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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description: ON SALE UNTIL NOVEMBER 30, 2004
October/November is our immense Special Double Issue, often hailed as the best issue of the year. This issue contains considerably more fiction for a lower price than the average novel-three long stories alone provide more wordage than most books-we also offer novelettes, short stories, excellent reviews and critical articles, poetry, and cartoons. You can't afford to miss this issue if you want to keep up with the stories that everybody's going to be talking about next year. George R.R. Martin, author of the acclaimed A Game of Thrones series, pens an intensely personal memoir of the forces that shaped his career, as he reveals "The Heart of a Small Boy." Our cover story by William Barton takes us to a frightening world where people must struggle to survive in the face of ordinary things now turned into monstrous threats, in "Though I Sang in My Chains Like the Sea." Charles Stross brings his "Accelerando" sequence (which has included three Hugo finalists), one of the greatest feats of sustained imagination in the history of SF, to a triumphant close in "Survivor," taking us to a strange habitat deep in a posthuman future, for a Macx family reunion (of sorts). Then Allen M. Steele returns with the penultimate story in his popular "Coyote" series, taking us back to his Civil War-torn frontier planet for results that nobody could have predicted, and that will leave nothing unchanged, in the unforgettable story of "Liberation Day." Michael Swanwick takes us back to the evocative milieu of his novel The Iron Dragon's Daughter for a sinister account of what happens to those who are forced to hear "The Word That Sings the Scythe"; Kage Baker follows harried Company agents as they strain every terrifying seam trying to make "The Catch"; Jack Skillingstead spins a bizarre PI story in "Scatter"; Mary Rosenblum explores a high-tech future where the human problems turn out to be much more than "Skin Deep"; Chris Beckett takes us into the head of a woman in crisis as she realizes that "We Could Be Sisters"; Paul Di Filippo shuttles us "Sideways In Time" for the highly entertaining (if unlikely) adventure of "Sisyphus and the Stranger"; Robert Reed gives us a preview of a near-future where people suffer "A Change of Mind"; Colin P. Davies makes a vivid Asimov's debut relating the unsettling saga of "The Defenders"; and Geoffrey A. Landis offers us a sharp meditation on what's "Perfectible." Robert Silverberg's "Reflections" examines some stuff that is truly "Far Out"; and Paul Di Filippo brings us "On Books." Contents:
Reflections: Far Out
Guest Editorial: George R. R. Martin
Liberation Day by Allen M. Steele
Survivor by Charles Stross
Though I Sang in My Chains Like the Sea by William Barton
The Catch by Kage Baker
A Change of Mind by Robert Reed
Skin Deep by Mary Rosenblum
The Word that Sings the Scythe by Michael Swanwick
Sisyphus and the Stranger by Paul Di Filippo
Scatter by Jack Skillingstead
We Could Be Sisters by Chris Beckett
Perfectible by Geoffrey A. Landis
The Defenders by Colin P. Davies
Verse: "What to Expect and Not Expect from an Interstellar Voyage" by Bruce Boston
On Books: Paul Di Filippo

eBook Publisher: Dell Magazines, Published: 2004
Fictionwise Release Date: September 2004

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