C. J. Cherry h Wins 1982 Hugo New book from Linda Lounsbury, Lee Smoire and others, Norstrilia Press including Merv Barrett from New Zealand, in promoting the bid for Melbourne, Australia for the World Con in 1985. No opposing bid against Melbourne has been so far made. THE HUGO AWARD WINNERS

BEST NOVEL DOWNBELOW STATION by C.J.Cherryh BEST NOVELLA "The Saturn Game" by Poul Anderson BEST NOVELETTE "Unicorn Variation" by Roger Zelazny BEST SHORT STORY "The Pusher " by John Varley BEST NON-FICTION BOOK DANSE MACABRE by Stephen King BEST PROFESSIONAL EDITOR Edward L.Ferman (Magazine of FtjSF) BEST PROFESSIONAL ARTIST Michael Whelan C.J.CHERRYH Photo J.K.Klein BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK LAVINGTON PUGH by actor, scriptwriter, and editor JAY BLAND, was released by THE HUGO AWARDS were presented at BEST FANZINE Norstrilia Press in November. A review CHICON IV, the 40th Annual World Science LOCUS Edited by Charles N.Brown by George Turner appears in this issue. Fiction Convention held at the Hyatt BEST FAN WRITER Turner also reviews in this issue:- Regency Hotel in Chicago, U.S.A., Richard E.Geis September 2-6 1962. DOWNBELOW STATION BEST FAN ARTISTS by C.J.CHERRYH was the clear winner in Victoria Poyser THE JUDAS MANDALA the BEST NOVEL Category after all pref­ The JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARD By Damien Broderick erential votes had been counted, with Alexis Gilliland 383 votes, to CLAW OF THE CONCILIATOR THE PAT TERRY AWARD, for Humour in SF, by Gene WOLFE with 355 votes. was presented by DUFF WINNER Peter Toluzzi The official attendance figures for the to Vicki Ann Heydron for her husband Randall convention were 4275 plus several Garrett. The convention was saddened to hundred other attendees including press, hear that Garrett is suffering from a permanent loss of memory, following a and invited participants. viral infection of the brain suffered LOS ANGELES was unopposed as the site three years ago . The audience gave for the 1984 WORLD SF CONVENTION, to him a standing ovation for his contri­ be held at Anaheim near Disneyland, bution to the field, which was obvious with GORDON R.DICKSON as Professional ly appreciated by Heydron. Guest of Honor and DICK ENEY as Fan Guest of Honour. ROBERT BLOCH and JERRY POURNELLE as co-toastmasters. CHICON IV was described as a well run if somewhat unspectacular convention, that went off without any major prob­ lems. Many attendees were at the hotel days before the convention officially commenced and were hanging on after­ wards. Everybody enjoyed themselves and the convention even made a profit. A more comprehensive report will be found inside. Melbourne author DAMIEN BRODERICK’S new AUSTRALIAN fans attending included novel, THE JUDAS MANDALA, was published John Foyster, DUFF winner Peter Toluzzi, by Timescape in the U.S.A, in October. Eric Lindsay, Adrienne Losin and Merv Binns. They were ably assisted by In This Issue: Major events in a number of honory Australians includ­ THE SCIENCE FICTION WORLD REPORTED, ing Jan Howard Finder, Joyce Scrivner, REVIEWS AND LETTER COLUMN. J SCIENCE FICTION CHRONICLE

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"On principle I decline to subscribe to fan magazines A COMPLETE SET OF 'A.MERRITT'S FANTASY MAG' -but LOCUS is different: a unique source of news which can often be important, and itself a thoroughly prof­ GOOD SELECTION OF VERY RARE ADVENTURE FANTASIES essional production" - Poul Anderson. AUSTRALIAN SF NEWS and SPACE AGE BOOKS SEND YOUR WANTS TO: are Australian agents for LOCUS. It costs you no more BOOKSEARCH to subscribe through us than it does direct and it 185 BEARDY ST,, saves you the hasles of organising overseas payments. ARM1DALE 2350 N.S.W., The new rates are: Air 12 issues /$33.25 24 issues / $62.40 Phone: (067)724480 Sea 12 issues / $20.80 24 issues / $39.50 WHY DON'T YOU SUBSCRIBE NOwl * Subscription rates are subject to alteration without notice due to fluctuating exchange rates. 2 Personally, I have never been greatly im­ best part was meeting people at the pressed with Cherryh's writing and I put conventions I have attended (BUBONICON in "The Many-Coloured Land" first, but I Albuquerque, New Mexico and CHICON, the really expected "The Claw of the Con­ World Con in Chicago). Having the World ciliator" to win although I did not Con here again is a marvellous opportun­ personally like it. The best book does ity for people here, who may never be able not necessarily win the Hugo. That is to afford the trip overseas, to meet fans the book with the most literary value, and pros from the U.S.A., the U.K. and which does I believe in most cases take other countries. The organisers of the out the Nebula Award. "Timescape" by Melbourne in '85 bid, are very much in Gregory Benford for instance, had some favour of involving fans in the brilliant concepts and was well written, World con, from as many different coun­ but did not even get a Hugo nomination. tries as possible, and for that reason we are in favour of the bid from fans Dear Readers, "Downbelow Station" at times becomes in Yugoslavia, to hold the World con in There are a number of reasons for this quite involved, but it is primarily an their country in 1988. However, the issue of the NEWS being two months late. action adventure.and let's face it, viability of this bid is yet to be Firstly, due to economic reasons I have that is what the average reader is be verified. In general the European had to spend more time looking after my looking for. "The Many-Coloured Land" fans have not shown very much interest business,Space Age Books. I have been is also an action adventure. Fantasy?, in the World Conventions held in the neglecting the shop over the last year not really, but certainly quite diff­ U.S.A., but a very broad range of nat­ or more, because of the time I have erent to anything else I have read. ionalities were in attendance at SEACON been putting into the NEWS. Secondly, "The Claw of the Conciliator"- is very at Brighton, in England in 1979. the time it has been taking to compile nicely written, but very slow moving. The voting for 1985 will be held at the new book listing has been holding "Little, Big" is fantasy and not the CONSTELLATION in Baltimore in September up the work on the NEWS in general. The type of book to get Hugo nomination at cost has increased because of the drop all I would have thought and the Simak, 1983. For details on how you can help secure the 1985 World Con for Melbourne in advertising revenue, and because the "Project Pope" is good but certainly write to THE MELBOURNE in '85 bidding size has been increasing, but this has not up to his best. That is my explan­ not been the real cause of delays, ation for "Downbelow Station" winning committee at: G.P.O.Box 2235 U, although future availability of cash to the Hugo, for what it is worth. One Melbourne, Victoria 3000 pay for it must be considered. Postal point I did overlook. The May and Merv Binns/ Editor-Publisher restrictions also impose limits in size, the Wolfe books are both part of making more than 20 pages very hard to series. Are readers getting a bit fed AUSTRALIAN SF put in the prescribed envelopes. up with series, or do they think they should be voted upon as a whole series, SCIENCE FICTION .FANTASY Consequently £ he size of future issues rather than in part? of the NEWS will be limited, to prob­ {MoA.e deXoLLs and comments on the Hugos CHECKLIST ably 20 pages and future BOOKLISTS Ml be -included tn the next tssue, iotlou)- A COMPREHENSIVE LISTING OF RECENT will be published separately. This new tng pant two o& my "Tntp Repont". AND FORTHCOMING F& SF BOOKS separate publication will be called Australian SF News SCIENCE FICTION AND Giving basic details, brief At this time there is no opposing bid plot outline etcetera, plus FANTASY CHECKLIST. I believe it will against Melbourne, Australia, for the pay for itself, but if not,it will not a section each issue covering World SF Convention in 1985. -This does back titles and special lists continue and will be incorporated back not mean that we have won the bid, but into the NEWS in an abbreviated form. of non-fiction & associated it does seem most likely that we will. books. I realise that many readers are only inter­ So it looks like Australia will be host­ ested in the booklist, but in the main I ing another World Con. I enjoyed my SUBSCRIPTION: $7.50 for 4 issues do not believe that this will make any sig­ trip to the U.S. in September and the Published on an irregular basis nificant difference to sales of the NEWS FIRST ISSUE DUE OUT JANUARY 1983 or* to subscriptions. I will be able to Sample single issue $2.50 posted. include more news, reviews and other features in the NEWS from this issue on, and hopefully continue at 20 pages, if AUSTRALIAN SF NEWS ISSN 0155-8870 is edited and published by Mervyn R.Binns under the sponsorship of The AUSTRALIAN SCIENCE FICTION counter sales are maintained and the Advertising situation improves. FOUNDATION. ASFN is registered for posting under Australia Post , publication # VBG2791 . The first issue of the SFIjF CHECKLIST The address for all correspondence is 305/307 Swanston Street, Melbourne, will be available either just before or 3000, Victoria, AUSTRALIA. just after Christmas ( read that as early January), at $2.00 per copy or SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $7.00 Australian for 6 issues, surface mail. $12.00 Airmail. $7.50 on subscription for 4 issues. It Please make all payments payable to the editor, Mervyn R.Binns. Our American will be published as often as practical agent is LOCUS, Box 13305, Oakland, CA 94661. 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A 50% discount applies to fan advertisements for conventions, clubs, this will depend on the pressure of other fanzines and other activities. work. I should be able to publish the NEWS on a more regular schedule in future. N.B. A 10% discount is allowed to subscription agencies other than our official The next issue will be out before the agents listed above, but payment must be sent direct to us. We suggest that end of January. any additional costs be charged direct to the subscriber . Since the last issue of the NEWS, things have really piled up. There are many We are Australian Agents for: . interesting things to report and as I LOCUS: Subscription rates: $33.25, 12 issues Airmail $62.J0 for 24 issues Airmail. attended the World SF Convention in ------$20.80 12 .. Sea Mail $39.50 .. 24 .. Sea Mail Chicago in September, that will be in­ SCIENCE FICTION CHRONICLE: $30.00 for 12 issues Airmail / $52.35' for 24 issues. cluded. 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ATRIP REPORT part one BY MERV BINNS

If we expect people to come all the way to Australia for a World Con, the least some of us can do is to attend one or two over there. After looking at my finan­ cial situation I decided that it was not going to get any better, so I called upon all my personal sources of cash and went to the U.S.A, for Chicon in August and September. Luckily I can put all the cost down as business expense, and maybe, if I live long enough my business will be making enough money to re-imburse me. My first stop was in San Francisco and I spent an enjoyable day having lunch with Charles Brown and Rachel Holman 1) The lobby at the Hyatt Regency - the Chicon hotel 2) G.O.H.Lee Hoffman of LOCUS and author Fritz Leiber, and 3) Chicon co-chairmen Larry Propp & Ross Pavlic 3) G.O.H. A.Bertram Chandler then touring around the local specialist 4) G.O.H. Frank Kelly Freas Photos 1) M .Binns 2) Rachel Holman courtesy Locus bookshops delivering copies of the 3,4 & 5. Andrew Porter courtesy SF Chronicle. latest issue of LOCUS. The recession in the U.S.A, is hurting these shops and BUBONICON was a nice relaxed little need more promotion on TV and other media. I also heard that video games are making convention. The things I remember include inroads into the free time of the stud­ George Martin reading from his new novel The convention was held in the Winrock ents, whom we all seem to rely on for "Fevre Dreams"; a late panel with George, Inn, a motel adjacent to a shopping trade to a large degree in the sf field. Suzy McKee Charnas, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro centre, where a variety of food and I spent the rest of the day in Charlie and and Fred Saberhagen on vampires; the old other things were available. In the Rachel's company talking shop and so film "Just Imagine" that I had been want­ hotel itself there was a Japanese forth, and I thank them very much for ing to see for years and I qould have restaurant and a large proportion of their hospitality. well missed it; the Guest of Honour's the attendees were at a convention- organised lunch. People were seated My next stop was a short one in Los speech in which she said that sf fans interests were too limited and that they around tables with a centre hot-plate, Angeles, where I spent some time in the where the chef came and chopped up the company of Bob Bloch and his charming should take an interest in the opera, like her and that went down like a lead food in entertaining style and cooked it wife Ellie. Australian fans who met at the table. The room parties were Bob at CINECON last year know why he is balloon; comments from a panel on the fact that fewer people are reading books now numerous and enjoyable. An altogether such a popular guy with the fans in the enjoyable convention. I might just add that U.S.A, now, and I assure you that Mrs and that 60% of people never read a book after they leave school, frightening there were three Aussies in attendance, Bloch is a perfect match for him. Bob Peter Toluzzi, Eric Lindsay and myself. made me aware of the fact that his new figures for writers and for booksellers; book PSYCHO II has nothing whatsoever Stephen Donaldson told us that he is doing a third Thomas Covenant trilogy; The next stop was New York to see to do with the new movie. Having sold friends and suppliers there and in three complete film rights to the title and Fan Guest Takumi Shibano from Japan and DUFF winner from Sydney, Peter Toluzzi days I managed to squeeze in two Broadway any sequels they want to make to shows, "Forty Second Street" and "Chorus­ Universal, he gets no renumeration at put on slide shows that were well rec- ieved. Some interesting observations line". I only managed to find two films all from the new movie, but he has re­ that I wanted to see while I was away. tained the rights to the book title and that were aired during the panels and discussions were that the sales of war "Beastmaster" " I saw at The Chinese has just had published the book PSYCHO Theatre in Hollywood and I caught up games were having a big effect on the II. An unusual situation to say the with "Sword and Sorcerer" in New York. least. He now has a new agent by the way. sales of ffjsf books; that it is quite The best range of FSSF books and assoc­ probable that in twenty years, hard I made the most of my unlimited travel iated material I saw while I was away, cover books will disappear because they ticket with TWA and saw more airports in apart from the hucksters room at CHICON, will be much too expensive and they will the U.S.A than ever before. Two days in was at FORBIDDEN PLANET Bookshop in only appear in the limited editions we Las Vegas were an education, not too New York. are starting to see already; that books expensive, and a flight in a Cessna-over the Grand Canyon was worth it all. Then on to she suppliers in Boulder Colorado via Denver and San Diego. The next stop was Albuquerque in New Mexico where I attended BUBONICON, the annual local convention that Australian visitors seem to make a habit of attend­ ing. I met some old friends there and made some new ones. Chelsea Quinn Yarbro was Guest of Honour and other authors attending included Bob Vardeman, who did a good job as convention auctioneer, George R.R.Martin, Suzy McKee Charnas, Stephen Donaldson and Fred Saberhagen. Roger Zelazny looked in for a few moments. George R.R.Martin, Chelsea Quin Yarbro, Suzy BoB Vardeman auctioneering. 4 McKee Charnas S Fred Saberhagen on panel. Photos M .Binns Finally I was in Chicago for the World at the Foyster residence, 21 Shakespeare Con. This was my first World con in the Grove, St kilda. No further details on U.S.A., though I had attended TORCON in it are known at this time. Toronto Canada in 173 and SEACON in England in '79. They had prepared me a SMOFFCON 11 is a two day relaxacon to little for the vast number of people at be held over the Australia Day weekend. the Hyatt Regency Hotel. The hotel was This is primarily a relaxacon and fund raising event for '85. It will be held actually two towers, with a connecting at the Sandy Beach Community Centre, section in between, part of which was Sandringham. A pub and takeaway food a large glass covered area. The con places are nearby and it is right opp­ facilities were all down in a vast un­ osite the beach. GOH is George Turner, derground area, which I was just begin­ and you can send your membership or ning to find my way around when the con donation if you cannot attend, to was over. There are about five restaurants SYNCON '82 Derrick Ashby, P.O.Box 175, South in the hotel itself and numerous other While we were enjoying the sights in Melbourne, 3205. food places including a well stocked the U.S.A., the 1982 annual SF Con super market, in the basement. I enjoy Other fund raising activities for M'85 was being held in Sydney, starting good food, so the availability or lack include the sale of t-shirts at $10, appropriately on Friday the 13th of of it can make or mar a convention for the FANAC game - you too can be a sec­ August. It was held where most of the ret master of fandom just for $10, me. Two meals I had outside the hotel major recent Sydney cons have been held, included one at MacDonalds would you Melbourne Tram Badges at $1.00, and at the New Crest Hotel in Kings Cross. believe, where I saw some well known subs to KANGA RUSE, the bid newsletter, A nice convenient place for food, pros hiiddled over their cheeseburgers $10. All these things help to pay for and other interesting things, and only cooking up deals, and at a Szechuan advertisements in con booklets, and a few minutes underground ride to the Chinese restaurant, which was absolutely to pay for the free distribution of city'. Unfortunately the organisers superb. I must point out that an impov­ THE ANTIPODEAN ANNOUNCER, the bid news­ of SYNCON '83, the natcon, have moved erished magazine editor, who shall go paper, at all major conventions here out into the boring suburbs, where the nameless, dragged me along to MacDonalds, and overseas. All fans in Australia are only food available is the local 'Big and the visit to the Szechuan restaurant was encouraged to do all they can to raise Macs', although they promise, (like many in the more sophisticated company of Lee funds for the bid, by having parties, other cons that we have starved to death Smoire and Chicon committee assistants. games days and such, and ASFN and the or collapsed from dehydration at) that M'85 newsletter KANGARUSE, will be Getting from my room to the main con the Shore Motel, in Artarmon will be happy to help publicise them for you. area would take some time, particularly providing food on a regular basis. The Melbourne in '85 Bid address is: if I went down the wrong escalator. According to the only first hand report G.P.O.Box 225U, Melbourne 3000, Victoria The lifts were no trouble except dur­ I have seen ( Erik Harding in forerunner) Australia. ing the rush after the end of a prog­ it was a good con, with some new ideas ramme session, when everybody wanted to bWANCON 8 is being held in Pert h also and innovations in programming that other go up to their rooms at the same time. over the Australia Day weekend 1983. cons will pick up, plus old things like a A wrong turn when you got off the escal­ At the Westmos Motor Inn, Perth, Western Goon Show , a masquerade, a W.A. org­ ators down in the basement could soon Australia. Details from P.O.Box 318, anised epic, an auction with new auc­ get you lost however. The registration Nedlands, 6009, W.A. Con chairman is and hospitality room was off in one tioneer Marc Ortleib assisted by Justin Greg Turkich, G.O.H. Damien Broderick. Ackroyd and a Transfinite Audiovisual direction and the hucksters room, film Memberships :$12 attending, $6 support­ room,art show and ballrooms, where the presentation that was "absolutely fan­ ing. Student $8. tastic". This was Erik's first Syncon main items and all panels were held, in and first con report. I hope he does FlMCOM will be held over Easter (April the other. While another took you off more. 1-4) 1983, at Queensbridge Hotel, to the shopping arcades, where there Queens Rd., StKilda, Melbourne. For was a very good pinball and electronic Other recent Australian conventions were held more details contact P.O.Box 4, games establishment by the way. in Brisbane and Canberra. The Brisbane Thornbury, Victoria, 3071. The organ­ A good part of my time was taken up one, CONQUEST '82, was media orientated isers are Terry Frost, John Newman, with just talking to people, particul­ and Grace Lee Whitney, one of the stars Carey Handfield and others. Exact arly in the hucksters room. A lot more from the Star Trek TV series, was a membership is not known,- but it will was taken up with the carting of goodies for guest. This was the first con held in be in excess of $10.00 A major feature the Melbourne in '85 parties that were Queensland for a few years, but a of the convention will be the masquer­ held. Consequently,I did not get to see report in Derrick Ashby's "Smoff's News­ ade on the theme of a "An Interstellar very much of the programme items. One letter" by Cathy Kerrigan, indicated Circus". mistake I did make was not registering that it was mostly films and what little Advention 4 win be held April 23-25 myself as 'press', which prevented me programming there was often clashed with (Anzac Day weekend), 1983, at the Pier getting into places where I could have films. Future conventions in Brisbane it Hotel, Jetty Road, Glenelg, S.Australia. taken decent photographs and perhaps would seem, will have to be planned dif- Memberhips $15 to Smoffcon, $20 there­ picked up more information, but I knew erently to attract the usual sf fans as after. Acccomodaticn $19 per day. Address nothing about having to register until opposed to the media fans. for details P.O.Box 46, Harden, S.A. it was too late. Its about time I started CIRCULATION II was held in Canberra on 5070. to tell you something a bit more positive the 26th to 28th of November at the WlNDYCON , 5th Annual New Zealand sf however...... Hotel Ainslie. We have not heard how it convention, June 3-6, 1983, at the ****»»*»«*«»*» went. Another con you might have missed Waterloo Hotel, Wellington, N.Z. was CONFUSION, held we believe in Adelaide Address: P.O.Box 11400 Manners St., I wxZC Leave the. Chtcon tntp report there October 2-3, which was reported to be a Wellington, N.Z. Attending membership {.or this time. Part two wtU. appear next confused mixture of media and written sf. $20 and $10 supporting. These rates issue with photographs. . „ Melbourne in '85 will apply up until the convention at least. Australian agent is John Newman Various get togethers are being organ­ at P.O.Box 4, Thornbury, Victoria 3071. ised to raise funds for the Melbourne in Attendance will be limited so if you '85 World Con Bid. A very successful want to attend WlNDYCON, join now. day was held at Elizabeth and Peter Darling's farm at Kyneton, raising more SYNCON '85> 22nd Australian National SF funds than any individual function so Convention, June 10-13 1983, at the far, in October. A games day, OLYMPICON Shore Motel, Pacific Highway, Artarmon, III is being held December 5th, over by Address for correspondence: P.O. Box the time you read this, but if you are A491, Sydney South, NSW 2000. Member­ interested in attending the next one ship $20 attending now and $25 from write 4 Harold St., Middle Park, 3204 January 1st. Pro. G.O.H. is HARLAN for details on future functions. One ELLISON and Aust. G.O.H. is VAN IKIN. _ photo Andrew Porter planned for January 10th will be held F COMMENTARY REPRINT EDITION-. FIRST YEAR 1969 S F Commentary Nos. 1-8

