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Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society
Club Notice - 01/03/92 -- Vol. 10, No. 27
MEETINGS UPCOMING:
Unless otherwise stated, all meetings are on Wednesdays at noon.
LZ meetings are in LZ 2R-158. MT meetings are in the cafeteria.
_D_A_T_E _T_O_P_I_C
01/08 LZ: EXPECTING SOMEONE TALLER by Tom Holt (Operatic SF)
01/29 LZ: A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess (Dystopias)
_D_A_T_E _E_X_T_E_R_N_A_L _M_E_E_T_I_N_G_S/_C_O_N_V_E_N_T_I_O_N_S/_E_T_C.
01/11 SFABC: Science Fiction Association of Bergen County: Katina
Alexis (horror writer) (phone 201-933-2724 for details)
(Saturday)
01/18 NJSFS: New Jersey Science Fiction Society: TBA
(phone 201-432-5965 for details) (Saturday)
HO Chair: John Jetzt HO 1E-525 908-834-1563 hocpb!jetzt
LZ Chair: Rob Mitchell LZ 1B-306 908-576-6106 mtuxo!jrrt
MT Chair: Mark Leeper MT 3D-441 908-957-5619 mtgzy!leeper
HO Librarian: Rebecca Schoenfeld HO 2K-430 908-949-6122 homxb!btfsd
LZ Librarian: Lance Larsen LZ 3L-312 908-576-3346 mtfme!lfl
MT Librarian: Mark Leeper MT 3D-441 908-957-5619 mtgzy!leeper
Factotum: Evelyn Leeper MT 1F-329 908-957-2070 mtgzy!ecl
All material copyright by author unless otherwise noted.
1. The next Lincroft discussion is about operatic science fiction
in general and Tim Holt's _E_x_p_e_c_t_i_n_g _S_o_m_e_o_n_e _T_a_l_l_e_r in specific.
Evelyn Leeper's review (which originally ran in the August 16,
1991, issue) in included later in this issue.
2. To some extent I sort of envy some of the Middle East hostages.
It must be a really amazing thing to be handed years of changes in
a matter of days. One of them said that the most amazing thing
about his release was to hear that Soviet Communism had fallen.
When he was captured there was the Eastern Bloc that was bent on
world conquest, that had the power to drop nuclear weapons on our
heads, that supressed freedom in dozens of countries. Then when he
was released, PAFF! Eastern Europe is democratic, the Soviet Union
is a bunch of independent countries ready to try capitalism, the
Berlin Wall has been broken up and you can buy pieces as souvenirs
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in K-Mart. It was amazing learning of this over three years. Can
you imagine being told about it in three minutes?
I get some of the same sort of shock by going back and looking at
some 1960s newspapers. I guess I had sort of forgotten how
repressive those times were with regard to sex. It is really hard
to believe, but as vital as sex is to everyone in today's world, it
really went almost unmentioned in the early Sixties. You could go
through an entire newspaper and not find a single reference to AIDS
or any venereal disease. There was no discussion at all about day
care centers and the sexual molestation of children. You almost
never read stories of parents raping their children. When schools
showed up in the newspapers, the question was how well they were
teaching people abstract subjects like science and English. They
apparently never worried about sex education. They never
distributed condoms.
Major cities never cordoned off streets and had parades of people
celebrating their sexual preference. Popular music never
explicitly described and extolled the virtues of anal sex. You
never heard Congress going into a weekend session to discuss jokes
about pubic hair or anyone called "Long Dong Silver." At that
time, to become a national hero and to be asked to be on special
councils you pretty much had to be a Mercury astronaut. If all
you'd done was play basketball well and had promiscuous sex, you
never got that special treatment.
Yes, the world is a lot less uptight these days. It's quite a
difference.
3. Announcing the First SF Club Imagination Contest! (Talk about
pompous!) We are looking for entries which answer the following
questions:
1. Assume you have a time machine which let's you go back and
view (and record) any time period in the past up to 24 hours
long. The machine sits "outside of time," so you can't
affect anything. Oh, yes, and it works only once. Where
would you go back to, and why?
2. Same machine, but now it will work ten times. What ten times
would you pick and, of course, why?
4. New Jersey public television is running a six-part British
science fiction series, _C_h_i_l_d_r_e_n _o_f _t_h_e _D_o_g _S_t_a_r, Saturdays at
11:30 PM starting January 11. We will be unable to tape it, so if
someone else tapes it and it's any good, could we borrow the tape?
