The New York Review of Science Fiction

Published monthly by Dragon Press, P. O. Box 78, Pleasantville, NY 10570. $4.00 per copy.

Issue #102, Feburary 1997

FEATURES

Michael Swanwick: Growing Up in the Future: 1

Damon Knight: Notebooks: 1

Eliot Fintushel: Notes on Science Fiction, Fantasy, and the Lazzo of Stage Reality: 9

John Adams: Outer Space and the New World in the Imagination of Eighteenth-Century Europeans: 12

REVIEWS

Uncle River's Thunder Mountain, reviewed by Don Webb: 18

Richard Garfinkle's Celestial Matters, reviewed by David Alexander Smith: 19

L. E. Modesitt, Jr.'s Adiamante, reviewed by Michael M. Levy: 20

PLUS

A Read This by Lisa Tuttle (p. 15), David Pringle on cycles in pulp publishing (p. 17), a startling analysis of the differences between Star Trek and The X-Files by Brian C. Wilson (p. 21), lots o' Screed (p. 22), and an editorial (p. 24).

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Home at NYRSF

We draw your attention to many recent changes here at NYRSF. Those of you who subscribe know that during the fall we experienced some problems in the consistent monthly mailing of our issues. New postal regulations and procedures proved a real hassle for us, and resulted in spotty delivery of several issues--issue 98 arrived after issue 99, for instance, causing an upsurge in correspondence and fears of missing issues. And unbeknownst to you, the post office raised prices once and our printer raised prices twice during 1996, causing a cash shortage for us.

To address these problems, we have changed printers for the first time in our history and will now have our bulk rate subscriptions mailed by the printer in New Hampshire. This change is one that will not be without some surprises, and requires that we change our production schedule in order to insure timely mailing. But once it is smoothed out, we ought to save both time and money and you ought to get issues early each month. And because of this we may be able to avoid raising prices until the end of this volume.

We have also rearranged the masthead, and are trying to afford the time and money to update our software. One notable success is our Web site, whose home page graces the top of this column. There are more than a hundred pages up now. We are getting new subscriptions and back issue orders from it, and pleasant remarks about it, constantly. Shortly, by the time you read this perhaps, we will have completed pages for all the back issues and will have a search engine up for the indices. (This phase would have been completed in December, except that Kathryn came down with pneumonia.) We will then proceed to elaborate on the site. We do not plan to put up whole issues in the near future, but to provide access to information about them. And, of course, other neat stuff.

--David G. Hartwell & the editors