Issue 235 Table of Contents

ISSUE #235 March 2008
Volume 20, No. 7 ISSN #1052-9438
ESSAYS
Joe Sanders: Noir/Alien/Detectives: Chad Taylor’s Shirker: 1
Tom Purdom: When I Was Writing: A Literary Memoir: 10
James Morrow: Why I Write Science Fiction: 14
Robert Eldridge: The Historical Context of Emma Frances Dawson’s An Itinerant House: 18
Brian Aldiss: Slow Starts: 21

REVIEWS
Iain M. Banks’s Matter, reviewed by John Clute: 1
Iain M. Banks’s Matter, reviewed by Jonathan McCalmont: 4
Matthew Hughes’s The Spiral Labyrinth, reviewed by David Mead: 5
Robert Redick’s The Red Wolf Conspiracy: The Chathrand Voyage, Book One, reviewed by Iain Emsley: 8
John Scalzi’s The Android’s Dream, reviewed by Joe Milicia: 9
Richard Paul Russo’s The Rosetta Codex, reviewed by Graham Sleight: 13
The Freedom of Fantastic Things: Selected Criticism of Clark Ashton Smith, edited by Scott Connors;
and The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith, Volume 1 and 2, reviewed by Darrell Schweitzer: 15
Nalo Hopkinson’s The New Moon’s Arms, reviewed by Ursula Pflug: 17
Nalo Hopkinson’s The New Moon’s Arms, reviewed by Greg L. Johnson: 17
Catherynne M. Valente’s In the Cities of Coin and Spice and
Patrick Rothfuss’s The Name of the Wind, reviewed by Jenny Blackford: 22

PLUS
Some Screed (23) and an editorial (24).

Kathryn Cramer, Art and Web Site Editor; Samuel R. Delany, Contributing Editor; Kris Dikeman, Associate Managing Editor.
David G. Hartwell, Reviews and Features Editor; Kevin J. Maroney, Managing Editor.

Staff: Ann Crimmins, Eugene Reynolds, and Eugene Surowitz.
Special thanks to Avram Grumer, Arthur D. Hlavaty, Lisa Padol, and Christine Quiñones.