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SCIENCE FICTION FALL T}'Lr\ 7TT71TTT NUMBER 60 1986 It. Pi V VV $2.50 INTERVIEWS: F3E3E3IK Pm F. ?SUL WILS JM V1£TM PM ORSON SCOTT CARD JOHN BRUNNER ALEXIS GILLILAND SCHWEITZER DARRELL WILLIAM ROTSLER GEIS RICHARD SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW (ISSN: 0036-8377) P.O. BOX 11408 AUGUST, 1986 — Vol. 15, No. 3 WHOLE NUMBER 60 PORTLAND, OR 97211 RICHARD E. GEIS—editor & publisher PHONE: (503) 282-0381 PAULETTE MINARE', ASSOCIATE EDITOR COVER BY MICHAL DUTKIEWICZ PUBLISHED QUARTERLY 48 LETTERS FEB., MAY, AUG., NOV. By Charles Platt 4 ALIEN THOUGHTS Mike Resnick ~ SINGLE COPY - $2.50 By Richard E. Geis Rick Norwood Andrew Weiner 7 SMALL PRESS NOTES Elton T. Elliott By Richard E. Geis John J. Pierce SUBSCRIPTIONS Mark Cotta SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW 8 YOU GOT NO FRIENDS IN THIS Darrell Schweitzer WORLD P.O. BOX 11408 Fernando Q. Gouvea PORTLAND, OR 97211 By Orson Scott Card Ian Coveil Neal Wilgus 22 A CONVERSATION WITH For final quarterly issue #61: $2.50 J. Neil Schulman in USA (1986). US$3.00 Foreign. FREDERIK POHL Joel Rosenberg Edited By Paul Ferguson J. Neil Schulman And Earl Ingersol Philip Jose' Farmer Jane YolefT 25 SOCIAL FANTASY DOCUMENT William Rotsler By L. Neil Smith John Shirley 26 THE CHANGES I'VE SEEN By Robert A. W. Lowndes 28 INTERVIEW WITH F. PAUL WILSON Conducted By Neal Wilgus NEXT ISSUE 31 NOISE LEVEL By John Brunner WHERE IS THE CUTTING EDGE OF US$ cheques or money orders, except SCIENCE FICTION? to subscription agencies. 33 ONCE OVER LIGHTLY By Orson Scott Card Book Reviews By Gene DeWeese BOOK REVIEWS, LETTERS, EDIT¬ ORIALS...and whatever else 36 AND THEN I READ... shows up in the mail. Reviews By Richard E. Geis IF YOU MOVE WE NEED YOUR FORMER ZIP- 38 OTHER VOICES CODE AND YOUR NEW COMPLETE ADDRESS, Book Reviews NO ADVERTISING WILL BE ACCEPTED By Larry Niven ALL SUBSCRIPTIONS, NEW AND OLD, Stuart Napier ARE HONORED AND FULFILLED ON AN James Anderson Second Class Postage Paid ISSUES NUMBER BASIS. Richard A. Cooper at Portland, OR 97208 Mark W. Antonoff Dean R. Lambe Andrew M. Andrews Ritchie Benedict Copyright (c) 1986 by Richard E. Neal Wilgus Geis. One-time rights only have been acquired from signed or cred¬ 45 TEN YEARS AGO IN SF - 1976 ited contributors, and all other By Robert Sabella rights are hereby assigned to the contributors. 46 THE VIVISECTOR By Darrell Schweitzer SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW is published 58 RAISING HACKLES at 1525 N.E. Ainsworth, Portland, By Elton T. Elliott OR 97211 60 INTERVIEW WITH VICTOR ROMAN POSTMASTER: Send address changes Conducted By Neal Wilgus to SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW POB 11408 63 ONE PAGE FOLIO Portland, OR 97211 BY STEVEN FOX READ THIS!! FAMOUS (ALMOST LAST) WORDS I'm tempted to sub-title this entry, "This hurts me more than it will you." In truth, it does hurt, in more ways than one. THE SWAMP.7 Ripht now my neck is killing time to write novels as best I DEAD IN THE WEST.7 me and my left hip and lower back can, for as long as I can. LEIGH BRACKETT: American Writer.... 7 are serious rivals in the pain- I have to tell you that SFR SHI EL IN DIVERSE HANDS.7 giving contest. is dead. SFR #61 (November) ELLIOTT'S BOOKLINE #1.7 What I've got is increasingly will be the last and final issue. ONLY APPARENTLY REAL: THE WORLD severe arthritis. The bones in OF PHILIP K. DICK.33 my neck are 'very severe' and So, what to do about all vou MR. O'MALLEY GOES FOR THE GOLD....33 my back and hip are in hot pur¬ subscribers? I can offer you a THE HOUND OF HEAVEN.33 suit. long-term switch to my personal INTERSTELLAR PIG.33 Add minor league discomforts journal, THE NAKED ID. It's CRISIS.33 from my knees, shoulders and far less demanding of me. and CASCADE POINT.34 hands, and vou have a catalogue its schedule is "whenever 8 pag¬ es are completed". In it I com¬ SPINNERET.34 of my miseries. REDWORLD.34 [Incidentally, my doctor ment on what I read in the papers, GHOST.34 recently said, in passing, that what I see on TV, what I experi¬ ence and observe of life and MR. O'MALLEY, WIZARD OF WALL I have palsy. That was news to people. (Not a pretty sight.) STREET: BARNABY #5.34 me! But it explains the kind of Realistically, THE NAKED ID THE SONGS OF DISTANT EARTH.34 minor spastic paralysis I've had SHELTER.35 