Dimensions #14 - May/June 1954 (gnv64)

Dimensions #14 - May/June 1954
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Dimensions, a science fiction fanzine edited by a young Harlan Ellison which featured fiction, articles, and book reviews by fans and pros. This was a pretty low resolution scan but it's readable for the most part.
Dimensions was originally a clubzine called the Bulletin Of The Cleveland Science Fantasy Society (published - not unsurprisingly - for the Cleveland Science Fantasy Society of Cleveland, Ohio).
Harlan Ellison became the editor of the Bulletin in 1952. He published three issues under the original title as a clubzine and would go on to edit and publish thirteen issues in total through 1954, under three different titles.

Starting with the June 1952 issue, after a dispute with other members of the club, Harlan took over ownership of the magazine and announced that it was no longer affiliated in any way with the Cleveland Science Fantasy Society. He changed the title from Bulletin Of The Cleveland Science Fantasy Society to Science Fantasy Bulletin (published through his Fanvariety Enterprises) to show that it had become his own fanzine. After changing the title, he published seven issues through 1953. The last three issues (#13, #14, & #15) were again renamed, this time to Dimensions. The last issue edited and published by Harlan Ellison appeared in August 1954.
It then became an apazine published by Larry Shaw for both FAPA and OMPA starting with Dimensions #16. He used covers that Harlan Ellison had had printed for his own never-published issue #16 of Dimensions on several issues. The final Shaw issue appeared in 1957.

About this issue:
Two hundred copies of this fourteenth issue of Dimensions were printed.
Contents include:
- book reviews by Algis Budrys, Harlan Ellison, and Andre Norton;
- an article by Fletcher Pratt ("The Inside Story Of The Harold Shea Novels");
- the first chapter of a projected five-part serialization of an early version of Marion Zimmer Bradley's short novel "Falcons Of Narabedla"
- and a "feature novelette" "The Sun Shines At Midnight" by "Charles W. Ryan"