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SF COMMENTARY SF COMMENTARY No. 69/70 January 1991 SF COMMENTARY, No. 69/70, January 1991, is edited and published by BRUCE GILLESPIE, GPO Box 5195AA, Melbourne, Victoria 3001, Australia. Phone: (03) 419 4797. At least for this issue, SF Commentary is a magazine of short reviews of science fiction and fantasy books, and books of interest to sf and fantasy readers. Proofread by Elaine Cochrane. Typeset in Ventura 2.0 by Charles Taylor. Cover and illustrations by Ian Gunn. Many thanks for help beyond repayment. Available for subscriptions, written or art contributions, traded publications or donations. 3 I MUST BE TALKING TO MY FRIENDS The Editor 5 PINLIGHTERS The Editor Leanne Frahm Robert Day Sarah Lefanu Dave Langford Andy Sawyer Doug Barbour Buck Coulson x v 8 CRITICAL HITS Dave Langford 16 THREE BY CORDWA1NER SMITH Michael J. Tolley 18 VINTAGE TOLLEY: REVIEWS OF SF BOOKS Michael J. Tolley 19 STEELE COLUMN Colin Steele 31 CRITICANTO Elaine Cochrane Greg Hills Doug Barbour 35 THE GILLESPIE REPORT Bruce Gillespie 44 ALAN’S ALLEYWAY Alan Stewart 48 SAWYER’S LOG Andy Sawyer □ If X marks the box, you won’t receive the next issue. Subscription details available with this issue. I MUST BE TALKING TO MY FRIENDS Vale, ASFR? Will the third series feature Keats and Chapman stories? Will SFC still be here to welcome it? To survive the first burial of ASFR in 1969 took some doing, but to survive its second burial makes me feel ancient indeed. Thanks for the thank-you note The life of Australian Science Fiction Review, First Series, 1966-69, was short but glorious. That You know those parties. Introduced to someone magazine, edited by John Bangsund and published interesting, I’m asked what I do for a living. ‘I’m a by John with John Foyster and Lee Harding, book editor. Nothing glamorous. Secondary created the Australian fandom we know today, ft textbooks.’ The other person’s face settles into was funny, wise, penetrating and (to use Henry stony unexcitement. If it seems that the other per­ James’s meaning) damned critical. son might be sympathetic, I say, ‘But my real job is When four years ago John Foyster brought publishing magazines about science fiction.’ Usual­ together a new team to publish the Second Series, ly this propels the other person in search of a drink. 1 was sceptical about its prospects for success. I Sometimes the other person sees the point of was wrong, of course. The Second Series worked. what I’m talking about. The unspoken question is: No other review/critical magazine, except the ‘ ‘But why do you waste your time editing secondary newish New York Review of Science Fiction, has textbooks?’ Or: ‘But why do you publish fanzines if maintained such a regular schedule at such a high they don’t earn money?’ standard of achievement. Even better, it provided We fanzine editors know and give the standard a home for my own articles when 1 had neither time answers: self-expression; communication with in­ nor money to publish them myself. teresting people across the world; showing what we Unfortunately Nos. 26, 27 and 28, posted can really do in the hope of gaining professional together next month, will mark the end of the writing work; angling for review copies of sf books. second incarnation of ASFR. The end has not been But after twenty-two years? caused by animosity between members of the team After twenty-two years, there is no hope that the — it’s just that they are all too busy at Real Life to print run will grow until the magazine supports maintain the schedule. I’m told that the/LS'F’R team — John Foyster, itself and me. The print run for this issue is much the same as that for No. 1, January 1969. Yvonne Rousseau, Jenny Blackford, Russell After twenty-two years, there seems little hope Blackford and Janeen Webb — will recommend that any subsidiary activities will make money to that their subscribers get in touch with me after they’ve wept into their whiskey glasses. I’m not five support the magazine and me. SF Commentary Reprint: First Year 1969 needed to sell 200 copies to people, and nobody would pretend that I can get back the money and time invested in it. Eighty deliver the quality of recent issues of ASFR. But 1 copies are left. keep chugging along. Although I’ve given up making promises, I think After twenty-two years, there is no hope that anybody will offer me the editorship of a pres­ 1 can guarantee the following: tigious journal because they liked what they saw in (1) Publication of ‘The Last ASFR Letter SFC. Besides, I don’t live in America. Column’ in the next issue of SFC. I’m just keeping up a tradition: SFC No. 4 published the last letters After twenty-two years, there is no hope that someone will send me money to write lit. crit. for from the first series of AST7#. overseas magazines. The academics took over in (2) Publication of all my material about science the 1970s, and I don’t have a Ph.D. or even a fiction, not just the short reviews, in SFC. The Metaphysical Review will be confined to the per­ Master’s. After twenty-two years, there is no hope of win­ sonal, musical, cinematic and literary interests of ning a Hugo Award, although those three Hugo the editor and readers. It is possible that some nominations in the 1970s are fondly remembered. ex-ASFR people might find TMR enjoyable as well — see subscription details. These days, it would take a print run of at least 500 copies to score a Hugo nomination, let alone a win. In 2007, will there be a third incarnation of After twenty-two years, SF Commentary and ASFR1 Will it be distributed by post, fax, modem The Metaphysical Review no longer run on hope. or microchip? (Will a postal service still exist?) But they don’t run on automatic, either. 3 The fuel for these magazines is pleasure — or century. He will surely have to reckon with the rather, the Great Minor Pleasures of Life. Looked prickly intellects of Bruce Gillespie’s SF Com­ at objectively, none of these pleasures would com­ mentary. pensate me for the time and money poured into these magazines. Taken separately, they make up Yes, it’s pleasant to be thanked for my life’s the stuff of life, or certainly the stuff of fanzine­ work. John Bangsund has done it several times, editing. especially in his wonderful This Isn’t SF Commen­ The collected SFC/TMR/Gi\lespie Ditmars are tary 26 (copies still available from me if anybody’s nudging each other off the shelf. Year after year, interested). George Turner wrote about SF Com­ everybody complains about the Ditmars and the mentary in In the Heart or in the Head, which he way they are awarded, but nobody minds getting dedicated to me. (Perhaps that’s why I’ve never felt one. The two recent awards (in 1989 and 1990) for worthy to review it.) I found myself on the dedica­ Best Fan Writer gave me particular satisfaction. tion page of Damien Broderick’s Transmitters, And after twenty-two years, what greater which at one stage was going to be based on the reward could there be than the following thank- more agonized bits of my life story. you note? It appears on pages 185-6 of Bury My These mirror glints keep me going, as do all the Heart at W. H. Smith’s: A Writing Life by Brian remarkable letters I receive. Aldiss: But Brian Aldiss’s thank-you note is a high point of my career — not ‘career’ in the usual sense (I’m Occasionally — the miracle. A reviewer who still waiting for it to begin), but the inner career, the has read all one’s books! unseen pattern of steps one travels to some un­ Forgotten Life won a very favourable known destination. review from Australia, from Bruce Gillespie, Like John Ford, Brian has chosen to print the writing in the Melbourne Age. Bruce stands legend rather than the strict fact. He seems inac­ as an exemplar of a science fiction curate to refer only to SF Commentary, leaving out aficionado. Ever since 1969, he has poured any mention of The Metaphysical Review. But this his lifeblood into his amateur magazine, SF is one of those mistakes that is more truthful than Commentary — amateur in the best sense, for the truth. For many people SF Commentary is it printed perceptive criticism of science fic­ Bruce Gillespie’s magazine, and always has been. tion novels, stories, and trends, such as one Should I bow to the truth of the legend? Should I rarely finds elsewhere. For a while, Bruce abandon TMR, now that I’ve revived SFC? liked nothing he read, and denounced the But Brian remembers why I abandoned SFC for whole mode. He disliked my Helliconia eight years. I thought I should continue to cover the novels, and said so. field, but by 1981 I was so disgusted with nearly As well as criticism, SF Commentary car­ everything I read in sf and fantasy that I was willing ries the story of all Bruce’s personal troubles. to ditch a magazine with ‘sf in the title. By 1989, the Along with the latest adulation of Stanislaw problem no longer existed. The field has grown so Lem went the story of Bruce’s failures with huge that I could cheerfully abandon hope of cover­ girls or — a recent event — the death of his ing it.
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