Australian Science Fiction Review/Second Series

The ASFR was an Australian science fiction zine. The logo was jointly created by Steph Campbell and John Bangsund.
== Details from the International Science Fiction Data Base (via Wayback May 9/24)Issue #1 ==
March 1986. 36 pages, edited by Jenny Blackford, Russell Blackford, John Foyster, Yvonne Rousseau and Lucy Sussex.
Contents:
* "Dicebamus Hesterna Die" - essay by John Bangsund (2)
* "Our Collective Ways" - essay by Jenny Blackford (3)
* "The Long View Part 1" - essay by John Foyster (4)
* "Gene Wolfe's Sleight of Hand" - article by Bruce Gillespie (12)
* "Taking Wynne Whitford Seriously" article by Russell Blackford (18)
* Reviews:
** Despatches from the Frontiers of the Female Mind edited by Jen Green and Sarah LeFanu, reviewed by Lucy Sussex (32)
** Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock, reviewed by Jenny Blackford (33)
* In the Next Issue and How to Subscribe (36)
== Reviews and Reactions Issue #1==
== Issue #2 ==
May 1986. 36 pages, edited by Jenny Blackford, Russell Blackford, John Foyster, Yvonne Rousseau and Lucy Sussex.
Contents:
* "Dicebamus Hesterna Die" - editorial by John Bangsund (2)
* "Our Collective Ways" - editorial by Jenny Blackford (3)
* "The Long View Part 2" - essay by John Foyster (4)
* "Ethical Culture GT" - essay by Yvonne Rousseau (10)
* "Morals, Ethics and Viewpoints" - essay by George Turner (17)
* "Reply to George Turner's Comments" - essay by Yvonne Rousseau (21)
* "Final Remarks" - essay by George Turner (27)
* "Final Remarks" - essay by Yvonne Rousseau (28)
* Reviews: 
** Threshold by David R. Palmer - review by Russell Blackford (31)
** Lovecraft's Book by Richard A. Lupoff - review by John Foyster (33)
** The Cat Who Walks Through Walls by Robert A. Heinlein - review by Yvonne Rousseau (34)
== Reviews and Reactions Issue #2==
== Issue #3 ==
July 1986. 36 pages, edited by Jenny Blackford, Russell Blackford, John Foyster, Yvonne Rousseau and Lucy Sussex.
* Articles on the history of magazine sf ("The Long View, Part Three"), on recent Australian sf, plus Wynne Whiteford responding to an earlier article, and reviews.
== Reviews and Reactions Issue #3==
== Issue #4 ==
September 1986. 36 pages, edited by Jenny Blackford, Russell Blackford, John Foyster, Yvonne Rousseau and Lucy Sussex.
Contents:
* "Dicebamus Hesterna Die" - editorial by John Bangsund (2)
* "Our Collective Ways" - editorial by Yvonne Rousseau (3)
* "Kismet Harding!" by Cherry Wilder - touches on Chernobyl and German politics (5)
*"Debased and Lascivious?" - essay by Russell Blackford (8) - winner of the 1987 William Atheling Jr. Award at CapCon
* Exchanges: Jack Williamson to John Foyster - essay by Jack Williamson (22)
*Exchanges: John Foyster to Jack Williamson - essay by John Foyster (22)
*Reviews: 
**Bard III: The Wild Sea by Keith Taylor - review by Russell Blackford (24)
**Blood Music by Greg Bear - review by John Foyster (27)
**A Door Into Ocean by Joan Slonczewski - review by Jenny Blackford (28)
**Age of Wonders: Exploring the World of Science Fiction by David G. Hartwell - review by John D. Berry (29)
**La nouvelle science-fiction Américaine by Gérard Cordesse - review by John D. Berry (30)
**The Edge of Tomorrow by Isaac Asimov - review by Rosaleen Love (32)
*Letters of comment from: Martin Bridgstock; Jenny Blackford; John D. Berry; Mark Linneman (34)
==Reviews and Reactions Issue #4==
==Issue #5==
November 1986. 44 pages, edited by Jenny Blackford, Russell Blackford, John Foyster, Yvonne Rousseau and Lucy Sussex.
