August 2011 Table of Contents

ISSUE #276 August 2011

Volume 23, No. 12 ISSN #1052-9438

ESSAYS

Patrick L. McGuire: Two Wars Lying Just Around the Corner: 1

Aidan-Paul Canavan: The Future of Fantasy, or, How I Learned to Stop Questing and Love the Dragon: 20

REVIEWS

Lovecraft: Stories to Make You Squirm, adapted and directed by Dan Bianchi, reviewed by Jen Gunnels: 1

Thomas Ligotti’s The Conspiracy against the Human Race, reviewed by Darrell Schweitzer: 8

Pearl North’s The Boy From Ilysies, reviewed by Peter Rawlik: 12

Gemma Files’s A Book of Tongues: Volume One of the Hexslinger Series, reviewed by Joe Sanders: 15

Rudy Rucker’s Nested Scrolls: The Autobiography, reviewed by Henry Wessells: 16

Nebula Awards Showcase 2011, edited by Kevin J. Anderson, reviewed by Wendy Bousfield: 18

The Original Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley with Percy Bysshe Shelley,

edited by Charles E. Robinson, reviewed by Frances Auld: 22

PLUS

Random returns (17) and an editorial (24).

Samuel R. Delany, Contributing Editor; Kris Dikeman and Avram Grumer, Associate Managing Editors.

David G. Hartwell, Reviews and Features Editor; Kevin J. Maroney, Managing Editor.

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

Weekly Crew: Lisa Padol and Christine Quiñones.

Special thanks to Arthur D. Hlavaty and Eugene Surowitz.

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