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SCIENCE FICTION SUMMER ■DUVK7T'LVKXT number 47 1983 AVl-J V A -1-J W $2.00 SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW <ISSN P.O. BOX 11408 PORTLAND, OR 97211 MAY, 1983 — VOL. 12, NO. 2 PHOfE: (SB) 282-0381 WHOLE NUMBER 47 RICHARD E. GEIS—editor & publisher COVER BY BRAD W. FOSTER PAULETTE MINARE', ASSOCIATE EDITOR PUBLISHED QUARTERLY FEB., MAY, AUG., NOV. ALIEN THOUGHTS JOHN SHIRLEY SINGLE COPY — $2.00 BY THE EDITOR............................................4 JEFF PARKER BRIAN FERGUSON D. CAMERON HOWARD COLEMAN PHILIP K. DICK: a cowardly memoir BY PETER NICHOLLS................................... 8 ROY TACKETT RONALD R. LAMBERT ROBERT BLOCH INTERIOR ART-—--------------------------- SCOTT EDELMAN OTHER VOICES................................... 13 tim kirk—2,4,47,50,62 BOOK REVIEWS BY RALPH E. VAUGHN NIGHTMARE FROM THE END OF THE WORLD PAUL MCGUIRE POEM BY BLAKE SOUTHFORK.................... 42 ALMA JO WILLIAMS 53,56 r „ SUSAN M. SCHWARTZ ATOM—5,34 DEAN R. LAMBE MICHAEL DUTKIEWICZ—9 MARK MANSELL THE VIVISECTOR BY DARRELL SCHWEITZER.........................43 OLE PETTERSON 11, J.E. RUDD BRUCE CONKLIN----14,61 ANDREW TIDMARSH GEORGE KOCHELL---- ^5,19,33 PAULETTE MINARE' VIC KOSTRIKIN---- lb NEAL WILGUS SMALL PRESS NOTES BY THE EDITOR..................................... 47 GIUSEPPE MANGONI—18 DAVID PITT RAYMOND H. ALLARD-—30 DAVID A. TRUESDALE DAVID TRANSUE---- 37 ANDREW ANDREWS RAISING HACKLES ROMAN P. SCOTT---- 39 BY ELTON T. 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Continuing default by debtor dreamed up by English professors countries and their private debtor at San Jose State University. companies. A continual face-saving It's called the Bulwer-Lytton desperate "rescheduling" of that Fiction Contest, and is in its debt to keep those loans technical second year. Bulwer-Lyttort was ly alive by the huge US and European a 19th Century English writer whose banks and other debt holders. novel, PAUL CLIFFORD, began: They have persuaded the US and European governments to vastly in It was a dark and stormy night; crease the resources of the World the rain fell in torrents—except Bank and the International Monetary at occasional intervals, when it Fund so that these entities can was checked by violent gusts of wind make emergency loans to the debtor which swept up the streets (for it is countries so that these debtors can in London that our scene lies), at least pay interest on the default rattling along the housetops and ed 600 billions of dollars in debts. fiercely agitating against the If everything goes well, the World scanty flame of the lamps that Bank and the IMF and the on-the-hook struggled against the darkness. banks will pour about 80 billion dol a laboring in the trenches as the That is remarkably awkward and lars more into those ratholes, all other chapters are written, edited, inept, granted, but it does set the in a desperate attempt to keep the rewritten.... scene. debt structure from collapsing. Oh, you want to know what THE And I rather suspect that, had With luck and lying and devious SWORD OF ALLAH! is about? About poor Bulwer-Lytton only chopped that manipulation, the teetering debt 100,000 words, I think. Or more. monster up into a few shorter sen structure will remain standing for It is also about a mad Arab dictat tences, he'd have escaped this kind about another year. But it's that or, a mad scientist, a keen-eyed, of inmortality. next required 80-100 billion dollar courageous CIA agent, a woman Vice In the interests of fair play, injection of new debt into a con President of the USA who becomes what say the readers of SFR who stantly deteriorating political and President, a power-mad, greedy bil are so inclined send in their nomin economic situation which will be im lionaire out to control the world, ees for Worst Opening SF or Fantasy possible. his beautiful young equally ruth novel of the past year, to SFR. Already there are food and job less wife—and the end of the I'll be happy to publish the most riots in Brazil,