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<NewPub>
<Submitter>Mjcrossuk</Submitter>
<Subject>The Complete Patchin Review</Subject>
<Title>The Complete Patchin Review</Title>
<Year>2019-07-00</Year>
<Publisher>Ansible Editions</Publisher>
<Binding>unknown</Binding>
<PubType>OMNIBUS</PubType>
<Isbn>9781913451516</Isbn>
<Price>£0.00</Price>
<Note>The book is free, but "a donation to TAFF is a fine way to express your appreciation"</Note>
<Authors>
<Author>Charles Platt</Author>
</Authors>
<Synopsis>The Patchin Review ran for seven issues from 1981 to 1985 and generated much controversy in the SF community with its no-holds-barred criticism, satire, examination of dubious publishing practices, exuberant "Gabby Snitch" gossip column and numerous polemics – both signed and pseudonymous. As its title indicates, this ebook contains the complete run – plus two bonus articles by Charles Platt that appeared elsewhere. Published as an Ansible Editions ebook for the TAFF site on 1 July 2019. 157,000 words.

Charles Platt has written a new introduction for this ebook reissue, excerpted below:

From the Introduction

Increasingly, I saw that editors were afraid to publish serious or experimental science fiction. A writer such as Philip K. Dick had broken into the field in the early 1960s writing short novels, each of which appeared as half of an Ace Double. A few years later, a writer such as Thomas M. Disch had imagined he could make a living writing serious literature such as Camp Concentration. I didn’t think that either Disch or Dick would have been able to find a publisher if they had begun writing in 1980.

Because I lived in New York City, and knew all the editors, and also knew most of the writers in the United States and Britain, I felt I was in a position to publish a small magazine of commentary that would be frank about the changes that were occurring and could agitate against some of them. That was my intention in The Patchin Review. I also decided to have some fun by publishing a self-satirical gossip column. I hoped that people would buy the magazine for the gossip and then read the more serious features.</Synopsis>
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<Series>The Patchin Review</Series>
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<Juvenile>No</Juvenile>
<Novelization>No</Novelization>
<NonGenre>No</NonGenre>
<Graphic>No</Graphic>
<Webpages>
<Webpage>https://taff.org.uk/ebooks.php?x=Patchin</Webpage>
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<Source>Primary</Source>
<ModNote>I’m not sure that this form is the correct one for a collection of magazines, each of which was edited by someone rather than written by one person; putting Charles Platt as the Author of each of the 7 issues is wrong as he was the Editor. The form insists that an author is entered for each title. Can this be sorted out when the titles here are linked to individual issues in the database? I initially picked CHAPBOOK as the Title Type for the issues as that was the closest, but that was rejected: "Multiple CHAPBOOK titles are not allowed" so I changed them to ANTHOLOGY. Maybe we need a new Title Type of MAGAZINE?
I tried to include an EDITOR title, but that bounced with "Only MAGAZINE and FANZINE publications can contain EDITOR titles."</ModNote>
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<cTitle>Introduction (The Complete Patchin Review)</cTitle>
<cAuthors>Charles Platt</cAuthors>
<cDate>2019-07-00</cDate>
<cType>ESSAY</cType>
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<cTitle>The Patchin Review 1: July 1981</cTitle>
<cAuthors>Charles Platt</cAuthors>
<cDate>2019-07-00</cDate>
<cType>ANTHOLOGY</cType>
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<cTitle>The Patchin Review 2: September 1981</cTitle>
<cAuthors>Charles Platt</cAuthors>
<cDate>2019-07-00</cDate>
<cType>ANTHOLOGY</cType>
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<cTitle>The Patchin Review 3: January 1982</cTitle>
<cAuthors>Charles Platt</cAuthors>
<cDate>2019-07-00</cDate>
<cType>ANTHOLOGY</cType>
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<cTitle>The Patchin Review 4: April-June 1982</cTitle>
<cAuthors>Charles Platt</cAuthors>
<cDate>2019-07-00</cDate>
<cType>ANTHOLOGY</cType>
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<cTitle>The Patchin Review 5: October-December 1982</cTitle>
<cAuthors>Charles Platt</cAuthors>
<cDate>2019-07-00</cDate>
<cType>ANTHOLOGY</cType>
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<cTitle>The Patchin Review 6: March-May 1983</cTitle>
<cAuthors>Charles Platt</cAuthors>
<cDate>2019-07-00</cDate>
<cType>ANTHOLOGY</cType>
</ContentTitle>
<ContentTitle>
<cTitle>The Patchin Review 7: March 1985: Final Issue</cTitle>
<cAuthors>Charles Platt</cAuthors>
<cDate>2019-07-00</cDate>
<cType>ANTHOLOGY</cType>
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<cTitle>Bonus Articles</cTitle>
<cAuthors>Charles Platt</cAuthors>
<cDate>2019-07-00</cDate>
<cType>ESSAY</cType>
</ContentTitle>
<ContentTitle>
<cTitle>The Rape of Science Fiction</cTitle>
<cAuthors>Charles Platt</cAuthors>
<cDate>2019-07-00</cDate>
<cType>ESSAY</cType>
</ContentTitle>
<ContentTitle>
<cTitle>Too Many Books</cTitle>
<cAuthors>Charles Platt</cAuthors>
<cDate>2019-07-00</cDate>
<cType>ESSAY</cType>
</ContentTitle>
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