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The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [v 75 #6, December 1988] ed. Edward L. Ferman (Mercury Press, $2.00, 164pp, pb) 6 · The Mole Field · Ian Watson · ss 17 · Dreams in Tandem · Nancy Etchemendy · pm 18 · Books · Algis Budrys · br 26 · Books to Look For · Orson Scott Card · br 29 · cartoon · Ed Arno · ct 30 · Floating Castles · Ray Aldridge · nv 52 · The Bird Looking In · Robert Reed · nv 72 · cartoon · Sidney Harris · ct 73 · What Dreams May Come · Brad Strickland · ss 83 · cartoon · Joseph Farris · ct 84 · F&SF Competition: Report on Competition 46 · Misc. · ms 87 · The Time of No Troubles [Ira Walker] · W. Warren Wagar · na Science: ___ 138 · Into the Here · Isaac Asimov · ar 148 · Batboy · Harry Turtledove · ss 158 · Harlan Ellison’s Watching · Harlan Ellison · mr 160 · Index to Volume 75 · Misc. · ix
The Magazine of Speculative Poetry [v2 #2, October-December 1988] ed. Roger Dutcher & Mark Rich (Self Published, $2.00, 18pp, pb) 3 · Mean Time 2000 · Bruce Boston · pm 4 · Mnemoniphage · Robert Frazier · pm 5 · Catroux Wears Jewelry Like Love · Margaret Palmer Gordon-Espe · pm 5 · Seeking an Oasis in the Desert · Margaret Palmer Gordon-Espe · pm 6 · The Map of Her Mind · Margaret Palmer Gordon-Espe · pm 7 · Elegy for an Undead Man · William John Watkins · pm 7 · Timewalker’s Plague · William John Watkins · pm 8 · If Freezing Is a One-Way Street · William John Watkins · pm 9 · Osmose · Isabelle Perrin · pm 9 · Osmosis · Isabelle Perrin; trans. by Marie-Joelle Moll-Bouyat & Mark Rich · pm 10 · Noah (ii) · Ken Poyner · pm 11 · The Cat Improvement Company · Brian W. Aldiss · pm 12 · Survivor · Valerie Nieman Colander · pm 12 · Night Train · John Wingo Long · pm 13 · Before This Dawn · Mark Rich · pm 14 · Otter Rocks · Terry A. Garey · pm 15 · Time · S. R. Compton · pm 15 · Colony · Michael R. Collings · pm 16 · Keys of a Kingdom · Robert F. Whisler · pm 17 · Friendship · Sheila E. Murphy · pm 17 · Neighbors · G. O. Clark · pm 18 · Casting Bones · Elissa Malcohn · vi 18 · What Clones Share When They Pass Beyond Their Corporeal Lifetimes · Andrew Joron & Robert Frazier · pm
The Mage [# 9, Winter 1988] ed. Harry Dolan (Colgate University, $2.50, 74pp, 8½" x 11" pb)

3 · Redefining Horror Through SF · Michael J. Brutvan · ed
4 · Keep Off the Grass · R. D. Davis · ss
8 · Lord Dunsany: A Critical Overview · Jeffrey V. Yule · ar
12 · Jorkens Consults a Prophet [Joseph Jorkens] · Lord Dunsany · ss Jorkens Has a Large Whiskey, London: Putnam, 1940
14 · How Nuth Would Have Practiced His Art upon the Gnoles · Lord Dunsany · ss The Book of Wonder, London: Heineman, 1912
16 · Godseeker · Gene KoKayKo · ss
22 · The Hermit’s Night · Elizabeth Hillman · pm
23 · The Place of Inbetween: The Contrast of Ghasta · Wade Tarzia · ar
