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Brown Agreement...... 7 Androids, Humanoids, and Other Science Fic­ ASSOCIATE EDITOR 1975 Clarion Reunion...... 9 tion Monsters: Science and Soul in Science Fic­ Faren C. Miller Around the Bookstores...... 9 tion Films, Per Schelde; SHORT TAKES: A THE DATA FILE Critical Edition of The War o f the Worlds-. H.G. ASSISTANT EDITORS Publishing News...... 7 Wells’s Scientific Romance, introduction and Marianne S. Jablon Rushdie Update...... 7 notes by David Y. Hughes and Harry M. Geduld; Carolyn F. Cushman Announcements...... 7 The Invisible Man: The Life and Liberties of Court Cases...... 7 H.G. Wells, Michael Coren. 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