Vector, February 1987

Editor(s): David V. Barrett 
Pages: 22, A4
Price: 95p
Cover:
Notes: #136


Editorial
   - David V. Barrett 

Articles
  Short Stories Are People Too - Garry Kilworth 
  The Maverick Astronomer: Fred Hoyle's "The Black Cloud" - Gregory Benford 
  The Ghost in the Pen: A View of Politics and Philosophy in Science Fiction and Fantasy, Part 1 - Michael Cobley 

Letters
   - Bryan S. Collins 
   - Terry Broome 
   - Ben Staveley-Taylor 
   - Robert Steele 
   - Kev McVeigh 
   - Andy Sawyer 
   - Tom Jones 
   - Phil Nichols 
   - Dr. Med Uwe Mageus 

Book Reviews by Jim England
  The Hitch-Hikers' Guide to the Universe - Douglas Adams 
  O-Zone - Paul Theroux 

Book Reviews by Jon Wallace
  Foundation and Earth - Isaac Asimov 

Book Reviews by L. J. Hurst
  The Venus Hunters - J. G. Ballard 

Book Reviews by Mike Moir
  Eon - Greg Bear 

Book Reviews by Martyn Taylor
  Eon - Greg Bear 

Book Reviews by David V. Barrett
  The Unlikely Ones - Mary Brown 

Book Reviews by Nik Morton
  The Best SF of the Year #15 (Edited) - Terry Carr 

Book Reviews by Terry Broome
  Tales from the Haunted House - R. Chetwynd-Hayes 
  The Second Book of After Midnight Stories (Edited) - Amy Myers 

Book Reviews by Ken Lake
  The Wizards and the Warriors - Hugh Cook 
  The Forever Man - Gordon R. Dickson 

Book Reviews by Rosemary Pardoe
  The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories (Edited) - Michael Cox  R. A. Gilbert 
  The Ghost Stories of M. R. James (Edited) - Michael Cox 

Book Reviews by Maureen Porter
  King Death's Garden - Ann Halam 
  The Chimney Witches - Victoria Whitehead 
  The Centauri Device - M. John Harrison 
  Howl's Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones 

Book Reviews by Paul Brazier
  Backtrack - Peter Hunt 

Book Reviews by Barbara Davies
  Redwall - Brian Jacques 

Book Reviews by Helen McNabb
  The Wandering Fire - Guy Gavriel Kay 
  The Silver Metal Lover - Tanith Lee 
  Second Nature - Cherry Wilder 

Book Reviews by K. V. Bailey
  Dad's Nuke - Marc Laidlaw 

Book Reviews by Keith Freeman
  Omega - Raymond Leonard 

Book Reviews by David Wingrove
  Science Fiction: The Explorations - C. N. Manlove 
  The Produgy - Amy Wallace 

Book Reviews by Edward James
  The Watcher - Jane Palmer 

Book Reviews by Sue Thomason
  The Others - Alison Prince 
  Soldier of the Mist - Gene Wolfe 

Book Reviews by Paul Kincaid
  The Travails of Jane Saint and Other Stories - Josephine Saxton 
  Little Tours of Hell - Josephine Saxton 
  Twentieth Century Science Fiction Writers (Edited) - Curtis C. Smith 

Book Reviews by Mike Dickinson
  Nature's End - Whitley Strieber  James Kunetka 

Book Reviews by Chris Barker
  The Golden Horn - Judith Tarr 



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