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Q~. "~f::~':'~~t~':X~:'::: :;~~~g: [ Issue 41 April-May '82 ] MATRIX b1 • APRIL/MAY 1982 ISSN 0307 3335 ED !TORS: GRAHAM JAMES & LINDA STR I CKLER 12 Fearnville Terrace Oakwood LEEDS LS8 31lU Beautifully printed by: John Harvey BSFA Press 43 Harrow Road Carshalton Surrey BSFA Subscriptions - still only £6.00 p.a. despite further increases in postal charges. Details from: Keith Freeman 269 1',1), keham Road Reading Chairperson of the BSFA is ut~tn¢ Alan DJrey. who also resides at: 12 Feamville Terrace, Oakwood, LEEDS LSB 300 outside of public house opening hours. ED !TOR I AL I NSTRUCTl ONS AND CONTENTS ThA...6 AA&Ue, -in caJle6u.U.y 1t.e-aA~e.mb.ted .£.n. accoJtdance w.U.h the .iIUl.tlt.uctiOI'UJ 011 page 94, w.W. 60llm a. po/)/)i..ble lllte.LteJt a.ga..in.6t Nuc1.eaJt A.tta.ck.. W~.t eveJty en 60lLt ha..6 been made to eMWle tha.:t the pdgu Me lLac:Ua..tiol1 ptLOo6. 110 gwvla.n.teu Ca.11 be given a.g~.t lOM 06 .tUnM, /tllc:Ua..tion po-iAionbig CIt. 6..iJr..6.t-deglt"-"- bUlUt6. 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C1JtJttUtg..i.ng. Folt 6uJl...thVt -i.n60JuM.t..i.on on 6.e.0weJt. aJtJta.»g.i.n.g C.OUl/..6U an.d .thw lI.elevanc.e to a 6a:n.t.Mt:ic. mode 06 WIl...i..tU1g. pl.e.a..6e c.ommun.i.c.a..te w.Uh .the AA1.:Jt.a.l Leauge. 48 NoJtmOJ1 SVteet, lWtgiey. DEADLINE MP.TRIX 42: 14 MAY 1982 -2- A GUIDE TO TROUT FISHING IN BRIGHTON Edi teTial and Contents GRAHAM & LINDA 2,3,6 A Day in the Life of LISA TIJITLE NEWS COLUMN: A Tribute to Philip K Dick GRAHAM JAMES 7 In t-1eroorium: Philip K Dick JOHN BRUNNER 8 Forthcoming Books EDITORS 9 Film & 1V Nel-','s SIMJN BOSTOCK 10 Books. Magazines & Other News EDITORS 10/11 Convention News EDITORS 12/13 Life on Mars (the Club Scene) STEVE GREEN 13 Deep Cuts (Fanzine Reviews) SOON OONSLEY 16 BSFA Clubs Directory 1982 STEVE GREEN 20 Competition Page DAVE LANGFORD 23 Tavern at the End of Time (Cartoon Strip) KEVIN CLARKE & 24 STEVE GREEN Bringing it all Back Home (Letters Column) 25 Watson. Shaw. E. Harvey, Click Connor and others not so famous BSFA ACCOLD1ts JANICE MAULE 33 Art -work credits: SHEP KIRKBRIDE - Cover; Pages 13 & 25 PETE WALKER - Page 2 PETE LYON - Pages 4 & 5 JOHN KERR - Page 7 SOON POLLY - Page 8 NIK I4lRTON - Pages 15 & 19 D WEST - Pages 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30. J IH BARKER - Page 32 EciUo!W1.t eon.tA.nued I'M NOT CUT -OUT FOR THIS Wdit tite w"ote 6rvn.Uy .vue/1en wa" 6tu, pdu 06 dome.u.e dut.i.u w.i.tI< a 6ull hOUhe.hold, c.lUl.dtten home. at lund1 tA.mru. 'C.O.6 06 Indu.6tJUa..e. Amon by -the N.Ll.T., .titM <A.ue "wtg .&! tite batMee 60' a wlLi-te, unUt we "ad a bWz and, w.i.tI< tite pat.i.enee 06 JOM HMvey, d w<ll 6.i.nd W way to you juAt be6Me you .u 066 6M C"a>lI1Ueol1. K.&!d o66eM 06 tMt m.&!ute "etp 6tooded .&! but, wt60Uwtatety Atan went to 6ootba.U 011 Tu.uday and dotU'!. the. pub on We.dnuday. No ma..ttVt, he 1011. Mtit.. Roe"ettel !<ad .pent tite p..v.i.ouA wee/1 eomp.i.Ung VECTOR and I .UPPOH one nee.cU a. week 'll c.onvale..oc.enc.e a.6tvwJo!td.6. PJLodu.Un.9 VECTOR and MATRIX 1.n. the flame. "ouAe"otd 11M been qu.i.te a .bwggte, not juAt .&! t~ 06 .he.. p'oduct.i.on fue, but at.o .&! t~ 06 tite di.66..eat .i.deotog.i.u 06 tite two magaz.&!u. At fuu 1 even thUtk tha.t. we take 011 the pvu.onaJ...<..t..iu 06 OWl Itupec..tine z1.n.u; Alan llW theJt.e .i..rr. aU. lletUOu.