[-ecl]
Mark Leeper
MT 3D-441 908-957-5619
...mtgzy!leeper
EXPECTING SOMEONE TALLER by Tom Holt
Ace, 1990 (1987c), ISBN 0-441-22332-X, $3.95.
A book review by Evelyn C. Leeper
Copyright 1991 Evelyn C. Leeper
I don't normally enjoy "humorous" fantasy. For one thing, it's
usually not very humorous. But Tom Holt's _E_x_p_e_c_t_i_n_g _S_o_m_e_o_n_e _T_a_l_l_e_r is
funny--funny enough that I frequently laughed out loud reading it (much
to the distress of my spousal unit, who was trying to read something
serious).
Holt takes as his background Richard Wagner's "Ring" cycle of
operas. Malcolm Fisher, schlemiel supreme, runs over a badger one
night. The badger is not really a badger, however--it is Ingolf, a
Frost Giant who had seized the Ring and the Tarnhelm from Siegfried's
funeral pyre. If you're not following this, that's okay. Malcolm
didn't either, so the badger ... excuse me, Ingolf provides some
explanation and Malcolm later does his own research as well. (At the
end of Malcolm's research, Holt describes his state as follows: "Malcolm
had never been greatly inclined to metaphysical or religious
speculations, but he had hoped that if there was a supreme being or
divine agency, it would at least show the elements of logic and common
sense in its conduct. Seemingly, not so. On the other hand, the
revelation that the destiny of the world had been shaped by a bunch of
verbose idiots went some way towards explaining the problems of human
existence.")
Now that Malcolm has the Ring and can rule the world, of course,
everyone else wants it back--gods, valkyries, Rhinemaidens. He also
need some practice to get the knack of the Tarnhelm. And throughout all
this Holt demonstrates a wry wit that other humor writers often fall
short of. My only objection is the somewhat abrupt resolution, but then
any long drawn-out serious stretch would spoil the comic timing. If you
are a fan of Wagner's operas, you _m_u_s_t read this book, but even if
you've never heard a note, _E_x_p_e_c_t_i_n_g _S_o_m_e_o_n_e _T_a_l_l_e_r is highly
recommended.
(Extra note to opera fans: Anna Russell would have loved it.)
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE MYSTERIOUS FRIEND OF OSCAR WILDE by Russell A. Brown
St. Martins, 1988, ISBN 0-312-03932-8, $7.95.
A book review by Evelyn C. Leeper
Copyright 1991 Evelyn C. Leeper
I have seen Sherlock Holmes novels this bad before, but never
from a major publishing house. Usually they are from small presses
with lower standards.
The blackmail plot that Holmes has to foil is merely an excuse
to show Holmes make the transition from homophobe to enlightened,
politically correct person. Since I find the concept of the super-
logical Sherlock Holmes being homophobic as unbelievable to start
with, this subplot was annoying rather than convincing. And what of
the other characters? Well, the reviewers quoted on the back of the
book cite the multitude of Wilde's epigrams present in the book.
But these epigrams were all used in particular circumstances, none
of which were conversations with Sherlock Holmes. It's particularly
galling to have Wilde's final words presented as occurring here,
because their context is _s_o well-known. It's as if a novel in which
Shakespeare met an Elizabethan equivalent of Sherlock Holmes had
Shakespeare saying things like "To be or not to be--that is the
question" or "Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious
summer by this son of York" in ordinary conversation. This
excessive use of epigrams reduces Wilde to a caricature rather than
a character. And just about everyone that Holmes and Watson know
seems to turn out to be gay--well, perhaps that's an exaggeration,
but certainly well above the oft-quoted 10% figure for the
population as a whole.
It would certainly be possible to write a good novel involving
Sherlock Holmes and Oscar Wilde, but this is not it.
(This is marketed on the cover as a Stonewall Inn Mystery,
complete with lavender triangle. It's terribly politically correct,
but also incredibly unsubtle.)
THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND by Michael Flynn
Baen, 1990, ISBN 0-671-69886-9, $3.95.
