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Riverside Quarterly V3N2 Sapiro 1968-03 RIUEHSIUE QUHY 95 RIVERSIDE QUARTERLY March 1968 ’ Vol« ZII» N°. 2 Editor: Leland Sapiro Associate Editor: Jim Harmon Poetry Editor: Jim Sallis R.Q Miscellany Assistant Editors: Redd Boggs Bill Blackbeard Jon White Send business correspondence and manuscripts to: Box 40 University Station, Regina, Canada AS OTHERS SEE US Mandatory reading for the student of science-fiction is TABLE OF CONTENTS Susan Sontag^'s essay, "The Imagination of Disaster," on recent s.f. films. This critic's resume of s.f. movie clich&s is RQ Miscellany ............................................... 95 gruesomely hilarious and her general diagnoses, needle-sharp. (Her remarks on s.f. cinematic sadism and its rationale—by the H.G. Wells, Critic of Progress view of extra-terrestrials as non-human and therefore sub-human (second of five parts) ........................................Jack Williamson. .96 —brings to mind the Clayton Astounding Stories of the early Edgar Rice Burroughs and the Heroic Epic....Tom Slate............. 118 'SO's.) Whether or not he attends to movies, the s.f. reader Motifs and Sources for'Lord of the Rings'...Sandra Miesel...l25 will achieve both shame and! enlightenment from this article. A Valuable New Book on Wells ....................................Richard Mullen.. 129 Also inducing shame, for2another reason, is Michel Butor's "Notes on Science Fiction." This critic is familiar with H.G. Poetry: Wells and Jules Verne, and he has read over half a dozen stories Lawrence Spingarn... 131 Anthony Sobin.....................136 by s.f. writers born in the 20th century. On this basis he re­ peats the customary pieties on the satiric value of s.f., divides A. Schroeder...131, 137, 138 Lee Milliken....137, 141 the field into three parts (Life in the Future, Unknown Worlds, Dhvid Lunde........................132, 135 Reynold Harrs.....................139 and Unexpected Visitors), and remarks that the plausibility of such a work "is in direct proportion to the solid scientific Brannock Rose..132 James Castle 139, 140 elements the author introduces." Refutation is not necessary; with this essay Mr. Butor establishes himself as the only Peter Warren...133, 134, 142, 143 literary critic on two continents who knows less about The Taste of Eternity................................. ................... Janet Fox.................144 science-fiction than Kingsley Amis. Opere Citato ............................................................................Harry Warner.... 146 The Seasonal Fan 1) Against Interpretation, New York, Delta Books, 1966.81.95. The Infamy of Fame .................................................. Jim Harmon..............150 Other essays in this collection are still better. Voluntarism ................................................................John Campbell.. .153 2) Partisan Review, Fall 1967, 595-602. Despite this article, the PR remains one of the more interesting literary magazines. Selected Letters ...........................................................................................................157 Unsigned material is by the editor. OPERE CITATO Front cover by Robert Gilbert Robert Gilbert....................................................... 99, 103, 106, 109, 112, 114 The transitory character of amateur publishing means that Harry Warner's column, resumed this issue, will never be total­ Poul Anderson..........................................................................................................117, 124 ly up to-date. By the time of (RQ) publication at least one of the editors listed will have moved, given his magazine to some­ Dougt Lovenstein .................................................................................................. 121, 123 body else, or simply quit. For those readers who exnect profes­ Dan Adkins ................................................................................... ....................................... sional stability in an amateur publication I'd list as the Copyright 1968 by Leland Sapiro consistently ablest U.S. fanzines: 500 per issue Si.50 per year Extrapolation (Tom Clareson, Wooster College, Wooster, Ohio 44691), 81.25 per year (two issues), 750 per copy, Extra thanks are owed this time to Mike Cugnet for his special efforts in drawing title captions to accomnany the ERB and Tolkier Lighthouse (Terry Carr, 35 Pierrenont St., Brooklyn 11201), articles. Thanks also to Gretchen Schwenn, whose captions for ear­ 500 per copy, lier RQ's were re-used this issue. Yandro (Bob Coulson, Rt. 3, Hartford City, Indiana 47348), 3/81.00 (11 issues ner year). The number after your name on the mailing label indicates either your status or the issue (this being number 10) on which your sub scription expires. E designates "exchange," L "lifetime subscribe (continued on page 166) C "contributor," an<T H "honourary." THE LIMITS OF PROGRESS: COSMIC 97 Just entering his most optimistic period at the time of this lecture, Wells declared his belief "in the coherence and purpose in the world and in the greatness of human destiny" (ibid., 312-3). Earlier, however, during the years of doubt and discovery that produced the best of the scientific romances, he was still the cosmic pessimist. His studies of science had led him to a view of the probable future that he could neither C<rtic $ HtqgRCSS accept nor ignore. Such thinkers as Malthus had led him to look at humanity in the emotionless light of biology. "Probably no more shattering book than the Essay on Population has ever been A Study -Hto Early Furhbn- written, or ever will be written," he comments in Anticipations. It was aimed at the facile liberalism of the deists CHAPTER TWO ’THE LIMITS OF PROGRESS: COSMIC and the atheists of the eighteenth century; it made clear as daylight that all' forms of social reconstruction, all dreams of earthly golden ages, must be either futile or COPYRIGHT 1966 BY JOHN STEWART WILLIAMSON insincere' or both, until the problems of human increase were manfully faced...It aimed simply to wither the ratio­ nalistic utopias of the time, and, by anticipation, all the communisms, socialisms, and earthly paradise movements that have since been so abundantly audible in the world. b Jack KXlbcmson- The writer of those words was hardly a preacher of inevita>- ble and automatic progressl The earlier Wells, as his fiction #1 Approaches to Progress shows, seems rather to have been fascinated with his imaginative exploration of the darkest aspects of the cosmos. At the very "It is surely significant," writes. Norman Nicholson, beginning of his writing career, as Anthony West observes, he had broken with Herbert Spencer's sort of progressive optimism. that1 the man who preached progress more eloquently than In "The Rediscovery of the Unique," he rejects the whole idea anyone else should be the one who had the most vivid vi­ of evolutionary progress. He accepts in its stead the mechanistic sion of cosmic accident, and who realized...that^the view that the world is "nothing but a mere heap of dust, for­ destiny of the whole earth...hangs by a thread. tuitously agitated." West comments that The significance is that Wells preached progress not out of ...it is impossible to be an optimist believing in confident hope, but out of cold desperation. Uniquely gifted inevitable progress if you also believe in a universe both with the analytic brain that might have served a great in which mind figures only as a local accident. There scientist and with the creative imagination of a great artist, is also considerable difficulty in reconciling the idea he saw the probable shape of the future more vividly, by the of progress with a universe which by its essential na­ testimony of his work, than any other man of his time. Dis­ ture cannot support a permanent world order. That Wells tressed by his own visions of the world to come, he strove for should have dealt with the ideological basis of pes­ many years to change it, with dramatic warnings, impatient ex­ simism in his first serious piece of writing throws hortations, and attempts at mass education. As Nicholson says. some light on the real cast of his mind. Wells was aware from the first that the development of The prominence of the idea of progress in the early fiction scientific knowledge was not in itself any guarantee of does not mean that Wells was writing tracts for it or against progress, and many of his romances were bases on ths ide* it. The tracts came later. His major aim, during those begin­ that science, divorced from humanity...may bring disaster ning years, was more probably tio find himself as a creative to mankind. (ibld.. 37) writer, to discover and perfect his own means of expression. He writes that in the years 1893-1894', under the influence of But we exist in double jeopardy, from within ourselves his friend Walter Low, "I was beginning to write again in any and from without. Though our deadliest danger may well be our scraps of time I could snatch_from direct money-earning. I was own animal nature, we also inhabit a hostile cosmos. Lectur­ resuming criticism of life." The life that he criticised ing in 1902, Wells reviewed a whole series of external perils, most searchingly, it would seem, as his own. The autobiography, ranging from the possibility that "there may arise new animals as well as the fiction, reveals the clash of discordant atti­ to prey upon us by land and sea" to the "reasonable certainty" tudes and emotions in his mind. He was his mother's son, no less that the solar system will continue to run down "until some
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