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For more information, please contact [email protected]. .11;'4 Review== Issue #220, November/December1995 IN THIS ISSUE: SFRA INTERNAL AFFAIRS: President's Message (Sanders) ............................................... 5 Works in Progress .................................................................... 6 SFRA Members & Friends ....................................................... 6 Membership Directory Updates ............................................. 6 NEWS AND INFORMATION ................................. 9 FEATURES Special Feature: A Certain Inherent Kindness: An Interview with Lois McMaster Bujold (Levy) ................. 15 REVIEWS: Nonfiction: Ashley, Mike and William G. Contento. The Super­ natural Index: A Listing of Fantasy, Supernatural, Occult, Weird, and Horror Anthologies. (Morrison) ... 33 Bloom, Harold (Ed). Classic Fantasy Writers. (Bogstad) ... 35 Bloom, Harold (Ed). Classic Science Fiction Writers. (Stoskopf) .......................................................................... 36 Bloom, Harold (Ed). Modern Fantasy Writers. (Gordon) .. 37 Conger, Syndy McMillen. Mary Wollstonecraft and the Language of Sensibility. (Kaveny) .................................. 38 Harbottle, Phillip & Stephen Holland. British Science Fiction Paperbacks and Magazines, 1949-1956: An Annotated Bibliography and Guide. (Hall) .................. 40 Jacob, Merle 1. and Hope Apple. To Be Continued: An Annotated Guide to Sequels. (Blackwood) ................... 41 Larson, Randall D. Films Into Books: An Analytical Bibliography of Film Novelizations, Movie, and TV Tie-Ins. (Barron) ............................................................... 43 MacNee, Marie J. (Ed). Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Writers. (Barron) ................................................. 44 Pastourmatzi, Damna. Bibliography of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror: 1960-1993. (Hall) ....................... 46 Rothschild, D. Aviva. Graphic Novels: A Bibliographic Guide to Book-length Comics. (Williams) ..................... 47 SFRA Review #220, page 1 Treglown, Jeremy. Roald Dahl: A Biography. (Kelleghan) ......................................................................... 48 Zipes, Jack. Fairy Tale as Myth/Myth as Fairy Tale. (Lindow) ............................................................................ 50 Fiction and Poetry: Bear, Greg. Legacy. (Davis) ................................................ 55 Blake, Sterling (Gregory Benford). Chiller. (Hellekson) .... 58 Brin, David. Brightness Reef. (Kelley) ............................... 60 De Lint, Charles. The Ivory and the Horn: A Newford Collection. (Lindow) ........................................................ 61 Loudon, Jane (Webb) (Ed. by Alan Rauch). The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century. (Bleiler) .......... 62 Lunde, David. Blues for Port City. (Lindow) .................... 64 Mohan, Kim (Ed). Amazing Stories: The Anthology. (Lewis) ................................................................................ 66 Schlobin, Roger. Fire and Fur: The Last Sorcerer Dragon. (Bartter) ............................................................. 67 Smith, Clark Ashton (Ed. by Will Murray with Steve Behrends). Tales of Zothique. (Sanders) ..................... 68 Publishers' Addresses ...................................... 70 SFRA Membership Information & Application ... 71 SFRA Review #220, page 2 .11;'4 Review=== Editor - Amy Sisson Assistant Editor - Paul Abell Assistant Nonfiction Editor - B. Diane Miller SFRA Review (ISSN 1068-395X) is published 6 times per year by the Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA) and dis­ tributed to SFRA members. Individual issues are not for sale. For information on the SFRA, see the description and applica­ tion at the back of this issue. Please submit reviews, news items, letters, etc. to Amy Sisson, Editor, SFRA Review, 3845 Harrison St. #103, Oakland CA 94611; telephone (510) 655-3711; e-mail "[email protected]". Submissions are acceptable in any for­ mat: hardcopy, e-mail, Macintosh disk, or IBM disk (saved as text-only or ASCII). Please note the SFRA Review has an agree­ ment with the Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review Annual (Robert Collins & Michael M. Levy, Eds.) under which reviews are exchanged between publications. If you do not wish your review to be