Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
From: hoey@aic.nrl.navy.mil (Dan Hoey)
Date: 1995/06/09
Subject: Re: Harlan Ellison's Xenogenesis

da...@NetVision.net.il (Lisa Aaronson) writes:

> I've seen mentions of an article by Harlan Ellison called
> Xenogenesis.  I'd like to read it, but no one seems to know where
> it can be found.  Was it one of the things that he published in a
> special limited edition or something?

"Xenogenesis" appeared in the August, 1990 issue of _Isaac Asimov's
Science Fiction Magazine_ the cover has an elephant with pink
membranes.  The essay consists mostly of his October, 1984 GoH speech
at Westercon 37.  It is a collection of stories of the ways that fans
have mistreated SF professionals, mostly reponses to his solicitation
of such stories and his personal experiences.

Like a lot of Ellison, it teeters on the edge between aggrieved
complaints against people who have victimized him and mean-spirited
vindictiveness toward people who have not shown him the respect he
considers appropriate.  There was a lot of discussion of it in
sf-lovers, starting in about June, 1990; perhaps you can get it from
the archives.

Dan
Hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil