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The Newspaper of the Science Fiction Field

January cover Connie Willis stands beneath a giant alligator (or is it a crocodile?) on the cover of the January issue, which has lots of international coverage--about SF in China, Brazil, Australia, and Iberia, with convention reports by Charles N. Brown, Gay Haldeman, and Joan Manel Ortiz.

Also in the issue

  • Interviews with Connie Willis and Bradley Denton
  • Reports from the World Fantasy Convention in Chicago last October
  • News about Dean Koontz and Elizabeth A. Lynn
  • Reviews of Ray Bradbury's Quicker than the Eye, John Kessel's Corrupting Dr. Nice, Robin Hobb's Assassin's Quest, Linda Nagata's Deception Well, S. P. Somtow's The Pavilion of Frozen Women, Candas Jane Dorsey's Black Wine, E. A. Wyke-Smith's The Marvellous Land of Snergs, and many more.