JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1979 NUMBER 29 SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW $1.50 NOISE LEVEL By John Brunner Interviews: JOHN BRUNNER MICHAEL MOORCOCK HANK STINE Orson Scott Card - Charles Platt - Darrell Schweitzer Elton Elliott - Bill Warren SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW Formerly THE ALIEN CRITIC RO. Bex 11408 COVER BY STEPHEN FABIAN January, 1979 — Vol .8, No.l Based on a forthcoming novel, SIVA, Portland, OR WHOLE NUMBER 29 by Leigh Richmond 97211 ALIEN TOUTS......................................3 RICHARD E. GEIS, editor & piblisher SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION INTERVIEW WITH JOHN BRUWER............. 8 PUBLISHED BI-MONTHLY CONDUCTED BY IAN COVELL PAGE 63 JAN., MARCH, MAY, JULY, SEPT., NOV. NOISE LEVEL......................................... 15 SINGLE COPY ---- $1.50 A COLUMN BY JOHN BRUNNER REVIEWS-------------------------------------------- INTERVIEW WITH MICHAEL MOORCOCK.. .18 PHOfC: (503) 282-0381 CONDUCTED BY IAN COVELL "seasoning" asimov's (sept-oct)...27 "swanilda 's song" analog (oct)....27 THE REVIEW OF SHORT FICTION........... 27 "LITTLE GOETHE F&SF (NOV)........28 BY ORSON SCOTT CARD MARCHERS OF VALHALLA..............................97 "the wind from a burning WOMAN ...28 SKULL-FACE....................................................97 "hunter's moon" analog (nov).....28 SON OF THE WHITE WOLF........................... 97 OCCASIONALLY TENTIONING "TUNNELS OF THE MINDS GALILEO 10.28 SWORDS OF SHAHRAZAR................................97 SCIENCE FICTION................................ 31 "the incredible living man BY DARRELL SCHWEITZER BLACK CANAAN......................................... 98 GALILEO 10. ............................................28 THE WATCH HOUSE.........................................98 "brother hart f&sf (oct)...................28 THE WOLFEN....................................................98 LOYE THY PIBLISHER: THE ASIMOV "cassanera" f&sf (nov)...................28 METHOD BY CHARLES PLATT....................... 36 THE WIZARDS OF ZAO.................................. 99 "effigies f&sf (nov)......... ...28 IMMORTAL........................................................ 50 HE-Y, COME ON OU“T! F&SF (OCT)..28 THE VIVISECTOR.................................... 39 A RESEARCH GUIDE TO SCIENCE "project hi-rise f&sf (nov)............29 FICTION STUDIES.........................................51 A COLUMN BY DARRELL SCHWEITZER "the adventure of the global ORON.................................................................51 TRAVELER ASIMOV'S (SEPT-OCT)..........29 SLIPPING INTO DARKNESS..........................52 OTHER VOICES....................................... 92 ERRATA SLIP ASIMOV S (SEPT-OCT).29 COUNT DRACULA AND HIS VAMPIRE BOOK REVIEWS BY ORSON SCOTT CARD, "lost and found analog (oct)..........29 BRIDE..................................... 53 MARK COFTA, SANDRA MIESEL, L. "ART T1HOU MATHEMATICS ANALOG ALIEN ZONE....................................................53 CRAIG RICKMAN, MARK MANSELL, "VARIETIES'OF'TECHNOLOGICAL............. MESSAGE FROM SPACE..................................53 LARRY W. MITCHELL,PAUL MCGUIRE III, TARZOOM, SHAME OF THE JUNGLE............53 DEAN R. LAMBE, F. PAUL WILSON, experience" analog (oct).................... 29 MAGIC...............................................................59 GRETCHEN RIX, DAVID A. TRUESDALE, THE LIBERATION OF JESEPHINE THE WIZ.......................................................... 59 FREDERICK PATTEN, DON HERRON. F&SF (sept.)................................................29 THE LORD OF THE RINGS............................55 "goldbrick f&sf (nov)......................... 29 THE BEAST OF BEACHWOOD.................... 52 "INDIAN SUMMER" UNEARTH (SUMMER)..29 THE ILLLMINO1DS.........................................57 FILM REVIEWS AND NEWS "CAESAR, NOW BE STILL F&SF (SEP).29 THE WHOLE FORTY YEAR OLD HIPPIE BY BILL WARREN "time warp omni (oct)......................... 29 CATALOG......................................... ..... "found" omni (oct) ........................29 STAR WEEVILS........................................ SMALL PRESS NOTES.............................. 57 "thirty love " asimov s (sep-oct)..29 DRAGONFLAME.......................................... BY THE EDITOR "in alien flesh f&sf (sept)........... 29 algol /starship............................ "banzai analog (sept)......................... 29 TESSERACT SCIENCE FICTION........... THE HUMAN HOTLINE.............................. 58 OMNI................................................................. 30 HEROES AND HORRORS........................... S-F NEWS BY ELTON T. ELLIOTT destinies...................................................... 30 RED SHADOWS.......................................... THE FIVE JARS............................................. 39 INTERVIEW WITH HANK STINE............... 