This brilliant result of dedication and drudgery named SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW 3CXEJ3STCB □ is edited and published on the 466 electric Gestetner clunkety-whunk, for F’XCTIO 3ST □ better or for worse, in sickness and in (wheeze) health by: „„ . n Richard £. Geis RE3VIBW □ "Do you believe six-weekly now?" gox □ 500 each. Santa Monica, □ Calif. 90403 -33- □ SFR's agent Over There is... And SFR's agent The Other Way is... 0CT08ER 1969 □ Ethel Lindsay John Bangsund □ Courage House P.O. Box 109 6 Langley Ave. Ferntree Gully □ Surbiton, Surrey, Victoria 5156 COVER 8V STEVE FABIAN □ UNITED KINGDOM AUSTRALIA BACOVER BY BILL ROTSLER □ ,..and United Kingdom rates ...and Australian rates are 500 each. are 4/- or 3 for 12/- DIALOG by the editor who tells □ of the Hugo winners and has a □ Lust come upon him....4 □ INTERIOR ART BY Mike Gilbert—3,18,32, 33, 37, 38 , 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50.(("That's too much art by one man, Geis!" Out of the ABOUT FIVE THOUSAND SEVEN HUND¬ □ contents page, alter-ego!)) John 0. Berry—5, 8, 15, 16, 17, 24; Bill Rots- RED AND FIFTY WORDS by Sanuel □ ler—6, 12, 13, 21; Doug Lovenstein—10, 31; Jim Shull—20; Bob Smith—22; R. Del any who will make you Jack Gaughan—26; Ross Chamberlain—28; Richard Flinchbaugh—29; Steve read with new eyes......6 □ Fabian—30. FANS VIC ALL KNOW...AND PERHAPS □ YJISH WE DIDN'T by Arthur Jean □ "We have a few lines to waste, Geis. Do you realize this is an¬ Cox—Part 2 of The Polemicist □ other Annish, again?" and the end of the series...15 "By Ghod—so it is! A Hugo Annish!" □ "Let's open another bottle of fifty proof Cherry & Brandy." OFF THE DEEP END by Piers Anthony "'What an obscene taste for drinking you have!" a column in which he shouts the □ "You should talk about obscenity! After what you wrote magic word, "Hasan!" and waits □ this monring..." for results....19 □ "That's morning! Shod, how I hate a TIM KIRK'S PAGE—another unkind □ drunken alter-ego!" cut by the dangling dirk of destiny...24 DELUSIONS—book reviews by Piers Anthony James Blish John Boardman Ed Cox Richard Delap John Foyster Richard E. Geis Ted Pauls Hank Stine Creath Thome BOX 3116—where the fans give vent and Geis flumes to himself.*.3? MONOLOG by the editor with a score of interesting items...51 Contents Copyrighted 1969 by Richard E. Geis. All rights to their material are assigned to the writers and artists who contributed to this issue. "Poor Geis...fainted dead away. Too much for him. Look at him writhing and moaning now. I'll put my- hand on his brow... Huh! He's burning up! That maniacal glare irn his eyes... Oh! Ghod! Release him from this spell! He cas contracted—Hugo Fever!" "That’s pretty lousy dialog, Geis." "I can't be a genius all the time!" "Geis! Geis! We won the Hugo! We won! We...won... Why are you looking at me that way? Didn't you hear me? WE WON THE HUGO!" "We're not through with Hugo talk, you know. We have "What do you mean ’we’, alter ego?" to tell the readers who won the other Hugos." "Yes, of course! Well, Harry Warner, Jr. won the Best Fan Writer Hugo..." "Seriously, folks, this is the real, combined Geis speak¬ "You applaud that win, I'm sure." ing now...and I was as excited and happy when Bruce Pelz "Absolutely. Harry deserves it many times over. Con¬ called with the news ("Your Hugo has arrived!") as I was gratulations, Harry!" when I sold my first story, when I got the telegram inform¬ "And I see that the Best -Fan Artist- Hugo was bestowed ing me that I'd sold my first book. upon Vaughn Bode. That cuts you to the quick, doesn't it, "A Hugo is a beautiful thing, as those who have them Geis? You wanted Bill Rotsler to win." will agree. It represents a lot" of goodwill (love, I think) "Yes, but it only hurts when I move abruptly. I can’t on the part of all those who voted for PSYCHOTIC/SFR. It quibble with a Bode win. He made a big splash in 1968 and really makes me feel humble and sort of proud." for that year he likely was the best fan artist. Relative "Don't get maudlin, Geisi" quality at the level of Bode, Rotsler, Barr, Kirk, and "I'm trying to do a straight, honest thing and you—" Lovenstein is hard to judge. It would take a blue ribbon "Okay, finish..." panel of artists to say who, technically, is a better art¬ "There's no way to be original in a situation like this. ist as an artist. So