• Publication: Science Fiction: A Review of Speculative Literature, #4Publication Record # 604204 (View All Issues) (View Issue Grid)
• Editor: Van Ikin
• Date: 1979-05-00
• Publisher: Van Ikin
• Price:
  $1.70^?$: US dollar
• Pages: 108
• Format:
  pulp^?Magazine using the common pulp size: 6.5" by 9.5". For ISFDB purposes this may also be used as a designation for the quality of the paper. There are some untrimmed pulps that are as large as 8" by 11.75
• Type: MAGAZINE
• Cover: Science Fiction: A Review of Speculative Literature, #4 by Michael Kumashov
• Notes:

  • Size is 6.5" X 9 3/8", i.e. pulp size, but better bound that the traditional pulp. Perfect bound.
  • Kumashov's Campaign is a 12-page art portfolio, consisting of all full-page drawings. One of them, "The Letter" is used for the cover of this issue as well.
  • The magazine title page was published with an address for the author at the Univ. of Sydney, New South Wales, but that has been covered over with a sticker giving his address at Univ. of Western Australia, Nedlands, W.A. This presumably means that this is the first issue at that new address.
  • ISSN 0314-6677

Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• 4 • What is Science Fiction?, Or, Finding a Lowest Common Denominator • essay by Terry Dowling
• 21 • The Science in Science Fiction: An Interview with Frank Bryning • interview of Frank Bryning • interview by Van Ikin
• 40 • Frank Bryning: A Science Fiction and Fantasy Checklist • essay by uncredited
• 42 • Action - Reaction • short story by Frank Bryning (variant of Action—Reaction 1952)
• 67 • TimeWinds • interview of Dennis Collins and Mark Salwowski • interview by Terry Dowling and George Mannix
• 75 • The Eighteenth Century and Science Fiction: A Symbiosis? • essay by Donald M. Hassler
• 83 • On the Role of Editor • essay by The Science Fiction Team
• 98 • Shorter Notices (reviews) • essay by uncredited
• 101 • Nightwebs: A Book Column • essay by Keith Curtis
• 101 • Review of Will Eisner's "A Contract With God" • essay by Keith Curtis
• 105 •  Letter (Science Fiction: A Review of Speculative Literature, #4) • essay by Jack Williamson
• 105 •  Letter (Science Fiction: A Review of Speculative Literature, #4) • essay by George Turner
• 107 •  Letter (Science Fiction: A Review of Speculative Literature, #4) • essay by Ron F. Tait