ISSUE #236 April 2008
Volume 20, No. 8 ISSN #1052-9438
ESSAYS
Charles Platt: Marginal Transcendence: 1
Lucius Shepard: An Interview with Michael Swanwick: 1
Terry Bisson: Sixty Rules for the SF (& Fantasy) Short Story: 12
Elisabeth Malartre & Gregory Benford: Nantes, Utopiales 2007: 17
Mark Rich: Thinking about Slipstream: The Example of Ray Bradbury: 22
REVIEWS
Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier, reviewed by Javier A. Martínez: 6
Michael Swanwick’s What Can Be Saved From the Wreckage? James Branch Cabell in the Twenty-First Century,
reviewed by Darrell Schweitzer: 19
Michael Swanwick’s What Can Be Saved From the Wreckage? James Branch Cabell in the Twenty-First Century,
reviewed by Steven Hart: 19
Walter Metz’s Bewitched, reviewed by Michael Hemmingson: 21
Robert Redick’s The Red Wolf Conspiracy: The Chathrand Voyage, Book One, reviewed by Iain Emsley: 23
PLUS
A life, in brief (5); the art of covers (20); corrective Screed! (23); and an editorial (24).
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