[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 #57, May 1993


Table of Contents

William M. Schuyler, Jr., "Portrait of the Artist as a Jung Man: Love, Death and Art in J. G. Ballard's Vermilion Sands (pt. 1). . . . . . page 1

Elisabeth Vonarburg, "So You Want to Be a Science Fiction Writer?". . . . . . . .page 1

New Orleans SF & Fantasy Festival full-page ad. . . page 2

NYRSF Readings at Dixon Place quarter-page ad. . . .page 4

Pascal J. Thomas on John Barnes's A Million Open Doors. . . page 6

Martin Morse Wooster on John Barnes's A Million Open Doors. page 7

Bradley Denton Read This. . . . . . page 10

Richard A. Lupoff on Alfred Coppel's Glory. . . page 12

eluki bes shahar, "The Pointed Sword Fytte The Seventeenth" Richard and Alec Go Drumming in the Woods". . .page 12

Paul Levinson on Mark Geston's Mirror to the Sky. . page 13

F. M. Busby Read This. . . . . . . .page 14

Earl Wells on Norman Spinrad's Deus X. . . . . .page 14

Gwyneth Jones on Helen Collins's Mutagenesis. . page 15

Jean-Louis Trudel on Charles Sheffield's Brother to Dragons.page 16

Bryan G. Cholfin, "No One Will Be Watching Us: The Complaints of a Small Publisher". . . . . . . .page 17

Delia Sherman Read This. . . . . . .page 19

Andrew Weiner, "SF--Not!". . . . . .page 20

L. W. Currey quarter-page ad. . . . page 21

Alexei Panshin L.O.C. on tropes. . . . .page 22

Alexander Jablokov L.O.C. on Best-of-the-Year list. . . page 22

Ellen Feehan L.O.C. on Hiassen typo. . . . .page 22

Walter Jon Williams L.O.C. on Duchamp's L.O.C. . . .page 22

Brian Attebery L.O.C. on typo in Terra review. . . .page 22

Taras Wolansky L.O.C. on horror. . . . .page 22

Disclave full-page ad. . . . . . . .page 23

Editorial: "Trope-ic: A Cancer?". . . . page 24