• Publication: The New York Review of Science Fiction, May 1990Publication Record # 61576 (View All Issues) (View Issue Grid)
• Editors: Kathryn Cramer, David G. Hartwell, Gordon Van Gelder
• Date: 1990-05-00
• Publisher: Dragon Press
• Price:
  $2.50^?$: US dollar
• Pages: 24
• Format:
  quarto^?8.5" by 11" magazine, usually saddle-stapled, instead of side-stapled or glued
• Type: MAGAZINE
• Notes: Number Twenty-One / Volume 2, No. 9 L. W. Currey, Contributing Editor; Samuel R. Delany, Contributing Editor Pages 7-16 are a parody issue "The New Yolk Review of Scientifiction", Issue number 01110101, Space 1990, separately paginated 1- 10. The page numbers of contents from this section have been regularized to conform with the remaining pagination.

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 1 • Muddying the Waters • essay by David Langford
• 1 • Rio Plus Twenty • essay by Frederik Pohl
• 4 •   Review: The Boat of a Million Years by Poul Anderson • review by John G. Cramer
• 5 •   Review: Frost and Fire by Roger Zelazny • review by Richard A. Lupoff
• 6 • Read This (NYRSF, May 1990) • essay by George Turner
• 7 • Dat Wascally Wabbit: The Influence of Song of the South on Lucius Shepard • essay by Tony Daniel
• 7 • All My Brain and Body Need: John W. Campbell and the Invention of Modern Rock and Roll, from The House of the Hits • essay by Gordon Van Gelder
• 9 • Doom and Digression: An Eventual Review of Kathryn Cramer's Review of James Morrow's This is the Way the World Ends • essay by James Morrow
• 10 • Review of The Mud-Pits of Lost Atlantis by Bryan G. Stephenson • essay by Greg Cox
• 10 • Review of The Mud-Pits of Lost Atlantis by Bryan G. Stephenson • essay by Kathryn Cramer
• 10 • Review of The Mud-Pits of Lost Atlantis by Bryan G. Stephenson • essay by John J. Ordover
• 10 • Eat This • essay by John hors d'Oeuvre
• 11 • Review of The Mud-Pits of Lost Atlantis by Bryan G. Stephenson • essay by Gordon Van Gelder
• 11 • Review of The Mud-Pits of Lost Atlantis by Bryan G. Stephenson • essay by Robert K. J. Killheffer [as by Robert Killheffer]
• 11 • Review of The Mud-Pits of Lost Atlantis by Bryan G. Stephenson • essay by Donald G. Keller
• 12 • Bite This • essay by Greg Cox
• 12 • Buy This • essay by I. E. Leibowitz
• 13 • Hogwash: The Pig in Fantasy Literature • essay by Robert K. J. Killheffer [as by Robert Killheffer]
• 15 • Work inDigestion: Bryan G[regory] Stephenson • essay by L. W. Curly
• 15 • Work inDigestion: Geoffrey Hartwell • essay by L. W. Curly
• 16 • Obituary • essay by The (Deep and Authoritative) Voice o' History
• 18 • Jerry Lee Lewis: "Whole Lot of Shakin' Going On", from Rock and Roll: The 100 Best Singles • non-genre • essay by Paul Williams
• 19 •   Review: The Waste Land by Martin Rowson • review by Donald G. Keller
• 20 •   Review: First Light by Peter Ackroyd • review by Robert K. J. Killheffer [as by Robert Killheffer]
• 22 • The Jaynetts: "Sally Go 'Round the Roses", from Rock and Roll: The 100 Best Singles • non-genre • essay by Paul Williams
• 23 • Screed (Letters of Comment) (NYRSF, May 1990) • essay by various
• 23 •  Letter (NYRSF, May 1990) • essay by Charles Platt
• 23 •  Letter (NYRSF, May 1990) • essay by Cory Panshin
• 23 •  Letter (NYRSF, May 1990) • essay by John J. Ordover
• 23 •  Letter (NYRSF, May 1990) • essay by Darrell Schweitzer
• 24 • It Lives! • essay by The Staff and Gordon Van Gelder