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Nina by Robert Block
Science: Clone, Clone of My Own by Isaac Asimov
In the Hall of the Martian Kings by John Varley
From Competition 18: Transposed SF titles
Upstart by Steven Utley
A House Divided by Lee Killough
 From Competition 19: SF limericks
Brother Hart by Jane Yolen
Films: Multiples by Baird Searles
The Man Who Had No Idea by Thomas M. Disch
Project Hi-Rise by Robert F. Young
Prismatica by Samuel R. Delany


INTRODUCTION
In this, the twenty-third volume in a series, I have continued the practice begun in number 22 of
including non-fiction material from F&SF's regular departments. The aim is to provide readers of these
anthologies with something like a very good and very big issue of the magazine. Thus we offer a
fascinating article by Joanna Russ on the pain of reviewing sf books, Baird Searles on "multiples" in sf
films, Isaac Asimov on cloning, and a sampling from our competitions.
The stories in this book cover the period from our November 1976 issue through the middle of
1979, a period of great growth in the science fiction field, at least in terms of numbers. If you're the sort
who likes to sniff the air for trends, you may have detected a smell of old attics, as much sf seemed to
swing back to traditional, even old-fashioned themes and forms. Compare 2001 to Star Wars.
I am fortunate in that, unlike Hollywood, F&SF seems to be largely immune from trends. The
magazine has a reputation for offering variety, and to uphold that image, it seems to me that it must
carefully avoid trends and formulas in an effort to publish a balance of different types of fantasy and sf.
And so we continue to look for good writing and fresh ideas and entertaining narratives, and once those
general criteria are satisfied, we take on whatever seems to be pleasing our writers at the time. That's the
best way I know of pleasing our leaders.
—Edward L. Ferman



"I See You" is the first new Damon Knight story in many yean; it was the feature story in
FASF's special Damon Knight issue (November 1976). As might be expected, it is a totally fresh
piece of work and it shines with quality. Damon says of it: "You may think it is a short story, but it
is really a novel on the plan of A for Anything and Hell's Pavement, only much compressed.

I See You
DAMON KNIGHT

You are five, hiding in a place only you know. You are covered with bark dust, scratched by twigs,
sweaty and hot. A wind sighs in the aspen leaves. A faint steady hiss comes from the viewer you hold in
your hands; then a voice: "Lone, I see you—under the bam, eating an apple!" A silence. "Lone, come on
out, I see you." Another voice. "That's right, she's in there." After a moment, sulkily: "Oh, okay."
You squirm around, raising the viewer to aim it down the hill. As you turn the knob with your thumb,
the bright image races toward you, trees hurling themselves into red darkness and vanishing, then the
houses in the compound, and now you see Bruce standing beside the corral, looking into his viewer,
slowly turning. His back is to you; you know you are safe, and you sit up. A jay passes with a whir of