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Science Fiction Review 61 SCIENCE FICTION WINTER ID ITT 7T171X7 NUMBER 61 1986 XvIJj V lUj VV $2-50 INTERVIEWS: ALEXIS GILLILAND JOHN SHIRLEY ORSON SCOTT CARD ELTON ELLIOTT GENE DEWEESE NEAL WILGUS ALLEN CHARLES DE LINT KOSZOWSKI SCHWEITZER DARRELL WILLIAM ROTSLER GEIS RICHARD SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW (ISSN: 0036-8377) P.O. BOX 11408 NOVEMBER, 1986 — Vol. 15, No. 4 WHOLE NUMJER 61 PORTLAND, OR 97211 RICHARD E, GEIS—editor & publisher PHONE: (503) 282-0381 PAULETTE MINARE', ASSOCIATE EDITOR COVER BY ALLEN KOSZOWSKI PUBLISHED QUARTERLY FEB., MAY, AUG., NOV. ALIEN THOUGHTS 47 TEN YEARS AGO IN SCIENCE SINGLE COPY - $2.50 By Richard E. Geis FICTION - 1976 By Robert Sabella 6 AND THEN I READ... By Richard E. Geis WHERE IS THE CUTTING EDGE SCIENCE FICTION? By Orson Scott Card INTERIOR ART TIM KIRK—-2,5,6, 14 INTERVIEW: JOHN SHIRLEY WILLIAM ROTSLER-2,4,14,17,20,. By Takayuki Tatsumi 21,28,29,37,38,45 18 RAISING HACKLES ALEXIS GILLILAND-3,8,15,18,21, By Elton T. Elliott 23,27,33,34,35,44,47 GRANT CANFIELD-7 22 PAULETTE'S PLACE GEORGE KOCHELL-7,21,25,40,46 Reviews By Paulette Minare' DAVID TRANSUE-9,10,11,12,16, 19,30,36 23 LETTERS OLE PETTERSON-20 By Ian Covell ATOM---21 Howard Coleman RANDY MOHR-21 Adriana I. Pena MARCO BIANCHINI-24 Darrell Schweitzer JACK GAUGHAN-26 George H. Scithers BRAD FOSTER---29 Alexander B. Nedelkovich STEVEN FOX-32 Alan Dean Foster F. ?-32 Larry Niven BRUCE CONKLIN- —37 Charles Platt MICHAL DUTKIEWICZ-44,47 Robert Bloch Joel Rosenberg Chester Twarog Fernando Quadros Gouvea Robert A. W. Lowndes Sharon Jarvis Elton T. Elliott NO ADVERTISING WILL BE ACCEPTED ALL SUBSCRIPTIONS, NEW AND OLD, ARE HONORED AND FULFILLED ON AN 30 ONCE OVER LIGHTLY ISSUES NUMBER BASIS. Reviews By Gene DeWeese Second Class Postage Paid at Portland, OR 97208 33 SMALL PRESS NOTES By Richard E. Geis Copyright (c) 1986 by Richard E. 34 INTERVIEW: ALEXIS GILLILAND Geis. One-time rights only have Conducted By Curt Phillips been acquired from signed or cred¬ ited contributors, and all other 36 THE VIVISECTOR rights are hereby assigned to the By Darrell Schweitzer contributors. 38 OTHER VOICES Reviews By: SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW is published Howard Coleman at 1525 N.E. Ainsworth, Portland, Dean R. Lambe OR 97211 Mark W. Antonoff Stuart Napier POSTMASTER: Send address changes Alma Jo Williams to SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW Fernando Q. Gouvea POB 11408 Neal Wilgus Portland, OR 97211 Andrew Andrews Charles De Lint REVIEWS_ BORIS VALLEJO'S FANTASY OLYMPICS.6 KEEP WATCHING THE SKIES!.6 TRICK CINEMATOGRAPHY.6 FOUNDATION AND EARTH.18 THE DANDELION CAPER.22 THE GHOST OF 29 MEGACYCLES.22 THE MIRRORSTONE.22 AFTERLIVES.29 ENIGMA.30 HUYSMAN'S PETS.30 HIGHWAY OF ETERNITY.30 TO THE RESURRECTION STATION.30 FOUNDATION AND EARTH.30 GODBODY.31 THE BLOSSOM OF ERDA.31 THE BIGGEST TONGUE IN TUNISIA AND OTHER DRAWINGS.31 FIRECHILD.31 THE COMPLETE E.C. SEGAR POPEYE, VOL.1-4.31 TALKING MAN.32 THE EMPIRE OF TIME.32 THE OZOIDS.33 DEMON WITH A GLASS HAND.33 THIEVES’ WORLD #3.33 BURNING CHROME.38 THE WARRIOR'S APPRENTICE.39 THE DOOMSDAY EFFECT.39 DOUBLE NOCTURNE.39 AMERICA 2040 II: THE GOLDEN WORLD.39 THE FACE THAT MUST DIE.40 INCARNATE.40 NAZI GOLD.40 SURELY YOU’RE JOKING, MR. FEYNMAN!.40 THE HIGH KINGS.40 GILGAMESH THE KING.40 THE CQNGLOMEROID COCKTAIL PARTY.40 SCIENCE FICTION: THE 100 BEST NOVELS.41 CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH THE DEITY.41 THE 1986 ANNUAL WORLD'S BEST SF.41 TERRY CARR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION OF THE YEAR #15.41 THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION, THIRD ANNUAL COLLECTION.41 THE PLANET ON THE TABLE.41 ALL THINGS ARE LIGHTS.42 TCM 0'BEDLAM'S NIGHT OUT AND OTHER STRANGE EXCURSIONS.44 OJO IN OZ.44 SPEEDY IN OZ.44 THE WISHING HORSE OF OZ.44 FUTUREDAYS.45 STEPHEN KING: THE ART OF DARKNESS.45 TERROR.45 LIFTER. 