[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 #97, September 1996


Table of Contents

Michael Swanwick, "They Fell Like Wheat". . . . page 1

Tom Shippey on Gary Westfahl's Cosmic Engineers: A Study of Hard Science Fiction. . . . . . page 1

NYRSF full-page ad. . . . . . . page 2

Brian Stableford on Terry Bisson's Pirates of the Universe. page 5

Ron Carroll Read This. . . . . page 7

David Drake, "Manly Wade Wellman and Alfred Bester". . .page 9

Christopher Priest Read This. . . . page 10

Earl Well's on Clifford D. Simak's Over the River and Through the Woods. . . . . . . page 11

Gwyneth Jones on Tim Powers's Expiration Date. . . .page 12

Lisa Goldstein on Mary Doria Russell's The Sparrow. . . page 14

David Griffin on Peter Carey's The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith. . . . . . . page 14

Miguel Angel Fernández-Delgado, "A Moon Voyage Inside an Astronomical Almanac in Eighteenth-Century Mexico". . .page 17

Stephanie A. Smith on Sharon Shinn's Archangel. . . page 18

NYRSF Readings at Dixon Place 1/6th page ad. . .page 19

Ariel HamÉon on James P. Blaylock's All the Bells on Earth. page 20

David G. Hartwell, "Home is the Hunter: Roger Zelazny and 'Home is the Hangman'". . . . . . . page 21

Tad Dembinski on N. Lee Wood's Looking for the Mahdi. . page 22

John Kessel L.O.C. on John Norman. . . . . .page 23

Editorial: "A Ninth Year on the LitCrit Frontier". . . .page 24