The Return of the DAW Reviews! 1983

As far as I can tell, I composed this but never posted it:


512 Sharon Green The Warrior Enchained

I missed this one



513 Tanith Lee Red as Blood

Paid Piper

Red as Blood

Thorns

When the Clock Strikes

The Golden Rope

The Princess and Her Future

Wolfland

Black as Ink

Beauty

This, this was a keeper. When this came out, I was working as
a security guard, a job of mind-numbing dullness. As it happened, the
breast pocket of a Burns uniform held a medium sized paper-back perfectly
and I read and reread this Lee collection several times. Lee takes well
known fairy tales (all but one familiar to me -- all I can recall of the
one I didn't know was that it involves swans) and reworks them to great
effect.


514 Clifford D. Simak Out of Their Minds

Another book I know from a Berkley edition: icons from humanity's
collective unconscious, figures like Pan and Satan, show up to complain
about recent additions like Dagwood Bumstead. I can only assume Garfield
induced lethal levels of rage.


515 Doris Piserchia The Deadly Sky

I missed this one.


516 Jo Clayton Moonscatter

Duel of Sorcery #2, which I missed.


517 Edward Llewellyn Prelude to Chaos

This is set in the period when humans have already managed to
sterilize most of the population but before the effects have completely
been understood. As civilization slowly crumbles, one ex-secret service
agent seeks to learn the truth behind his incarceration.


518 Brian M. Stableford The Gates of Eden

FTL is a doddle but without hyperspace beacons, nobody can
navigate in it. Humans have contacted one other species of a similar
level of advancement (who had HSBs and thus could be found with FTL
ships) but have otherwise been limited in their exploration of the
galaxy. Now a human ship launched ages ago has reached a promising
system, except there's a catch...

Well, _I_ liked it. Not sure the Big Secret makes sense.


519 Isaac Asimov & Martin H. Greenberg Isaac Asimov Presents
the Great SF Stories, 9 (1947)

Introduction Isaac Asimov & Martin H. Greenberg

Little Lost Robot [Susan Calvin (Robot)] Isaac Asimov

Tomorrows Children Poul Anderson

Parents face tough choices in a radioactive post-war world.


Childs Play William Tenn

Time and Time Again H. Beam Piper

Tiny and the Monster Theodore Sturgeon

E for Effort T. L. Sherred

Letter to Ellen Chandler Davis

The Figure Edward Grendon

With Folded Hands... [Humanoids] Jack Williamson

Humans learns the downside of Asimov's First Law.


The Fires Within [as by E. G. OBrien] Arthur C. Clarke

Humans learn that they share the earth with another civilized
race. Matters do not procede entirely to our benefit.

Am I right in thinking several Clarke stories have people
sitting around digging through the papers of people who are no longer
around to talk to?


Zero Hour Ray Bradbury

Hobbyist Eric Frank Russell

Exit the Professor [Hogben] Lewis Padgett

Thunder and Roses Theodore Sturgeon

If I recall correctly, doomed Americans have the chance to
strike at the nation that killed the USA, at the cost of the entire
human race. Will they pick vengeance or forgive their killers in
the name of the greater good?


520 John Norman Kajira of Gor

This is about two letters from being about a guy in a rubber
dinosaur suit trampling on little models of Gorean cities. I didn't read
it, though.


521 C.J. Cherryh The Dreamstone

This was as early as 1983? I missed it but I think the David A.
Cherry who did the cover is Cherryh's sibling.


522 Gordon R. Dickson Mutants


Introduction in

Warrior [Childe Cycle]

Of the People

Danger: Human!

Rehabilitated

Listen

Roofs of Silver

By New Hearth Fires

Idiot Solvant

The Immortal

Miss Prinks

Home from the Shore [Johnny Joya]


I must have read _some_ of these but I am drawing a blank here.


523 Philip K. *** The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

I missed this.


524 M.A. Foster Transformer

I think I missed this.


525 Marion Zimmer Bradley Greyhaven

No idea what this one is.


526 Alan Burt Akers Fires of Scorpio

Dray Prescott #29


527 Jack Vance The Blue World

Several generations after colonizing a world entirely without
land, some humans try to achieve a freer life, or at least one that
does not involve kowtowing to a monster.

Don't beings like this usually demand the seven fairest maids
and lads every seven years? It was ok.


528 Donald A. Wollheim & Arthur W. Saha The 1983 Annual
World's Best Science Fiction

Introduction Donald A. Wollheim

The Scourge [Martin] James White

A Letter from the Clearys Connie Willis

Short and unmarred by the non-euclidian horror that is Willis'
sense of humor, this is about luck and survivor's guilt.


Farmer on the Dole Frederik Pohl

Playing the Game Gardner R. Dozois & Jack M. Dann

Pawns Gambit Timothy Zahn

The Comedian Timothy R. Sullivan

Written in Water Tanith Lee

Souls Joanna Russ

Swarm [Mechanist-Shapers] Bruce Sterling

A human tries to exploit an ancient lifeform without considering
the implications of its age.


Peg-Man Rudy Rucker


This was the last of these collections, I believe or at least the
last one Wollheim worked on.



529 Jo Clayton Ghost Hunt

The seventh Diadem novel, which I missed.


530 Tanith Lee Sung in Shadow

I missed this.


531 Clifford D. Simak Cemetary World

I remember the setting (An Earth given over to graveyards) and
some of the characters (a robot who learned to survive in the wild) but
none of the plot.


532 Sharon Green An Oath to Mida

No idea.


533 Philip K. *** A Maze of Death

I missed this (I'm probably the mirror image of a *** fan).


534 E.C. Tubb Melome

Dumarest, you great wally, you are on planet number 28. There
are 400 billion stars in the Milky Way Galaxy.


535 David J. Lake Warlords of Xuma

Years after having their heads handed to them by the natives of
Xuma, a cabal of humans is ready for Try Two at taking over, dare I say
it? The world! Morons.

Decent light fun.


536 Timothy Zahn The Blackcollar

Supersoldier stuff, maybe?


537 Richard D. Nolane Terra SF II

Preface Richard D. Nolane

Shoobeedoowah Across the Universe Karl-Michael Armer; trans. by
Joe F. Randolph

The Hospital, a Cynical Fable Daniel Walther; trans. by
Joe F. Randolph

El Pape Bob Laerhoven

John Henry Oyvind Myhre; trans. by Grethe Boe-Hansen

The Biological Truth Veikko Rekunen

Disslish the Aquamancer Tais Teng; trans. by
Annemarie van Ewyck

Recollections Poul Anderson bg [Francois Bordes]

? Did Anderson speak foreign? No wonder he was a liberal as a
kid: multilingualism causes neural change.


The Last Atlantean Francis Carsac; trans. by Joe F. Randolph

Mikey Turns Three Merete Kruuse; trans. by Joe F. Randolph

The Emerald-Studded Scepter Carlos Saiz Cidoncha
trans. by Joe F. Randolph

In Search of Aurade Gianluigi Zuddas; trans. by
Joe F. Randolph

The Ogres Head Richard D. Nolane; trans. by Joe F. Randolph

Haike the Heretics Writings Wolfgang Jeschke; trans. by
Joe F. Randolph

I know only that many European names are not ascii compatable.


538 A. Bertram Chandler Matilda's Stepchildren

This would be the one I couldn't recall last time I looked at
ABC.


539 Gregory Kern The Galactiad

Kern is E.C. Tubb, this is Cap Kennedy #17 and although I have not
read it, I would bet that it is utter crap.


540 C.J. Cherryh The Tree of Swords and Jewels

Purdy cover but it's fantasy and I didn't read it.


541 Barrington J. Bayley The Zen Gun

I missed this.


542 Kenneth Bulmer The Diamond Contessa

Hey, this is the first Bulmer I ever read. Some people have the
ability to cross between parallel worlds. The Diamond Contessa is one
and she is very very naughty.