26 · From the Mage’s Shelf · Jeffrey V. Yule · br
29 · Rodger Gerberding: Making Twilight Concrete · Rodger Gerberding · pi
38 · White Boy · Patricia Anthony · ss
41 · How Green the Grass · Genoa · pm
42 · Economy of Motion: The Writer’s Craft in The Dark Border · Bruce Byfield · cr
47 · The Human Condition · H. R. Felgenhauer · pm
48 · The Theft of the Silver Monkey · Harry Dolan · ss
60 · Painter in a Graveyard · Jonathan Seewald · pm
62 · Mage Reviews · Mage Staff · br
66 · Readers’ Responses · The Readers · lt
The Mage [#10, Summer 1988] (Colgate University, $2.50, 64pp, large, cover by Harry Dolan) 3 · Does It Have to Be “Good” to Be Good? · Michael J. Brutvan · ed 4 · Scratch Thief Falling · Edward J. Santella · ss 10 · The Lost Land · Elizabeth Hillman · pm 12 · “Eye of Argon,” Opiate of the People · James D. Hornfischer · ar 15 · The Mare Tenebrosum · Jeff VanderMeer · ss 20 · Young Man, Destiny Webbed · Janet P. Reedman · pm 21 · Auguries: Gene Wolfe, Understanding the Overworld · David W. Gregg · ar [Gene Wolfe] 24 · Out of the Night · Theodore Solomon · ss 32 · His Mind Amid Wires · Mark Rich · pm 34 · An Interview with Fritz Leiber · Rodger Gerberding · iv [Fritz Leiber] 42 · A Place of Inbetween: The Plausibility Problem · Wade Tarzia · ar 44 · The Bat’s Song · Jennifer Gostin · ss 47 · the man who would be king... · Anon. · pm 48 · The Mage’s Shelf · Jeffrey V. Yule · br 51 · The Emerald Systems · Leo Bigley · ss 57 · Your Kind · Kendra Usack · pm 58 · Mage Reviews · Mage Staff · br 61 · The Persistence of Arthur Machen: A Personal Perspective · Rita Tait · ar [Arthur Machen] 64 · Readers’ Responses · The Readers · lt
Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Fantasy Magazine [v1 #1, Summer 1988] ed. Marion Zimmer Bradley (MZB Enterprises, $3.95, 64pp, pb) 4 · “A New Magazine” · Marion Zimmer Bradley · ed 5 · Contributors · Misc. · bg (r) 6 · Imagination & Reason · Poul Anderson · ar 10 · The Skycastle · Bruce D. Arthurs · ss 18 · Arady Mountain · Millea Kenin · ss 24 · The Vision · Rachel Cosgrove Payes · ss 30 · The Final Bet · Marion Zimmer Bradley · ss 32 · Golden Vanity · Elisabeth Waters · ss 37 · The Dragon and the Sword · Paula Helm Murray · ss 43 · Marion Zimmer Bradley Talks to Writers · Marion Zimmer Bradley · cl 45 · Trialogue: Two Worlds of Fantasy · Marion Zimmer Bradley, Fritz Leiber & Walter Breen · ar 50 · Moonrise · Dorothy J. Heydt · ss 54 · Final Exam · Jennifer Roberson · ss 59 · Luck of the Draw · Elizabeth Dobecki · ss
Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Fantasy Magazine [v1 #2, Autumn 1988] ed. Marion Zimmer Bradley (MZB Enterprises, $3.95, 64pp, pb) 5 · The Bone · Susan M. Shwartz · ss 16 · Paradox Lost · Dorothy J. Heydt · ss 21 · Dreamtime in Adjaphon · John Gregory Betancourt · ss 27 · Hitchiker · Jayge Carr · ss 31 · The Lady, The Wizard, and The Thing · Lynne Armstrong-Jones · ss 39 · The Vision of Aldamir · Paul Edwin Zimmer · ss 48 · Mary Rose and the Devil · Stephen C. Fisher · vi 49 · To Agent or Not to Agent · Thomas J. King, Jr. · ar 52 · Mistaking the Dragon Mage · Terry O’Brien · ss 54 · A Subject I Wish Had Never Come Up · Marion Zimmer Bradley · ed 55 · Marion Zimmer Bradley Talks to Writers · Marion Zimmer Bradley · cl 57 · Was Startling Stories the First Interactive Magazine? · Richard A. Lupoff · ar 60 · Letters Column · The Readers · lt 62 · Contributors · Misc. · bg (r)
Midnight Graffiti [No.1, June 1988] ed. Jessie Horsting & James Van Hise (Midnight Graffiti Publishing, $4.95, 80pp, 8½" x 11" pb) 4 · From Beyond · James Van Hise · ms 10 · Headlines You May Have Missed · Russ Buchanan · ms 12 · Life Is Tough (But Death Is Rotten) · Mark Onspaugh · ar 16 · The Function of Dream Sleep · Harlan Ellison · nv 30 · The Splat Pack · Anon. · ar 36 · # · David J. Schow · nv 48 · The Manana Boys · Anon. · hu 52 · Scenes from a Mexican Vampire Movie · Brett Rutherford & Mahlon L. Fawcett · cs 58 · The Ouija Board Interview with L. Ron Hubbard · Max Rebeaux · hu 62 · Recommendations · James Van Hise · br 68 · Comics: Show Me Your Teeth! · James Van Hise · br 72 · The Gallery of Richard Upton Pickman · Allen Koszowski · pi 79 · To the Publishers · The Readers · lt 80 · cartoon · Alan Hutchinson · ct
Midnight Graffiti [No.2, Fall 1988] ed. Jessie Horsting & James Van Hise (Midnight Graffiti Publishing, $4.95, 80pp, 8½" x 11" pb) 4 · From Beyond · James Van Hise · ms 10 · Headlines You May Have Missed · Russ Buchanan · ms 13 · Midnight Graffiti’s Pik-a-Plot Guide to Horror · Anon. · ms; based on Gahan Wilson’s “The Science Fiction Horror Movie Pocket Computer”, National Lampoon Nov,1971. 16 · Emerald City Blues · Steven R. Boyett · ss 26 · Ray Garton: Is There Such a Thing as Too Much? · Sarah Wood · iv [Ray Garton] 31 · Crucifax [Chapter Eighteen, original version] · Ray Garton · ex 38 · Book of the Dead · John M. Skipp & Craig Spector · ex 44 · Zombies on Broadway · Stan Giesea · pl 50 · Not from Detroit · Joe R. Lansdale · ss 56 · Ted Sturgeon: The Last Interview · Paul M. Sammon · iv [Theodore Sturgeon] 63 · cartoon · Alan Hutchinson · ct 64 · Portfolio: Too Strange · John Wayne Gacy · pi 68 · Recommendations · Steven R. Boyett · br 69 · Recommendations · Michael Mayo · br 70 · Recommendations · Jim Lowder · br 72 · Comics: Show Me Your Teeth! · James Van Hise · br 76 · His Last Invention · James Van Hise · cs 79 · Letters · The Readers · lt
Mississippi Review [MR47/48, v16 #2&3, 1988] ed. Frederick Barthelme (Univ. of S. Mississippi, $5.50, 288pp, tp) Special Cyberpunk issue.

