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ISSUE #244 December 2008
Volume 21, No. 4 ISSN #1052-9438
ESSAYS
Mary Catherine Harper: Connie Willis: Of Fused Genres, Marriage Plots, and Meta-Gender: 1
Philip T. Long: A Second Reading of Beasts: 1
Michael Hemmingson: Sleep Is Not Enough: The Art of Dreaming and Made-for-TV Adaptations of The Lathe of Heaven: 15
Michael Levy: The Transcendent in David Almond’s Play Wild Girl, Wild Boy: 19
Mike Barrett: Dunsany: The Final Resting Place: 22
REVIEWS
Mike Brotherton’s Spider Star, reviewed by David Mead: 7
Man vs. Machine, edited by Martin H. Greenberg and John Helfers, reviewed by Chuck Rothman: 13
Jean-Marc & Randy Lofficier’s The Katrina Protocol and Edgar Allan Poe on Mars: The Further
Memoirs of Gullivar Jones, reviewed by Brian Stableford: 14
Melinda Snodgrass’s The Edge of Reason: A Novel of the War between Science and Superstition, reviewed by Jenny Blackford: 18
PLUS
Why write? (13); Screed (23); and an editorial (24).
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