61 MILLENNIAL WOMEN.......................................39 CONDUCTED BY ELTON T. ELLIOTT FANTASMS: A JACK VANCE BIBLIO­ GRAPHY.......................................... 90 who's who in science fiction.......... 90 who's WHO IN HORROR & FANTASY......... 91 INTERIOR ART--------------------------- THE SWORD SMITH.........................................92 TIM KIRK---- 3, 15, 60 THE BOOK OF ELLISON...............................92 RICHARD BRUNING---- 9,60 THE FAR CALL............................................... 93 bill rotsler —7,32,37,99 THE RUNESTAFF............................................. 93 RICK JANSEN---- 8 THE BICENTENNIAL MAN AND OTHER STORIES......... .................................................93 ISSN: 0036-8377 v. kostrikin—9,26,30,57 A. GILLILAND---- 10,13,19,20, DANCERS IN THE AFTERGLOW.....................99 NIGHT WINDS..................................................99 27,28,31,39,96,97,98,50,5b. THE ALIEN CRITIC DEATHBEAST....................................................95 SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW JAMES MCQUADE— 03,00,05 THE INSTITUTE............................................. 95 Available in mjeroform from: MIKE GILBERT---- HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA.................................. 95 OXFORD MICROFORM PUBLICATIONS LTE STEPHEN FABIAN- Wheatsheaf Yard, Blue Boar Street IRSUD...............................................................96 Oxford OXI 4EY RANDY MOHR---- 30 FALSE DAWN....................................................97 JAY KINNEY---- 00 NEBULA AWARD STORIES NINE...................97 KEN HAHN---- 02 Science Fiction Review is published CATHY HILL---- 52 at 1525 NE Ainsworth, Portland, OR 97211 WADE GILBREATH---- Copyright (c) 1979 by Richard 50 NO ADVERTISING WILL BE ACCEPTED RUSTIN---- 55 E. Geis. All rights are hereby Second Class Postage Paid JACK GAUGHAN---- 56 assigned to the contributors. at Portland, OP 97208 orientation. Sf and fantasy might ALIEN THOUGHTS very quickly go out of fashion. On the other hand, we might see an even greater emphasis on sf and fantasy and occult in films 8 TV as people lower tier will consist of hard-core seek escape from grim reality [but genre sf as published now by the sf cannot afford mags and books]. magazines and DAW and Ballantine and others. A steady market which will be helped by the "upper" tier of big 11-7-78 Let me lay upon you all a best-seller sf novels and literary tale of modified woe. Spell it wo. sf. Whether or not there will be a I have published CANNED MEAT, a big, high-quality sf magazine like PG or R-Rated sf novel (depending on OMNI around for long is questionable. your sophistication and morals) but I think good sf stories can now ap­ the effort has been d-i-f-f-i-c-u-l-t pear in any big-circulation maga­ because of miscalculation and mis­ zine. take. OMMI I think will live or die on I planned on a wraparound cover its hyped circulation and its adver­ and three interior full-page illos tising. The first issue is said to by Bruce Conklin. He came through be a sell-out [as it should be if as beautifully. I planned on running reported $5 million was spent on ad­ off the text pages on my wonderful vertising it]. The test will come Gestetner 466, using 65# book paper. with the next four or five issues. The art would be all offset, of Unless the magazine holds its paid course. circulation at about 500,000, it Lady Companion had all the sten­ will fail, and despite the publish­ cils typed beautifully. BY THE EDITOR er's vow to pour millions into it I put the first stencil on the because he has faith in it, and machine, loaded the paper table with wait five years for it to estab­ a ream of 65# ivory colored vellum ID-21-78 I called Hank Stine, ed­ lish itself... Well, even PENTHOUSE paper... itor of GALAXY, a few days ago to can't stand that kind of long-term And found the paper picked up find out when my next review column drain. Watch the total of advertis­ too much offset (ink impressions was due—the end of this month, it ing pages in OMNI; if the total from the preceding sheet as each turned out—and to find out from drops in future issues by a large new sheet is printed), making it the source what the GALAXY payment number...if the auto and liquor and unconscionable to print both sides policy is for sure, since LOCUS had hi-fi ads disappear....it's the end. of the paper. printed a story saying payment was What is the short-term outlook So I bought another thirty reams shortly after publication and I had for sf? Bad, I think. It's now ob­ of paper. [High-class: a novel been told by Hank that payment was vious there will be a recession of with pages printed on only one side.] 72 hours after acceptance. unknown severity in 1979 now that But previously I had placed the Hank confirmed the 'after ac­ the U.S. government has