Table of Contents: ISSUE #236 April 2008

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).

 

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.

 

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