{"product_id":"the-complete-patchin-review","title":"The Complete Patchin Review","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Patchin Review ran for seven issues from 1981 to 1985 and generated much controversy in the SF community with its no-holds-barred criticism, satire, examination of dubious publishing practices, exuberant ÒGabby SnitchÓ gossip column and numerous polemics Ð both signed and pseudonymous. As its title indicates, this paperback contains the complete run Ð plus a new introduction and four bonus articles by Charles Platt that appeared elsewhere. 158,000 words.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCharles Platt has written a new introduction for this ebook reissue, excerpted below:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eÒIncreasingly, I saw that editors were afraid to publish serious or experimental science fiction. A writer such as Philip K. Dick had broken into the field in the early 1960s writing short novels, each of which appeared as half of an Ace Double. A few years later, a writer such as Thomas M. Disch had imagined he could make a living writing serious literature such as Camp Concentration. I didnÕt think that either Disch or Dick would have been able to find a publisher if they had begun writing in 1980.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eÒBecause I lived in New York City, and knew all the editors, and also knew most of the writers in the United States and Britain, I felt I was in a position to publish a small magazine of commentary that would be frank about the changes that were occurring and could agitate against some of them. That was my intention in The Patchin Review. I also decided to have some fun by publishing a self-satirical gossip column. I hoped that people would buy the magazine for the gossip and then read the more serious features.Ó\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eALL PROCEEDS FROM SALE OF THIS PAPERBACK GO TO THE TRANSATLANTIC FAN FUND (TAFF).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksWholesale","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44231596343457,"sku":"9781471067235","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0462\/1120\/3233\/files\/zdp8dz-front-shortedge-384.jpg?v=1713712749","url":"https:\/\/bookswholesale.myshopify.com\/products\/the-complete-patchin-review","provider":"BooksWholesale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}