543 Isaac Asimov & Martin H. Greenberg Isaac Asimov Presents
the Great SF Stories, 10 (1948)

Introduction Isaac Asimov

Dont Look Now Henry Kuttner

He Walked Around the Horses [Paratime Police] H. Beam Piper

Fictional treatment of a historical mystery in which a British
diplomat disappeared in circumstances where he should not have been able
to.


The Strange Case of John Kingman Murray Leinster

I think this is about a very special patient.


That Only a Mother Judith Merril

The Monster A. E. van Vogt

Aliens use a resurecto beam to bring various humans back to
life, long after we have gone extinct. It works out a little less well
than in JURASSIC PARK.


Dreams Are Sacred Peter Phillips

Mars Is Heaven! Ray Bradbury

Thang Martin Gardner

Brooklyn Project William Tenn

The defense of the nation requires time travel! Hilarity ensues.


Ring Around the Redhead John D. MacDonald

Period Piece J. J. Coupling

Dormant A. E. van Vogt

In Hiding [Timothy Paul] Wilmar H. Shiras

Knock Fredric Brown

A Child Is Crying John D. MacDonald

Late Night Final Eric Frank Russell


544 Marion Zimmer Bradley Thendara House Hannah M.G. Shapero Sep-83

I missed this.


545 Colin Kapp The Search for the Sun! Vincent

Cageworld #1 and I think I read this. The sun is surrounded by
shell after shell, in an attempt to avoid both population control and
a malthusian crisis. Don't ask me about the plot, though.


546 Philip K. *** Ubik

I missed this.


547 Pierre Barbet Emperor of Eridanus translated by Stanley Hochman

I missed this.


548 Tanith Lee Anackire

I missed this.


549 Richard Purtill The Mirror for Helen

And this.


550 Arthur W. Saha The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 9

Introduction Arthur W. Saha

Influencing the Hell Out of Time and Teresa Golowitz Parke Godwin

Mirage and Magia Tanith Lee

Other Jor Jennings

The Horror on the #33 Michael Shea

Another Orphan John Kessel

Lest Levitation Come Upon Us Suzette Haden Elgin

Sentences Richard Christian Matheson

Square and Above Board R. A. Lafferty

The Malaysian Mer Jane Yolen

Djinn, No Chaser Harlan Ellison

Clean miss for me. This seems to be the final anthology in this
series.


551 Robert Trebor An XT Called Stanley

Silver notes "a.k.a. Lionel Fanthorpe", which is a bit like noticing
a new, irregular mole.


552 Charlotte Stone Cheon of Weltenland

I missed this.


553 Karl Edward Wagner Year's Best Horror Stories: XI

Introduction: One from the Vault Karl Edward Wagner

The Grab Richard Laymon

The Show Goes On Ramsey Campbell

The House at Evening Frances Garfield

I Hae Dreamd a Dreary Dream John Alfred Taylor

Deathtracks Dennis Etchison

Come, Follow! Sheila Hodgson

The Smell of Cherries Jeffrey Goddin

A Posthumous Bequest David Campton

Slippage Michael P. Kube-McDowell

The Executor [Father OConnor] David G. Rowlands

Mrs. Halfboogers Basement Lawrence C. Connolly

Rouse Him Not [John Thunstone] Manly Wade Wellman

Spare the Child Thomas F. Monteleone

The New Rays M. John Harrison

Cruising Donald Tyson

The Depths Ramsey Campbell

Pumpkin Head Al Sarrantonio

Another clean miss for me and another final volume in a series.
Sarrantonio was this early?


554 A.E. van Vogt Computerworld

And I missed this as well.


555 Clifford D. Simak Our Children's Children

I know I have read but I have forgotten it.


556 Jean Lorrah & Jacqueline Lichtenberg Channel's Destiny

I think this is about the tragic relationships between the
quasi-vampiric Sime and their cattle, the Gen.


557 Colin Kapp The Lost Worlds of Cronus

This is Cageworld #2 but I don't think I even saw it.



558 Alan Burt Akers Talons of Scorpio

Dray Prescott #30


559 Philip K. *** & Roger Zelazny Deus Irae

Two flavours that did not taste great together.

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