Cover Art and Design
Squid Ascendant Upon the Cabinet of Thackery Jeremy Zerfoss

Fiction
4 Perchance Stuart Jaffe
8 We Don.t Do Quests Dale Mettam
12 Selling Home Tina Connolly
18 Fadeout Amber D. Sistla
22 Less Than Absent Kenneth Schneyer

Graphic Short
31 The Long Lives of Heroes
     Jeremy Whitley and Jason Strutz
     part 2 of 4

Features
24 The Wolf Tree John Claude Bemis . Review by
     Mur Lafferty; Interview by Dan Campbell
36 The Magician King Lev Grossman . Review by Kij
     Johnson; Interview by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
40 Odd? Ann and Jeff VanderMeer . Interview by Larry
     Nolen
45 Dark Tangos Lewis Shiner . Review by Richard
     Dansky; Article and Interview by Samuel
     Montgomery-Blinn
52 Miserere: An Autumn Tale Teresa Frohock . 
     Review and Interview by J.P. Wickwire

Departments
54 The Daily Monocle J.P. Wickwire . The
     Enterprise of Death Jesse Bullington;
     Deathless Catherynne M. Valente;
     Robopocalypse Daniel H. Wilson; Machine
     Man Max Barry
56 Reviews . The Cardinal.s Blades Pierre Pevel
     by Richard Dansky; Zazen Vanessa Veselka by Nick
     Mamatas; Starve Better and Sensation Nick
     Mamatas by Jason Erik Lundberg; Sword of Fire
     and Sea Erin Hoffman by Richard Dansky;
     Ghosts of War George Mann by Joseph Giddings;
     Germline T.C. McCarthy by C.D. Covington
60 Poetry . Spacetime Geodesics Athena
     Andreadis; Petals Mari Ness; Ruminations
     Upon a Dandelion Theme Nathaniel Lee;
     Spinning the Seabed Dry Edgar Mason; Lyssa
     Depressed Linda Ann Strang
62 Editorial . What Happened to the Summer?

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2 Pyr
11 Durham Literacy Center
21 Alison Janssen editorial services
39 Firetower Studios
44 Igaaks Brass and Steel Visors
63 James Maxey
64 ConTemporal