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For more information, please contact [email protected]. glin'Review == Issue #226, November/December 1996 IN THIS ISSUE: PUBLISHERS' ADDRESSES ............................................... 4 SFRA INTERNAL AFFAIRS: President's Message (Sanders) .............................................. 5 Membership Directory Updates ........................................... 6 SFRA Members & Friends ...................................................... 6 Letters (Mallonee, Hall, Bousfield) ....................................... 7 Editorial (Sisson) .................................................................... 8 SFRA ANNUAL CONFERENCE UPDATE .................... 10 NEWS AND INFORMATION .......................................... 11 CURRENT & FORTHCOMING BOOKS ........................ 15 FEATURES Special Feature: "The Art's The Thing" Hearn, Michael Patrick, W. W. Denslow: The Other Wizard of Oz; Seuss, Dr., The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss; Barlowe, Wayne, The Alien Life of Wayne Barlowe; Giger, H.R., Species Design; and [Potter, ].K.], [Horripilationsj: The Art of J.K. Potter. (Albert) ............................................................... 19 Special Feature: "Breathing New Life into Old SF" Dumas, Alexandre. Tarry Till I Come. (Stevens) ....... 25 Owings, Mark (Editor). Orphans of Time, Volume 1. (Westfahl) ................................................ 26 Williams, Frank Purdy. Hallie Marshall: A True Daughter of the South. (McKnight) ......................... 29 REVIEWS: Nonfiction: Fowler, Roger. The Language of George Orwell. (Kelleghan) ...................................................................... 33 Hill, Mary A. (Editor). A Journey from Within: The Love Letters of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1897-1900. (Miller) ....................................................... 35 SFRA Review #226, page 1 Ledoux, Trish and Doug Ranney. The Complete Anime Guide: japanese Animation Video Directory and Resource Guide. (Klossner) jointly reviewed with McCarthy volume ...................... 36 McCarthy, Helen. The Anime! Movie Guide. (Klossner) jointly reviewed with Ledoux & Ranney volume ............................................................... 36 Pederson, jay P. (Editor). St. james Guide to Science Fiction Writers (Fourth Edition). (Barron) ........................................................................... 39 Rushing, janice Hocker and Thomas S. Frentz. Projecting the Shadow: The Cyborg Hero in American Film. (Davis) ................................................. 42 Russell, Sharon A. Stephen King: A Critical Companion. (Bousfield) ................................................ 45 Sammon, Paul M. Future Noir: The Making of "Blade Runner". (Blackwood) ................................................... 46 Squier, Susan Merrill. Babies in Bottles: Twentieth­ Century Visions of Reproductive Technology. (Henderson) .................................................................... 48 Tohill, Cathal and Pete Tombs. Immoral Tales: European Sex and Horror Movies 1956-1984. (Klossner) jointly reviewed with Wright volume ............................................................................. 51 Wright, Bruce Lanier. Nightwalkers: Gothic Horror Movies, the Modem Era. (Klossner) jointly reviewed with Tohill & Tombs volume ........................ 51 Valentine, Mark. Arthur Machen. (Harris-Fain) ............ 53 Fiction: Anderson, Poul. All One Universe. (Chapman) ............. 57 Bujold, Lois McMaster. Dreamweaver's Dilemma: 5;]JOrt Stories and Essays. (Taormina) .......................... 59 f\[orrow, James. Blameless in Abaddon. (Kelleghan) ...................................................................... 61 Oberndorf, Charles. Foragers. (Hellekson) .................... 63 Robinson, Kim Stanley. Blue Mars. (Kelley) ................... 65 SF CAPSULES .................................................. 68 SFRA MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION & APPLICATION ............................................................... 71 srRA RevielV #226, page 2 Eiit!lReview Editor - Amy Sisson Assistant Editor - Paul Abell Assistant Nonfiction Editor - B. Diane Miller SFRA Review (ISSN 1068-39 5X) 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 about the SFRA, see the description and appli­ cation at the back of this issue. Please submit reviews, news items, letters, etc. to Amy Sisson, SFRA Review, 304 Fairfax Row, Waterford NY 12188; telephone (518) 237-4669; e-mail "sfraamy@aol. com". 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PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE How to fill a column when not much has happened: There's been an interesting sequel to my comments on the need to be extra careful when doing electronic publishing. Looking through a recent issue of The New York Review of Science Fiction, savoring an essay I'd written on Michael Bishop, I was startled to notice that it didn't make sense - or at least not as much sense as I'd remembered. So I checked my file copy and found that a whole page had been left out. David Hartwell tells me that this happened during the scan­ ning of manuscript to disk, meaning that this isn't a typo but a "scanno." Perhaps this mishap should make me happy be­ cause it vindicates my Review comments and reinforces an important concern. Even if that was God's intention, though, I'd personally have been satisfied with the omission of a few sentences or a short paragraph. Meanwhile, I'm preparing to bid for the