[The New York Review of Science Fiction
The New York Review of Science Fiction
Published monthly by Dragon Press, P. O. Box 78, Pleasantville, NY 10570. $4.00 per copy. Complete and up-to-date index of back issues available in Excel format: e-mail dgh@panix.com to request one.

Issue #27, November 1990


Table of Contents

Arthur Byron Cover, "Cathedrals in Inner Space". . .page 1

Gwyneth Jones on Ellen Datlow's Alien Sex . . . .page 1

Dragon Press full-page ad. . . . . .page 2

Donald G. Keller on Michael Blumlein's Brains of Rats . . . .page 4

Glenn Grant on Other Edens III edited by Christopher Evans and Robert Holdstock. . . . . . . .page 5

Ellen R. Weil, "The Secret You: Fantasy and Story in Brian Aldiss's Mainstream Fiction" (pt. 2). . . . page 6

Jonathan V. Post, "Hypertext Sonnet". . . . page 7

Anne McCaffrey, "My Favorite Story". . . . .page 9

Paul Williams, "'Please Please Me' (Beatles)". . . .page 11

Fernando Q. Gouvea on Gardner Dozois's The Year's Best SF: Seventh Annual Collection . . . . . . . page 11

Leonard Rysdyk on Donald A. Wollheim's 1990 World's Best SF.page 13

Kerem Bilge, "Clifford Simak's Journey". . . . .page 14

Panshin World Beyond the Hill half-page ad. . . page 15

John Ordover on Mark Leyner's My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist. . . . . . .page 18

L. W. Currey Ad. . . . . . .page 18

Greg Cox on the Transylvanian Library. . . . . .page 19

Richard Terra on Orphia (followup). . . . . page 20

Luke McGuff on bOING-bOING and Back Brain Recluse. . . .page 22

NYRSF Readings quarter-page ad. . . . . page 22

Paul Williams, "'Mona' (Bo Diddley)". . . . page 23

Editorial: "Anatomy of the SF Context". . . . . page 24