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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description: Next month (our November issue) we begin another mind-stretching serial by Robert J. Sawyer, with a cover by George Krauter. In Wake, the term "mind-stretching," often heard in connection with science fiction, applies a bit more literally than usual, with several minds stretching themselves--and each other--in literally unprecedented ways. All minds operate under limitations, which can be overcome by a variety of means; but probably all of those approaches have one thing in common. And the possibilities extend very far out, in ways both exhilarating and terrifying....

We'll also have stories by Paul Levinson, Carl Frederick, Richard A. Lovett, Alan Dean Foster, and Stephen L. Burns. The fact article, "The 3D Train Wreck" comes from our own book reviewer of thirty years, Thomas A. Easton, wearing his other hat as practicing scientist. The title notwithstanding, it has nothing to do with trains, but everything to do with the social and economic disruption likely to result as "3D printing" becomes an important means of making all kinds of things. But that kind of train wreck, at least in the long run, is not necessarily a bad thing....

Reader's Department: EDITORIAL: THE GREAT RUSH FORWARD by Stanley Schmidt
Serial: WAKE: PART 1 OF IV by Robert J. Sawyer
Science Fact: THE 3D TRAINWRECK: HOW 3D PRINTING WITH SHAKE UP MANUFACTURING by Thomas A. Easton
Reader's Department: IN TIMES TO COME
Novelette: GREENWICH NASTY TIME by Carl Frederick
Short Story: COLD FIRE by Alan Dean Foster
Short Story: BUG EYES by Richard A. Lovett
Short Story: MEA CULPA by Stephen L. Burns
Reader's Department: THE ALTERNATE VIEW: TURNINGS by Jeffery D. Kooistra
Short Story: RECREATION by Oz Drummond
Novelette: UNBURNING ALEXANDRIA by Paul Levinson
Reader's Department: THE REFERENCE LIBRARY by Tom Easton
Reader's Department: BRASS TACKS
Reader's Department: UPCOMING EVENTS by Anthony Lewis

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

16 Reader Ratings: Great Good OK Poor

Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [1.5 MB], Adobe Acrobat - Large Print (PDF) [1.6 MB], eReader (PDB) [434 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [268 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [374 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [1.2 MB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [291 KB], hiebook (KML) [1.9 MB], Sony Reader (LRF) [1.7 MB], iSilo (PDB) [275 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [963 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [983 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [503 KB]
Words: 78047
Reading time: 222-312 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
Adobe Acrobat (PDF) Format:  Printing ENABLED, Read-Aloud DISABLED
All Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED