Science Fiction Newsletter

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Science Fiction Newsletter was a science fiction fanzine published by Bob Tucker.

Subtitled "The leading newspaper of the science fiction field", and published in Bloomington, Illinois, U.S.A., it was released bimonthly, starting in December 1945 and running till Spring 1953, with a total of 29 issues. It began as the Bloomington News Letter, a one sheet of news items. By the time the title changed to Science Fiction Newsletterwith issue 15, published in April 1950, it had grown to eight pages, complete with photographs and art work.

Contributors included Poul Anderson, Ray Beam, Robert Bloch, Redd Boggs (Sky Hook), Gregg Calkins, Roy Cummings, Richard Elsberry, Don Ford, Nan Gerding (The Chigger Patch of Fandom), Lynn Hickman, Judy May, Len Moffatt (Shangri L'Affaires), J.T. Oliver, Art Rapp (Spacewarp), Darrell C. Richardson, Frank Robinson, Dick Ryan, Jerry Sohl, Charles Lathrop Warn, Walt Willis (Slant, and Mari Beth Wheeler.

Contributing artists include Richard Bergeron (Warhoon), Lee Hoffman (Quandry), Chester A. Polk, Bill Rotsler, and Judy Tucker.

Letters came from Forest Ackerman (Voice of the Imagi-Nation), Ken Beale, Robert Bloch, Moe Diner, and Ken Krueger (Space Trails.