The New York Review of Science Fiction
Published by Dragon Press
P. O. Box 78
Pleasantville, NY 10570

In this issue

• Kathryn Locey on Gene Wolfe's open questions

• Alice K. Turner chooses the lady, not the tiger

• Gwyneth Evans on the spiritual, not the economic

• Earl Wells on Heinlein's Harsh Mistress

• Leonard Rysdyk follows Gregory Benford to the end of time

• Michael Kandel on why writing is like cancer

Plus requisite lesbians, bloody futtering, and a descent into hell...

Kathryn Locey: Three Dreams, Seven Nights, and Gene Wolfe's Catholicism: 1

Alice K. Turner: The Triumph of Menopause: 1

Gwyneth Evans: "A Greater Universe": Landscape and the Intersection of Worlds by Charles Williams and John Cooper Powys: 14

Gregory Benford's Sailing Bright Eternity, reviewed by Leonard Rysdyk: 6

The St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers, edited by David Pringle, reviewed by Darrell Schweitzer: 7

Robert A. Heinlein's The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, reviewed by Earl Wells: 12

Ian McDonald's Evolution's Shore, reviewed by Joseph Milicia: 16

Women at War, edited by Louis McMaster Bujold and Roland Green, reviewed by Michael Levy: 17

Kim Newman's The Bloody Red Baron, reviewed by Joan Gordon: 19

Those Who Can: A Science Fiction Reader, edited by Robin Scott Wilson and Paragons: Twelve Master Science Fiction Writers Ply Their Craft, reviewed by Michael Kandel: 20

Naguib Mafouz's Arabian Nights and Days, reviewed by Ariel Hameon: 22

Monica Clee's Branch Point, reviewed by Kyle Phillips: 23

A Read This by prodigal son Gordon Van Gelder (p. 10), a Mini-Screed courtesy the same gentleman, and an editorial (p. 24).

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