[December 2, 1967] Women and Men (January 1968 IF)
by David Levinson Small steps towards equality It’s been almost 50 years since women in the United States were given the right to vote. But while things have come a long way, there’s still a long way...
View Article[December 31, 1967] Surprise, surprise! (January 1968 Analog)
by Gideon Marcus Evitability There are some things you can count on in life: death, taxes, the North Vietnamese violating their own Christmas truce more than a hundred times. But sometimes, life deals...
View Article[January 2, 1968] The consequences of success (February 1968 IF)
by David Levinson A major medical advancement On December 2nd, in Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa, a young woman named Denise Darvall was struck by a drunk driver. She was rushed to a nearby...
View Article[January 14, 1968] As Is (February 1968 Amazing)
by John Boston The February 1968 Amazing, the second under Harry Harrison’s editorship, displays two themes on its face, both noted last issue. The first is puffery: this issue says WORLD’S LEADING...
View Article[January 26, 1968] Jack Barron Returns!New Worlds, February 1968
by Mark Yon Scenes from England Hello again! After a month or so, I’m back. It may be a little late, but a Happy 1968 to you. Here in England the trials and tribulations of New Worlds magazine...
View Article[January 31, 1968] Too much and too little (February 1968 Analog)
by Gideon Marcus Too much Last week, we watched the evening news with mounting dread and anxiety as President Johnson ordered 15,000 reservists into action in response to the seizure of the U.S.S....
View Article[February 4, 1968] More of the Same (March 1968 IF)
Don't miss This week's news! by David Levinson Medicine marches ahead Last month, I wrote about the first human-to-human heart transplant by Dr. Christiaan Barnard in South Africa. It paired rather...
View Article[February 24, 1968] Sex, Mind-Rape, Sitars and Fun Palaces New Worlds, March...
by Mark Yon Scenes from England Hello again! And yes, I’m relieved that we have another monthly issue of New Worlds. As you may know publication has been a little erratic of late, but I’m pleased to...
View Article[February 26, 1968] Stormy Weather (March 1968 Analog)
by Gideon Marcus There's no sun up in the sky Out in the vastness of space, a constellation of man-made moons keeps watch on the Earth below. Unlike their brethren, the military sentinels that look...
View Article[March 2, 1968] Rules and Regulations (April 1968 IF)
by David Levinson New rules Readers don’t need to be reminded that the Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France came to a close just two weeks ago. Of course, most of the attention has gone to French skier...
View Article[March 6, 1968] Trend-setter (April 1968 Galaxy)
by Gideon Marcus Back in the saddle again It's been a long time since the halcyon days of the early '50s, when Galaxy was setting the standard to beat, ushering in the Silver Age of Science Fiction...
View Article[March 26, 1968] Scandal! New Worlds, April 1968
by Mark Yon Scenes from England Hello again! Quick recap, then. You might remember that last time I said that I thought that New Worlds and its editor Mike Moorcock were pushing boundaries, although I...
View Article[March 28, 1968] Design for effect (April 1968 Analog)
by Gideon Marcus There are all kinds of science fiction stories. Some explore the human condition, prioritizing people and how they might be affected by emerging technologies. Others are space or...
View Article[April 2, 1968] Asking the big questions (May 1968 IF)
by David Levinson A spring thaw? Change appears to be coming to Czechoslovakia. Faced with growing dissatisfaction last year, First Secretary of the Czechoslovakian Communist Party Antonín Novatný...
View Article[April 30, 1968] (Partial) success stories (May 1968 Analog)
by Gideon Marcus Chertona Dyuzhina (Baker's Dozen) Luna 14 is the Soviet Union's latest space success story. Launched April 7, it slipped into lunar orbit a couple of days later and began relaying...
View Article[May 2, 1968] The Thing with Feathers (June 1968 IF)
by David Levinson Hope, according to Emily Dickinson, is “the thing with feathers” which sings and never stops. Perhaps, but there are times when it becomes very hard to hear its song. After the...
View Article[May 10, 1968] Horse race (June 1968 Galaxy)
by Gideon Marcus Three and Two make Two I imagine Vegas bookies are tearing their hair out trying to predict the Presidential race this year. On January 1, the hard money would have been on President...
