Of Science Fiction

Copyright © 1989 by Teddy Harvia Centenos Isaac Asimov..................................... by Teddy Hanna...Front Cover Table of Contents & Artists, Colophon........................................... 1 I®®®© From the Editor: Mutterings...........................................by Lan...2 My Debt to Mom and Dad.............................. by Laura Turtledove...? Asimov and the Integrated Story..............by Alexander Slate...4 Isaac Asimov: The Foundation of Science Fiction.... by Alexander Bouchard...5 Asimov The Non-Metallic Isaac, or It's a Wonderful Life... by Ben Bova...6 Asimov and the Soviet Union............................. by Tom Jackson...8 Robot AL 76 Goes Berserk..................................... by John Thiel..10 Asimov, Foundation and Me............................. by Marie Parsons..11 Table of Artists My Encounter with Isaac Asimov................by Alexander Slate..12 Isaac Asimov: A Memoir.............................. by Alexis Gilliland..12 Sheryl Birkhead -- 34 The Future of Seldon's Plan............................... by Greg Hills..14 Cathy Buburuz — 27 My 15-Year Love Affair with Isaac Asimov.......... by Janice M. P.L. Caruthers-Montgomery (Calligraphy)-- Eisen..22 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14, Foreward to The Edge of Tomorrow......................... by Ben Bova..24 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, Short Comments on Isaac Asimov...from David Palter, Lloyd Kurt Erichsen — 32 Penney, Larry Nowinski, and Timothy Nowinski...26 Chuck Ermatinger -- 21 Isaac Asimov: A Chronology......................... by Robert Sabella..28 Teddy Harvia — front cover, 14, 15, The Most Influential Man in My Life...by Harry Andruschak..30 22, 28 The Asimov Writing Machine..........................by Mark R. Leeper..30 Cathy Howard — 31 Isaac Asimov........................................................ by Gerri Bal ter..32 Allen Koszowski — 25 Points of Intersection.......................................................by Lan..33 Greg Litchfield — back cover Addresses of the Contributors.........................................................35 Tull io Proni — 35 Isaac Asimov....................................... Greg Litchfield...Back Cover Peggy Ranson — 7, 13, 18, 29 Sylvus Tarn — 5 To Maia, as usual, Bill Ware — 10, 19 and Isaac Asimov, the First 'baucation. of the "ABCs of SF" Why You Are Getting This — Long may he continue to write. Contribution to this issue Contribution recieved for a future LAN'S LANTERN #34 is published and edited by George "Lan" issue Laskowski, 55 Valley Way, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48013 USA. Phone (313) 642-5670. LAN'S LANTERN is available for arti Loc or comment recieved cles, art, letters of comment, even money (US$2 post paid) and the whim of the editor. The opinions expressed are those Trade __ You wanted a copy of the contributors, and may or may not be those of the edi tor. This is Lantern Publication #20, a division of LanShack We're in an apa together Press Unlimited. LAN'S LANTERN #34 is copyright (c) June 1990, by George J Laskowski Jr., except where otherwise not I thought you would be interested in ed. Contributions (art, articles, reviews, letters) become this the property of Lanshack Press, but will be returned if re quested. All rights return to the contributors upon publica This is your last issue unless you do tion. Business manager: Maia Cowan. something. 2 //Lan's Lantern #34 front tfr ’frfctor Mutte rings by Lan I sit here at the computer keyboard surrounded by pieces of Lan's Lantern #34, the Asimov Special, the one you hold in your hands, and listening to filk tapes. This is the last thing I need to write be fore pasting the final pages together. And I am weary. It has been a long process of putting this issue together, but the end is definitely in sight. I keep going back over what I have in this issue. Most of the items are very nice and complimentary. There is an occa sional critical piece, but in thinking a A special thanks must go to PL Caruth bout it, why not? Even if someone is crit ers-Montgomery, who worked for several icizing an author, what the person usually hours on calligraphing the titles to the has done is spend time reading the work articles. I realized that I left her name carefully, and then making some value out of the contributors' column in the judgements. The fact that a person, like Heinlein issue (Lan's Lantern #33, which Greg Hills in his article, "The Future of is sent out together with this one), and I Seldon's Plan," has devoted a lot of time apologize profusely for the omission. Her and energy into researching and writing work has enhanced these two Special