ISSUE #233 January 2008

ISSUE #233 January 2008

Volume 20, No. 5 ISSN #1052-9438

ESSAYS

David Swanger: Shock and Awe: The Emotional Roots of Compound Genres: 1

James Morrow: Four Kinds of Authorial Trouble: Some Unruly Ruminations on the Art of Fiction, with Special Reference to a Forthcoming Novel Titled The Philosopher’s Apprentice: 1

REVIEWS

Mary Rosenblum’s Horizons, reviewed by Joan Gordon: 6

James Van Pelt’s Summer of the Apocalypse, reviewed by Greg L Johnson: 7

Mark Frutkin’s Fabrizio’s Return, reviewed by Ursula Pflug: 15

Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner’s Fleet of Worlds, reviewed by David Mead: 18

Gene Wolfe’s Pirate Freedom, reviewed by John Clute: 19

Jay Lake’s Rocket Science, reviewed by Joe Milicia: 20

Mike Carey’s The Devil You Know, reviewed by Michael Levy: 21

Hardboiled Cthulhu, edited by James Ambuehl, reviewed by Pete Rawlik: 22

PLUS

Plus: Pluto and its times (13); some Screed (23); and an editorial (24). 

 

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