| FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION: LETTERS (by date) |
| No. |
Author |
Issue Date |
Comments |
| 101 |
Uhlenbrock, Bryan |
1977 NOV |
affronted by Harlan Ellison article "You Don't Know Me, I Don't Know You" in 1977 JUL; "when Harlan began his scathing attacks on the turkeys of fandom, he lost my sympathy" |
| 102 |
Hahn, Ken |
1977 NOV |
praise for the 1977 JUL Special Harlan Ellison Issue |
| 103 |
Linaweaver, Brad |
1977 NOV |
praise for Robert Silverberg bio "Harlan" in 1977 JUL; "the high point of one of your finest issues" |
| 104 |
Mosher, Chip |
1977 NOV |
praise for the 1977 JUL Special Harlan Ellison Issue |
| 105 |
Schweitzer, Darrell |
1978 FEB |
remarks on Baird Searles review, in 1977 NOV, of the movie Star Wars; "I have to regard the film as an overwhelmingly good treatment of a very weak script" |
| 106 |
Searles, Baird |
1978 FEB |
reply to Darrell Schweitzer letter(#105) on Star Wars |
| 107 |
Paladini, Bill |
1978 FEB |
remarks on Baird Searles review, in 1977 NOV, of Star Wars; has encountered phenomena since the movie has been out: SF "Revival", Nitpicking, Cultism, & Appeal |
| 108 |
Carr, Terry |
1978 FEB |
correction to Baird Searles review, in 1977 NOV, of Star Wars; attributes quote "the golden age of science fiction" to Peter Graham in 1960 |
| 109 |
Mead, James |
1978 FEB |
on 1977 SEP issue, & praise for Hilbert Schenck's story, "Three Days at the End of the World" |
| 110 |
Howe, Robert |
1978 FEB |
praise for Hilbert Schenck's story "Three Days at the End of the World", in 1977 SEP |
| 111 |
Toll, Gertrude |
1978 FEB |
praise for 1977 SEP issue; believes she may be, at age 82, F&SF's older reader |
| 112 |
Karr, Phyllis |
1978 AUG |
praise for John Varley's "The Persistence of Vision" & Randall Garrett's "The Horror Out of Time", in 1977 MAR |
| 113 |
Sieg, Ms. Barbara L. |
1978 AUG |
anger at F&SF; "I am heartily sick of reading story after story in F&SF where not only is there no female protagonist but no seriously treated female character at all" |
| 114 |
Jones, Paul |
1978 AUG |
1978 JAN cover art by David Hardy inaccurate - Uranus has a ring; brief reply by Edward L. Ferman; cover was redone by Hardy for the 1979 APR issue, depicting Uranus with rings & no Bhen |
| 115 |
Durang, Charles F. |
1978 AUG |
praise for 1978 FEB issue; "simply the finest issue of a science fiction magazine I have ever seen" |
| 116 |
Hruschak, Ted Michael |
1978 AUG |
"cry for justice against Baird Searles' tunnel-visioned opinions on SF in the visual media"; specifically his reviews of Space: 1999, & Logan's Run(1978 FEB) |
| 117 |
Searles, Baird |
1978 AUG |
reply to Hruschak letter(#116) about his reviews of Space:1999, & Logan's Run |
| 118 |
Gilden, Mel |
1978 AUG |
correction of a line in his story "The Green Dog" in 1978 MAY; on p.99 line "Probably some gay ..." should read "goy" |
| 119 |
Healy, Raymond J. |
1978 OCT |
North Sandwich, NH; announces the death of F&SF co-founder & editor J. Francis McComas on April 19, 1978 |
| 120 |
Malzberg, Barry N. |
1978 OCT |
Teaneck, NJ; retracts his negative comments, in his book review column of 1976 SEP, of Samuel R. Delany's books Triton, & Dhalgren; "I would like to apologize for those remarks and withdraw them" |
| 121 |
Kottmeyer, Martin S. |
1978 OCT |
comments on Baird Searles review of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" in 1978 MAY; "CE3K avoided the dreary plotboiling ... by not taking the subject overseriously"; brief reply from Searles |
| 122 |
Roach, David L. |
1979 MAR |
as a member of the Coast Guard Nantucket Shoals Lightship Station, he says Hilbert Schenck's novelette "The Morphology of the Kirkham Wreck" was "amazingly accurate" |
| 123 |
Berman, Ruth |
1979 MAR |
praise for the 1978 OCT issue |
| 124 |
Thurmond, John T. |
1979 MAR |
"a scum of nitpicking" on the Cretaceous Period flora & fauna in Sterling Lanier's cover story "The Syndicated Time" & Ron Walotsky's cover art in the 1978 JUL issue |
| 125 |
Ogden, M. |
1979 MAR |
praise for the Algis Budrys book review in 1978 SEP; "It is a pleasure to see a reviewer of Budrys's quality & experience give Fritz Leiber that attention & credit he so richly deserves" |
| 126 |
Jaschek, Walt S. |
1979 MAR |
praise for the Algis Budrys book reviews |
| 127 |
Hanrahan, James P. |
1979 JUL |
criticism of Joanna Russ's book review in 1979 FEB; "we are dealing not with criticism, but with personal idiosyncrasies" |
| 128 |
Pundurs, Mark |
1979 JUL |
criticism of Joanna Russ's book review in 1979 FEB, using Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings as an example |
| 129 |
Bacon, Debra A. |
1979 JUL |
