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SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW $2.00 SUMMER 1981 NUMBER 39 SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW ,SSN “> Formerly THE ALIEN CRITIC P.O. BOX 11408 FEBRUARY 1981 — VOL. 10, NO.2 WHOLE NUMBER 39 PORTLAND, OR 97211 PHONE: (503) 282-0381 RICHARD E. GEIS> editor & publisher COVER BY STEPHEN FABIAN PAULETTE MINARE', ASSOCIATE EDITOR PUBLISHED QUARTERLY ALIEN THOUGHTS FEB.MAY, AUG., NOV. BY THE EDITOR.............................................A STALL PRESS NOTES BY THE EDITOR...........................................41 SINGLE COPY ---- $2.00 THE ENGINES OF THE NIGHT ESSAYS OF SF IN THE EIGHTIES BY BARRY N MALZBERG..............................6 OTHER VOICES.................................... 43 BOOK REVIEWS BY GENE DEWEESE BACK COVER BY MARCO BIANCHINI THE TWO TRACTATES OF MICHAEL VERNON MACKAY JOHN DIPRETE PHILIP K. DICK BY STEVE BROWN....11 STEVEN EDWARD MCDONALD SUE BECKMAN INTERIOR ART------------------------------ NEAL WILGUS AND THEN I SAW.... TOM STAICAR TIM kirk—2,4,13,29,41 BY THE EDITOR...........................................13 ANDREW ANDREWS ALEXIS GILLILAND---- 3,5,8,11,18,19, RONALD R. LAMBERT W. RITCHE BENEDICT 22,23,28,31,43,44,51,56,58,61 INTERVIEW; GENE WOLFE PAT MATHEWS GEORGE O'NALE---- 6,49 CONDUCTED BY JOAN GORDON..................18 PAULETTE MINARE' ALLEN KOSZOWSKI—7.16^25^26/16, STEVE LEWIS GEORGE KOCHELL—9,24,2,33,35,37, NICHOLAS SANTELLI 39,43,48,50,53,54 THE NUKE STANDARD DONN VICHA TEDDY HARVIA—10 BY IAN WATSON...........................................23 ANDREW TIDMARSH LAWRENCE LIPKIN—17,47 LEE WEINSTEIN VIC KOSTRIKIN—20,52 FREDERICK PATTEN KURT ERICHSEN—45 LEFTY'S LATENT DEAN R. LAMBE KEN HAIM—55,62 A POEM BY NEAL WILGUS........................24 ELTON T. ELLIOTT BRUCE CONKLIN---- 60 MIKE GILBERT—65 KURT REICHEL---- 66 THE VIVISECTOR TEN YEARS AGO IN SF - spring 1971 BY DARRELL SCHWEITZER........................25 BY ROBERT SABELLA.................................. 55 AND THEN I READ.... SHORT FICTION REVIEWS BY THE EDITOR...........................................29 ANALOG---- PATRICIA MATHEWS.................56 asimov's—Robert sabella ............. 57 F & SF---- RUSSELL ENGEBRETSON.......... 58 LETTERS............................ ..31 TWILIGHT ZONE---- JAT-ES JJ WILSON..59 PHILIP K. DICK AMAZING---- PATRICIA MATHEWS...............60 URSULA K. LE GUIN HANK STINE Copyright (c) 1981 by Richard E. RONALD R. LAMBERT THE HUMAN HOTLINE Geis. One-time rights only have JERRY E. POURNELLE SF NEWS been acquired from signed or cred SHELDON TEITELBAUM BY ELTON T. ELLIOTT..............................61 ited contributors, and all other STEVE BROWN rights are hereby assigned to the NORMAN FINLAY Postcard contributors. GENE DE WEESE from ALIEN CONCLUSIONS BRUCE D. ARTHURS ROBERT BLOCH BY THE EDITOR...........................................66 THE ALIEN CRITIC CHARLES PLATT SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW EDWARD L. 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The future is not be The Japanese have developed ing designed for our