@@@@@ @ @ @@@@@ @ @ @@@@@@@ @ @ @@@@@ @@@@@ @@@ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @@@@@ @@@@ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @@@@@ @ @ @ @ @@@@@ @@@@@ @@@ Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society Club Notice - 9/11/87 -- Vol. 6, No. 11 MEETINGS UPCOMING: Unless otherwise stated, all meetings are on Wednesdays at noon. LZ meetings are in LZ 3A-206; MT meetings are in the cafeteria. _D_A_T_E _T_O_P_I_C 09/16 LZ: THE UPLIFT WAR by David Brin (Future Histories) 09/23 MT: The Vampire in SF (Matheson, Rice, Saberhagen, Van Vogt, and Wilson) 10/14 MT: Humor in SF (Anvil, Biggle, Harrison, and Laumer) 11/04 MT: Bookswap (*not* in the cafeteria; room TBA) 12/02 MT: Military SF 2 (Anderson, Dickson, and Laumer) (tentative) HO Chair: John Jetzt HO 1E-525 834-1563 mtuxo!jetzt LZ Chair: Rob Mitchell LZ 1B-306 576-6106 mtuxo!jrrt MT Chair: Mark Leeper MT 3E-433 957-5619 mtgzz!leeper HO Librarian: Tim Schroeder HO 3M-420 949-5866 homxb!tps LZ Librarian: Lance Larsen LZ 3L-312 576-6142 lzfme!lfl MT Librarian: Bruce Szablak MT 4C-418 957-5868 mtgzz!bds Factotum: Evelyn Leeper MT 1F-329 957-2070 mtgzy!ecl All material copyright by author unless otherwise noted. 1. The Lincroft discussion this week centers around David Brin's UPLIFT WAR and future histories. Some comments by ecl: This is the third in Brin's "Uplift" series, the first two being SUNDIVER and STARTIDE RISING. In this universe, Earth has encountered other intelligences. While all other races have been "uplifted" by patron races, we made it to the stars on our own, and uplifted chimpanzees and dolphins as well. All this makes the rest of the universe very uneasy. THE UPLIFT WAR is set on a planet whose ecological balance was destroyed. Now humans trying to develop it. But there may be more there than anyone expects, and the Gubru, a hostile avian race, are out to get it--and more. Brin gives a glossary and a fair amount of background material is written into the story, so readers new to the "Uplift" universe will find this a good start. THE MT VOID Page 2 2. Reminder: on September 26, the Middletown Lunch Bunch will be discussing "Vampires in Science Fiction." The recommended works are Richard Matheson's I AM LEGEND, Anne Rice's INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE and THE VAMPIRE LESTAT, Fred Saberhagen's DRACULA TAPES, the story "Asylum" by A. E. Van Vogt (in ADVENTURES IN SPACE AND TIME by Healy and McComas), and Colin Wilson's SPACE VAMPIRES. The Matheson is available in the Club libraries in Lincroft and Middletown, INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE is in the Middletown branch, and for the rest you should try your local library or bookstore. Mark Leeper MT 3E-433 957-5619 ...mtgzz!leeper ------------------------------------- GLORY LANE by Alan Dean Foster Ace, 1987, ISBN 0-441-51664-5, $3.50. A book review by Evelyn C. Leeper Copyright 1987 Evelyn C. Leeper The cover of this book is certainly eye-catching and the book seems to be marketed as another _H_i_t_c_h_h_i_k_e_r'_s _G_u_i_d_e _t_o _t_h_e _G_a_l_a_x_y, full of funny aliens and weird happenings. It isn't. Oh, there are funny aliens, and some weird things do happen, but all in all it seems forced. The characters read like a cast like for a play: Seeth, a punk rocker Kerwin, a nerd Miranda, a Valley girl Rail, an alien Izmir, another alien Oomemians and Prufillians The story reads as if the characters all walk around with these labels stuck on their foreheads. By the time anything interesting begins to happen (and about halfway through the book, things do start happening), most readers will have given up. Not recommended.