Do you are anyone in this group know where (or if) I could find copies of the mailings that went out in the early '70s detailing the month's SFBC offerings? Pdfs would be great.

Thanks,
Rus

On Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at 11:13:08 PM UTC-5, James Nicoll wrote:
> List courtesy of Andrew Wheeler
> Warning: this is one of those years I apparently spent asleep.
>
> 1971
> January FIVE FATES by Anderson, Herbert, Dickson, Ellison & Laumer
> Contents:
> The Fatal Fulfilment (Poul Anderson)
> Murder Will In (Frank Herbet)
> Maverick (Gordon R. Dickson)
> The Region Between (Harlan Ellison)
> Of Death What Dreams (Keith Laumer)
> This is a collection of five stories connected by sharing
> the same opening scene. It was memorable enough to have come up on
> this newsgroup multiple times in YASID threads but not memorable to
> me: all I recall of this is the cover art and what I read on the
> threads.
>
> INTER ICE AGE 4 by Kobo Abe
> I saw this but never bought it. Abe (1924-1993) was a Japanese
> author who seems to have had a remarkable rate of translation into
> English but I seem to have missed them all.
>
> Winter THE GODS OF MARS & THE WARLORD OF MARS by Edgar Rice Burroughs
> The last two books of the initial Mars trilogy by Burroughs.
> I don't think they are very good, even taking into account when they
> were written and for who.
>
> THE YEAR OF THE CLOUD by Kate Wilhelm and Ted Thomas
> Never even saw this one. Wilhelm is a talented author lost
> to mystery. Thomas I don't know from Adam.
>
> February BEST SCIENCE FICTION STORIES OF CLIFFORD D. SIMAK by Clifford D.
> Simak
> Contains:
> Founding Father
> Immigrant
> New Folk's Home
> Crying Jag
> All the Traps of Earth
> Lulu
> Neighbor
>
> No doubt I read some of these but I don't own this and the titles
> are not triggering memories.
> OUR FRIENDS FROM FROLIX 8 by Philip K. Dick
> I missed this as part of my comprehensive miss almost everything
> by PKD program.
>
> March RED MOON AND BLACK MOUNTAIN by Joy Chant
> And I missed this.
>
> DIMENSION X compiled by Damon Knight
>
> Contents:
> The Man Who Sold the Moon (Robert A. Heinlein)
> The Marching Morons (C.M. Kornbluth)
> Fiddler's Green (Richard M. McKenna)
> The Saliva Tree (Brian W. Aldiss)
> The Ugly Little Boy (Isaac Asimov)
>
> This looks like a pretty good collection, although anyone who
> had been an SFBC member for a while would likely already have all of
> these except for the Asimov and the McKenna.
> I wonder on average how long the SFBC keeps stuff in print?
>
> April THE HOUSE IN NOVEMBER by Keith Laumer
> On the other hand, this is much more frustrating: I know I read
> this because I can google up me recommending a decade ago but exactly
> which novel about superhuman protagonists this is escapes me.
> FUN WITH YOUR NEW HEAD by Thomas M. Disch
> Good SF writer, dodgy critic. In keeping with much of the rest
> of 1971, I missed this.
>
> May THE ROBOT NOVELS (omnibus of THE CAVES OF STEEL and THE NAKED SUN) by
> Isaac Asimov
> This is an onmibus of the two Lije Baley/R Daneel, previously
> reviewed.
>
> STURGEON IS ALIVE AND WELL by Theodore Sturgeon
> Foreword
> To Here and the Easel
> Slow Sculpture
> It's You!
> Take Care of Joey
> Crate
> The Girl Who Knew What They Meant
> Jorry's Gap
> It Was Nothing--Really!
> Brownshoes
> Uncle Fremmis
> The Patterns of Dorne
> Suicide
>
> I remember what must have been a Ballantine MMPK reprint of this
> but I never read it. Better than having forgotten it, I suppose.
>
> Spring DOWN IN THE BLACK GANG by Philip Jose Farmer
> I missed this.
>
> THE ICE PEOPLE by Rene Barjavel
> But not this tale of mysterious people retreived from the ice. It's
> not actually very good, though.
