(Original Review, 1980-09-14)James Blish discussed this mapping of SF stories into other kinds somewhere in "The Issue At Hand". He called it the "smeerp" method: you call a rabbit a smeerp, put it on Mars, and presto it's science fiction. I don't know if I would call the alien culture story an excl...
"William Atheling" is a pseudonym of James Blish.
"William Atheling" is a pseudonym of James Blish.He adopted it in order to write reviews of SF magazines in a fanzine. The reviews are technical in nature and brutal. They are also a useful lesson for beginner writers in What Not To Do. The harsh style is hilarious and it is notable that those wh...
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