[The New York Review of Science Fiction
The New York Review of Science Fiction
Published monthly by Dragon Press, P. O. Box 78, Pleasantville, NY 10570. $4.00 per copy. Complete and up-to-date index of back issues available in Excel format: e-mail dgh@panix.com to request one.

Issue #12, August 1989


Table of Contents

Robert Killheffer "Striking a Balance: Robert Silverberg's Lord of Darkness, Dying Inside and Others" . . . . . ..page 1

Alexei and Cory Panshin "Universal Principles of Operation" (pt. 2) . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 1

Avon Books full-page ad . . . . . . . . . ..page 2

Pat Cadigan Read This . . . . . . . . . ..page 7

Jim Young Sketch of John W. Campbell, Jr . . . . . .page 9

Susan Palwick on Ray Bradbury's The Toynbee Convector . ..page 10

Greg Cox on Allen Steele's Orbital Decay . . . . . .page 11

David Brin Read This . . . . . . . . . . .page 13

Michael Swanwick "The Amateur Demographer Goes to the Bookstore" . . . . . . . . . . . ..page 14

Generational Saga: Responses to Kathryn Cramer's article "The New Generation Gap"

Pamela Sargent Generation Gap response . . . . . .page 16

Isaac Asimov Generation Gap response . . . . . . .page 17

Hal Clement Generation Gap response . . . . . . ..page 17

Jessica Amanda Salmonson Generation Gap response . . . .page 17

Samuel R. Delany Generation Gap response . . . . . .page 18

Stanley Schmidt Generation Gap response . . . . . ..page 18

Roger Zelazny Generation Gap response . . . . . ..page 18

Michael Bishop Generation Gap response . . . . . .page 18

Michael Swanwick Generation Gap response . . . . . .page 18

Bruce Sterling Generation Gap response . . . . . .page 18

Ursula K. Le Guin Generation Gap response . . . . ..page 19

Frederik Pohl Generation Gap response . . . . . ..page 19

Ben Bova Generation Gap response . . . . . . . .page 19

Jane Yolen Generation Gap response . . . . . . .page 19

Gene Wolfe Generation Gap response . . . . . . .page 19

James Blaylock Generation Gap response . . . . . .page 20

John Brunner Generation Gap response . . . . . . .page 20


L. W. Currey quarter-page ad . . . . . . . . .page 20

L. E. Modesitt, Jr. on Judith Moffett's Pennterra . . ..page 20

Amy Thomson "Drowning in the Alien: Mary Gentle's Golden Witchbreed and Ancient Light Considered as a Single Novel . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 21

Patrick Nielsen Hayden L.O.C . . . . . . . . .page 22

John J. Pierce L.O.C . . . . . . . . . . .page 22

Fred Harris L.O.C . . . . . . . . . . ..page 22

Rebecca Ore L.O.C . . . . . . . . . . ..page 22

L. W. Currey bibliographies of Katherine Anne MacLean and Robert L. Forward . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 23

Editorial: "Workshops and Workshopping" . . . . . ..page 24