Vector, May/June 2004

Editor(s): Tony Cullen Andrew M. Butler Paul Billinger
Pages: 36, A4
Price: £2.50
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Notes: #235, Roles: Production & General, Features, Editorial & Letters, Reviews
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Editorial
  The View from the Back Issues - Andrew M. Butler

Articles
  Genetic Politics: Hive Minds in Science & Science Fiction - Stephen Baxter
  Bookspotting: _The Hard SF Renaissance_ - Paul Kincaid
  Ballard and the Sixties - Rjurik Davidson

Letters
  Doctor Who - Jack Deighton
  Doctor Who - Martyn Taylor
  Aldiss;Curl;Shyamalan - L. J. Hurst
  Reply to Hurst - David Curl
  Barclay cover - Brigadier-General Philips-Ross (Retired)

Book Reviews by Andrew A. Adams
  The Magicians' Guild - Trudi Canavan

Book Reviews by K. V. Bailey
  The Battle of Evernight - Cecilia Dart-Thornton
  Dreams Underfoot - Charles de Lint

Book Reviews by Cherith Baldry
  The Companions - Sheri S. Tepper

Book Reviews by Paul Bateman
  Tales of Ten Worlds - Arthur C. Clarke
  The Wind from the Sun - Arthur C. Clarke

Book Reviews by Colin Bird
  Diplomatic Immunity - Lois McMaster Bujold

Book Reviews by Claire Brialey
  Karloff's Circus - Steve Aylett

Book Reviews by Stuart Carter
  The Eye of the Tiger - Paul McAuley
  Companion Piece - Robert Perry Mike Tucker
  Frayed - Tara Sams

Book Reviews by Gary S. Dalkin
  Different Kinds of Darkness - David Langford

Book Reviews by Alan Fraser
  Mothership - John Brosnan
  Empire of the East - Fred Saberhagen

Book Reviews by Mark Greener
  The Darkest Part of the Woods - Ramsey Campbell

Book Reviews by Niall Harrison
  Phobos - Ty Drago
  The Knight - Gene Wolfe

Book Reviews by Leslie Hatch
  New Spring - Robert Jordan
  The Outstretched Shadow - Mercedes Lackey James Mallory
  The Solar Queen - Andre Norton

Book Reviews by Chris Hill
  The Affinity Trap - Martin Sketchley

Book Reviews by Penny Hill
  Gunpowder Empire - Harry Turtledove

Book Reviews by L. J. Hurst
  The Space Merchants - Frederik Pohl C. M. Kornbluth
  Time Out of Joint - Philip K. Dick
  Downward to the Earth - Robert Silverberg
  The Leader - Guy Walters

Book Reviews by Steve Jeffery
  The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (Edited) - Edward James Farah Mandelsohn
  Absolution Gap - Alastair Reynolds

Book Reviews by Vikki Lee
  Tooth and Claw - Jo Walton

Book Reviews by Simon Morden
  Black Altars - Mark Samuels
  Strange Tales - Mark West
  Spare Parts - Stuart Young

Book Reviews by John Newsinger
  Star Dragon - Mike Brotherton

Book Reviews by Colin (& Mitch Le Blanc) Odell
  Dime Store Magic - Kelley Armstrong
  Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris

Book Reviews by Dave M. Roberts
  White Devils - Paul McAuley

Book Reviews by Estelle Roberts
  The Darkness That Comes Before - R. Scott Bakker
  Spirit in the Wires - Charles de Lint

Book Reviews by Andy Sawyer
  Science Fiction Studies 91: The British SF Boom (Vol 30 Part 3 Nov 2003) (Edited) - Mark Bould Andrew M. Butler Istvan Csicsery-Ronay

Book Reviews by Pamela Stuart
  The White Dragon - Laura Resnick
  The Destroyer Goddess - Laura Resnick

Book Reviews by Sue Thomason
  The Etched City - K. J. Bishop

Book Reviews by Jon Wallace
  Down the Bright Way - Robert Reed

Book Reviews by Peter Young
  Tango Midnight - Michael Cassutt
  Newton's Wake - Ken MacLeod

If you have any comments on, or corrections to, these pages, then please mail Michael J. Cross.