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Foundation:

The International Review of Science Fiction

Number 69, Spring 1997

CONTENTS

Editorial

  • Edward James

Features

  • Gary Westfahl: The Quintessence of Science Fiction, Forged in Brunner's The Crucible of Time
  • John Brunner, with Hal Drake: Van Vogt and the Quest for the Universe
  • Darko Suvin: Novum Is As Novum Does
  • Henry Wessells: "A Place that You Can Put Your Arms Around": Avram Davidson's Jack Limekiller Stories
  • John Trushell: A Postmodern (Re)Turn to Forbidden Planet
  • Norman Beswick: Glimpses of the Sacred: An Update on Religion in SF and F

Foundation Forum

Joan-Pau Rubies and Stephen Baxter: The Logic of Time Travel

Letters

  • Michael Andre-Driussi: On Wright and Wolfe
  • Peter Wright: Responding to Andre-Driussi
  • Phil Masters: On Newsinger and Niven
  • Eric Rabkin: Responding to Boston and Stephensen- Payne
  • John Boston: The Eisenstein List
  • Arthur C. Clarke: Eisenstein and the Dalai Lama
  • Steve Sneyd: "The Green Hills of Earth"

Reviews

  • Andy Sawyer: Flights from the Iron Moon by Steve Sneyd, Star Wars by Bill Smith, Creating Babylon 5 by David Bassom, Cosmic Engineers by Gary Westfahl, Replications by J.P. Telotte, and The Cyberpunk Handbook by St Jude and others
  • Stephen Baxter: Encounter with Tiber by Buzz Aldrin and John Barnes
  • Andrew M. Butler: Headcrash by Bruce Bethke
  • Julian Petley: Motherfuckers by David Britton
  • Brian Stableford: Idoru by William Gibson
  • Chris Gilmore: The Best New Science Fiction: 9th Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
  • David Ketterer: James Blish: A Working Bibliography by Phil Stephensen-Payne
  • Paul Kincaid: Golden Days by Carolyn See
  • John Newsinger: Hard Questions by Ian Watson
  • Sue Thomas: Escape Velocity by Mark Dery
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