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The Complete Cheap Truth

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The Complete Cheap TruthBruce Sterling donned his unsecret identity of Vincent Omniaveritas to publish the 1980s samizdat fanzine Cheap Truth, whose 18 issues engaged in much shit kicking denunciation of fuddy duddy old SF fantasy and praise of radical new stuff (or sometimes vice versa) in those days when the genres Cyberpunk and Humanist cliques were supposed to be deadly rivals. Subversive and fun, Cheap Truth was explicitly not copyrighted and so was assembled into an

Bruce Sterling donned his unsecret identity of Vincent Omniaveritas to publish the 1980s ÒsamizdatÓ fanzine Cheap Truth, whose 18 issues engaged in much shit-kicking denunciation of fuddy-duddy old SF/fantasy and praise of radical new stuff (or sometimes vice-versa) in those days when the genreÕs Cyberpunk and Humanist cliques were supposed to be deadly rivals. Subversive and fun, Cheap Truth was explicitly not copyrighted and so was assembled into an Ansible Editions ebook without any tiresome formality about asking permission. Bruce Sterling himself has however given the go-ahead for this paperback. Most of the rampant clipart omitted from the ebook has been restored. 33,500 words.

From the first-issue lead article ÒQuest for DecayÓ:

ÒAs American SF lies in a reptilian torpor, its small, squishy cousin, Fantasy, creeps gecko-like across the bookstands. Dreaming of dragon-hood, Fantasy has puffed itself up with air like a Mojave chuckwalla. SFÕs collapse has formed a vacuum that forces Fantasy into a painful and explosive bloat.

ÒShort stories, crippled with the bends, expand into whole hideous trilogies as hollow as nickel gumballs. Even poor Stephen Donaldson, who struggles to atone for his literary crimes with wet hippy sincerity, has been forced to re-xerox his Tolkien pastiches and doubly insult the public. As Robert E. Howard spins in his grave, the Chryslers of publishing attach rotors to his head and feet and use him to power the presses.

ÒBut the editors have eaten sour grapes and the writersÕ teeth are on edge. Fantasy, for too long the vapid playground of McCaffreyite unicorn-cuddlers and insect-eating SCA freaks, has some new and dangerous borderlands. Suddenly, perhaps out of sheer frustration, fantasy has movement and color again. It is the squirming movement of corruption and the bright sheen of decay.Ó

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