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Table of Contents MAIN STORIES Smith; The Spirit Ring, Lois McMaster Bujold; A 1992 Locus Awards...... 1 Sudden Wild Magic, ; Zebra Withdraws Two Novels Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time, James for Plagiarism...... 6 Gurney. Zebra Sale to Harlequin Falls Through...... 6 Reviews by Edward Bryant:...... 19 THE NEWSPAPER OF THE FIELD Ellison Recovering...... 6 Children of the Night, Dan Simmons; Chaingang, SF Age Goes Forward...... 6 Rex Miller; Mr. Fox and Other Feral Tales, Delany Novel to Launch New Small Press...... 6 Norman Partridge. (ISSN-0047-4959) 1992 Bram Stoker Awards Winners...... 6 Reviews by Russell Letson:...... 23 EDITOR & PUBLISHER Dell Redesigns Asimov’s and Mining the Oort, Frederik Pohl; The Best of Charles N. Brown Analog Logos for Relaunch...... 7 Astounding, James Gunn, ed.; Pre­ ASSOCIATE EDITOR Winners...... 7 sents the Great SF Stories: 25 (1963), Isaac Faren C. Miller Heck Rejoins Waldenbooks...... 7 Asimov & Martin H. Greenberg, eds.; When the ASSISTANT EDITORS Thomsen Moves to T S R ...... 7 Five Moons Rise, . Marianne S. Jablon SPECIAL FEATURES Reviews by Gary K. W olfe:...... 27 Carolyn F. Cushman Who Wrote the Book of the Dead?...... 9 Mars, Ben Bova; Lost Boys, Orson Scott Card; EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS Locus Poll R esults...... 42 Fatherland, Robert Harris; Tales of Riverworld, Mary E. Hall THE DATA FILE Philp Jose Farmer, Edward Kramer, Richard Dorothy A. Taylor Griffin & Sabine to be Trilogy...... 7 Gilliam, & Martin H. Greenberg, eds.; SHORT CONTRIBUTING EDITORS 1993 Gryphon Awards Open...... 7 TAKES: Abortion Stories: Fiction on Fire, Rick Edward Bryant Nominees...... 66 Lawler, ed. Other Awards...... 66 Reviews by Dan Chow:...... 29 Dan Chow Book News...... 67 Meeting in Infinity, John Kessel; Brother to Drag­ Mark R. Kelly Court Cases...... 67 ons, Charles Sheffield; Aristoi, Walter Jon Wil­ Announcements...... 67 liams; To Save the Sun, Ben Bova and A J. 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