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Table of Contents STORIES SHORT TAKES: Clive Barker’s Hellraiser Hugo Nominations Ballot A ppears...................... 6 Book 1, Archie Goodwin & Daniel Chichester, Starshore: New SF Magazine ................................ 6 eds.; Open Space Book 1, Carol Kalish & Kurt Clarion C all............................................................ 6 Busiek, eds. Amazing Fading Fast ............................................. 7 Guest Review by Brian W. Aldiss: ......................19 THE NEWSPAPER OF THE SCIENCE FICTION FIELD Clarke Award Nominees....................................... 7 The Godwins and the Shelleys, William St. SF Online................................................................ 7 Clair. Ballantines Launch Air & Space Category........... 7 Guest Reviews by Paul S. C lift:............................19 ISSN-0049-4959 THE DATA FILE Giger’s Alien, H. R. Giger; H. R. Giger's Bio­ EDITOR & PUBLISHER Publishing News ..................................................... 9 mechanics, H. R. Giger. Charles N. Brown Announcements ..................................................... 9 Reviews by Carolyn Cushman: ............................21 ASSOCIATE EDITOR Awards .................................................................... 9 Tehanu, Ursula K. Le Guin; Cromm, Kenneth Bookstore News ..................................................... 9 C. Flint; Dragon Wing, Margaret Weis & Tracy Faren C. Miller Magazine News....................................................... 9 Hickman; Free Master, Kris Jensen; The Sing­ ASSOCIATE MANAGER Market N ews........................................................... 9 ing Stones, Phyllis A. Whitney; Space Demons, Shelly Rae Clift Book Notes ........................................................... 66 Gillian Rubinstein; Skymaze, Gillian Rubin­ PRODUCTION ASSOCIATE Rights & Options ................................................. 66 stein. SHORT TAKES: The Apprentice, Deb­ Pamela F. Troy Publications Received ......................................... 67 orah Talmadge-Bickmore. ASSISTANT EDITOR Catalogs Received ............................................... 67 Reviews by Tom Whitmore:................................. 23 Scott Winnett INTERVIEWS Thomas the Rhymer, Ellen Kushner; The Lens CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Pat Cadigan: Going Places .................................... 4 of the World, R. A. MacAvoy; Facets, Walter SPECIAL FEATURES Jon Williams; Summertide, Charles Sheffield; Edward Bryant Arabia Astronautica: A Desert Odyssey Author’s Choice Monthly Issue Three: Daily Richard Curtis by Arthur C. 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