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SFRA Newsletter Dear Editor: I Fear My Patience Has Finally Been Exhausted Concerning the Unrelievedly Inept Reviews (Even When Favourable) of Works Pertaining to H University of South Florida Scholar Commons Digital Collection - Science Fiction & Fantasy Digital Collection - Science Fiction & Fantasy Publications 3-1-1992 SFRA ewN sletter 195 Science Fiction Research Association Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/scifistud_pub Part of the Fiction Commons Scholar Commons Citation Science Fiction Research Association, "SFRA eN wsletter 195 " (1992). Digital Collection - Science Fiction & Fantasy Publications. Paper 138. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/scifistud_pub/138 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Digital Collection - Science Fiction & Fantasy at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Digital Collection - Science Fiction & Fantasy Publications by an authorized administrator of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The SFRA Review Published ten times a year for the Science Fiction Research Association by Alan Newcomer, Hypatia Press, Eugene, Oregon. Copyright © 1992 by the SFRA. Editorial correspondence: Betsy Harfst, Editor, SFRA Review, 2357 E. Calypso, Mesa, AZ 85204. Send changes of address and/or inquiries concerning subscriptions to the Treasurer, listed below. Note to Publishers: Please send fiction books for review to: Robert Collins, Dept. of English, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431-7588. Send non-fiction books for review to Neil Barron, 1149 Lime Place, Vista, CA 92083. Juvenile-Young Adult books for review to Muriel Becker, 60 Crane Street, Caldwell, NJ 07006. SFRA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE President Peter lowentrout, Dept. of Religious Studies California State University, long Beach, CA 90840 Vice-President Muriel Becker, English Department Montclair State College, Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 Secretary David G. Mead, English Department Corpus Christi State University, Corpus Christi, Texas 78412 Treasurer Edra Bogle Department of English University of North Texas, Denton, TX 76203-3827 Immediate Past President Elizabeth Anne Hull, liberal Arts Division William Rainey Harper College, Palatine, Illinois 60067 SFRA Review *195, March 1992 In This Issue: President's Message (Lowentrout) ............................................................. 4 Conference Update (Lehman) ................................................................... 5 News & Information (Barron, et al.) ......................................................... 6 Letters to the Editor ................................................................................. 11 Non-Fiction: Aguirre, Closed Space: ............ Horror Literature and Western Symbolism (Collings) ................ 15 Bierce, 21 Letters of Ambrose Bierce (Collings) .................................... 21 Butcher, Verne's Journey to Centre of Self (Hall) ................................... 16 Cameron and Wisher, Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Klossner) ............. 18 Collins and Latham, eds., ............ Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review Annual 1990. (Barron) .......... 20 Cook, In Memoriam: Lovecraft- ............ Recollections, Appreciations, Estimates (Collings) .................... 21 Couliano, Out Of This World (Stevens) ................................................. 22 Daniels, Marvel: ............ Five Fabulous Decades of World's Greatest Comics (Latham) ............. 23 Docherty, ed., American Horror Fiction: ............ Brockden Brown to Stephen King (Dziemianowicz) ................. 24 Elwell, Evolution of the Future (Berger) ................................................. 26 Etherington, ed., Annotated She (Bleiler; Ruddick) ............................... 31 Gallun (with Elliot), Starclimber, ............ Literary Adventures & Autobiography of Gal/un (Lewis) ........... 33 Gardiner-Scott, Mervyn Peake: ............ Evolution of a Dark Romantic (Stableford) ................................ 34 Gordon-Wise, Reclamation of a Queen: ............ Guinevere in Modern Fantasy (Williams) .................................. 35 Gross, ed., Critical Essays on Franz Kafka (Taormina) ........................... 36 Hackett, Fantasy Wargaming: ............ Games with Magic & Monsters (Stableford) .............................. 37 Hardy, ed., Science Fiction: ............ Aurum Film Encyclopedia (Stableford) ...................................... 38 Hass6n, Index to Mexican Science-Fiction Magazines (Barron) ............ 39 Hollis, Ancient Egyptian "Tale of Two Brothers" (Kratz) ....................... 39 Kendrick, Thrill of Fear: ............ 250 Years of Scary Entertainment (Collings) ............................. .40 Mallett and Reginald, Reginald's ............ Science Fiction and Fantasy Awards (Barron) ........................... 42 McDonagh, Broken Mirrors/Broken Minds (Morris; Stableford) ............ 43 Pitts, Horror Film Stars (Klossner) .......................................................... 46 Sage, ed., Gothic Novel: A Casebook (Stableford) ............................... .47 Shay and Duncan, Making of Terminator 2: ............ Judgment Day (Klossner) ........................................................... 18 Shea, In Search of Lovecraft (Collings) .................................................. 21 Shippey, ed., Fictional Space: ............ Essays on Contemporary Science Fiction (Lewis) ..................... .48 Spignesi, Shape Under the Sheet: ............ Complete Stephen King Encyclopedia (Coli ings) ....................... 50 Th iher, Franz Kafka: Study of the Short Fiction (Taorm ina) ................... 36 Fiction: Anthony, Isle of View (Hitt) ................................................................... 52 Asimov and Silverberg, Nightfall (Butrym) ............................................ 52 Asimov, Robot Visions (West) ............................................................... 54 Bal iol, Magefire: First Book ofAmulets of Darkness Cycle (Morgan, P) •....•....•. 55 Brooke, Keepers of the Peace (Stableford) ............................................. 56 Brooks, Scions of Shannara (Herrin) ...................................................... 57 __-', Druid of Shannara (Hitt) ........................................................... 58 Clarke, Tales from Planet Earth (Dunn) ................................................. 58 Clayton, Wild Magic; Shadowplay; ............ Shadowspeer; Shadowkill (Becker, G) .................................. 59,60 DeChancie, Castle Murders (Osborn) ................................................... 62 Dickson, Wolf and Iron (Kaveny) .......................................................... 62 Duncan, Magic Casement; Faery Lands Forlorn (Wooster) ................... 63 Foster, Cat-a-Iyst (Becker, M) ................................................................ 64 Fowler, Rune: A Novel of Urban Horror (Larrier) .................................. 65 Herbert, Lightning's Daughter (Strain) ................................................... 66 jablokov, Carve the Sky (Levy) .............................................................. 67 james, Sweet Heart (Morgan, C) ........................................................... 68 jeschke, Midas (Stableford) ................................................................... 69 Kay, Tigana (Bogstad) ........................................................................... 70 Lackey, Winds of Fate: Book One of Mage Winds (Becker, M) ............. 72 Miller, Iceman (Moore) ......................................................................... 74 Niles, Kinslayer Wars (Wells) ................................................................ 75 Norton and Greenberg, eds., Catfantastic /I (Dudley) ........................... 77 Nye, Mythology 101 (Bartter) ................................................................ 77 Rasmussen, Passage of Stars (Sanders) .................................................. 78 Robbins, Skinny Legs and All (Collins, W) ............................................ 79 Rodgers, Blood of the Children (Moore) ............................................... 80 Fire (Sanders) .......................................................................... 80 Steakley, Vampire$ (Blakeley) ............................................................... 81 Thompson and Carter, Qualinesti (Wells) ............................................. 75 Wingrove, Chung Kuo: Broken Wheel (Morgan, P) ............................... 82 Zelazny and Saberhagen, Black Throne (Carper) .................................. 83 4 SFRA Review, 195, March 1992 President's Message: A Nanoepistolary Exercise Short and sweet this time. A straight out, unvarnished, uncomplicated, industrial-strength presidential message. The SFRA's federal tax exemption is now official. One immediate ben­ efit of this is to allow us to send the SFRA Review out to you all at signifi­ cantly reduced postal rates, enhancing the fiscal viability of the Reviewen­ terprise. Immediate Past President Elizabeth Ann Hull was thorough and utterly tenacious in her extended dealings with the IRS and the credit for our successful application to that hideous agency goes entirely to her. Thanks, Betty! Money again: Treasurer Edra Bogle tells me that dues renewals are run­ ning ahead of last year. All who read this will have already renewed - but if you know of those who haven't and are now off the mailing list, do them a favor and remind them to re-up. And spread the word about the SFRA among those you know are likely candidates for membership. You might win one of the two grand prizes in the BIG MEMBERSHIP DRIVE.
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