Past Presidents of ~ Thomas D. Clareson (1970-76) Arthur O. Lewis, Jr. (1977-78) Joe De Bolt (1979-80) James Gunn (1981-82) Patricia S. Warrick (1983-84) Donald M. Hassler (1985-86) William H. Hardesty (1987-89) Elizabeth Anne Hull (1989-90) Past Editors of the Newsletter Fred Lerner (1971-74) Beverly Friend (1974-78) Roald Tweet (1978-81) Elizabeth Anne Hull (1981-84) Richard W. Miller (1984-87) Robert A. Collins (1987-89) Pilgrim Award Winners J. O. Bailey (1970) Marjorie Hope Nicolson (1971 ) Julius Kagarlitski (1972) Jack Williamson (1973) I. F. Clarke (1974) Damon Knight (1975) James Gunn (1976) Thomas D. Clareson (1977) Brian W. Aldiss (1978) Darko Suvin (1979) Peter Nicholls (1980) Sam Moskowitz (1981 ) Neil Barron (1982) H. Bruce Franklin (1983) Everett Bleiler (1984) Samuel R. Delany (1985) George Slusser (1986) Gary K. Wolfe (1987) Joanna Russ (1988) Ursula K. Le Guin (1989) Marshall Tymn (1990) Pierre Versins (1991) Pioneer Award Veronica Hollinger (1990) H. 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 © 1 991 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 #192 November 1991 In This Issue: President's Message (Lowentrout) .................................................................. 4 Conference Update (Lehman) ....................................................................... 5 Recent & Forthcoming Books (Barron) .......................................................... 8 News & Information (Barron, et al) ............................................................ 10 Letters to the Editor ..................................................................................... 18 Editorial (Harfst) .......................................................................................... 22 Non-Fiction Bennett, A Cordwainer Smith Checklist (Elms) ............................................ 23 Bleiler, The Annotated Index to Thrill Book (Barron) ................................... 24 Bro'Nll, SF, Fantasy & Horror 1990; a comprehensive bibliography (Barron) ........... 24 Comwell & Kott, Price Guide to Star Trek and Star Wars Collectibles (Barron) ......... 25 Dahl, The Best of Roald Dahl (Barron) ........................................................ 26 __, Tales of the Unexpected (Barron) ................-:: ..................................... 26 Demers, P. L. Travers (Attebery) .................................................................. 27 Dick, We Can Remember It For You Wholesale. Vol. 2. (Collins) ............... 29 , Collected Short Stories ofP.K. Dick: Vol. 3. (Collins) : ....................... 30 Dixon, The Charm of Evil: Life and Films of Terence Fisher (Klossner) ............. 31 Dozois, Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy (Smith) ............ Card, How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy ............ Rusch/Smith, Science Fiction Writers of America Handbook .............. 32 Fulton, Encyclopedia of TV Science Fiction (Klossner) ................................ 34 Goldberg, Unsold TV Pilots (Klossner) ........................................................ 34 Graham, ed., Vathek and the Escape From Time (Billy) .............................. 35 Hassler, Isaac Asimov (Lewis) ..................................................................... 53 Holbrook, The Skeleton in the Wardrobe (Stevens) ..................................... 37 Howard, R. E. Howard: Selected Letters 1931-36. (Elms) ............................ 39 Joshi, ed., H.P. Lovecraft Centennial Conference Proceedings (Collins) ..... .40 King, Jr., The Pattern in the Web: Mythical Poetry ofCharles Williams (Patterson) .... 41 Knapp, Machine, Metaphor, and the Writer: A Jungian View (Dunn) ........ .42 Knight, Monad; essays on science fiction (Barron) ..................................... .43 Levitas, The Concept of Utopia (Hall) .........................................................44 Magistrale, ed., The Shining Reader (Morrison) .......................................... .45 Marshall, ed., Essays on C.S. Lewis and George MacDonald (Collings) ..... .46 McGlathery, Fairy Tale Romance: The Grimms, Basile, and Perrault (Levy) ........... .47 Rodden, The Politics of Literary Reputation: ... "St. George" Orwell (Hall, Kratz) ...... 49 Schakel & Huttar, eds., Word and Story in C. S. Lewis (Stevens) ................. 51 Touponce, Isaac Asimov (Lewis) ................................................................. 53 SFRA Newsletter, 192, November 1991 3 Fiction: Anthony & Fuentes, Dead Morn (Collings) ................................................... 54 Asimov, Robot Visions (West) ....................................................................... 55 Bell, Margaret, The Shadow Gate (Strain) ..................................................... 56 Bell, M. Shayne, Nicoji (Collings) ................................................................. 57 Bradford, Tender Prey (Boyle) ....................................................................... 58 Brosnan, War of the Sky Lords (P. Morgan) .................................................. 59 Bryant, Neon Twilight (Levy) ........................................................................ 59 Cook, The Wizardry Compiled (Courtney) ................................................... 60 Drake, Northworld 2: Vengeance (Jeremias) ................................................. 61 Emerson, The Calling of the Three (Zagorski) ............................................... 62 Feeley, The Oxygen Barons (Levy) ................................................................ 63 Fowler, Peripheral Vision (Levy) .....................................•............................. 64 Gentle, Rats and Gargoyles (Dudley) .•......................•.................................. 65 Gilman, Moonwise (Strain) ...................................r ...... ~ .............................. 66 Guttenberg, Sunder, Eclipse, & Seed (Barker) ...(.f..;;.;.:c .• !-:J•• t../..1i.. ................. 67 Huff, The Fire's Stone (Wells) ....................................................................... 68 Kirchoff & Niles, Flint the King (Valle) .......................................................... 69 Kube-McDowell, The Quiet Pools (Maiore) ................•................................. 70 Manguel, ed., The OxfOrd Book of Canadian Ghost Stories (Phy-Olsen) .................. 71 McCammon, Mine (Collings) ........................................................................ 72 Niles, Iron Helm; Viper Hand; Feathered Dragon (Becker) ........................... 73 Niven & Barnes, Achilles' Choice (Hellekson) .............................................. 75 O'Neal, An Abyss of Light; Treasure of Light;Redemption ofLight Oeremias) ........... .75 Reeves-Stevens, J. & G.; The Chronicles of Galen Sword #1: Shifter (Pagliaroli) ........ 77 Resnick, Bwana & Bully! (Reilly) .................................................................. 78 Thompson & Carter, Riverwind the Plainsman (Valle) .•................................ 78 Weis & Hickman, Elven Star (Taormina) ....................................................... 79 Willis, No Clock in the Forest: An Alpine Tale (Winkler) ............................. 80 Williamson, Mazeway (Reilly) ...................................................................... 81 Young Adult: Fiction Carpenter, Secret Gardens, ... Golden Age of Children's Lit. (Sullivan) ............... 82 Cooper, Ashar of Qarius (Langer) ................................................................. 83 wunnarsson, Human, Beware! (Hitt) ............................................................. 84 Pinkwater, Borgel (Berman) .......................................................................... 85 Sleator, Strange Attractors (Holtzman) .......................................................... 86 4 SFRA Newsletter, 192, November 1991 President's Message: Hyperdrives Past and Some New Drive Hype When I first joined the cub scouts back in the fifties, our pack master (the dominant adult male who oversaw us patriarchs-in-training) had just orga­ nized the annual paper drive fund-raiser. It was a desultory affair that boys and parents alike did their best to duck. Indeed, at a few dollars per ton for used newspapers, everyone would have been better off if parents had sim­ ply donated two or three bucks and blown off the paper drive. Of course, getting people to donate money is even harder than getting them to