Edited by Bruce Gillespie

BRUCE GILLESPIE, publisher GPO Box 5195AA, Melbourne, Victoria 3001, Australia. (Phone: (03) 419 4797.) ISBN 0 949587 00 1 The first issue of S F COMMENTARY appeared officially in January 1969, and eight issues were published during 1969. Since then the magazine has had its ups and downs. Its ups have included 4 Ditmar (Australian Achievement) Awards, and 3 nominations for the Hugo (World SF Achievement) Award. Despite its high reputation throughout the world as a leading magazine of reviews and criticism of science fiction and fantasy, S F COMMENTARY has always had a small print run. So small, indeed, that no copies of the first eight issues have been available for sale since the end of 1969. S F COMMENTARY REPRINT EDITION: FIRST YEAR 1969 offers the first eight issues in a handy, re-typeset, printed version. Only 200 copies have been printed of this new edition, so you will need to hurry to make sure of your copy. The new edition contains an complete Index. The entire edition amounts to more than 200,000 words, including articles and letters from such leading Australian and overseas contributors as Stanislaw Lem, Brian Aldiss, Philip Dick, George Turner, Lee Harding, John Foyster, John Bangsund, John Brunner, Samuel Delany, etc, etc. Copies will be available only from the publisher. Fill in your form now, and send it and your cheque to the address given below:

S F COMMENTARY REPRINT EDITION: FIRST YEAR 1969 Please send my copy immediately. I enclose a cheque/intemational money order/bank draft for $40 (Australian/Canadian/US), or 25 pounds (UK), or equivalent to Aust, price.* NAME ...... ADDRESS . . . ‘...... POST/ZIPCODE...... COUNTRY...... * Mark cheques ‘Bruce Gillespie’ and send them to: GPO BOX 5195AA, MELBOURNE, VICTORIA 3001, AUSTRALIA. trying to obtain evidence to obtain SF COMMENTARY'S FIRST EIGHT search warrants and convictions. ISSUES: BACK IN PRINT AFTER We. typed fol last issue but did not THIRTEEN YEARS manage to squeeze in: The Los Angeles bookstore Change of Bruce Gillespie has reprinted the first Hobbit was burglarised in June. The eight issues - all those published in thieves took mainly original artwork.. 1969 - of his magazine, SF COMMENTARY. Other bookstores have also been robbed Since 1969, SF COMMENTARY has been well recently, as well as the Burroughs Inc. known for its reviews and criticism, Publishers office, in the L.A.Area. Some and the editor's continuing autobiog­ very rare items were stolen from E.R.B. raphy. But 1969's issues have been tot­ Inc., situated in Tarzana, including 41 A.BERTRAM CHANDLER'S entire "Rimworld" ally unavailable since the beginning of first editions and signed volumes. The series has been sold to Goldman in 1970. LA police are investigating. Germany for a reported $50,000. Bruce has re-typeset the original, and (Change of Hobbit mzs one of the shops YESTERDAY'S MEN by GEORGE TURNER will added an introduction. Only 200 copies that benefited f>wm lilts on's euntosity, be the major hard cover release from have been printed. The cost is $40 - but u)e one uneentain about E.R.B.Inc. Ed.) Faber/Penguin, first Wednesday in which, Bruce tells us, is what it would February 1983. The cover art work we have cost to photocopy the originals. hear is as bad as ever. JOHN BAXTER is writing a radio adaption of THE DEMOLISHED MAN by ALFRED BESTER, SCIENCE FICTION STILL IN for Radio Helicon (ABC Radio 2]. He is THE GHETTO also collaborating on an sf film script with BRIAN HANNANT (co-writer of MAD THE GOLDEN AGE OF SF, the anthology MAX 2), which has received funding edited by Kingsley Amis, in which he from the Australian Film Commission. makes the highly debatable comment that Hyland House will publish LEE HARDING'S his critical survey of science fiction, new novel, WAITING FOR THE END OF THE "New Maps of Hell", is still the defin­ WORLD, in July. At 85,000 words it is itive book on the subject,(because no his longest novel to date. At about good sf has been written since it was the same time Eyre Methuen(Aust.) will published), was announced as an Arrow publish a revised edition of THE CHILDREN paperback release for early '83. However OF ATLANTIS, with new illustrations. Arrow's-parent company, Hutchinson, had alread sold the paperback rights to Penguin, despite the fact that Arrow had first refusal.* The stories included in the main, have been done to death in other anthologies, but as Mr Amis so condescendingly points out in his intro­ duction, this collection is aimed at the higher level of readers, (the average level

M .R.Binns of sf readership being very low), in an effort it seems to point out that not all Of this sf stuff is the garbage they think A reward had been posted by Barry R. Photo it is. *(We aiiume Penguin wiLL publish.) Levin Science Fiction and Fantasy A further example of the literary est­ Literature, for assistance in returning ablishment's attitude towards sf was the first edition Lord of the Rings and reported in ANSIBLE by Kev Smith, is signed Tolkien letter stolen from them, the Bromley Library Guide to Real said $500.00 which they gave to Ellison Science Fiction. The librarian, one Ian after the police said that he was "ex­ DAMIEN BRODERICK S LEE HARDING Williams, says that authors like Doris tremely helpful to their investigation". Lessing, Robert Holdstock, Gary Kilworth, Levin was backed by the Antiquarian LEANNE FRAHM has a story in the next John Sladek and Olaf Stapledon do not Booksellers Association. Ironically UNIVERSE collection edited by Terry write sf, but C.S.Lewis, Christopher other robberies of sf stores have since Carr, #13 and she has also placed one Priest, Thomas Disch and Brian taken place, and the thefts of original with Charles Grant for a future volume Stableford do. paintings, and items from the comic stores, of his TERRORS series. have still not been resolved. DAMIEN BRODERICK'S story THE MAGI, HARLAN ELLISON HELPS SOLVE appears in the Warner paperback collec­ LOS ANGELES ROBBERIES The series of HARLAN ELLISON books due tion PERPETUAL LIGHT, edited by Alan from Ace have been postponed till Ryan, published in October in the U.S.A. Over some years a number of robberies early 1983 and will be issued with the His story "I Lost My Love to the Space took place in the Los Angeles area. cover corrections. SPIDER KISS, which Shuttle Columbia", will be published in "For some reason I became obsessed by was withdrawn on Ellison's instructions, the March 1983 issue of AMAZING. the robberies, the same way I was will probably be reissued after the obsessed by Jack The Ripper when I was other titles. Berkley will publish norstrilia s ' AGE BOOK OF THE writing about him. I was determined to a number of Ellison books including YEAR NOMINATION solve the crimes," said Harlan Ellison. SHATTERDAY, a set called the ESSENTIAL Norstrilia Press has scored its first ELLISON edited by RICHARD DE LAP and He discovered that there were six diff­ ' Age Book Of the-Year Award' nomination with new editions of DANGEROUS VISIONS and erent police departments involved in THE PLAINS by Gerald Murnane. It came investigating the break-ins, in which AGAIN DANGEROUS VISIONS. Ellison has third in the final voting, out of six rare books, paintings and other items also done MEDEA, an anthology for books nominated. Murnane's fantasy­ were stolen. After talking to all the Bantam Books. novel -cum-meditation has been extrava­ bookstore owners he was able to put THE LAST DANGEROUS VISIONS has been gantly reviewed in The Age, The Austral­ together certain facts and assumptions bought by Houghton Mifflin, who will ian, The Canberra Times, Australian SF that he passed on to the police, and publish this original anthology in four News and on the ABC's BOOKS AND WRITING which lead to the arrest and recovery volumes. Separately and then in a boxed programme. of much of the stolen material. He is set. After a rather chequered career of Gerald Humane was last nominated for also following up a different series delays and various problems, it is good the "Age Book of the Year Award' in of robberies on comic shops and SCIENCE to see that this work, which Ellison 1974 for TAMARISK ROW. FICTION CHRONICLE reported that he was has no doubt put a lot of effort into, is at last on the way. None of the "Fuzzy" novel and an historical novel criticizes the control of DNA research authors have withdrawn stories, despite he was working on, ONLY THE ARQUEBUS, and such,by the military and with the the fact that rights have long since were lost. The latter it seems, still novel, which is only borderline sf, he expired. Part of the advance has already hopes to help build a bigger market for benn paid and was used to pay back sf. He has not been able to attend any Harper § Row. The book was first sold POOR PUBLICITY FOR sf conventions recently, due to his in 1972. The first part of the four- wife's health, but he said " I feel that volume set will be turned in around BLADERUNNER'BOOK I'm still in whatever's left of the December, reported Ellison’s agent The publicity people at Granada pub­ ghetto." Richard Curtis. lishers should be "retired" for the worst The DUNE movie is being cast and will be piece of advertising we have ever seen made in Mexico's Sonora Desert, partly for an sf book. The header card supplied by due to economic reasons. The special BESTSELLERS Granada for their dump bins, (the stand up effects will probably be done by Lucas, box displays usually supplied by publishers F AND SF HITS THE BIG TIME but none of the miniatures will be less for high volume best sellers), for the book No less than eight science fiction, than one quarter life size. Herbert is of the movie, BLADERUNNER reads: fantasy or associated books appeared working on a new "Dune" novel, but told "Blade Runner Sleeps With Female Android on the publisher's weekly Hardcover LOCUS that he preferred not to talk about Bestseller list on November 26th '82. in Granada, * see page 146." It is it at this stage. SPACE by James Michener (1), FOUNDATION'S just scribbled out with a felt pen. Not EDGE by Isaac Asimov (3), THE VALLEY OF only is it badly presented, it is taste­ HORSES by Jean M.Auef (4), 2010: ODYSSEY less, sexist and utterly inane. They 'BATTLEFIELD EARTH', THE FIRST NOVEL TWO by Arthur C. Clarke (5), DIFFERENT are going to have to do better than PUBLISHED, BY L.RON HUBBARD FOR OVER SEASONS by Stephen King (8), THE E.T. that to sell their books! TWENTY YEARS, IS RECEIVING QUITE EXTEN­ STORY BOOK by William Kotzwinkle (9) SIVE PUBLICITY. This started at the LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING IN Chicago World Con, when attendees coming IT by Douglas Adams (10), DEADEYE DICK in from the airport were hit with a by Kurt Vonnegut (11). We are tipping AUTHORS giant billboard featuring the charac­ that "2010" will make it to the top ter from the book, Jonnie, firing a before very long. laser gun, with light effect and all. "> NRWS An actor dressed as Jonnie also toured STEPHEN KING and ANNE McCAFFREY are no the convention. Jonnie also appeared strangers to the Bestseller List. King's BEN BOVA HAS RESIGNED AS EDITORIAL DIR­ in Manhatten with retinue including a DIFFERENT SEASONS got to third on the ECTOR OF OMNI MAGAZINE. He plans to monster in a cage. Publisher's Weekly he list in August, devote his full time to writing. The while his CUJO was well up on the pb Hubbard's publicists claim that they staff that he has built up are putting list. McCaffrey's WHITE DRAGON was are trying to bring new readers into out the magazine and his function has the sensation of the sf field, when it the sf field as well as just publicize been mainly public relations, and the hit a high mark two years ago, and her "Battlefield” The book also may be executive editor, Dick Teresi will con­ CRYSTAL SINGER also recently made the aiming for a Hugo, but the competition tinue to run the magazine without any list. The paperback edition in Berkley, with a Heinlein, a Clarke and an Asimov executive additions. of E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL IN HIS in the race will be very, very stiff. ADVENTURE ON EARTH by WILLIAM KOTZWINKLE, Bova's most recent works have been the The 1st printing was 7,500 copies,the 2nd topped the mass market pb list mid­ rewrite of WHEN THE SKY BURNED, re- 12,500 and the third in October, between August . titled TEST OF FIRE and the text for 30,000 and 50,000. which was presold to the VISION OF TOMORROW: THE ART OF ROBERT Hubbard Foundation. (A bate neiMpapM McCALL. He is working on a rewrite of aepoat iayi that Hubbaad may be dead. ACE TO PUBLISH NEW FUZZY THE WINDS OF ALTAIR for TOR and will Moae detatbh next -ciiue.) then do a new novel as part of the NOVEL BY H.BEAM PIPER same contract. Those who have enjoyed the "Fuzzy" ARTHUR C,CLARKE VISITED RUSSIA IN JUNE. series by the late H.BEAM PIPER, will His new novel 2010: ODYSSEY TWO, just pub­ no doubt be pleased to learn that not lished in the U.S.A, and Britain and due only is there a new title written here in February, is set almost entirely by ARDATH MAYAR, but a third title has on a Russian spaceship. On his visit he been found written by Piper. A close met Russian sf writers and publishers, friend, Michael Knerr, insisted that no and cosmonauts, including Alexei Leonov, such book existed, but he has been for­ whose name graces the spaceship featured ced to eat his words as he has found the in 2010:ODYSSEY TWO. He also visited said manuscript in a large trunk full The Moscow Space Park, Leningrad and of "junk" that belonged to Piper. several space conferences. Prior to his visit to Russia, he had been to The After copying the carbon copy manuscript, Hague, Netherlands, where he was pres­ Knerr then sent it off to Beth Meacham ented with the prestigious MARCONI AWARD. L.RON HUBBARD at ACE, following apologies for his insis­ The ceremony, which took place in the tence that it did not exist. So, ACE FORREST J, ACKERMAN, WHO HAS BEEN EDITOR Hall of Knights at The Hague on June OF FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND FOR 25 will publish FUZZIES AND OTHER PEOPLE 11th, included receipt of a $35,000 YEARS HAS RESIGNED AS EDITOR EFFECTIVE in fall 1983. The book was originally prize. He donated the money to the WITH THE 190TH ISSUE. It will never be' commissioned by AVON in 1963 soon after Developing World Communications Center, quite the same. JEFF ROVIN, well known LITTLE FUZZY was nominated for the Hugo. being established in his adopted home writer on f$sf films, will be the,new The movie rights were also optioned. country Sri Lanka at the University of editor, starting with the 191st issue. The second book, FUZZY SAPIENS, later Iloratuwa. changed to THE OTHER HUMAN RACE,< was Ackerman was approached by several pub­ delayed a year and was finally published FRANK HERBERT HAS RECENTLY BEEN TOURING lishers to edit a magazine for them , with an inappropriate cover illustration, ABOUT TO PROMOTE HIS NEW NOVEL 'WHITE including QUEST/STAR and FANGORIA, but and did not sell well. Consequently PLAGUE'. In it. a plague is invented Ackerman signed with Hank Stine and Avon Rejected the third book and the that kills all women. Some women have crit­ Starblaze/Donning publishers during Chicon. movie option on the first was riot taken icised him for demeaning their sex, but (Probably over cheeseburgers at MacDonalds, up. Piper committed suicide in November others comments have been full of praise, where our roving reporter spotted them.) 1964 and his agent, Ken White died of and he said that "...... women are Details are not determined yet, but cancer soon after. Initially the hostage to any human future, I think Donning will publish the magazine estate was spread far and wide amongst is the telltale line. We're all in this under the editorial control of Ackerman. relatives, and reprints became diffic­ together, fellows." He has deliberately It will probably be distributed by ult, but ACE finally purchased the whole Dell and will be aimed more at mature avoided the usual style in disaster novel literary estate. However the third audiences, with a good colour section writing, "to give you a loving-care des­ and cover movies, TV, video cassettes, 8 cription of the madman in action." He radio and fannish items. Ackerman will is working on a new novel, DEMON for KEITH LAUMER has sold two new novels to also be working on other trade paper­ Berkley. His novel MILLENNIUM has been Timescape, THE RETURN OF RETIEF and back books following MR MONSTER’S bought by Berkley from M.G.M. (He wrote ROGUE BOLO./ MICHAEL WHELAN'S artwork MOVIE GOLD, for Starblaze/Donning. it as a novelization and does not own for the cover of "Golden Dreams - A the rights, although he retains a share Fuzzy Odyssey", won four awards at the EYA.WHITLEY/ wife of sf writer JACK of the royalties). After three years, the Chicon art show including first prize. CUALKER/ made the New York Daily News movie is still in "development". An anthology edited by IAN WATSON called and many other newspapers when she GEORGE ALEC EFFINGER, who recently had brought suit following her expulsion CHANGES, was due for publication mid an operation for the removal of a growth '82, with a story by URSULA K.LE GUIN from an Owings Mills MD restaurant from a kidney, has turned in a Sherlock called "The Wife's Story". It was to be because she was breast-feeding her baby. Holmes/Fu Manchu novel A LEAGUE OF it's original publication and ACE said Chalker was identified as "Jack Whitely" DRAGONS, to Avon./ JOHN SHIRLEY'S wife in the article. SF Chronicle suggests so in their advance publicity. The ALEXANDRA gave birth to twins on Sep­ story it seems was inadvertently sold that people attending future conventions tember 14th in Paris./ TERRY CARR, in a should keep an eye on Jack's nametag. as an original in LeGuin's new collec­ very rare move, has resold CIRQUE, in tion COMPASS ROSE. The publishers of hard cover to Doubleday. It was origin­ this collection were a little upset, ally published by Bobbs-Merrill./ELLEN when they also put in their book, that People and Publishing ASHER, who is still editor of the U.S. the story was appearing for the first OR WHO’S SOLO WHAT & TO WHOM p SF Book Club, has been named editor of time. The Ace book has been put off the Doubleday specialty book clubs. till '83, which it seems took the pres­ MICHAEL MOORCOCK is working on a sequel sure off LeGuin and her agent Virginia Kidd. manuscript to BYZANTIUM ENDURES, called THE LAUGHTER OF CARTHAGE, for Random House and he Ajtaca O'7 The. is revising the critical study of MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY and STARBLAZE NPiUGHTT fantasy, HEROIC DREAMS, which was ann­ have settled their differences over her books WEB OF DARKNESS and WEB OF LIGHT. aakwaws ounced for British publication last year but never appeared, for Timescape. She was not happy with extensive re­ writing that HANK STINE, Starblaze PIERS ANTHONY, who recently attended his editor, carried out on the books and it first sf convention in Kansas City, U.S.A., has now been agreed that she will do has sold a five part series to AVON. Under rewrites on both books herself. They the heading of "Bio of a Space Tyrant" will be published within a year of her the titles proposed are REFUGEE, MERCENARY, getting them back to Starblaze. Timescape POLITICIAN, EXECUTIVE and STATESMAN. The will do the mass market paperbacks. She first in a new fantasy series, ON A PALE has sold THE INHERITOR, a contemporary HORSE, will be published by Del Rey. This occult novel,to Tor Books and a fantasy series is called "Incantations of Immor­ based on Mozart's "Magic Flute", sold tality" and will have personifications to Del Rey, has tentatively been titled of Death, Time, Fate, War and so forth, NIGHT'S DAUGHTER. A recent accident but will not be horror novels. The caused second degree burns to her writ­ Xanth "trilogy" continues and following ing hand and she was forced to cancel OGRE, OGRE from Del Rey in November, we convention appearances. will see NIGHTMARE (#6) and DRAGON ON A Bradley has also sold two new "Darkover" PEDESTAL (#7) in 1983. Anthony says his novels to DAW; THENDARA HOUSE and THE fantasy is outselling his sf, but he prefers JULMW MAY at Chicon Photo M.Binns CITY OF SORCERESSES. to write sf as it is more of a challenge. THE NON BORN KING, the third in the "Many Coloured Land" sequence by JULIAN FREDERIK POHL has sold MIDAS WORLD to MAY is due out in February in the U.S.A, Tor(pb) and St Martins Press (he), while in a hard cover edition from Houghton his novel GATEWAY has been optioned for Miflin and PAN will publish early in a movie./ Timescape will publish a new '83 in paperback in the U.K./ SHRINE, novel by POUL ANDERSON entitled ORION by Britain's answer to Stephen King, SHALL RISE, in hard cover and trade paper JAMES HERBERT, will be published by back./ DAW will be publishing fantasy N.E.L. in hard cover in January./ THE novel, THE DREAMSTONE and an enlarge­ WHITE GOLDWIELDER by STEPHEN DONALDSON ment of EAIDWOOD by C.J.CHERRYH in '83. will be released by William Collins in They also plan to publish six of the Australia in February in hard cover at late PHILIP K.DICK'S titles with Bob $17.95. The paperback probably later in Pepper cover art. the year. BILL ROTSLEP s friend at Chicon. THE CITADEL OF THE AUTARCH by GENE Photo courtesy SF Chronicle DAVE LANGFORD'S Arrow novel THE SPACE WOLFE, the 4th in the "Book of the New EATER, will be published by Timescape in Sun" series, will be published in WILLIAM ROTSLER will do three Star Trek the U.S. in March./ANSEN DIBELL has sold January '83 by Timescape. This gives it juveniles for Simon and Schuster/Wan- PURSUIT OF THE SCREAMER, CIRCLE CRESCENT front running for award nominations of derer, including the "official biograp­ STAR and SUMMERFAIR to Muelenhoff in books published in 1983. hies of the main characters, a collec­ Holland. Two books are still to be pub­ tion of short stories featuring the lished in this series, TIDESTORM LIMIT A new novel by NORMAN MAILER will re­ leading enterprise officers, and a and STARFALL./ The next Gor book by portedly take place on a spacehip./ "Choose-Your-Own-Adventure" book with JOHN NORMAN will be KAJIRA OF GOR due STEVEN BARNES first solo novel, STREET many alternate endings. out March '83. A Gor film is under negot­ LETHAL, has been sold to Berkley./ JIM DIANE DUANE has sold THE DOOR INTO SHADOW iation./ Pocket Books have bought two FRENKEL has finished for Arco, MAKE MORE new Star Trek novels; THE TRESILLIAN MONEY WRITING FICTION(THAN YOU WOULD to new publisher Bluejay Books, who may also reprint the first in the series THE CONNECTION by David Dvorkin and MUTINY WITHOUT THIS BOOK). DOOR INTO FIRE, which Duane has recovered ON THE ENTERPRISE by Bob Vardeman./ The NAKED IN XANADU by Ray Rusell, a fantasy the rights on from Dell. She has a next Robert Adams novel from NAL will story, has been sold to Left Bank Prod­ juvenile coming from Delacorte titled most likely be WOMAN OF THE HORSECLANS./ uctions, with Russell getting an unus­ SO YOU WANT TO BE A WIZARD. Other DAW will publish A.E.Van VOGT'S novel­ ually good deal. recent sales include: BROKEN SYMMETRIES ization of his screenplay "Computer­ by PAUL PREUSS to Timescape, THE TIDES IAN WATSON has completed his rewrite world" . OF KITHRUP by DAVID BRIN to Bantam of THE WOMAN FACTORY (now called THE and a new novel by EVELYN E.SMITH to ROBERT ASPRIN and LYNN ABBEY were married WOMAN PLANT) for Playboy Books and he Doubleday. late August and honeymooned at Chicon. I has sold CHEKOV'S JOURNEY, featuring PAGE CUDDY has replaced Robert Wyatt as the Russian playwright, to Gollancz TWILIGHT zone magazine is planning a editorial director of Avon./ JOHN VARLEY for 1983 publication. book; THE BEST OF TWILIGHT ZONE. _ FREDERIK POHL has completed MIDAS WORLD, which contains "The Midas Plague", "The JUDY-LYNN DEL REY has been appointed Man Who Ate the World" and five new publisher of Del Rey Books, by Ballantine. stories. He has been working on a new publishing She joined them in 1977 when the Del Rey novel set in the same universe as line was founded. She became a vice- GATEWAY and BEYOND THE BLUE EVENT HORIZON, president of Ballantine in 1978. and has sold a new novel to Timescape. LOU ARONICA has replaced KAREN HAAS as SAMUEL R.DELANY and his agent Henry World sf editor at Bantam. Hass had been with Morrison were not happy with the cover Bantam for four and a half years, but of a new edition of his novel NEVERYONA BLUEJAY BOOKS is a new publishing com­ the publisher and editorial director from Bantam, and publication has been pany established by JIM FRENKEL, who both agreed that she was "not the right put off from October till next February, was sf editor at DELL till they dropped spokesperson for the Bantam line." when a new cover will be added. Bantam their sf list. They are not yet asking Lou Aronica will have the title of will also publish a new novel by Delany for manuscripts, but they have many Science Fiction and Fantasy Co-ordinator. in hard cover in February '83. interesting projects in view. Their Aronica said that Bantam are definitely address is 49 East 53rd Street, New York, looking for new books to meet their JACK VANCE has sold two books to Time­ NY 10022. new program of--"three books per month scape, which are set in the world of Further news from the new BLUEJAY pub­ starting in January. We have tougher DYING EARTH. Both are made up of con­ lishers is that they have bought 5 J 6 standards, but we'll pay more than most nected short stories. in the NEW VOICES series, edited by publishers" CHRISTOPHER PRIEST is running a week­ George R.R.Martin, which was dropped by end course on writing science fiction Berkley. They will do them in trade TIMESCAPE are cutting their sf schedule over Friday January 21 to Sunday 23. paperbacks./ Borgo Press will publish to four titles from December; three The course is being operated by the late STANTON A.COBLENTZ'S last book, original and one reissue. There will be Dillington House in Somerset, and is a an autobiography in 1983. He finished no ACE release for December to enable follow up to a successful one rim by the book only a few days before his integration of the ACE and Berkley John Brunner early in '82. Details can death. The book is being edited by Dr schedules, but the January titles will be obtained from Somerset County Coun­ Jeffrey M.Elliot, who is editing PULP be out in December. VOICES, which includes the last inter­ cil, Dillington House Coll., Ilminster, TOR are doing three books per month from view with Coblentz. Somerset TA19 9DT, U.K. Chris will now on, and the same at Bantam including also feature in a British Book Market­ one reissue and two new. TOWER and LEISURE BOOKS publishers have ing Council promotion - "Best of Young A report in ANSIBLE states that Berkley/ British Authors". presumably gone out of business. In Jove are also acquiring Dell's back list bankruptcy court in New York in August PHILIP K.DICK has become extremely pop­ of sf including Varley and Orson Scott their assets were purchased by Dorchester Card. ular since his death in countries out Publishing Company, when their printer side the U.S.A, and rights for 17 other Offset Paperback, offered them at AVON BOOKS have thrown down the gauntlet language editions were announced sold auction. The president of Dorchester recently. to the British publishers over the U.S. however is/was the president of Leisure/ and British rights controversy, by ann­ TOR have bought another two back titles Tower. What will follow is in the lap ouncing that they will retain the rights by PHILIP JOSE FARMER; TIME'S LAST GIFT of the gods, but Alex Berman of the on all books they publish and sell their and TRATOR TO THE LIVING along with a SFWA has been appointed to look after editions in the British market. LSP is authors interests. new POUL ANDERSON book, PAST TIME./ distributing their books in the U.K. and MacMillan U.K. will publish CARL SAGAN'S Ruth Walls in Australia. "THE WALL", the SF novel, CONTACT, which we believe is FAWCETT, which was sold to Random House, Pink Floyd film tie-in, is one of the still in the process of being written. and is now part of the Ballantine group, first titles to be affected. will not be publishing any more sf. All New sf sales include: THE WILD ANIMAL titles on hand to be published will be SHARON JARVIS, ex-Playboy Books employee, TAMER by MICHAEL RESNICK to NAL. JIHAD done in Del Rey. has taken over from TOM STAICAR as by NICHOLAS YERMAKOV also to NAL. / editor of the Fredrick Ungar "Recog­ TED WHITE has sold his Star Quest trilogy, DAVID KYLE is reviving Gnome Press nition" series. These are critical works originally published by Lancer 14 years publishing and plans to put out his on authors. ago, to Starblaze. The titles again are Lensman books among others, in hard PHOENIX PRIME, SORCERESS OF QUAR and cover. THE SCIENCE FICTION BOOK CLUB and QUEST OF THE WOLF. Also bought by most other books clubs in Britain rep­ Starblaze was The Voidal Trilogy by rinting sf titles, have folded. The U.S. TIMOTHY SULLIVAN: THE SHIPS OF DEATH, THE club differs in that it publishes not INSENSUATE SEA and FIGURES OF STARS. / only new titles currently with the pub­ Del Rey have bought ON STRANGER TIDES lishers editions, but it quite often by TIMOTHY POWERS and THE BOOK OF does original first editions or "only SILENCE by LAWRENCE WATT-EVANS. hard cover" editions.

