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SCIENCE FICTION WINTER ■DT71TTTI7T17 NUMBER 53 1984 fi n V I Pi VV $2-50 interview ALGIS BUDRYS AVRAM DAVIDSON GENEDEWEESE ELTON ELLIOTT BARRY MALZBERG BOB SHAW WILLIAM ROTSLER ALEXIS GILLILAND FOSTER BRAD DAMON GEIS KNIGHT RICHARD SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW (ISSN: 0036-8377) P.O. BOX 11408 PORTLAND, OR 97211 NOVEMBER, 1984-VOL. 13, NO. 4 PH0l£: (503) 282-0381 WHOLE NUMBER 53 RICHARD E. GEIS—editor & publisher ALIEN THOUGHTS.4 PAULETTE MINARE', ASSOCIATE EDITOR BY RICHARD E. GEIS OTHER VOICES.50 BOOK REVIEWS BY PUBLISHED QUARTERLY AN ESSAY, OSTENSIBALLY ON TIE ARDATH MAYHAR FEB., MAY, AUG., NOV. 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GEIS | out of King's Table last night, wrapped in a napkin, in my pocket). But she doesn't seem to drink any water. And that's crucial, or she'll dehydrate, her blood poisons IN THE BEGINNING... campaign, in order to remove the will build up... taint of Carter and Corruption from Geis said, "Let there be a diary of Damn! sorts." He was out of sorts when he the democrats. So now Mondale can charge Reagan with having a corrupt said this. He searched the house, # The National Federation for De¬ White House (Meese) with "clean but there wasn't a sort to be found. cency has placed protest pickets in hands." front of a 7-Eleven store in Portland, Ah, politics. Angry skunks Okay, that's got me started. part of a nation-wide campaign to smell better. pressure this convenience-store chain 8-1-84 I don't like the way Kookie into not selling PLAYBOY, PENIHOUSE, # Lately a national religious Dec¬ is acting and looking... she is losing etc. ency campaign has resulted in the weight and refusing to eat much of So far, in Portland, Fred Meyers, anything. We'll have to take her in pressuring of large local food and Albertsons, and Kienows food/dept, department store chains to stop sell¬ and be looked at. store chains have caved in. Safeway ing PENTHOUSE, PLAYBOY and similar never did carry those mags. "adult" magazines in their stores. But 7-Eleven is not budging; they # My bank is ripping me off in the Five of the biggest chains have believe freedom of choice is the key form of check charges, checking caved in to the threat of a boycott point of the chain's policy. acct. charges, etc. These NOW ac¬ by religious zealots in and around The Rev. Donald Widmon of TXipelo, counts are marvelous: the bank gen¬ Portland, and have agreed to stop Ms. is director of the National Fed¬ erously pays interst, then stacks selling those magazines. eration for Decency. Several years the deck so that their "services" Now the ABC TV channel in Port¬ ago he urged a boycott of sponsors of cost twice the interest earned; you'd land has run a "Televote" survey to certain television shows. have to keep $1,000. in the savings find out how the citizens feel about acct. to offset the escalated service this blatantly unconstitutional charges. pressure tactic. They asked people So here's what I want you to do: to call a specific telephone number When you renew your subscription, for a "Yes" or "No" vote on this make the check payable to RICHARD censorship. Over 26,000 votes were 8-14-84 Kookie is drinking water E. GEIS. Not to Science Fiction made, and 52.3% were in favor of very well now, but I don't think Review. having PENTHOUSE, PLAYBOY, etc. sold she's eating enough. Even raw liver That way I can open a personal in the stores, while 47.7% were in isn't tempting her. She does like a checking account at the local Benja¬ favor of the magazines being not min Franklin Savings 5 Loan Co. (who sold in those stores. have free checking with interest if I wonder how long it will be be¬ you keep $300 in the account) and fore these chains "quietly" put the say goodbye to greedy U.S. National magazines back in their stores. It Bank of Oregon. costs them a bundle to keep them out.