Content :
- Alexis Irvine "The Golems of Detroit" : A very good idea : a factory producing Golems !
- Frederic Jaccaud "Adagio pour un reflet" : The thaughts of the "Silver Surfer" ( Yes, the same one than in the Marvels comics ! ), lost in a human world, feeling unadapted to it...
- Esther Friesner "Last Man Standing" : I really loved that one : It is the story of an aegyptian slave during the Pharaons era : At that period, when a Pharaon died, his slaved had to follow him in Death, in aim to serve him in the "other world" as we say here in France. He is waiting to die when suddenly a godess arrives, and funny things happens...
- Delila Sherman "Miss Carstairs and the Merman" : a mental communion between a human and a Merman, very nicely decribed
- Laurent Herron " Les peluches"
- Martin Gardner "No sided professor" : The Moebius concept, applied to a human being, funny..
- Thierry Smolderen : An essay about Moebius
- Laurent Queyssi : An essay featuring "Métal Hurlant", very well written
- A portfolio by the drawer Ashley Wood : black and white drawings
- Rhys Hugues : "Crystal Cosmos" : The Earth would have in the universe many other clones, where life happens the same way, except some little details... ( It reminds me "Ring around the sun" by Clifford Simak )
- Steven Utley : "Promised Land" : The dust of a dead man scattered on a desert island, according to his wishes before dying, not really interresting...
- James Stoddard : "Starwatch" : A very good and poetic story about a young man who would like to become an astronomer, knowing that the astronomers of this story have the ability to move the stars...
- Xavier Mauméjean "Notre Dame d'Heisenberg" : Sorry I really disliked this author, The main lines of the story were too long to appear and I gave this text up at about 2 pages from the beginning...
- A strip cartoon by Alexis Segarra
- David Calvo "Instruction au sosie" : A brilliant story and writing style : vivid, precise,...
- Jeffrey Ford "The fantasy writer's assistant" : Being myself an assistant I founded this text very pleasant to read : An assistant helps his "chief" to find details in the huge imaginary world he created for his books, and she succeed in realy "entering" in this world...
- Poul Anderson "The shrine for Lost Children"
- Some comic strips taken from "El Corriere dei Piccoli"
To conclude, a very good bunch of SF stories scattered on 335 pages...rather oriented on ideas than on action (such as Starwars)
This magazine is only written in french language, but about 60 % of the writers featured are english or american, so I am sure you could find their texts in your own coutry....
If you want to know more about Fiction, please read the article I wrote about it in the "Titles from D to F" article.
