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Volume 18, Issue 5 October/November 2008 ConNotations FREE The Bi-Monthly Science Fiction, Fantasy & Convention Newszine of the Central Arizona Speculative Fiction Society An Interview with Featured Inside Kage Baker Regular Features Special Features by Nadine Armstrong SF Tube Talk An Interview with Kage Baker Kage Baker is best known as the All the latest news about by Nadine Armstrong creator of the time-traveling Scienc Fiction TV shows immortals of Dr. Zeus Inc, found by Lee Whiteside The Nightmare Before Christmas in the pages of the series of DVD Contest books and stories known as the 24 Frames Company series. This year, she All the latest Movie News In Memory returns to the world of her stand- by Lee Whiteside Don LaFontaine alone fantasy novel The Anvil of Joan Winston the World. 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