>
> June ALONE AGAINST TOMORROW by Harlan Ellison
>
> Contents:
> The Song of the Soul
> I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
> The Discarded
> Deeper Than the Darkness
> Blind Lightning
> All the Sounds of Fear
> The Silver Corridor
> "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman
> Bright Eyes
> Are You Listening?
> Try a Dull Knife
> In Lonely Hands
> Eyes of Dust
> Nothing for My Noon Meal
> O Ye of Little Faith
> The Time of the Eye
> Life Hutch
> The Very Last Day of a Good Woman
> Night Vigil
> Lonelyache
> Pennies off a Dead Man's Eyes
>
> A fair number of these ended up in _The Essential Harlan Ellison_.
> I can't say I really *enjoyed* most of them but they were well written.
>
> A TIME OF CHANGES by Robert Silverberg
> One of the few classic Mid-Period Silverberg novels I missed.
>
> July DRIFTGLASS by Samuel R. Delany
> On the other hand, my lack of knowledge about Delany is almost
> all encompassing.
>
> FREEZING DOWN by Anders Bodelson
> And I have not even heard of this author.
> August WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? Edited by Isaac Asimov
> Contents:
> Introduction (Isaac Asimov)
> A Martian Odyssey (Stanley G. Weinbaum)
> Night (John W. Campbell)
> The Day is Done (Lester del Rey)
> Heavy Planet (Milton Rothman)
> "--And He Built a Crooked House" (Robert A. Heinlein)
> Proof (Hal Clement)
> A Subway Named Mobius (A.J. Deutsch)
> Surface Tension (James Blish)
> Country Doctor (William Morrison)
> The Holes Around Mars (Jerome Bixby)
> The Deep Range (Arthur C. Clarke)
> The Cave of Night (James E. Gunn)
> Dust Rag (Hal Clement)
> Pate de Foie Gras (Isaac Asimov)
> Omnilingual (H. Beam Piper)
> The Big Bounce (Walter Tevis)
> Neutron Star (Larry Niven)
>
> This looks like a fairly good introduction to SF stories of
> a certain type from a certain period. I have forgotten Bixby inflicted
> that particular shaggy dog story on SF but the others, or at least the
> others I recall, are pretty good and don't end with stupid stupid punch
> lines. That said, I miss Bixby.
> It seems to me that there's a connection between Deutsch and
> that guy whose wife could bring him lunch but not a nickel but I am
> blanking on its exact nature. This is Deutsch's only published SF
> story (He and Asimov were at Boston together, and Asimov was the one
> who urged him to submit it) but it was a memorable story.
>
> THE DANCER FROM ATLANTIS by Poul Anderson
> This is a moody tale of a modern man cast back in time with
> a number of people from other eras. Complicating matters is when and
> where they end up: near the volanic island that will soon give rise
> to the legend of Atlantis by erupting and flatlining Cretan and Greek
> civilization.
>
> September WORLD'S BEST SF: 1971 edited by Donald Wollheim & Terry Carr
>
> Introduction (Wollheim & Carr)
> Slow Sculpture (Theodore Sturgeon)
> Bird in the Hand (Larry Niven)
> Ishmael in Love (Robert Silverberg)
> Invasion of Privacy (Bob Shaw)
> Waterclap (Isaac Asimov)
> Continued on Next Rock (R.A. Lafferty)
> The Thing in the Stone (Clifford D. Simak)
> Nobody Lives in Burton Street (Gregory Benford)
> Whatever Happened to the McGowans (Michael G. Coney)
> The Last Time Around (Arthur Sellings)
> Greyspun's Gift (Neal Barrett, Jr.)
> The Shaker Revival (Gerald Jonas)
> Dear Aunt Annie (Gordon Eklund)
> Confessions (Ron Goulart)
> Gone are the Lupo (H.B. Hickey)
>
> At the risk of cementing my repution for forgetting, even the
> ones in here I know I read (The Niven) don't seem to have left much
> impression.
>
>
>
> JACK OF SHADOWS by Roger Zelazny
> I really have to sit down and read all of the RZ I missed. Oh
> well, at least it isn't that damn Rose story.