submitted to the Annual, please indicate the same. Typeset by Amy Sisson on a Macintosh SE/30. Printed by Sir Speedy, Oakland, California. SFRA Executive Committee PRESIDENT VICE PRESIDENT Joe Sanders Milton Wolf 6354 Brooks Blvd. University Library/322 Mentor OH 44060 Univ. of Nevada - Reno Reno NV 89557-0044 SECRETARY TREASURER Joan Gordon Robert J. Ewald 1 Tulip Lane 552 W. Lincoln St. Commack NY 11725 Findlay OH 45840 IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT David G. Mead 6021 Grassmere5 Corpus Christi TX 78415 SFRA Review #220, page 3 The Proceedings of the 1993 Science Fiction Research Association Conference is now available from Borgo Press. Learn why the Sci­ Fi Channel, as well as NBC and CBS affiliates, covered part or all of the SFRA conference held in Reno, Nevada. Featuring some of science fiction's well-known authors: 1) Frederik Pohl's "The Imaginative Future" 2) Kim Stanley Robinson's "Science Fiction as Fantasy" 3) joan Slonczewski's "Bells and Time" 4) Poul Anderson's "Epistle to SFRAans" 5) Lisa Goldstein's "The Imaginative Future" 6) james Gunn's "Imagining the Future" And some of science fiction's established scholars: 1) Gary Westfahl's "In Research of Wonder: The Future of SCience Fiction Criticism" 2) Susan Stone-Blackburn's "Feminist Nurturers and Psychic Healers" 3) Rob Latham's "Youth Culture and Cybernetic Technologies" 4) Bud Foote's "Kim Stanley Robinson: Premodernist" 5) Anne Balsamo's "Signal to Noise: On the Meaning of Cyberpunk Subculture" 6) Mark Waldo's "Mary Shelley's Machines in the Garden" 7) Donald M. Hassler's "Machen, Williams and Autobiography: Fantasy and Decadence" If you like HUMOR and want some good SF laughs: 1) Fiona Kelleghan's "Humor in SCience Fiction" is not only excellent scholarship, but a HOWL! 2) Paul joseph's and Sharon Carton's "Perry Mason in Space: A Call For More Inventive Lawyers in Television Science Fiction" is a provocative and highly entertaining examination by two lawyers. 3) Dr. JoAnne Pransky's "Social Adjustments to a Robotic Future" is a tongue-in-cheek tour de force by this self-styled ROBOTIC PSYCHIATRIST, ala Susan Calvin. And if you like ART: The text is enhanced by the works of RODNEY MARCHETTI, and a fine piece of original research by Dr. jane P. DaVidson on "A Golem of Her Own: The Fantastic Art and Literature of Leilah Wendell" - a denizen of Anne Rice's New Orleans. ORDER FROM: Borgo Press, Box 2845, San Bernardino CA 92406. Price: hardcover $41, soft cover $31. Special price for SFRA members: hardcover $21, softcover $11. SFRA Review #220, page 4 '11;'1 Internal Affairs = PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE Once upon a time, though within the lives of many of us, SF was a tiny, segregated area of popular fiction. Its readers were a minority interested in imagining how things could change and willing to stretch their imaginations to encom­ pass unusual stories. Nowadays, SF imagery has so thoroughly permeated our culture that sci-fi fans can follow endless se­ ries of books that offer comfortable familiarity. But "real" SF, the fiction that has been developed by writers and editors inside our little area of the publishing industry, remains a minority taste. Editorials in F&SF and Asimov's have been grappling with this issue lately, encouraged by surveys that suggest the maga­ zines' readership is aging and thinning. Robert Silverberg, in a recent Asimov's, suggests that we need "an entry-level SF magazine, heavily but not totally media-oriented" to entice Trek people, etc., into approaching more sophisticated fic­ tion. My first reaction was that we already had such a maga­ zine - SF Age - but perhaps that's not entry-level enough to lure new readers. To some extent, as a category of popular fiction, SF has always been controlled by market pressures. That's why Don Wollheim published John Norman novels: so he also could publish Michael G. Coney novels. However, the apparent lev­ eling off of the market for more challenging SF is troubling. I'm not naive enough to imagine that the more complex, so­ phisticated SF that many of us enjoy will disappear. Still, I worry about the prospect of magazines adopting a Stealth-SF policy, editors like Dozois hiding their preferred stories un­ der a layer of sci-fi. When students in the courses I teach are asked during the first class what they've been reading lately, they used to mention Trek novels. This year, they have be­ gun to mention R.L. Stine and Christopher