A report from IAN 8 BETTY BALLANTINE In his regular column in locus , Norman says that things are big in the 'Space' Spinrad pointed out the effects of the race in the U.S. at the present. Their take-overs of ACE,FAWCETT, PLAYBOY and production THE SPACE SHUTTLE OPERATOR'S other publishers by other publishers. MANUAL is already reprinting and is It will probably mean less titles and getting special displays in book shops, more effort will be made to sell more with James Michener's new novel SPACE, of these titles, with more promotion. and the Bantam two volume TPB edition Big name authors now will be getting of THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE DAVE KYLE at Convention paid more and others will get less or Photo courtesy SF Chronicle MUSEUM. The museum by the way had have little hope of breaking into the 8,400,000 visitors last fiscal year. field. Other big changes are taking WARNER BOOKS have bought Popular Lib­ place in the U.S. publishing business, ANSIBLE said .... No, we can't really rary, which was one of the Fawcett in which we may see the major book print that, we are in enough trouble with subsiduary imprints owned by CBS. chains dictating to the trade in general, John Brunner and Harry Harrison now, we Fawcett now being part of the Ballan­ with the smaller independent booksellers don't particularly want to run foul of tine stable, having been purchased by being forced out of business. In general Carl Sagan. Did you know Dave Langford, Random House. Warner Books will not we believe that the publishing field has that the movie rights to CONTACT have continue the imprint, but will repub­ been overproducing and in the long run actually been sold? And after all they lish the Popular Library titles under fewer titles will be better for all con­ would not have bought those without their own imprint. A review of titles cerned. The small specialist shops such seeing the book, would they? to be retained by Warner is currently as the sf 6 f ones, will continue to give being carried out by the vice president a service that the big chains cannot. IO and executive editor Kathleen Malley. FREDERIK POHL has completed MIDAS WORLD, which contains "The Midas Plague", "The JUDY-LYNN DEL REY has been appointed Man Who Ate the World" and five new publisher of Del Rey Books, by Ballantine. stories. He has been working on a new publishing She joined them in 1977 when the Del Rey novel set in the same universe as line was founded. She became a vice- GATEWAY and BEYOND THE BLUE EVENT HORIZON, president of Ballantine in 1978. and has sold a new novel to Timescape. LOU ARONICA has replaced KAREN HAAS as SAMUEL R.DELANY and his agent Henry World sf editor at Bantam. Hass had been with Morrison were not happy with the cover Bantam for four and a half years, but of a new edition of his novel NEVERYONA BLUEJAY BOOKS is a new publishing com­ the publisher and editorial director from Bantam, and publication has been pany established by JIM FRENKEL, who both agreed that she was "not the right put off from October till next February, was sf editor at DELL till they dropped spokesperson for the Bantam line." when a new cover will be added. Bantam their sf list. They are not yet asking Lou Aronica will have the title of will also publish a new novel by Delany for manuscripts, but they have many Science Fiction and Fantasy Co-ordinator. in hard cover in February '83. interesting projects in view. Their Aronica said that Bantam are definitely address is 49 East 53rd Street, New York, looking for new books to meet their JACK VANCE has sold two books to Time­ NY 10022. new program of--"three books per month scape, which are set in the world of Further news from the new BLUEJAY pub­ starting in January. We have tougher DYING EARTH. Both are made up of con­ lishers is that they have bought 5 J 6 standards, but we'll pay more than most nected short stories. in the NEW VOICES series, edited by publishers" CHRISTOPHER PRIEST is running a week­ George R.R.Martin, which was dropped by end course on writing science fiction Berkley. They will do them in trade TIMESCAPE are cutting their sf schedule over Friday January 21 to Sunday 23. paperbacks./ Borgo Press will publish to four titles from December; three The course is being operated by the late STANTON A.COBLENTZ'S last book, original and one reissue. There will be Dillington House in Somerset, and is a an autobiography in 1983. He finished no ACE release for December to enable follow up to a successful one rim by the book only a few days before his integration of the ACE and Berkley John Brunner early in '82. Details can death. The book is being edited by Dr schedules, but the January titles will be obtained from Somerset County Coun­ Jeffrey M.Elliot, who is editing PULP be out in December. VOICES, which includes the last inter­ cil, Dillington House Coll., Ilminster, TOR are doing three books per month from view with Coblentz. Somerset TA19 9DT, U.K. Chris will now on, and the same at Bantam including also feature in a British Book Market­ one reissue and two new. TOWER and LEISURE BOOKS publishers have ing Council promotion - "Best of Young A report in ANSIBLE states that Berkley/ British Authors". presumably gone out of business. In Jove are also acquiring Dell's back list bankruptcy court in New York in August PHILIP K.DICK has become extremely pop­ of sf including Varley and Orson Scott their assets were purchased by Dorchester Card. ular since his death in countries out Publishing Company, when their printer side the U.S.A, and rights for 17 other Offset Paperback, offered them at AVON BOOKS have thrown down the gauntlet language editions were announced sold auction. The president of Dorchester recently. to the British publishers over the U.S. however is/was the president of Leisure/ and British rights controversy, by ann­ TOR have bought another two back titles Tower. What will follow is in the lap ouncing that they will retain the rights by PHILIP JOSE FARMER; TIME'S LAST GIFT of the gods, but Alex Berman of the on all books they publish and sell their and TRATOR TO THE LIVING along with a SFWA has been appointed to look after editions in the British market. LSP is authors interests. new POUL ANDERSON book, PAST TIME./ distributing their books in the U.K. and MacMillan U.K. will publish CARL SAGAN'S Ruth Walls in Australia. "THE WALL", the SF novel, CONTACT, which we believe is FAWCETT, which was sold to Random House, Pink Floyd film tie-in, is one of the still in the process of being written. and is now part of the Ballantine group, first titles to be affected. will not be publishing any more sf. All New sf sales include: THE WILD ANIMAL titles on hand to be published will be SHARON JARVIS, ex-Playboy Books employee, TAMER by MICHAEL RESNICK to NAL. JIHAD done in Del Rey. has taken over from TOM STAICAR as by NICHOLAS YERMAKOV also to NAL. / editor of the Fredrick Ungar "Recog­ TED WHITE has sold his Star Quest trilogy, DAVID KYLE is reviving Gnome Press nition" series. These are critical works originally published by Lancer 14 years publishing and plans to put out his on authors. ago, to Starblaze. The titles again are Lensman books among others, in hard PHOENIX PRIME, SORCERESS OF QUAR and cover. THE SCIENCE FICTION BOOK CLUB and QUEST OF THE WOLF. Also bought by most other books clubs in Britain rep­ Starblaze was The Voidal Trilogy by rinting sf titles, have folded. The U.S. TIMOTHY SULLIVAN: THE SHIPS OF DEATH, THE club differs in that it publishes not INSENSUATE SEA and FIGURES OF STARS. / only new titles currently with the pub­ Del Rey have bought ON STRANGER TIDES lishers editions, but it quite often by TIMOTHY POWERS and THE BOOK OF does original first editions or "only SILENCE by LAWRENCE WATT-EVANS. hard cover" editions.

A report from IAN 8 BETTY BALLANTINE In his regular column in locus , Norman says that things are big in the 'Space' Spinrad pointed out the effects of the race in the U.S. at the present. Their take-overs of ACE,FAWCETT, PLAYBOY and production THE SPACE SHUTTLE OPERATOR'S other publishers by other publishers. MANUAL is already reprinting and is It will probably mean less titles and getting special displays in book shops, more effort will be made to sell more with James Michener's new novel SPACE, of these titles, with more promotion. and the Bantam two volume TPB edition Big name authors now will be getting of THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE DAVE KYLE at Convention paid more and others will get less or Photo courtesy SF Chronicle MUSEUM. The museum by the way had have little hope of breaking into the 8,400,000 visitors last fiscal year. field. Other big changes are taking WARNER BOOKS have bought Popular Lib­ place in the U.S. publishing business, ANSIBLE said .... No, we can't really rary, which was one of the Fawcett in which we may see the major book print that, we are in enough trouble with subsiduary imprints owned by CBS. chains dictating to the trade in general, John Brunner and Harry Harrison now, we Fawcett now being part of the Ballan­ with the smaller independent booksellers don't particularly want to run foul of tine stable, having been purchased by being forced out of business. In general Carl Sagan. Did you know Dave Langford, Random House. Warner Books will not we believe that the publishing field has that the movie rights to CONTACT have continue the imprint, but will repub­ been overproducing and in the long run actually been sold? And after all they lish the Popular Library titles under fewer titles will be better for all con­ would not have bought those without their own imprint. A review of titles cerned. The small specialist shops such seeing the book, would they? to be retained by Warner is currently as the sf 6 f ones, will continue to give being carried out by the vice president a service that the big chains cannot. IO and executive editor Kathleen Malley. Perhaps we will see more demand for stories each issue initially. The TRANSWORLD will be releasing in December second hand books also. British magazine AD ASTRA has definitely the large format pb, THE SECRET, produced ceased publication. Another British by Byron Preiss. An illustrated 'treasure­ Just to prove us wrong, Spinrad in a magazine, INTERZONE, may still just be later column says that he was told that hunt' book in the style of Jonathan Cape's hanging on. MASQUERADE. They also have the two volume many retailers want more sf titles and tpb edition of THE NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE that growing publishers like TOR and October ANALOG features an excerpt from others such as NAL and Avon, who are MUSEUM. A complete history of the conquest THE DESCENT TO ANANSI by Larry Niven of the air and space, magnificently illus­ only doing a small number of sf titles, and Steven Barnes. F&SF for October, trated at $12.95 per volume. may pick up some of the cast offs from the 33rd Anniversary issue will feature the Ace/Berkley stable. Actually we a novelette by James Tiptree Jr, "The Other highlights out or due include; FIRE­ suggest that you read Spinrad's STAYIN' Boy Who Saterskied To Forever" and FLOOD by Vonda McIntyre, Pan/W.Collins; ALIVE column in LOCUS if you are at all stories by Ellison, Knight, Davidson, HAWKMISTRESS by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Daw/ interested in the future of the sf pub­ Lafferty, A.ldiss and others. The October William Collins; CONAN THE BARBARIAN by L. lishing field and how it effects authors issue of OMNI is the fourth anniversary Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter and E.T. in particular. Starblaze will be pub­ issue, and includes an excerpt from THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL and THE E.T.STORY lishing the columns next year in book FOUNDATION'S EDGE by Isaac Asimov. BOOK, both by William Kotzwinkle in Sphere form and back issues of Locus can also paperbacks from Thomas Nelson Australia. be obtained. The magazine situation in Australia is The amazing popularity of the Dr Who series still quite bleak. We have not seen continues with DOCTOR WHO FULL CIRCLE, DR FUTURISTIC TALES for many months, not WHO AND THE ENEMY OF THE WORLD, and DR WHO that it is any loss, but OMNI, with only AND THE VISITATION in Star from Gordon and very minimal sf content amongst the fact, Gotch; THE MAGIC GOES AWAY by Larry Niven is still going strong. We, of course, still and Steve Barnes in Futura/Doubleday; have Cory S Collins, with another of their QUEST FOR THE WELL OF SOULS by Jack Chalker NEWS book-collections due in the new year. in Penguin. Norstrilia Press also have a collection The first issue of in the works, and there is the retrospec­ Oxford Press released locally in December AMAZING from the tive collection being edited by Van Ikin the Little Brown publication AMAZING 3-D new publisher and for the University of Queensland Press, by HAL MORGAN and DAN SYMMES. A large editor, (TSR and THE PORTABLE AUSTRALIAN SCIENCE FICTION format paperback on this visual gimmick George Scithers), anthology. The chances of a first class in movies, comics and associated items. is dated November. sf magazine being published in this DONT FORGET! A complete listing by author Its first serial­ country are very slim, unless we find isation will be a another philanthropist in the Ron Graham will appear in our SF&F CHECKLIST of all two-part shortened vein to put up the cash. Although there new books and re-issues throughout the version of Gregory is no doubt that we have the talent and English speaking world. First issue due Benford's AGAINST INFINITY. A feature of the know how. out mid January. future issues will be excerpts from novels Amongst the numerous magazines on the f6sf TWILIGHT ZONE will go bi-monthly with film scene, CINEFANTASTIQUE stands out. the January issue and the price will The articles, reviews and illustrations, be raised to $2.50 U.S. Sales (mostly with a lack of advertising, make this an newstand) at 65,000 have not been good outstanding publication. Their insistence and subscription cash goes mainly to on producing double issues can be a bit the agents. The British magazine EXTRO, disconcerting, particularly when they do has apparently ceased publication after them with two alternate covers, (see its third issue. below), but despite the expense they are Publication of SF DIGEST has been not to be missed. Space Age Books is suspended by Davis publishers, who have the Australian agent for this magazine and appointed Shawna McArthy as the new invites trade enquiries. editor of ISAAC ASIMOV'S SF MAGAZINE, Production on SUPERMAN III started at following ex-editor George Scithers NEW RELEASES Pinewood Studios last June. Like leaving their employ. Kathleen Maloney, FROM AUSTRALIAN DISTRIBUTORS SUPERMAN II, it is being directed by who was executive editor at Davis, has Richard Lester from a script by David been appointed a senior editor at DOUGLAS ADAMS was here in October to promote and Leslie Newman, with Pierre Spengler Times Books publishers. sales of his new book LIFE THE UNIVERSE AND as producer and Ilya Salkind as execut­ ive producer. Returning stars are A new British magazine in the planning EVERYTHING, in Pan pb, for William Collins. Demand has been great for this very popular Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Jackie stage is WORLD OF TOMORROW, edited by Cooper and Mark McLure, with Annette Martin Ince of engineering today and series. R.C.A. Records will be releasing a third "Hitchhiker's Guide " record album O'Toole, Annie Ross and Pamela Stephenson Victoria Hutchings of new statesman , joining the cast, and Richard Pryor soon also. which you might gather will not be all serving as this chapter's villain. sf, but they will be running two sf

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Only $5 per year from: The Eperex Press PO Box 770 Canberra City ACT 2601 Australia Perhaps we will see more demand for stories each issue initially. The TRANSWORLD will be releasing in December second hand books also. British magazine AD ASTRA has definitely the large format pb, THE SECRET, produced ceased publication. Another British by Byron Preiss. An illustrated 'treasure­ Just to prove us wrong, Spinrad in a magazine, INTERZONE, may still just be later column says that he was told that hunt' book in the style of Jonathan Cape's hanging on. MASQUERADE. They also have the two volume many retailers want more sf titles and tpb edition of THE NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE that growing publishers like TOR and October ANALOG features an excerpt from others such as NAL and Avon, who are MUSEUM. A complete history of the conquest THE DESCENT TO ANANSI by Larry Niven of the air and space, magnificently illus­ only doing a small number of sf titles, and Steven Barnes. F&SF for October, trated at $12.95 per volume. may pick up some of the cast offs from the 33rd Anniversary issue will feature the Ace/Berkley stable. Actually we a novelette by James Tiptree Jr, "The Other highlights out or due include; FIRE­ suggest that you read Spinrad's STAYIN' Boy Who Saterskied To Forever" and FLOOD by Vonda McIntyre, Pan/W.Collins; ALIVE column in LOCUS if you are at all stories by Ellison, Knight, Davidson, HAWKMISTRESS by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Daw/ interested in the future of the sf pub­ Lafferty, A.ldiss and others. The October William Collins; CONAN THE BARBARIAN by L. lishing field and how it effects authors issue of OMNI is the fourth anniversary Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter and E.T. in particular. Starblaze will be pub­ issue, and includes an excerpt from THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL and THE E.T.STORY lishing the columns next year in book FOUNDATION'S EDGE by Isaac Asimov. BOOK, both by William Kotzwinkle in Sphere form and back issues of Locus can also paperbacks from Thomas Nelson Australia. be obtained. The magazine situation in Australia is The amazing popularity of the Dr Who series still quite bleak. We have not seen continues with DOCTOR WHO FULL CIRCLE, DR FUTURISTIC TALES for many months, not WHO AND THE ENEMY OF THE WORLD, and DR WHO that it is any loss, but OMNI, with only AND THE VISITATION in Star from Gordon and very minimal sf content amongst the fact, Gotch; THE MAGIC GOES AWAY by Larry Niven is still going strong. We, of course, still and Steve Barnes in Futura/Doubleday; have Cory S Collins, with another of their QUEST FOR THE WELL OF SOULS by Jack Chalker NEWS book-collections due in the new year. in Penguin. Norstrilia Press also have a collection The first issue of in the works, and there is the retrospec­ Oxford Press released locally in December AMAZING from the tive collection being edited by Van Ikin the Little Brown publication AMAZING 3-D new publisher and for the University of Queensland Press, by HAL MORGAN and DAN SYMMES. A large editor, (TSR and THE PORTABLE AUSTRALIAN SCIENCE FICTION format paperback on this visual gimmick George Scithers), anthology. The chances of a first class in movies, comics and associated items. is dated November. sf magazine being published in this DONT FORGET! A complete listing by author Its first serial­ country are very slim, unless we find isation will be a another philanthropist in the Ron Graham will appear in our SF&F CHECKLIST of all two-part shortened vein to put up the cash. Although there new books and re-issues throughout the version of Gregory is no doubt that we have the talent and English speaking world. First issue due Benford's AGAINST INFINITY. A feature of the know how. out mid January. future issues will be excerpts from novels Amongst the numerous magazines on the f6sf TWILIGHT ZONE will go bi-monthly with film scene, CINEFANTASTIQUE stands out. the January issue and the price will The articles, reviews and illustrations, be raised to $2.50 U.S. Sales (mostly with a lack of advertising, make this an newstand) at 65,000 have not been good outstanding publication. Their insistence and subscription cash goes mainly to on producing double issues can be a bit the agents. The British magazine EXTRO, disconcerting, particularly when they do has apparently ceased publication after them with two alternate covers, (see its third issue. below), but despite the expense they are Publication of SF DIGEST has been not to be missed. Space Age Books is suspended by Davis publishers, who have the Australian agent for this magazine and appointed Shawna McArthy as the new invites trade enquiries. editor of ISAAC ASIMOV'S SF MAGAZINE, Production on SUPERMAN III started at following ex-editor George Scithers NEW RELEASES Pinewood Studios last June. Like leaving their employ. Kathleen Maloney, FROM AUSTRALIAN DISTRIBUTORS SUPERMAN II, it is being directed by who was executive editor at Davis, has Richard Lester from a script by David been appointed a senior editor at DOUGLAS ADAMS was here in October to promote and Leslie Newman, with Pierre Spengler Times Books publishers. sales of his new book LIFE THE UNIVERSE AND as producer and Ilya Salkind as execut­ ive producer. Returning stars are A new British magazine in the planning EVERYTHING, in Pan pb, for William Collins. Demand has been great for this very popular Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Jackie stage is WORLD OF TOMORROW, edited by Cooper and Mark McLure, with Annette Martin Ince of engineering today and series. R.C.A. Records will be releasing a third "Hitchhiker's Guide " record album O'Toole, Annie Ross and Pamela Stephenson Victoria Hutchings of new statesman , joining the cast, and Richard Pryor soon also. which you might gather will not be all serving as this chapter's villain. sf, but they will be running two sf

