The New York Review of Science Fiction: ISSUE #237 May 2008

ISSUE #237 May 2008

Volume 20, No. 9 ISSN #1052-9438

ESSAYS

Brian Stableford: The Futurist Novel as Hoax and Paradox: 1

Darrell Schweitzer: An Interview with James Morrow: 1

Jeff VanderMeer: The New Weird: “It’s Alive?”: 19

Charles Platt: Marginal Transcendence: More, and Later: 11

REVIEWS

James Morrow’s The Last Witchfinder, reviewed by Jenny Blackford: 5

William F. Temple’s 88 Gray’s Inn Road: A Living Space Odyssey and Other Stories, reviewed by Kyle McAbee: 6

Mark L. Van Name’s One Jump Ahead, reviewed by Michael Levy: 7

Joe Haldeman’s The Accidental Time Machine, reviewed by Pascal J. Thomas: 15

Ian Taylor’s Spindle: A Comedy Science Fiction Novel, reviewed by David Mead: 17

Justina Robson’s Keeping It Real: Quantum Gravity, Book One, reviewed by J. G. Stinson: 21

PLUS

A Short Appreciation of Jim Rigney (18) and an editorial (24).

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