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ALTER_EGO


                                             September 7, 2018
One of the more clever
ideas Richard E. Geis hit                    Richard E. Geis is a name
on in his fanzine writing                    that pops up in a few places
was dialogs-with-himself                     throughout the doomfiles:
where the character that
he had invented to talk to                            NERDS_BEYOND
was just named "Alter Ego"                            RANDOM_ENCOUNTER
(or just "Alter" for short).                          SKIFFY_ZINES

  The conflicted self                            He was by profession an author
                       MANIACS                   of sex books (I'm not sure
  The post-Freudian                              they'd qualify as "porn" by
  fractured self              "Animal House"     modern standards), but by
                              has a reprise      inclination a science fiction
  With echoes of the jokey    of this, a         fan-- an oddity of his story is
  movie convention of the     reference to       that he was not really ever a
  angelic and daemonic        the older jokes.   science fiction writer, but
  selves on each shoulder,                       rather a famous publisher and
  shouting in each ear.         I've seen it     author of SF fanzines-- "The
                                come back        Science Fiction Review",
                                again in some    "Richard E. Geis", "The Alien
                                Japanese pop     Critic"... and an early one I
                                culture.         think he called "Psychotic"
                                                 (which I've never seen).
                                SKIP_BEAT
   
                                                                (Mar 2022)
                                                         I see the old   
                                                         "Science Fiction
                                                         Review" is up at
                                                         archive.org now.

Geis's Alter Ego is a detail I
think I may have forgotten in my
(egocentric and trivial) tale of my
intellectual development.

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