Contents:

• 1 • "Fafhrd and Fritz" • Bruce Byfield
• 1 •"Who Killed Science Fiction?" • A Spectrum of Responses
• 6 • Haruki Murakami's Dance, Dance, Dance, reviewed by Paul Preuss
• 7 • Deborah Christian's Mainline, reviewed by Rob Errera
• 10 • F. Brett Cox recommends short fiction
• 12 • "Was 1950s Science Fiction Ever Escape?" • Rebecca Ore
• 15 • "The Politics of Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age" • Jan Berrien Berends
• 17 • Brian C. Wilson reveals who really killed science fiction
• 20 • Damien Broderick's The White Abacus, reviewed by Gwyneth Jones
• 21 • William Hope Hodgson's The House on the Borderland and Terrors of the Sea, reviewed by Darrell Schweitzer
• 22 • Marc Laidlaw's The Third Force: A Novel of Gadget, reviewed by Michael M. Levy
• 24 • Editorial