The New York Review of Science Fiction

NYRSF Issue 330 (February 2016): Table of Contents

A Selection of Books Edited by David G. Hartwell

Patrick Nielsen Hayden: David Geddes Hartwell, 1941–2016

Kathryn Cramer: Til Death Did Us Part

Gary K. Wolfe

Dave Drake: Three Snapshots

Eugene Reynolds: The Provost of SF

Gordon Van Gelder: Fourteen Views of David Hartwell

Mary Robinette Kowal: David Hartwell’s Sartorial Splendor

James Morrow: Requiem for David

F. Brett Cox: Welcome to the Neighborhood

Marco Palmieri: The Road Back: My Journey with David Hartwell

Henry Wessells

Susan Palwick: An Essay in Need of an Editor

Toni Weisskopf

Michael Swanwick: David Hartwell’s Secret History of Science Fiction

Ann Crimmins

Kit Reed

Farah Mendlesohn: An Age of Wonders: A Retrospective Review and Reflection on Influence

Rudy Rucker: Memories of David Hartwell

Shira Daemon Houghton

Joseph T. Berlant

Judith Collins: Refractive Light

James Frenkel: David Hartwell’s Passion

Jan Vaněk, Jr.

Paul Levinson

Kathryn Morrow: The Legend of David G. Hartwell

Joe Milicia

Michael Levy

Gregory Benford: At the Core of the Genre: A Conversation through the Decades

Samuel R. Delany

Jean-Louis Trudel

Donald “Mack” Hassler

Paul Park

Randy Byers: Naughtily Natty to the End

Gwyneth Jones

Liz Argall

Michael Bishop: The Stairs Were Also Shelves

John Clute

Lisa Padol

Andy Duncan

Yves Meynard

Darrell Schweitzer: Remembering David G. Hartwell

David Brin: A True Original

Alex Donald: The Gardener

Jo Walton

B. Diane Martin and David G. Shaw: The Man Who Believed in Readercon

Alexei Panshin

Ron Drummond: Unsettled Reflections on David Hartwell

Christopher Brown: Wonder in a Cold Climate

Stephen B. Gerken: The Revenge of the Androids: A story in honor of David G. Hartwell

Kevin J. Maroney

David G. Hartwell: Hartwell’s Laws of Fashion

Photo Gallery and Back Cover

NYRSF Issue 329 (January 2016): Table of Contents

Brian Stableford: Fantastic Reactions to the 1789 Revolution

Sandra Lindow: Nnedi Okorafor: The Book of Phoenix, the Morality of Abomination

Read This: recently read and recommended by Michael Bishop

Richard A. Lupoff: Remembering Frank

Dave Drake: Unintended Consequences

The Blood of Angels by Johanna Sinisalo, translated by Lola Rogers, reviewed by Gwyneth Jones

The Man with the Compound Eyes by Wu Ming-Yi, translated from the Chinese by Darryl Sterk, reviewed by Michael Andre-Driussi

Mike Barrett: Ghostly Denizens & Eerie Harbingers: The Spectral Stories of Mrs. J.H. Riddell

Awaiting Strange Gods: Weird and Lovecraftian Fictions by Darrell Schweitzer, reviewed by Peter Rawlik

Matthew D. Connolly: Stranger in a Strange Land: Racism as Bad Science Fiction

Lee Weinstein: In Search of a Four-Eyed Man

Photos

Editorial: This Broken Year

NYRSF Issue 329 Editorial: This Broken Year

This is the January 2016 issue. I was somewhat looking forward to taking a little bow for reaching my 20th anniversary on the NYRSF staff, but then January happened.

The body blow was David Hartwell dying suddenly. On January 19, David was performing a completely routine task—carrying a barristers bookshelf down a flight of stairs in one of the two buildings he shared in Westport, New York, with Kathryn Cramer and his family. He owned a lot of bookcases; those many lovely barristers shelves were a visual highlight of the living room at Stately Hartwell Manor in Pleasantville for decades.

He fell, and a blood vessel burst in his brain; the order is unknowable and doesn’t matter. He never regained consciousness, was never going to regain consciousness, and then he was gone.

