NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1978 NUMBER 28 SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW $1.50 Interview: C.J. CHERRYH BEYOND GENOCIDE By DAMON KNIGHT ONE IMMORTAL MAN ——————— . SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW rO^Ona, U Formerly THE ALIEN CRITIC RICHARD E. GEIS, editor & publisher November, 1978 — Vol,7, No, 5 PUBLISHED BI-MONTHLY COVER BY BRUCE CONKLIN WHOLE NUMBER 28 JML , MARCH, MAY, JULY, SEPT., NOV. From an idea by Richard 3, Gels FHUNE.: (303) 282-©%! SINGLE COPY %\3i) ALIEN THOUGHTS by the editor. .4 BEYOND GENOCIDE by damon knight. 8 REVIEWS THE CARTOON HISTORY OF THE JOHNNY WI RECUTTER a poem UNIVERSE ..35 DR, STRANGE 7 BY NEAL WILGUS II ANTHOLOGY SPECULATIVE NIGHTFALL (RECORD) .18 OF POETRY #3 INTERVIEW WITH C.J. CHERRYH IMMORTAL 22 locus 23 TABU SPANISH OF MEXICO CONDUCTED . BY GALE BURNICK., .14 THE WHOLE FANZINE CATALOG #2 COLD FEAR * « • • < * • • * 1 23 TALES FROM GAVAGAN's BAR ..24 THRUST #11 HE HEARS, . , . NIGHTFALL BY ISAAC - DRACULA S DOG ........... i... .... ASIMOV. EXTRAPOLATION, AN SF NEWS ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES .... REVIEWED BY MARK MANSELL, 18 LETTER.......... 24 BIG PLANET 24 HALLOWEEN LEONORA THE HUMAN HOTLINE LORD FOUL S BANE 25 WHO GOES THERE? 25 PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK elliott, , . .19 SF News by elton t. THE BOYS FROM PURSUIT OF THE SCREAMER .......... ,25 BRAZIL WATERSHIP DOWN THE VIVISECTOR a column AN EXERCISE FOR MADMEN 26 CONFESSIONS OF A CRAP ARTIST .... .63 BY DARRELL SCHWEITZER .22 EMPTY WORLD ...26 BEASTS 27 OTHER VOICES book reviews by THE YEAR'S BEST HORROR ORSON SCOTT CARD, BILL GLASS, STORIES, SERIES VI 27 INTERIOR ART PAUL MCGUIRE III, FRED PATTEN, SPLINTER OF THE MIND'S EYE ...... .27 TIM KIRK 2, 4, 64 DAVID A. TRUESDALE, MARK MAN- SPLINTER OF THE MIND'S EYE 28 SELL, WILMA T. WRIGHT, NEAL COLONY 28 ALEXIS GILLILAND 5, 8, 10, 12, WILGUS, ELTON T. ELLIOTT, DEAN THE ACTS OF KING ARTHUR AND HIS 19, 22, 28, 31, 32, 37 R. LflHBE, ROY TACKETT, GRETCHEN NOBLE KNIGHTS 29 RIX. THE CITY OF THE SUN 29 BLIND VOICES. ,30 JIM SHULL 6, 25 SMALL PRESS NOTES STARSTONE 30 pY the editor. .35 THE ORANGE R .....30 VIC KOSTRIKIN 9, 35, 39 MONUMENT 31 MIKE GILBERT 11, 13, 38, 40 MOVING VISIONS THE GOTHIC HORROR AND OTHER SF, FANTASY AND HORROR FILM WEIRD TALES 31 JAMES MCQUADE 11 NEWS BY BILL WARREN .36 SWORDS AGAINST DARKNESS III 32 KALKI ....32 TODD KLEIN 12 ONE IMMORTAL MAN conclusion CYCLES OF WAR: THE NEXT SIX ALLEN KOSZOWSKI 16 FICTION NOVEL YEARS .33 A SCIENCE RANDY MOHR 18 BY RICHARD E. GEIS 45 THE ADAM EXPERIMENT 34 THE RAVENS OF THE MOON 34 RICHARD BRUNING 21, 33 ALTER-EGO VIEWPOINT sf & f 36 35 THE ROBERT WHITAKER 23, 26 BY RICHARD E. 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DONALDSON new GALAXY editor Hank Stine told "THE EDGE OF futijria' BY RAY UNITED KINGDOM: Send pound equiva - both Elton Elliott and myself about NELSON lent of US$8.00 One Year the new payments schedule, and that US$16.00 Two Years reported in the September LOCUS. to agent WM. DAWSON SONS Hank told us payment for mater- § Cannon House ial would be within 72 hours of ac- Folkestone, Kent, ceptance . The LOCUS story says ' 72 CT19 5EE hours after publication . or write them for current quote. Since Charles Brown, editor arid publisher of LOCUS talked to Hank CURRENT AND BACK ISSUES OF TAC AND after I did (not sure if he and Elt- SFR ARE AVAILABLE FROM: on discussed the matter at Iguana- wAMTS' A Z.I.PPY FANTAST (MEDWAY) LTD. con) the policy may have changed , CopA, I'LL q-ii/g h/m 39 West Street, in that period. Given