Contents:

• 1 •"Universal Principles of Operation" (pt. 1) • Alexei and Cory Panshin
• 1 • "The New Generation Gap: A Study of SF Writers' Ages of Professional Entry into the Science Fiction Field for Six Decades of SF" • Kathryn Cramer
• 2 • Tor Books full-page ad
• 6 • Greg Cox on Bram Stoker's The Jewel of Seven Stars; Charles L. Grant's The Long Night of the Grave; and Anne Rice's The Mummy, or Ramses the Damned
• 7 • Read This • Michael P. Kube-McDowell
• 9 • Read This • Rebecca Ore
• 11 • William M. Schuyler, Jr. on Paul Park's Sugar Rain
• 12 • "A Modest Disposal" Being A Dissertation on the Unbearable Hucksterism of Liteness" • J. Maxwell Young
• 13 • Read This • Peter Heck
• 15 • "Never Going Home: Failed Fantasy Logic in Kathleen Sidney's Michael and the Magic Man and Robert Irwin's The Limits of Vision " • Susan Palwick
• 16 • Read This • Amy Thomson
• 17 •Jeffrey V. Yule on Ian McDonald's Out on Blue Six
• 18 •"Deconstructing the Starships" • Gwyneth Jones
• 19 • "Patrick McGoohan is Hiding: A Review of Brazil" • Lenny Bailes
• 20 • L. W. Currey quarter-page ad
• 21 • Ben Bova Letter of Comment
• 21 • John Boston Letter of Comment
• 21 • Martha Soukup Letter of Comment
• 21 • Rebecca Ore Letter of Comment: Mike Resnik's "Kirinyaga”
• 22 • Mike Resnick Letter of Comment
• 23 • L. W. Currey bibliography of George Oliver Smith
• 24 • Editorial: "Parking Thieves of Tor!"