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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description: Our two annual double issues always offer plenty of "extras," and this year's July/August issue features something especially extraordinary. Back in the early 1980s a completely unknown writer named David R. Palmer made a huge splash here with his very first story, "Emergence," featuring Candy Smith-Foster, one of the most memorable people many of our readers had ever met on or off the printed page. But she's much more than just a remarkably talented little girl emerging from the ashes of a worldwide genocidal war: she's one of the first of a new species "just like us only more so," emerging into the world as a delayed result of a historic plague. "Emergence" was followed by one more story here, then grew into the acclaimed novel Emergence. Now Emergence has a worthy sequel, Tracking, in which Candy discovers that, devastating as past events were, they weren't as finished as she thought. So naturally she has to set forth to Do Something About It, and we're proud to present her further adventures as a three-part serial beginning next month.

Carl Frederick, well known in various circles as both science fiction writer and physicist, appears as both next month, with a fact article on "The Challenge of the Anthropic Universe" and also the novelette "The Exoanthropic Principle." Certain physicists lately have been debating which of several hard-to-swallow hypotheses are the least hard to swallow; Frederick's article surveys the ideas, and his story explores the implications if some of them turn out to be right.

Rounding out our oversize issue we have another of Richard A. Lovett's special features about writing (this time dealing with story beginnings), and an assortment of fiction by such writers as the perennially popular Michael F. Flynn, Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, Jerry Oltion, and a promising newcomer or three, covering a wide spectrum of length, subject matter, and flavor.

CONTENTS
Reader's Department: EDITORIAL: CHOOSING TOOLS by Stanley Schmidt
Serial: TRACKING: PART I OF III by David R. Palmer
Science Fact: THE CHALLENGE OF THE ANTHROPIC UNIVERSE by Carl Frederick
Novelette: THE EXOANTHROPIC PRINCIPLE by Carl Frederick
Novellette: SAND AND IRON by Michael F. Flynn
Short Story: A PLETHORA OF TRUTH by Bond Elam
Short Story: LET THE WORD TAKE ME by Juliette Wade
Special Feature: HOOK, LURE, AND NARRATIVE: THE ART OF WRITING STORY LEADS by Richard A. Lovett
Reader's Department: THE ALTERNATE VIEW: ALL ABOUT TELEPORTATION by John G. Cramer
Probability Zero: OUTSIDE THE BOX by Jerry Oltion
Short Story: JUNKIE by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff
Short Story: IMPRINT by Kyle Kirkland
Novelette: SHOTGUN SEAT by Paul Carlson
Novella: TENBROOK OF MARS by Dean McLaughlin
Reader's Department: THE REFERENCE LIBRARY by Tom Easton
Reader's Department: ANALYTICAL LABORATORY RESULTS
Reader's Department: BRASS TACKS
Reader's Department: IN TIMES TO COME
Reader's Department: UPCOMING EVENTS by Anthony Lewis

eBook Publisher: Dell Magazines, Published: Dell Magazines, 2008
Fictionwise Release Date: June 2008

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Words: 131895
Reading time: 376-527 min.
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