The kindness and knowledge David carried around cannot be replaced.

NYRSF Issue 328 (December 2015): Table of Contents

• The Search for E.T. Bell, also known as John Taine by Constance Reid, reviewed by Patrick L. McGuire
• 21st Century Science Fiction, edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden, reviewed by John Clute
• Through Dark Angles: Works Inspired by H. P. Lovecraft by Don Webb, reviewed by Peter Rawlik
• Over the Tightrope by Asif Ismael, reviewed by Dan’l Danehy-Oakes
• Brian Stableford: The Perils of Prophecy 2: The Great Indifference of the World
• Photos
• Editorial: Entropy and Order

Entropy and Order (Editorial, NYRSF 328)

A short editorial this time. The issue is a few days behind schedule (once again), even though (once again) I had a plan to get everything fixed and out the door by December 31. Instead, a swirling vortex of entropy descended on the house, bringing with it repeated plumbers’ visits, multiple car repairs, and treatment for an elderly pet in failing health. (Rats are wonderful pets, bright and soft and loving, but their lifespans are bitterly, comically short.)

NYRSF Issue 327 (November 2015): Table of Contents

• Patricia Monk: Shaping the Shockproof Reader: A Psychoactive Substrate of Science Fiction
• Michael Swanwick: “Everything Happens for a Reason”: A Conversation With Kaja and Phil Foglio
• The Revolutions by Felix Gilman, reviewed by Joe Milicia
• Letters to Robert Bloch and Others by H.P. Lovecraft, reviewed by Darrell Schweitzer
• Brian Stableford: How to Write Scientific Fiction: The Adventures of a Forgotten Pioneer
• Mother of Eden by Chris Beckett, reviewed by James L. Cambias
• Michael Andre-Driussi: Stalky v. Stalker, or, "Stalky & Co." against Roadside Picnic
• Photos from World Fantasy Convention 2015
• Editorial: Short Takes

Short Takes (Editorial, NYRSF 327)

Work has been heavy the last few weeks, which made the Thanksgiving break more necessary, more relaxation-centered, and hence a bit less NYRSFtastic than it might otherwise have been, which once again means we’re behind schedule. And the vicissitudes of the full-fledged Holiday Season mean that the December issue will also be a few days late; sorry about that.

Superpower Distribution (Editorial, NYRSF 326)

If all has gone well, this issue should be up at Weightless and online before the World Fantasy Convention. NYRSF will be well-represented at WFC—David Hartwell, of course, but also me, Arthur Hlavaty, Bernadette Bosky, Alex Donald, Jen Gunnels, and of course Weightless Books’s Gavin Grant and Kelly Link will all be there, along with many past, present, and future NYRSF contributors and staff. See you there, I hope!

NYRSF Issue 326 (October 2015): Table of Contents

• Photos
• Steve Carper: The Women of Gnome Press
• Audrey Taylor: “Active Time” in the Works ofPatricia A. McKillip
• Scott Vander Ploeg: On P. Andrew Miller’s In Love in Water
• Robert Eldridge: Potocki’s Saragossa Manuscript: An 1892 English Translation Discovered
• Sandra Lindow and Michael Levy: Two Views on Dark Orbit by Carolyn Ives Gilman
• Fire with Fire by Charles E. Gannon, reviewed by Marilyn “Mattie” Brahen
• Corsair by James L. Cambias, reviewed by Greg L Johnson
• Saturn Run by John Sandford and Ctein, reviewed by Karen Burnham
• Brian Stableford: Speculative Technological Manipulations of Human Being in Early French romans scientifique
• Gregory Benford: Escorting The Odd
• Michael Andre-Driussi: “The New Prime” as Herald of Future Jack Vance
• Editorial: Superpower Distribution

What’s Good (Editorial, NYRSF 325)

Welcome to our twenty-eighth year. We’re behind schedule again (helped in no small part by a leaking water heater and other household mishaps). I have some hope that the October issue will be closer to on-time, though it will be tough to hit it exactly; however, the November issue should get us back on track even with the World Fantasy Convention at the beginning of the month, because the Thanksgiving weekend will give me uninterrupted time to work on the magazine. Here’s hoping.