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Only $5 per year from: The Eperex Press PO Box 770 Canberra City ACT 2601 Australia Melbourne, and sales of the book already F & SF FILM NEWS Continued^ has plans to do LADY HAWK, a medieval love story fantasy for the Ladd Co. out, indicate it is going to be as pop­ The latter will probably be filmed in ular here as overseas. STAR TREK II: Italy with a $15 million budget. THE WRATH OF KHAN broke the record held by SUPERMAN II for weekend ticket sales William Kotzwinkle's science fiction/ Disney will do a contemporary retelling by taking $14 million. The top box office fantasy novel FATA MORGANA has been of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, under the films as of mid-July in the U.S.A, were sold to Tom Skerritt, Joe Steinberger, direction of Carroll Ballard, who dir­ all genre films including E.T., TRON, and Jeff Wald’s Magic Lantern Company ected THE BLACK STALLION. Ballard, who FIREFOX, STAR TREK II, BLADE RUNNER, independent production company. The THE THING and THE SWORD AND THE SORCERER. novelization of E.T. was written by recently completed Disney’s NEVER CRY WOLF is writing the script with Christine We found FIREFOX disappointing and THE Kotzwinkle. Melissa Mathison received Leuscher. THING a sickening,unexciting bore. We've the Newcomer of the Year Award for her seen all the others except TRON, which script for E.T. She previously scripted Ron Miller reports for SF Chronicle, that looks interesting from trailers, and THE BLACK STALLION. A self proclaimed production design and costuming on the rate BLADE RUNNER and STAR TREK as the psychic is sueing Universal Pictures and DUNE movie are quite faithful to the best. E.T. is fun and will be a great Stephen Spielberg Productions, claiming book; production will be moving shortly draw for the kids, while THE SWORD AND that E.T. was stolen from a play she to Mexico, where there's lots of THE SORCERER has some good SFX, but does submitted to Universal in 1978. untravelled desert for filming. leave a lot to be desired. During the final filming on one of the Chelseas Quinn Yarbro will do the novel­ Horror movie veterans Vincent Price, four parts of the anthology type film ization of NOMADS, a supernatural film Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and TWILIGHT ZONE, actor Vic Morrow and starring Anthony Hopkins and Sigourney John Carradine have been signed to star two child actors, who were working ill­ Weaver. Bantam will do the book./ A poster in THE HOUSE OF THE LONG SHADOWS for egally, were killed when an explosion by David B.Mattingly called "Flying High", Golam-Globus independent film-making put a helicopter out of control which depicting guys on flying-cycles, has company. Peter Walker will direct. The decapitated them. All sorts of legal been bought by ROGER CORMAN for a movie. story is set in a remote area of Wales problems have resulted and the film A first, we believe./ F.Paul Wilson's and the script has been adapted from may never be released by Warner Brothers. novel THE KEEP has been set for filming the Earl Derr Bigger's novel SEVEN It is inevitable we guess, but two 'alien by the writer/director MICHAEL MANN, KEYES TO BALDGATE, by Michael Armstrong. on Earth' movies announced are STRANGE for Paramount. Originally developed by INVADERS from Orion with Michael Laughlin directors at CBS Theatrical Films, it A rumour has it that Stanley Kubrick directing, with a $6 million budget, was cancelled by them in May, but was is to make a new film based on a story from a script by Laughlin and William quickly picked up by Paramount. Shooting by a leading British sf writer. It is Condon, and A SPACE STORY co-produced was to start in September. not the sequel to 2001, but after read­ by Blake and son Geoff Edwards. The ing a proof copy of 2010: ODYSSEY TWO, Filming began recently in Britain on we are quite sure that the story would later is humorous and not special a $12 million budgeted MANDRAKE THE effects slanted. make a great movie, with scope for MAGICIAN, from the comic strip by Lee magnificent visuals that would far Falk. Scripted by Falk and Richard outshine 2001*s great special effects. Burridge, and directed by Julien Temple./ It carries on exactly where 2001 left VINCENT PRICE, recently in Britain to off, set almost entirely in a Russian appear in a TV version of Gilbert and spaceship in an orbit around Jupiter, Sullivan, was also due to make a new with vivid descriptions of the moons horror film entitled HOUSE OF LONG and Jupiter itself. A typical Clarke SHADOWS. told story, full of an incredible While SUPERMAN III is well into pro­ sense of wonder that tends to overshadow duction at Pinewood Studios, the search the rather mystical part of the story, is on to play Superman's Krypton cousin which tells us what really happened SUPERGIRL, in a movie budgeted at $30 to astronaut Bowman. The story is a million, due to start filming late '82. sequel to the movie and ignores any The script is by David Odell (The Dark discrepancies between Clarke's 2001 Crystal) and Timothy Burrill will prod­ novel and the movie. uce. There are rumours of a SUPERDOG Poul Anderson and Gordon Dickson's movie.' EARTHMAN'S BURDEN, featuring the teddy­ GARY KURTZ at Denvention E.T. earned over $106 million in its bear-like Hokas, has been optioned for Photo courtesy SF Chronicle first thirty one days of release. It has TV by Jeff and Mike Walker of Walker earned an average $3 million a day since, Productions, for an animated series. Gary Kurtz, producer of STAR WARS will its release in June. It will be a produce RETURN TO OZ for Disney, who Christmas holiday release here in AUSTRALIAN FILM MAKERS have not made a have owned the rights to the OZ books great deal of the use of fantasy in their foi 30 years. Kurtz’recently finished films so far. MAD MAX I § II are sf by producing THE DARK CRYSTAL with Jim' definition, but no real sf films have yet Henson for Universal. Walter Murch, appeared. ALIEN HUNTER is one in the plan­ who co-wrote THX-1138 with George Lucas, ing stages. Richard Franklin's PATRICK will make his directorial debut on the deals with telekinetic powers. THE LAST film. He co-wrote the screenplay with WAVE borrows from aboriginal myths and Gill Dennis. Filming will begin after mysticism, while PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK a years pre-production and many special has elements of fantasy. Both of these effects will be included. Kurtz has films were highly acclaimed overseas, as also announced that he will film ani­ has a new one, NEXT OF KIN which recently mated movies of THE SPIRIT and LITTLE NEMO, based on the comic strips, through his Kinetographics company. The SPIRIT will be written and directed by Brad Bird, with a $12 million budget, while LITTLE NEMO will be co-produced with Tokyo Movie Shinsa on a $15 million

budget. Ray Bradbury will do the script. hoto P Roger Corman's New World Pictures has

been filming ANDROID, an sf thriller y b

directed by Aaron Lipstadt and starring Bruce

Klaus Kinski. Richard Donner, director of SUPERMAN, THE OMEN and other top room cB M movies, will direct CONTACT, based on the upcoming Carl Sagan sf novel. and 12 Melbourne, and sales of the book already F & SF FILM NEWS Continued^ has plans to do LADY HAWK, a medieval love story fantasy for the Ladd Co. out, indicate it is going to be as pop­ The latter will probably be filmed in ular here as overseas. STAR TREK II: Italy with a $15 million budget. THE WRATH OF KHAN broke the record held by SUPERMAN II for weekend ticket sales William Kotzwinkle's science fiction/ Disney will do a contemporary retelling by taking $14 million. The top box office fantasy novel FATA MORGANA has been of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, under the films as of mid-July in the U.S.A, were sold to Tom Skerritt, Joe Steinberger, direction of Carroll Ballard, who dir­ all genre films including E.T., TRON, and Jeff Wald’s Magic Lantern Company ected THE BLACK STALLION. Ballard, who FIREFOX, STAR TREK II, BLADE RUNNER, independent production company. The THE THING and THE SWORD AND THE SORCERER. novelization of E.T. was written by recently completed Disney’s NEVER CRY WOLF is writing the script with Christine We found FIREFOX disappointing and THE Kotzwinkle. Melissa Mathison received Leuscher. THING a sickening,unexciting bore. We've the Newcomer of the Year Award for her seen all the others except TRON, which script for E.T. She previously scripted Ron Miller reports for SF Chronicle, that looks interesting from trailers, and THE BLACK STALLION. A self proclaimed production design and costuming on the rate BLADE RUNNER and STAR TREK as the psychic is sueing Universal Pictures and DUNE movie are quite faithful to the best. E.T. is fun and will be a great Stephen Spielberg Productions, claiming book; production will be moving shortly draw for the kids, while THE SWORD AND that E.T. was stolen from a play she to Mexico, where there's lots of THE SORCERER has some good SFX, but does submitted to Universal in 1978. untravelled desert for filming. leave a lot to be desired. During the final filming on one of the Chelseas Quinn Yarbro will do the novel­ Horror movie veterans Vincent Price, four parts of the anthology type film ization of NOMADS, a supernatural film Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and TWILIGHT ZONE, actor Vic Morrow and starring Anthony Hopkins and Sigourney John Carradine have been signed to star two child actors, who were working ill­ Weaver. Bantam will do the book./ A poster in THE HOUSE OF THE LONG SHADOWS for egally, were killed when an explosion by David B.Mattingly called "Flying High", Golam-Globus independent film-making put a helicopter out of control which depicting guys on flying-cycles, has company. Peter Walker will direct. The decapitated them. All sorts of legal been bought by ROGER CORMAN for a movie. story is set in a remote area of Wales problems have resulted and the film A first, we believe./ F.Paul Wilson's and the script has been adapted from may never be released by Warner Brothers. novel THE KEEP has been set for filming the Earl Derr Bigger's novel SEVEN It is inevitable we guess, but two 'alien by the writer/director MICHAEL MANN, KEYES TO BALDGATE, by Michael Armstrong. on Earth' movies announced are STRANGE for Paramount. Originally developed by INVADERS from Orion with Michael Laughlin directors at CBS Theatrical Films, it A rumour has it that Stanley Kubrick directing, with a $6 million budget, was cancelled by them in May, but was is to make a new film based on a story from a script by Laughlin and William quickly picked up by Paramount. Shooting by a leading British sf writer. It is Condon, and A SPACE STORY co-produced was to start in September. not the sequel to 2001, but after read­ by Blake and son Geoff Edwards. The ing a proof copy of 2010: ODYSSEY TWO, Filming began recently in Britain on we are quite sure that the story would later is humorous and not special a $12 million budgeted MANDRAKE THE effects slanted. make a great movie, with scope for MAGICIAN, from the comic strip by Lee magnificent visuals that would far Falk. Scripted by Falk and Richard outshine 2001*s great special effects. Burridge, and directed by Julien Temple./ It carries on exactly where 2001 left VINCENT PRICE, recently in Britain to off, set almost entirely in a Russian appear in a TV version of Gilbert and spaceship in an orbit around Jupiter, Sullivan, was also due to make a new with vivid descriptions of the moons horror film entitled HOUSE OF LONG and Jupiter itself. A typical Clarke SHADOWS. told story, full of an incredible While SUPERMAN III is well into pro­ sense of wonder that tends to overshadow duction at Pinewood Studios, the search the rather mystical part of the story, is on to play Superman's Krypton cousin which tells us what really happened SUPERGIRL, in a movie budgeted at $30 to astronaut Bowman. The story is a million, due to start filming late '82. sequel to the movie and ignores any The script is by David Odell (The Dark discrepancies between Clarke's 2001 Crystal) and Timothy Burrill will prod­ novel and the movie. uce. There are rumours of a SUPERDOG Poul Anderson and Gordon Dickson's movie.' EARTHMAN'S BURDEN, featuring the teddy­ GARY KURTZ at Denvention E.T. earned over $106 million in its bear-like Hokas, has been optioned for Photo courtesy SF Chronicle first thirty one days of release. It has TV by Jeff and Mike Walker of Walker earned an average $3 million a day since, Productions, for an animated series. Gary Kurtz, producer of STAR WARS will its release in June. It will be a produce RETURN TO OZ for Disney, who Christmas holiday release here in AUSTRALIAN FILM MAKERS have not made a have owned the rights to the OZ books great deal of the use of fantasy in their foi 30 years. Kurtz’recently finished films so far. MAD MAX I § II are sf by producing THE DARK CRYSTAL with Jim' definition, but no real sf films have yet Henson for Universal. Walter Murch, appeared. ALIEN HUNTER is one in the plan­ who co-wrote THX-1138 with George Lucas, ing stages. Richard Franklin's PATRICK will make his directorial debut on the deals with telekinetic powers. THE LAST film. He co-wrote the screenplay with WAVE borrows from aboriginal myths and Gill Dennis. Filming will begin after mysticism, while PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK a years pre-production and many special has elements of fantasy. Both of these effects will be included. Kurtz has films were highly acclaimed overseas, as also announced that he will film ani­ has a new one, NEXT OF KIN which recently mated movies of THE SPIRIT and LITTLE NEMO, based on the comic strips, through his Kinetographics company. The SPIRIT will be written and directed by Brad Bird, with a $12 million budget, while LITTLE NEMO will be co-produced with Tokyo Movie Shinsa on a $15 million

budget. Ray Bradbury will do the script. hoto P Roger Corman's New World Pictures has

