Paperback Parlour

A bimonthly fanzine of the BSFA devoted to reviews of British paperback books, launched in February 1977 as Paperback Parlour. Starting with issue #19 (April 1980) the title was changed to Paperback Inferno, and after issue #97, it was incorporated into the quarterly Vector.

Much of the contents (brief reviews of everything not covered in more detail by someone else) was written by the editor. Joseph Nicholas was editor of issues #15 through issue #29, after which Andy Sawyer took over.

The confusion in numbering Volume/Nr was caused by skipping the June 1979 issue and starting the Volume 3 again afterwards.

Issue	Date	Pages	Notes
V1.1	February 1977	8	ed. Phil Stephensen-Payne
V1.2	April 1977	10
V1.4	August 1977	9
V2.5 #11	October 1978	8
V2.6	December 1978	24
V3.1 #13	February 1979	6
V3.2 #14	April 1979	6	last issue by Stephensen-Payne
V3.1 again #15	August 1979	10	after the skip ed. by Joseph Nicholas and misnumbered
V3.2 again #16	October 1979	12	misnumbered
V3.3 #17	December 1979	10
V3.4 #18	February 1980	8	last issue as Paperback Parlour
V3.5 #19	April 1980	10	Now named 'Paperback Inferno'
V3.6 #20	June 1980	12
V4.1 #21	August 1980	12
V4.2	1980	12
V4.3	1980	12
V4.4		12
V4.5		12
V4.6		12
V5.1		12
V5.2		14
V5.3	1981	12
V5.4	1982	12
V5.5	1982	14
V5.6	1982	14
V6.1	1982	14
V6.3	1982	16
V6.4	1982	14
V6.4	1983	14	Misnumbered?
V6.5	1983	14
V7.1 #43	August 1983	16
V7.4 #46	February 1984	16
V7.5 #47	April 1984	16
54	June 1985	16
57	December 1985	16
58	February 1986	16
60	June 1986	16
66	June 1987	16
68	October 1987	16
81	December 1989	16
96	June 1992	16
97	1992	16	final issue

The website below contains bibliographic details (split to Parlour and Inferno), not the whole content.

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1977—1992

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