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Vector Review Sup 1 Fowler 1977-02 THE VECTOR REVIEWS SUPPLEMENT ISSUE 1 : FEBRUARY 1977 The VECTOR REVIEWS SUPPLEMENT Is a periodic supplement to VECTOR. Produced by Christopher Fowler for the British Science Fiction Association Limited. EDITOR: Christopher Fowler; Typing by Colette Broadbank (pp 2-6) and Chris Fowler; Duplication, etc by the SSFA Publications Group. COPYRIGHT (c) Christopher Fowler, 1977; all rights re-assigned to individual contributors. Address of publication: 73, Kenilworth Avenue, Southcore, Reading RG3 3DN. Tel: 0734-594890. ISSN request pending MERLIN'S MIRROR by Andre Norton; Sidgwick & Melodramatic moments follow one another Jackson; Loudon; 1976; 205 pp; £3.95; ISBN in perfect military order and the tone 0 283 98328 0 of the book novers uneasily (but effortlessly) Reviewed by Brian Stabelford between aatter-of*fact toughness and soap­ opera sshmalziness. ‘It features boy-meets-girl. The world of Arthurian legend has been one consclence-meets-politics and back-to-the-wall Of the most prolific sources of inspiration heroics. The final casualty figures are for fantasy writers since the days of Malory. 21,000 plus. The mythology has worn extremely wtell, supplying a stream of excellent works. This is a book written very much according It is not sui’prlsing to find that Arthus's . to a recipe. (Movie pudding, I believe, is world is a constant feature of British what they, call the dish when it comes out fantasy • it is, after all, home-grown - but right.) Gourmets might find it unsatisfactory it is perhaps surprising to find that it because it has the unmistakable smack of holds a similar attraction for American metaphorical monosodium glutamate, but those fantasy writers. There is a kind of comfort­ out for a good, solid meal might do worse - able homeliness in stumbling across Merlin lots of lovely roughage here. Harry Harrison in The Crystal Cave, That Hideous Srength, is nothing If not competent, especially in the or ^he Weathermonger, but liark twainrs entertainment business, and the target audience Connecticut Yankee, who visited Arthur's for this particular book (see above note) will court in 1889, was surely so utterly out of undoubtedly get their money's worth. place that his unfortunate accident rfid not ♦ bear repeating. And yet, we have seen in recent years Arthurian fantasies by H, Warner Munn (Merlin's Ring). Sanders Aane Laubenthal SCIENCE FICTION DISCOVERIES edited by Carol (ExcallBur ) and Wbert Nathan (The Elixir). and Frederik Pohl; Bantam; New York; 1976; Now Andre "Norton has Joined in, and^one is 65p; 272 pp; ISBN 0 553 08635 9 bound to ask: is there really anything new Reviewed by Brian Stableford to be added? The answer it seems is no. There are grave Here ie. yet another anthology of original risks involved in re-working a myth so well- stories which, if successful, will probably- known, and the gimmick by which Andre Norton turn into an annual series. As an experiment tries to invest it with new life is tediously in publishing policy the original anthology feeble. (There are these two alien races, you has probably not yet been fully tested despite see, and their agents - Merline, Nimue, et the vast number which have been issued in al. are begotten by miscegenation...and their the last six or seven years. The mortality magic powers are - you'll never guess ~ rate has been high, but New Dimensions and really their alien superpowers...) Universe both seem establidsd now as consider- forces within the field. SF Discoveries is Andre Norton is a pedestrian writer at the a fat collection, cons!stiagof seven short best of times, and can so easily fall into . stories and a short novel that might easily hopeless dullness. Here, alas, she has have wade a paperback in its own right, but fallen hard - her prose is quite bland and there is nothing in it which strikes me as the action sadly routine. Against compet­ truly outstanding - and that is a failing that ition as strong as The Once And Future Ring., an anthology, unlike a single issue of a magazine, The Elixir and The Crystal Cave Miss Norton cannot really afford. The standard that has could hardly expect to shine in performance, to be reached in this medium is very high. but the extent of her failure is really quite tragic. The one poor story among the shorts is a trivial effort by Roger Zelazny, but three of the Sir Lancelot does not appear. I hope she others fit patterns which are bcoming disturb­ isn't saving him for a sequel. ingly standardised. George R. R. Martin's "Starlady" and Scott Edelstein's "Age of Libra" are fashionable but unconvincing, while Robert Shockley's "Never-Ending Western Movie" is SKYFALL by Harry Harrison; Faber & Faber; so typical of Sheckley's work that every word London; 1976; 