FANTASY REVIEW

   1. UK FANZINE, ed Walter GILLINGS. 18 issues 1947-50. Gillings, previously editor of several UK SF MAGAZINES - TALES OF WONDER (1937-42), STRANGE TALES (1946) and FANTASY (1946-7) - found himself needing an outlet for his energies after the demise of the latter title and began FR, which was almost identical in format and content to his earlier fanzine Scientifiction (7 issues 1937-8) and later fanzine Cosmos (3 issues 1969). It carried reviews and sf news items, and was professional in appearance. For its last 3 numbers the title changed to Science-Fantasy Review. When in 1950 Gillings was given the editorship of SCIENCE FANTASY, the new sister magazine to Nova Publications' NEW WORLDS, he incorporated Science-Fantasy Review into its first 2 issues as a news-chat section; this disappeared when John CARNELL assumed the editorship of Science Fantasy with \#3.

   2. US monthly critical SEMIPROZINE, founded as Fantasy Newsletter by Paul C. Allen in Rochester, NY, as, literally, an 8pp newsletter in June 1978, but becoming a magazine in Jan 1980, ceasing publication in Oct 1981. It was revived at once, however, by Robert Collins, director of the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts at Florida Atlantic University. The magazine, which had always published interesting features, gained much strength when amalgamated at the beginning of 1984 with SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY BOOK REVIEW (Neil BARRON, editor of the latter, becoming review editor) with a new title, Fantasy Review, but a continuation of the previous numeration. (The logo showed SF \& Fantasy Review for several months, with the "SF" very small; it was soon dropped.) FR had the widest (though not necessarily deepest) sf-book-review coverage in the US and probably the world, covering fantasy and horror as well as sf. Later review editors were Carol McGuirk and Rob Latham. Quite handsomely produced, FR had the usual difficulty in finding a commercially viable market for a magazine of the standard desired by the editor, and folded with \#103, July/Aug 1987. The review section lives on less usefully in annual form, beginning 1988, as SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY BOOK REVIEW ANNUAL, with Collins and Latham co-editors. [m2]   PN