The New York Review of Science Fiction
Published by Dragon Press
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Pleasantville, NY 10570
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In this issue
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NYRSF Base Camp, July 21, 1996:
Laura Tucker, Damien Broderick, Ariel Hameon, Pat Morrell (lying
down),
Brian C. Wilson, Tad Dembinski, & David G. Hartwell.
Volume 8, No. 12 ISSN #1052-9438
FEATURES
Michael Bishop: Mary Shelley's Stories and The Unexpected Visit of a Reanimated Englishwoman: 1
Joe Sanders: Of (Human) Bondage in Michael Bishop's Brittle Innings: 1
William A. Senior: Silence and Disaster in the Novels of Michael Bishop: 12
David Alexander Smith: No More Gor? A Conversation with John Norman, Part II: 15
REVIEWS
Jim Young's Armed Memory, reviewed by Michael M. Levy: 7
Bradley Denton's Lunatics, reviewed by Gary Reger: 18
Patrick O'Leary's Door Number Three, reviewed by Howard Hendrix: 18
Michael Kandel's Panda Ray, reviewed by Brian C. Wilson: 19
Read These by Rachel Pollack (p. 5) and Ian Watson (p. 13), David Drake's "At Seventeen" (p. 10),
lots of Screed (p. 20), and an editorial (p. 24).
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Hwæt!
With this issue The New York Review of Science Fiction completes eight years of continuous monthly publication, during which we have not missed a monthly issue and have been nominated for a Hugo Award each year. Those of you who follow this column will know of many struggles and triumphs experienced along the way. But this time we are devoted to good news.
Part of our celebration is that this is our Michael Bishop issue, an unpredicted event much like last years Samuel R. Delany issue, resulting from the felicitous combination of essays by William Senior, the President of the IAFA, and Joe Sanders, the President of the SFRA, with a piece by Michael Bishop on Mary Shelley all arriving more or less simultaneously at P.O. Box 78. All together, they dominate the issue and focus attention on one of the finest living sf writers.
We also include, as promised earlier, the conclusion of the dialogue between David Alexander Smith and John Norman, and a full and cantankerous letter column (not neglecting the on-going Cold Equations discussion that has become an undying flame).
And, as promised this spring, our NYRSF home page is up on the World Wide Web (http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/olp/nyrsf/index.html), with the beginnings of a relatively elaborate site that will soon include full indexes and much current and back issue information. We are participating in a larger site that will include the SFRA and IAFA publications, and perhaps others. Separate home pages are up for some of the editors and staff. Click around and find many good things.
For those of you who are members of SFRA, we are pleased to announce that NYRSF is becoming an add-on membership benefit, with a subscription discount for new and present subscribers. We will provide full details shortly, but the basic plan is that subscriptions for SFRA members will have to be sent via the treasurer of that organization and will be adjusted to start or continue at the beginning of each calendar year. This was voted in unanimously at the business meeting of that organization at the annual conference in Eau Claire, Wisconsin at the end of June. The continuation of this arrangement depends upon getting enough new subscribers to offset the loss of renewal income from current subscribers. We will also be offering a substantial discount on back issues as we always do to new subscribers.
For libraries, we offered a discount package at the ALA for new subscribers. If it works well enough, we will lower our library subscription rate next year. If you are with a library, and have interest in the discount for new subscribers, please contact us.
In mid-July, a bunch of us attended Readercon and staffed a Dragon Press/NYRSF dealers table (as Kathryn Cramer and I did alone at Wiscon in May). The results were gratifying enough to suggest that we may well survive recent postal and printing cost increases by adding subscribers, and also to encourage us to do it at other conventions occasionally in the future. It was a particular pleasure to meet several of our reviewers for the first time in the flesh, and to say hello to many friends and readers. We even found some new reviewer candidates, part of our neverending quest.
So here we are accelerating into our ninth year. Next issue: more on hard sf, and other delights.
--David G. Hartwell & the editors
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