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Sf&F Journal SF&F JOURNAL THE S F & F JOURNAL Formerly THE WSFA JOURNAL------- ----------------- - - ---------- ------------- Issue Number 6? Incorporating part, of THE JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT (formerly SON OF THE WSFA JOURNAL). Editor & Publisher: Don Miller — $1.2^ each, U/Qh.00 in U.S.— 22 February ’76 TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS ............................................. ....,................................ Page 1 FLUX DE MOTS: Editorial Page; COLOPHON ........................................................... Page 2 THE WORLD OF FILKSONGS, WITH A LOOK AT THE HOPSFA HYMNAL (by Jim Goldfrank) ...................................................................... ............................................... Pgs A1-A2 .... A PIONEERING WORK CF HUMOROUS SCIENCE FICTION (by Mike Shoemaker) .. Pga A3-A6 SWORDS & SORCERY IS A GAME TOOl (by Gary Gygax) ....... ................................Pgs A7-A8 THE CAMBRIAN EYE BLINK (by Alexis Gilliland) ................. Pgs A9-A10 ..THE ESFA REPORT: Reports oh Meetings of h/1/76 & 1/2/76 (by Allan Howard) ........................................................................................................... Pgs A11-A12 THE WIND FROM THE NORTH (by Jim Goldfrank, Daniel Say, & Norbert . Spehner—letters; reviews of FANTASY SPECIALIST Sum/75>, GUARD THE ’ Rochon, all by Goldfrank; short article/trip report) ............................ Pgfi C1-C1O TALES TO WAG YOUR DOG BY: Fiction by Andrew Darlington (”A Multitude of Realities” & Steve McKinney (”An (Untitled) Fragment”); filler.. Pgs FL-F6 VIEWS, REVIEWS & ARCHIMEDEAN SPIRALS; Book Reviews — ”The Lovecraft Tradition and the Maturity of Brian Lumley”, by Jim Goldfrank (Beneath the Moors; Transition of Titus Crowe) ..............Pgs R1-R3 Guest Review, by Joe Sanders (The Best from Orbit, ed. D. Knight) . Pgs R3-R10 ’’Legacies of UNKNCWN”, by Jim Goldfrank (The Sorcerer’s Ship, by Hannes Bok; The Compleat Enchanter: The Magical Misadventures of Harold Shea, by L» Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt) ................... ... Pgs R11-R12 ’’Another Look at—The World of Fanzines: A Special Form of Communi­ cation (by Fredric Wertham, M.D.)”, by Edward Wood.................. Pgs R12-4ilf> ”A Non-Hero: Two Would-Be Books”, by Jim Goldfrank (Death Angel’s . Shadow and Bloodstone, by Karl Edward Wagner) ...................... Pgs Rl£-R16 Triplet Reviews: DhaLgren, by Samuel R.Delany (reviewers: Gil Gaier, Darrell Schweitzer, Bill Hixon) ....................................................... Pgs R16-R19 ’’Series^- Series, Series”, by Michael Walsh (The Anome, The Brave Free Men, & The Asutra, by Jack Vance; The Ginger Star, by Leigh • . Brackett; Merlin’s Ring, by H. Warner Munn) ..7........... ?Pgs R19-R21 Three Views of: The Mote in God’s Eye, by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle (reviewers: James Lawson, Bill Hixon, Don Miller) ......... Pgs R22-R2U ”An Experiment” (several views of Thomas F. Monteleone’s Seeds of Change, by divers hands) ...................................................... Pgs R2l|-R26 Other Reviews: Fantastic Science Fiction Art: 1926-1by Lester del Rey; GHOST STORIES, by Seiger, Moskowitz, & Howard (r. David Bates); Warlord’s World, by Christopher Anvil; The Heritage of Hastur, by Marion Zimmer Bradley (r. Don D’Ammassa); Explorers o~f Space, ed. Robert Silverberg; Prince of Annwn, by Evangeline .Walton (r. Darrell Schweitzer); Strange Gifts: Eight Stories of Science Fiction, ed. Robert Silverberg; Science Fiction; , The Aca- ■ demic Awakening, ed. Willis E. McNelly (r. Martin Morse Wooster); The Blue Star, oy Fletcher Pratt; The Path of Unreason, by George 40. Smith-(r.Don Miller) ...................... ................................................ .............Pgs R26-R30 Front Cover by Gary Gygax (Hlust. his article in this issue). Back Cover by Tim Kirk (repr. THE WSFA JOURNAL #10). Offset work via Check Derry; Offset pages typed by Wayne Piatt. Editorial Address; Don Miller, 1231£ Judson Road, Wheaton, MD 20906, U.S.A. Copyright : (c) 1976 by Donald L. Miller. All rights reserved for contributors. TSJ-87/2 FLUX DE MOTS As we type’ this on Feb. 22 (the last page to be typed, with only this and the' ToC to be run off), thereby setting a new record for speed in getting out an issue1, of TWJ—only seven days between completion of #’s 86 and 87... 