A book review by Evelyn C. Leeper
Copyright 1991 Evelyn C. Leeper
This book falls into that interesting category of "secret
history"--interesting to me, at any rate, because it frequently
straddles the line between fiction and non-fiction. For example,
Michael Baigent's _H_o_l_y _B_l_o_o_d, _H_o_l_y _G_r_a_i_l supposes that Europe is
really ruled by a secret society led by a descendent of Jesus, and
the book is marketed as non-fiction. Well, _I_n _t_h_e _C_o_u_n_t_r_y _o_f _t_h_e
_B_l_i_n_d is marketed as fiction, but there's nothing _i_m_p_o_s_s_i_b_l_e in it.
The premise is that Charles Babbage completed his analytical
engine, but news of its success was suppressed by a group of social
scientists who decided to use it to predict historical trends. If
this sounds like Isaac Asimov's "psychohistory," it is, and Flynn's
characters even discuss the similarity. In present-day (or very
near future) San Francisco Sarah Beaumont stumbles across the
existence of a secret society which has been using the engine, and
now computers, not only to predict trends, but to try to change
them. While she is trying to accept this idea, she is told there is
at least one other group with a similar plan--and it is more
ruthless in what it will do to effect change. This second group
wants to kill Sarah to protect itself, and Sarah finds herself in an
uneasy alliance with the first group to try to block the second.
Through the book there is a lot of discussion and
philosophizing on the morality of all this. While in some books
this sort of thing might seem preachy, it works here, because the
plot requires someone to try to convince Sarah to help the society.
(Even so, there are a few occasions when even this is strained,
including some classroom sessions reminiscent of of ones from Rober
A. Heinlein's _S_t_a_r_s_h_i_p _T_r_o_o_p_e_r_s.) And Flynn also managed to win the
Libertarian "Prometheus Award" without having more than a smattering
of violent sex, an element that I had come to think was almost a
requirement for that award (two past winners were J. Neil Schulman,
who wrote _T_h_e _R_a_i_n_b_o_w _C_a_d_e_n_z_a, and L. Neil Smith, who wrote _T_h_e
_C_r_y_s_t_a_l _E_m_p_i_r_e and acknowledged his debt to Schulman in the
acknowledgements of that book). Maybe some Libertarian out there
can explain why there seems to be a correlation.
However, as I said, Flynn avoids this, and sticks to the
subject at hand. The characters are well-drawn and more varied
(racially, ethnicly, and otherwise) than most authors bother to do.
This may seem like a minor point, but it helps give the novel a more
realistic feel than many novels have. The book does drag a bit at
the end and devolves from philosophy into a chase sequence, but on
the whole it is a satisfying book with some ideas to think about
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when you're done.
(Is Charles Babbage making a comeback? William Gibson and
Bruce Sterling recently wrote _T_h_e _D_i_f_f_e_r_e_n_c_e _E_n_g_i_n_e in which the
adoption of Babbage's _d_i_f_f_e_r_e_n_c_e engine--not analytic engine--by the
British government leads to a very different world than our own.
And did you know that Babbage also invented the cow-catcher?)
(A note on the proofreading, or lack thereof: This is the worst
proofread book I have ever seen, with the possible exception of some
cheap porno novels. "Assesor" should be "Assessor" (page 54),
"Hickock" should be "Hickok" (pages 63 _a_n_d 67), the typeface should
have returned to Times Roman in the middle of page 101 (not stayed
italic), and there is at least one line missing in paragraph six on
page 107. After that, I stopped keeping track.)
MOBY DICK (1930)
Film comment by Mark R. Leeper
Copyright 1991 Mark R. Leeper
This is a true and accurate synopsis of the 1930 film _M_o_b_y
_D_i_c_k, starring John Barrymore (as Ahab) and Joan Bennett. Noble
Johnson plays Queequeg. It is based on Herman Melville's classic of
men and the sea.
The film opens with the camera moving in for a look at the book
_M_o_b_y _D_i_c_k, _o_r _T_h_e _W_h_i_t_e _W_h_a_l_e. The novel begins, "There never was,
nor ever will be, a braver life than the life of the whaler.
Compared to the game they hunted the mightiest land beast was but a
poodle dog." [Boy, that Melville! He sure can write!]
Fade to the harbor of the New Bedford seaport. The Mary Anne
is pulling into harbor, all eyes are on the callow young seaman
doing acrobatics on top of the mast. Why, it's handsome young Ahab
showing off again! Ahab comes ashore and flirts with some of the
girls and insults others. ("If they cut into you they'd certainly
get plenty of blubber.") Ahab sees his brother Derek escorting a
new girl in town--Faith, the parson's daughter--to church. Ahab is
struck with Faith's beauty but decides to go to the grog shop
instead of church. There Ahab meets Queequeg, a primitive man who
carries an idol he talks to. Queequeg becomes Ahab's sidekick.
