January 2011 Table of Contents

ISSUE #269 January 2011

Volume 23, No. 5 ISSN #1052-9438

ESSAYS

Phil Gochenour: Utopia of Pain: Adolescent Anxiety and the Ideology of Narrative in Robert A. Heinlein’s Starship Troopers: 1

Tom Purdom: When I Was Writing: A Literary Memoir (Part 8): 14

Robert Bee: The Dream Millennium and James White’s Collective Unconscious: 19

Darrell Schweitzer: Professional Fiction Magazines: Between a Rock and Some Hard Facts, and How to Wiggle Out of Them: 22

REVIEWS

u (Universal), a Klingon opera, reviewed by Jen Gunnels: 1

Paul Melko’s The Walls of the Universe, reviewed by Joe Milicia: 6

Win Scott Eckert’s Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World, reviewed by Peter Rawlik: 12

Orson Scott Card’s Hidden Empire, reviewed by Thomas E. Jackson: 20

Justin Cronin’s The Passage, reviewed by Wendy Bousfield: 21

PLUS

Returning to Orwell (9); Submarines and inventions (11); Napoleon sleep (17); 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.

Staff: Ann Crimmins, Alex Donald, Jen Gunnels, M’jit Raindancer-Stahl, and Anne Zanoni.

Weekly Crew: Avram Grumer, Lisa Padol, and Christine Quiñones.

Special thanks to Arthur D. Hlavaty and Eugene Surowitz.