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Riverside Quarterly RIVERSIDE QUARTERLY VOL.3 NO.l 50/ RIVERSIDE QUARTERLY August 1967 Vol. Ill, No. 1 Editor: Leland Sapiro Associate Editor: Jim Harmon Poetry Editor: Jim Sallis Assistant Editors: Redd Boggs "Blackbeard" Jon White Send business correspondence and prose manuscripts to: Box 40 University Station, Regina, Canada Send poetry to>: RFD 3 Iowa City, Iowa 52240 TABLE OF CONTENTS Riverside Miscellany ..................................... 4 H.G. Wells, Critic of Progress (first of five parts) ............. Jack Williamson... 6 Excerpts from "Run, the Spearmaker" •••• Kris Neville..... 32 Superman and the System (conclusion) ..... '.......... W.H.G. Armytage... 44 The Seasonal Fan .... An Unsolicited Manuscript ........... Jim Harmon..... 52 Three Poems ...... ..................... James Castle...... 55 "The window looks on..." ............ Gordon James...... 57 Day Dream #12 .......................... Peter Warren...... 58 American Flags on a Naked Tryna ....... Gregory Corso in Athens ................ Samuel Delaney.... 59 Knossos Poem ........................... Ralph Dobbins..... 60 "We are come for the machine's wake" .................... 61 A Bunch of Things ...................... Thomas Disch ■••••• 62 Everything Closes at Midnight .......................... 65 H.G. Wells: The Old Orthodoxy and the New..Richard Mullen.. 66 A Satanic Bible ........................Yogi Borel......... 69 Selected Letters ............ 74 Unsigned material is by the editor. Front cover by Margaret Dominick (DEA) Ann Gertnann.... 3 John Ayotte ................. 9,- 13, 14, 16, 19, 21, 23, 26, 74 Gretchen Schwenn....................... 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 43 Mike Higgs .......... 46, 47, 49, 51 Robert Gilbert (REG) ....................................... 54 Davis Blake ..................... 67, 68 John Foster, Jr. ........ 70, 71, 73 From the sketchpad of Charles Schneeman ................... Copyright 1967 by Leland Sapiro 50(4 per issue SI.50 per year The number after your name on the mailing label indicates either your status or the issue (this being number 9) on which your subscription expires. E designates "exchange," L "life­ time subscriber," C "contributor," and H "honourary." ' RIVERSIDE MISCELLANY RIVERSIDE MISCELLANY 5 "CRITIC OF PROGRESS" A Publication of The Gateway, Under­ aHAQS graduate Newspaper of the University of Alberta, Edmonton. Sector: ALBZTY-7B2 Featured this issue is H.G. Wells, subject of Jack William­ Cluster: MN8Q son's Ph.D. thesis and the note by Richard: Mullen. Both ar­ ticles discuss the current orthodoxy about this writer, e.g., EDITOR: Jon Whyte Star: 6K9-L4X-0907 the notion of Wells as an uncritical prophet of mechanistic Base: Sol III-a rationality and the view that Wells was an early talent who Assistant Editor: Patricia Transmission Time: Gal. 39.S.431.24-2 Hughes Re: Xmas Ritual on Sol III continued writing after his literary ability had expired. Excellencies! TWO DISPLACEMENTS Layout: Bill Winship and As a result of an automatonic exploration Jon Whyte group in this system, a non-intervention zone was declared and our study group sent to Interested persons (including subscribers) should note satellite Sol III-a to study the inhabitant bi­ that tne RQ has been translated southward by 150 miles and Graphics: Peter Strong and William Salter pedal species of Sol III (Terra), which ap­ upward by 25 cents. Tne new address is peared: 1) to be sentient; 2) to lack a total Cover this issue by racial memory; and 3) (incredibly enough) Box 40 University Station to possess a crude form of poetic communica­ Regina, Canada Maureen Carter tion. Such an anomaly is found nowhere else in the known universe. The facts that and the new subscription rate (four issues) is SI.50. they are aware that energy and mass can be equated, and are on the verge of space travel,, "NEW FRONTIERS OF THE MIND" make some action mandatory. We hereby request unanimously a Delay Professor Birge's indictment of parapsychology has elicited WHAT'S of Decision and the immediate assignment of many letters, those in this issue representing merely the top Planetary Sterilization crews, for emergency of the mail bag. Postponed until next time is a criticism from action, so that investigation may be safely Harry Warner, who was deliberately late (because he was tired INSIDE continued. Poet-Sador states that an error of seeing himself in every letter column), and another from here might upset the Almightydivinity’s A VISIT AT CHRISTMAS Page 2 balanced universe. We believe that the fol­ William Temple, whose letter evidently was allowed to drift Looking at Christmas from a slight­ lowing triple-verification, but contradictory, across the Atlantic in a bottle. ly unconventional viewpoint, Mar­ data justify such action. (Al! spacio-tcmp- shall Laub suggests that all might THE RQ RECOMMENDS... oral references are Terran. Cf. appended not be mistletoe and holly. Galactic Equivalent Indices.) The