Uploaded December 10, 1996 -- Updated December 10, 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.
"Doing the Circuit" by Alexander Jablokov
[11/9/96]
"Evertrue Carnadine" by Dominic Green
"The Spear of the Sun" by David Langford
[12/12/96]
"Sugar and Spice" by Keith Brooke and Eric
Brown
"Pirate Feed" by Lance Olsen
"Prospero One" by Stephen Baxter and
Simon Bradshaw
Miscellaneous Comments (on the magazine as a whole, editorials, columns, etc.)
Rich Horton: 11/9/96
Jablokov postulates a future in which bodily enhancements are taken to extremes, not just bigger muscles and bigger breasts, but the ability to brachiate, and breasts shaped like famous mountainpeaks (these from the first page alone). His protagonist is an employee of a fitness club, whose job includes promoting newer and more extreme fitness modifications. The story involves his love affair with a fellow employee, and a threat from a Virtual Reality fitness machine. It is very funny and satirical, also packed with imaginative exaggerations of our contemporary obsession with fitness.
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Rich Horton: 11/9/96
This is a pastiche of G. K. Chesterton's Father Brown stories, from an anthology called _Alternate Skiffy_, edited by Patrick Nielsen Hayden and Mike Resnick, in which the history of the SF field is altered. In this case, Chesterton is the founding father of genre science fiction, the fields major award is the "Gilbert", and the longest-running shared world series is "the adventures of that much-beloved interplanetary sleuth, Father Brown". This installment, presented as being published in the October 1996 issue of _G. K. Chesterton's Science Fiction Magazine_ (a nice cover reminiscent of the first issues of IASFM is shown), is very funny, a dead-on accurate parody of Father Brown, filled with neat SF-related jokes.
David Langford: 12/12/96
Hello!
I'm ever so pleased that someone liked the story. Thanks.
I have a couple of home pages -- well, sort of. My own is at http://www.ansible.demon.co.uk/ ... and my sf newsletter Ansible lives at http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/SF-Archives/Ansible/
Best: Dave Langford
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