>
> Fall THE BEST FROM FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION, 19TH SERIES edited by Edward
> L. Ferman
> Contents:
> Gone Fishin' (Robin Scott Wilson)
> Selectra Six-Ten (Avram Davidson)
> Longtooth (Edgar Pangborn)
> Sundance (Robert Silverberg)
> The Brief, Swinging Career of Dan and Judy Smythe (Carter Wilson)
> Dream Patrol (Charles W. Runyon)
> Calliope and Gherkin and the Yankee Doodle Thing (Evelyn E. Smith)
> Notes Just Prior to the Fall (Barry N. Malzberg)
> Confessions (Ron Goulart)
> Get a Horse! (Larry Niven)
> The Man Who LEarned Loving (Theodore Sturgeon)
> Litterbug (Tony Morphett)
> An Adventure in the Yolla Bolly Middle Eel Wilderness (Vance Aandahl)
> Starting From Scratch (Robert Sheckley)
> Benji's Pencil (Bruce McAllister)
> Six Cartoons (Gaham Wilson)
>
> The Niven is a Svetz story about a hapless time traveller whose
> expeditions never lead him back to true history and always entangle
> him with thing he likely would have chose to avoid (In this case, an
> ornry unicorn). I am failignto come up with interesting commentary on
> the rest, though.
>
>
> ORN by Piers Anthony
> This I missed but don't feel so bad about missing.
>
> October THE TIME MASTERS by Wilson Tucker
> I think I missed this one as well.
>
> THE EDICT by Max Ehrlich
> I missed this.
> November THE LATHE OF HEAVEN by Ursula K. Le Guin
> This is a shart novel about a man whose dreams can shape the world.
> OK story but avoid the recent adaptation of it.
>
> CHRONOPOLIS AND OTHER STORIES by J.G. Ballard
> Contents:
> The Voices of Time
> The Drowned Giant
> The Terminal Beach
> Manhole 69
> Storm-Bird, Storm-Dreamer
> The Sound-Sweep
> Billenium
> Chronopolis
> Build-Up
> The Garden of Time
> End-Game
> The Watch-Towers
> Now Wakes the Sea
> Zone of Terror
> The Cage of Sand
> Deep End
>
> Someone familiar with Ballard will have to handle this one.
>
> December DUNE by Frank Herbert
> Take some Lawrence of Arabia, mix in ASF Psi Powers and what do
> you get? _Dune_, a story about a boy and his jihad. I suspect that this is
> one of those books that seems much more impressive if you've never heard
> of the Seven Pillars of Wisdom and if you are a teen when you encounter it.
> And if you don't think about the energy it takes to plow through sand.
> I think it's still an ok read but avoid the sequels starting with
> _God (Does Nothing Happen in this Book) Emperor of Dune_ and be warned that
> both movie versions are seriously flawed, although in different ways.
>
> THE RUINS OF EARTH edited by Thomas M. Disch
> Contents:
> On Saving the World (Thomas Disch)
> Deer in the Works (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)
> Three Million Square Miles (Gene Wolfe)
> Closing with Nature (Norman Rush)
> The Plot to Save the World (Michael Brownstein)
> Autofac (Philip K. Dick)
> Roommates (Harry Harrison)
> Groaning Hinges of the World (R.A. Lafferty)
> Gas Mask (James D. Houston)
> Wednesday, November 15, 1967 (George Alec Effinger)
> The Cage of Sand (J.G. Ballard)
> Accident Vertigo (Kenward Elmslie)
> The Birds (Daphne DeMaurier)
> Do It For Mama! (Jerrold J. Mundis)
> The Dreadful Has Already Happened (Norman Kagan)
> The Shaker Revival (Gerald Jonas)
> America the Beautiful (Fritz Leiber)
>
> Well, I know -of- "The Birds". Otherwise it seems to be a
> clean sweep, although I suspect these are not happy stories.
> --
> "About this time, I started getting depressed. Probably the late
> hour and the silence. I decided to put on some music.
> Boy, that Billie Holiday can sing."
> _Why I Hate Saturn_, Kyle Baker