Issues such a piece shows a certain amount of de immensely. Of course, after I sent PL the votion to the author. One need not like list of titles, I got a couple other everything an author does, and keeping a things in the mail; and I found Alex Bou balanced view is healthy. Greg has some chard's contribution on disk that had got thing to say, and he says it well. ten shunted to the side for a while. (His Others, as I said, have commented in Heinlein contribution, which I found on their own ways about Isaac Asimov, as I the same disk, AFTER #33 had been printed, have. Asimov has drawn people into SF, he will appear in a special section on LL has enabled others to understand science #35.) clearly, he has brought people together in To all who are receiving these two is friendship over a common love. Others have sues, it is quite obvious that I am late chosen art as their medium of expression. in producing them. I apologize to Isaac I must thank all the artists who sent me Asimov for not having this out in the year work. I hope that I did justice in the of his Golden Anniversary. I wish I could placement of those pieces. And that my apologize to Robert Heinlein, but that's printer will do justice in the final pro not possible. I do hope that his widow duct. Virginia will accept my apologies in his stead. I think that wraps it up now. I hope you all enjoy these zines; let me know what you think. —Lan 12 May 90|* | Lan’s Lantern #34// 3 tb Mowl and 1l)cu£ I owe my parents two very special debts; my mother, for introducing me to mysteries, and my father, for introducing me to science fiction. I began on myster ies, plowing through Christie, Queen, three daughters!) When I was fourteen, I Wolfe, and Sayers. The passion for myster went on an exhausting 73-day trip to Eu ies has remained lifelong, and I've even rope, courtesy of my gradnmother, who was written one myself (St. Oswald's Niche, visiting old friends and relations. Thank Ballantine, 199?). When I was eleven or goodness I packed a sack of Asimov books, twelve, I started noticing what Dad was including the Nightfall collection, which reading. I asked him to recommend some SF. I nearly committed to memory on that trip. I now realize that Dad’s appetite for SF (A few years later, in a high school com was rather like that of a pig’s: he read munications class, I adapted the story as everything voraciously, garbage and gor- a "radio script" which my group then per met-quality alike. Many times he'd comment formed live for our classmates. Our as he read, "God, this is really stupid." group's director cast me as Aton 77—some But he'd keep reading it anyway. Fortu roles were necessarily made females—and nately for me, he recognized that some the teacher gave us As.) writers were consistently better than oth My hunt for all things Asimovian then ers, and he steered me to Asimov, Stur led me to the first collections of Hugo geon, Clement and Herbert, for starters. winners which I initially read purely for Now Sturgeon’s themes can be heavy-go the introductions by Asimov. What did I ing for a twelve-year-old, however much I know? A Hugo? What's a Hugo? I soon found appreciated them later in life. And while out and those collections became my guided Needle and Dune quickly became favorites, tour to the greats of SF. I fired ques I didn't avidly track their authors in the tions at Dad, who suddenly remembered oth library. er great names, after some prompting from Then there was Asimov. the Hugo books. "Heinlein? Oh, yeah, he's "Oh, I know him! I've read his Black terrific. Anderson? Sure, I've read lots Widowers stories in Ellery Queen's Mystery of his stuff. Clarke's good too—remember Magazine," I told Dad, I also had used one 2001?" of his introduction to physics for a sixth Where did I go from there? I kept right grade science report. So I came to Asi on reading, and I'm still reading and lov mov's SF the long way—through his myster ing it. I'm married to an SF writer. And ies and his non-fiction. at NOREASCON 3, I finally (if only brief I became a rabid fan from that point ly) met Dr. Asimov himself. on. The Foundation books went to the top My Dad's gone now, but I still owe him of my list of best-loved books, due in that debt for introducing me to Asimov's large part to Arkady Darrell, one of the work. I just wish he could have known that finest adolescent heroines in any galaxy. one day I'd be introduced to that man him (I can't wait to introduce her to our self. —Laura Turtledove September, 1989[*| Tiirtfctfcrc 4 //Lan's Lantern #3^ AsmWtr cwdtkc This does not mean that Asimov’s char acters can’t be identified with, for in Juttgmttcf 5tdry deed they can.

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