4 · Contributors · Misc. · bg (r)
7 · The Desert of the Real: The Cyberpunk Controversy · Larry McCaffery · ar
16 · Cyberpunk Forum/Symposium · J. G. Ballard · ar
16 · Cyberpunk Forum/Symposium · Greg Bear · ar
18 · Cyberpunk Forum/Symposium: Is Something Going On? · Gregory Benford · ar
23 · Cyberpunk Forum/Symposium: Starchilde Harold, Revisited: · David Brin · ar
27 · Cyberpunk Forum/Symposium · Istvan Csicsery-Ronay · ar
28 · Cyberpunk Forum/Symposium: Is Cyberpunk a Good Thing or a Bad Thing? · Samuel R. Delany · ar
35 · Cyberpunk Forum/Symposium: A Letter from the Galaxy · Raymond Federman · ar
39 · Cyberpunk Forum/Symposium · Patrick Nielsen Hayden · ar
43 · Cyberpunk Forum/Symposium: Life in Change Wartime · Teresa Nielsen Hayden · ar
45 · Cyberpunk Forum/Symposium: Foucault the Cyberpunks · Harold Jaffe · pm
45 · Cyberpunk Forum/Symposium · Marc Laidlaw · ar
46 · Cyberpunk Forum/Symposium · Frederik Pohl · ar
46 · Cyberpunk Forum/Symposium: What is Cyberpunk? · David Porush · ar
50 · Cyberpunk Forum/Symposium · Tom Robbins · ar
51 · Cyberpunk Forum/Symposium: Cyberpunk Cake · Kim Stanley Robinson · ar
51 · Cyberpunk Forum/Symposium: Raising the Level · Rudy Rucker · ar
57 · Cyberpunk Forum/Symposium · John Shirley · ar
59 · Cyberpunk Forum/Symposium: Cyberpunk, The Crowbar of the Present · Lou Stathis · ar
61 · Cyberpunk Forum/Symposium · Ronald Sukenick · ar
62 · Cyberpunk Forum/Symposium: Cyberpunk as roots music: an observation · Pascal J. Thomas · ar
64 · Cyberpunk Forum/Symposium · Gene Wolfe · ar
66 · I Was an Infinitely Hot and Dense Dot [from My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist] · Mark Leyner · ex; Harper’s Nov ’88
70 · The Smoke [from Mona Lisa Overdrive] · William Gibson · ex New York: Bantam, 1988
77 · Drown Yourself · Michael Blumlein · ss
86 · Among the Blobs · Samuel R. Delany · ss New Moon
93 · Induction · David Porush · pl
107 · Christmas in Louisville December 24, 2030 [from Wetware] · Rudy Rucker · ex New York: Avon, 1988
122 · 20 Evocations [“Life in the Mechanist/Shaper Era: 20 Evocations”; Mechanist-Shapers] · Bruce Sterling · ss Interzone #7 ’84
130 · Max Headroom · Harold Jaffe · ss Madonna and Other Spectacles, PAJ/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1988
136 · Wolves of the Plateau · John Shirley · ss
151 · In a Distant Landscape · Tom Maddox · ss
156 · Fistic Hermaphrodites · Rob Hardin · pm
157 · Microbes · Rob Hardin · pm
158 · nerve terminals · Rob Hardin · pm
159 · The Toilet Was Full of Nietzsche [from Metrophage] · Richard Kadrey · ex New York: Ace, 1988
170 · Hard Work or, The Secrets of Success · Thomas M. Disch · nv Interzone #17 ’86
194 · The History of a War Against the Mend-and-Repair · Richard Astel · ss
200 · Down and Out in the Year 2000 · Kim Stanley Robinson · ss IASFM Apr ’86
217 · An Interview with William Gibson · Larry McCaffery · iv [William Gibson]
237 · The Wars of the Coin’s Two Halves: Bruce Sterling’s Mechanist/Shaper Narratives · Tom Maddox · ar
245 · Bet On It: Cyber/video/punk/performance · Brooks Landon · ar
252 · The Cyber-punk: The Individual as Reality Pilot · Timothy Leary · ar
266 · Cyberpunk and Neuromanticism · Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. · ar
279 · Literary MTV · George E. Slusser · ar
New Pathways Into Science Fiction And Fantasy [No.10, March 1988] ed. Michael G. Adkisson (MGA Services, $2.50, 38pp, 8½" x 11" pb)

4 · Forum · The Readers · lt
5 · Book Reviews · Don & Rosemary Webb · br
