B.S.F.A. Magazines Index

What is this Site?

These pages contain details of the contents of the magazines published by the B.S.F.A. since it's foundation in 1959. They do not contain the actual text of the articles and reviews that are listed here.

Why not? For reasons of:-

permissions - too complex to obtain,
time - how long would it take to scan over 500 magazines?,
availability - I don't have all the issues,
disk space - my free web space is limited.

PDF versions of many of the publications can be found online at The Fanac Fan History Project. Digital versions of the current magazines are available via the B.S.F.A. web site, many of them only to members.

What is the B.S.F.A.?

The B.S.F.A. is the British Science Fiction Association, which was established in 1958 by a group of leading authors, readers, publishers and booksellers, including Brian Aldiss who was the first President of the BSFA, and Edmund Crispin who became the second President.

The official B.S.F.A. web site is at www.bsfa.co.uk.

For a description of the early days of the B.S.F.A., see Rob Hansen's The Roots, Birth, and Early Days of the BSFA.

The B.S.F.A. is also one of the joint administrators of The Arthur C. Clarke Award.

Magazine Index

The Index will initially contain details of the issues in my collection, but eventually I hope to add details of the other issues.

Individual issues of the following magazines can be displayed by selecting the issue from that magazine's selection page. If there is a PDF version on FANAC for the issue, there will be a link to the PDF file.

The contents of the following magazines can be listed by issue:

B.S.F.A. Bulletin (47 issues, October 1965 - May 1972) - Issues at FANAC
B.S.F.A. Newsletter, which became Matrix - Issues at FANAC
B.S.F.A. Review (22 issues, Autumn 2017 to Autumn 2023)
B.S.F.A. Yearbook
Fission (5 issues, August 2021 ongoing)
Focus - Issues at FANAC
Info (5? issues, September 1969 - June 1970)
Matrix, which became The Quantum - Issues at FANAC
Nexus
Paperback Inferno - Issues at FANAC
Paperback Parlour - Issues at FANAC
The Quantum (? issues, c 2011)
SF Writer's Bulletin (7 issues, ? 1967 - July 1971)
Tangent
Vector - Issues at FANAC
Vector Review Supplement

You can also see the top 100 names, in terms of entries in the Index:

Top 100

If anyone wants a copy of the base data, or of the Index (in HTML, or plain text form) then just ask Michael J. Cross.

Thanks to:

Andrew M. Butler for encouragement and suggestions, and the loan of some issues.
Vince Clarke for Vector's #1-3.
Keith H. Freeman for details of missing issues.
Carol Ann Green for the loan of some issues.
Greg Pickersgill's Memory Hole site for information on early publications.
Kevin Smith for some corrections.
Phil Stephensen-Payne for some corrections.
And, of course, the editors and contributors, without whom ...

Known Problems

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