ember 1988

[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 #4, December 1988


Table of Contents

Brooks Landon "Genres in Collision: Philip Glass's 1000 Airplanes on the Roof as Science Fiction Music Theater". . . page 1

Paul Preuss on Whitley Strieber's Transformation: The Breakthrough, Timothy Good's Above Top Secret: The Worldwide UFO Cover-up, Melvin Berger's UFOs, ETs and Visitors From Space, and Thomas R. McDonough's The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Listening for Life in the Cosmos. . . . . .page 1

Tor Books full-page ad. . . . . . . page 2

Kathryn Cramer and Greg Cox "Speaker for the Reticent". . . page 4

Susan Palwick on Tropical Chills, ed. by Tim Sullivan. . . .page 6

Neil Barron on James Gunn's (ed.) The New Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. . . . . . page 7

James Morrow Read This. . . . . . . page 9

Frank Dietz on Terry Bisson's Fire on the Mountain. . . page 11

Greg Cox on Anne Rice's The Queen of the Damned. . .page 12

Kathryn Cramer "Sincerity and Doom: An Eventual Review of James Morrow's This is the Way the World Ends" (pt. 3). . . .page 13

Terri Windling Read This. . . . . . page 14

M. J. Engh "Science Fiction Poetry: A Rejoinder". . page 16

John Brunner Read This. . . . . . . page 17

Daniel M. Pinkwater "A Column". . . . . page 18

L. W. Currey Bibliography of Gregory Dale Bear. . . page 22

Greg Benford L.O.C. . . . . . . page 20

Terry Bisson L.O.C. . . . . . . page 20

Debbie Notkin L.O.C. . . . . . .page 20

Norman Spinrad L.O.C. . . . . . page 20

Alan L. Bostick L.O.C. . . . . . . .page 21

Prof. "Red" Knuckles L.O.C. . . . . page 21

Patrick Nielsen Hayden L.O.C. . . . page 22

Randolph Fritz L.O.C. . . . . . page 22

L.W. Currey quarter-page ad. . . . .page 22

Dragon Press quarter-page ad. . . . page 22

Warner Books full-page ad. . . . . .page 23

Editorial: "Feedback". . . . . . . .page 24