6 · Music Review · Matt Howarth · cs
6 · Book Reviews · Michael G. Adkisson · br
8 · Book Reviews · Misha Chocholak · br
8 · Entropy Comix · Michael G. Adkisson · cs
10 · The Game with the Big Heavy Ball · Brian W. Aldiss · ss New Writings in SF. 30, ed. Kenneth Bulmer, London: Corgi, 1977
18 · The Unshaping · Richard Singer · ss
22 · Unicorn Mountain [Chapter 20] · Michael Bishop · ex New York: Arbor House, 1988
30 · The Peculiar Happiness of Professor Cort · John Shirley · ss
36 · Interview with C.W. · Michael Blumlein · ss
38 · Nuclear FX · Ferret & Matt Howarth · cs
New Pathways Into Science Fiction And Fantasy [No.11, July 1988] ed. Michael G. Adkisson (MGA Services, $3.00, 38pp, 8½" x 11" pb) 4 · Astral Avenue · Paul Di Filippo · ms 6 · Misha’s Points of Impact · Misha Chocholak · br 7 · Music Review · Matt Howarth · cs 10 · Book Reviews · Don & Rosemary Webb · br 10 · Entropy Comix · Michael G. Adkisson · cs 12 · Book Reviews · Michael G. Adkisson · br 13 · America: A Fascist Economy · Michael G. Adkisson · ar 16 · My Nose · Conger Beasley, Jr. · ss 20 · Canyon Canyon · Meredith Rolley · ss 24 · Interview with Carter Scholz · Misha Chocholak · iv [Carter Scholz] 28 · Burning Man · Bruce Boston · ss 32 · Second Honeymoon · Don Webb · ss 35 · Waterloo Sunset · Paul Di Filippo · ss 38 · Nuclear FX · Ferret & Matt Howarth · cs
New Pathways Into Science Fiction And Fantasy [No.12, October 1988] ed. Michael G. Adkisson (MGA Services, $3.00, 42pp, 8½" x 11" pb)

4 · Astral Avenue · Paul Di Filippo · ms
5 · Book Reviews · Michael G. Adkisson · br
6 · Misha’s Points of Impact · Misha Chocholak · br
7 · Sonic Curiosity · Matt Howarth · cs
10 · Book Reviews · Don & Rosemary Webb · br
12 · Dick on Dick [from The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick] · Philip K. Dick · lt
15 · Sleepwalkers · John Shirley · ss
24 · The Day We Embarked for Cythera · Brian W. Aldiss · ss Moment of Eclipse, London: Faber & Faber, 1970
28 · Bloated Capitalist Pig · Andy Watson · vi
30 · Ovtcome · Matt Howarth · cs
34 · Bodhi, Can You Spare a Dime? · Marc Laidlaw · vi
36 · The Typewriter · Mark Rich · ss
40 · John W. Campbell & the SSS (self-styled scientists) [from The John W. Campbell Letters] · John W. Campbell, Jr. · lt Dec 8 ’67
42 · Nuclear FX · Ferret & Matt Howarth · cs
New Pathways Into Science Fiction And Fantasy [No.13, December 1988] ed. Michael G. Adkisson (MGA Services, $3.50, 46pp, 8½" x 11" pb) 4 · Astral Avenue · Paul Di Filippo · ms 5 · Sonic Curiosity · Matt Howarth · cs 6 · Book Reviews · Don & Rosemary Webb · br 10 · NP Interviews Matt Howarth · Misha Chocholak · iv [Matt Howarth] 14 · Misha’s Points of Impact · Misha Chocholak · br 17 · A Vogelzunge Zwischenspiel · Jonathan Falk & Todd Mecklem · vi 17 · A Winter Interlude · Todd Mecklem & Jonathan Falk · vi 19 · Child’s Play: Twilight Zone Revisited · Michael G. Adkisson · mr 20 · Good, Clean Fun · Ernest Hogan · ss 24 · Rex · Don Webb · ss 27 · The Day He Bought His Last Hot Dog at Coney Island · Scott Edelman · ss 34 · Ocean of Glass and Fire · Rob Hollis Miller · ss 37 · The Memories that Flash · Robert Frazier · ss 40 · How to Be a Surrealist · Jessica Amanda Salmonson · ar 41 · Book Reviews · Chris Kelly · br 43 · Nuclear FX · Ferret & Mink Mole · cs 44 · Nuclear FX · Ferret & Mink Mole · cs 45 · Nuclear FX · Ferret & Mink Mole · cs 43 · Nuclear FX · Ferret & Matt Howarth · cs

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