been filming ANDROID, an sf thriller y b

directed by Aaron Lipstadt and starring Bruce

Klaus Kinski. Richard Donner, director of SUPERMAN, THE OMEN and other top room cB M movies, will direct CONTACT, based on the upcoming Carl Sagan sf novel. and 12 received an award at a recent festival in is interesting, but did not capitalise received the award for outstanding Europe. It is directed by Tony Williams enough on the sorcery angle. Let us hope scholarship in science fiction. He is for Producer Robert Le Tet and co prod­ that the sequel, if any, is better. the editor of SF AND F BOOK REVIEW and ucer Timothy White, from a screenplay was very active in fandom, with many by Michael Heath and Tony Williams. It Word is out that REVENGE OF THE JEVl will not be released here till Christmas articles and reviews being published appears to be a haunted house theme. by him in the 1940's and 1950's. Also coming up is THE BLACK PLANET, 1983, although it will be released in May in the U.S.A. Local fans are tearing which is an animated movie from Fable THE BRITISH FANTASY AWARDS Productions, directed and produced by their hair out already, taking up petit­ Paul Williams. The story is set on the ions and Such. Film distributors in U.K. are just as out of touch with public The 1981 BRITISH FANTASY AWARDS were planet Terre Verte and appears to be a supposed to be presented at Mythcon comment on our worlds presents political demand. Pirate copies of E.T. were all held over the July 2rid-4th weekend at and sociological problems. over England while the movie was stilt the Grand Hotel in Birmingham, but not released and PARK CRYSTAL’S release was put off until February '83, despite the President of the British Fantasy Dr DONALD REED, founder of the Count Society, Ramsey Campbell, was refused Dracula Society and the Academy of loads of current hype, with things like storewide displays of specialty designed permission by the Mythcon organisers Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror to announce the winners. This rather Films, was severely injured by a hit-and costumes based on those from the movie. critical report of the convention by run-driver. He was in intensive care These delays often rob films of advan­ Stephen Jones and Jo Fletcher in SF at the time of the report and is expec­ tageous publicity. Ln the main we do see Chronicle does not say why. The awards films here soon after U.S. release, and ted to be hospitalized from three finally given at a private party held to six months. The hit-and- run-driver in one case, SUPERMAN II, before the away from the convention were: BEST was apprehended. U.S., which robbed the film of any ARTIST: Dave Carson, BEST SMALL PRESS: awards it might have received. DR WHO re-runs are currently being Stephen Jones and David Sutton for screened here on ABC TV. We saw the Opinions vary on films as you will see "Fantasy Tales" 758, BEST FILM: first sequence featuring the new Doctor, when you read P.J.S's column in this "Raiders of the Lost Ark, BEST SHORT Peter Davison about six months back. Mean­ issue. Dave Langford in ansible says FICTION: "The Dark Country" by Denis while news from England is that Nyssa about TRON, due for Melbourne release Etchison (from "Fantasy Tales " 8 ), is leaving the show, but Tegan will soon : "...corny, illogical and too and BEST NOVEL: CUJO by Stephen King. continue with the Doctor till at least loud, but spectacular fun". We’ll let The B.F.S. is possibly planning a new the end of this season, number 20. A you know what we think next issue. event at which to present next year's new male companion is also coming in. M.B. awards. The titles of upcoming adventures are MAWDRYN UNDEAD, TERMINUS, THE ENLIGHT­ ENERS, A KNIGHT'S TALE and the last will be a new meeting with the Daleks. Adult DR WHO fans, particularly the guys, will be pleased to know that new costumes for the girls in the upcoming series will be much briefer! For more news on DR WHO we suggest you subscribe to AUSTRALIAN DR WHO NEWS­ LETTER, edited by Dallas Jones, c/o Box 148 Gladesville, NSW 2111. $2 will get you six issues, $3.00 ten and $5.00 fifteen. THE SCIENCE FICTION FILM AWARDS Regular screenings of STAR TREK, and other sf films and TV episodes of The Academy of SF,Fantasy 8 Horror Films TWILIGHT ZONE and so forth, are held gave a wide variety of awards a few at the National Mutual Theatrette in months back. "Raiders of the Lost Ark" Melbourne. For details of the next won seven of them. BEST FANTASY FILM; screening ring 428 7418. BEST ACTOR § ACTRESS(Harrison Ford and JOHN CROWLEY Karen Allen); BEST DIRECTOR(St.even World Fantasy Award winning author SOME EDITORIAL COMMENTS ON THE F AND Spielberg); BEST MUSIC (John Williams); Of LITTLE, BIG. SF FILM SCENE BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS (Richard Edlund). "American Werewolf in London" received THE WORLD FANTASY AWARDS WeZZ the. second STAR TREK movZe. most two awards: BEST HORROR FILM; BEST MAKE definitely got its act together and UP (Rick Baker). "Quest for Fire" was The following are the winners and other worked quite well apart' from a few awarded BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM and nominations: flaws. A 4e.qo.eZU) Zs evZdenZ, even if SPECIAL AWARD. "Superman II" was named LIFE ACHIEVMENT AWARD: Italo Calvino only to ressurect Spock, but if they BEST SF FILM. Burgess Meredith was L.Sprague De Camp, Andre Norton and want to keep it going indefinitely, it voted BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR for "Clash Jack Vance. BEST NOVEL: Little, Big is time strong new characters were of the Titans", and Frances Sternhagen By John Crowley, ■ (Bantam); The Claw of introduced and some of the old ones received the BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Conciliator by Gene Wolfe (Timescape); phased out. Please excuse that pan, the award for "Outland". The career award The Nameless by Ramsey Campbell (Mac the Trekkies wilt kill me for that went to Ray Harryhausen. Millan); The Warhound and the World's remark ■, but it is true. Pain by Michael Moorcock (Timescape); 1 saw CONAN the other night, having THE JOHN W.CAMPBELL MEMORIAL AWARD The White Hotel by D.M.Thomas (Viking). previously seen BEASTMASTER and SWORD RUSSELL HOBAN was awarded the tenth BEST NOVELLA: The Fire When it Comes and SORCERER. Also saw HAWK THE SLAVER annual John W.Campbell Memorial Award by Parke Godwin ( FtjSF 5/81); Ealdwood at last on TV. Alt these films fit for his novel RIDLEY WALKER. Hoban was by C.J.Cherryh (Donald M.Grant); Mythago into the same genre as PRAGONSLAVER and not in attendance when the award was Wood by Robert Holdstock (FSSF 9/81); EXCAL1BUR, which in my opinion is the announced at a banquet held in Lawrence, The River of Night's Dreaming by Karl best. DRAGONS LAVER had a tot going for Kansas, U.S.A on July 10th this year. Edward Wagner (Whispers 3). BEST SHORT it, the dragon if nothing else, bat all STORY: (tie) The Dark Country by Dennis the others, including CONAN, just do not THE PILGRIM AWARD Etchison (Fantasy Tales Sum. '81); cut the mustard. SFX are good or inter­ NEIL BARRON, editor of the Hugo-nomin­ Do the Dead Sing by Stephen King (Yankee esting in most and I particularly enjoyed ated ANATOMY OF WONDER, published by 11/81); Coin of the Realm by Charles L. the lightweight BEASTMASTER, but COHAN, R.R.Bowker, was awarded the SFRA's Grant ("Tales From the Nightside"); though cinematically and directoriatly PILGRIM AWARD at the association's Fairy Tale by Jack Dann (Berkley Show­ well done, misses out on story and at­ annual banquet, on July 10th. The case 4). BEST ANTHOLOGY/COLLECTION: mosphere. It is not Robert E.Howard, award was presented by SFRA president Elsewhere edited by Terri Windling and although it comes close to capturing James Gunn, during the convention held Mark Alan Arnold (ACE); Fantasy Annual the the R.E.H. atmosphere. Visually it at the University of Kansas. Barron 4, ed. by Terry Carr (Timescape); 13 received an award at a recent festival in is interesting, but did not capitalise received the award for outstanding Europe. It is directed by Tony Williams enough on the sorcery angle. Let us hope scholarship in science fiction. He is for Producer Robert Le Tet and co prod­ that the sequel, if any, is better. the editor of SF AND F BOOK REVIEW and ucer Timothy White, from a screenplay was very active in fandom, with many by Michael Heath and Tony Williams. It Word is out that REVENGE OF THE JEVl will not be released here till Christmas articles and reviews being published appears to be a haunted house theme. by him in the 1940's and 1950's. Also coming up is THE BLACK PLANET, 1983, although it will be released in May in the U.S.A. Local fans are tearing which is an animated movie from Fable THE BRITISH FANTASY AWARDS Productions, directed and produced by their hair out already, taking up petit­ Paul Williams. The story is set on the ions and Such. Film distributors in U.K. are just as out of touch with public The 1981 BRITISH FANTASY AWARDS were planet Terre Verte and appears to be a supposed to be presented at Mythcon comment on our worlds presents political demand. Pirate copies of E.T. were all held over the July 2rid-4th weekend at and sociological problems. over England while the movie was stilt the Grand Hotel in Birmingham, but not released and PARK CRYSTAL’S release was put off until February '83, despite the President of the British Fantasy Dr DONALD REED, founder of the Count Society, Ramsey Campbell, was refused Dracula Society and the Academy of loads of current hype, with things like storewide displays of specialty designed permission by the Mythcon organisers Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror to announce the winners. This rather Films, was severely injured by a hit-and costumes based on those from the movie. critical report of the convention by run-driver. He was in intensive care These delays often rob films of advan­ Stephen Jones and Jo Fletcher in SF at the time of the report and is expec­ tageous publicity. Ln the main we do see Chronicle does not say why. The awards films here soon after U.S. release, and ted to be hospitalized from three finally given at a private party held to six months. The hit-and- run-driver in one case, SUPERMAN II, before the away from the convention were: BEST was apprehended. U.S., which robbed the film of any ARTIST: Dave Carson, BEST SMALL PRESS: awards it might have received. DR WHO re-runs are currently being Stephen Jones and David Sutton for screened here on ABC TV. We saw the Opinions vary on films as you will see "Fantasy Tales" 758, BEST FILM: first sequence featuring the new Doctor, when you read P.J.S's column in this "Raiders of the Lost Ark, BEST SHORT Peter Davison about six months back. Mean­ issue. Dave Langford in ansible says FICTION: "The Dark Country" by Denis while news from England is that Nyssa about TRON, due for Melbourne release Etchison (from "Fantasy Tales " 8 ), is leaving the show, but Tegan will soon : "...corny, illogical and too and BEST NOVEL: CUJO by Stephen King. continue with the Doctor till at least loud, but spectacular fun". We’ll let The B.F.S. is possibly planning a new the end of this season, number 20. A you know what we think next issue. event at which to present next year's new male companion is also coming in. M.B. awards. The titles of upcoming adventures are MAWDRYN UNDEAD, TERMINUS, THE ENLIGHT­ ENERS, A KNIGHT'S TALE and the last will be a new meeting with the Daleks. Adult DR WHO fans, particularly the guys, will be pleased to know that new costumes for the girls in the upcoming series will be much briefer! For more news on DR WHO we suggest you subscribe to AUSTRALIAN DR WHO NEWS­ LETTER, edited by Dallas Jones, c/o Box 148 Gladesville, NSW 2111. $2 will get you six issues, $3.00 ten and $5.00 fifteen. THE SCIENCE FICTION FILM AWARDS Regular screenings of STAR TREK, and other sf films and TV episodes of The Academy of SF,Fantasy 8 Horror Films TWILIGHT ZONE and so forth, are held gave a wide variety of awards a few at the National Mutual Theatrette in months back. "Raiders of the Lost Ark" Melbourne. For details of the next won seven of them. BEST FANTASY FILM; screening ring 428 7418. BEST ACTOR § ACTRESS(Harrison Ford and JOHN CROWLEY Karen Allen); BEST DIRECTOR(St.even World Fantasy Award winning author SOME EDITORIAL COMMENTS ON THE F AND Spielberg); BEST MUSIC (John Williams); Of LITTLE, BIG. SF FILM SCENE BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS (Richard Edlund). "American Werewolf in London" received THE WORLD FANTASY AWARDS WeZZ the. second STAR TREK movZe. most two awards: BEST HORROR FILM; BEST MAKE definitely got its act together and UP (Rick Baker). "Quest for Fire" was The following are the winners and other worked quite well apart' from a few awarded BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM and nominations: flaws. A 4e.qo.eZU) Zs evZdenZ, even if SPECIAL AWARD. "Superman II" was named LIFE ACHIEVMENT AWARD: Italo Calvino only to ressurect Spock, but if they BEST SF FILM. Burgess Meredith was L.Sprague De Camp, Andre Norton and want to keep it going indefinitely, it voted BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR for "Clash Jack Vance. BEST NOVEL: Little, Big is time strong new characters were of the Titans", and Frances Sternhagen By John Crowley, ■ (Bantam); The Claw of introduced and some of the old ones received the BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Conciliator by Gene Wolfe (Timescape); phased out. Please excuse that pan, the award for "Outland". The career award The Nameless by Ramsey Campbell (Mac the Trekkies wilt kill me for that went to Ray Harryhausen. Millan); The Warhound and the World's remark ■, but it is true. Pain by Michael Moorcock (Timescape); 1 saw CONAN the other night, having THE JOHN W.CAMPBELL MEMORIAL AWARD The White Hotel by D.M.Thomas (Viking). previously seen BEASTMASTER and SWORD RUSSELL HOBAN was awarded the tenth BEST NOVELLA: The Fire When it Comes and SORCERER. Also saw HAWK THE SLAVER annual John W.Campbell Memorial Award by Parke Godwin ( FtjSF 5/81); Ealdwood at last on TV. Alt these films fit for his novel RIDLEY WALKER. Hoban was by C.J.Cherryh (Donald M.Grant); Mythago into the same genre as PRAGONSLAVER and not in attendance when the award was Wood by Robert Holdstock (FSSF 9/81); EXCAL1BUR, which in my opinion is the announced at a banquet held in Lawrence, The River of Night's Dreaming by Karl best. DRAGONS LAVER had a tot going for Kansas, U.S.A on July 10th this year. Edward Wagner (Whispers 3). BEST SHORT it, the dragon if nothing else, bat all STORY: (tie) The Dark Country by Dennis the others, including CONAN, just do not THE PILGRIM AWARD Etchison (Fantasy Tales Sum. '81); cut the mustard. SFX are good or inter­ NEIL BARRON, editor of the Hugo-nomin­ Do the Dead Sing by Stephen King (Yankee esting in most and I particularly enjoyed ated ANATOMY OF WONDER, published by 11/81); Coin of the Realm by Charles L. the lightweight BEASTMASTER, but COHAN, R.R.Bowker, was awarded the SFRA's Grant ("Tales From the Nightside"); though cinematically and directoriatly PILGRIM AWARD at the association's Fairy Tale by Jack Dann (Berkley Show­ well done, misses out on story and at­ annual banquet, on July 10th. The case 4). BEST ANTHOLOGY/COLLECTION: mosphere. It is not Robert E.Howard, award was presented by SFRA president Elsewhere edited by Terri Windling and although it comes close to capturing James Gunn, during the convention held Mark Alan Arnold (ACE); Fantasy Annual the the R.E.H. atmosphere. Visually it at the University of Kansas. Barron 4, ed. by Terry Carr (Timescape); 13 Shadows 4, ed.by Charles L.Grant(Double­ day) ; Tales from the Nightside ed, by JILL DOUGHERTY/ sister of U.S. fan and Charles L.Grant (Arkham House); Whispers last.year's DUFF winner Joyce Scrivner, 3, ed. by Stuart David Schiff (Double­ £ obituaries j died on May 28th. She had been in a day) . BEST ARTIST: Michael Whelan, coma since a motor cycle accident on Alicia Austin, Jill Bauman, Thomas Canty, May 17th. She was 27, and leaves a 7- HUBERT ROGERS/ a major contributor of Don Maitz, Rowena Morrill. SPECIAL AWARD­ year old son, Shea, and fiance Steve illustrations to magazines from the PROFESSIONAL: Edward L.Ferman (The Mag­ Sheley. pulps era, died May 12th, of heart azine of Fantasy g SF); Donald M.Grant failure in the Riverside hospital JOHN GARDNER, novelist, poet and critic, (Donald M.Grant,Publisher); David G. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He was born died in a motorcycle accident in Hartwell (Timescape); T.E.D. Klein in Alberton, Prince Edward Island, 21st Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, on (The Twilight Zone Magazine); Tim December 1898. September 14th, at the age of 49. He Underwood and Chuck Miller (Underwood was bom in Batavia, Pennsylvania in and Miller, Publishers). SPECIAL AWARD- His cover paintings would be some of 1933 and studied at De Pauw and Wash­ NON-PROFESSIONAL: Paul C.Allen and the best and most familiar to collect­ ington University in St Louis MO, Robert Collins (Fantasy Newsletter; ors, on everything from ADVENTURE to then earned his M.A. (1956) and Ph.D W.Paul Ganley (Weirdbook); Stephen Jones ASTOUNDING. He provided interior ill­ (1958) at Iowa State University, in and David Sutton (Fantasy Tales); Ken ustrations for 60 issues of ASTOUNDING classical and medieval literature . He Keller (Trumpet). These awards were between 1939 and 1956, and was the taught at Oberlin College, Chico State, presented at the World Fantasy Conven­ leading artist for the magazine during San Francisco State, and Southern tion held over Halloween weekend at the the early years of John W.Campbell's Illinois University. Park Plaza Hotel in Newhaven CT., U.S.A. editorship. Among other things in his career, he Gardner's first published novel was THE THE FIRST'TOMORROW STARTS HERE'AWARD provided posters for the Canadian Gov­ RESURRECTION (1966). Six years later, THE SUNSET DIALOGUES made the best­ ROBERT A.HEINLEIN was presented with the ernment during the war and later became seller lists, in 1976 OCTOBER LIGHT first "Tomorrow Starts Here" award by a professional portrait painter. "One won a National Book Critics Award for Delta Vee, a space advocacy group, in of the very best and most versatile fiction. His best known work is GRENDEL Palo Alto, California, in September. talents to be associated with the pulps..." Vincent di Fate - LOCUS (1971), the story of Beowulf from the Heinlein's wife Virginia was also hon­ monster's point of view. The Australian ored since they work as a team. The animated movie by Alex Stitt was based award was in honour of Heinlein's en­ on Gardner's book. He wrote a number couragement of the space programme through of short stories and juvenile works his writing. The award is in the form of including IN THE SUICIDE MOUNTAINS, a an escaping rocket in spun glass. book length epic poem JASON AND MEDEA OTHER AWARDS AT CHICON and his last published (1980) book was FREDDY'S BOOK, whose character Besides the Hugos, other awards were writes a fantasy novel within the novel. given out at the Chicago World con, including the 1979/80 Prometheus Award. CLAUDE CHEINISSE, French author and This award for Libertarian Science member of the sf community died in Fiction was presented to L.NEIL SMITH very tragic circumstances September 9th. for his novel THE PROBABILITY BROACH. He was a doctor and the pressure of The award takes the form of a privately- caring for his terminally ill wife, sf minted-half-ounce gold coin bearing the writer Christine Renard, and the care of likeness of economist Friedrich A.Hayek. his younger daughter who was injured in ALVA ROGERS, 59, an old-time fan and a road accident, must have been too The First Annual GERNSBACK AWARDS, author of A REQUIEM FOR ASTOUNDING (1964), much. He was found dead in the woods near which are sponsored by Sylvia and Tom died in his sleep of an apparent heart his home with a gun beside him, his Woods of Triton Books, have been intro­ attack on July 9th. He survived an daughters poisoned and his mother shot. duced to honour the best sf published earlier heart attack in 1981. He was In his writing he often collaborated in the years prior to the introduction also known as an artist and sf collector with his wife. He had about twenty of the Hugos. The awards were selected and was a well loved member of West stories published including contributions by Forest J.Ackerman and other members Coast fandom . to Damon Knight's 13 FRENCH SF STORIES of First Fandom and this year were given ("Juliette") and TRAVELLING TOWARDS for 1926, 1936 and 1946, with seven cat­ HAROLD R,FOSTER,, 89, died July 25 in EPSILON edited by Maxim Kakubowski egories: short, medium and long novel, Spring Hill, Florida. Foster drew the ("Delta" in collaboration with Christine editor, artist, and magazine. Amongst first "Tarzan" comic strip in the '30s, Renard). the winners was THE MOON MAID by Edgar but is probably best known for his Rice Burroughs for best Novel (1926), "Prince Valiant" strip, which he worked STANTON A. COBLENTZ, writer, poet, and AMAZING STORIES, the Best Magazine the on up till 1979 when his assistant took philosopher, died September 6 at 9.45 same year; THE INCREDIBLE INVASION over. A.M. in Monteray, California hospital. by Murray Leinster (1936), Best Artist He was 86. He was bom August 24th 1896 DONALD LiMILLER, 49, died of cancer in Frank R.Paul, Best Novel; PATTERN FOR in San Francisco. After obtaining degrees June, in Wheaton Maryland. He was bom CONQUEST by George 0.Smith (1946). So at U.C.Berkley he became a writer and in Washington, DC March 20, 1933. A far the 1926 finalists have been coll­ started work as a newspaper reporter. member of N3F, a fanzine editor and ected in book form, which is the first His first book of poetry appeared in active fan. of a projected 28 volumes. 1923 and he founded and edited the poetry THOMAS P-KELLY, veteran pulp writer, journal WINGS: A QUARTERLY OF VERSE, Most other awards given at Chicon,we died at Runnymede Hospital in Toronto which was considered an influential have already mentioned in the report or on February 14th 1982, aged 77. He publication. His philosophical works previous issues of The News. was Canadas most prolific pulp writer, including THE DECLINE OF MAN (1925) CANADIAN F AND SF AWARD and two of his fantasy novels THE FACE and FROM ARROW TO ATOM BOMB (1953) were THAT LAUNCHED A THOUSAND SHIPS (1941) well recieved. PHYLLIS GOTLEIB has won the 1982 and I FOUND CLEOPATRA (1946) were pub­ Canadian SF and F Award for her novel Amongst his sf novels were: THE SUNKEN lished in Toronto. JUDGEMENT OF DRAGONS and for "lifetime WORLD (Amazing 1928), AFTER 12,000 (1929) contributions to the field of science DAN SEYMOUR, who played the part of the THE BLUE BARBARIANS (1931), and IN fiction". The award was given at announcer on Orson Welle's 1938 "War of HIDDEN CAVERNS (1935). He wrote many NonCon 5, the 1982 Canvention. the Worlds" broadcast, died July 27th other novels and short stories and was in New York, at the age of 68. once offered the editorship of SCIENCE THANKS! PAUL ELDRIDGE, 94, co-author of MY FIRST WONDER STORIES by Gemsback, but pre­ To LOCUS, SF CHRONICLE, and ANSIBLE for TWO THOUSAND YEARS (1928) and its various ferred to write. His writing was of a letting us use their hard gotten inform­ sequels, died July 26. He was bom in satirical nature more than scientific, ation; to our reviewers; and to Space Philadelphia, May 5th 1888. Most of but although it has dated, the ideas Age's Jill Wylie and Karen Quinlan his books were in collaboration with and philosophical concepts are still for typing and finding my typos and George Sylvester Viereck. valid today. my bad grammar. M.B. Shadows 4, ed.by Charles L.Grant(Double­ day) ; Tales from the Nightside ed, by JILL DOUGHERTY/ sister of U.S. fan and Charles L.Grant (Arkham House); Whispers last.year's DUFF winner Joyce Scrivner, 3, ed. by Stuart David Schiff (Double­ £ obituaries j died on May 28th. She had been in a day) . BEST ARTIST: Michael Whelan, coma since a motor cycle accident on Alicia Austin, Jill Bauman, Thomas Canty, May 17th. She was 27, and leaves a 7- HUBERT ROGERS/ a major contributor of Don Maitz, Rowena Morrill. SPECIAL AWARD­ year old son, Shea, and fiance Steve illustrations to magazines from the PROFESSIONAL: Edward L.Ferman (The Mag­ Sheley. pulps era, died May 12th, of heart azine of Fantasy g SF); Donald M.Grant failure in the Riverside hospital JOHN GARDNER, novelist, poet and critic, (Donald M.Grant,Publisher); David G. