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Theaker's Quarterly Fiction: Bound Volumes

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Four bound volumes have been issued of Theaker's Quarterly Fiction, each collecting the issues of an entire year. All are published via Lulu, rather than being available on this site (although of course the individual back issues are still available for free download).

Note that Year One was pretty ramshackle! The first three issues were all produced on the same day, as a bit of typesetting practice for the short-lived November Spawned magazine. It quickly became clear, though, that this magazine was the one with legs. Issue four was a strange mish-mash of childish fantasy and graphic adult nightmare.

The four issues of 2005 (Year Two) are all of interest to any academician of science fiction and fantasy, but issue eight in particular is one to put in the archives for future generations, seeing the first published instalments of Valiant Razalia, Newton Braddell's Inconclusive Researches into the Unknown, and the Saturation Point Saga!

For a new reader, the best volume to start with is probably Year Three. 2006 was the year TQF really began to hit its stride, with a great mix of brand new material: ongoing series, reviews, news, comic strips – a better effort was made to ease the reader into things.

Year Four was even better: listings on various writing websites brought us external submissions for the first time; printing via Lulu brought colour covers and an increased page count; and the illustrations, well, mostly they stayed the same as before!

These bound volumes are A4-sized, like the original issues, but sealed in our traditional space-black covers. Please note that the reproduction quality on years one and two may not be up to the standards of year three and beyond – this is down to our original files from those years being lost, leaving us reliant for these reprints on the pdfs that we had made available online. However, that should not affect your reading pleasure in the least!