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The Comics Journal, #295 (January 2009). Edited by Gary Groth (208 pages). Published eight times a year by Fantagraphics Books, 7563 Lake City Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115 USA. One issue: $11.99. Ten-issue subscription: $72. Contributors to this issue: Michael Dean, Eric Millikin, Noah Van Sciver, Sean T. Collins, Paul Karasik, Rob Clough, Noah Berlatsky, Luis Alberto Urrea, Charles A. Voight, R.C. Harvey, Bill Randall, Tom Crippen, Rich Kreiner, Frank Santoro, Donald Phelps, and Kenneth Smith.
The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Volume 8, Number 4 (Whole Number 32), Spring 2009. Poetry magazine. Edited and published by Roger Dutcher (32 pages). MSP, PO Box 564, Beloit, WI 53512 USA. www.sff.net/people/roger-dutcher/#msp. One issue: $5 ($6.50 outside the US). Four-issue subscription: $19 ($25 outside the US). Contributors to this issue: Jennifer Crow, irving, Neal Wilgus, John Grey, Jimmy Burns, Mike Allen, Gene Van Troyer, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Alfredo Álamo, G.O. Clark, Mark Rich, Serena Fusek, and James Fowler.
SFWriter.com: News from the Robert J. Sawyer Web Site. Issue No. 25 (May 2009). Occasional newsletter. www.sfwriter.com. News this issue includes completion of the pilot for ABC’s tv series based on Sawyer’s novel Flash Forward; publication of his 18th novel, Wake; publication of his collection Identity Theft; information about his writer-in-residence gig at the Canadian national synchrotron; and his hosting gig for Supernatural Investigator.
Star*Line, the Journal of the Science Fiction Poetry Association, Volume 32, Number 1 (January/February 2009). Newsletter/poetry magazine. Edited by Marge Simon (28 pages). Published by The Science Fiction Poetry Association (SFPA), c/o Treasurer Samantha Henderson, PO Box 4846, Covina, CA 91723 USA. sfpoetry.com. One year’s dues include six issue subscription: $21 (US/Canada/Mexico); $25 (elsewhere). Poetry contributors to this issue: Duane Ackerson, Megan Arkenberg, Elizabeth Barrette, John Borneman, Robert Borski, Malcolm Deeley, Kendall Evans, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Wade German, Ray Greenblatt, Berrin C. Henderson, David C. Kopaska-Merkel, Rose Lemburg, Kurt MacPhearson, Lawrence P. McGuire, Jaime Lee Moyer, Karen L. Newman, Wendy Rathbone, Ann K. Schwader, Steve Sneyd, Marcie Lynn Tentchoff, John Tumlin, Neal Wilgus, Stephen M. Wilson, and Rick Yennik. Features by: Anthony Bernstein, Edward Cox, Gary William Crawford, Denise Dumars, Deborah P. Kolodji, Sandra J. Lindow, Robin M. Mayhall, Marge Simon, Frida Westford, and Neal Wilgus.
Thrilling Wonder Stories, Volume 2 (Spring 2009). Irregular science fiction magazine. Edited by Winston Engle (252 pages). PO Box 67186, Albuquerque, NM 87193 USA. thrillingwonderstore.com. One issue: $14.95. Contents of this issue: Fiction (new and reprint): “Enterprise Fish” by David Gerrold; “Palladium” by Diane Duane; “Moon Over Luna” by David R. George III; “Manifest Destiny” by Michael Reaves & Steve Perry; “A Gift Though Small” by Melinda M. Snodgrass; “Float Like a Butterfly” by Norman Spinrad; “Dark Energies” by Larry Niven; “The Golden Helix” by Theodore Sturgeon; “Arena” by Fredric Brown; “Life Hutch” by Harlan Ellison; “The Seventh Order” by Jerry Sohl; “F———” by Richard Matheson; and “Rock-a-Bye Baby, or Die!” by George Clayton Johnson. Features: “Where No Scribe Has Gone Before” by Marc Scott Zicree; “Scientifacts” by James Trefil; “No Studio, No Network, No Problem” by Crystal Ann Taylor; “I Canna Change the Laws of Physics!” by Adam Weiner; “Columbus of the Stars: A Trek Not Taken?” by Ib Melchior & Vic Lundin; The Televisualizer: “Cult Camp Classics 1: Sci-Fi Thrillers” by Scott Ashlin; Sir Arthur C. Clarke & Forrest J Ackerman, In Memoriam; and “Dr. Zotts” (comic strip).