270 pp; £3.50; ISBN 0 571 10962 4 seems familiar as it slides past the eye. Fred Reviewed by Brian Stableford Ssberhagen, by contrast, contributes an atypical piece which Is eminently readable, Enclosed in the review copy of this book is and Doris Piserchia contributes a stomach- a note which reads: "Harry Harrison ask$ us churning black comedy which draws out yet to point out that unlike his previous books another inch of her sick sense of humour - I SkVfall is emphatically not a work of science wish she would set aside her morbid preoccupations Ifction". It is signed: "Publicity Dept". a little more frequently, for she is a fine I pass on this message without comment, as writer. My favourite among the shorts is I feel that any debate arising from it actually a fairly unassuming piece, a variant would be unnecessarily wasteful of space. on the old-man-who-grew-young theme by Arthur Jean Cox called "An Incident at the Owl Creek Rest Home", which is very neatly handled. Skyfall is a suspense thriller about a joint Soviet-American spaceshot which takes off in I confess that I don't know what to make of trouble and gets deeper and deeper problems the long story - Babette Rosmond's "Error stack up neatly like a pile of pennies. j> p) 2 WHOTS WHO IN SCIENCE FICTION by Brian Ash; 1 find that *vhat offend me most about this Elm Tree Books; London; 1976; £3.95; 220 pp book is its determined attempt to pervert the ISBN 0 241 89383 6 English language. Any habitual reader of sf Reviewed by orian Stableford criticism should be used to this by now, but for some reason I find Ash’s semi-literacy even more grating than most. In Who’s Who in This book, according to its introduction, SF we meet J. G. Ballard, ”an expert in slow "is designed to provide a comprehensive guide for the newcomer to science fiction, choreographies of physical and mental disintegration”; Ray Bradbury, ’’a highly to widen the horizon for those who already know something of the genre, and to be a gifted writer and a constant bone of conten­ tion in the science fictional arena"; Larry useful, but less than exhaustive source of Niven, "a noted arrival of the last decade reference for the scholar and the committed devotee". And all in 30,000 words. and a sophisticated updater of space opera”; and Theodore Sturgeon, ”a gifted and provoc­ The remainder of the introduction scrupul­ ative writer, almost in a school of his own". ously follows L. Sprague de Camp’s advice There are at least three American critic/ to would-be magicians’, always prepare your historians who can now sit back with contented excuses beforehand. Ash defends his omis­ smiles.upon their faces, secure in the knowl­ sions and his errors in advance, and perhaps edge that they are no longer leading contenders one can sympathise with him. Errors do for the title of World Champion Metaphor­ creep in, omissions for one reason or dangler. another have to be made. What’s more, in There has always been a great deal of worthless 60,000 words total many of the entries have to be reduced to such a bare minimum that and ephemeral writing about sf, but once it was confined within the fanzines. It is very they contain no real information at all. He has every right to be defensive. depressing to discover that the proportion of good and useful material appearing from com­ As a source of. reference Who’s Who is mercial publishers is no greater than that defeated first by its slimness and secondly appearing in second-rate amateur journals. A by its calculated triviality. It is easy­ lot of people are getting money for old rope, going and lacks the terseness necessary to and the publishers will soon have collected come abruptly to the point in every case. enough old rope to strangle the market Most of its information is culled from completely. Robert Reginald’s Stella Nova bibliography * and Tuck’s Encyclopedia, and when the up­ dated version of the former and volume two (tti-Z) of the latter manage to work their THE EDWARD DE BONO SCIENCE FICTION COLLECTION edited by George Hay; Elmfield Press; Leeds; way into print Ash’s volume will be wholly 1976; £4.95; 217 pp; ISBN 0 7057 0068 2 superfluous. In this respect,, therefore, it has a life expectancy measurable in months, Reviewed by Brian Stableford inhere Tuck and the bibliographical sources are weak - on commentary and analysis - Ash I am quite a fan of Edward de Bono, the is so weak that his efforts are laughable. champion of lateral thinking. His book on The Mechanism of Mind is a neat and elegant In its more modest claims - widening hori­ example of analogical analysis applied to the zons for sf readers and guiding newcomers problem of how minds work, and is to my mind through the tangle of available works - Ash an admirable piece of work.
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