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SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW $1.25 (THE AIEN CRITIC) | 3 ELLISON ON ELLISON THE ELWOOD CONTROVERSY VISIT TO A PULPY PLANET THE GIMLET EYE A POT OF STALE GOULART RUNYON VS. LE GUIN SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW Formerly THE ALIEN CRITIC^ P. O. Box 11408 COVER BY GRANT CANFIELD Portland, OR 97211 MAY, 1975 VOLUME FOUR, NUMBER TWO WHOLE NUMBER THIRTEEN ALIEN THOUGHTS................................................................4 THE ELWOOD CONTROVERSY RICHARD E. GEIS Letter From Bruce D. Arthurs.......................7 Editor 4 Publisher Letter From Roger Elwood.............. .....................8 ALL UNCREDITED WRITING IS Reply By Bruce D. Arthurs................................10 BY THE EDITOR IN ONE GEIS ROGER ELWOODi A Personal Reaction OR ANOTHER By Bruce D. Arthurs.......................................13 SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW REG Comment...............................................................26 COPYRIGHT © 1975 BY VISIT TO A PULPY PLANET RICHARD E. GEIS FOR THE RO. BOX 11408 By Milton F. Stevens......... .. ..........................27 CONTRIBUTORS Portland, Oregon 97211 HARLAN ELLISON--- Some Afterthoughts On Delap's Nonfiction Fantasy SUBSCRIPTIONS ADVERTISING By The Subject..................................................43 PUBLISHED QUARTERLY Several people and companies have In the UNITED STATESi $4. One Year THE GIMLET EYE Feb., May Aug. Nov. wanted to advertise and I have $7. Two Years Commentary On Science Fiction turned them down. However....at From CAN ADI?: US$4.50 One Year & Fantasy Art Single Copy—$1.25 dire risk of blowing my "amateur" US$8.00 Two Years By Jon Gustafson................................................48 standing....! have decided to op­ A POT OF STALE GOULART Years en up and let the money in. *Canadlans may pay with personal A Review by Greg T. Farnum...........................57 I'm not yet sure If I'll stick cheques if their chequing acct, THE ALIEN'S ARCHIVES................................................66 with the present layout size. De­ number on their cheques is print­ pends on what the reduction does ed In computer numerals. (Thus SMALL PRESS NOTES & COMMENTS..............................76 INTERIOR ART..................--- to the text. we become slaves to the needs ALIEN CONCLUSIONS.......................................................77 of the Machine.) Tim Kirk 2-3-4-66-77 SO--lf you want to place a display UNCLASSIFIED ADS......................................................... 35 Mike Gilbert 6-10-13-16- ad In the next Issue of SFR, send From the UNITED KINGDOMi 30-54 It along or query first. LI.98 One Year REVIEWS OFi LETTERS BYi Bill Rotsler 7-48-61 L3.43 Two Years Leonard Moran 18 But you can count on b/w copy only, HADON OF ANCIENT Denys Howard............33 Alexis Gilliland 21-26- To Agenti Wm. 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IN MICROFICHE FROM #9, #10, #11 are available. Ainsworth, Portland, OR 97211 GEORGE HAY SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW #12 Is 38B COMPTON ROAO, Application to mail at second available. LONDON, N.21., class postage rates is pending BACK ISSUES ARE $1. EACH UNITED KINGDOM. at Portland, Oregon. respondent's real name is a familiar one squelch it. But if the matter is of really to avid readers of science fiction, al­ vital importance, please call between 8 AM though his production falls far short of and 10 PM Pacific Time. the "117 novels and 2000 short stories" If you call before 8 AM or after 10 PM Dell's prefatory note attributes to Trout. you will likely have to deal with an enraged Certainly "Venus's" sales (225,000 copies Alter-Ego. in print to date) have not been harmed by the put-on.' If you are an attractive, slim young woman, however, and begin your conversation The give-away (deliberate, I think) is with, "Hi, Alter, I am a slim, attractive the 'from Peoria'. Which well-known s-f young woman..." even Alter will not snap writer lives in Peoria? your head off...immediately. There is some­ Which s-f writer likes to write "net/’ thing else you could add that would make novels using well-known fictional characters your call even more welcome, but this is a ALIEN THOUGHTS like Tarzan, Sherlock Holmes, Doc Savage, quasi-family, semi-respectable magazine, etc? What would be more natural and in and I shall not detail it here. However, any money from the use of the name. keeping with his predilection than for him REG readers know.... I TALKED WITH KURT VONNEGUT, JR a few Also, Kurt said he has been a member of to write a book using a well-known fiction­ days ago, yes I did. The phone rang about With all the above Restrictions in mind, the Science Fiction Writers of America, al author's name? 8:35 A.M. and when I answered it the man be it known that my phone number is: under his own name. (Before my time in said he was Kurt Vonnegut, and that he had Philip Jose Farmer. He lives in Peo­ the organization, I presume, around 1968— (503) 282-0381 just written me a letter in which he had ria. 70.) called me a cocksucker. (Thanks to the two fans who sent me the And so the conversation ended. I'm He was angry at my criticisms of him in NEW YORK TIMES clipping, and to the book pretty sure it was Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. be­ THE TERRY DIXON VS. HARLAN ELLISON AFFAIR SER #12, page 34. His complaint that I editor who gave me a clue.) cause it sounded like him (from his voice didn't check on his state of mind is valid, continues, after a fashion, primarily from on TV) and because of the long-distance I admit, except that I haven't his address, Terry Dixon's end. I have received from hiss on the line. though if his letter ever arrives I presum­ • Terry several letters which he wants me to A few of you may be asking yourselves, ably will then have it and can check things publish "answering" my editorial in SFR 12 The question arises: who is the s-f howcum Vonnegut had (or could find) Geis's in future if the need arises. and condemning Harlan. Also a review of writer who wrote VENUS ON THE HALF SHELL? phone number? Harlan's recent DEATHBIRD STORIES. You can I do too often plunge into the morass of It occurred to me, too, and I asked him imagine the tenor and message of the re­ assuming others' mental states and motives. A vital clue comes from "Paper Back how he had gotten my number. He said he view. I should not do that. I yield to tempta­ Talk", a column in the 3-23-75 issue of the asked Portland Information. tion and the creative instinct....criticism NEW YORK TIMES Book Review section. It I did not print the text of Harlan's as fiction.... Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. said: Aha! I remembered! I had, a few days letter-to-editors. I summed it up. And I 'Last week we wondered about the ident­ ago, called the phone company and asked will not print Terry's attacks. Kurt said (if he can call me a cock­ ity of Kilgore Trout, whose name appears on them to list this number in my name instead sucker, I can call him Kurt) that he did One thing that bugged me about the let­ the title page of Dell's science fiction of my mother's name. So next year the Port­ not write VENUS ON THE HALF SHELL, and that ters from Terry was his lack of a return novel, "Venus on the Halfshell." This week, land phone book will carry a Geis, Richard he is not Kilgore Trout even though he did address. But he explains that he is moving from Peoria, comes a letter from a man who E_. listing. create the character. Trout is a figment. around a lot, hopes to settle down later asks not to be named, stating that he is (For those of you who don't subscribe this year. Kurt said that the science fiction wri­ its author. He writes that he felt he has to RICHARD E. GEIS—A Personal Journal, my Terry Dixon is a professional writer ter who did write VENUS asked if he could so much in common with Kilgore Trout, the mother died of a massive stroke January 16, with two book credits and several stories use the Kilgore Trout byline and was given "sad-sack of science fiction" who is a and I am buying their shares of this house sold.

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