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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Mark R. Harris"
<brokerharris@...> wrote:
>
> There's an interesting entry on Geis in Lee Server's
Encyclopedia
of Pulp
> Fiction Writers. Apparently as time went on Geis's
production
became more
> esoteric/marginal/lurid (take your pick), until by
the Seventies
he was
> writing incest porn and bestiality porn among much
other work. Now
that's
> sleaze for you!
That was the market in porn novels for you. A bit like
complaining that crime fiction got too violent as hardboiled
arose.
Geis, who has been a prolific sf fan publisher indeed, saw
his 1960s PSYCHOTIC become SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW, then he
briefly let someone else issue a different magazine with that
title, then in 1973 put out three issues of RICHARD E. GEIS
mostly as a "personalzine" about his own life, which became
with its fourth issue a more reviews and
critical-article-laden THE ALIEN CRITIC and shortly
thereafter SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW again...as with the late
Bill Bowers's OUTWORLDS, Andy Porter's ALGOL (later STARSHIP)
and Tom Reamy's TRUMPET and such later titles as
THRUST/QUANTUM and SCIENCE FICTION EYE, only perhaps more
ferociously than any of those others, SFR and TAC were
crossroads publications for those in sf who were both serious
about sf and interested in relatively informal prose
(analogous to THE ARMCHAIR DETECTIVE and similar ambitious cf
reviews).
Geis still publishes, most accessibly through
eFanzines.com:
http://efanzines.com/Taboo/index.htm
Todd Mason
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