Contents:
* "Dicebamus Hesterna Die" - editorial by John Bangsund (2)
*"Our Collective Ways" - editorial by Russell Blackford (5)
*"Fan-De-Siecle" by Cherry Wilder - fannish activities and the Frankfurt Book Fair, plus a filk: (7)
*"A Conversation With Gene Wolfe" - interview conducted by Earl Ingersoll (12)
*"An Examination of a Fix-Up" - article by Lucy Sussex (23)
*Reviews:
**The Dream Years by Lisa Goldstein, reviewed by Lucy Sussex (32)
**The Secret of Life by Rudy Rucker, reviewed by Lucy Sussex (34)
**Probe by Carole Nelson Douglas, reviewed by Lucy Sussex (34)
**The Island of Crimea by Vasily Aksyonov, reviewed by John Foyster (35)
**Native Tongue by Suzette Haden Elgin, reviewed by Janeen Webb (38)
** In Other Worlds by A.A. Attanasio, reviewed by Leigh Edmonds (41)
*Letter of Comment from Brian Aldiss (44)
*Want to Subscribe? (44)
==Reviews and Reactions Issue #5==
==Issue #6 ==
January 1987. 56 pages, edited by Jenny Blackford, Russell Blackford, John Foyster, Yvonne Rousseau and Lucy Sussex.
Contents:
*"Dicebamus Hesterna Die" - editorial by John Bangsund (2)
* "Our Collective Ways" - editorial by John Foyster (5)
*"Science Fiction in 2001: a Symposium" with Brian Aldiss, Poul Anderson, David G. Compton, Ursula LeGuin and Larry Niven; introduction by John Foyster. (7)
*Review: Trillion Year Spree by Brian Aldiss and David Wingrove, reviewed by John Foyster (26)
* The King of Ys: Roma Mater by Poul Anderson and Karen Anderson, reviewed by John Foyster (40)
*A Usual Lunacy by D.G. Compton, reviewed by Andrew Whitmore (43)
*Always Coming Home by Ursula LeGuin, reviewed by Yvonne Rousseau (50)
*Footfall by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, reviewed by Russell Blackford (55)
==Reviews and Reactions Issue #6==
== Issue #7==
March 1987. 48 pages, edited by Jenny Blackford, Russell Blackford, John Foyster, Yvonne Rousseau and Lucy Sussex.
Contents:
*"Dicebamus Hesterna Die" - editorial by John Bangsund (2)
* "Our Collective Ways" - editorial by Jenny Blackford (3)
*"Auld Acquaintance" by Cherry Wilder - fannish reading and Christmas in Germany (4)
* "Of Sex, Objects, Signs, Systems, Sales, SF and Other Things" by Samuel R. Delany - article on Dhalgren (9)
*Review: The Black Grail by Damien Broderick, reviewed by Michael Turner (37)
*"Would I Write a Fix-Up?" George Turner
*Letters of Comment from: Samuel R. Delany, Martin Bridgstock, Robert A. W. Lowndes, Patrick McGuire and John D. Berry.
*Want To Subscribe? (48)
==Reviews and Reactions Issue #7==
==Issue #8==
May 1987. 36 pages, edited by Jenny Blackford, Russell Blackford, John Foyster, Yvonne Rousseau and Lucy Sussex.