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He was born died in a motorcycle accident in Hartwell (Timescape); T.E.D. Klein in Alberton, Prince Edward Island, 21st Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, on (The Twilight Zone Magazine); Tim December 1898. September 14th, at the age of 49. He Underwood and Chuck Miller (Underwood was bom in Batavia, Pennsylvania in and Miller, Publishers). SPECIAL AWARD- His cover paintings would be some of 1933 and studied at De Pauw and Wash­ NON-PROFESSIONAL: Paul C.Allen and the best and most familiar to collect­ ington University in St Louis MO, Robert Collins (Fantasy Newsletter; ors, on everything from ADVENTURE to then earned his M.A. (1956) and Ph.D W.Paul Ganley (Weirdbook); Stephen Jones ASTOUNDING. He provided interior ill­ (1958) at Iowa State University, in and David Sutton (Fantasy Tales); Ken ustrations for 60 issues of ASTOUNDING classical and medieval literature . He Keller (Trumpet). These awards were between 1939 and 1956, and was the taught at Oberlin College, Chico State, presented at the World Fantasy Conven­ leading artist for the magazine during San Francisco State, and Southern tion held over Halloween weekend at the the early years of John W.Campbell's Illinois University. Park Plaza Hotel in Newhaven CT., U.S.A. editorship. Among other things in his career, he Gardner's first published novel was THE THE FIRST'TOMORROW STARTS HERE'AWARD provided posters for the Canadian Gov­ RESURRECTION (1966). Six years later, THE SUNSET DIALOGUES made the best­ ROBERT A.HEINLEIN was presented with the ernment during the war and later became seller lists, in 1976 OCTOBER LIGHT first "Tomorrow Starts Here" award by a professional portrait painter. "One won a National Book Critics Award for Delta Vee, a space advocacy group, in of the very best and most versatile fiction. His best known work is GRENDEL Palo Alto, California, in September. talents to be associated with the pulps..." Vincent di Fate - LOCUS (1971), the story of Beowulf from the Heinlein's wife Virginia was also hon­ monster's point of view. The Australian ored since they work as a team. The animated movie by Alex Stitt was based award was in honour of Heinlein's en­ on Gardner's book. He wrote a number couragement of the space programme through of short stories and juvenile works his writing. The award is in the form of including IN THE SUICIDE MOUNTAINS, a an escaping rocket in spun glass. book length epic poem JASON AND MEDEA OTHER AWARDS AT CHICON and his last published (1980) book was FREDDY'S BOOK, whose character Besides the Hugos, other awards were writes a fantasy novel within the novel. given out at the Chicago World con, including the 1979/80 Prometheus Award. CLAUDE CHEINISSE, French author and This award for Libertarian Science member of the sf community died in Fiction was presented to L.NEIL SMITH very tragic circumstances September 9th. for his novel THE PROBABILITY BROACH. He was a doctor and the pressure of The award takes the form of a privately- caring for his terminally ill wife, sf minted-half-ounce gold coin bearing the writer Christine Renard, and the care of likeness of economist Friedrich A.Hayek. his younger daughter who was injured in ALVA ROGERS, 59, an old-time fan and a road accident, must have been too The First Annual GERNSBACK AWARDS, author of A REQUIEM FOR ASTOUNDING (1964), much. He was found dead in the woods near which are sponsored by Sylvia and Tom died in his sleep of an apparent heart his home with a gun beside him, his Woods of Triton Books, have been intro­ attack on July 9th. He survived an daughters poisoned and his mother shot. duced to honour the best sf published earlier heart attack in 1981. He was In his writing he often collaborated in the years prior to the introduction also known as an artist and sf collector with his wife. He had about twenty of the Hugos. The awards were selected and was a well loved member of West stories published including contributions by Forest J.Ackerman and other members Coast fandom . to Damon Knight's 13 FRENCH SF STORIES of First Fandom and this year were given ("Juliette") and TRAVELLING TOWARDS for 1926, 1936 and 1946, with seven cat­ HAROLD R,FOSTER,, 89, died July 25 in EPSILON edited by Maxim Kakubowski egories: short, medium and long novel, Spring Hill, Florida. Foster drew the ("Delta" in collaboration with Christine editor, artist, and magazine. Amongst first "Tarzan" comic strip in the '30s, Renard). the winners was THE MOON MAID by Edgar but is probably best known for his Rice Burroughs for best Novel (1926), "Prince Valiant" strip, which he worked STANTON A. COBLENTZ, writer, poet, and AMAZING STORIES, the Best Magazine the on up till 1979 when his assistant took philosopher, died September 6 at 9.45 same year; THE INCREDIBLE INVASION over. A.M. in Monteray, California hospital. by Murray Leinster (1936), Best Artist He was 86. He was bom August 24th 1896 DONALD LiMILLER, 49, died of cancer in Frank R.Paul, Best Novel; PATTERN FOR in San Francisco. After obtaining degrees June, in Wheaton Maryland. He was bom CONQUEST by George 0.Smith (1946). So at U.C.Berkley he became a writer and in Washington, DC March 20, 1933. A far the 1926 finalists have been coll­ started work as a newspaper reporter. member of N3F, a fanzine editor and ected in book form, which is the first His first book of poetry appeared in active fan. of a projected 28 volumes. 1923 and he founded and edited the poetry THOMAS P-KELLY, veteran pulp writer, journal WINGS: A QUARTERLY OF VERSE, Most other awards given at Chicon,we died at Runnymede Hospital in Toronto which was considered an influential have already mentioned in the report or on February 14th 1982, aged 77. He publication. His philosophical works previous issues of The News. was Canadas most prolific pulp writer, including THE DECLINE OF MAN (1925) CANADIAN F AND SF AWARD and two of his fantasy novels THE FACE and FROM ARROW TO ATOM BOMB (1953) were THAT LAUNCHED A THOUSAND SHIPS (1941) well recieved. PHYLLIS GOTLEIB has won the 1982 and I FOUND CLEOPATRA (1946) were pub­ Canadian SF and F Award for her novel Amongst his sf novels were: THE SUNKEN lished in Toronto. JUDGEMENT OF DRAGONS and for "lifetime WORLD (Amazing 1928), AFTER 12,000 (1929) contributions to the field of science DAN SEYMOUR, who played the part of the THE BLUE BARBARIANS (1931), and IN fiction". The award was given at announcer on Orson Welle's 1938 "War of HIDDEN CAVERNS (1935). He wrote many NonCon 5, the 1982 Canvention. the Worlds" broadcast, died July 27th other novels and short stories and was in New York, at the age of 68. once offered the editorship of SCIENCE THANKS! PAUL ELDRIDGE, 94, co-author of MY FIRST WONDER STORIES by Gemsback, but pre­ To LOCUS, SF CHRONICLE, and ANSIBLE for TWO THOUSAND YEARS (1928) and its various ferred to write. His writing was of a letting us use their hard gotten inform­ sequels, died July 26. He was bom in satirical nature more than scientific, ation; to our reviewers; and to Space Philadelphia, May 5th 1888. Most of but although it has dated, the ideas Age's Jill Wylie and Karen Quinlan his books were in collaboration with and philosophical concepts are still for typing and finding my typos and George Sylvester Viereck. valid today. my bad grammar. M.B. PATRICK MAGEE, actor, died in London in cinema. There are attempts at pinning August. He was 58. He was a respected the blame on education, militarism and RODERICK stage actor and appeared in a number of all the popular stalking horses but the fantasy films including Kubrick's CLOCK truth is that Pugh's doom was sealed by John Sladek WORK ORANGE (1971) TALES FROM THE CRYPT long before society got at him, if Granada; 348 pp; $7.50. (1972) ASYLUM (1972) THE FINAL PROGRAMME indeed it ever did; he is the original (1973) and HAWK THE SLAYER (1980) just to misfit for all situations. This This is the first half of a quarter­ million word mammoth, of which there mention a few. demurrer aside, there are fine satirical passages and a number of scarifying is also a Timescape edition in (for MARK FELDMAN, book store owner, publisher, human sketches. This one is worth your reasons best known to themselves) three and long time Washington DC fan, died money. „ . , , „ volumes rather than two. September 8th from diabetic complications. ' Reviewed by George Turner Whichever you choose, please choose one, He was 29. He was heavily involved with WORLDS OF GEORGE 0 because RODERICK is the happiest sf comic fandom and published in the late novel for many a year and a welcome '70s THE ART OF BORIS vols 1 8 2 and By George 0. Smith change from the prattlings of super­ similar books on the Brothers Hildebrandt. Bantam; 338 pp; $2.50 US heroes and the endless pretentiousness of SON OF DUNE MEETS RIVERWORLD. C7FSI AW CHRUSZCZEWSKI, Polish SF author, If you believe that the golden age of Roderick is a little self-programming playwright and anthologist died on sf was the '40s and '50s and John Campbell robot who gets loose in the world before February 12th, after a prolonged illness. was its avatar, this is for you. Smith his basic information is fully incul­ VIC MORROW, movie actor, was killed the engineer is inclined to phase out cated and he has to programme himself in an accident along with two young Snith the story teller at times, but on by observation of what are laughingly child actors, involving an out of cont- the whole these are solidly based, tech­ known as the facts of life. His trol helicopter, during the filming of nically accurate ingenuities calculated mentors include a demented school­ a movie, TWIGHLIGHT ZONE. to keep the reader guessing. As enter­ mistress, a couple of uncomprehending tainment they are far better than the priests, gipsies who sell him, hit men MARTY FELDMAN, the goggled eyed British same writer's barely comprehensible who fail to get him, a fortune teller, comedy actor, died of a heart attack in a surrogate mother who turns out to be Mexico just after completing work in a 'Venus Equilateral' stories. Reviewed by George Turner a father and a whole further gallery of new film. He came to fame on TV in representatives of humanity doing its Britain and later in such films as Mel irresponsible thing. Brooks' YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN and THE LAST THE JUDAS MANDALA It is all typical Sladek humour and REMAKE OF BEAU GESTE, which he wrote and typical tilting at our Aunt Sally acted in. By Damien Broderick Pocket Books; 192pp; $2.50 US beliefs, institutions and shibboleths, but it is done with panache and never THE JUDAS MANDALA was written, though lets up for a moment -- and God knows in different form, earlier than few sf writers know how to be funny. THE DREAMING DRAGONS, and belongs to I await Part 2 with unaccustomed a more traditional sf. I liked it interest. „ . . . „ Reviewed by George Turner perhaps a little less than the first book but others will find its move­ ment and futuristic glamour more to HONEYMOON IN HELL their taste. by Fredric Brown Older readers will recall Bantam; 150pp; $2.25 US Jack Williamson's LEGION OF TIME, credited with being the first 'pro­ Most of these stories were published bability world' story, and see that LAVINGTON PUGH about thirty years ago, when Brown here the concept has been dusted off, was sf's joke-master of the surprise reconsidered and treated with greater ending and the screwball concept. He by Jay Bland intelligence than went into the old Norstrillia Press; 177pp; $6.95 operated in the Golden Age, when the blood and guts melodrama; the emphasis new idea was automatically wonderful is on humanity rather than on para­ and the knowing twist was the hallmark Jay Bland practises the new fiction - physics . the sharp, unadorned sentence, the of genius. Today neither will get you occasional deliberately arresting met­ The future world is ruled by cyborgs even one hand clapping. aphor or simile, the brief account of in conflict with a true humanity which Some of these tales, like 'Arena' and activity without emotional overtone - is also further evolved than ourselves, 'The Last Martian', will still give a all designed to offer bare facts as if and the plot hangs on the need to kick to each new generation of fans the author is not carefully guiding your locate the historical point of diver­ (they are, in their way, seminal sf) reaction. gence which can bring a more 'human' but now seem obvious and poorly written. future into being. The point of The Golden Age foreshadowed most of what Now and then it works (but usually pro­ divergence is ingeniously involved in sf we now take for granted, but even vides only arid statements of the un­ with sexual alliances and frustations its vintage years no longer repay a important) and in LAVINGTON PUGH it works of the three major characters, and visit. Reviewed by George Turner extremely well. Bland is a script­ the relationship between past and writer and his book has a script-writer's future provides at least one major intense visual sense - actions and images ROADMARKS surprise well brought off. are sharply focussed without a frame too many, the dialogue is sharp, without The title refers, of course, to the by Roger Zelazny a word wasted. The book works like familiar yin/yang diagram, and the Orbit; 189pp; $4.95. a well-baited trap; once in, you stay in. black/white, evil/good implications are maintained in a plot where the There's this road, you see, running from Lavington Pugh at forty is as mad as a consequences of an action are the the future to the past, with all sorts hatter, living in a heroic fantasy de­ true criticism and description of the of turnoffs where you can savour a rived from cinema and TV; in his ward action. taste of yesterday or a smell of to­ he wears a cowboy hat, brandishes a gun morrow. You can drive down it in a car. and rides a rocking horse. His doctors This is basically a genre action novel Or walk, if your feet will stand it. have a scanning mechanism which locates with a spattering of Taoism and at Red Dorakeen (the only genuine hero memories and displays them on a screen; least one brand new idea about the I ever met was called Bert Hodgkin) is they are trying to discover what sent manipulation of time; it should please running up and down in his old Dodge him round the bend. a wide range of readers. But I do pickup, doing his best to interfere wish Broderick would tone down his What they find is a feckless dreamer with history--something to do with vocabulary to the real level of the incapable of dealing with reality, but making a dead cert of the Battle of yarn to be told; he seems often to the record of his downfall is marvellous­ Marathon. Somebody, sometime, wants be cracking a narrative nut with a ly funny, ludicrous in the tender fash­ him dead, so poor old Red is fighting prose steam hammer. ion you sometimes meet within European his way up and down a hostile chron- «। Reviewed by George Turner PATRICK MAGEE, actor, died in London in cinema. There are attempts at pinning August. He was 58. He was a respected the blame on education, militarism and RODERICK stage actor and appeared in a number of all the popular stalking horses but the fantasy films including Kubrick's CLOCK truth is that Pugh's doom was sealed by John Sladek WORK ORANGE (1971) TALES FROM THE CRYPT long before society got at him, if Granada; 348 pp; $7.50. (1972) ASYLUM (1972) THE FINAL PROGRAMME indeed it ever did; he is the original (1973) and HAWK THE SLAYER (1980) just to misfit for all situations. This This is the first half of a quarter­ million word mammoth, of which there mention a few. demurrer aside, there are fine satirical passages and a number of scarifying is also a Timescape edition in (for MARK FELDMAN, book store owner, publisher, human sketches. This one is worth your reasons best known to themselves) three and long time Washington DC fan, died money. „ . , , „ volumes rather than two. September 8th from diabetic complications. ' Reviewed by George Turner Whichever you choose, please choose one, He was 29. He was heavily involved with WORLDS OF GEORGE 0 because RODERICK is the happiest sf comic fandom and published in the late novel for many a year and a welcome '70s THE ART OF BORIS vols 1 8 2 and By George 0. Smith change from the prattlings of super­ similar books on the Brothers Hildebrandt. Bantam; 338 pp; $2.50 US heroes and the endless pretentiousness of SON OF DUNE MEETS RIVERWORLD. C7FSI AW CHRUSZCZEWSKI, Polish SF author, If you believe that the golden age of Roderick is a little self-programming playwright and anthologist died on sf was the '40s and '50s and John Campbell robot who gets loose in the world before February 12th, after a prolonged illness. was its avatar, this is for you. Smith his basic information is fully incul­ VIC MORROW, movie actor, was killed the engineer is inclined to phase out cated and he has to programme himself in an accident along with two young Snith the story teller at times, but on by observation of what are laughingly child actors, involving an out of cont- the whole these are solidly based, tech­ known as the facts of life. His trol helicopter, during the filming of nically accurate ingenuities calculated mentors include a demented school­ a movie, TWIGHLIGHT ZONE. to keep the reader guessing. As enter­ mistress, a couple of uncomprehending tainment they are far better than the priests, gipsies who sell him, hit men MARTY FELDMAN, the goggled eyed British same writer's barely comprehensible who fail to get him, a fortune teller, comedy actor, died of a heart attack in a surrogate mother who turns out to be Mexico just after completing work in a 'Venus Equilateral' stories. Reviewed by George Turner a father and a whole further gallery of new film. He came to fame on TV in representatives of humanity doing its Britain and later in such films as Mel irresponsible thing. Brooks' YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN and THE LAST THE JUDAS MANDALA It is all typical Sladek humour and REMAKE OF BEAU GESTE, which he wrote and typical tilting at our Aunt Sally acted in. By Damien Broderick Pocket Books; 192pp; $2.50 US beliefs, institutions and shibboleths, but it is done with panache and never THE JUDAS MANDALA was written, though lets up for a moment -- and God knows in different form, earlier than few sf writers know how to be funny. THE DREAMING DRAGONS, and belongs to I await Part 2 with unaccustomed a more traditional sf. I liked it interest. „ . . . „ Reviewed by George Turner perhaps a little less than the first book but others will find its move­ ment and futuristic glamour more to HONEYMOON IN HELL their taste. by Fredric Brown Older readers will recall Bantam; 150pp; $2.25 US Jack Williamson's LEGION OF TIME, credited with being the first 'pro­ Most of these stories were published bability world' story, and see that LAVINGTON PUGH about thirty years ago, when Brown here the concept has been dusted off, was sf's joke-master of the surprise reconsidered and treated with greater ending and the screwball concept. He by Jay Bland intelligence than went into the old Norstrillia Press; 177pp; $6.95 operated in the Golden Age, when the blood and guts melodrama; the emphasis new idea was automatically wonderful is on humanity rather than on para­ and the knowing twist was the hallmark Jay Bland practises the new fiction - physics . the sharp, unadorned sentence, the of genius. Today neither will get you occasional deliberately arresting met­ The future world is ruled by cyborgs even one hand clapping. aphor or simile, the brief account of in conflict with a true humanity which Some of these tales, like 'Arena' and activity without emotional overtone - is also further evolved than ourselves, 'The Last Martian', will still give a all designed to offer bare facts as if and the plot hangs on the need to kick to each new generation of fans the author is not carefully guiding your locate the historical point of diver­ (they are, in their way, seminal sf) reaction. gence which can bring a more 'human' but now seem obvious and poorly written. future into being. The point of The Golden Age foreshadowed most of what Now and then it works (but usually pro­ divergence is ingeniously involved in sf we now take for granted, but even vides only arid statements of the un­ with sexual alliances and frustations its vintage years no longer repay a important) and in LAVINGTON PUGH it works of the three major characters, and visit. Reviewed by George Turner extremely well. Bland is a script­ the relationship between past and writer and his book has a script-writer's future provides at least one major intense visual sense - actions and images ROADMARKS surprise well brought off. are sharply focussed without a frame too many, the dialogue is sharp, without The title refers, of course, to the by Roger Zelazny a word wasted. The book works like familiar yin/yang diagram, and the Orbit; 189pp; $4.95. a well-baited trap; once in, you stay in. black/white, evil/good implications are maintained in a plot where the There's this road, you see, running from Lavington Pugh at forty is as mad as a consequences of an action are the the future to the past, with all sorts hatter, living in a heroic fantasy de­ true criticism and description of the of turnoffs where you can savour a rived from cinema and TV; in his ward action. taste of yesterday or a smell of to­ he wears a cowboy hat, brandishes a gun morrow. You can drive down it in a car. and rides a rocking horse. His doctors This is basically a genre action novel Or walk, if your feet will stand it. have a scanning mechanism which locates with a spattering of Taoism and at Red Dorakeen (the only genuine hero memories and displays them on a screen; least one brand new idea about the I ever met was called Bert Hodgkin) is they are trying to discover what sent manipulation of time; it should please running up and down in his old Dodge him round the bend. a wide range of readers. But I do pickup, doing his best to interfere wish Broderick would tone down his What they find is a feckless dreamer with history--something to do with vocabulary to the real level of the incapable of dealing with reality, but making a dead cert of the Battle of yarn to be told; he seems often to the record of his downfall is marvellous­ Marathon. Somebody, sometime, wants be cracking a narrative nut with a ly funny, ludicrous in the tender fash­ him dead, so poor old Red is fighting prose steam hammer. ion you sometimes meet within European his way up and down a hostile chron- «। Reviewed by George Turner ology. It rapidly becomes one of those about the inside workings of American especially when the duties seemed to stories where everybody turns out to sf. The book is worth attention, contradict each other. Her choices be somebody else, a super race is doing however much you may resent the overly ultimately make her feel she's failed something implausible in the background righteous special pleading. and acted only in her own selfish, and the exhausted climax slumps like a interests, but the reader is led to dollop of cold porridge. Reviewed by George Turner believe she judges too harshly. This Where, oh where is the Zelazny of volume also has more overt humour in THE DREAM MASTER, or even ISLE OF THE DEATHHUNTER it, and had me laughing several times. DEAD? Gone where all the good popular By Ian Watson This combination of humour and ones go, I suspect: into the trap of Gollancz; 173pp; $15.95 introspection, overlaid on plenty of writing against a contractual deadline. action, is one I very much enjoy. Reviewed by George Turner Last year, when Watson's GARDENS OF And there's certainly plenty of action. DELIGHT appeared, I asked him if this The ghost of a great swordmaker asks heralded a lighter fictional touch in Tomoe Gozen and 4 other samurai to THE ENGINES OF THE NIGHT Jiis future work and he agreed that it avenge him, and they do so. Tomoe, did. Not before time, was my thought and one of the others, Kiso Yoshinake, by Barry Malzberg after trudging through the dense then kill the other 3; Kiso and Tomoe Doubleday; 199pp; $10.95 US arguments of ALIEN EMBASSY and MIRACLE are married, and he sets out to become VISITORS - fine science fiction if you ruler of Naipon. Why all this happens First, this is an enjoyable book, a go for the extension into metaphysics, is rather complex. Tomoe is then connoisseur's must. but novelistically dreary. advised by an ex-samurai nun, to go to Now, the bad news: Jack London let a certain mountain and claim the loose the primal scream of the hurt DEATHHUNTER is, in a technical sense, Golden Naginata, a magic long-handled artist in his novel MARTIN EDEN, less well written than the earlier novels weapon with which to confront the raging against a world that made him but far livelier and easier on the spirits in the Buddhist Hell. She struggle for two whole years to gain concentration. This is as well, because does both of these things (which are pan-global recognition! Malzberg, the theme is hard to take seriously and not easy, and take up quite a bit of with only a slightly better case, put the novel is really an intellectual joke the book), then returns to help her up the same howl of self-pity (the for the reader's amusement - and quite husband capture Kyoto, the Imperial in-group critics were kind enough to a good j oke too. City, and set off to fight the Shogun. call it 'alienation) in his sf novel, I won't give away the ending except HEROVIT'S WORLD. The postulate is that an afterlife to say that the stage is set for the exists and that the 'death pheromone' third book, and left me eagerly All Malzberg's twenty-odd sf novels attracts a messenger which guides the awaiting its appearance (in contrast - all stylistically demanding but not 'soul (if that word suits you) to its to my feeling at the end of the first returning the dedicated reader much proper place. A scientist and a book, which was more like relief to for his devotion - were novels of terminally-ill man learn to counterfeit have finished it). alienation, but this volume of essays death (some neat double talk here) and J’he superb illustrations (detailed line is surely the definitive arraignment set a trap to catch the death messenger, of a world which refuses to fall down drawings by Wendy Adrian Shultz), which their 'astral projections' - or and worship science fiction. Editors, including the magnificent cover, what you will - pursue into the after­ publishers, fans and critics are complement the detailed descriptions life. This gives Watson opportunity for attacked (not, be it said, without of clothing and weapons throughout all out, bizarre description which he justification) but science fiction the book. seizes on for several chapters of zany writers are mourned over as sacri­ delight. ficial beasts on the altars of Mammon; Reviewed by Jean Weber they can do no wrong. Then, with the return to life, he springs These essays are beautifully written, the twist which tells the reader he Ipas clear, precise, short and to the been taken for a nicely calculated point. My first reaction was joy, ride - and follows it with another to but soon the partisan blindness became set him wondering whether he has or not, trying. or whether he hasn't in fact been treated to an intellectual joker's The writers, it seems, gave their double whammy. hearts, their guts, their brains; they sweated in penury and starved in I enjoyed this one thoroughly. exaltation (which seems a waste of devotion in the light of 99!j% of what Reviewed by George Turner they produced) but were ground into failure by a cynical, ruthless and venal publishing profession. The THE GOLDEN NAGINATA question Malzberg never comes to grips By Jessica Amanda Salmonson with is this: Why didn't these talent Ace Books $2.75 US -less idiots turn their attention This is the second book in a trilogy elsewhere instead of struggling with about Tomoe Gozen, a female samurai in a profession that could never return Naipon, 'an island very much like them a decent living? Dedication is Japan' in another dimension, where never enough; only a small few are magic, devils, and other legendary genuinely talented and intelligent creatures are quite real. I find it a realisation of the facts helps. joy to read fantasy sepulated with THE BORRIBLES GO FOR BROKE He writes with inside knowledge of creatures other than those of Northern people and events in sf, but with Europe and the British Isles— just By Michael de Larrabeiti, unawareness of larger issues. On for the variety. In the Tomeo Gozen Ace Books, 267pp $2.50 US page 123 he actually writes, 'Science books, we are introduced to a culture fiction, bom in 1926...' Wells, Verne, with a well-defined code of honour, Fascinating as this story may be, it Bellamy, Beresford, did you never well-defined castes, and strict social takes more than having pointed ears live? He is convinced that only rules, where for example right and and remaining a child until they are American sf counts; Ballard and Aldiss wrong are not necessarily what we've clipped, to make a book science fiction. get a few quick mentions but Russia, been brought up to believe. The story concerns "street arabs" as Germany, France, Japan and the rest they used to be called, but it is not This volume seemed less full of of the writing world coilld have sunk a