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Coming This Spring Ground-Breaking Sf and Fantasy from Gollancz 2 Printed by PDC Copyprint, 11 Jefferies Passage, Guildford, Surrey, GU1 4AP Contents Vector IS printed bimonthly by the BSFA Copyright 1992 3 Front Line Dispatches - Letters Cont ribution s: Good articles are always wanted. All MS$ should be typed double spaced on one side of the 7 Lois McMaster Bujold page. Submissions may also be accepted in Ascii on Interviewed by Ken Lake IBM format disks. Maximum preferred length is 5000 12 Barbed Wire Kisses words; exceptions can and will be made. Apreliminary lelter is advisable, bu! not essenlial. Unsolicited MSS Magazines reviewed by Maureen Speller cannot be returned without an SAE. Please note !hat 15 Compass Points there is no payment for publication. Members who wish to review books should first w rite to the appropriate Ian Watson on Robert Silverberg Editor. 16 The Machineries of Hokum Examined by Norman Beswick Artist s: Cover art, illustrations and fi llers are always welcome. 19 Insight Do Not Adjust Your Reality nw 8'•1111 ~ Fod;on Aoooc:a,.,., Lid . Com1>1n~ ~Cid bJ &»,_.~too 121500 • ~-•IIOawn-.-Road. ~ K,ent.CTIIW 20 Shock of the New Reviews edited by Chris Amies 25 Ian McDonald Normal Editorial service wioll be Interviewed by Tommy Ferguson resumed next issue hopefully, after 30 Paperback Graffiti your exhausted Editor has caught up on some Zs. Editor Please consider carefully the various Catie Cary 224 Southway, Park Barn, advertisements for help located Guildford, Surrey, GU2 6DN throughout the magazine. Your input Phone: 0483 502349 would be valued. Contributing Editor ZZ?ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ­ Kev McVeigh 37 Firs Road , Milnthorpe Cat1e Cumbria, LA7 &OF Phone: 05395 62883 ReviewsEditor Chris Amies 56 More Close , St Paul's Court Gliddon Rd , London W14 9BN Paperback Reviews Editor Cover Artwork by Malcolm Griggs Stephen Payne 24 Matvern Rd . Sloneygate, Leicester, LE2 2BH Back Cover Art work by J a na Magazine Reviews Editor Kupkova Maureen Speller 60 Bournemouth Rd Folkestone, Kent, CT19 5AZ Editorial Assistant Camilla Pomeroy Production Assistants Alison Sinclair , Carol Ann Green, Steve Grover Vector 3 I wonder also whether~ Calhoic pansh in fft1fJrf age has been al the "\ITvacity and co101,· Housden expactS? The industrial town al Rugby. !he hero's p.w?Sh in A Dangerous Energy reninds me tor example al the raher bleak an::unstances described by Gera-d Manley Hopuns, sirnlar1y a priest an"ld:st industrial squalor ••• I lound par1icular1y obnoXious the front Une accusation ol "laci( of research into religion" since John Whitbourn has in fact produced a book which deals very largely 'Mlh .spirilual and moral queslions and. in this !ICOffing and secualr age, has had the Couraij8 10 QMt ii an elCJ)l'essly Christian and catholc conclUStOn. PS I nonce I make a great thing ot the 0.5pdf che5 book's Originality - but hey? hO# many Olhet allernate world rlOY9ls have expianed 400 yea-s of alternate ~ory by means of an Oxford UniverSlly HiSttty Ellaffl papa,? From Brian Griffin. &rrrrw-ln-FurM.U: (Re~Jers' letters) C herilh Bak)ry's r8Yl8W of David 'Ningrove·s The White Mountain (Chung Kuo Ill, ) in Vecior 170 r&aOS honestly enough. She seems 10 have read lhe poblicity pamphlet. and decided Iha! the book doesn't live up 10 Its Iheme of the book is the way the chun::h cannot authOr's ambitions. But she shows no sion ol Reviews sutl8f magicians 10 eXISt In nvalry to itsell and having reaij the Olhet two YOlumes. which thus must absort> them, pu1 them under its means that she rnsses all kinds of ittle Fmm Va/t'ril' Hmudt'n Bromlry. Kt'nt: conln>I, whether Fl has a real rOkl tor them or !ouches - like the concluding paragraphs. wtichlooknghebaekinvividdet:aillothevery "°'·Pa,oltheiragectyoflhenovel's"tief o', T here is an td011~e mispnnt in my rfNiew beginning of voune One. Tobias Oakley. is thalwhie taking t.m in 10 OI John Wtwttnnis A Dangerous Ene:t'gy in Simple, tx.c very ef'lecwe when JO'.lre control his wild talete, cwcumsl~ <ictale INII Vector 170. worlung (orreading) on5'dtavastscaie. Al lhe ctudl cannol supply the spirilual glMSance The final senlence of the lirSI paragraph of lhS momen1. the cha'acler al Chen-wl'lch. he needs and by itJY'OIYlnO him in its t9ff1)0ral thettMeWshouldread: .. agreed, has 14> til !hen been drawn tn prwnary F,__,_,__._ ___ u._ aflairs, its W(njly sicle. contrbutes to In coku"s, suddenly actMYes a whole new J10•--ln1Mct,urd,ill~ spiritualdownlal. tourth-dimensional reality. It's tt.s kind of Giv9n