Australian Science Fiction Review

(See Science Fiction Review for the vast number of other things with that title.)

Australian Science Fiction Review was a fanzine published between 1966 and 1969 by John Bangsund in Kingston, ACT, Australia which was later renamed Scythrop. It was later revived (under the title "Australian Science Fiction Review") by a group of others, see below.

First Series

It was nominated for the 1967 Best Fanzine Hugo and the 1968 Best Fanzine Hugo.

In 1969, the first year that the Ditmar Awards were first presented, the Australian Science Fiction Review won the Ditmar Award for Best Australian Amateur Publication or Fanzine.

Issue	Date	Pages	Notes
1	June 1966	36
2	August 1966	38
3	September 1966	38
4	October 1966	48
5	December 1966	44
6	January 1967	36
7	February 1967	38
7.5	March 1967	20
8	March 1967	46
9	April 1967	40
10	June 1967	98
11	August 1967	64
12	October 1967	52
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14
15
16
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18	December 1968	66
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20			Last issue titled Australian SF Review
21	December 1969		Now titled Scythrop
22	April 1971	48
23	June 1971	24
24	August 1971	4
25	January 1972	24
26	Autumn 1972	26
27	Spring 1972	24
28	Summer 1973	32	Final issue of series one
	March 1978	38	Parergon Papers #8 is labeled as ASFR 12th anniversary issue

Australian Science Fiction Review (First series) online at fanac.org

Second Series

In 1986, Australian Science Fiction Review was revived by The Science Fiction Collective aka the Melbourne Collective (possibly also known as the ASFR Cooperative): Jenny Blackford, Russell Blackford, John Foyster, Yvonne Rousseau and Lucy Sussex.

In 1991, the second series of ASFR won the Ditmar Award for Best Fanzine.

Issue	Date	Pages	Notes
1	March 1986	36
2	May 1986	36
3	July 1986	36
4	September 1986	36
5	November 1986	44
6	January 1987	56
7	March 1987	48
8	May 1987	36
9	July 1987	48
10	September 1987	36
11	November 1987	60
12	January 1988	60
13	March 1988	60
14	May 1988	60
15	July 1988	60
16	September 1988	34
17-18	November 1988	44
19	March 1989	46
20	June 1989	32
21	September 1989	32	Dated Spring 1989
22	December 1989	40	Dated Summer 1989
23	March 1990	32	Dated Summer 1989
24	Winter 1990	32
25	Spring 1990	32
26	Summer 1991	44
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• SF Collective online at fanac.org

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Publication

1966—1991

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