Two more gone

* Doctor Michael Blumlein, author of The Movement of Mountains, The Brains of Rats, and a nonstory construct that could have been called “Why I Want to Vivisect Ronald Reagan.”

* Professor Edgar Chapman, author of excellent studies of Philip José Farmer and Robert Silverberg

Collateral damage

There is a point in pregnancy after which doctors can predict with better-than-chance accuracy what sex the child will decide to be. This is one of the things the Nacirema take too seriously, sometimes with disastrous results. Here is a casualty report.

Thanx to conuly