reader's attention is directed to a new magazine, THE HELL OF IT ALL Page 5 About 2,000 years ago, a Terran human Kallikanzaros, whose first issue includes a section from Roger The problem with Faustus, Ron Fen- was executed by being nailed to a cross com­ Zelazny's unpublished novel, Nine Princes in Amber. Payment of erty suggests, is that Marlowe didn't posed of dead dried vegetable tissue. From 81,25 (four issues) should be"sent to the editor, John Ayotte, go far enough; so he's appended a the cruelty of the method of execution, and conclusion in the form of a short from the fact that it is still ritually re-en­ 1121 Pauline Ave., Columbus, Ohio 43224. Sponsor of this maga­ story. zine is COSFS ( Central Ohio Science Fiction Society)—and I'd acted, and symbolized by models called cru­ REJOYCING THE XMAS- cifixes, almost 2,000 years later, by a species also urge readers to inquire about absentia memberships in this with a personal life-memory span of 70 years, organisation, the only bona fide cyclic group in s.f. fandom. FEST Pages 8, 9 it has been deduced that the executed, called A selection of Carols to tide the Jesus Christ, was a criminal of unparalleled THE NAMING OF NAMES money weary over the holidays. stature. His crime would appear to be called LAMIA . Page 10 God, a reference to an action which we are While browsing through periodicals in the University A verse play by Ruth Calder. unable to imagine. We arrived on Sol III-a library I came across a magazine, published by students of shortly after the annual celebration of the Alberta, entitled INSIDE. This naturally called to mind anoth­ GOD'S GREAT PLAN Page 13 Execution or Easter (as it is called) of the arch-criminal, and decided that this celebra­ er magazine of the same title*, edited by Jon White of New York,, An article which reveals the "plain truth" about Alberta and some as­ tion demonstrated a spark of divinemor­ that was in fact parent of RIVERSIDE QUARTERLY. However, this pects of its government. The ality in this species. However, when we first coincidence, a cause of mere surprise, led to another author? You'll find his name in discovered that the primordial ritual of that induced outright shock. Instead of disclosing at second prophecy in an earlier INSIDE. Xmas was a celebration of J. Christ’s birth, we could only conclude that the inhabitants hand the name of Alberta's editor —and receiving the title. POETRY Page 12 Liar of the Year— I reprint herewith his editorial page, with of Sol III are criminally insane. INSIDE OUT Page 16 its list of staff members. (Riverside Miscellany 2 continued on page 88) THE IDEAS OF H. G. WELLS 7 It survives in the five-year plans of Communism, in the new na­ tionalism of the colonial peoples, in all the aspirations of the West—even in the project to invest twenty billion dollars in the old Wellsian dream of a voyage to the moon. Everywhere, it stands i'OUt’ OFPWGKESS in need of the kind of criticism that Wells expresses in his first fiction. During his own physical life, his reputation biased and faded like a literary comet.. He earned a quick and immense success with JACK WILLIAMSON the half dozen scientific romances that began with The Time Ma­ chine in 1895. Turning gradually from literary art to pamphlet­ eering journalism, he averaged more than two books a year for CHAPTER ONE--THE IDEAS OF H.G. WELLS fifty years. Long before his death, his fame had gone into ec­ lipse, for apparent reasons. His cockney pride and his restless COPYRIGHT 1966 BY JOHN STEWART WILLIAMSON impatience with things as they were had annoyed every sort of conservative-. As the vociferous spokesman of his generation for what C.P. Snow calls the culture of science,, he had alienated the literary intellectuals. His campaign for a new world order #1 — THE PROPHET AND HIS HONOUR had found no effective support. His great popular textbooks on history and biology and social science were going out of date. In a curious way, H.G. Wells is immortal. The physical orga­ Only the early fiction and one or two of his comic novels and nism, under-sized and squeaky-voiced and generally inadequate, perhaps Tono-Bungay were still widely read. died in 1946. The serious literary artist had perished thirty years before, a martyr to great causes. Yet Wells himself lives Although Wells is too large to be readily shelved for oblivi­ on, in a- multitude of conflicting images. on, the effort has been made. His work has been neatly catalogued in three periods:: the scientific romances (18951-1900), the come­ He is the forgotten author who was onee the prophet of the dies (1900-1910), and the novels of ideas (after 1910), withgthe masses. He is the craftsman of the short story who wrote "The comment that "the work of the last phase can be ignored." Country of the Blind," the.amateur statesman welcome in the In the imaginative stories of the early period, he was a newio White House and the Kremlin, the international pundit whose Robert Louis Stevenson or H.
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