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The Science Fiction Gazette (later issues were hyphenated Science-Fiction, as SFA's punctuation also varied) was a newsletter "for members only" published by the Science Fiction Association in the UK in two series in 1937 and, after a year's pause, 1938–9. The editor/s of the first series up to #6 are unknown and where copies exist nobody is credited although they were clearly from the Leeds branch. There were two versions of #4, produced by the two rival factions of the Leeds group during their SFA/SFL feud.
The first in the new series was edited by G. Ken Chapman from London, where the SFA had relocated, and the last by Eric C. Williams, with presumably one or the other doing the one in between.
| Issue | Date | Pp | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | February 1937 | ? | issues 1 and 5 apparently never seen even by the British Fanzine Bibliography |
| 2 | April 1937 | 2 | |
| 3 | May 1937 | 1 | Title and SFA given hyphenless. "The main object of this issue is to draw the attention of members to the sample of club stationary [sic] enclosed. … All members are urged to use club stationary in their correspondence with other fans." |
| 4 | July 1937 | 2 | official edition |
| 4 | July 1937 | 1 | unofficial edition: still hyphenless, date mis-punctuated as "July. 1937." "Owing to the resignation of Messers.Mayer and Warnes from the Leeds group,and consequent change of officers, all correspondence should be addressed to the society's Headquarters at 9, Brunswick Terrace, Leeds 2, and not to any private address." "The membership of the Association has now reached the 71 mark, the last eleven being … all the Los Angeles are now members of the Association." Done on an old-style typewriter without a separate numeral "1" so it had to be emulated with capital I. |
| 5 | July 1937 | 1 | |
| 6 | September 1937 | 1 | Title and SFA (twice) now hyphenated. Deals with "reorganising the society to some extent, in several stages during the next few months … to make the running of the society more efficient than at present." |
| Pause of more than a year – quite a lot in SFA's brief life; followed by "New Series". This, per BFB, changed format from quarto to taller foolscap. | |||
| (1) | October 1938 | 2 | Issue unnumbered but is whole number 7; "The official organ of the Executive Committee of the Science-Fiction Association. Editor – G. Ken. Chapman. Published - irregularly." Contains full-stopped headlines "BALLOT FOR 1938-1939 S.F.A. COUNCIL." and "EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE CHANGES." (resignation of "Mr. Eric C. Williams") |
| 2 | March 1939 | 2? | apparently also not seen by BFB |
| 3 | May 1939 | 2 | whole number 9, last issue. "Editor - Eric C. Williams. (New Series, No. 3.) … primarily to inform members of some emergency changes that have been carried out in the Secretariat of the SFA. … the members of SFA, when it comes to active work, are the last word in apathy." |
- Science Fiction Gazette online at fanac.org (five out of the ten issues as of 2024)
| Publication | 1937—1939 |
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