The International Review of Science Fiction
Number 77, Autumn 1999
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CONTENTS
Guest Editorial: Wells and Woking
John Hammond
Features
- Brian Aldiss: The Referee of The War of the Worlds
- Patrick Parrinder: How Far Can We Trust the Narrator of The War of the Worlds?
- John Huntington: My Martians: Wells’s Success
- Charles E. Gannon: “One Swift, Conclusive Smashing and an End”: Wells, War and the Collapse of Civilisation
- Sylvia Hardy: H.G. Wells and British Cinema: The War of the Worlds
- Domna Pastourmatzi: Space Flight and Space Conquest in Hellenic Science Fiction
- Braulio Tavares: Stories of the Will-Happen: Science Fiction in Brazil
Letters
- Jonathan Benison: Ballard is an sf writer
- Simon Guerrier: Is Doctor Who sf’s imbecile?
- Gordon Van Gelder: Dozois and the Best SF
- Steve Jeffrey: On science, mathematics and bollocks
- Mark Bould: Westfahl and the novella
Reviews
- Colin Greenland: When the Feast is Finished by Brian Aldiss, with Margaret Aldiss
- L.J. Hurst: The Inheritors by Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford
- Joseph Nicholas: The Martians by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Kim Newman: British Science Fiction Cinema edited by I.Q. Hunter
- Andy Sawyer: The Sterkarm Handshake by Susan Price
- John Grant: The Rift by Walter Jon Williams
- David Langford: Architects of Emortality by Brian Stableford
- Jennifer Swift: Distraction by Bruce Sterling
- Keith Brooke: Flanders by Patricia Anthony
- David Langford: Time by Stephen Baxter
- John Grant: Singer from the Sea by Sheri S. Tepper