University of South Florida Scholar Commons Digital Collection - Science Fiction & Fantasy Digital Collection - Science Fiction & Fantasy Publications 10-1-1991 SFRA ewN sletter 191 Science Fiction Research Association Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/scifistud_pub Part of the Fiction Commons Scholar Commons Citation Science Fiction Research Association, "SFRA eN wsletter 191 " (1991). Digital Collection - Science Fiction & Fantasy Publications. Paper 134. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/scifistud_pub/134 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Digital Collection - Science Fiction & Fantasy at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Digital Collection - Science Fiction & Fantasy Publications by an authorized administrator of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Past Presidents of afi! Thomas D. Clareson (1970-76) Arthur O. 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Bruce Franklin (1991 ) The SFRA Newsletter Publ ished ten times a year for the Science Fiction Research Association by Alan Newcomer, Hypatia Press, Eugene, Oregon. Copyright © 1991 by the SFRA. Editorial correspondence: Betsy Harfst, Editor, SFRA Newsletter, 2357 E. Calypso, Mesa, AZ 85204. Send changes of address and/or inquiries concerning subscriptions to the Treasurer, listed below. Note to Publishers: Please send fiction books for review to: Robert Collins, Dept. of English, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431-7588. Send non-fiction books for review to Neil Barron, 1149 Lime Place, Vista, CA 92083. Juvenile-Young Adult books for review to Muriel Becker, 60 Crane Street, Caldwell, NJ 07006. SFRA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE President Peter Lowentrout, Dept. of Religious Studies California State University, Long Beach, CA 90840 Vice-President Muriel Becker, Montclair State College Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 Secretary David G. Mead, English Department Corpus Christi State University, Corpus Christi, Texas 78412 Treasurer Edra Bogle Department of English University of North Texas, Denton, TX 76203-3827 Immediate Past President Elizabeth Anne Hull, Liberal Arts Division William Rainey Harper College, Palatine, Illinois 60067 SFRA Newsletter #191 October 1991 In This Issue: President's Message (Lowentrout) ............................................................. 4 Conference Update (Lehman) ............. , ..................................................... 5 A Conversation With John Kessel (Ingersoll & Kress) ................................. 6 News & Information (Barron, et aD ........................................................ 18 Non-Fiction Armitt, Where No Man Has Gone Before (Kramer) ..................................... 23 Barfield, Owen Barfield on C.S. Lewis (Collings) ........................................ 24 Byfield, Witches of the Mind (Collins) ........................................................ 25 Dixon, The Films of Freddie Francis (Klossner) ........................................... 26 Gilman, The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Levy) ............................... 27 Hasson, Fantasia & Ciencia Ficcion (Kreksch) ............................................ 29 Hasson, Los Fantasticos Pulps en Castellano {1939-1957} (Kreksch) ............ 30 Lagorio & Day, King Arthur Through the Ages (Williams) ........................... 31 Lambourne, et ai, Close Encounters?; Science and SF (Morrison) ................. 32 Le Guin, A Home-Concealed Woman: ............ The Diaries of Magnolia Wynn Le Guin, 1901-1913 (Smith) .......... 34 Leiber, Fafhrd & Me (Collins) .................................................................... 35 Lindstrom, Jorge Luis Borges: A Study of the Short Fiction (Herrin) .............. 36 Lucas, Video Watchdog: ............ the Perfectionist's Guide to FantasticVideo (Klossner) .................... 37 McGlathery, Fairy Tale Romance: ............ The Grimms, Basile, and Perrault (Bousfield) ............................. 38 Nollen, Boris Karloff: A Critical Account of His Screen, Stage, ............ Radio,Television, and Recording Work (Hicks) .......................... 39 Ringe, Charles Brockden Brown (Heller) ................................................ .41 Weaver, SF Stars and Horror Heroes: Interviews (Klossner) ................... .42 Williams, Letters to Lalage: ............ The Letters of Charles Williams to Lois Lang-Sims (Albinskj) ......... .43 Fiction: April, Berlin-Bangkok (Lehman) .............................................................. 45 Ashley, ed., The Pendragon Chronicles (Werbaneth) ............................. .46 Barthelme, The King (Carper) .................................................................. 47 Bear, Heads (Hellekson) ......................................................................... 48 Blair, A Landscape of Darkness (Brizzi) ................................................. .49 Cohen, Max Lakeman and the Beautiful Stranger (Carper) ...................... 50 Dickson, Young Bleys (Williams) ............................................................ 51 Edelman, The Gift (Brizzi) ....................................................................... 52 Gideon, Greeley's Cove (Villano) ........................................................... 53 Goulart, Skyrocket Steele Conquers the Universe (Levy) ......................... 54 Greenberg & Waugh, eds., Cults of Horror (Werbaneth) ........................ 55 SFRA Newsletter, 191, October 1991 3 Kerr, A Time of Exile (Strain) ................................................................... 56 King, Four Past Midnight (Sanders) ......................................................... 56 Lackey, Magic's Promise, Magic's Price (Strain) ...................................... 58 Leinster, The Forgotten Planet (Dunn) ..................................................... 59 McMahon, Vampires Anonymous (Hollinger) ......................................... 60 Rusch, Pulphouse, The Hardback Magazine (Levy) ................................ 61 Thompson & Carter, Firstborn (Zsarko) ................................................... 63 Von Gunden, StarSpawn (Dunn) ............................................................. 64 Weis, King's Test (Taormina) ................................................................... 65 Wilson, The Divide (Carper) ................................................................... 66 Womack, Heathern (Heller) .................................................................... 67 Young Adult: Non-Fiction -E>~-l:int,-tt\Matk Down (lie '{Pi PiisleslL . ;...... ;........ -~.;~; .. ~..... ;;;~ .................. 68 Pike, Witch /Regan, Jilly's Ghost /Klause, The Silver Kiss (de Lint) ......... :lW-- Levy, Natalie Babbit (Attebery) ............................................................... 71 Lurie, Don't Tell the Grown-ups (Phy-Olsen) .......................................... 73 Rees, What do Draculas Do? (Sullivan) ................................................... 74 Young Adult: Fiction Bedard, Redwork (Nilo) .......................................................................... 75 Blackwood, Beyond the Door (Pagliaroli) .............................................. .76 Caraker, The Faces of Ceti (Strain) .......................................................... 77 Cook, Lords of the Sword (Jeremias) ....................................................... 77 De Lint, The Dreaming Place (Langer) .................................................... 78 Eschbach, The Scroll of Lucifer (Tryforos) ............................................... 80 Fleischman, The Midnight Horse (Rosenblutt) ........................................ 81 Griffin, Star Commandos: Mind Slaver, Return to War, Fire Planet (Hall) .................................... 82 ,//,,,' 1<:;-,'1) Guttenberg, Sunder, Eclipse & Seed (Barker) ... ~ .. h ... i ... ; .. .I.k= ........ 83 Johnson, The Witch House (Mingin) ....................................................... 84 Katz, Whalesinger (Langer) ..................................................................... 84 Mayer, The Golden Swan (Sherman) ...................................................... 86 ~.. , Noble-Hearted Kate (Sherman) ................................................ 87 Niles, Ironhe1m, (Riggs) ........................................................................... 87 _ .... , Viperhand (Riggs) ..................................................................... 88 Service, Under Alien Stars (Dudley) ........................................................ 89 Smith, Wren to the Rescue (Sherman) ....................................................