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Contents of issue 8+9: (update: April 23, 2013)

Fiction Editor and Publisher: Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Managing Editor: Melinda Thielbar

Poetry Editor: Dan Campbell

Non-Fiction Editor: Alex Ward

Art Director: Gabriel Dunston

COVER ART:

“Omens” by Cynthia Sheppard

FICTION: 15,865 words

“Here Be Dragons” by Elizabeth Creith — post-apocalyptic — 3450 words

“Ancilla” by Brenda Cannon Kalt (local) — sf — 4875 words

“Nahuales” by Silvia Moreno-Garcia — horror — 1185 words

“Barren Sky” by Rich Matrunick (local) — sf — 4115 words

“Call Down the Snow” by Gwendolyn Clare (local) — contemporary fantasy — 1600 words

“Rogue Zombie” by Peter Wood and Paul Celmer (local) — 640 words

EXCERPT:

The Shambling Guide to New York City by Mur Lafferty (Orbit, May 2013)

GRAPHIC SHORT:

Part 4 of 4 of “The Long Lives of Heroes” by Jeremy Whitley (story) and Jason Strutz (art)

POETRY:

“Involuntary” by Gale Haut

“Among Us” by Hannah Beresford

“The Narrow Hours” by Gwendolyn Clare

“Fabrication” by F.J. Bergmann

“Sparks Between Our Teeth” by Amanda C. Davis

NON-FICTION:

The Exploding Spaceship — a new regular column by Gerald and Angela Blackwell, with reviews of recent Baen books, and an interview of publisher Toni Weisskopf

Richard Dansky remembers Ray Bradbury

Lewis Manalo on ConCarolinas film festival

The Clockwork Pen by Joseph Giddings — reviews of 3 Steampunk titles from Pyr

Paul Kincaid reviews 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit) along with a feature-length interview

C.D. Covington reviews Pilgrim of the Sky by Natania Barron, and both Exogene and Chimera by T.C. McCarthy

Jason Erik Lunbderg reviews 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

Review of Moment of Change — interview with editor Rose Lemberg

Farewell editorial from outgoing fiction editor Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

HAPPENINGS

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