Contents: 
*"Dicebamus Hesterna Die" - editorial by John Bangsund (2)
*"Our Collective Ways" - editorial by Lucy Essex (5)
*"The Alien Corn" by Cherry Wilder - regular column from Germany (6)
*"The Broderick-Russ Correspondence" - a selection of correspondence between Damien Broderick and Joanna Russ (9)
*"Who Is John Norman and Why Is He Saying These Dreadful Things About Women?" by Lucy Sussex - article on the author of the Gor series (19)
*"Chained to the Alien: Change and Delany" by Michael J. Tolley - article about Samuel R. Delany (22)
*"The Short View" by Yvonne Rosseau (28)
*Reviews: 
**The Needle on Full, edited by Caroline Forbes, reviewed by Lucy Sussex (30)
**A Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, reviewed by Lucy Sussex (31)
*"Twenty Years Ago in ASFR" - reprint of an opinion by John Foyster from series 1, no. 8 (March 1967)
*Letters of Comment from: Joseph Nicholas, Cy Chauvin, Douglas Barbour and Damon Knight. (34)
==Reviews and Reactions Issue #8==
==Issue #9==
July 1987. 48 pages, edited by Jenny Blackford, Russell Blackford, John Foyster, Yvonne Rousseau and Lucy Sussex.
Contents:
* "Our Collective Ways" - editorial by Yvonne Rousseau (2)
*"Life's Grim" by Cherry Wilder - regular column from Germany (4)
*"Twelver Years Ago in John Bangsund's Philospophical Gas" - excerpt from Philosophical Gas Issue #31 (1975).
*"The Long View, Part 4" John Foyster - essay on Astounding Science Fiction 1943 (8)
*"Why Australian SF Magazines Fail in the Market" by George Turner - transcript of a talk by Turner at a Nova Mob meeting in March 1087 (30)
*Reviews (Australian fanzines):
**Starkindler Issue #5, Spring 1986; reviewed by Lucy Sussex (36)
**SF International Issue #1, Jan/Feb 1987; reviewed by Russell Blackford (37)
**Interzone Issue #19, Spring 1987; by Yvonne Rousseau (40)
**Omega Science Digest Jan/Feb Issue, January 1987; reviewed by Yvonne Rousseau (42)
*Letters of comment from Doug Barbour and Michael Moorcock, who included a number of articles about his campaign against the Gor novels.
==Reviews and Reactions to Issue #9==
==Issue #10==
September 1987. 48 pages, edited by Jenny Blackford, Russell Blackford, John Foyster, Yvonne Rousseau and Lucy Sussex.
*Articles by George Turner, John Baxter, Janeen Webb, and Lucy Sussex, plus reviews and letters.
==Reviews and Reactions to Issue #10==
==Issue #11==
November 1987. 48 pages, edited by Jenny Blackford, Russell Blackford, John Foyster, Yvonne Rousseau and Lucy Sussex.
*Articles about the not-yet-filmed Aliens 3 and the novels of John Calvin Batchelor, plus reviews and letters.
==Reviews and Reactions to Issue #11==
==Issue #12==
January 1988. 48 pages, edited by Jenny Blackford, Russell Blackford, John Foyster, Yvonne Rousseau and Janeen Webb.
Unknown.
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==Issue #13==
March 1988. 48 pages, edited by Jenny Blackford, Russell Blackford, John Foyster, Yvonne Rousseau and Janeen Webb.
Unknown.
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==Issue #14==
May 1988. 48 pages, edited by Jenny Blackford, Russell Blackford, John Foyster, Yvonne Rousseau and Janeen Webb.
Unknown.
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==Issue #15==
July 1988. 48 pages, edited by Jenny Blackford, Russell Blackford, John Foyster, Yvonne Rousseau and Janeen Webb.
Unknown.
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==Issue #16==
September 1988. ? pages, edited by Jenny Blackford, Russell Blackford, John Foyster, Yvonne Rousseau and Janeen Webb.
Unknown.
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==Issue #17/18==
November 1988/January 1989. ? pages, edited by Jenny Blackford, Russell Blackford, John Foyster, Yvonne Rousseau and Janeen Webb.
Unknown.
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==Issue #19==
March 1989. ? pages, edited by Jenny Blackford, Russell Blackford, John Foyster, Yvonne Rousseau and Janeen Webb.
Unknown.
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==Issue #20==
? 1989. ? pages, edited by Jenny Blackford, Russell Blackford, John Foyster, Yvonne Rousseau and Janeen Webb.
