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Justin Leiber, "Riding the Void Captain's Torch Through Essex House". . . . . . .page 1Kathryn Hume, "Making Love with the System: Sexualizing Technology- with-a-Capital-T". . . . . . . page 1
Springer-Verlag Fractals half-page ad. . . . . .page 2
Serconia Press half-page ad. . . . .page 2
Jessica Amanda Salmonson, "The Optimist and the Cynic: Stories of Robin McKinley and Michael Shea". . . . . .page 5
Paul Williams "'Runaway' by Del Shannon". . . . page 6
Roger Zelazny Read This. . . . . . .page 9
Donald G. Keller on John Kessel's Good News from Outer Space . . . . . . . page 10
Michael Swanwick, "Two Short Fiction Reviews". . . .page 11
Richard Terra, "Tarkovsky's Solaris the Second Time Around".page 12
Robert Killheffer on Dan Simmons's Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion. . . . . . . .page 13
Dave Langford "Postscript to 'Muddying the Waters'". . .page 14
Richard Terra on Dingbo Wu's and Patrick Murphy's (eds.) Science Fiction From China and John L. Apostolou's and Martin H. Greenberg's (eds.) The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories . . . . . . page 15
Vladimir Borisov Read This. . . . . page 16
Alexei Panshin "Witchcraft" by the Spiders. . . page 18
Tony Daniel on Claudia O'Keefe's Black Snow Days . . page 19
David Rike L.O.C. . . . . . page 20
Damien Kilby L.O.C. . . . . . . page 20
Alexei Panshin L.O.C. . . . . . page 20
J. N. Williamson L.O.C. . . . . . . page 20
Lucy Schmeidler L.O.C. . . . . . . .page 21
Judith Tarr L.O.C. . . . . . . .page 21
Katharine Kerr L.O.C. . . . . . page 21
Dave Langford L.O.C. . . . . . .page 21
Joe Sanders L.O.C. . . . . . . .page 22
L. W. Currey ad. . . . . . .page 22
Dragon Press half-page ad. . . . . .page 22
Tor full-page ad Shield of Time . . . . .page 23
Editorial: "An Elitist Brief: The Importance of Being Entertaining". . . . . . . page 24