46 THE ARCHITECT OF SLEEP.46 THE WANDERING FIRE.46 BAGDAD.46 TWISTING THE ROPE.47 THE COPPER CROWN.47 THE THRONE OF SCONE.47 ouew THOUGHTS RICHARD E. GEIS Since this is the last and fin¬ sanity? Have you gone around the Exactly. Another reason to al issue of SFR as a Geis title--- bend and into the sewer? I go to leave, to pick up my fanzine and it is always possible that sometime sleep for a few months and look go home. I'm hurt, Alter. I wanted in the vast reaches of time ahead what you're doing! No, no, I can't one...one last H-H-Hugo! someone will think, "Gee, SCIENCE allow it. SFR cannot die." "Awww, don't cry, Geis! I FICTION REVIEW would make a neat, Too late, Alter! The deed is hate to see an old fucker like you logical title for a magazine, and done! The die has been cast, and cry." I've never heard of it being used your fat is in the fire. I can't help it. I'm wounded, before..." (probably next Tuesday) "Let me delve into the synapses cut to the quick, humiliated before — certain matters must be taken up, here— *Gasp!* Well, let me check all of fandom. There truly is no tossed around and disposed of. the memory hole. *Groan!* I'll try justice. There is the matter of SFR sub¬ to override the willpower node--- "Well, you had a long run, you scription obligations. My impulse *AAAARRRRGGGHHH!* How did you do won a lot of awards, you had the is to say, "Fuck'm!" and walk away. that?" admiration and respect of the entire But that's not ethical, moral, or I'm a man of iron and arthritis, field... What more do you want?" now, Alter. Fused bone and sinew. Nothing. Nothing. I retire to So instead, as indicated last I have only to sit at this typer the fringes, to let new blood, more issue, those remaining, unfulfilled for a while and my pain overcomes ambitious fans fill my niche in sf SFR subs will go the way of all my ambition. review publishing. I wish them flesh---into THE NAKED ID. Which "Arthritis? Is that all? All well. I go now, into the golden is to say and declare, that all of you do is load up on pain-killers, sunset, into the oblivion of--- you loyal and nervous subscribers take a lot of cod liver oil and al¬ "Oh, Christ, Geis! Knock off will receive my controversial, mind- falfa tablets, go on a no-animal- that shit. You forget I have Access. bending personal journal instead of protein, high-veggie, high-fruit I know what lurks deep in the hideous SFR, and...AND...you will receive diet, and all will be well. You'll depths of the your mind, down, down two (2) issues of THE NAKED ID for lose weight, your health will im¬ in the slime of your warped ego. each issue due on your SFR sub! prove and your pain will go away." I know what lurks—" Now, I ask you, is that fair? (A No, Alter. There is a sadder, All right. I hope to be a best¬ rhetorical question! I did not ex¬ bitterer, more poignant reason for selling author. Satisfied? pect to hear any loud no's! Shoot killing SFR than those other reasons. "Yeah, but you won't be. I those people!) "Oh? What?" also know you've got a life script And, yes, I will be reading Science fiction fandom doesn't which limits your success. You're and reviewing some sf and fantasy want me anymore. I--I haven't and things like that in THE NAKED won a Hugo for years! And today I ID. Not much, but some. My core received FILE 770:61 from Mike Gly- interests are myself, my writing, er, and he printed the horrible my freedoms, my appalling obsession truth—the voting run down for the with macro economics, sex, current latest Hugo Awards. In Best Semi- events and controversies. Quite a Prozine SFR came in fourth behind lot to cover in 8 pages, eh? I'm LOCUS, SF CHRONICLE and NO AWARD! down to it. "Behind even No Award? That is hard to take. That really is a "What rhe hell is going on message, isn't it?" here?" There's worse to come, Alter. Oh, it's you. In the Best Fanwriter category, I "Who else talks to you in your came in third, behind Mike Glyer fat head, Geis? Of course it's me. and...and...No Award! Alter Ego. Ring a bell?" "Ahhh! The unkindest cut of I vaguely remember you, yes. all! To think fandom could treat "Oh-ho! How distant, how for¬ the great and noble Geis like that! mal, how shitty! I do detect a A slap in the face, an ice pick in desire in you to terminate our re¬ the ego! To vote No Award over lationship. I do detect— My Richard E. Geis! I see how you Ghod! You're closing down SFR! feel. That is sacrilege!" Geis, have you turned in your 5 not comfortable with too much money or work, Geis. You're afraid of AND THEN I READ.... the pressures wealth would impose, and you're not sure of its advant¬ er volumes. It's a never-ending job, ages. You're still not leveling and Bill Warren is probably the one with your readers." and only man capable and qualified True. I look upon novel writ¬ to do it.
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