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SCIENCE FICTION SUMMER TJTTIT 7TT71TT 7 NUMBER 43 1982 XVCi V J. JjJ W $2.00 SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW “8377> _ _ Formerly THE ALIEN CRITIC F.U. T)UA 1140o MAY 1982 - VOL.11, NO.2 PORTLAND, OR 97211 WHOLE NUMBER 43 RICHARD E. GEIS—editor & publisher PHONE: (503) 282-0381 PAULETTE MINARE', ASSOCIATE EDITOR PUBLISHED QUARTERLY ALIEN THOUGHTS FEB., MAY, AUG., NOV. BY THE EDITOR..,..A OTHER VOICES.45 BOOK REVIEWS BY SINGLE COPY - $2.00 SUE BECKMAN TEN YEARS AGO IN SCIENCE FICTION BOB BARGER BY ROBERT SABELLA..7 PAUL MC GUI RE MARK MANSELL ROBERT B. ROSS interview: JAPES WHITE NEAL WILGUS CONDUCTED BY DARRELL SCHWEITZER...8 RALPH E. VAUGHAN COVER BY STEPHEN FABIAN ALMA JO WILLIAMS RUSSELL ENGEBRETSON THE PORNO NOVEL BIZ W. RITCHIE BENEDICT BY ANONYMOUS.13 ALLEN VARNEY MARK WILLARD ANDREW TIDMARSH HgW.Jjj BE A SCIENCE FICTION ROBERT B. ROSS DAVID A. 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FICTION REVIEW DREAM DANCER. GUARDSMEN OF GOR. SAVE A HASSLE AND EXTRA EXPENSE SPACETIME DOUGHNUTS. THE DOME IN THE FOREST. THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE.52 our increasingly important field and ALIEN THOUGHTS in the increasingly important Hugo Awards process. BY THE EDITOR THERE IS A RISK IN GIVING PRINT TO my political, geo-political and ec¬ THE OREGONIAN 3-3-82 onomic opinions and views in these pages. But only if I'm soft-heart¬ SCI-FI WRITER DIES ed and fuzzy-minded as editor. NEW YORK (AP) — Philip K. Speaking here of these matters Dick, author of 35 science fic¬ will provoke and impell some in the tion novels, including the 1962 readership to write letters-of- Hugo Award-winning "The Man in comment aimed at the letter column. the High Castle," died Tuesday And I will be tempted to print a in California at the age of 53, few. his publisher said. But this is SFR, not REG or Pocketbooks, which publish¬ CONSPIRACY NEWSLETTER (both de¬ ed Dick's recent works under its funct) , and the primary function Timescape Books imprint, said of this zine is to pay attention the author suffered a stroke to science fiction and fantasy. Feb. 18 and had been a patient Only extraordinary Iocs on my at Western Medical Center in mundane thoughts will see print. Santa Ana, Calif., since then. I rarely printed letters in REG In addition to his novels, and never in CONSPIRACY NEWSLETTER. which included "Solar Lottery," Some may argue—with justice "Martian Timeslip" and "The Three —and with the repeated best-sell¬ ---that REG and CN commentary by tigmata of Palmer Eldritch," ing DUNE books...science fiction me should not appear at all in SFR. Dick had published six collec¬ and fantasy are more and more seen I can only say that the readers tions of short stories. as great vehicles for making a lot have consistently cried for more His novel "Flow My Tears, of money. And in our society mak¬ and ever more Geis writing here, the Policeman said" won the John ing huge amounts of money gives and I frankly have only a few W. Campbell Memorial Award in respectability and acceptance to things to say about sf and fantasy 1974. virtually any activity or genre. [Socially taboo drugs and porno are editing, publishing and writing, and that at present I'm dry. I now So sayeth the Associated Press. still struggling; they have greater resistances to overcome.] turn to the real world for triggers What is remarkable about this not¬ and raw material. ice is that AP thought Dick's death of sufficient import to send out Time and again the readers have about 150 words and that the edit¬ written that they find SFR (and REG ors of THE OREGONIAN, Oregon's PRAISE HUGO., STATUS AT LAST.... and CN when they were being publish¬ largest newspaper, decided to print ed) a provocative, interesting mag¬ it. A correspondent sent an ad that appeared in the San Francisco Chron¬ azine even though they didn't agree Phil Dick is not, I think, as icle for a run of Stanley Kubrick's with much or any of what is print¬ well known as Heinlein, Asimov, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE. ed. Herbert, Le Guin, Norton, Ellison, The heading at the top of the So I give vent now to that end. and others. Yet he's given a rath¬ large ad reads: Here is a worldview, a slant, a way er large obit on a national level. of thinking about mankind, the world, Now, either the AP is studded 10 major awards and the United States which hopeful¬ with sf readers and fans, and THE including the HUGO ly will give you a jolt, which will OREGONIAN is also, or science fic¬ for science fiction force you to think of counter argu¬ tion has crept up in importance to This is astonishing! Are the ments, which will pop open that a remarkable degree in the past few ad media now recognising the im¬ third eye of yours.