Contents:

• 1 • "The Graveyard Bash: Horror in the Sixties" • David J. Skal
• 1 • "Robert A. Heinlein: EPIC Crusader?"• Earl Wells
• 2 • Tor Books full-page ad for A Fire Upon the Deep
• 6 • "SF Story" • John J. Kessel
• 9 • Read This • Jean Mark Gawron
• 10 • NYRSF Readings at Dixon Place quarter-page ad
• 13 • Alexander Jablokov on Patricia Anthony's Cold Allies
• 15 • Robert Killheffer on Simon Ings's Hot Head
• 15 • Read This • Robert Silverberg
• 16 • Don Webb on Harvey Jacobs's Beautiful Soup
• 17 • L. W. Currey quarter-page ad
• 18 • "Aliens and the Artificial Other" • Rebecca Ore
• 20 • Leonard Rysdyk on Robert Reed's The Remarkables

"Six Writers in Search of a Genre"

• 22 • Thomas M. Disch response to "Brother from Another Planet"
• 22 • Gene Wolfe response to "Brother from Another Planet"
• 22 • Judith Moffett response to "Brother from Another Planet"
• 23 • Kit Reed response to "Brother from Another Planet"
• 23 • Gregory Benford response to "Brother from Another Planet"
• 23 • Brian Attebery response to "Brother from Another Planet"
• 24 • Editorial: "System Shock"