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Cover of Matrix, #31

Matrix, #31

August 1980

Editor John Harvey , Eve Harvey
Cover art Iain Byers
Publisher BSFA
Pages 44
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  • Dated August/September 1980, ISSN 0307-3335 on cover.
  • Side-stapled, no cover price.
  • Numbering starts with 2 on page 4, cover and inside cover not numbered. The publication's pagination is preserved for indexing here.
  • Also contains a members' noticeboard 'Miscellany Corner' and the uncredited news column 'News of the SF World' from pages 21-25, and the column of very brief reviews 'Have You Read This One?' on page 41.
  • 'The Captive' is a panel cartoon that runs for two pages.

Page Type Kind Title Author(s)
1 Essay Non Fiction Parting Shots John Harvey
3 Essay Non Fiction Review of the film 'The Final Countdown' by Don Taylor Joseph Nicholas
4 Essay Non Fiction Review of the play 'The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy' by Ken Campbell Colin Fine
6 Essay Non Fiction Letter (Matrix 31) Phil Palmer
7 Essay Non Fiction Letter (Matrix 31) Roger Waddington
8 Essay Non Fiction Letter (Matrix 31) Hussain R. Mohamed
8 Essay Non Fiction Letter (Matrix 31) Mark Greener
9 Essay Non Fiction Letter (Matrix 31) Phil James
9 Essay Non Fiction Letter (Matrix 31) Mick Holder
10 Essay Non Fiction Letter (Matrix 31) Ian Bell
11 Essay Non Fiction Letter (Matrix 31) Alan Ferguson
11 Essay Non Fiction Letter (Matrix 31) Cyril Simsa
12 Essay Non Fiction Letter (Matrix 31) Paul Oldroyd
13 Essay Non Fiction Letter (Matrix 31) Mike Brown
14 Essay Non Fiction Letter (Matrix 31) Chuck Connor
14 Essay Non Fiction Letter (Matrix 31) Andy Sawyer
15 Essay Non Fiction Letter (Matrix 31) Michael Ashley
16 Essay Non Fiction Letter (Matrix 31) Arnold Akien
16 Essay Non Fiction Letter (Matrix 31) Roelof Goudriaan
17 Essay Non Fiction Letter (Matrix 31) Ken Mann
18 Essay Non Fiction The Editor Strikes Back Joseph Nicholas
22 Essay Non Fiction Competition David Langford
22 Essay Non Fiction Competition Kenneth Walton
25 Essay Non Fiction Convention Report: Fifth Congresso Europeo di Science Fiction Marjorie Brunner
26 Essay Non Fiction Convention Report: If I Die in a Combat Zone Joseph Nicholas
29 Essay Non Fiction On the Carpet (Matrix 31) Rob Jackson
33 Essay Non Fiction The Captive Returns (and Goes Away Again ...) Jim Barker
36 Essay Non Fiction Midsummer Madness Alan Dorey
40 Essay Non Fiction Media Notes Jim Barker
41 Review Non Fiction A Different Light Eve Harvey & Elizabeth A. Lynn
41 Review Non Fiction Dagger of the Mind Eve Harvey & Bob Shaw
41 Review Non Fiction Mission of Gravity Eve Harvey & Hal Clement
41 Review Non Fiction Orbitsville John Harvey & Bob Shaw
41 Review Non Fiction Rite of Passage John Harvey & Alexei Panshin
41 Review Non Fiction The Book of the Dun Cow Eve Harvey & Walter Wangerin, Jr.
41 Review Non Fiction The Paradox Men John Harvey & Charles L. Harness
41 Review Non Fiction The Space Machine John Harvey & Christopher Priest
41 Review Non Fiction Up the Walls of the World Eve Harvey & James Tiptree, Jr.

Page Type Kind Title Author(s)
Editor Non Fiction Matrix - 1980 John Harvey & Eve Harvey
Cover Art Non Fiction Matrix, #31 Iain Byers
5 Interior Art Non Fiction Cartoon: "George, the world's smallest fan" (Matrix 31) Steve Ince
33 Interior Art Non Fiction The Captive (Matrix 31) Jim Barker
44 Interior Art Non Fiction Cartoon: "George, the world's smallest fan" (Matrix 31) [2] Steve Ince
44 Interior Art Non Fiction Cartoon: "That reminds me, more sugar in my coffee private" Shane Feeney