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Fantasy & Science Fiction Magazine
February 1998

Stories featured in this issue are:

"Home Time" by Ian R. MacLeod starts off as a usual time travel story with an unusual purpose and ends up with one answer to a possible time paradox.
"This Side of Independence" by Rob Chilson looks at a future where the entire solar system has been dismembered for material to build space colonies. The last world to be demolished is the Earth. But things become difficult when some people are still found on Earth with no desire to leave.
"Accelerated Grimace" by Rebecca Ore looks at a device that can read thoughts and the effects it has on an artist and his wife.
"You Won't Take Me Alive! (Without At Least Ten Percent of the Box Office Gross)" by Paul Di Filippo takes a hilarious look at what happens when authors can become desperately violent in their desire for fame and money and how it is up to organisations like the SFFWA to keep them in check.
"Graft" by Christine Beckert takes a look at the lives of two women who come connected when one women, desperate for money, donates her skin to the other who has suffered burns on her body. Not an especially pleasant story to read but still worth reading.
"The Boy Who Lost an Hour, the Girl who Lost her Life" by Ian Watson tells the tale of what could happen to a little boy who is 'left behind' during the switch to daylight savings time. Is this fantasy or not? You decide.
"Bright Future: Fixing the Greenhouse" by Gregory Benford is a science fact article about how we could reduce the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere by doing things like dumping iron into the sea (the encourage plankton growth) to more radical proposals like using high altitude airplanes to spray dust (to reduce sunlight).
"The Old Curiosity Shop" by James P. Blaylock tells the story of a husband who goes back to a town after his wife dies. He had left her some time ago after finding out about an affair. But the circumstances of her death leave him puzzled, especially when he finds out about how little of her was left at time time of her death, literally. His inquiries leads him to and old shop filled with weighty momentos and to the man who may have caused her death.

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Fantasy & Science Fiction Magazine February 1998

Fantasy & Science Fiction Magazine
February 1998