Uploaded September 10, 1996 -- Updated October 18, 1996
Here is the list of stories in this issue. If you have any comments or reviews, send them to jbailey@sff.net. Please indicate which issue and/or story you're referring to in the subject line, and try to keep comments for different stories separate in you letters so I can place them properly.
"Communion of Minds" by Sheila Finch
"Werewolves in Sheep's Clothing" by
Michael Coney
"Why the Bridge Stopped Singing" by James
Patrick Kelly
"Gone" by John Crowley (Nominated for 1997
Hugo Award) [10/15/96]
"Interval of Stillness" by Dale Bailey
"Catamounts" by Marc Laidlaw
"The Great Moon Hoax or a Princess of Mars"
by Ben Bova
Miscellaneous Comments (on the magazine as a whole, editorials, columns, etc.)
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(Nominated for 1997 Hugo Award, best Short Story)
Rich Horton: 10/15/96
This is the single short story of 1996 that has made the biggest impression on me so far. It is a simple story about a divorced housewife who becomes a "hostess" for an alien messenger of sorts. The aliens offer to do household chores and the like, asking the humans to responed (how, no one knows) to a notepad reading: "Good will. You mark below. All all right with love afterwards. Why not say yes. Yes." The story of the housewife's reaction to the aliens is integrated with her problems with her divorced husband, who snatches their children. Much of the story seems banal and trivial in description, but it doesn't read that way at all. I was very moved by it. Crowley is truly a master, one of the best writers we have.
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