all my life. But no doctor ever can be expected to appear every LESS THAN HUMAN.36 bothered to tell me the facts of two months or so. If you decide IN SEARCH OF FOREVER.36 life.] to let me switch you to TNI, it MYTHOPOEIKON.36 This is leading up to An An¬ will be at the ID subscription price---$1.00 per issue. So if SPIDER PLAY.36 nouncement. Since this escalat¬ GOD GAME.37 ion of intensified discomforts you've sent in $15. for SFR in 1987, you'll receive IS issues TUF VOYAGING.37 and pain has occurred in the past INSIDE OUTER SPACE.37 six months, I've put off and put of THE NAKED ID, which is likely CONTACT.38 off some tough decisions. But INTERZONE:THE FIRST ANTHOLOGY.38 the arrival of serious hip/back THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS.... 39 pain has forced the issue. I suspect I'm running out of THE MAN WHO WANTED TO BE GUILTY...39 I can't sit at a typewriter room, and my neck is getting that THE RIVER WALL.39 very long, and I can't read very ice-pick-in-the-vertebre type of MAGIC KINGDON FOR SALE-SOLD.39 much, any more. This pain dis¬ pain, so I'll finish by saying SANTIAGO: A MYTH OF THE FAR FUTURE40 rupts and shortens my sleep, and that if you'd rather not have an CIRCUIT.40 leaves me chronically exhausted. ID subscription, drop me a line ENIGMA.40 I can only drink so much coffee and I'll refund your money. (Or BEYOND THE SAFE ZONE.40 or take other stimulants before maybe you'd like some far back VISIBLE LIGHT.40 my stomach rebels and I develop issues of SFR you missed?) MAROONED IN REAL TIME.41 stomach cramps and diarrhea. I I'm enclosing a form for I HOPE I SHALL ARRIVE SOON.41 am only able to work (write) a those of you whose SFR subs ex¬ THE HUGO WINNERS VOL. 5.42 couple hours a day, if I'm lucky, pire with #60 (this issue) so THE SCIENCE FICTION HALL OF FAME and it has become agonizingly you can easily buy #61 if you VOL. IV.42 wish, and/or subscribe to THE THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION, NAKED ID. And there's an option THIRD ANNUAL COLLECTION.42 for the #61ers. ROBOTS, ANDROIDS AND MECHANICAL INTERIOR ART_ See you next issue. ODDITIES: THE SCIENCE FICTION TIM KIRK—2,32,36 Oh, this issue is late mostly be¬ OF PHILIP K. DICK.42 ALEXIS GILLILAND—3,26,27,35,37,49, cause of non-pain factors. (But THE LOOKING GLASS UNIVERSE.43 50,53,54,56 only a week late at most!) OZMA'S COMPLAINT.44 GRANT CANFIELD---6 GOOD NEWS.44 WILLIAM ROTSLER— 7,12,13,14,15,17,11 SONGS OF A DEAD DREAMER.44 23,38,39,46,47,48,51,59 THE YELLOW KNIGHT OF OZ.45 MICHAL DUTKIEWICZ—8,20 PIRATES IN OZ.45 DAVID TRANSUE—9,11,25,28,29,31,33, THE PURPLE PRINCE OF OZ.45 37,40,42,43,44,45,52,54,57,58 RADIO FREE ALBEMUTH.46 ALEXANDER--19 THE UNDYING LAND.46 C.E. BENNETT—21 LAUGHING KELLY AND OTHER VERSES...46 STEVEN FOX—22,63 IT'S DOWN THE SLIPPERY CELLAR BRAD FOSTER---25,55 STAIRS.47 MIKE GILBERT—34 CUTS.47 OLE PETTERSON—41 CUSTER'S LAST STAND/THE COSMIC VIK KOSTRIKIN—54 PERSPECTIVE.47 GEORGE KOCHELL—57 THE PSYCHOPATH PLAGUE.59 KEN HAHN—60 AFTER THE BEYOND.59 THE BABYLON GATE.59 ouew THOUGHTS | RICHARD E. GEIS \ AND THEN ALTER-EGO PROVOKED "Well, if that was all you rock bottom interest rates, as ME INTO PREDICTING THE FUTURE could find, I guess we'll skip the no one could see any way to make "Alien Thoughts" this issue and money with borrowed money, and I'll go back to sleep. Have a nice creditors saw no way borrowers "C'mon, Geis, drop your cock day...." could repay proposed loans. and grab your socks! Time to get "Not so fast! There are pages "The collapse of the stock and your ass in gear. Time to do the and pages to fill and only a few futures markets detroyed trillions main editorial section of this days in which to do it. You'll of "paper asset" dollars and wiped doomed rag of yours." have to expose your foul Cynical out hundreds of insurance companies "Go away, Alter. I'm sleepy. Pessimism and apply it to the fu¬ and pension funds. I'm tired. I'm lazy." ture." "International trade shrank "I can fix that. A prick of "You mean, you want me to tell drastically, and protectionism and your thyroid, a kick into your all and sundry what I think the "begger-thy-neighbor" trade laws and pituitary..." future holds for the United States currency devaluations made the situ¬ "Uhh! Hey! Stop that!" and the world?" ation worse." "Duty calls, Geis.
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