Special effects geeks take center stage with
Starlog #8. Mix that with science fiction's most outspoken author, and
Starlog #8 tries valiantly to keep people's attention one month after the mind-blowing experience of the
Star Wars issue.
Starlog #8
68 pages (including covers)
Cover price: $1.50
Actual behind-the-scenes special-effects photos rarely took the cover spot at
Starlog, despite the large role played by SFX at the magazine. This cover is probably a good reason why. Despite giving you a neat idea of how the dinosaur scenes were shot on the Saturday morning fantasy series
Land of the Lost, it's simply not a cover that jumps off the newsstands.
In From the Bridge, Kerry O'Quinn raves about how inspiring
Star Wars is; Communications letters include a Californian who writes in with some background on
Star Trek actor George Takei's run for local office in Los Angeles; Log Entries items include a preview of SF TV for the fall season and a report on the SFX controversy regarding claims that a robot was used in the
King Kong movie. John Ciofli and John Warner contribute a retrospective of the original
The Fly; Howard Zimmerman interviews Harlan Ellison, "Science Fiction's Last Angry Man." Ellison pal David Gerrold fantasizes about the new
Star Trek movie; Susan Sackett's Star Trek Report answers the question of whether
Trek will return as a feature film or a TV production; in "The First 1,000 Tickets to Space," science writer James Oberg suggests that "many readers of this article may be journeying into space themselves by the end of this century. This is not fantasy. ... This is hard, cold, quantifiable arithmetic." "Welcome Back to the Wars" offers two more pages of
Star Wars photos; Jim Burns provides an overview of Saturday morning TV programs, including a complete listing of "kid-vid"; David Hutchison illuminates how model figures are animated in movies; and the Visions column examines solar sailing crafts for chasing comets.
"Harlan is not looking for any new fans. 'Fame is a lot more and a lot less than it's cracked up to be. I get 200 letters a day. People come from all over the world and sleep in my car if they think I'm not home, just so they can say they slept in his car.'"
--Howard Zimmerman, editor, "Harlan Ellison: Science Fiction's Last Angry Man"
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