&nUll wondefL.i.ng how he. 'll go.i..rr.g .to c.omp£.e-te the i.,.hllue and 6uU. contd page 6 • Books have always been important to me - maybe too important. when I was youn ger. 1 spent JmTe time in books than in what we may call, for want of a better tenn, "the real world" Certainly, when I think of my childhood, it is the books that I remember, the getting and reading of them. The way the iced library air chilled my hot, bare skin as I squeaked across the polished floor in rubber sandles; the long hours I spent hiding from the relentless Texas sun and my equally relentless, non reading siblings in order to explore. through books, worlds far retOOved from the boring, hot, modern Houston suburb where 1 lived. Narnia, Oz, Pooh Corner J and best of all. the magical Edwardian England of E. Nesbit's lucky children. Now, at 29, 1 still read a lot, but it is a different experience. When I was ten. reading was like plunging into a deep pool: the difference between the life I lived and the life I read about was the difference between air and water. Now the lines between what I read, what I write and what I live blur and dissolve - the difference has evaporated, or I've become amphibious. r live in England - the country I always read about, that once seemed as far away as Oz or Middle Earth. I live in Devon. which I once thought of as the name of a street. The cotmtryside around my house looks like a series of fine water colour illustrations from an especially beautiful children's book. I don't go to school and I don't have a job - when I'm not reading books, I'm writing them. My escape has become a way of life. and there's no-one to tell me to stop ruining my eyes or please go outside and play. It occurred to me that the line between reading and reality was dissolving during my first few months in England. when I happened to read a biography of Sylvia Plath. Sylvia Plath, of course, was a young. American writer who married an Pnglish writer and went to live with him in an old cottage in Devon. A few months after that, married to my Pnglish writer and settled into our Devon cottage. I picked up the diary of Virginia Woolf and was struck by certain similarities between my own life and the one that she was leading. Although Chris and I don't have a printing press or a servant problem (tmless our servant less state be considered the ultimate servant problem). like Leonard and Virginia we divide our time bet""een a place in London and one in the country. and we seem to know all the same people - or at least the 1980s versions of them. Even some of the names are the same - ''MJrrys to dinner." Virginia wrote one day in 1920. and wi th a small shock I recognised that same note from my own diary. Aloost the same Po\lrrys she meant. too. -- So now you've asked me to write about my daily Life. and I wonder who will read it a few years hence with strange little shocks of recognition. It's a dif ficult. and maybe dangerous. thing to do. Already. as a reader. I live so rruch -4- in other people's lives, and as a writer I'm always inventing, so that J find it ha:d. to sort out the reality of a day in my life. Mter all the reading and the WTIt1ng, what's left? Opening the mail, cooking meals, making telephone calls. 10adiJ:1g th~ -::ar up. fo: ano~her.trip up to London/down to Devon. If I put all that In WTItmg.