View Article[May 31, 1968] Euler's Issue (June 1968 Analog)
by Gideon Marcus Constants The universe is based on a host of magic numbers. Without them, the cosmos would be entirely different and probably uninhabitable. Some of these "constants" are familiar to...
View Article[June 2, 1968] Necessary Evils (July 1968 IF)
by David Levinson The Baltimore Nine You may recall one of the more spectacular draft protests last October when Father Philip Berrigan and three other men forced their way in a Selective Service...
View Article[June 10, 1968] Froth and Frippery (July 1968 Galaxy)
by Gideon Marcus A little goes a long way Science fiction has a reputation for being a serious genre. In tone, that is–it's still mostly dismissed by "serious" literary aficionados. Whether it's...
View Article[June 16, 1968] More Scandal! New Worlds, July 1968
by Mark Yon Scenes from England Hello again! It’s been a while, but it’s good to be back. Something I suspect Editor Mike Moorcock has been saying too, because since I last wrote THINGS HAVE HAPPENED....
View Article[June 26, 1968] To far off lands (July 1968 Fantasy and Science Fiction)
by Gideon Marcus Points East It's been so very long since I could offer a travelogue from my favorite of countries, Japan. But now, after four years (and a stop at the Fotomat to develop pictures), I...
View Article[June 30, 1968] Hawk among the sparrows (July 1968 Analog)
by Gideon Marcus It's all in who you know This month, the legendary Earl Warren, former governor of my state of California, and Chief Justice during one of the Supreme Court's most dramatic eras,...
View Article[July 2, 1968] What’s the Point? (August 1968 IF)
by David Levinson The appearance of doing something One of the German Empire’s colonies before the First World War was German South West Africa, nestled between what are today South Africa, Angola, and...
View Article[July 10, 1968] Back in the Saddle Again (August 1968 Galaxy)
by Gideon Marcus Not F-UN Bjo Trimble, a superfan from the wayback, put together a fan shindig in Los Angeles last weekend. Called F-UN Con, it is not only an SF convention, but it's also the first...
View Article[July 22, 1968] Shades and Shadows (August 1968 Fantasy and Science Fiction)
by Gideon Marcus Hail to the Chief I mentioned a few months back that Tony Boucher, one of the original editors for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction had passed away. Because of the vagaries...
View Article[July 31, 1968] No easy answers (August 1968 Analog)
by Gideon Marcus Hard reality "Fans are Slans", or so the legend goes. Inspired by the psychic supermen in A. E. Van Vogt's Slan, the notion is that SF fans are a breed apart. Better than the average...
View Article[August 12, 1968] Galaxy's the One? (the September 1968 Galaxy)
by Gideon Marcus Live from Miami Beach! If you, like Walter Cronkite, Chet Huntley and David Brinkley (and me), soldiered through the four days and nights of GOP convention coverage, you saw the drama...
View Article[August 20, 1968] A tale of two issues (September 1968 Fantasy and Science...
by Gideon Marcus Split Personality There's an interesting piece by Ted White in May's Science Fiction Review. He talks about how the magazines are on a slow, inexorable decline due to a number of...
View Article[August 31, 1968] The Sound and the Fury (September 1968 Analog)
by Gideon Marcus In the backround (and sometimes the foreground) of my reading of this month's issue of Analog was the Democratic National Convention held over four tumultuous days in the Windy City....
View Article[September 30, 1968] A spoonful of sugar… (October 1968 Analog)
by Gideon Marcus Sputnik all over again? Last week, the Soviets produced their latest space spectacular, potentially leaving America in the dust again. Zond 5, launched September 14, was sent around...
View Article[October 2, 1968] Future History Lessons (November 1968 IF)
by David Levinson Saving the past Around the turn of the century, the British in Egypt set out to regulate the flooding of the Nile by building a dam at Aswan, near the First Cataract, a little under...
View Article[November 2, 1968] Role Models (December 1968 IF)
by David Levinson The passing of a great As I sat down to write this article, I heard the news of the death of Lise Meitner. If that name isn’t familiar to you, it should be. Einstein once called her...
