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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 modern standards), but by
inclination a science fiction
With echoes of the jokey fan-- an oddity of his story is
movie convention of the that he was not really ever a
angelic and daemonic science fiction writer, but
selves on each shoulder, "Animal House" rather a famous publisher and
shouting in each ear. has a reprise author of SF fanzines-- "The
of this, a Science Fiction Review",
reference to "Richard E. Geis", "The Alien
the older jokes. Critic"... and an early one I
think he called "Psychotic"
I've seen it (which I've never seen).
come back
again in some
Japanese pop
culture.
SKIP_BEAT
(Mar 2022)
I see the old
Geis's Alter Ego is a detail I "Science Fiction
think I may have forgotten in my Review" is up at
(egocentric and trivial) tale of archive.org now.
my intellectual development.
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POSTMODERN
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