ISSUE #245 January 2009
Volume 21, No. 5 ISSN #1052-9438
ESSAYS
Iain Emsley: Lighting the Lamp: Destabilizing the Occident in Aladdin: 1
Jess Nevins: The Nineteenth Century Roots of Steampunk: 1
Michael Swanwick: The View from the Wharf Rat: A Letter from Otakon 2006 in Baltimore: 10
David Drake: Surreal Splendor: Three Novels by Mark S. Geston: 11
Mark S. Geston: Fires Far Away: 12
Traci N. Castleberry: Twisting the Other: Using a “Third” Sex to Represent Homosexuality in Science Fiction : 13
Robert Guffey: Jack Kirby’s OMAC: Captain America Loves Big Brother: 17
Gary G. Garner: Observations Regarding the High-Tech Piracy Science Fiction of Murray Leinster: 19
REVIEWS
Thomas M. Disch’s The Wall of America, reviewed by Eugene Reynolds: 6
Ben Bova’s Mars Life, reviewed by Pierce Watters: 21
John Brunner’s The Compleat Traveller in Black, reviewed by Robert Bee: 22
PLUS
Lovecraftian anime (15) and an editorial (24).
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