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Vol. 12 No. 6 December 2013 ALEXIAD (!7+=3!G) $2.00 This year the stores began dragging out Christmas decorations before Halloween. With September 19, 2013 at the Delaware County Fair in Delaware, Ohio. Vegas Vacation a supreme effort of self control I refrained from singing the Grinch song every time I went won over his stablemate Lucan Hanover, while Captaintreacherous was absent, heading into a store playing Christmas carols before Thanksgiving. Come on, people, let’s at least get for the Red Mile. through Thanksgiving before we start preparing for Christmas. I don’t have anything against The 58th Running of the Messenger Stakes (3rd leg of the Pacing Triple Crown) was Christmas carols. I enjoy them in their proper time, which is no earlier than the day after November 2, 2013 at Yonkers Raceway in Yonkers, New York. Ronny Bugatti won, a Thanksgiving. The stores make huge efforts to sell us things. I understand that Christmas is purse which was twice his previous winnings all together. (Ronny Bugatti’s sire is named a huge deal for them. I, however, do not like seeing the season turned into one huge market. Art Major. Really.) It should be about more than that. Oh, I will buy presents for people. But I am not going to be sold a lot of hype. I give presents through the year and I refuse to yield to the marketing Trivia:.. 19 hype. Art: — Lisa Sheryl L. Birkhead. 9 Brad W. Foster. 3 Table of Contents Paul Gadzikowski.. 19 Editorial. 1 Alexis A. Gilliland. 4, 6, 8 Reviewer’s Notes. 1 Trinlay Khadro. 2 Coffee.. 5 Printed on December 10, 2013 Eclipse News. 5 Deadline is February 1, 2014 The Joy of eReaders. 5 The Joy of High Tech.. 6 For some of you, this will be the last issue — unless you subscribe, write, or otherwise Worldcon News. 8 indicate your interest. Book Reviews Reviewer’s Notes JTM Bart, Race to the Top of the World. 4 JTM Brooks, Shattered Nation. 3 Life gets more complicated. JTM Campbell, The Lost Stars: Perilous Shield. 3 Back around 2001 there was a quarrel about the Hugo-worthiness of Harry Potter and the JTM Greenfield, If Kennedy Lived. 3 Goblet of Fire. Was it the best SF novel of 2000? That can be questioned. Was it the best novel JTM Holland, Dam Busters.. 4 nominated? That, sadly, I had to say so. (One of the opposing novels was A Storm of Swords, JTM Resnick, The Trojan Colt. 3 one of the middle works of the Song of Ice and Fire.) JTM Resnick/Garcia, eds. Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs. 2 Since then, the trend has been downwards. More of them have been “within the circus” ones, JTM Walker, The United States of Paranoia. 4 such as Redshirts, a STAR TREK parody, and Among Others, a story of a girl who reads SF (but strangely, not given the time and place, not New Wave) and has fantastic adventures. There’s Con Reports a place for a novel about a girl who reads a lot of fantasy adventure and then gets cast into a LK Archon 37. 6 fantasy world, but Diana Wynne Jones has passed on, and such a work would not meet the LK Windycon. 7 standards of editors today. I can see the problems of the earlier writers, but I also notice their virtues. The paradigm has Fanzines Received. 8 flipped now, so I can’t read the more readable stuff. Random Jottings.. 2 Meanwhile, mundane factors intervene. I am now the only driver in the house. The cellar door needs to be put in, but I can’t do it alone, and our potential helper has so much else to do. Letters.. 9 We still go to Heitzman’s for Saturday brunch — it’s not that far from the con hotel for Sheryl L. Birkhead, Dainis Bisenieks, Sue Burke, Richard A. Dengrove, Brad W. Foster, ConGlomeration, for your congoing experience. But even there changes are not for the better. Alexis A. Gilliland, John Hertz, Robert S. Kennedy, Timothy Lane, Rodney Leighton, Murray Moore, Lloyd Penney, George W. Price,. John Purcell, Darrell Schweitzer, Joy V. Some of you don’t do NASFiC, but I have connections in the north, and that’s a decent time Smith, Milt Stevens, Jim Stumm, R-Laurraine Tutihasi to see the area. The Henry Ford, for example, which would have delighted Uncle Hugo. But then, Ford said “history is bunk” because it was being taught as rulers and wars, not as he saw Comments are by JTM, LTM, or Grant. it, the use of technology to better the human condition. Also, the Neil Armstrong museum is not too far away, not to mention the Air Force Museum in Dayton. The 59th Running of the Cane Pace (1st leg of the Pacing