Eventually Ahab does go to church and flirts with Faith.
Before long Faith is losing interest in Derek's courting
because, like all the girls, she is intrigued by the handsome Ahab.
As Ahab is setting sail again Faith tells him that it is he, not
Derek, that she loves. They agree to marry when Ahab returns.
Ahab and the Mary Anne are at sea when Ahab sights Moby Dick,
the black whale with a white hump and forehead. [This allows the
use of stock footage.] As Ahab and his cronies chase the whale in
the long boat, Ahab takes one risk too many. The whale turns on
Ahab and bites him. Ahab loses a leg and it is replaced by a peg.
When Faith sees Ahab is returning she is overjoyed. But when
she sees the peg leg she is momentarily shocked and runs away.
Weeks later, we see Ahab unable to get work as a whaler. Faith asks
Derek to tell Ahab that she still loves Ahab. Derek twists the
message so Ahab thinks Faith does not really love him. Derek then
tells Faith that Ahab has cursed her.
Ahab goes to sea for seven years, but not as a whaler. Faith
realizes too late that she should not have trusted Derek. Eagerly
she awaits Ahab's return. Eventually Ahab manages to buy his own
whaling ship, the Shanghai Lady. He sails it back to New Bedford to
Moby Dick December 29, 1991 Page 2
get a crew to go after Moby Dick.
[It should be noted that we are now fifty minutes into a
seventy-five-minute movie and are ready to start telling Melville's
story. Melville tells only the last third of the story, which, of
course, is why _M_o_b_y _D_i_c_k is such a thin book.]
Ahab is unable to get a crew so must shanghai one from the
brothels and grog shops. The meaner and nastier the crew, the
better, he decided since he really wants revenge on Moby Dick. Once
at sea, however, the shanghaied crew is surly and unmanageable.
They are cutthroats one and all. There is one exception. It is
Derek who was shanghaied onto the Shanghai Lady with the rest.
Derek finds out his brother Ahab is the captain, but the mates don't
believe it and will not let him see Ahab.
During a storm Derek decides to break out of the hold to
confront Ahab. The rest of the crew take this opportunity to
mutiny. With storm and mutiny raging, Derek finds Ahab at the wheel
and accuses him of intentionally shanghaiing him. The two fight and
Ahab is winning when Derek throws a knife into Ahab's back.
Queequeg--Ahab's old friend--picks up Derek and breaks his back.
There is no explanation about what happened to the mutiny, but it
seems to have ended by the next scene.
Fair weather returns, but Ahab is depressed. He decides Moby
Dick has beaten him. "He's licked me, Mr. Stubbs," he says. Just
then Moby Dick is sighted. The longboats hit the water. Moby Dick
turns on Ahab's longboat but Ahab swims to the whale and,
demoniacally laughing, repeatedly stabs the whale with a harpoon.
Moby Dick dies. We last see pieces of Moby Dick being cut up on the
deck of the Shanghai Lady.
Ahab and the Shanghai Lady return to New Bedford. There Ahab
discovers that Faith has waited for him. The two fall into each
other's arms.
Boy, that Herman Melville! He sure can write!
