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A collection of 6 Riverside Quarterly fanzines including a complete Volume 2 (4 issues) and 2 issues from Volume 3.

Riverside Quarterly began as a re-titled continuation of the fanzine Inside Science Fiction (1953-1963; titled Inside on its 1962 revival), published by Ron Smith and then Jon White, which won a Hugo in 1956 and itself incorporated a still earlier fanzine, Fantasy Advertiser (1946-1954). (The latter was launched in 1946 by Gus Willmorth; its second editor, Roy Squires, took over in late 1949 and re-titled it Science Fiction Advertiser as from the first issue of 1952.)

Riverside Quarterly quickly formed a quite different character of its own as an amateur Academic Journal, academic essays on SF and fantasy being its main content; it also published Poetry.

Alexei Panshin originally published the major part of his Robert A Heinlein critique, Heinlein in Dimension (May/June 1965-March 1967; 1968), in Riverside Quarterly; other contributors included James Blish, Robert Bloch, Algis Budrys, Samuel R Delany, Philip José Farmer, Ursula K Le Guin, John T Sladek with verse, Fredric Wertham with letters, and Jack Williamson with an expansion of his PhD thesis H.G. Wells: Critic of Progress (August 1967-August 1969; 1973).

Owing apparently to financial difficulties, Riverside Quarterly had a long hiatus after #22 (April 1974); issues were widely spaced from its 1977 revival to the final #35 (August 1993). Though irregular, this was one of the longest-running – as well as the most serious – of all fanzines; it was short-listed three times for the Hugo.

Each magazine 100-300pp in Very Fine condition.

Publisher: Riverside Quarterly, 1966 - 1968 (Out of Print)
Number of pages: 100+
Format: Soft Cover; Black & White illustrations
Size: 6" x 9" (140mm x 220mm)
Condition: VF - Very Fine

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