Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 1 • Editorial: Mea Culpa • essay by Mark L. Van Name
• 2 • Crowley's Blues • [Judgment Calls] • essay by John Kessel
• 2 • De Gustibus: A Beginner's Guide to the Mainstream (Part IV) • essay by Lewis Shiner
• 2 •   Review: In Blue by John Crowley • review by John Kessel
• 5 • What You Missed (Short Form, February 1990) • essay by Richard Butner
• 5 •   Review: The 57th Franz Kafka by Rudy Rucker • review by Richard Butner
• 8 • Scout Knife: Corkscrew: About as Much of a Manifesto as You're Gonna Get • essay by Tony Daniel
• 9 • Heirs Apparent: Allen Steele • essay by James Patrick Kelly
• 16 • Breaking the Rules • essay by Andrew Weiner
• 18 • Jame P. Blaylock's "Unidentified Objects": In Memory Of • essay by F. Brett Cox
• 18 •   Review: Unidentified Objects by James P. Blaylock • review by F. Brett Cox
• 22 • Notes from a Far Country (Short Form, February 1990) • essay by Jane Yolen
• 22 • A Comment from a Package • essay by David Drake
• 23 •   Review: The Rainbow People by Laurence Yep • review by Jane Yolen
• 24 •   Review: Merlin Dreams by Peter Dickinson • review by Jane Yolen
• 24 •   Review: In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World by Virginia Hamilton • review by Jane Yolen
• 25 • Heinlein Sanitized • essay by Charlie Martin
• 25 •   Review: Why There Is No Arguing in Heaven by Deborah Nourse Lattimore • review by Jane Yolen
• 25 •   Review: Grumbles from the Grave by Robert A. Heinlein • review by Charlie Martin
• 25 •   Review: The Ballad of Biddy Early by Nancy Willard • review by Jane Yolen
• 26 • Anyway, Bogart's On in the Window Down the Street: Installment #3 • essay by Robert Frazier
• 30 • Ask Uncle Harlan: Installment 3: 19 December 89 • essay by Harlan Ellison
• 33 • You Got No Friends in This World: The More Things Change • essay by Orson Scott Card
• 41 • Rules for Everything • [True Stories] • essay by Mark L. Van Name
• 45 •  Letter (Short Form, February 1990) • essay by Gregory Benford
• 45 •  Letter (Short Form, February 1990) • essay by Brett Cox
• 46 •  Letter (Short Form, February 1990) • essay by Ellen Datlow
• 46 •  Letter (Short Form, February 1990) • essay by J. R. Dunn
• 48 •  Letter (Short Form, February 1990) • essay by Richard Grant
• 49 •  Letter (Short Form, February 1990) • essay by Phillip C. Jennings [as by Phillip Jennings]
• 49 •  Letter (Short Form, February 1990) • essay by Richard Kadrey
• 49 •  Letter (Short Form, February 1990) • essay by Angus MacDonald
• 49 •  Letter (Short Form, February 1990) • essay by Rebecca Ore
• 50 •  Letter (Short Form, February 1990) • essay by Charles Platt
• 51 •  Letter (Short Form, February 1990) • essay by Robert Sabella
• 52 •  Letter (Short Form, February 1990) • essay by Steve Rasnic Tem
• 53 •  Letter (Short Form, February 1990) • essay by Anthony Trull
• 53 •  Letter (Short Form, February 1990) • essay by Taras Wolansky