View Article[December 2, 1968] Forget It (January 1969 IF)
by David Levinson Forget the future It’s official. As if it weren’t already clear from the events in Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia over the summer, the Soviet Union has now openly declared that no...
View Article[December 4, 1968] Sign Me Up (January 1969 Amazing)
by John Boston In this January's Amazing, on page 138, there is an editorial—A Word from the Editor, it says, bylined Barry N. Malzberg—which suggests a different direction (or maybe I should just say...
View Article[December 26, 1968] Comfort OK? Looking Forward, Not Backwards New Worlds,...
by Mark Yon Scenes from England Hello again. A recent comment from our leader here at Galactic Journey caused me to pause for thought. As he summed up the year in science fiction, it struck me that we...
View Article[December 31, 1968] Auld Lang Syne (January 1969 Analog)
by Gideon Marcus We made it And so, 1968 ends with a bang, not a whimper. After a miserable year that saw the loss of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy, the capture of the Pueblo, the Tet...
View Article[January 4, 1969] Not following through (February 1969 IF)
by David Levinson The misrule of law You may recall that Brazil underwent a military coup back in the spring of 1964. The reasons were the usual ones, and the U.S. response can be characterized, at...
View Article[January 28, 1969] Slidin' (February 1969 Analog)
by Gideon Marcus Mudslides Winter is the wet season for Southern California, and we've been just drenched these past weeks. I understand seven inches of rain fell in the Los Angeles area, causing...
View Article[February 8, 1969] So Much for That (March 1969 Amazing)
by John Boston Last issue, new editor Barry Malzberg declared that “the majority of modern magazine science-fiction is ill-written, ill-characterized, ill-conceived and so excruciatingly dull as to...
View Article[February 12, 1969] Slick stuff (March 1969 Galaxy science fiction)
by Gideon Marcus The Bad Kind For 12 days, 21,000 gallons a day of crude oil spilled into the Pacific ocean off the coast of Santa Barbara. Only on February 8 was the leaking undersea well finally...
View ArticleFebruary 26, 1969] Springtime for Moorcock? New Worlds, March 1969
by Mark Yon Scenes from England Hello again. As I am a Brit, you may have realised that it is essential that from time to time we talk about the weather – after all, it is usually so changeable here....
View Article[March 1, 1969] Beyond this Horizon (March 1969 Analog and Mariner 6)
by Gideon Marcus On to Mars! Four years ago (has it been that long?) Mariner 4 became the first space probe to sail by Mars. This event instantly destroyed a thousand dreams. The 21 grainy, black and...
View Article[March 2, 1969] Dreams and reality (April 1969 IF)
by David Levinson A different kind of colonialism When the Indian subcontinent gained independence, the Muslim and Hindu regions went their separate ways, contrary to the hopes of Gandhi. Hundreds of...
View Article[March 8, 1969] Around the Universe (April 1969 Galaxy)
by Gideon Marcus Around the World Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States, is back from a tour of Europe. All of his visits made headlines, particularly when he went to the Vatican and a...
View Article[April 4, 1969] Hey, Mack! (April 1969 Analog)
by Gideon Marcus Mars ho! Well, this is exciting! For the first time ever, two identical Mariner probes are on their way to an interstellar destination. On March 27, Mariner 7 blasted off for Mars,...
View Article[April 6, 1969] The Weight of History (May 1969 IF)
by David Levinson A simmering conflict There’s trouble brewing in the east. The border between the Soviet Union and China has long been a point of contention, going back over 100 years when the Czars...
View Article[April 8, 1969] Distractions (May 1969 Galaxy)
by Gideon Marcus Instant Classic There are few expressions as irritating to me as the oxymoronic "Modern Classic"…but I have to admit that the shoe sometimes fits. Mario Puzo's third novel, The...
View Article[April 24, 1969] The Strange New Normal New Worlds, May 1969
by Mark Yon Scenes from England Hello again! With this issue of New Worlds, number 190, we now seem to be getting back to a regular monthly schedule and the new style seems to be bedding itself down...
View Article[April 26, 1969] Downbeat (May 1969 Fantasy and Science Fiction)
by Gideon Marcus Impending collapse The end may be near for the nascent would-be-state of Biafra. For two years, the Nigerian breakaway has seen its land systematically (re)taken, and the eight...
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