criticism of Joanna Russ's book review in 1979 FEB; "why did (Ferman) enlist a person who hates fantasy as a genre to review fantasy books?" |
| 130 |
Russ, Joanna |
1979 JUL |
will reply to reader's criticisms in an essay, "In Defense of Criticism," which will be pub. in her book review column in the 1979 NOV issue |
| 131 |
Robillard, Douglas |
1979 JUL |
criticism of John Clute's book review in 1979 JAN, of Samuel R. Delany's The Jewel-Hinged Jaw, which "does an important book quite an injustice"; Robillard in the English Dept. of the Univ. of New Haven |
| 132 |
Cox, Arthur Jean |
1980 MAR |
praise for Michael Shea's "The Angel of Death" in 1979 AUG; "... writing is at times amazingly daring ... no brutality in the story ..." |
| 133 |
Tucker, James |
1980 MAR |
praise for the 30th Anniversary Issue(1979 OCT); asks "What authors have most often pub. fiction in F&SF?"; A: Avram Davidson, 45; Poul Anderson, 44; Ron Goulart, 43; Robert F. Young, 38; Miriam Allen deFord, 31 |
| 134 |
Moskowitz, Sam |
1980 MAR |
praise for the 30th Anniversary Issue; reminiscences of F&SF's 1st issue & of founding editors Boucher & McComas; background to his article "How Science Fiction Got Its Name" in F&SF 1957 FEB |
| 135 |
Schulenburg, Joy A. |
1980 MAR |
praise for the 30th Anniversary Issue; nitpicks on the story intro to Shirley Jackson's piece, calling her "an amateur witch"; she says, "Ain't no such animal, Mr. Ferman" |
| 136 |
Palter, David |
1980 APR |
Hollywood, CA; response to Russ essay "In Defense of Criticism" in her br in 1979 NOV; because of her opinion of fantasy, "perhaps she could be prevailed upon to review only SF (a genre which she does not seem to reject ...)" |
| 137 |
Lench, Elinor J. |
1980 APR |
Sepulveda, CA; response to Russ essay "In Defense of Criticism" in her br in 1979 NOV; "Unlike Russ, who disdains the work of backing her critical assertions with any nasty old hard fact, I'll support mine, with two instances: ..." |
| 138 |
Chauvin, Cy |
1980 APR |
Detroit, MI; response to Russ essay "In Defense of Criticism" in her br in 1979 NOV; "The thing that is most distressing is that Russ seems to feel that being a critic is very different from being a reader, & that is not true" |
| 139 |
Hanrahan, James P. |
1980 APR |
Stamford, CT; response to Russ essay "In Defense of Criticism" in her br in 1979 NOV; "Russ has misinterpreted the nature of the complaints voiced against her ... Russ is a bad critic, & her essay has done more harm ... than good" |
| 140 |
Gibbons, Peggy |
1980 APR |
Baltimore, MD; praise for the 1979 DEC issue; "Over the years my sole complaint about F&SF has been a paucity of material relating to women's humanitarian issues"; found Schimmelhorn stories particularly offensive |
| 141 |
Lauderdale, Bob |
1980 APR |
Kansas City, MO; criticism of Lisa Tuttle's story in 1979 DEC; "... dismay at uncovering the odious piece of tripe titled 'Wives' ... (which) combines vicious excesses of the worst of the feminist writers ..." |
| 142 |
Banister, Manly |
1980 APR |
Portland, OR; comment on Searles mr/tvr in 1979 DEC; tells why vampires cannot reflect in a mirror, but "there is no logical reason why a vampire can not reflect in a pool of water" |
| 143 |
Carr, Terry |
1980 JUL |
comments on Clute br in 1980 APR of his anthology, Best S. F. of the Year #8; "I'd rather a reviewer simply hated a book of mine than suggested I might have been loafing on the job" |
| 144 |
Benford, Gregory |
1980 JUL |
comment on an error by Clute in his br in 1980 APR on George Zebrowski book, Macrolife |
| 145 |
Massey, Marshall |
1980 JUL |
comments on Budrys br in 1980 MAR; "in defense of the firm of Alfred A. Knopf ... it is only fair to begin by acquainting one's self with their full scope ..." |
| 146 |
Miyeh, Michael L. |
1980 JUL |
praise for Robert Silverberg's "Lord Valentine's Castle" in 1979-80 NOV-FEB; "it was masterfully written, exhilarating, and a joy to read" |
| 147 |
Weeks, M. |
1980 JUL |
criticism of Hilbert Schenck's "Buoyant Ascent" in 1980 MAR; "Mr. Schenck is so well informed, so verbally provocative, so able to deal with suspense & pathos, so why the hell does he have to screw it up with shithouse lingo?" |
| 148 |
Indick, Ben |
1980 JUL |
praise for Stephen King's Gunslinger series in F&SF(1978 OCT & 1980 APR, so far) |
| 149 |
Hardy, Jason G. |
1980 JUL |
praise for the 1980 FEB & APR issues; "F&SF continues to publish the highest quality SF & Fantasy stories around" |
| 150 |
Gibson, Ursula T. |
1981 JAN |
Tujunga, CA; praise for Karen G. Jollie's "Bunny-Eyes" in 1980 MAY; asks about publishing & distribution policies in the magazine publishing world(F&SF in particular) |
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