September 2011 Table of Contents

Volume 24, No. 1 ISSN #1052-9438

ESSAYS

Christopher S. Kovacs and Susan M. MacDonald: Medical Myths and Errors in Science Fiction and Fantasy: 1

Charles Oberndorf: Another Lens: Roberto Bolaño and Science Fiction: 16

Alvaro Zinos-Amaro: Absence of Self: Karen Joy Fowler’s Short Fiction Then and Now: 19

Gilbert Colon: An Interview with Matthew Bradley, Richard Matheson’s Chronicler: 21

Jim Trombetta: Time Travel, Tragic Irony, and Algis Budrys’s “The Skirmisher”: 22

REVIEWS

Death and the Powers, composed by Tod Machover, reviewed by Jen Gunnels: 1

Magic Mirrors: The High Fantasy and Low Parody of John Bellairs, reviewed by Darrell Schweitzer: 14

PLUS

Swanwick’s Brief Lives (5, 7, 9); some Screed (23); 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: Ambrose, 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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