Contents: 4 · Brain Damage · Kim Mohan · ed 5 · Reflections · Robert Silverberg · cl 8 · Letters · [The Readers] · lc 9 · Chimaera · Barry B. Longyear · nv 27 · The Coming of the Spear · Don Webb · ss 35 · Sarahan Surprise · J. A. Pollard · ss 39 · About the Authors · Anon. · bg 40 · The Master of Steam · G. R. Hail · ss 45 · Send Random Romantic · Bill Johnson · ss 49 · Taxi Hag · Marc Laidlaw · ex; from the forthcoming novel Kalifornia (St. Martin’s Press, 1993). 54 · Laidlaw Rising · George Zebrowski · ar [Marc Laidlaw] 58 · Thallasogens I: The Ammonia Ocean · Stephen L. Gillett · ar 62 · Tomorrow’s Books · Susan C. Stone & Bill Fawcett · bi 66 · Looking Forward: King Javan’s Year, Del Rey Jan ’93 · Katherine Kurtz · ex 69 · Looking Forward: Higher Mythology, Warner Jan ’93 · Jody Lynn Nye · ex 71 · A Troll of Surewould Forest [Part 3 of 3] · Thomas M. Disch · na
Barry is the first writer to win the Hugo, Nebula, and John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer all in the same year, for Enemy Mine. In addition to his acclaimed Enemy Mine Series, his works include the Circus World and Infinity Hold series, SF & fantasy novels, recovery and writing instruction works, and numerous short stories. He has just completed the first novel in his Redcliff Series, Turning The Grain, which is being serialized in Analog Science Fiction magazine, and is currently researching his new Civil War mystery-thriller.