October 2011 Table of Contents

ISSUE #278 October 2011

Volume 24, No. 2 ISSN #1052-9438

ESSAYS

Thomas F. Bertonneau: Stanley Weinbaum’s “Martian Odyssey,” Gift Giving, and Ancient Astronaut Theory: 1

Michael Andre-Driussi: The Anime Renaissance: 1986 to 2010: 10

Patrick L. McGuire: Did Soviet Authors Write the First Branching-Timeline SF Novel?: 16

REVIEWS

Hope Mirrlees’s Paris, a Poem, reviewed by Michael Swanwick: 1

Joan Slonczewski’s The Highest Frontier, reviewed by Michael Levy: 9

Wilum H. Pugmire’s The Tangled Muse, reviewed by Peter Rawlik: 13

Savage Radio Plays, cocreated and directed by Daniel Patrick Fay and Andrew Livingston, reviewed by Jen Gunnels: 14

Kameron Hurley’s God’s War, reviewed by Greg L Johnson: 18

The Second H. P. Lovecraft Festival: Reanimator/The Call of Cthulhu, adapted by Dan Bianchi, reviewed by Jen Gunnels: 19

PLUS

Worldcon 2011 in pictures (3, 20–23) 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: Ann Crimmins, Alex Donald, Jen Gunnels, Ariel Haméon, Heather Masri, M’jit Raindancer-Stahl, and Anne Zanoni.

Weekly Crew: Lisa Padol and Christine Quiñones.

Special thanks to Arthur D. Hlavaty and Eugene Surowitz.

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