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SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW $2.00 SPRING 1981 NUMBER 38 SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW (ISSN: 0036-8377) Formerly THE ALIEN CRITIC P.O. BOX 11408 FEBRUARY 1981 — VOL.10; NO.l PORTLAND, OR 97211 WHOLE NUMBER 38 PHONE: (503) 282-0381 RICHARD E. GEIS; editor & publisher PAULETTE MINARE'; ASSOCIATE EDITOR PUBLISHED QUARTERLY FEB.; MAY; AUG.; NOV. SINGLE COPY — $2.00 COVER BY STEPHEN FABIAN LETTERS.40 HARLAN ELLISON MICHAEL MOORCOCK ALIEN THOUGHTS ROBERT BLOCH BY THE EDITOR.A JACK WILLIAMSON CHRISTOPHER PRIEST FRED SINGER THE ENGIftS OF THE NIGHT STEVEN GRANT ESSAYS ON SF IN TIC EIGHTIES TONY DAVIS BY BARRY N. MALZBERG.6 NEVILLE J. ANGOVE RONALD R. LAMBERT INTERIOR ART-- DARRELL SCHWEITZER AND THEN I READ.... ED PESKYS BY THE EDITOR.11 JAMES VAN HISE STANLEY SCHMIDT WWXX&Mffl ROBERT COULSON 11; 24,30; 51,67; 68; 2 A STRING OF MYS GREGORY BENFORD AlLEN KOSZCWSKI-7; BY GREGORY BENFORD.14 IAN COVELL OLE PETTERSON-8 ^ ^ r_ GEORGE KOCHELL-10;20,34;53 RICHARD BRUNING-12; 13;22 THE VIVISECT0R AND THEN I SAW. 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IF YOU MOVE WE NEED YOUR FORTER THE FORBIDDEN FOUNTAIN OF OZ... ZIPCODE AND YOUR NEW COMPLETE A MIRROR FOR OBSERVERS.. ADDRESS. WHY CALL THEM BACK FROM HEAVEN?.9. him out of here. Now, where was I? ALIEN THOUGHTS "Lying, as usual, about money, power and Hugoes." BY THE EDITOR Oh, yeah_uh? DANN YOU, ALTER! I was saying that I did lose persepctive for a while... It is true that I had come to expect to win at least one Hugo every year. SOUR GRIPES But now, chastened, humbled, Over the years I have kept my eating loser's pie, I see now that peace...suffered the slings and I was hubritic [new word] to a arrows of outrageous morons... sickening degree. [Hubricious?] I am accused often of running "And now you only expect a a prozine here. SFR it is said, Hugo every other year, eh, Geis?" actually (horrors!) pays some of "Yes...NO! Get out of this its contributors...and Geis actual¬ editorial before I get really ly admits he makes a (shudder) a-n-g-r-y!!! Now, where is that profit every issue. How can this incantation? Had it pinned to profiteer, this capitalist cur, the wall_ Ah, there. this fascist downtrodder of the Wid evokun allienum in ovem poor amateur fanzine publisher get dis lactarium hades... away with winning Hugos so often? "Urggh...blechh.■.well, if Is there [they lament] no.justice? you put it that way, Geis-" The answer is that no, there Gone? is no justice. Only idealists, "Gone." Liberals and some of the inexperi¬ Okay. I have nothing more to enced believe there is justice in say. Except that I could publish SFR without paying a cent to any life. They know the difference, all right. They just want to have it both ways, contributors. It wouldn't be quite But back to prodom and The as good in certain respects, but if possible, with me. Taint of Profit in SFR. Let me perhaps better in others. I could But these occasional bites on make this perfectly clear: I esti¬ the leg irk me, piss me, croggle my be pure as the driven Trufan and mate I make about $300 per month still put out a better, more inter¬ greeps. from SFR. I also make a small sti¬ I comfort myself with the know¬ esting zine than anybody. But I pend from REG and about $1200. per ledge that soon these bugs will be refuse ads now, don't I? I trade, self-published 500-copy edition don't I? I have accepted a Tru- gone. I survive. I continue. I sf/sex novel I put out. This, plus outlast the bastards--and bitches. fannish vow of poverty haven't I? the help Paulette provides for the GREAT (HOD IN HHEAVEN, WHAT MORE utilities, some food, etc., and the Please note that I didn't win DO THEY WANT? interest from savings keeps the a Hugo in 1980. This troubled me So fuck'm. From now on, no wolf from the door (though he re¬ a bit at first, but I shrugged--- more Mr. Nice Guy! Attack my mains, snarling, down at the com¬ "You nearly shit bricks, Geis! amateur standing at your own risk! er) . You roared around the house tearing I have spoken. Net income last year was less your remaining hair and shouted than $5000. curses and maledictions upon the I AM RICHARD E. GEIS! I When I was writing novels full heads of Charlie Brown and Bob SHOULD BE EXEMPT FROM SHIT! time I made double and triple this Shaw. It was so—" amount---and that was years ago Alter! I forbid you to— when a dollar was worth a whole "—hideous a performance I 50*.