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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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