Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 46 — page 151: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION not so well known. It’s all good stuff, adult, sensible, to the point. PERHAPS is con- siderably better than most fanzines published in Britain, and would be able to join the upper ranks if it came out regularly and punctually. (I should add that No. 3 is the December, 1953, issue, which ~ reached me at the end of March, 1954.) DEVIANT is a2 new one on me. Carol McKinney, the Editor, sent me the first issue and I’m mighty impressed by it. Large-size, 35 pages, well duplicated and illustrated, crammed with aill- sorts of features that you do not usually see in fanzines—it costs 15 c. a copy or 40 c. for three, in the U.S.A. and Canada. British fans—and others outside the new world— can get it by sending one British science fiction maga- zine or pocket-book per copy to Michael Birrel, 10 North Street, St. Leonard’s-on-Séa, Sussex. (The editorial address is 377 East Ist North, Provo, Utah, U.S.A.) 150 A warm welcome to this newcomer and all who are associated with it. It is the most “English’’ of any Ameri- can fanzine, and I rather fancy it benefits from that—without my being in any way national- istic. The benefits are in maturity and straightforward common sense rather than the bouncing, childish pseudo- . humour found in so many Stateside fanzines. SCIENCE FANTASY BULLETIN, though no longer being pub- lished, is not dead. According to its Editor, Harlan Ellison, “it has metamorphosed to DIMENSIONS!’ SFB was a bum- per job that must have taken a great many toiling hours to put together. Harlan is now at Ohio State University and cannot find the time to put out a mammoth fanzine. So he is putting SFB in cold storage for a while and keeping in touch by issuing a smaller publication called DIMENSIONS. Details of this latter fanzine are not yet settled, but it is claimed that DIMENSIONS will - be even better than SFB. — comicbooks.conn