juvenile. However, though it is set bloodshed than the first) though many with Atlantis. in London and concerns Londoners, the people died. There was more emphasis speech, phraseology and customs are Still, buried in the emotional mush on Tomoe's doubts about her life, and unknown in that city. It is foreign, is a treasure trove of information her efforts to reconcile her duties, even the title is foreign. If the 16 ology. It rapidly becomes one of those about the inside workings of American especially when the duties seemed to stories where everybody turns out to sf. The book is worth attention, contradict each other. Her choices be somebody else, a super race is doing however much you may resent the overly ultimately make her feel she's failed something implausible in the background righteous special pleading. and acted only in her own selfish, and the exhausted climax slumps like a interests, but the reader is led to dollop of cold porridge. Reviewed by George Turner believe she judges too harshly. This Where, oh where is the Zelazny of volume also has more overt humour in THE DREAM MASTER, or even ISLE OF THE DEATHHUNTER it, and had me laughing several times. DEAD? Gone where all the good popular By Ian Watson This combination of humour and ones go, I suspect: into the trap of Gollancz; 173pp; $15.95 introspection, overlaid on plenty of writing against a contractual deadline. action, is one I very much enjoy. Reviewed by George Turner Last year, when Watson's GARDENS OF And there's certainly plenty of action. DELIGHT appeared, I asked him if this The ghost of a great swordmaker asks heralded a lighter fictional touch in Tomoe Gozen and 4 other samurai to THE ENGINES OF THE NIGHT Jiis future work and he agreed that it avenge him, and they do so. Tomoe, did. Not before time, was my thought and one of the others, Kiso Yoshinake, by Barry Malzberg after trudging through the dense then kill the other 3; Kiso and Tomoe Doubleday; 199pp; $10.95 US arguments of ALIEN EMBASSY and MIRACLE are married, and he sets out to become VISITORS - fine science fiction if you ruler of Naipon. Why all this happens First, this is an enjoyable book, a go for the extension into metaphysics, is rather complex. Tomoe is then connoisseur's must. but novelistically dreary. advised by an ex-samurai nun, to go to Now, the bad news: Jack London let a certain mountain and claim the loose the primal scream of the hurt DEATHHUNTER is, in a technical sense, Golden Naginata, a magic long-handled artist in his novel MARTIN EDEN, less well written than the earlier novels weapon with which to confront the raging against a world that made him but far livelier and easier on the spirits in the Buddhist Hell. She struggle for two whole years to gain concentration. This is as well, because does both of these things (which are pan-global recognition! Malzberg, the theme is hard to take seriously and not easy, and take up quite a bit of with only a slightly better case, put the novel is really an intellectual joke the book), then returns to help her up the same howl of self-pity (the for the reader's amusement - and quite husband capture Kyoto, the Imperial in-group critics were kind enough to a good j oke too. City, and set off to fight the Shogun. call it 'alienation) in his sf novel, I won't give away the ending except HEROVIT'S WORLD. The postulate is that an afterlife to say that the stage is set for the exists and that the 'death pheromone' third book, and left me eagerly All Malzberg's twenty-odd sf novels attracts a messenger which guides the awaiting its appearance (in contrast - all stylistically demanding but not 'soul (if that word suits you) to its to my feeling at the end of the first returning the dedicated reader much proper place. A scientist and a book, which was more like relief to for his devotion - were novels of terminally-ill man learn to counterfeit have finished it). alienation, but this volume of essays death (some neat double talk here) and J’he superb illustrations (detailed line is surely the definitive arraignment set a trap to catch the death messenger, of a world which refuses to fall down drawings by Wendy Adrian Shultz), which their 'astral projections' - or and worship science fiction. Editors, including the magnificent cover, what you will - pursue into the after­ publishers, fans and critics are complement the detailed descriptions life. This gives Watson opportunity for attacked (not, be it said, without of clothing and weapons throughout all out, bizarre description which he justification) but science fiction the book. seizes on for several chapters of zany writers are mourned over as sacri­ delight. ficial beasts on the altars of Mammon; Reviewed by Jean Weber they can do no wrong. Then, with the return to life, he springs These essays are beautifully written, the twist which tells the reader he Ipas clear, precise, short and to the been taken for a nicely calculated point. My first reaction was joy, ride - and follows it with another to but soon the partisan blindness became set him wondering whether he has or not, trying. or whether he hasn't in fact been treated to an intellectual joker's The writers, it seems, gave their double whammy. hearts, their guts, their brains; they sweated in penury and starved in I enjoyed this one thoroughly. exaltation (which seems a waste of devotion in the light of 99!j% of what Reviewed by George Turner they produced) but were ground into failure by a cynical, ruthless and venal publishing profession. The THE GOLDEN NAGINATA question Malzberg never comes to grips By Jessica Amanda Salmonson with is this: Why didn't these talent Ace Books $2.75 US -less idiots turn their attention This is the second book in a trilogy elsewhere instead of struggling with about Tomoe Gozen, a female samurai in a profession that could never return Naipon, 'an island very much like them a decent living? Dedication is Japan' in another dimension, where never enough; only a small few are magic, devils, and other legendary genuinely talented and intelligent creatures are quite real. I find it a realisation of the facts helps. joy to read fantasy sepulated with THE BORRIBLES GO FOR BROKE He writes with inside knowledge of creatures other than those of Northern people and events in sf, but with Europe and the British Isles— just By Michael de Larrabeiti, unawareness of larger issues. On for the variety. In the Tomeo Gozen Ace Books, 267pp $2.50 US page 123 he actually writes, 'Science books, we are introduced to a culture fiction, bom in 1926...' Wells, Verne, with a well-defined code of honour, Fascinating as this story may be, it Bellamy, Beresford, did you never well-defined castes, and strict social takes more than having pointed ears live? He is convinced that only rules, where for example right and and remaining a child until they are American sf counts; Ballard and Aldiss wrong are not necessarily what we've clipped, to make a book science fiction. get a few quick mentions but Russia, been brought up to believe. The story concerns "street arabs" as Germany, France, Japan and the rest they used to be called, but it is not This volume seemed less full of of the writing world coilld have sunk a juvenile. However, though it is set bloodshed than the first) though many with Atlantis. in London and concerns Londoners, the people died. There was more emphasis speech, phraseology and customs are Still, buried in the emotional mush on Tomoe's doubts about her life, and unknown in that city. It is foreign, is a treasure trove of information her efforts to reconcile her duties, even the title is foreign. If the 16 quotation from English reviewers are to be believed, they no longer live in WCRLD-EATER England either. It's a good story but By Robert Swindells it's a pity it's not honest. Reviewed by John Alderson Hodder § Stoughton, Hardcover, 1981. $12.95 FATA MORGANA A pleasant book for young readers, Of recent science fiction and fantasy wherein an 11 year-old boy saves the By William Kotzwinkle world by a few chance remarks that are Books and Films Bantam PB $2.95 US taken seriously by scientists and By Paul J, Stevens Inspector Picard is assigned the case government officials. Science fiction of Ric Lazare. At first glance the fans will identify easily with the This time I thought it might be Inspector believes him to be a clever lad, whose name (Orville) and habits a good idea to have a quick look at embezzler plying his trade in the (breeding pigeons rather than playing several of the novelisations of box­ wealthy circles of Paris in the 1860s. sport) make him the butt of jokes at office movies that have begun to But gradually hints of the supernatural school. Even his parents don't festoon our book shelves within the confound the sensible Inspector and appreciate him, though the old man last few months.The BIG movie of 1982 the plot leads him to a bizarre across the street does. When a night is without a doubt E.T. and no doubt confrontation. of storms is followed by the discovery by the time you have read this review of a new 'planet', news about which you will have seen the film and be The novel is strong on atmosphere, and is soon hushed up, Orville and others an even bigger fan of Stephen Spielberg the story flows effortlessly. Inspector wonder what's really going on. Most than you were before. The book, written Picard with his marked appreciation of young rea4ers would probably enjoy by William Kotzwinkle, adds an even the full bodied female form should this book, though 104 pages of large better understanding of the movie have his adventures further chronicled. typeface seems a bit overpriced for and should be read only after, you have The only fault is the gimicky ending. someone like myself who read it in seen the movie so as not to spoil the less than an hour. special kind of magic that Spielberg Reviewed by Rowena Cory Reviewed by Jean Weber weaves on the big screen. Kotzwinkle also weaves a special kind of magic and (Editors note: this title is/was available THE MANY-COLOURED LAND he does justice to both the reader and In CoAgZ a£io. We. have aesuMiected this to the screenplay making this Sphere 'not-used' review, because of the interest by Julian May novelisation of ET one of the best in this author with his novelization of Pan, 415 pp, $5.95 bargains for $3.95 you can find. E.T. and the fact that this book has now been optioned foA. a movie. M.BJ This would be one of at least a half a dozen books, we've reviewed so far this Star Trek fandom has been accused year which will "rival The Lord of the of dribbling slightly whenever their Rings, and this one, in point of threat­ heroes are on screen and who am I to ened length will do it in that respect. deny this rumour. Some of the more But in no other. The major characters hardened Trekkies and a few of the are text-book psychiatric cases and too less cretinous dribblers were hard put much of the book is taken up with them to defend STAR TREK:THE MOTION PICTURE working out their childhood traumas and as great science fiction or even a sort the lengthy confessions they entail. of passable pablumn. The narrative is thus burdened with a Most of us who had to sit through mass of moribund and lifeless characters it went into an instant coma and only and the action moves very slowly. emerged as the house lights came up. We open with the crash of a shipload of I am happy to tell you all that STAR the alien Tanu, who are seeking a new TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN is exciting, home where they can practice their odd human and all that Star Trek I should atavistic customs... on the Many Coloured have been. I am even more happy to Land, our Earth of Pliocene times. We tell you that the novelisation by the then move to the opening of a time-gate Hugo and Nebula winning Vonda N.McIntyre to this era and its eventual using by adds an extra dimension to a good all sorts of people, who mostly want to screenplay and should also be read after get away from it all. Finally we meet you see the movie. Yes, I am suggesting the characters who are to go through the you see a Star Trek movie and no, I am portal, and an odd bunch they are, and not insane. STAR TREK II is enjoyable OUT OF EVERYWHERE eventually they go through. And begin and the book only adds to that enjoyment. (Futura pb $4.50) By James Tip tree J nr._ to jam up the works of the alien society they find there. Ballantine Books (pb), 1981 $4.95 The Tanu are based on the Tuatha di The third book up to bat is TRON, Danaan myths and there are echoes of the much ballyhooed film from Disney A book to delight Tiptree fans, or a various earth dwelling spirits. that is supposed to do for Video games, good introduction to her works, for what Star Wars did for science fiction. The scene is set six million years ago, anyone who's unfamiliar with them. Since I have yet to see TRON and have Eight of the ten stories have been in what is now France. The climate is only read the novelisation, I am reserving published before (four under the tropical (most unconvincingly) and the my judgment. The book,by a writer I mountains are several times their pres­ pseudonym Racoona Sheldon), but even admire, seems to be rather cold and ent height. We think the geology is out if you've already got them all, the spare, lacking that spark of humanity to hell, but that's hardly material. The two new (longish) pieces are worth that so uplifts ET and STAR TREK II. scenery is colourful and vividly des­ the price of the book. A range of I am not saying this is the writers cribed. v styles, from impish humour to sad fault,but perhaps the script he was seriousness, are encompassed. Titles: It is an interesting and pleasant working from. I must say that it is 'Angels Fix', 'Beaver Tears','Your book. an original idea for a film and the Faces, 0 My Sisters! Your Faces Filled graphics and video stills that I have of Light', 'The Screwfly Solution', Reviewed by John Alderson seen make TRON a film to see. The book 'Time-Sharing Angel', 'We Who Stole may be of interest to those of you who The Dream', 'Slow Music', 'A Source {Editor's Mote: We have a lot oft old Aeviwis have trouble with the film. of Innocent Merriment','Out of Every­ on hand, just as out of date as some of these. (NEL pb $3.95) where', and 'With Delicate Mad Hands'. We do thank the people who did them, but we Space unfortunately does not permit ate going to have to scXap a lot and balng A sword and sorcery boom has arrived on a detailed discussion, though the the nevtwi column up to date, and be a tittle our cinema screens and we can blame it stories deserve it. rnone selective tn what we choose to actually all on CONAN. The first film to arrive here Reviewed by Jean Weber aevieiw aftea the next issue. M.B.) in Melbourne was BEASTMASTER, sort of quotation from English reviewers are to be believed, they no longer live in WCRLD-EATER England either. It's a good story but By Robert Swindells it's a pity it's not honest. Reviewed by John Alderson Hodder § Stoughton, Hardcover, 1981. $12.95 FATA MORGANA A pleasant book for young readers, Of recent science fiction and fantasy wherein an 11 year-old boy saves the By William Kotzwinkle world by a few chance remarks that are Books and Films Bantam PB $2.95 US taken seriously by scientists and By Paul J, Stevens Inspector Picard is assigned the case government officials. Science fiction of Ric Lazare. At first glance the fans will identify easily with the This time I thought it might be Inspector believes him to be a clever lad, whose name (Orville) and habits a good idea to have a quick look at embezzler plying his trade in the (breeding pigeons rather than playing several of the novelisations of box­ wealthy circles of Paris in the 1860s. sport) make him the butt of jokes at office movies that have begun to But gradually hints of the supernatural school. Even his parents don't festoon our book shelves within the confound the sensible Inspector and appreciate him, though the old man last few months.The BIG movie of 1982 the plot leads him to a bizarre across the street does. When a night is without a doubt E.T. and no doubt confrontation. of storms is followed by the discovery by the time you have read this review of a new 'planet', news about which you will have seen the film and be The novel is strong on atmosphere, and is soon hushed up, Orville and others an even bigger fan of Stephen Spielberg the story flows effortlessly. Inspector wonder what's really going on. Most than you were before. The book, written Picard with his marked appreciation of young rea4ers would probably enjoy by William Kotzwinkle, adds an even the full bodied female form should this book, though 104 pages of large better understanding of the movie have his adventures further chronicled. typeface seems a bit overpriced for and should be read only after, you have The only fault is the gimicky ending. someone like myself who read it in seen the movie so as not to spoil the less than an hour. special kind of magic that Spielberg Reviewed by Rowena Cory Reviewed by Jean Weber weaves on the big screen. Kotzwinkle also weaves a special kind of magic and (Editors note: this title is/was available THE MANY-COLOURED LAND he does justice to both the reader and In CoAgZ a£io. We. have aesuMiected this to the screenplay making this Sphere 'not-used' review, because of the interest by Julian May novelisation of ET one of the best in this author with his novelization of Pan, 415 pp, $5.95 bargains for $3.95 you can find. E.T. and the fact that this book has now been optioned foA. a movie. M.BJ This would be one of at least a half a dozen books, we've reviewed so far this Star Trek fandom has been accused year which will "rival The Lord of the of dribbling slightly whenever their Rings, and this one, in point of threat­ heroes are on screen and who am I to ened length will do it in that respect. deny this rumour. Some of the more But in no other. The major characters hardened Trekkies and a few of the are text-book psychiatric cases and too less cretinous dribblers were hard put much of the book is taken up with them to defend STAR TREK:THE MOTION PICTURE working out their childhood traumas and as great science fiction or even a sort the lengthy confessions they entail. of passable pablumn. The narrative is thus burdened with a Most of us who had to sit through mass of moribund and lifeless characters it went into an instant coma and only and the action moves very slowly. emerged as the house lights came up. We open with the crash of a shipload of I am happy to tell you all that STAR the alien Tanu, who are seeking a new TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN is exciting, home where they can practice their odd human and all that Star Trek I should atavistic customs... on the Many Coloured have been. I am even more happy to Land, our Earth of Pliocene times. We tell you that the novelisation by the then move to the opening of a time-gate Hugo and Nebula winning Vonda N.McIntyre to this era and its eventual using by adds an extra dimension to a good all sorts of people, who mostly want to screenplay and should also be read after get away from it all. Finally we meet you see the movie. Yes, I am suggesting the characters who are to go through the you see a Star Trek movie and no, I am portal, and an odd bunch they are, and not insane. STAR TREK II is enjoyable OUT OF EVERYWHERE eventually they go through. And begin and the book only adds to that enjoyment. (Futura pb $4.50) By James Tip tree J nr._ to jam up the works of the alien society they find there. Ballantine Books (pb), 1981 $4.95 The Tanu are based on the Tuatha di The third book up to bat is TRON, Danaan myths and there are echoes of the much ballyhooed film from Disney A book to delight Tiptree fans, or a various earth dwelling spirits. that is supposed to do for Video games, good introduction to her works, for what Star Wars did for science fiction. The scene is set six million years ago, anyone who's unfamiliar with them. Since I have yet to see TRON and have Eight of the ten stories have been in what is now France. The climate is only read the novelisation, I am reserving published before (four under the tropical (most unconvincingly) and the my judgment. The book,by a writer I mountains are several times their pres­ pseudonym Racoona Sheldon), but even admire, seems to be rather cold and ent height. We think the geology is out if you've already got them all, the spare, lacking that spark of humanity to hell, but that's hardly material. The two new (longish) pieces are worth that so uplifts ET and STAR TREK II. scenery is colourful and vividly des­ the price of the book. A range of I am not saying this is the writers cribed. v styles, from impish humour to sad fault,but perhaps the script he was seriousness, are encompassed. Titles: It is an interesting and pleasant working from. I must say that it is 'Angels Fix', 'Beaver Tears','Your book. an original idea for a film and the Faces, 0 My Sisters! Your Faces Filled graphics and video stills that I have of Light', 'The Screwfly Solution', Reviewed by John Alderson seen make TRON a film to see. The book 'Time-Sharing Angel', 'We Who Stole may be of interest to those of you who The Dream', 'Slow Music', 'A Source {Editor's Mote: We have a lot oft old Aeviwis have trouble with the film. of Innocent Merriment','Out of Every­ on hand, just as out of date as some of these. (NEL pb $3.95) where', and 'With Delicate Mad Hands'. We do thank the people who did them, but we Space unfortunately does not permit ate going to have to scXap a lot and balng A sword and sorcery boom has arrived on a detailed discussion, though the the nevtwi column up to date, and be a tittle our cinema screens and we can blame it stories deserve it. rnone selective tn what we choose to actually all on CONAN. The first film to arrive here Reviewed by Jean Weber aevieiw aftea the next issue. M.B.) in Melbourne was BEASTMASTER, sort of blend of various elements of the genre very few clothes and a blackened Joyce Scrivner, 27322 14th Ave S., that was filmed and launched in somewhat Tiger and two cute little furry Minneapolis, MN 55404, U.S.A. Dave and of a hurry so as to beat CONAN to the ferret-like creatures,,a messy script Hazel Langford, 94 London Rd., Reading, dollars. The plot was so murky as to and confusing plot can't raise this Berkshire, RG1 5AU, U.K. Most of these be indecipherable and there has been no above the'Saturday afternoon stuff' were current long before the last issue novelisation so far. Not so CONAN, a entertainment. SWORD AND THE SORCERER of the NEWS, so I hope they still are. novelisation is available and is attributed looks better as does CONAN and there We will be happy to print other COAs to De Camp and Carter. I read the book will reports on them next issue. for local fans and overseas people who and was surprised to find out that all the regularly correspond with fans here, Howard mythology that has been built up or would like to. Sending them to us over many years has been thrown away and a will help us to keep probably the lar­ completely new Conan has emerged, one gest fan directory in Australia up to very different from the one featured in date, and it is getting horribly out books and comics. Oh well, it may look of date at the moment. good on the cinema screen but the book is not the Conan I know and love. A very straight, workman-like piece of writing PUBLISHERS AND PROFESSIONALS PLEASE NOTE: but not very exciting. (Sphere pb $3.95) COLIN STEELE has an occasional spot on ABC 2CN morning radio programme. He Sphere has picked up THE SWORD AND THE would welcome advance news of publishers SORCERER, and it is not a bad read. The releases, media productions etcetera to baddies are really vile and the hero LEE HARDING and IRENE PAGRAM were include in the programme. Those inter­ has to be very heroic whilst the women married on Saturday October 2nd. It ested can send material to him at the get carried off and locked up in the was a registry office ceremony and a Australian National University Library, castle dungeons. There is an evil wizard, party was held at their new home in P.O.Box 4, Canberra ACT 2600. a bad usurper and the heir to the throne Femtree Gully afterwards. The high­ with a gimmicky sword. It looks good in light of the afternoon was a Bangsund, ADVERT the films promotional shots and the book Foyster and I think others, production reads well if you are partial to that sort on cassette, of specially composed SIMON GOSDEN of stuff. Norman Winski is the author. songs and music plus bits pinched from 24 Avondale Road, Rayleigh Essex, U.K. Price: $3.65. Purcell, Handel and you name it, which took the form of a celebration of the .FREE REGULAR LISTS OF SCIENCE FICTION Some further books that I have read wedding. lately have been a mixed bag of fantasy and science fiction with some MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY SF ASSOCIATION gross horror junk thrown in. are holding a short story contest. For LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING, details write to YGGDRASIL SHORT STORY Pan pb $3.95 is the third in the COMPETITION, c/o C.Newall, 10 Cranwell Douglas Adams HITCH-HIKER'S GUIDE Ave., Strathmore, 3041, Victoria. TO THE UNIVERSE series and it has it's satirical moments with a slight dig Rumour has it that MARC ORTLIEB is at the game of cricket and an inter­ planning an Australian Fancyclopedia. esting comment on the art of flying. If you have any ideas about it or feel This consists of throwing yourself like helping, write to Marc at P.O.Box at the ground and missing. All your 46, Marden, South Australia. favourite characters are in the book­ THE BEST OF SUSAN WOOD is an 80 page including my favourite, Marvin the mimeographed collection of fan writings Paranoid Android,(see chap.9). Great by Susan, from various sources includ­ DUFF stuff for a good laugh. ing ALGOL/STARSHIP, ENERGUMEN, AMOR and The nominees for the current Down Under An even bigger laugh can be had from KRATOPHANY. Plus artwork by Jay Kinney, Fan Fund, for this time, an American David A. Kyle's LENSMAN FROM RIGEL, a George Barr, Stu Shlffman, Dan Steffan and fan to attend Syncon '83, are JAN Bantam pb ($2.50 US), however this is Alicia Austin. It is available for $2.00 HOWARD FINDER, ALEXIS GILLILAND, JERRY unintentional on the part of the author from Jerry Kaufman, 4236 Winslow Place N, KAUFMANN, and CHARLOTTE PROCTOR. We or publisher. Seattle, WA 98103, U.S.A. Proceeds to will send a voting form with platforms by the candidates on request or you can Book III, LAVA by Kevin O'Donnell Jnr., the Susan Wood Memorial Scholarship Fund at Carleton University. Australian fans obtain same, or just send your votes in, of "The Journeys of McGill Feighan"; is should allow extra for exchange and post. showing your 1,2,3 6 4 preferences, to up to the high standard set in the first PETER TOLUZZI, P.O.Box H143, Australia two and does answer a few of the quest­ THE NOVA MOB