Foundation Back Issues

The issues available are described below. Please send orders and cheques (made out to "The Science Fiction Foundation") to Andy Sawyer, The Science Fiction Foundation Collection, Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool, PO Box 123, Liverpool L69 3DA.

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Issue #81 - Current Issue: £5.95 (US$12.00)
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Issues up to #68 £2.00 (US$4.00)

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The descriptions below describe the articles only. ("Profession" pieces are articles in a long-running series called "The Profession of Science Fiction", written by sf authors about their profession and their ideas on sf.) In addition to the articles, each issue also contains up to a dozen reviews, by leading critics and sf authors, of current novels and works of criticism, and often contain letters and debates.

Back Issues up to #68: £2.00 each
21 (February 1981)
"Profession" pieces from Gregory Benford and Naomi Mitchison; D.West on Kornbluth's "Marching Morons"; K.V. Bailey on Dickens as fantasist; Colin Greenland on Mervyn Peake; and Christopher Priest on Del Rey's history of SF.

24. (February 1982)
J.G. Ballard's and George Turner's "Profession" pieces; Stableford on Edgar Fawcett; Gregory Feeley on James Blish.

25. (June 1982)
W.M.S. Russell on Folk-Tales and sf; Phyllis Eisenstein's "Profession" piece; Gregory Feeley on Jack Dann; Sue Jenkins on Spock and Avon; John Sladek's "Profession" piece, "Kids! Read Books in Your Spare Time!"; and Thomas M. Disch on sf as a church.

27. (February 1983)
Letters from Harlan Ellison, Ursula LE Guiin and others commenting on the (out-of-print) Dick issue; K.V. Bailey on Play and Ritual; William D. Vernon interviews Rudy Rucker; Neil Ferguson as a man from the future; Brian Stableford on M.P. Shiel; Gregory Feeley on Avram Davidson; and Richard D. Erlich on Niven and Pournelle's Oath of Fealty.

28. (July 1983)
George Zebrowski's journal; Rodney Needham on Tarzan; Lucy Sussex on the fix-up; W.M.S. Russell on life and afterlife; Mark Gorton on Women in Love; L.J. Hurst on cranks and pseudoscience (with John Sladek's reply).

29. (July 1983)
Gary Kilworth's "Profession" piece; Brian Stableford on S. Fowler Wright; Gregory Feeley and Robert Lowndes on Blish.

30. (March 1984)
Special Issue: British SF seen from Abroad: Gregory Benford, Peter Kucza, K.V. Bailey, Koichi Tamano, Franz Rottensteiner, Vladimir Gopman (on Ballard), Cy Chauvin, Josef Nesvadba, and Jeffrey M. Eliot (an interview with Ian Watson).

31. (July 1984)
Algis Budrys on definitions of sf, Peter Caracciolo on Doris Lessing; Brian J. Burden on The Time Machine; Colin Greenland interviews Gene Wolfe; David Ketterer on Blish's "Cities in Flight"; John Silbersack on Herbert's Destination Void; and Peter Brigg on Herbert's The White Plague.

32. (November 1984)
Special Issue on Sf and Socialism. Brian Stableford on Marxism and prophecy; Angus Taylor on William Morris; Alexei Sayle on why he should have been The Doctor; Jonathan Benison on Jean Baudrillard; Dominique Douay on the new reality; Stef Lewicki on feminism and sf; D. Ronald Suvin's "Eightie-Foure is Icummen In"; Michael Coney's "Profession"; and Gary K. Wolfe on Del Rey's Nerves.

33. (Spring 1985)
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro offers songs sweet and haunting; John Dean on the American vampire; Gavin Browning on scientism; L.J. Hurst on John Norman; and James Turner on Lovecraft.

34. (Autumn 1985)
Special International Issue. Sam J. Lundwall's adventures in the Pulp Jungle; Peter Kuczka on the Strugatskis; Pascal J. Thomas on the French legacy of Philip K. Dick; Erik Simon on sf in the GDR; Fabio Calabrese on Italian sf; Ye Yonglie on Chinese sf; Jeff Wagner on the Life of Philip K. Dick.

35. (Winter 1985/86)
Edward James on the Historian and sf; Bruce Sterling's "Profession" piece; Brian Stableford on Michael Jackson's Thriller video; Brian J. Burden's second piece on decoding The Time Machine; K.V. Bailey on Alice and her friends; Gregory Stephenson on J.G. Ballard; Nina Berkova on new Soviet sf; and Richard A. Slaughter on Metafiction and Transcendance.

36 (Summer 1986)
Colin Greenland interviews William Gibson; Perry A. Trunick on Hal Clement's aliens; Edward James on past views of Ireland's future; Peter Briggs on Ballard's Hello America; Joel Lane on Ramsey Campbell; David Lake's theory of errors; and Sam Moskowitz's response to Lundwall's Pulp Jungle.

