Fantasy Newsletter

{{Short description|Fantasy fanzine}} {{italic title}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} thumb|right|Cover of Issue 21 (July 1980) '''''Fantasy Newsletter''''', later renamed '''''Fantasy Review''''', was a major fantasy fanzine founded by Paul C. Allen and later issued by Robert A. Collins.<ref name="Hugo Awards 1984"/><ref name="Fantasy Review 1986"/> Frequent contributors included Fritz Leiber and Gene Wolfe.

==Publication history== 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.

==Reception== In Issue 13 of ''Abyss'', Dave Nalle called this "well-edited ... an ultimately valuable magazine for anyone interested in reading fantastic fiction." Nalle noted that it was "a varied magazine, with columns for writers by Fritz Leiber and other names, movie reviews by Bill Warren, and all sorts of book reviews." Nalle concluded, "It is really invaluable to anyone who cruises the bookstores waiting for new releases. It lets you know what you can look forward to.""<ref name=abyss>{{cite magazine|last=Nalle|first=Dave| authorlink = Dave Nalle|date=June 1981 |title=In the Speculum|magazine=Abyss| issue=13|pages=3}}</ref> Two years later, Nalle re-reviewed the fanzine and concluded, "On the whole, ''Fantasy Newsletter'' is quite good, and a useful aid for those interested in small presses."<ref name=abyss26>{{cite magazine|last=Nalle|first=Dave| authorlink = Dave Nalle|date=August 1983 |title=In the Speculum|magazine=Abyss| issue=26|pages=5}}</ref>

==Awards== The magazine won the Balrog Award and the World Fantasy Award.<ref name="Fantasy Review 1986"/> It was also 1984 finalist to the Hugo Awards, in the semiprozine category.<ref name="Hugo Awards 1984"/><ref name="Loc84"/><ref name="Fantasy Review 1986"/>

==References== {{reflist|1|refs= <ref name="Fantasy Review 1986">{{cite magazine |editor1-last=Collins |editor1-first=Robert A. |editor1-link= |editor2-last=McGuirk |editor2-first= Carol|editor2-link= |date= March 1986 |title= Contents [and credits]|pages=3|url= |magazine=Fantasy Review |publisher=Florida Atlantic University |issn=0747-234X |quote=Fantasy Review - Winner of the Balrog and World Fantasy Awards, Hugo Finalist; (Formerly Fantasy Newsletter); Founded by Paul C. Allen}}</ref>

<ref name="Hugo Awards 1984">{{cite web |url=https://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/1984-hugo-awards/ |title= 1984 Hugo Awards|last= |first= |date= 26 July 2007|website=hugoawards.org |publisher= |access-date= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230328214333/https://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/1984-hugo-awards/ |archive-date=2023-03-28|url-status=live |quote=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]}}</ref>

<ref name="Loc84">{{cite web |url=http://www.sfadb.com/World_Fantasy_Awards_1984 |title=World Fantasy Awards 1984 |work=Science Fiction Awards Database |publisher=Locus Science Fiction Foundation |access-date=2013-09-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150630044017/http://www.sfadb.com/World_Fantasy_Awards_1984 |archive-date=2015-06-30 |url-status=live}}</ref>

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*John Clute and Peter Nicholls, ''The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction'', St. Martin's Press, 1993, {{ISBN|0-312-09618-6}}.

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