Fantasy Review
- (For others reviews of fantasy, see Fantasy Review disambiguation page)
Fantasy Review was a critical and news semiprozine (SFE calls it amateur magazine, as it was well printed and not cheap) published between March, 1947 and Spring, 1950 by Walter Gillings (18 issues, in odd months until #14, then quarterly) after his previous pro effort Fantasy folded. In format and content, it was similar to his pre-War (also printed) Scientifiction, declaring itself its "revival"; the department of news in brief was titled "Walter Gillings' Fantasia". For the last three issues it was renamed Science-Fantasy Review.
Gillings then became editor of the prozine Science-Fantasy, incorporating SFR into it for first two issues, Summer and Winter 1950. Next year, Gillings was replaced by Ted Carnell and gafiated for a long time (or was it in the opposite order?). His 1969 Cosmos was subtitled "Science-Fantasy Review" again, but did not last the year.
Mike Ashley described FR as a “highly professional-looking critical magazine … packed with news, reviews and information about the field.”
| Issue | Date | Pages | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 1947 | 20 | |
| 2 | May 1947 | 20 | |
| 3 | July 1947 | 20 | |
| 4 | September 1947 | 20 | |
| 5 | November 1947 | 20 | |
| 6 | January 1948 | 20 | |
| 7 | March 1948 | 20 | |
| 8 | May 1948 | 20 | |
| 9 | July 1948 | 20 | |
| 10 | September 1948 | 20 | |
| 11 | November 1948 | 20 | |
| 12 | January 1949 | 32 | |
| 13 | March 1949 | 32 | |
| 14 | May 1949 | 32 | |
| 15 | Summer 1949 | 32 | |
| 16 | Autumn 1949 | 32 | renamed Science-Fantasy Review |
| 17 | Winter 1949 | 36 | |
| 18 | Spring 1950 | 40 |
- Fantasy Review Complete Archive at eFanzines: "Files are in both HTML and PDF format. … HTML files combine searchable text with a facsimile of the appearance of the printed editions". Scanned by Philip Turner
- Fantasy Review online at fanac.org (PDF)
- Entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
| Publication | 1947—1950 |
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