The New York Review of Science Fiction

Space Captain, Captain of Space, reviewed by Jen Gunnels

written by Jeff Sproul, directed by Lindsey Moore Sproul

produced by No Tea Productions, featuring Matthew Wise, Alicia Barnatchez, Jared Warner, Jeremy Mather, and Jeff Sproul. Kraine Theatre, New York







I don’t like pulp in my orange juice. If I wanted pulp, I would eat an orange. In my sf? Yeah, I like a little pulpy goodness, and if there’s a hint of really smart silliness, well, all the better. This was exactly what I got with No Tea Productions’s Space Captain, Captain of Space at New York’s Kraine Theatre this August. An homage to pulp science fiction, early sf movie serials, and a touch of B movies, the production involved a blend of pre-recorded film, live action, and puppets. No Tea Productions created a fun, clever, innovative parody emerging from the genetic goo of old school Flash Gordon, Duck Dodgers, and Fraiser.


October 2012 Editorial: Duty Now for the Future




So, here we are, our second post-paper issue. At some point, that will be so unremarkable that I can stop remarking on it, but for now, it’s still . . . futuristic, weird, uncanny, astonishing, all of that. For the next few months, a lot of our attention is still going to be absorbed by the transition. But not all of it! So, here’s our hit parade for this month.

ePub/Mobi versions of Issue 289 now available at Weightless Books

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September 2012 Editorial: The Future, Soon




Welcome to the first post-paper issue of NYRSF. This has been a long time coming. We first determined back in November of last year that this was the only way we could continue into volume 25. The sad fact is we were consistently receiving less money in subscriptions and back issue sales than we were paying in printing and postage, and something had to change. The happy fact is everyone has been extremely supportive of this move—our contributors most of all. It’s been a ride.

September 2012 Table of Contents

ISSUE #289 September 2012 Volume 25, No. 1 ISSN #1052-9438

ESSAYS

• Haris A. Durrani: The Failure of Post-9/11 Science Fiction: 8
  
• Victor Grech: The Irruption of Vulcan Pon Farr as Unleashment of Jung’s Shadow: 13
  

REVIEWS

• Mary Gentle’s The Black Opera, reviewed by Michael Levy: 18
  
• William H. Roberson’s Walter M. Miller, Jr.: A Reference Guide to His Fiction and His Life, reviewed by Damien Broderick: 17
  
• James Enge’s A Guile of Dragons : A Tournament of Shadows Book 1, reviewed by A. P. Canavan: 11
  
• Sovereign, written by Mac Rogers, directed by Jordana Williams, reviewed by Jen Gunnels: 1
  
• Of Dice and Men, written by Cameron McNary, directed by Amy Overman, reviewed by Jen Gunnels: 20
  

PLUS

The 2012 CRSF Conference (16), screed (23), and an editorial (24).

Sovereign, reviewed by Jen Gunnels

written by Mac Rogers, directed by Jordana Williams
produced by Gideon Productions in conjunction with BFG Collective Residency, featuring Hanna Cheek, Stephen Heskett, Matt Golden, Medina Senghore, and Erin Jerozal.
The Secret Theatre, Long Island City.

The Greeks tended to produce plays in trilogies, sweeping epics in which people are served their own children as an appetizer, and the solution to eye trouble is a little extreme. Modern drama got out of that habit for whatever reason, though occasionally an ambitious playwright suddenly hankers for a larger story. Mac Rogers is such a playwright and perhaps sf theatre’s most important. The final installment of his Honeycomb Trilogy, Sovereign, premiered at the Secret Theatre this June, and I don’t think I’ve been so excited about seeing a play in a long time. Rogers’s did not disappoint. In fact, he has completely upended sf on stage.

October 2012 Table of Contents

ISSUE #290 October 2012 
Volume 25, No. 2 ISSN #1052-9438


ESSAYS





• James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel: Digital Rapture
• Patrick L. McGuire: What They’ve Done to His Song: The English Translation of Auf zwei Planeten
• Joe Sanders: Monsters, Detectives, and Prose Style in Peter Straub’s The Hellfire Club: 19