Unknown.
==Reviews and Reactions to Issue #20==
==Issue #21==
SpringAustralian Spring, which is September-November 1989. 32-ish pages, edited by Jenny Blackford, Russell Blackford, John Foyster, Yvonne Rousseau and Janeen Webb.
Contents:
*"Our Collective Ways" by Russell Blackford - editorial (2)
*"Cordwainer Smith Revisited" - series of articles
**"Cordwainer Smith: Five Introductions" by Bruce Gillespie (3)
**"Paul Linebarger" by Arthur Burns (10)
**"Cordwainer Smith" by John Foyster (13)
**"Extracts from a Conversation between John Foyster and Dr. Burns" - transcript (17)
**"The Mists of Legend" by Marc Ortlieb (20)
**"How Cordwainer Smith Came Back from Being Nothing-At-All" by Norman Talbot (22)
*Exchange: "A Letter" by Lucius Shepard - article (27)
*Exchange: "Desperately Seeking Lucius" - response by John Foyster (29)
*Letters of comment from: Cy Chauvin; Robert A. W. Lowndes; Franz Rottensteiner; Andrew Picouleau (31-32)
==Reviews and Reactions to Issue #21==
==Issue #22==
SummerAustralian summer which is December-February 1989. ? pages, edited by Jenny Blackford, Russell Blackford, John Foyster, Yvonne Rousseau and Janeen Webb.
Unknown.
==Reviews and Reactions to Issue #22==
==Issue #23==
AutumnAustralian Autumn, March-May 1990. 30-ish pages, edited by Jenny Blackford, Russell Blackford, John Foyster, Yvonne Rousseau and Janeen Webb.
Contents:
*"Our Collective Ways" by John Foyster - editorial (2)
*"Interesting Times" by Cherry Wilder - article (3)
*"Muddying the Waters" by Dave Langford - article? (4)
*"Memory and Imagination" by Humphrey McQueen - article? (7)
*"Prophets in the Wilderness" by Patrick McGuire - article? (9)
*"Too Fly's Eye" by Russell Blackford - article (13)
*Reviews:
**Transformation. The Breakthrough by Whitney Strieber, reviewed by Jenny Blackford (17)
**The Empire of Fear by Brian Stableford, reviewed by Yvonne Rousseau (18)
**The Secret Ascension by Michael Bishop, reviewed by Nicholas Talbot (19)
**Peake Studies Issue #1 reviewed by Michael J. Tolley (20)
*Exchanges: A Letter from George Turner (21)
*Exchanges: A Letter from Lucius Shepard (21)
*Exchanges: Response from John Foyster (23)
*Letters of Comment from: Buck Coulson; George Turner; Dave Luckett; Darrell Schweitzer; Norman Talbot (24-30)
==Reviews and Reactions to Issue #23==
==Issue #24==
WinterAustralian winter, which is June-August 1990. ? pages, edited by Jenny Blackford, Russell Blackford, John Foyster, Yvonne Rousseau and Janeen Webb.
Unknown.
==Reviews and Reactions to Issue #24==
==Issue #25==
Spring 1991. ? pages, edited by Jenny Blackford, Russell Blackford, John Foyster, Yvonne Rousseau and Janeen Webb.
Unknown.
==Reviews and Reactions to Issue #25==
==Issue #26==
Summer 1991. ? pages, edited by Jenny Blackford, Russell Blackford, John Foyster, Yvonne Rousseau and Janeen Webb.
Unknown.
==Reviews and Reactions to Issue #26==
==Issue #27==
Autumn 1990. ? pages, edited by Jenny Blackford, Russell Blackford, John Foyster, Yvonne Rousseau and Janeen Webb. Final issue.
*Includes an index to the entire run compiled by Yvonne Rousseau. (One source says it "is" this index, i.e. that there are no other contents.)ISFDB, Australian Science Fiction Review, #27, Autumn 1991
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==References==
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