the financial ' Wisbech, Cambs., PE13 2LX A z-i rfY crt>A- l LL problems of GALAXY'S publisher this JV5T TiP off the? mst is entirely possible. .even consist- AUSTRALIA: A$8.00 One Year FROM" THE LOVE ent. Two TAPE'S A$14.00 Two Years " X Of RANZ-iNES to agent SPACE AGE BOOKS # Elton just called and is hot on WROTE WHEiJ I WA? A 305-307 the trail of finding out for sure Swans ton St. CHfUP TRO*>V$-Y. about Playboy's plans for PULSAR. Melbourne, 3000 Vic. He also called Charlie Brown about the GALAXY story and appar- ALL OTHER FOREIGN: US$8.00 One Year Two Years ently Hank Stine (or Charlie) is US$16.00 not sure what the payments policy All foreign subscriptions must be is. More on all this next issue. paid in US$ cheques or money orders except to agents. # We're having continuing problems with subscribers who very helpfully send in their new addresses. .but MAKE ALL CHECKS, CHEQUES AND neglect to mention their former zip- MONEY ORDERS PAYABLE TO SCIENCE code. FICTION REVIEW WE HAVE TO HAVE YOUR FORMER ZIP- CODE when you move. That's the only Whs * cd way we can find your subscription SAVE A HASSLE Ail) EXTRA EXPENSE card. We do NOT keep a separate IF YOU MOVE WE NEED YOUR FORMER alphabetical file on subscribers. ZIPCODE AND YOUR NEW COMPLETE Thank you. ADDRESS, 3 ! - suggest that new readers will find ALIEN THOUGHTS it less so. And when one does un- derstand the story and thinks back over it, there is nothing to be gained by the ambiguity, any more The top word rate for GALAXY is than there would have been anything now lcf per word. That is not a gained by Melville's not letting on typo. One cent per word, tops. that Moby Dick is a whale until BUT—payment within 72 hours of late in the book. It's necessary acceptance. With the money saved for a writer to say what he means, and with money from hoped-for sales and in science fiction, for him to increases, the parent corporation get his basic premise down clearly, hopes to pay off all the past-due and early. The story is built on accounts and gradually up the rat- this. Situations derive from it. es. If the premise isn't clear, neither I was told GALAXY will be month- will the subsequent situations be. ly beginning in January. Of course, this is all my word How Hank's editorial policy in (and Delap's) against Knight, which re fiction will differ from that of looks pretty ridiculous... but, you Jim Baen or J.J. Pierce is not yet have to consider that Knight has clear. Or where he expects to get alienated virtually all his readers enough decent fiction at l<f per from ORBIT. There has not been a word. paperback since volume 13. Now the GALAXY, with the Sept, issue series has died on him. At the has already had a cover and logo same time other anthology series change—new type style for the have managed to survive. Clearly, title and a full-cover painting Damon is doing something wrong. Re- BY THE EDITOR with logo and minimal story-auth- member how it was about six or sev- or listings overprinted. I like en years ago when ORBIT was a major it. series, and each new volume was an event attracting a lot of attentioh, 8-27-78 Things are popping. and many award nominees and winners The GALAXY mess is on its way to were first published therein? Now- being cleaned up, I think. adays it is (or was , since I be- I received a phone call a few 8-28-78 Hank called again today. lieve there's only one more volume minutes ago, from Hank Stine. He He wants to use two SFR columnists to go) very much a backwater. informed me he is the new editor in GALAXY : Elton Elliott to contri- 'Richard Klump's (is this a of GALAXY.