Dec 27 13:00 1991 MT VOID Index for 1991 Page 1
91/12/27 Administratium (Comments)
91/03/29 Advertising (Comment by M. R. Leeper)
91/02/08 ALICE (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/11/22 ALIEN TONGUE (Book review by E. C. Leeper)
91/04/19 ANARCHAOS (Book review by F. R. Leisti)
91/08/02 AUTHORS MONTHLY 14 (Book review by E. C. Leeper)
91/01/11 AWAKENNGS (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/02/15 Baby Food Factory (Comment by M. R. Leeper)
91/05/24 BAMBI (Comment by M. R. Leeper)
91/09/06 Barry, Dave (Comments by M. R. Leeper)
91/09/20 BARTON FINK (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/12/06 BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/05/31 Beef (Comment by M. R. Leeper)
91/11/08 BILLY BATHGATE (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/05/10 BLACK WATER 2 (Book review by E. C. Leeper)
91/01/11 BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/06/21 BOOK OF ALTERNATE WORLDS (Book review by E. C. Leeper)
91/11/29 Bookstore Restaurant (Comment by E. C. Leeper)
91/03/01 Boskone 28 (Part 1) (Con report by E. C. Leeper)
91/03/08 Boskone 28 (Part 2) (Con report by E. C. Leeper)
91/05/03 BRAIN CHILD (Book review by D. L. Skran)
91/12/27 BUGSY (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/02/08 BURSTER (Book review by D. L. Skran)
91/11/22 BY BIZARRE HANDS (Book review by E. C. Leeper)
91/11/22 CAPE FEAR (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/08/30 Car Decorations (Comment by M. R. Leeper)
91/02/15 CARRION COMFORT (Book review by D. L. Skran)
91/04/26 Censorship (Comment by M. R. Leeper)
91/12/20 CHARTREUSS (Comment by M. R. Leeper)
91/08/02 Cheddar December (Comment by M. R. Leeper)
91/08/09 Cheese (Comment by L. Heine)
91/08/30 CHEKHOV'S JOURNEY (Book review by E. C. Leeper)
91/02/15 CHICAGO RED (Book review by D. L. Skran)
91/09/20 Chicon V Convention Report (Part 1) (Con report by E. Leeper)
91/09/27 Chicon V Convention Report (Part 2) (Con report by E. Leeper)
91/10/04 Chicon V Convention Report (Part 3) (Con report by E. Leeper)
91/10/11 Chicon V Convention Report (Part 4) (Con report by E. Leeper)
91/09/06 CHRONOSEQUENCE (Book review by E. C. Leeper)
91/07/12 CITY SLICKERS (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/11/29 CLOSET LAND (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/01/25 CNN (Comment by M. R. Leeper)
91/05/03 COLLISION COURSE (Book review by F. R. Leisti)
91/07/19 Colombian Constitution (Comment by M. R. Leeper)
91/11/08 Colorization (Comment by M. R. Leeper)
91/03/22 Comments (Comment by M. R. Leeper)
91/09/13 COMMITMENTS (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/07/12 Cows (Comment by M. R. Leeper)
91/02/08 CROWN OF INFINITY (Book review by F. R. Leisti)
91/01/25 CRYSTAL SINGER (Book review by F. R. Leisti)
91/03/08 CYRANO DE BERGERAC (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/08/30 DEAD AGAIN (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/01/25 DEATH'S HEAD REBELLION (Book review by D. L. Skran)
91/12/06 Deep Breathing (Comment by M. R. Leeper)
91/04/12 DEFENDING YOUR LIFE (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/08/30 DOC HOLLYWOOD (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/05/03 DRAGON MASTERS (Book review by F. R. Leisti)
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91/10/04 DYBBUK (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/03/01 EARTH (Book review by D. L. Skran)
91/11/29 Earthquakes (Comment by M. R. Leeper)
91/02/08 EVE OF DESTRUCTION (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/08/16 EXPECTING SOMEONE TALLER (Book review by E. C. Leeper)
91/09/13 FALL OF HYPERION (Book review by E. C. Leeper)
91/08/02 FANTASTIC ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD (Book review by E.C.Leeper)
91/12/20 FATHER OF THE BRIDE (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/09/27 FESTIVAL OF ANIMATION 1991 (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/03/08 Film Forum Anime Festival
91/07/05 Film Forum Summer Fantasy, Horror, and SF Festival
91/05/17 Fire-Walking (Comment by M. R. Leeper)
91/05/03 FIVE GOLD BANDS (Book review by F. R. Leisti)
91/01/25 FLIGHT OF THE INTRUDER (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/06/14 Food Technology (Part 1) (Comment by M. R. Leeper)
91/06/21 Food Technology (Part 2) (Comment by M. R. Leeper)
