ISSUE #246 February 2009
Volume 21, No. 6 ISSN #1052-9438
ESSAYS
Christopher S. Kovacs: “. . . And Call Me Roger”: the Early Literary Life of Roger Zelazny: 1
Judith Moffett: POD Self-Publishing: Caveat Emptor: 1
David Drake: A Belated Thank-You: 21
REVIEWS
Paul Melko’s The Walls of the Universe, reviewed by Michael Levy: 7
Helen Collins’s Neurogenesis, reviewed by Joan Gordon: 11
Isaac Asimov’s Pebble in the Sky, reviewed by Donald M. Hassler: 13
Matthew Hughes’s Template: A Novel of the Archonate, reviewed by David Mead: 19
John Scalzi’s Zoe’s Tale, reviewed by Niall Harrison: 20
PLUS
Ink flows through it (7); lots of Screed (22); and an editorial (24).
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