the Sttljec1 manor of lhe book and Valerie makes great pl.ay of al 1he aspects ot lounh-dimenslonal reajty that Wingrove is my specific criticisms, many ol which were the church not meotionect - bul st.Sly lhe really lmorast9d In: and It's oo this leV0I thai he edited OUI, the difference between lhe Church authOr in1aoos the readers 10 supply the 19 roaMyin1oresting. of England and the Chureh In England is standard background ol the Ca1holic Church lo, 11'9 not unusual !or me 10 start a Wingrove imp()rtant. themselves? he concentrates on the differences chap1er with a repressed yawn. bul by the time 10 lhe standard and historical. AN er all lhe book I've flnlshecl IT ne almost Invariably rouses lhe Frmn Ed Griffillu, Gt Mi:rse1id""· is about one man - not achl.A'Ch. sense ot something tour-dimeosiooal going on. Bucb: This Is what k~ me reading. I want 10 see T he5e days we musz welcome any stved ol wri.'s happerw)g a: thallevel. Now, it a writer originality fl a tat1asy novet- cenanty any is wor1dng ai thal kind of level c:eftain ti.ngs novel which doeS no1 hall8 a rurrber OI CIA6 muS1 be sacrificed, I thilW Wingn>Y9 IS pe,fectly Y8tbeal)'<ttalenged lurry crea1HS bcmng a awara al the soap elemer'I in what he is doing. Dart Lord and feall.l'es neither the u:iquhous I a!so think heis oocasionaly- juSI s.:r.. JheWildHl#tnortheC..::Otharwo.td occa,iona1y - .,..:,st oY81'Whelmed by II. (91C.8k:). Whal he has notdone, so tar. is to show any John ~ ·s A Dangen>us Energy sign of laiue or lallng--off in any utimaie r8YleWed in Vector 170 has nooe of lhese sense. Really, some of WingrcMt'scrita tired diches and by virtue of its original plot sound Ike Laavis oo Milon ("a man wtio uses and icleas was C91ainly a wOl'thy winner ol lhe language this way could not even begin 10 BBC Bookshelf/ Gollancz flrsi ramasy novel justify the ways al God to men", etc). I'm no1 compelition. trying 10 insu• anyone: Leavis's The L iving Y81 Valerie Housden's review seems more PrincipM is a la.'lcinaling book. But well. ltee coocemed with berating its authOr for~ misundel"slandings occ .... wmng a f'IOY8I aboU: an idealsed Catholic Yes, of COtKSe I'm an mlereslad party: look Chi.wch 1han~aecil tororiginaityor my name 14> in the ~ section recognsing the actiev9ment ol a first lime at the end of The White Mountain. I'm a kind of face-wor1(er on the earty <tatt.s of triese """"'Not· ON/ that, tM her chlel' oitJc::ism seems noveb. getting rid al the rea/lycrudestutt, and ii-founded: the church In the novel ~ occasional:ybotrongalewoiooasback14>the r950lved the "c:oofid belween caitloic rnneshah. When you've dooe tlis over a onhodoxy and real pagan magic". A major periodoflime. akindofsemi--idenlificalion'Mlh 4 Vector 1he bool(s sets in On the Olher hand, I don't extraordinarily arrtilioos, extremely wel- erObc: Ill lhe tradition al Anne Ric:e and Tanith leel I'm tightmg for my ivelihOOd in defending written, successful series like Chu ng Kuo! Lee. them. Perhaps, lherel'ore, my commeru w1M As 10 the 1,11e, which Ga,eth c:oulcl make no be of some oqecuYe value. sense ol - Vampires O'ink Blood Wine, don"t AbOul the sex an::I vtOlence rn C hung Kuo: they? tor me, the orly real .shocter comes in thal F'inally, I lhnkil is unfair for any r8\lleWer 10 chapler of The Middie Kingdom called 'The say lhal a Miler l\as made no eftorl. He mighl Saddle'. Whal ca, I say? I can remember Ike 10 know lhal Freda pu1 blood, Swea1 and whai I sad 10 Daw! attar reading lhe early tears ,nto the book. She says thal. "'Wllbng 11 O'afl· •rmVfJIYg,adlosaythatldidn«.-.oy was like a love attar'. rm c:onvinced. Take this. Ard Heaven help anyone who does'. another look Gareth. From Susan Oud{lf, Lt»idm,: FrtH11 KL WA'ld,, Grantham, Unc.'f: A s NEL's publicist tor Oa'M Wingrove's A 11 8f ,eacllng Gareth Rees· review ol Freda Chung Kuo series (and you may be aware W arring1on's A Tasle ol Blood Wine in a that I am al:so his wile) I am wriling in friend's copy ol Vector, I can only assume reSPOnse to Cherl!h Baldry's review ot The 1hat he and I hal/8 beOn reading diHeren1 White Mountain in issue 170 ol Vector , no1 novels! Rees' quarrel wi th this book seems 10 so much to argue wi th 1he reviewer's be that it is no1 an oh•so-da!ed Hammer•horror criticisms (anhough l do), but with the way blOOdtest. But it does not even pretend to be they are made. (thecoverispe,haps regrettable, bul Pan Apan from !he introductCNy paragraph have quite clearly labelled the spine fantasy which gives a brlet gWmpse into 1ne wortd ot for lhe gerve-<:hallenged).
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