37. (Autumn 1986)
Patricia Monk on Cherryh's aliens; Donald M. Hassler on Asimov's robots; Russell Letson on Algis Budrys's heroes; and Gordon B. Chamberlain combats Burden's views on Wells. SF Forum: Jenny Wolmark on sf and feminism.

38. (Winter 1986-87)
Robert Silverberg comments on three favourite short stories, by Blish, Aldiss and Shaw, and Aldiss and Shaw respond; Elizabeth Kwasniewski on the early Amazing; M. Hammerton on Verne; David Lake on the poetics of imaginary names; Gregory Benford on effing the ineffable; Kim Stanley Robinson's "Profession" piece; and Brian Stableford on Colin Wilson's existential sf.

39. (Spring 1987)
K.V. Bailey on Gilbert and Sullivan's sf operatics; David Brin's "Profession"; Robert Frazier on sf poetry; Merritt Abrash on Dick and Rousseau; John Newsinger on Women in Tarzan stories; Haim Finkelstein on Ballard and Robert Smithson; and Brian Stableford on the Arthur C. Clarke Award winner, Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.

40 (Summer 1987)
Pamela Sargent's "Profession"; Ian Watson on the author as torturer, K.V. Bailey on Earth and Narnia, Ellen Pedersen on the Golem, Cornel Robu on Victor Anestin ,the first Romanian sf writer, Robert Smets and Guido Eekhaut on sf in Flanders, Kim Stanley Robinson's notes on Cecelia Holland; and Cyril Simsa's bibliography of Czech sf in English.

41 (Winter 1987)
Arthur C. Clarke Issue. Clarke on Star Peace; Fred Clarke on Arthur C. Clarke's childhood and youth; K.V. Bailey: poems inspired by Clarke; Stephen Goldman on academics and Childhood's End; Richard A. J. Hellen and Philip M. Tucker on Clarke and alchemy; Edward James on 1951 (Clarke, Hampson and the Festival of Britain); Ellen M. Pedersen's conclusion to her piece on the Golem; George Hay on scientism.

42. (Spring 1988)
George Slusser on why people are afraid of sf; Gregory Benford on why people are afraid of the infinite; Cornel Robu on the sublime; Peter Lowentrout on Darko Suvin, Norman Beswick on religion and sf; Nicholas Ruddick on the deluge in sf; Angus Taylor on Asimov, Popper and the fate of the Galaxy; Edward James on Vance's "Cadwal Chronicles".

43. (Summer 1988)
Special Issue on "Feminism and sf, Women in sf". John Clute's obituary of Heinlein; W.M.S. Russell on time in folklore and sf; Ian Watson proposes an end to Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus; Danny Rirdan writes on William Gibson; Jane Yolen's and Gwyneth Jones's "Profession" pieces; Gwyneth Jones reviews Sarah Lefanu's In the Chinks of the World Machine, and Brian Stableford, Sarah Lefanu, Jenny Wolmark, Gwyneth Jones and Colin Greenland engage in debate.

44. (Winter 1988-89)
Mark Siegel mourns the death of James Tiptree; K.V. Bailey looks at iconicity; Gary K. Wolfe on Harlan Ellison in the Men's Magazines; Kazuko Yamada interviews Darko Suvin; Laura Kranzler on Frankenstein; Jaroslav Olsa supplements Simsa's bibliography of Czech sf in English; Juha K. Tapio and George Slusser comment on Robu's sublime (no. 42).

45. ( Spring 1989)
Sam Moskowitz on sf writers who began as editors; M. Hammerton on Wells as prophet; Nicholas Ruddick on Keith Roberts (Part 1); Norman Beswick on Orson Scott Card and religion; Orson Scott Card's "Profession".

47. (Winter 1989/90)
Gary Westfahl on the True History of sf, with comments by Aldiss, Stableford and James; Nicholas Ruddick on Keith Roberts (third and final part); Gregory Benford on sf, rhetoric and realities; John Newsinger on the juvenile sf of John Christopher; Richard Grant's "Profession".

48. (Summer 1990)
Cornel Robu on milestones of Romanian sf; K.V. Bailey on the reflexive perspective; Sheldon Teitelbaum on Israeli sf; M. Hammerton on Bernal's (almost) forgotten masterpiece; David Langford's dangerous thoughts about Asimov; and Gregory Feeley's dangerous criticism of Arthur C. Clarke.

49. (Spring 1990)
Sam Moskowitz on early sf fandom; Gary Westfahl on Gernsback; Frances Bonner on Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis.