91/12/27 FOR THE BOYS (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/11/15 Free Kittens (Comment by M. R. Leeper)
91/04/12 FULL SPECTRUM 3 (Book review by E. C. Leeper)
91/03/22 Gandalara Cycle (Book review by F. R. Leisti)
91/03/08 GLENDOWER CONSPIRACY (Book review by E. C. Leeper)
91/03/15 GLORY'S END (Book review by E. C. Leeper)
91/01/04 GODFATHER PART III (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/08/02 GOOD NIGHT, MR. HOLMES (Book review by E. C. Leeper)
91/02/01 GRIFTERS (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/03/22 GUILTY BY SUSPICION (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/02/01 HAMLET (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/09/20 History (Comment by M. R. Leeper)
91/02/08 Hollywood (Comment by M. R. Leeper)
91/02/15 Hollywood (Comment by M. R. Leeper)
91/10/25 HOMICIDE (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/08/16 HOT SHOTS (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/02/22 HOW TO GO TO THE MOVIES (Book review by E. C. Leeper)
91/09/06 Hugo Award Winners
91/05/31 Hugo Nominations
91/09/13 HYPERION (Book review by E. C. Leeper)
91/07/19 ICICLE THIEF (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/01/25 IN BETWEEN DRAGONS (Book review by E. C. Leeper)
91/01/25 IN THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND (Book review by D. L. Skran)
91/02/08 IRIS (Book review by D. L. Skran)
91/08/16 IRON AND SILK (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/04/26 JEKYLL & HYDE (Theatre review by E. C. Leeper)
91/04/26 JEKYLL LEGACY (Book review by E. C. Leeper)
91/12/27 JFK (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/11/29 KINSHIP WITH THE STARS (Book review by E. C. Leeper)
91/05/24 KISS BEFORE DYING (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/03/29 Klingon Cloaking Device (News report)
91/10/11 Kosher food (Comments by M. R. Leeper)
91/10/18 Kosher food (Comments by M. R. Leeper)
91/10/25 Kosher food (Comments by M. R. Leeper)
91/02/15 L. A. STORY (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/04/19 LA FEMME NIKITA (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/07/12 LA FEMME NIKITA (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/08/23 Librarians (Comment by M. R. Leeper)
91/05/24 Library Acquisitions
91/02/08 LIFELINE (Book review by D. L. Skran)
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91/11/01 LITTLE MAN TATE (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/04/26 LONG WALK HOME (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/03/22 Lunacon 91 (Con report by E. C. Leeper)
91/01/18 Maibaum, Richard (Comment by M. R. Leeper)
91/11/22 MAN IN THE MOON (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/04/26 MARY REILLY (Book review by E. C. Leeper)
91/08/16 MATTER OF TASTE (Book review by E. C. Leeper)
91/01/18 MEROVINGEN NIGHTS (Book review by F. R. Leisti)
91/01/18 MILLER'S CROSSING (Film review by E. C. Leeper)
91/01/25 MIND CHILDREN (Book review by D. L. Skran)
91/05/10 MIND MONSTERS (Book review by F. R. Leisti)
91/10/18 MISADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (Book review by E. Leeper)
91/08/09 MOUND (Book review by E. C. Leeper)
91/03/15 MOUNTAINS OF THE MOON (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/03/01 Mysterious Forces (Comment by M. R. Leeper)
91/07/12 NAKED GUN 2-1/2 (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/05/03 Nebula Awards
91/03/01 Nebula Nominations (1990)
91/05/03 NEMESIS FROM TERRA (Book review by F. R. Leisti)
91/08/16 NEWER YORK (Book review by E. C. Leeper)
91/10/11 NEXUS (Book review by E. C. Leeper)
91/05/03 OBJECT OF BEAUTY (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/12/13 ON THE THIRD DAY (Book review by E. C. Leeper)
91/02/15 ONCE AROUND CELEBRATION (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/08/23 ONLY BEGOTTEN DAUGHTER (Book review by E. C. Leeper)
91/05/24 OSCAR (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/12/27 OTHER SINBAD (Book review by E. C. Leeper)
91/11/08 PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/08/30 PHANTOM (Book review by M. R. Leeper)
91/06/28 PHASE IV (Comment by M. R. Leeper)
91/02/15 PHOENIX (Book review by D. L. Skran)
91/02/08 PRISM (Book review by F. R. Leisti)
91/12/06 PROSPERO'S BOOKS (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/05/24 PSIONIC MENACE (Book review by F. R. Leisti)
