The Alien Critic no 8

No 8 (vol 3 no 1, February 1974). Important, long-running (under several different titles) sf fanzine, reviews, articles and comment from prolific porn author Dick Geis. ''Richard E. Geis - US writer, editor and sf fan, best known since 1953 for producing and contributing significantly to a fanzine, PYSCHOTIC, and later a semiprozine, THE ALIEN CRITIC , both of which were, confusingly, at different times known as SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW. His vigorously anti-highbrow judgements were for a long time influential in the sf field; between 1969-1983 he six times won a Hugo for Best Fanzine and a further seven times for Best Fan Writer. PSYCHOTIC, a US fanzine, edited by Richard E. Geis, begun in 1953 and after 20 issues was retitled Science Fiction Review for three issues in 1955; he then stopped publishing. Geis resumed it with PSYCHOTIC #21 in 1967, then again changed the title to SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW from #28. It was by this time printing more serious reviews and interviews, though its main feature remained Geis's amusing, rambling, personal comments. As SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW it won a Hugo for Best Fanzine in 1969 and 1970, but ended with no 43 in March, 1971, at which point it had a circulation, unusually high for a fanzine, of 1700. Geis then started THE ALIEN CRITIC in 1973, which itself, confusingly, underwent a change of title back to SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW in 1975'' (Peter Nicholls/Encyclopedia of SF). Near fine (NF) copy, browning along edges of rear cover.