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Vol II, No. 3 (April, 2005)
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Editorial:
The Critical I
Feature:
Is Slipstream Just a Fancy Word for Voice?
Essay:
Reviving Literacy through Science Fiction...
Dangerous Visions and Feet of Clay
Review:
The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson: A...
In the Night Room by Peter Straub
Short Fiction Reviews, April 2005
The Cup of the World by John Dickinson
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If I were better at making lists, I would regale you with my latest observed trend: stories in which from one to several aliens meander the Earth on some strange, unknowable mission. The story might be told from the vantage of the human escort, or some life touched by these aliens, or simply from the perspective of those whose lives are somehow touched by the existence of mysterious aliens. When you get a slew of such stories all hitting in a short period, you can be sure that this is not a copycat phenomenon, but rather the sketchy outline of some dream lurking in our collective unconscious. I have noticed this theme for the past few months, and this month alone I can point to prominent examples of the form in Jack Skillingstead's Bean There, Ian Watson and Mike Allen's Dee-Dee and the Dumpy Dancers, Robert Thurston's I.D.I.D., and Ian Watson's Lover of Statues.
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