The New York Review of Science Fiction

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

Issue #106, June 1997

FEATURES

Fafhrd and the Scot: Letters from Fritz Leiber to Franklin MacKnight, 1932-1943, edited by Bruce Byfield: 1

Judith Clute and Ellen R. Weil: Joe Haldeman's "To White Hill": A Dual Perspective: 1

F. Brett Cox: Other-Consuming Artifacts: The Cautionary Tales of John Kessel: 14

REVIEWS

Gene Wolfe's Exodus from the Long Sun, reviewed by John Clute: 6

Stephen Baxter's Ring, reviewed by Philip E. Smith: 9

Joe Haldeman's None so Blind, reviewed by Michael M. Levy: 16

Revelations, edited by Douglas E. Winter, reviewed by William Sheehan: 17

Rosemary Edghill's The Cloak of Night and Daggers, reviewed by Sylvia Kelso: 20

Ian McDowell's Mordred's Curse, reviewed by Stephanie E. Smith: 21

PLUS

A Musical Interlude featuring the Warrior Princess, by Kevin Wald (p. 6), an awful lot of Screed (p. 22), and an editorial (p. 24).

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Funny Stuff

We saved the Philip K. Dick expedition photos for the next issue, since we now have two pieces in inventory featuring Mr. D, awaiting approval of the estate, expected shortly. Meanwhile, more Fritz Leiber material, this time a batch of illuminating letters, that, we are told, is only a tiny taste of the Leiber letters at University of Houston Special Collections. Next time, perhaps, another batch or another piece of Leiber fiction.

We have decided after more than a year that our experiment with photographs is a success and that we will always have half of page three devoted to pictures, and only occasionally run photos in the rest of the magazine. That problem solved, we are now beginning an experiment with cartoons. We will publish some, as seems appropriate, starting now. Years ago, the editorial board considered this and in the end rejected it because no one could agree on what was funny. I volunteered to decide for them, but that suggestion was not received well. So we did not print any, until now. I decided. Here is our debut outing, contributed by Joe Mayhew.

--David G. Hartwell & the editors