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Jablon Rushdie Update...... 61 Kingdoms of the Wall, ; Live Carolyn F. Cushman Legal News...... 61 from Golgotha, Gore Vidal; Et Tu, Babe, Mark EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Magazine News...... 61 Leyner; Tales of Midnight, R.A. Lafferty; Argo, Dorothy A. Taylor Rights & Options...... 61 R. A. Lafferty; SHORT TAKES: Planets in Peril: CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Publications Received...... 62 A Critical Study of C.S. Lewis’s Ransom Trilogy, Software Received...... 62 David C. Downing; : Death is Edward Bryant Catalogs Received...... 62 No Obstacle, Colin Greenland. Mark R. Kelly INTERVIEWS Reviews by Russell Letson:...... 27 Russell Letson : Breathing Space...... 4 Hard Landing, ; The Positronic Man, Tom Maddox C.J. Cherryh: Adjusting the Language...... 5 and Robert Silverberg; Assemblers Scott Winnett SPECIAL FEATURES of Infinity, Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason. Gary K. Wolfe Arthur C. 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