• Publication: Science Fiction: A Review of Speculative Literature, #3Publication Record # 739585 (View All Issues) (View Issue Grid)
• Editors: Terry Dowling, Van Ikin
• Date: 1979-01-00
• Publisher: Van Ikin
• Price:
  $1.70^?$: US dollar
• Pages: 154
• 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, #3 by Geoff Pollard
• Notes: • Size 6½" x 9½". • This intended "December 1978" issue is actually "reaching subscribers in late 1979", though forty-some copies had been distributed earlier in 1979. • Data from The FictionMags Index.

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 4 • The "Man" with the Off-White Light-Sabre • essay by Terry Dowling
• 10 • The Doctrine of the Perfect Lie • (1978) • poem by Roger Zelazny
• 11 • I Used to Think in Lines That Were Irregular to the Right • (1978) • poem by Roger Zelazny
• 13 • The Art of Xenography: Jack Vance's "General Culture" Novels • (1978) • essay by Terry Dowling
• 13 •  The Art of Xenography: Jack Vance's "General Culture" Novels • interior artwork by Geoff Pollard
• 99 • A Vance Bestiary • essay by Geoff Pollard
• 100 • At the Edge of the Ebb • poem by Bob Beale
• 103 • Travel Service • short story by Peter Knox
• 103 •  Travel Service • interior artwork by Dane Ikin
• 111 • Suspect Donut • short story by Roland Toime
• 111 •  Suspect Donut • interior artwork by Dane Ikin
• 119 • George Turner: The Man, the Writer, the Critic • interview of George Turner • interview by Van Ikin
• 119 •  George Turner: The Man, the Writer, the Critic • interior artwork by Dane Ikin
• 139 •   Review: Beloved Son by George Turner • review by Van Ikin
• 143 •   Review: 100 Great SF Short Short Stories by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander • review by Ron Tait
• 143 •   Review: SS-GB by Len Deighton • review by Ron Tait
• 150 •  Letter (Science Fiction (Australia), #3, 1979) • essay by Roger Zelazny
• 150 •  Letter (Science Fiction (Australia), #3, 1979) • essay by Lee Harding
• 151 •  Letter (Science Fiction (Australia), #3, 1979) • essay by John J. Alderson