ISSUE #241 September 2008
Volume 21, No. 1 ISSN #1052-9438
ESSAYS
Paul Shackley: Transitions, Trilogies, & Tetralogies: The Interconnected Series of James Blish: 1
Allen Steele: Mad Science and Machine Guns: Doc Savage Revisited: 1
Spyros A. Vretos: Hellenes and Aliens: A Survey of Greeks and Greek Expatriates in the World of Science Fiction: 13
REVIEWS
John Shirley’s Living Shadows, reviewed by Greg L. Johnson: 7
PLUS
Plus: The Return of Random Langford (12); a Read This (16); the death of the book, Victorian style (19);
Screed (20); and an editorial (24).
Kathryn Cramer, Art and Web Site Editor; Samuel R. Delany, Contributing Editor; Kris Dikeman, Associate Managing Editor.
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Lisa Padol, Christine Quiñones, and Eugene Surowitz.
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