91/11/22 PUPPET MASTERS (Comment by C. S. Harris)
91/03/01 QUEEN OF ANGELS (Book review by D. L. Skran)
91/10/04 RAMBLING ROSE (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/08/23 RED GENESIS (Book review by E. C. Leeper)
91/02/15 Restaurants (Comment by M. R. Leeper)
91/10/25 RETURN TO THE FORBIDDEN PLANET (Theatre review by M. Leeper)
91/04/26 RIVER OF TIME (Book review by F. R. Leisti)
91/04/19 ROBIN HOOD (Film comments by M. R. Leeper)
91/07/05 ROBIN HOOD (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/07/05 ROBIN HOOD, PRINCE OF THIEVES (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/06/28 ROCKETEER (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/01/25 SADDAM HUSSEIN (Book review by M. R. Leeper)
91/09/27 SAN FRANCISCO KILLS (Book review by E. C. Leeper)
91/10/11 SCHIZOGENIC MAN (Book review by E. C. Leeper)
91/04/19 Science Fiction Club (Description)
91/05/03 SHADOW OF A DOUBT (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/03/01 SHIELD OF TIME (Book review by D. L. Skran)
91/03/01 SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/10/25 SILENT STARS GO BY (Book review by E. C. Leeper)
91/05/03 SILICON MAN (Book review by E. C. Leeper)
91/07/12 SOAP DISH (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/05/17 SON OF THE TREE (Book review by F. R. Leisti)
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91/07/26 SPARTACUS (Comment by M. R. Leeper)
91/09/20 SPECTREWORLD (Book review by E. C. Leeper)
91/04/05 Spring (Comment by M. R. Leeper)
91/04/12 Spring (Comment by M. R. Leeper)
91/08/09 STAR TREK II (Comment by M. R. Leeper)
91/12/20 STAR TREK VI (Comment by W. Higgins)
91/12/13 STAR TREK VI (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/07/19 STRANGE MONSTERS OF THE RECENT PAST (Book review by E. Leeper)
91/02/22 STRANGE THINGS IN CLOSE UP (Book review by E. C. Leeper)
91/04/26 SUN'S END (Book review by F. R. Leisti)
91/05/03 SUNLESS WORLD (Book review by F. R. Leisti)
91/09/13 Supreme Court Justices (Comment by M. R. Leeper)
91/01/25 SURRENDER NONE (Book review by D. L. Skran)
91/05/24 SWITCH (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/07/26 TALES NATURAL&UNNATURAL CATASTROPHES (Book review by E.Leeper)
91/08/23 TALKING MAN (Book review by E. C. Leeper)
91/11/22 Television (Comment by M. R. Leeper)
91/12/13 Television Advertisements (Comment by M. R. Leeper)
91/07/12 TERMINATOR 2 (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/07/05 THELMA & LOUISE (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/07/12 THELMA & LOUISE (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/02/15 THIRD ANIMATION CELEBRATION (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/02/01 TIME AXIS (Book review by F. R. Leisti)
91/11/15 TIME OF THE FOX (Book review by E. C. Leeper)
91/02/08 Top Ten Films of 1990 (Comment by M. R. Leeper)
91/06/07 Trabants (Comment by M. R. Leeper)
91/04/12 TRAVELLER (Book review by E. C. Leeper)
91/11/22 TRINITY PARADOX (Book review by E. C. Leeper)
91/04/19 TRIPLANETARY (Book review by F. R. Leisti)
91/07/19 TRULY, MADLY, DEEPLY (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/09/20 23RD INTERNATIONAL TOURNEE ANIMATION (Film review by M. Leeper)
91/03/15 TWICE UPON A TIME (Book review by E. C. Leeper)
91/11/01 TWO EVIL EYES (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/07/19 UNAUTHORIZED AMERICA (Book review by E. C. Leeper)
91/01/11 United States Allies (Comment by M. R. Leeper)
91/05/17 UNTELEPORTED MAN (Book review by F. R. Leisti)
91/08/02 V. I. WARSHAWSKI (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/03/08 Videocycle (Comment by M. R. Leeper)
91/04/19 WARLOCK (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/11/22 WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN 3 (Book review by E. C. Leeper)
91/09/27 Where's Waldo (Comment by M. R. Leeper)
91/01/25 WHITE FANG (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/11/15 WHO'S AFRAID OF BEOWULF? (Book review by E. C. Leeper)
91/10/11 WHORE (Film review by M. R. Leeper)
91/08/23 WILD BLUE AND THE GRAY (Book review by E. C. Leeper)
91/05/10 Wisdom of the Body (Comment by M. R. Leeper)
91/03/15 World Fantasy Award Winners
91/11/08 World Fantasy Awards (List)
91/05/03 WORLD IN ECLIPSE (Book review by F. R. Leisti)
91/10/11 WORLD LOST (Book review by E. C. Leeper)
91/12/20 WORLD NEXT DOOR (Book review by E. C. Leeper)