Uploaded July 16, 1997 -- Updated July 28, 1997
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.
"The Edge of the Bed of Forever" by Jonathan
Lethem and Angus MacDonald [7/3/97]
"Hooks, Nets, and Time" by Linda Nagata
"Monstrosity" by Mary Soon Lee
[7/3/97]
"Orleans, Rheims, Friction: Fire" by Kathe
Koja and Barry N. Malzberg
"Halls of Burning" by Jake West
"The Green Man" by Rand B. Lee
"Mosquito League" by Michael Libling
"Giants in the Earth" by Michael A.
Martin
"Mustard Seed" by Mark Bourne
Miscellaneous Comments (on the magazine as a whole, editorials, columns, etc.)
Rich Horton: 7/3/97
Time travel stories that play with paradoxes (as opposed to just moving the heroes to a neat setting) almost always leave me confused, and this one is no exception. But it's a fun, interesting, original ride. Richard Strand is using the services of a time-travel company to arrange liaisons with his mistress, liaisons which his wife won't notice because no time passes during them. This is a pretty neat base idea, which I don't think I've encountered before, and Lethem and MacDonald proceed to introduce complications and unforeseen effects. Which is where I got lost. But as I said, it's a fun read, and in the end the characters are true and their reactions human and moving.
Rich Horton
http://www.sff.net/people/Richard.Horton/
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Rich Horton: 7/3/97
This is a nice retelling of the Beauty and the Beast story, by the author of the engaging SF story "Universal Grammar" from the April F&SF. This story rings a few logical changes on the base story, changes which serve to more clearly and honestly illuminate the central message of that story.
Rich Horton
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