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Fantasy Newsletter

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Fantasy Newsletter, later renamed Fantasy Review, was a major fantasy fanzine founded by Paul C. Allen and later issued by Robert A. Collins.[1][2] Frequent contributors included Fritz Leiber and Gene Wolfe.

Publication history

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The first issue appeared in June 1978, and Allen continued publication until October 1981. It was then taken over without a break by Collins, director of the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts at Florida Atlantic University. At the beginning of 1984, it was combined with Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Review, and given a new title, Fantasy Review. At this point, it became a semi-prozine, with substantial bookstore sales, and provided the widest coverage of science fiction and fantasy books then in existence. The magazine folded with issue #103, July/August 1987, but the review section continued as Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Review Annual well into the 1990s.

Awards

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The magazine won the Balrog Award and the World Fantasy Award.[2] It was also 1984 finalist to the Hugo Awards, in the semiprozine category.[1][3][2]

References

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  1. ^ a b "1984 Hugo Awards". hugoawards.org. 26 July 2007. Archived from the original on 2023-03-28. Best Semiprozine: Locus ed. by Charles N. Brown [winner]; Science Fiction Chronicle ed. by Andrew I. Porter [finalist]; Science Fiction Review ed. by Richard E. Geis [finalist]; Fantasy Newsletter/Fantasy Review ed. by Robert A. Collins [finalist]; Whispers ed. by Stuart David Schiff [finalist]
  2. ^ a b c Collins, Robert A.; McGuirk, Carol, eds. (March 1986). "Contents [and credits]". Fantasy Review. Florida Atlantic University. p. 3. ISSN 0747-234X. Fantasy Review - Winner of the Balrog and World Fantasy Awards, Hugo Finalist; (Formerly Fantasy Newsletter); Founded by Paul C. Allen
  3. ^ "World Fantasy Awards 1984". Science Fiction Awards Database. Locus Science Fiction Foundation. Archived from the original on 2015-06-30. Retrieved 2013-09-20.
  • John Clute and Peter Nicholls, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, St. Martin's Press, 1993, ISBN 0-312-09618-6.