1 But this is not likely to happen again—it will be quarterly from here on out. This issue and #86 will be mailed out in the same envelope to most recipients, to save postage and time. They will be accompanied by a 16-page supplement to #86 (it is THE > JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT #199, in case anyone cares, consisting, of. Richard Delap’s re­ views of the prozines for the last two months of 1971|) and a 6-page supplement to #87 (THE JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT #200—an Index to Vol. 28 of SON OF THE WSFA JOURNAL (issues 163-168)). ‘The only joker in the deck is that we still do not have the back cover for #87; this has been promised us this coming week, so if it arrives the packages should be mailed this coming weekend (Feb. 28-29); if not...well... we’ll either have to hold the mailing a while longer or substitute the only thing we have on hand—some extra copies of Walt Simon’s cover for the TWJ DATA SHEET. As far as future issues are concerned—#88, the Jenkins/Leinster Memorial Issue, is still scheduled for May (it will count as two issues on subs—it’s a biggie...!); it will also have non-Leinster book reviews, fanzine1 reviews, and letters. Absolute deadline for material for the issue is 15 April, but we. need to know no later than 1 April if you are sending anything (and its approx, length)n #89 is scheduled for August. We still need book reviews and tributes of Leinster for the Leinster section of #88; and we need lots of material on Asimov, Aldiss, and Borges and their works for the coming, sections on these authors. (Speaking of Asimov, he has consented to an interview-by-mail. We are looking for questions a bit different than those which usually get asked at interviews—which will be in­ teresting for him to answer and for our audience to read. Any suggestions would ’ be greatly welcome (as soon as possible, please}.) Leinster back cover also needed^ This issue consists of a large dosage of material, returned from our former co­ editors during the'past couple of months, plus new material. The former is now just about used up, and we are consequently just about caught up (so:keep the con­ tributions coming.. i.) • • The offset material was typed when we got it, so we were not able to edit it; we found a few typoes in it, but .they are obvious so we’ll not bother with an errata sheet this time. Note that mentions of possible Hugos for Mote in the review section refer to 1975, and not iiiis year. (Please be sure to send all reviews to us; Dave Weems will not be able to serve as Book Review Editor■ until he leaves the Army; reviews sent elsewhere will only delay their pub­ lication. ...) • Thanks to all of you who bore with us during the hectic past couple of years while we were almost constantly retrenching in order to accomodate the restrictions imposed upon us by our eye trouble/surgery. Hopefully,: things have settled down now, and we’ve found an arrangement we can handle. ## - Oh, yes...on the name-change: we have no way to get to WSFA meetings, so our WSFA membership has lapsed; as a non­ member, it would be inappropriate to use ”WSFA” in the title. Hence, the change. THE SF&F JOURNAL is quarterly, with occasional double-issues. Single-issues are $1.25 in the U.S., $1.50 elsewhere. Subscriptions are h/GU.OO in the U.S., !i/$5*00 elsewhere. Its news & advertising supplement, THE SF&F NEWSLETTER, in monthly, and 300 ea., h/$l Ist-class U.S. & seamail overseas (mailed 2-at-a-time to traders); air­ mail rates on request. TSJ is mailed book-rate, in envelopes. Ads in SFN only (20/ 35-character line for classifieds, $2/printed side preprinted flyers (min. 200 need­ ed); reduced rates for. subbers/traders (see #86). Trades as arranged. Contributors get issue in which their material appears or have issue added to sub, as appropriate. In Address Code on envelope, subs are shown by "W” followed by #. of last issue on sub; an ”X” indicates that this is the last issue on your sub. • — DLM The World of Filksongs, with a Look At the HOPSFA Hymnal by James Goldfrank TSJ-87/A-1 Many fans read, correspond, write for publication, or Here we are, in 2001 publish in a solitary manner. It is only the fan who goes Adrift on a sea of space to parties, clubs, and cons who is acquainted with the Gently gliding to the moon filksong. He knows the pleasure and enjoyment that That far and lovely place. group singing can bring. Since the togetherness feeling of a group sing resembles the similar feeling of participation Drift as gravity demands one may have in a church or synagogue, it is not sur­ Precise our orbit bends prising that collections of filksongs are entitled hymnals. Our ship is bound What is a filksong? How did it get such a silly name? For distant lands A filksong is a science fiction or fantasy folk song. Our saga never ends Tamar Lindsay says that back in the mists of fannish time, some unsung hero assembled a collection of such The stars us yet elude folk songs, and made a typographical error.... the But we reach outward still name stuck. A filksong's music may be adopted from To do more than we could folk songs, popular music, or even hymnals. They are Our heart spurs on the will sometimes satires on fans and fan events; more often they satirize the literature: in sheer numbers, Tolkien The shuttle waits songs as a single group seem to outnumber other groups. On the tide Sometimes a folk hero like Casey Jones is reincarnated By the space station's gates as Spacy Jones.
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