Vector, October 1980

Editor(s): Kevin Smith Joseph Nicholas
Pages: 40, A5
Price: 75p
Cover:
Notes: #99, Roles: Editor, Reviews
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Editorial
  Towards a Critical Standard - Kevin Smith

Articles
  Guns of the Timberland - Joseph Nicholas
  Book Reviewing, the Objective Critique - James Corley
  Wu Li = Nonsense? - David Langford
  That's Entertainment? - Andy Sawyer

Illustration
   - D. West

Letters
   - Robert Gibson
   - Martin Perry
   - Pete Lyon
   - Phyllis Eisenstein
   - Jonathan J. R. Palfrey

Book Reviews by Joseph Nicholas
  The Shape of Futures Past - Chris Morgan
  England Invaded - Michael Moorcock
  The Road to Science Fiction: Volume 1, From Gilgamesh to Wells (Edited) - James Gunn
  The Road to Science Fiction: Volume 2, From Wells to Heinlein (Edited) - James Gunn
  The Road to Science Fiction: Volume 3, From Heinlein to Here (Edited) - James Gunn
  Lord Valentine's Castle - Robert Silverberg

Book Reviews by Steev Higgins
  Moreau's Other Island - Brian W. Aldiss

Book Reviews by Janice Maule
  The Incredible Umbrella - Marvin Kaye
  The Eye of the Heron and Other Stories (Edited) - Virginia Kidd
  Cautionary Tales - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Book Reviews by Paul Kincaid
  The Gardens of Delight - Ian Watson
  Molly Zero - Keith Roberts

Book Reviews by Bill Carlin
  Wild Seed - Octavia E. Butler
  Beyond the Blue Event Horizon - Frederik Pohl
  The Magic Labyrinth - Philip Jose Farmer

Book Reviews by Brian Smith
  Hunter of Worlds - C. J. Cherryh

Book Reviews by Ian Williams
  Two to Conquer - Marion Zimmer Bradley

Book Reviews by Chris Morgan
  Tin Woodman - David F. Bischoff Dennis R. Bailey

Book Reviews by Kevin Smith
  Ringworld Engineers - Larry Niven

Book Reviews by Alan Dorey
  The Dark - James Herbert
  Voyage of the Eighth Mind - John Lymington
  Intrusions - Robert Aickman
  New Terrors 1 (Edited) - Ramsey Campbell
  To Wake the Dead - Ramsey Campbell

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