Square, N.S.W 2000, or JOYCE SCRIVNER, ions set in the earlier books, as well 2732 14th Ave., Sth Minneapolis, MN as settle a few of the problems. Not only do we not get to meetings, 55407, U.S.A. but we always seem to be a bit late MERCHANTER'S LUCK by C.J.Cherryh, DAW telling people about them. Like the pb ($2.95 US), is a sequel to her Hugo TAFF Christmas happening was held at the winning, DOWNBELOW STATION, but seems The candidates for the next Trans At­ Harding residence in Femtree Gully to stand on it's own as a novel. I lantic Fan Fund are GRANT CANFIELD, on December 4th. As usual we do not have liked it, but then C.J. is one of my LARRY CARMODY, AVEDON CAROL and TARAL dates for the 1983 meetings, but you favourite authors. WAYNE. The winner will attend the.1983 can always contact John Foyster for Eastercon (Albacon II) in U.K. For Another favourite is Alan Dean Foster details at 21 Shakespeare Grove,( further details contact Stu Shiffman and he has a new novel set just before StKilda, 3182. Phone: 534 1605. the Commonwealth of Man and Thranx. NOR 19 Broadway Terrace, apt. ID, New York NY 10040 U.S.A or John Foyster, CRYSTAL TEARS is a first contact plot C.O.As 21 Shakespeare Grove, StKilda 3182, and is very readable. Del Rey pb at We may have mentioned this before, but Victoria ,Australia $2.75 US. here goes. Lee Harding's new postal address is P.O.Box 198, Femtree Gully, I suppose at this point I should GUFF 3156, Victoria, Australia. Phone: say something about the local movie 758 9984. Other COAs both here and An Australian fan was due for a trip to a scene and what is going to arrive overseas include: Andrew Brown, convention in England in 1983, but I hear over the festive season. Well, it 1 Hilda Cres., Hawthorn, 3122, Victoria. there was a lack of candidates. John looks like HEAVY.METAL, has been Alan Small, 6/65 Paxton St., Malvern Foyster is the man to contact for more thrown out by Hoyts and will not get East, 3145, Vic. Roger Weddall, 106 details. a commercial city showing though Rathdowne St., Carlton, 3053 Vic., FFANZ Valhalla has it set for November. John Bangsund and Sally Yeoland, 219 BEASTMASTER arrived suddenly and Union St., West Brunswick, 3078, Vic. The Fan Fund of Australia and New Zealand although it has Tanya Roberts with Brian Earl Brown, 20101 West Chicago, is being run by Sue Dickie, P.O.Box 1401 18 Apt. 201, Detroit MI 48228,U.S.A. Wellington, N.Z. and John Newman, P.O. blend of various elements of the genre very few clothes and a blackened Joyce Scrivner, 27322 14th Ave S., that was filmed and launched in somewhat Tiger and two cute little furry Minneapolis, MN 55404, U.S.A. Dave and of a hurry so as to beat CONAN to the ferret-like creatures,,a messy script Hazel Langford, 94 London Rd., Reading, dollars. The plot was so murky as to and confusing plot can't raise this Berkshire, RG1 5AU, U.K. Most of these be indecipherable and there has been no above the'Saturday afternoon stuff' were current long before the last issue novelisation so far. Not so CONAN, a entertainment. SWORD AND THE SORCERER of the NEWS, so I hope they still are. novelisation is available and is attributed looks better as does CONAN and there We will be happy to print other COAs to De Camp and Carter. I read the book will reports on them next issue. for local fans and overseas people who and was surprised to find out that all the regularly correspond with fans here, Howard mythology that has been built up or would like to. Sending them to us over many years has been thrown away and a will help us to keep probably the lar­ completely new Conan has emerged, one gest fan directory in Australia up to very different from the one featured in date, and it is getting horribly out books and comics. Oh well, it may look of date at the moment. good on the cinema screen but the book is not the Conan I know and love. A very straight, workman-like piece of writing PUBLISHERS AND PROFESSIONALS PLEASE NOTE: but not very exciting. (Sphere pb $3.95) COLIN STEELE has an occasional spot on ABC 2CN morning radio programme. He Sphere has picked up THE SWORD AND THE would welcome advance news of publishers SORCERER, and it is not a bad read. The releases, media productions etcetera to baddies are really vile and the hero LEE HARDING and IRENE PAGRAM were include in the programme. Those inter­ has to be very heroic whilst the women married on Saturday October 2nd. It ested can send material to him at the get carried off and locked up in the was a registry office ceremony and a Australian National University Library, castle dungeons. There is an evil wizard, party was held at their new home in P.O.Box 4, Canberra ACT 2600. a bad usurper and the heir to the throne Femtree Gully afterwards. The high­ with a gimmicky sword. It looks good in light of the afternoon was a Bangsund, ADVERT the films promotional shots and the book Foyster and I think others, production reads well if you are partial to that sort on cassette, of specially composed SIMON GOSDEN of stuff. Norman Winski is the author. songs and music plus bits pinched from 24 Avondale Road, Rayleigh Essex, U.K. Price: $3.65. Purcell, Handel and you name it, which took the form of a celebration of the .FREE REGULAR LISTS OF SCIENCE FICTION Some further books that I have read wedding. lately have been a mixed bag of fantasy and science fiction with some MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY SF ASSOCIATION gross horror junk thrown in. are holding a short story contest. For LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING, details write to YGGDRASIL SHORT STORY Pan pb $3.95 is the third in the COMPETITION, c/o C.Newall, 10 Cranwell Douglas Adams HITCH-HIKER'S GUIDE Ave., Strathmore, 3041, Victoria. TO THE UNIVERSE series and it has it's satirical moments with a slight dig Rumour has it that MARC ORTLIEB is at the game of cricket and an inter­ planning an Australian Fancyclopedia. esting comment on the art of flying. If you have any ideas about it or feel This consists of throwing yourself like helping, write to Marc at P.O.Box at the ground and missing. All your 46, Marden, South Australia. favourite characters are in the book­ THE BEST OF SUSAN WOOD is an 80 page including my favourite, Marvin the mimeographed collection of fan writings Paranoid Android,(see chap.9). Great by Susan, from various sources includ­ DUFF stuff for a good laugh. ing ALGOL/STARSHIP, ENERGUMEN, AMOR and The nominees for the current Down Under An even bigger laugh can be had from KRATOPHANY. Plus artwork by Jay Kinney, Fan Fund, for this time, an American David A. Kyle's LENSMAN FROM RIGEL, a George Barr, Stu Shlffman, Dan Steffan and fan to attend Syncon '83, are JAN Bantam pb ($2.50 US), however this is Alicia Austin. It is available for $2.00 HOWARD FINDER, ALEXIS GILLILAND, JERRY unintentional on the part of the author from Jerry Kaufman, 4236 Winslow Place N, KAUFMANN, and CHARLOTTE PROCTOR. We or publisher. Seattle, WA 98103, U.S.A. Proceeds to will send a voting form with platforms by the candidates on request or you can Book III, LAVA by Kevin O'Donnell Jnr., the Susan Wood Memorial Scholarship Fund at Carleton University. Australian fans obtain same, or just send your votes in, of "The Journeys of McGill Feighan"; is should allow extra for exchange and post. showing your 1,2,3 6 4 preferences, to up to the high standard set in the first PETER TOLUZZI, P.O.Box H143, Australia two and does answer a few of the quest­ THE NOVA MOB Square, N.S.W 2000, or JOYCE SCRIVNER, ions set in the earlier books, as well 2732 14th Ave., Sth Minneapolis, MN as settle a few of the problems. Not only do we not get to meetings, 55407, U.S.A. but we always seem to be a bit late MERCHANTER'S LUCK by C.J.Cherryh, DAW telling people about them. Like the pb ($2.95 US), is a sequel to her Hugo TAFF Christmas happening was held at the winning, DOWNBELOW STATION, but seems The candidates for the next Trans At­ Harding residence in Femtree Gully to stand on it's own as a novel. I lantic Fan Fund are GRANT CANFIELD, on December 4th. As usual we do not have liked it, but then C.J. is one of my LARRY CARMODY, AVEDON CAROL and TARAL dates for the 1983 meetings, but you favourite authors. WAYNE. The winner will attend the.1983 can always contact John Foyster for Eastercon (Albacon II) in U.K. For Another favourite is Alan Dean Foster details at 21 Shakespeare Grove,( further details contact Stu Shiffman and he has a new novel set just before StKilda, 3182. Phone: 534 1605. the Commonwealth of Man and Thranx. NOR 19 Broadway Terrace, apt. ID, New York NY 10040 U.S.A or John Foyster, CRYSTAL TEARS is a first contact plot C.O.As 21 Shakespeare Grove, StKilda 3182, and is very readable. Del Rey pb at We may have mentioned this before, but Victoria ,Australia $2.75 US. here goes. Lee Harding's new postal address is P.O.Box 198, Femtree Gully, I suppose at this point I should GUFF 3156, Victoria, Australia. Phone: say something about the local movie 758 9984. Other COAs both here and An Australian fan was due for a trip to a scene and what is going to arrive overseas include: Andrew Brown, convention in England in 1983, but I hear over the festive season. Well, it 1 Hilda Cres., Hawthorn, 3122, Victoria. there was a lack of candidates. John looks like HEAVY.METAL, has been Alan Small, 6/65 Paxton St., Malvern Foyster is the man to contact for more thrown out by Hoyts and will not get East, 3145, Vic. Roger Weddall, 106 details. a commercial city showing though Rathdowne St., Carlton, 3053 Vic., FFANZ Valhalla has it set for November. John Bangsund and Sally Yeoland, 219 BEASTMASTER arrived suddenly and Union St., West Brunswick, 3078, Vic. The Fan Fund of Australia and New Zealand although it has Tanya Roberts with Brian Earl Brown, 20101 West Chicago, is being run by Sue Dickie, P.O.Box 1401 18 Apt. 201, Detroit MI 48228,U.S.A. Wellington, N.Z. and John Newman, P.O. Box 4, Thombury, 3071, Victoria. Some­ I will admit, though, that I had decided The only way an Australian writer could body should have thought of this before to review CRUX. Hailstone will never run into trouble would be if a story now. Their plans are to bring an N.Z. believe this, but I intended that as an depended too much on some detail of the fan to Australia first up, for SYNCON in act of charity. Nothing I could have current Australian scene (such as satir­ 1983 and they will be looking for said would have gotten him any readers. ical digs at political figures) which candidates very soon. If you are It was a very amateurish magazine, with would be incomprehensible to Americans. interested in nominating or helping in unbelievably low (to me) production A story based on Australian "history any way, write to either of the above values. Has he got any idea what Amer­ (such as the Grimes story involving Ned people at the addresses given. There ican and British small press magazines Kelly which appeared in IASFM) shouldn't are lots of fan funds and M'85 to are like? How does he think CRUX stands have any problems, as long as the writer support, but they are all worthwhile up next to WHUSOERS or WEIRDBOOK or remembers to explain things in a little and if everybody gives a little, it SHAYOL or FANTASY TALES? It was my in­ more detail than he would have to if all adds up to a lot. tention not to review CRUX until it got writing for a strictly Australian audi­ a little better, and was at least min­ ence. (I don't think I knew who kelly .HAFF imally comparable to similar efforts was until I read that story.) around the world. (It isn't just Amer­ As you may have heard, George Scithers The nature of this fun fan fund was ican and British stuff: there's a very questionable right from the beginning. is now editor of AMAZING, and I am sort good one, in English, called KADATH pub­ of senior assistant editor. Australian Most fans will agree that anything lished in Italy.) Marc Ortleib does is questionable, but writers are welcome to send us stories the fact that he did not get on the I would actually agree with Michael that with Australian background in them. The final voting list himself makes us very foreign markets (i.e. American and Brit­ editorial address for 1982 at least is suspicious. Something is very fishy ish) are no way to establish an Austral­ Box 8243, Philadelphia, PA 19101, USA. and its not Paul Stevens, he doesn't like ian SF scene, but I'd think a writer's AMAZING is now published by TSR Hobbies, the bones you know. (In joke.) We first priority is getting published, the Dungeons and Dragons people, (Sub­ think a bit of rigging has been going rather than being part of a scene. After scriptions are now $9.00 for six issues on and justice can only be done by all, most mainstream writers have little to Dragon Publishing, P.O.Box 110, Lake 'writing in' Ortleib (1) . I mean to say, or no contact with their readers or other Geneva WI 53147) It is returning to bi­ who would want to see these fine writers, no conventions to go to, no monthly schedule immediately. The fans dropped in the middle of the cold scene at all unless there's a local club September issue, about to appear as I Atlantic, without any parachute or even or something. In America, the one type of write, is entirely the work of Elinor a life raft: JUSTIN ACKROYD, TERRY writer other than the SF writer who can par­ Mavor. The November issue is entirely FROST, JACK HERMAN, PAUL J.STEVENS or ticipate in a "scene" is the poet. Amer­ the work of George Scithers (except for, PETER TOLUZZI. ican poets have lots of scene, usually I think, one poem), not because he made limited to a single city, however. They such a clean sweep, but because the pre­ Seriously though, this is a great idea just don't have any publishing industry. of Marc's to help raise cash for the vious editor's backlog did not reach him I don't tnink that, say, John Fowles in time. AMAZING now pays about 64 a other fan funds, so we urge you to vote would care to trade places with them. now. Send a donation to dr request a word for North American serial rights. voting form from Marc Ortleib, P.O. Actually if Australian writers do dev­ George has bought stories from Gene Box 46, Marden, S.A. 5070. You have elop enough sense of community to prod­ Wolfe, Robert Silverberg, Jack Williamson, up to 27/5/83 to vote, but don't put uce a distinct type of SF, this could be Larry Niven, Alan Dean Foster, Somtow it off. Support MAFF and all the fan very valuable. But individual writers Sucharitkul, Sharon Webb, Poul Anderson, funds now! are always more important than movements 8 others. Of particular Australian inter­ of any kind, or even nationalities. I est, is my interview with A.Bertram think there's more difference between, Chandler, which George inherited. say,James White and Larry Niven on one hand, and J.G.Ballard and Thomas Disch Ddrrell Schweitzer LETTER on the other, than there is between PecW. Qartell, British and American SF. Well that letter is a bit overdue being COLUMN I reread the introduction to Collin's published, along with another three pages Alien Worlds . The story of the Amer- of letters I had typed up to go -in this ican editor who wanted the "Australian -issue, but just cannot squeeze -in this time. DARRELL SCHWEITZER, content " taken out of a book is no Last issue I published a letter from 113 Deepdale Rd., worse than some others I could tell you Harry Harrison criticising John Brunner Strafford, about (. The/tf are -Some.) idiots in our for comments he made that were painted PA 19087 USA 21/6/82 publishing industry. After all, when in ansible. John got very upset oven any industry gets large enough, there Dear Merv, Harry's remarks and has threatened to get to be positions open for people sue us all. I have tetters from both The March issue of ASFN just arrived, without any trace of talent or judgement. authors which I will publish in full which gives you an idea of how long it For instance, there was a case of an next issue. For economic reasons and can take. American woman writer who went to an basically because 24 pages is hard to This is doubtless old hat by now, but I editor to try to collect money owed to fold and hard to get into our printed get the distinct impression that it is her. Instead of paying up, the editor envelopes, 1 must keep this issue to Michael Hailstone who needs the facts of said she should get money from her hus­ 20 pages only, but the next issue will life spelled out for him. band and launched into a lecture on the be out in January, as soon as my printers virtues of Christian marriage. (I think come back from holidays. Ft is already First of all, no reviewer is obligated the writer is Jewish.) The guy who partly typed up and with planned inter­ to review any given item that he receives. rejected the story for being set in views and more book reviews, plus all It isn't possible to review everything. Australia is a klutz of similar magni­ the Interesting and sometimes conten­ The process is rather- like picking in­ tude. tious letters to be included, we will teresting items from a book rack. The probably finish up at 20 pages again publisher can only send copies to regu­ Actually American editors encourage despite previous comments. lar reviewers and hope for the best. As stories with what seems to them to be a reviewer I try to review things I have exotic cultural backgrounds. The reasons To get back to you Darrell, after com­ specifically requested. I don't always you don't see more such is that most pletely forgetting you, I really cannot succeed. American writers haven't been abroad comment very much on what you have said, much and can't fake it. There seems to personally, but despite the delay, what Besides, as perhaps Mr Hailstone may be a flurry of Aborigine stories of late you have had to say -is still relevant, have perceived by now, GALAXY is no Some of them may not even be very authen­ you later note will be printed next longer with us, and the column of sem- tic, but an American editor might not be issue. ,, , prozine reviews by Hank Stine asked me Merry Christmas and a Happy able to tell. I remember one story in New year to all our readers. to do never appeared. By the time I IASFM which drew an irate letter from an started doing a similar column for Dick Australian reader who said the slang Merv Binns/Editor. Geis (SFR), that issuse of CRUX was was all of 50 years out of date. quite old. 19 Box 4, Thombury, 3071, Victoria. Some­ I will admit, though, that I had decided The only way an Australian writer could body should have thought of this before to review CRUX. Hailstone will never run into trouble would be if a story now. Their plans are to bring an N.Z. believe this, but I intended that as an depended too much on some detail of the fan to Australia first up, for SYNCON in act of charity. Nothing I could have current Australian scene (such as satir­ 1983 and they will be looking for said would have gotten him any readers. ical digs at political figures) which candidates very soon. If you are It was a very amateurish magazine, with would be incomprehensible to Americans. interested in nominating or helping in unbelievably low (to me) production A story based on Australian "history any way, write to either of the above values. Has he got any idea what Amer­ (such as the Grimes story involving Ned people at the addresses given. There ican and British small press magazines Kelly which appeared in IASFM) shouldn't are lots of fan funds and M'85 to are like? How does he think CRUX stands have any problems, as long as the writer support, but they are all worthwhile up next to WHUSOERS or WEIRDBOOK or remembers to explain things in a little and if everybody gives a little, it SHAYOL or FANTASY TALES? It was my in­ more detail than he would have to if all adds up to a lot. tention not to review CRUX until it got writing for a strictly Australian audi­ a little better, and was at least min­ ence. (I don't think I knew who kelly .HAFF imally comparable to similar efforts was until I read that story.) around the world. (It isn't just Amer­ As you may have heard, George Scithers The nature of this fun fan fund was ican and British stuff: there's a very questionable right from the beginning. is now editor of AMAZING, and I am sort good one, in English, called KADATH pub­ of senior assistant editor. Australian Most fans will agree that anything lished in Italy.) Marc Ortleib does is questionable, but writers are welcome to send us stories the fact that he did not get on the I would actually agree with Michael that with Australian background in them. The final voting list himself makes us very foreign markets (i.e. American and Brit­ editorial address for 1982 at least is suspicious. Something is very fishy ish) are no way to establish an Austral­ Box 8243, Philadelphia, PA 19101, USA. and its not Paul Stevens, he doesn't like ian SF scene, but I'd think a writer's AMAZING is now published by TSR Hobbies, the bones you know. (In joke.) We first priority is getting published, the Dungeons and Dragons people, (Sub­ think a bit of rigging has been going rather than being part of a scene. After scriptions are now $9.00 for six issues on and justice can only be done by all, most mainstream writers have little to Dragon Publishing, P.O.Box 110, Lake 'writing in' Ortleib (1) . I mean to say, or no contact with their readers or other Geneva WI 53147) It is returning to bi­ who would want to see these fine writers, no conventions to go to, no monthly schedule immediately. The fans dropped in the middle of the cold scene at all unless there's a local club September issue, about to appear as I Atlantic, without any parachute or even or something. In America, the one type of write, is entirely the work of Elinor a life raft: JUSTIN ACKROYD, TERRY writer other than the SF writer who can par­ Mavor. The November issue is entirely FROST, JACK HERMAN, PAUL J.STEVENS or ticipate in a "scene" is the poet. Amer­ the work of George Scithers (except for, PETER TOLUZZI. ican poets have lots of scene, usually I think, one poem), not because he made limited to a single city, however. They such a clean sweep, but because the pre­ Seriously though, this is a great idea just don't have any publishing industry. of Marc's to help raise cash for the vious editor's backlog did not reach him I don't tnink that, say, John Fowles in time. AMAZING now pays about 64 a other fan funds, so we urge you to vote would care to trade places with them. now. Send a donation to dr request a word for North American serial rights. voting form from Marc Ortleib, P.O. Actually if Australian writers do dev­ George has bought stories from Gene Box 46, Marden, S.A. 5070. You have elop enough sense of community to prod­ Wolfe, Robert Silverberg, Jack Williamson, up to 27/5/83 to vote, but don't put uce a distinct type of SF, this could be Larry Niven, Alan Dean Foster, Somtow it off. Support MAFF and all the fan very valuable. But individual writers Sucharitkul, Sharon Webb, Poul Anderson, funds now! are always more important than movements 8 others. Of particular Australian inter­ of any kind, or even nationalities. I est, is my interview with A.Bertram think there's more difference between, Chandler, which George inherited. say,James White and Larry Niven on one hand, and J.G.Ballard and Thomas Disch Ddrrell Schweitzer LETTER on the other, than there is between PecW. Qartell, British and American SF. Well that letter is a bit overdue being COLUMN I reread the introduction to Collin's published, along with another three pages Alien Worlds . The story of the Amer- of letters I had typed up to go -in this ican editor who wanted the "Australian -issue, but just cannot squeeze -in this time. DARRELL SCHWEITZER, content " taken out of a book is no Last issue I published a letter from 113 Deepdale Rd., worse than some others I could tell you Harry Harrison criticising John Brunner Strafford, about (. The/tf are -Some.) idiots in our for comments he made that were painted PA 19087 USA 21/6/82 publishing industry. After all, when in ansible. John got very upset oven any industry gets large enough, there Dear Merv, Harry's remarks and has threatened to get to be positions open for people sue us all. I have tetters from both The March issue of ASFN just arrived, without any trace of talent or judgement. authors which I will publish in full which gives you an idea of how long it For instance, there was a case of an next issue. For economic reasons and can take. American woman writer who went to an basically because 24 pages is hard to This is doubtless old hat by now, but I editor to try to collect money owed to fold and hard to get into our printed get the distinct impression that it is her. Instead of paying up, the editor envelopes, 1 must keep this issue to Michael Hailstone who needs the facts of said she should get money from her hus­ 20 pages only, but the next issue will life spelled out for him. band and launched into a lecture on the be out in January, as soon as my printers virtues of Christian marriage. (I think come back from holidays. Ft is already First of all, no reviewer is obligated the writer is Jewish.) The guy who partly typed up and with planned inter­ to review any given item that he receives. rejected the story for being set in views and more book reviews, plus all It isn't possible to review everything. Australia is a klutz of similar magni­ the Interesting and sometimes conten­ The process is rather- like picking in­ tude. tious letters to be included, we will teresting items from a book rack. The probably finish up at 20 pages again publisher can only send copies to regu­ Actually American editors encourage despite previous comments. lar reviewers and hope for the best. As stories with what seems to them to be a reviewer I try to review things I have exotic cultural backgrounds. The reasons To get back to you Darrell, after com­ specifically requested. I don't always you don't see more such is that most pletely forgetting you, I really cannot succeed. American writers haven't been abroad comment very much on what you have said, much and can't fake it. There seems to personally, but despite the delay, what Besides, as perhaps Mr Hailstone may be a flurry of Aborigine stories of late you have had to say -is still relevant, have perceived by now, GALAXY is no Some of them may not even be very authen­ you later note will be printed next longer with us, and the column of sem- tic, but an American editor might not be issue. ,, , prozine reviews by Hank Stine asked me Merry Christmas and a Happy able to tell. I remember one story in New year to all our readers. to do never appeared. By the time I IASFM which drew an irate letter from an started doing a similar column for Dick Australian reader who said the slang Merv Binns/Editor. Geis (SFR), that issuse of CRUX was was all of 50 years out of date. quite old. 19 BANTAM* A GATEWAY TO THE FANTASY WORLDS OF PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE! 0)^

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