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SF COMMENTARY 83 GGUUYY SSAALLVVIIDDGGEE Oonn TTHHEE NNOOVVEELLSS OOFF PPHHIILLIIPP KK SF COMMENTARY 83 GGUUYY SSAALLVVIIDDGGEE oonn TTHHEE NNOOVVEELLSS OOFF PPHHIILLIIPP KK.. DDIICCKK October 2012 ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: Brian ALDISS John BAXTER Greg BENFORD Helena BINNS Damien BRODERICK Ned BROOKS Ian COVELL Bruce GILLESPIE Fenna HOGG John-Henri HOLMBERG Carol KEWLEY Robert LICHTMAN Patrick MCGUIRE Murray MACLACHLAN Tim MARION Eric MAYER Cath ORTLIEB Rog PEYTON Mark PLUMMER Franz ROTTENSTEINER Yvonne ROUSSEAU David RUSSELL Darrell SCHWEITZER Steve SNEYD Ian WATSON TARAL WAYNE Frank WEISSENBORN Ray WOOD Martin Morse WOOSTER Cover: Fenna Hogg SF COMMENTARY 83 October 2012 80 pages SF COMMENTARY No. 83, October 2012, is edited and published in a limited number of print copies by Bruce Gillespie, 5 Howard Street, Greensborough, VIC 3068, Australia. Phone: 61-3-9435 7786. Preferred means of distribution .PDF file from eFanzines.com at http://efanzines.com/SFC/SFC83.PDF or from my email address: [email protected]. Printed by Copy Place, Basement, 105 Bourke Street, Melbourne VIC 3000. Front cover Melbourne graphic artist Fenna Hogg’s cover does not in fact portray Philip K. Dick wearing a scramble suit. That’s what it looks like to me. It is actually based on a photograph of Melbourne writer and teacher Steve Cameron, who arranged with Fenna for its use as a cover. Graphic Carol Kewley (p. 78). Photographs Damien Broderick (p. 4); Guy Salvidge (p. 7); Jim Sakland/Dick Eney (p. 50); Jerry Bauer (p. 51); Helena Binns (pp. 59, 80); Mark Atkins/John Baxter (p. 70); Yvonne Rousseau (pp. 57, 73); Ray Wood (p. 76); Frank Weissenborn (p. 79); Cath Ortlieb (p. 80). 3 I MUST BE TALKING TO MY FRIENDS, PT 1 Murray MacLachlan The Editor Mark Plummer Brian Aldiss 63 Feature list: Top 100 SF novels Taral Wayne Rog Peyton 7 DISCOVERING PHILIP K. DICK 65 I MUST BE TALKING MY FRIENDS, PT 3 Guy Salvidge Robert Lichtman Helena (and Merv) Binns 41 A GLIMMUNG OF AN IDEA: Ian Covell Review of Nick and the Glimmung Damien Broderick by Philip K. Dick Ian Watson Tim Marion Steve Sneyd Steve Jefffery 44 I MUST BE TALKING TO MY FRIENDS, PT 2 John Baxter Eric Mayer David Russell 44 The Tucker Issue ... and that Tolkien movie Ned Brooks Mark Plummer Tim Marion 46 Feature letters Mark Plummer Patrick McGuire Darrell Schweitzer Mark Plummer Greg Benford 51 Behind the Stanislaw Lem mask Martin Morse Wooster Franz Rottensteiner Ray Wood 53 Connie Willis’s Blackout/All Clear: John-Henri Holmberg The debate continues 77 We also heard from ... Patrick McGuire Yvonne Rousseau 80 PEOPLE SEEN AT CONTINUUM 8, 2012 2 I must be talking to my friends The state of the fanzine In February this year I produced the final issue of Steam Engine Time, No 13. SET had its own style and place in the world of fanzines, but co-editor Jan Stinson could no longer participate in producing it. I placed the .PDF version on Bill Burns’s efanzine.com site — then waited four months before I could afford to send out copies of the print version. I decided that if I had to part out $1200 again to produce a fanzine, I would have to give up publishing altogether. The alternative? All-online publishing. Chris Garcia does it, and they gave him a Hugo Award for his trouble. Not only does he produce lively fanzines, but he can produce them prodigiously (once a week). I too could be prodigious, even profligate, in production if only I didn’t have to pay for the printing and postage bills, especially the horrendous cost of overseas postage. Can I quit printing copies altogether? You’ll receive a little notice from me asking you to download my magazines from http://efanzines.com. More importantly, email Bill Burns at [email protected]. Ask him to place you on his email notification list. SF Commentary returns ... online. Download your copy of No 83 and all later issues in PDF format: http://efanzines.com Make sure you know when each issue is published. Email Bill Burns at [email protected]. Ask him to place you on his email notification list. I can no longer afford to print issues of my magazines. The printing and international postage costs are too high. Now I’m going all- online, SF Commentary can again appear regularly. G If you cannot download and must have a print copy, get in touch with me, Bruce Gillespie, at [email protected] or 5 Howard Street, Greensborough VIC 3088, Australia. I will have to charge you $A100 — unless you are a frequent contributor of articles or artwork, or supply me with review books or other goodies. G You have a current subscription for the print edition, of which you have ........ number of copies left before your sub expires. Please download copies after that. G We currently trade paper fanzines. I wish this could continue, but as you also place your fanzine on efanzines.com, could we ‘trade’ online? G We currently trade paper fanzines, and you do not publish a downloadable version. Could we please continue to trade? 3 I still have some print copy obligations, especially a few substantial subscriptions and some trades for magazines that are not posted online. But I am hoping most people will stay with the online version. I like editing, but I would prefer fanzine editing, which pays me nothing and costs me everything. If I could publish my fanzines solely on efanzines.com, I could settle down to a life of quiet ease, publishing each issue regularly (perhaps every week), reading all the books that are on the shelf, listening to the vast number of CDs I’ve never heard, and watching the DVD and Blu-ray movies that have piled up. Instead, life will re- main the same for me ... unless, of course, the publishing industry changes as radically as I suspect it will in the next Damien Broderick, Rudy Rucker, and Brian Aldiss, ICFA few years and I will be left with no paying work. Oh well. Conference, Florida, 2005. (Photo supplied by Damien Elaine and I don’t have a car, a mortgage, or kids, so Broderick.) between us I suppose we can survive. *brg* Dear Brian BRIAN ALDISS 39 St. Andrews Road, Old Headington, Thanks very much for your letter. It cheered me up Oxford OX3 9DL, England greatly. However, even while I’ve been trying to arrange for It’s very good of you to keep sending me SF Commentary, the government to give me a pension that I might live on not to mention Steam Engine Time, when I failed to make (having reached the age of 65 on 17 February) I received any response until now. the largest editing job I’ve been offered since the mid The democracy in which we are fortunate to live always 1990s. This took up most of my waking hours until I depends on a lack of corruption in high places and a finished the job last Wednesday. The author of the circulation of money. The former factor is one I readily previous two editions of the book asked that I edit the subscribe to, but on the question of money I am more third edition. It is the encyclopedia of its academic uncertain. I never wrote for money, but rather for what discipline, and eventually turned in at 460,000 words, was on my mind. One of the great virtues of the SF 930 single-spaced pages. When the cheque comes in, it community — never sufficiently extolled — is it often has will be the exact amount that I might possibly expect for scant regard for money or profit. I guess your SF a whole year of an old age pension. If I could depend on Commentary is hardly likely to make a large profit. One continuing freelance work, I would not bother going has to eat, of course ... through the infinite hoops that I’ve had to jump through What you might think of, pretentiously, as my ‘greatest (without success, since the status that Elaine and I have work’ is something no one has seen or thought about. I as a small company seems too difficult for them) and mention it now because I realise my future years are would simply keep working. But I’ve had long periods of limited. My Journal is something I have written for over ‘resting’ during the last five years, so let’s hope I can 40 years. It is manuscript and goes into hardbound A5 satisfy the requirements of the bureaucrats. uniform volumes. More and more frequently, the later All this is to explain why I might no longer be able to volumes are illustrated. I am now writing volume 72, to send paper copies of my magazines to anybody overseas be stored away with previous volumes in a massive in future, not even people such as you who’ve always German safe, here in my house. It’s easy to work out that received them. If I want to live within my means from 72 volumes of this sort will occupy about 2 yards of shelf now on, I will have to give up such essentials as buying space. The Bodleian Library, which is as it were the CDs, books, DVDs and Blu-rays, and international post- Buckingham Palace of old literatures is eager to have this age. I will have to publish PDF documents posted on work, where it will be looked after. http://efanzines.com. The only reason why I’ve been Virginia Woolf says that if you want to be read two able to live beyond my means during the last five years is centuries from now, keep a diary.
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