Table of Contents
| Editorial | News Nurds | Jeanne Gomoll | 2 |
| Poetry | Persepolis and Me | Thomas J. Murn | 5 |
| Editorial | Editorial | Janice Bogstad | 6 |
| Iguanacon Report | Hugo Hassles | Jane Hawkins* | 8 |
| Iguanacon Report | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern at Iguanacon, or, “Speakers and Panelists Please Report to the Green Room 30 Minuts Before Their Program Item is Due to Begin” | Perri Corrick-West* | 8 |
| Iguanacon Report | Samurai Eats Iguana | Philip Kaveny | 10 |
| Iguanacon Report | Liquorcon | Clifford R. Wind | 11 |
| Iguanacon Report | Dr. Vuts, MHD, but Not MCP: In Which the Insidious Dr. Eyx W. Vuts, MHD, Applies Logic to a Heady Experience and Does Not Come Away Empty-Handed. We Hope the Doctor is Not Empty-Headed Also. | Jon Singer | 11 |
| Iguanacon Report | How to Make Money While Losing Sleep | Steven V. Johnson | 13 |
| Poetry | Sorceress and Sleeping Witch | Jessica Amanda Salmonson | 14 |
| Book Review | 9 by MZB (Selected Works by Marion Zimmer Bradley) | Janet Bellwether | 15 |
| Book Review | An MZB Chronology | James A. Cox* | 16 |
| Book Review | Beyond Disbelief (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, by Stephen R.Donaldson) | Douglas Barbour | 17 |
| Book Review | Mainstream Dick (Confessions of a Crap Artist, by Philip K. Dick) | Lee Carson | 18 |
| Book Review | 2 by Vinge (“Tin Soldier” and “Eyes of Amber,” by Joan D. Vinge) | Janet Bellwether* | 20 |
| Book Review | A Promising Beginning (The Faded Sun: Kesrith, by C. J. Cherryh) | Carl Marrs | 20 |
| Book Review | Dispassionate Metaphor for Disintegration (High Rise, J. G. Ballard) | Cy Chauvin | 20 |
| Book Review | To Say a Dance, To Dance a Word (Stardance, by Spider and Jeanne Robinson) | Diane Martin | 21 |
| Movie Review | Show & Tell: The Warms (The Swarm, The Cat from Outer Space, Eyes of Laura Mars, Capricorn 1, Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Heaven Can Wait) | Diane Martin and Richard S. Russell | 22 |
| Interview | An Interview: Joan D. Vinge | Janice Bogstad | 25 |
| Essay | Octavia E. Butler and Power Relationships | Jancie Bogstad | 28 |
| Interview | Octavia E. Butler Interviewed | Janice Bogstad | 28 |
| Book Review | The View from Rapunzel’s Tower (Cassandra Rising, edited by Alice Laurence; Millennial Women, edited by Virginia Kidd; and New Women of Wonder, edited by Pamela Sargent | Jeanne Gomoll | 32 |
| Fiction | The Last Supper | James Blair* | 36 |
| Poetry | Last Citizen of Earth | Stanley Weinbaum* | 37 |
| Fiction | Phoenix: 2478 | Philip Kaveny | 38 |
| Poetry | Nymph | Terri Gregory* | 42 |
| SF Music Review | Intergalactic Touring Band | Jerry Stearns* | 43 |
| SF Music Review | Solar Sailors | Dorothy Dean | 43 |
| Essay | Future Insulaton: A Free Market Eclonomy | Ctein* | 44 |
| Letters | Paulette Carroll* | 47 | |
| Letters | Jeff Clark* | 48 | |
| Letters | Jane Hawkins* | 48 | |
| Letters | Peter Werner* | 49 | |
| Letters | Adrienne Fein* | 49 | |
| Letters | George Fergus* | 50 | |
| Letters | Terry A. Garey | 50 | |
| Letters | Arthur D. Hlavaty | 50 | |
| Letters | AnneLaurie Logan* | 50 | |
| Letters | Gordon Linzner* | 51 | |
| Letters | Sarah S. Prince | 52 | |
| Letters | Andy Richards* | 52 | |
| Letters | Jessica Amanda Salmonson | 52 | |
| Art | John Barnes | 38 | |
| Art | Richard Bruning | 51 | |
| Art | Ctein* | 44 | |
| Art | Alexis Gilliland* | 47 | |
| Art | Jeanne Gomoll | 1, 2, 14, 22, 23, 28, 32, 36, 42, 48, 49 | |
| Art | Julie Gomoll | 52 | |
| Art | C. Lee Healy* | 25 | |
| Art | Robert Kellough* | 37 | |
| Art | Ole Kvern | Front & Back Covers, 50 | |
| Art | Diane Martin | Photos 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 18 | |
| Art | James McLeod* | 49, 52 | |
| Art | Vicky Pierce* | 51 | |
| Art | Victoria Poyser* | 5, 16 | |
| Art | Sarah Prince | 10, 15 | |
| Art | Gregory G. H. Rihn | 6, 46 | |
| Art | Theresa Troise-Heidel* | 47 | |
| Art | David Vereschagin | 8 | |
| * We have not been able to contact this contributor. | |||
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