50. (Autumn 1990)
Charles Barren (the first editor) offers a retrospect; Peter Nicholls, the second editor, offers an unreliable memoir; Brian Stableofrd's "Profession"; Ludmila Lashku on Christopher Priest; Alla Bossart's interview with the Strugatskis; and a record-breaking number of letters.

51. (Spring 1991)
Elisabeth Vonarburg on reproduction in space; Patrick Parrinder on News from Nowhere; Gary Westfahl on the icon of the space station; Ralph Willingham on sf theatre; Janeen Webb on Dan Simmon's Hyperion.

52. (Summer 1991)
John Newsinger on the Judge Dredd Phenomenon; Graham Andrews on James White; Damien Broderick on Delany; Paul Kincaid on Christopher Priest; Cyril Simsa interviews Ondrej Neff.

53 (Autumn 1991)
Roger Gaillard on the Maison D'Ailleurs, Norman Beswick on eccleisastical space; Inge Eriksen on the aesthetics of cyberpunk; Brian Stableford on the World SF conference in Chengdu; Farah Mendlesohn on women in sf, 1960-1985; Russell Blackford in Stranger in a Strange Land; Marleen Barr on Thelma and Louise.

54. (Spring 1992)
Cherry Wilder's "Profession"; Yvonne Rousseau on Australian sf; K.V. Bailey on metaphoric polarities; Gary Westfahl on John W. Campbell's theories of sf; Robin Leslie Usher on Heinlein as theologist; M. Hammerton on prehistoric sf.

55. (Summer 1992)
Mike Ashley's tribute to William F. Temple; Rowland Wymer on Wyndham and The Chrysalids; Elizabeth Russell on Burdekin's Swastika Night; Francis Lyall on law in sf; Eric Rabkin on the necessity of utopia; Damien Broderick on Delany; George Hay on John W. Campbell.

56 (Autumn 1992)
Bernhard Kempen on Perry Rhodan; Jayson Curry on Harlan Ellison's Deathbird Stories; Gary Westfahl on John W. Campbell as editor; K.V. Bailey on the late Wells; John Newsinger on Nineteen Eighty-Four after the collapse of communism; Eric S. Rabkin on imagination and survival.

57 (Spring 1983)
Christopher J. Fowler's last Holmfirth interview with M. John Harrison; Paul Kincaid on Steve Erickson (Part 1); Patrick Parrinder on Wells and the fall of empires; Alan McKee on sex in Ballard; David seed on Mordecai Roshwald's Level 7; Roz Kaveney on Walter Jon Williams and some problems of sf criticism.

58 (Summer 1983)
Guest editorial by Andy Sawyer. Christopher J. Fowler's first London interview with M. John Harrison; Paul Kincaid on Steve Erickson (Part 2); Gary Westfahl on how the female hero almost emerged; George McKay on Kay Dick's They and Kipling's "They"; Jeffrey Yule on William Gibson short stories; John Clute on the Clute and Nicholls Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.

59 (Autumn 1993)
Damien Broderick's "Profession"; Damien Broderick on sf as genetic engineering; Kenneth Wishnia on sf and magical realism; David Seed on Pohl and Kornbluth; Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn's list of SF courses in higher education in the UK; Alan Myers on Zamyatin in Newcastle; Cyril Simsa on the short fiction of Henry Slesar.

60. (Spring 1994)
Special Issue on Science Fiction Research: The State of the Art (guest editor Gary Westfahl). James Gunn and R.D. Mullen on sf scholarship; Donald M. hassler on working with sf; Sam Moskowitz on the importance of collecting; David N. Samuelson on Delany as critic; Brett Cooke on sociobiology and sf; George McKay on what sf is about, Marleen Barr on Le Guin and new directions in feminist sf; George Slusser on Le Guin's politically correct Norton anthology; and Gary Westfahl sums up.

61 (Summer 1994)
Jack Dann's "Profession"; Tom Shippey on the critique of America in sf; Stephen R.L. Clarke on extraterrestrial intelligence; John Connolly on Arthur C. Clarke and Teilhard de Chardin; C.N. Gilmore on universal creation.

62. (Winter 1994/95)
Judith Moffett's "Profession" (interview with Farah Mendlesohn); Jenny Wolmark on cybernetics and the feminist utopia; W.M.S.Russell's tercentennial tribute to Voltaire; Mary Talbot on James Herbert; Michel Delville on the Moorcock/Hawkwind connection; and Gary Westfahl on sf as children's literature.

63. (Spring 1995)
Amanda Boulter on James Tiptree; John Moore on Le Guin as anarch-primitivalist; K.V. Bailey on Frederik Pohl's Gateway series; Stephen Baxter's "Profession"; John Newsinger on Robert Westall; Catherine Mintz on sf poet Steve Sneyd; Pedro Gallardo-Torrano on Villier de l'Isle Adam; and Vlado Srpon on the first Slovak sf writer, Reuss.

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