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Scythrop was an Australian science fiction fanzine which continued on from the Australian Science Fiction Review (formerly the Australian Science Fiction Newsletter). Edited and published by John Bangsund between 1969 and 1974, the first issue, December 1969, was numbered 21 (continuing on from the The Australian Science Fiction Review numbering).
Contributors to Scythrop included Mervyn Barrett, John Brosnan, A. Bertram Chandler, Harry Coachman, D. G. Compton, John Foyster, James Goodwin, Ursula K. LeGuin, Stanislaw Lem, Peter Mathers, Thomas Love Peacock, and George Turner. Cover art was contributed by John Sandler.
Following the publication of No 28 (Summer 1973-74) the fanzine went into a long hiatus. It was relaunched as the Australian Science Fiction Review (second series) in 1986.
Scythrop won the Ditmar Award for Best Fanzine in 1972.
Contributors to Scythrop included Mervyn Barrett, John Brosnan, A. Bertram Chandler, Harry Coachman, D. G. Compton, John Foyster, James Goodwin, Ursula K. LeGuin, Stanislaw Lem, Peter Mathers, Thomas Love Peacock, and George Turner. Cover art was contributed by John Sandler.
Following the publication of No 28 (Summer 1973-74) the fanzine went into a long hiatus. It was relaunched as the Australian Science Fiction Review (second series) in 1986.
Scythrop won the Ditmar Award for Best Fanzine in 1972.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
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Australian Science Fiction Review
Australian SF Review
John Bangsund
(editor),
Melbourne
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John Bangsund
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1966-1969
Z813110
1966-1969
periodical
(4 issues)
An Australian science fiction fanzine edited and published by John Bangsund the Australian Science Fiction Review started out as the Australian Science Fiction Newsletter. Twenty issues were published between 1966 and the end of 1969, at which time Bangsund relaunched it as Scythrop. Production of that zine ended in the summer of 1974, leading to a period of hibernation which lasted until Bangsund started a second series of the Australian Science Fiction Review in 1986.
Among the contributors to the first series of Australian Science Fiction Review were: Brian Aldiss, John Baxter, James Blish, A. Bertram Chandler, George Turner, Jim Ellis (as 'Jay Wallis'), John Foyster, Bruce Gillespie, Lee Harding, Langdon Jones, Ursula Le Guin, Michael Moorcock, Sam Moskowitz, Bernard O'Dowd, Thomas Love Peacock, Franz Rottensteiner, Bob Sessions (as 'Scribarius'), and Bob Toomey.
The Australian Science Fiction Review won the inaugural Ditmar Award for Best Fanzine (1969).
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Australian Science Fiction Review. Second Series
Australian SF Review. Second Series
Janeen Webb
(editor),
Lucy Sussex
(editor),
Yvonne Rousseau
(editor),
Russell Blackford
(editor),
Jenny Blackford
(editor),
John Foyster
(editor),
1986
Melbourne
:
Ebony Books
,
1986-1991
Z1810204
1986
periodical
The second series of Australian Science Fiction Review began in 1986 following a period of hibernation that began in 1974. The first series, published between 1966 and 1969, was formerly known as the Australian Science Fiction Newsletter (1958-1966). In December 1969 the zine's editor John Bangsund relaunched it as Scythrop (1969-1973/74). In all 27 issues of series two were published by Ebony Books for the Science Fiction Collective in six volumes before its final issue in March/May 1991.
Contributors included: John Bangsund, John Baxter, John D. Berry, Martin Bridgstock, Damien Broderick, Bruce Gillespie, Mark Linneman, Rosaleen Love, Joanna Russ, Norman Talbot, Michael J. Tolley, George Turner, Cherry Wilder, and Jack Williamson.
Australian Science Fiction Review won the Ditmar Award for Best Fanzine in 1991.
PeriodicalNewspaper Details
Range:
No 21 (1969) - No 28 (Summer 1973-74)
Continues:
Australian Science Fiction Review (1966-1969)
Continued by:
Australian Science Fiction Review. Second Series (1986-1991)
Awards
- 1972 shortlisted Ditmar Awards — Best Fan Website/Zine
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