Triple Crown) was September 3, 2013 at Tioga Downs in Nichols, New York. Captaintreacherous won by a neck after a Have a fannish 2014. hard-run race. The 68th Running of the Little Brown Jug (2nd leg of the Pacing Triple Crown) was — Joe Page 2 December 2013 Alexiad Baldrick in the Blackadder series. Pendent World, the orb within the shell of the “Tarzan and the Martian Invaders” by RANDOM JOTTINGS Hollow Earth? Particularly for the non-human Kevin J. Anderson and Sarah A. Hoyt. There by Joe Prince Harry (Prince Henry Charles Albert inhabitants, the Sagoths? Misty takes an was one John Carter story in War of the Worlds: David of Wales) is going for another walk with excursion into the feeling of being shut out Global Dispatches (edited by Anderson) and the Walking with the Wounded. To the South from others, describing what it is like in the this is in that spirit. Except perhaps these Pole this time. Let us hope that history does not Land of Awful Shadow in the inner world. invaders have sinister mind-control rays. repeat itself. Particularly when someone falls from the cause Fortunately, Tarzan has his own mind control, of that darkness, straight into conflict and other a more natural and human one. And as year follows year, matters . More old men disappear, “The Two Billys, A Mucker Story” by Someday no one will march there “Scorpion Men of Venus” by Richard A. Max Allan Collins and Mathew Clemens. at all. Lupoff. Carson Napier and Duare find Another less noticed work in the ERB library is Report by Joseph T Major someone who is claiming connections to that The Mucker (1914, 1916), the story of a man impossible place beyond the clouds. It turns rising above his origins and overcoming a dark Remaining is: out that his claims work, and before long, past. This is a scene filling in the greater story. Poland Carson Napier is back in California. With his Józef Kowalski* (113) 22 Pulk U³anów new love, Duare, and her new love. “To the Nearest Planet” by Todd One correction: Cantonese is Yue not “Wu”, What was Lupoff thinking? He should have McCaffrey. At the end of Beyond the Farthest which is a different Sinic language. * “WWI-era” veteran, enlisted between the known better! Star (1941) the narrator was preparing to make Armistice and the Treaty of Versailles a flight to the adjacent planet. Not by Amazing Stories has revived “The Club “The Forgotten Sea of Mars” by Mike dragonback, ahem. This is what he did and House”, the fanzine column that I remember ERB-DOM Resnick (reprinted from ERB-dom 1963) There what he found there, also who, which comes from those heady days of the seventies. The Review by Joseph T Major of was a loose end in Llana of Gathol, when Tan out seeming just a little unfair to Harkas author, Earl Terry Kemp (the son) gave in his WORLDS OF EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS Hadron of Hastor, previous hero of A Fighting Yamoda (the girl he left behind on Poloda). October 11 column a glowing plug for both this Edited by Mike Resnick and Robert T. Garcia Man of Mars (1931), was taken away by fanzine and Heinlein’s Children. We point out (Baen; 2013; ISBN 978-1451639353; $15; enemies while John Carter escaped. Loose ends “The Dead World” by F. Paul Wilson. that the distributor and reference may spark Amazon Digital Services; $7.53) ought to be tied up, and besides Tavia of The physics of Pellucidar is a litle off. In this some interest. Tjanath ought to have her chieftain returned to daring tale, David Innes and Abner Perry Tarzan fan fiction has been common for her. So, here is the story of how John Carter investigate the Pendent World, the cause of the http://amazingstoriesmag.com/ some time. Not always without difficulties, went to finish the job against Hin Abtol of only shadow in the inner Earth, after seeds admittedly. The “New Adventures of Tarzan” Panar and his army on ice. begin falling from it, seeds which spread like We get it by cable ow! ouch! I’ll stop by “Barton Werper” of the fifties violated super-kudzu and produce sleep gas. They find already. copyright, such as it was, and for many years “Apache Lawman” by Ralph Roberts. The an explanation, but it’s more troubling than ERB fans had to write about the adventures of Apache Devil finds a new job in his forgotten resolving. Not to mention not satisfying the Someone in the Navy has a sense of destiny. “Elmo of the Apes”. And then there was PJF . origins, becoming a lawman for the whiteskins angry native whose draft dinosaur was killed.