The New York Review of Science Fiction was founded in 1988 by a group of people who were at that time the editorial staff of The Little Magazine. They included David G. Hartwell, the publisher of the magazine who states: 'Our editorial purposes were complex. We were determined to publish a serious but not stuffy forum for the discussion of science fiction, fantasy, and horror, at a time when to our perception the reviewing and discussion situation in the US had fallen to an all-time low. We would publish reviews and essays, and features of interest to the entire community of readers and writers of science fiction and associated genres. We would furthermore edit the contents of the issues to bring them to their best form'(Journal website http://www.nyrsf.com/ sighted 27/9/11).
