Deep Bora’s “Fourth Dimension” continues with far-future astronaut scientists enjoying their stay on a post-glacial Uranus.
Ásgrímur Hartmannsson’s “All Together, Now!” examines the problems that can arise when half a dozen personalities decide to stage what amounts to a jail-break... in the same body. In Roberto Sanhueza’s “The House on the Hill,” the protagonist wonders whether the house he saw on a hill as a child was really on a hill, and whether it was really a house. We find that the house symbolizes the mystery of his own identity. G. David Schwartz recounts “The Complaint of the Gardener and the Parable of the Vines.” The story is filled with symbolism and sometimes unusual narration. It all comes together at the end.
John Thiel sends an intriguing philosophical response to Challenge 72. The official Challenge rings changes on a basic question: “Who am I, anyway?”
In our “Letters,” Kate Bachus kindly provides some fascinating background information about “Twenty Views of Tanforan.” And Rick Combs asks one of those deceptively simple questions that deserve a good answer. In “Reviews,” Jerry Wright reviews Marina Fitch’s The Border, and his editorial brings us news about the first-year anthology and the success of two of our authors.
Crank up your time machine and load your paradox-resolver for issue 74: David L. Erickson, Cleveland W. Gibson and P. J. Lawton bring us three time-travel stories. Thomas R. sends us a biographical obituary of a fascinating woman from an alternate 20th century. John Thiel returns with a philosophical satire on the concept of “the other.” Only, is it a satire?
In the serials, Deep Bora concludes “The Fourth Dimension” and Tala Bar returns with a very colorful and dramatic serial set in ancient times.
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