Volume 14, Issue 6 December/January ConNotations 2004/2005 The Bi-Monthly Science Fiction, Fantasy & Convention Newszine of the Central Arizona Speculative Fiction Society A Conversation with Featured Inside SF Tube Talk Special Features All the latest news about A Conversation with Janny Wurts & Don Maitz Scienc Fiction TV shows Janny Wurts & Don Maitz By Catherine Book by Lee Whiteside by Catherine Book When I understood that both Janny amazing painting by this fellow named 24 Frames Boggs: A Comedy of Values Wurts and Don Maitz would be at World Don Maitz. And the fellow was standing All the latest Movie News By Lawrence Weschler Fantasy, I knew I had to get them both in there when she told him how much she by Lee Whiteside Review By Shane Shellenbarger the same room with my tape recorder. admired his work. But then he just Fortunately, they also thought it was a walked away…! 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