ISSUE #249 May 2009
Volume 21, No. 9 ISSN #1052-9438
ESSAYS
Amy J. Ransom: WorldCon 2009 in Montréal: How the Other Half Lives; or, SFQ: More than Just a Hobby: 1
Eric A. Johnson: My London Time-Slip: 1
Tom Purdom: When I Was Writing: Installment Five: 11
Chuck Gannon: A “Dear John” Letter to a Fallen Giant: Revisiting Updike’s Marginalization of SF: 18
Darrell Schweitzer: Robert Bloch and the Death of Science Fiction—1951: 19
REVIEWS
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster’s TH.2058, reviewed by Michael Swanwick: 9
Kage Baker’s The House of the Stag, reviewed by Jenny Blackford: 10
C. J. Henderson’s Tales of Inspector Legrasse, reviewed by Peter Rawlik: 13
Cory Doctorow’s Content: Selected Essays, reviewed by Robert Bee: 21
Brenda Cooper’s Reading the Wind, reviewed by David Mead: 23
PLUS
David Langford’s Random Reading (14) and an editorial (24).
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