, stapled. Six of the seven issues published (lacking issue number 2, April 1937) prior to merging with Doug Mayer's TOMORROW. "SCIENTIFICTION is still one of the most important fanzines ever produced in Britain and is now an invaluable source of news about prewar SF. Moskowitz called it 'a superb effort,' while Warner considers it 'one of the most ambitious fanzines in history.' With his expertise as a journalist, Gillings was able to produce a highly readable magazine useful both to those inside and outside SF. Apart from news and reviews presented in professional newspaper style, the magazine also contained interviews, photographs and critical articles. It is an essential reference aid for the serious researcher." - Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, p. 841. Includes interviews with John Beynon Harris, Festus Pragnell, Olaf Stapledon, Eric Frank Russell, John Russell Fearn, and Benson Herbert, plus articles by John Beynon Harris, John Russell Fearn, Eric Frank Russell, Arthur C. Clarke, and David H. Keller, a notice of the death of H. P. Lovecraft, "Campbell's Plans for ASTOUNDING," and other material. Moskowitz, The Immortal Storm (1974), p. 101. Pavlat and Evans, Fanzine Index (1965), p. 103. Warner, All Our Yesterdays, p. 84.
TALES OF WONDER.
Kingswood, Surrey: The World's Work (1913) Ltd., 1938. Octavo, single issue, cover by W. J. Roberts, pictorial wrappers. Britain's first adult oriented science fiction magazine, at first publishing solely original material from British authors and reprints from U. S. magazines, and later adding new material from American authors. "Tales of Wonder was a lively, entertaining and enjoyable magazine..." Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazine, pp. 652-654. The magazine had to cease publication due to wartime paper restrictions after sixteen issues. Includes Edmond Hamilton, David H. Keller, William F. Temple and others.
TALES OF WONDER.
Kingswood, Surrey: The World's Work (1913) Ltd., 1942. Octavo, single issue, cover by J. Nicolson, pictorial wrappers. The final issue, with an announcement as such on the front cover. Britain's first adult oriented science fiction magazine, at first publishing solely original material from British authors and reprints from U.S. magazines, and later adding new material from American authors. "Tales of Wonder was a lively, entertaining and enjoyable magazine..." Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazine, pp. 652-654. The magazine had to cease publication due to wartime paper restrictions after sixteen issues. Fiction by Benson Herbert, Clark Ashton Smith, Miles J. Breuer, and Marion F. Eadie.