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Issue 50 Volume 05 August 2001

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Editorial

Dan L. Hollifield

The Senior Editor's usual ravings about whatever…


Serialised stories and Long Fiction

Starshock Part 3 (of 3)
Roger Bennett
A century ago the T'zirian Empire first found the Human colony near its borders. At first there was an uneasy peace, then finally there was war between the two expanding empires. After that there was another uneasy peace between the humans and T'zirians. But as always, peace was a very fragile thing…

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Short Stories

A Few Tunes
John Powers
An elderly musician is seeking a place where he can play a few tunes to loosen up for his most important performance.

Hell
Thomas D'Intino
Heaven may not be all it is cracked up to be!

No News is Good News
Swanand Arole
It has been said that every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil. Dr. Thomas Zimmerman refused.

Sad Grey Eyes on Tharsis
J Alan Erwine
The rebellion against the Martian Colonial government had begun the year Sanji was born and the fighting had continued off and on through all the years he was growing up. It was now his eighteenth birthday, by Earth reckoning, and the war was waiting.

Selkie In Amber
Francis Eaden
A creature of the sea, Fiona, grieving her dead human lover, is entrapped by a new need for human love. She is unable to accept the reality of her true nature until faced with a decision requiring her to be both human and selkie.

The Bulliwogs
E. A. Gundlach
Everybody remembers somebody like Talmidge from their own childhood. If we ever go to the stars, he'll go too.

The Final Lesson
Robert Moriyama
UN Peacekeeping Force Lieutenant Aaron Stein thought he had completed his training, but he was wrong…

The Night No Printers Would Collate
Elizabeth C. Arguelles-Florance
Working late one Friday night, a fallen proposal goddess discovers a greater glory.

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Poetry and Filk Music

And the Band Played Bouncing Potatoes
Terence Chua

Poul Anderson is Gone
Jim M. Pierce

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Articles and features

Dan Hollifield reviews:
"The Ghost Sister,"
The new novel by Liz Williams. To a world whose inhabitants possess extra senses that tie them intimately to the land come visitors from the stars, who find more than they bargained for…

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