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SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW $2.00 FALL 1981 NUMBER 40 SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW (,SSN “ Formerly THE ALIEN CELTIC P.O. BOX 11408 AUGUST 1981----- VOL. 10, NO 3 PORTLAND, OR 97211 WHOLE NUPBER 00 PHOf'E: (503) 282-0381 PAULETTE MINARE', ASSOCIATE EDITOR PUBLISHED QUARTERLY COVER BY STEPHEN FABIAN FEB., MAY, AUG., NOV. BACK COVER BY GARY WIS SINGLE COPY — $2.00 ALIEN THOUGHTS BY THE EDITOR............................................... 4 LETTERS............................................... 32 POUL ANDERSON A.J. BUDRYS interview: ROBERT SHECKLEY SHAWNA PC CARTHY CONDUCTED BY DARRELL SCHWEITZER... .7 MICHAEL MOORE GEORGE WARREN GENE WOLFE AND THEN I READ.... ALAN DEAN FOSTER INTERIOR ART---------------------------------- BY THE EDITOR............................................. 10 HARLAN ELLISON ROBERT BLOCH TIM KIRK---- . HARRY J.N. ANDRUSCHAK ALEXIS gill: THE ORYCON '80 CONVENTION SHELDON TEITELBAUM FOUR-WAY TELEPHONE CONVERSATION...12 JACK L. CHALKER ARTHUR C. CLARKE DAVID LANGFOFE ARNE FENNER— KURT REICHEL—9 HARLAN ELLISON RONALD R. LAMBERT VIK KOSTRIKIN---- 14,17,46 FRITZ LEIBER GREGORY BENFORD RICHARD TORONTO GEORGE KOCHELL—18,19,22,29,40,^, HARK WELLS JOFN SHIRLEY 44,59,65 ROBERT A.W. LOWNDES MIKE GILBERT—23,51 BRUCE CONKLIN—25 TEN YEARS AGO IN SF—Sutter, 1971 , JAPES PEQUADE----25 BY ROBERT SABELLA.................................... 17 OLE PETTERSON----26,27 OTHER VOICES.......................................43 SAM ADKINS—31,45 BOOK REVIEWS BY PAUL CHADWICK—32 THE ENGINES OF THE NIGHT DEAN R. LAMBE SUSAN LYNN TQCKER---- 33,41 ESSAYS OF SF IN THE EIGHTIES J0H4 DIPRETE KEN HAHN---- 35,55 BY BARRY N. MAI 7RFRG..............................18 DOUGLAS BARBOUR ALLEN KOSZOWSKI—48 SUE BECKMAN ROBERT BARGER---- 58 ANDREW ANDREWS SMALL PRESS NOTES GENE DE WEESE BY THE EDITOR.............................................23 STEVE LEWIS FREDERICK PATTEN CLIFFORD R. 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Set piece tensity to the pleasures of mastur­ editorials. I quail at having to bation. write them for SFR. Nothing comes I've been told by editors that to mind that hasn't been tromped I write damned good sex novels. through before. They've always bought them, anyway. What should I do? And readers have said the same. What should I do? So I have spent maybe 23 years For a month now I have watched of my life writing close to 90 or with morbid eye as the days wither so sex novels which have helped peo­ away. The readers want more of my ple get more pleasure out of life. writing in SFR. More editorials. I'm happy with that. I'm proud AAARRRRGi. of that. I even beat the bushes of my I'm not sure if Burt thinks my brain looking for Alter Ego with real talents are in other types of intent to ask his advice. Even... fiction—or writing for and editing *Shudder* to allow him to write an SFR and/or CONSPIRACY NEWSLETTER. editorial or two. But Alter is I enjoy all the kinds of writ­ gone. Even his used synapse collec­ can you do?). I do not expect to ing I do. I'll probably continue tion is gone. I feel naked, some­ ever see another God-damned nickel doing them as long as possible. how. from the sons of bitches. Only re­ Burt also [with others] suggests Where is he now? More to the course is never to do business with I should give up my desperate non­ point, in whose brain is he now them again.' fiendishly residing? Hmmm... It professional stance in SFR and ac­ seems to me Elton Elliott has been cept all the outside advertising I acting strangely lately. I suppose these stories of major can get in order to expand the maga­ But that is neither here nor publisher ripoffs will become more zine or preferably go bi-monthly. sideways. My problem looms, dark and more frequent as book sales If I'm such a great fanzine ed­ and stormy. tail off more and more the rest of itor, howcum so many people want me Yet there is a way... Time this year. Some writers who have to change my style and policies? honored. Even in the Geis tradi­ been lucky don't really believe I prefer to not bother with ad­ tion. Why not...why not... "name" publishers do this sort of vertising, period. I don't want thing. I hesitate to say it, much less the subtle pressures that advertis­ do it. But why not an editor's Shit. I'm beginning to think ers exert [without saying a word] on diary? everybody skims and cheats. editors and publishers of small press I'm getting enough mail of one magazines. kind or another to provide raw mat­ # Burt Libe is tiring; I get these I don't want a 130 page zine one erial for a sloppy, uninhibited, long letters from him (to me 500 year and a 48 page zine the next as space-filling commentary.
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    A- • . • . i ffl 'Distribution y and windy rain develop- log today eoatUuini through to- Today alght Into tomorrow morning fol- lowed by partial clearing and 26,550 Wider tomorrow afternoon, High Red Bank Area today in upper 40i. Low tonight Mf upper Mi. High tomorrow, Copyrighfr-The Red Bank Register, Inc. MM. DIAL 741-0010 around 40. MONMOUTH COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER FOR 88 YEARS VOL. 89, NO. 150 EF*WS£ g^'gifca^^' g FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1967 7c PER COPY PAGE ONE EyeNatianalSeashoreSla tusfor Hook WASHINGTON - Legislation The session was convened to The congressman requested a ent fort land remain a park and a claim on some of .the surplus sey in some way could take over proposed legislation is introduced Declaring the 1,200-aore land Which would establish a 1,200- discuss the Sandy Hook area, meeting with Secretary UdaJI last recreation area, but everyone acreage for other than park or the 1,200 acres have not been ruled Monday, it would automatically a National Seashore or Park aere Sandy Hook National Sea- part of which is being closed week when it was announced present was in agreement that recreational purposes," said Mr. out, said Mr. Howard. be referred to the House and would be unprecedented, the shore will be introduced Monday down by the Department of the that Port Hancock, on the Sandy it be maintained for public use, Howard. "The legislation I have pro- Senate Interior and Insular Af- spokesman said, noting that nor- In the House and Senate. Army.1 Hook peninsula, would be closed reported Mr.