it comes down to personal preference I have to thank all the writers and artists who have con¬ and which fan artist has made the most impact on fandom in tributed to the magazine. The quality of their work is as the fanzines during the award year." much responsible for this happy moment as anything I—" "A realistic assessment. Now as to the other Hugo winn¬ "Geis!" ers—" "—we did. So all you contributors...walk tallf You "Other...?" all won this Hugo, too." "Yes, Geis, the professional awards." '"Well put, Geis, now—" "Umm, almost forgot the lesser ones. All right...Best "Of course, it all springs from that dream...was it a Professional Artist was Jack Gaughan^..again." dream?...I had in October, 1967, when one of the Hholy "He's got how many Hugos now?...four...five?" Elder Ghods of Fandom appeared before me—" "He uses them for paperweights, cattle prods—" "Which one was it? Tucker? Bloch?" "He deserves them, do you deny it?" "—and said in a voice like thunder—" "Nope. I tip my typer to Jack. Long may he collect "Not Moskowitz!" Hogos! As a matter of fact, he has promised me his St. Lou- "He said, 'Go thou, and fan.'" iscon speech (with the addition of some material that should "Ahhh...Geis..„.do you hear strange voices often? These have been in it but wasn't) when he gets time to put it all hallucinations—" down on paper." "Out, unbeliever! 0 ye of little faith!" "Any more new material-to-come you want to brag about "Be serious!" while you're at it?" "Well...it may have been Bloch. Yes, he lives in "Yup. I have secured reprint rights for Franz Rotten- Hollywood, and I'm within range." steiner's critical blockbuster "Chewing Gum for the Vulgar "We’d better stop this dialog, Geis, you're going — a study of Heinlein in Dimension" which is mostly a crackers." merciless dissection of Heinlein than a review of Panshin's "There isn't a cracker in the apartment. But I do feel book, and—" strange..-thirsty...chills running up and down my spine... "fare?" now I feel hot...a weird compulsion to say...to say..." "Yes! John Brunner has decided to revive his OMPAzine, "Lie down, Geis. TaRe it easy." NOISE LEVEL and has offered it to SFR as a column." "I hear a voice in my brain...it's Ghod again! YES! "Naturally, you—" YES! I HEAR! YES, I WILL!" "Leaped at it like a starving catfish!" "What? What?" "You have majop material lined up months and months "I WILL CONTINUE!! I WILL MAKE SFR EVEN BETTER!! I in advance, Geis. When will you stop hogging most of the WILL WIN ANOTHER......arrrgghhhh. 4 comes in almost every day..." good stuff?" "Heh, heh..." "You ought to be ashamed!" Stop smirking and rubbing your hands together like "Could we go on to who won the Best Novelette Hugo?" that. Sometimes you make me sick. Let's get back to dis¬ "It was Poul Anderson for his "Sharing of Flesh" and you haven't read it, yet, either, have you?" cussing the Hugo winners." "...No, but CONGRATULATIONS, Poul. He's an SFR column¬ "You' re the one who asked about new material’. And I haven't even mentioned—" ist, you know." "The Best Prozine was voted to be FANTASY & SCIENCE "Yes, Geis, I know." "You don't have to look at me like that! Who won for FICTION." "A worthy choice. I could not bear to seB IP win / Best Novella?" again. In fact, I would almost bet that IF will not win "Robert Silverberg for "fiightwings"." "Good man, Bob. I met him at the Westercon, you know." again for many years." "Yes. YOU didn't read "Nightwings", but I did, and I con¬ "WHY?" gratulate Mr. Silverberg on the Hugo. "Nightwings" is a "Because it is essentially...and no put-down intended ...a Juvenile sf magazine, and I feel that from now on a fine novella." "Just a minute, alter ego, I'M the one who gives mit der more adult sf prozine will be chosen." congratulations, not you!" "Such as?" "GALAXY, judging from what I hear of the new editor's "You make me tired." "Don't get smart. You can be repressed, you know." buying policies...and maybe, in a year, AMAZING, the way Ted White is going. I’m virtually positive that the new "Huh! Don't be too sure who will be the represser and Phil Dick novel being serialized, A. Lincoln, Simulacrum who the repressee." Is being run unabridged and uncut." "WHAT??" "Okay...now...the winner of the Best Dramatic SF was "Let's not fight in public, Geis. The Hugo-winning 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY.