Vector, January/February 2006

Editor(s): Tony Cullen Geneva Melzack Niall Harrison Paul Billinger
Pages: 36, A4
Price: £2.50
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Notes: #245, Roles: Production & General, Features, Editorial & Letters, Reviews
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Editorial
  Torque Control - Geneva Melzack Niall Harrison

Articles
  The Mundane Manifesto - Anonymous
  Frequently Asked Questions about Mundane SF - Trent Walters
  A Refusal to Sign the Mundane Manifesto - Ian McDonald
  No More New World Orders - Martin Lewis
  Not Really New, Not Really Weird - Norman Spinrad
  Infernokrushers: A Brief and Terrible History - Megan McCarron
  'Amnesty' by Octavia E. Butler: An Appreciation - Claire Light
  'Russian Vine' by Simon Ings: An Appreciation - Abigail Nussbaum
  'The Discharge' by Christopher Priest: An Appreciation - Paul Kincaid
  'Bears Discover Smut' by Michael Bishop: An Appreciation - Elizabeth Bear

Columns
  The New X: Morning Children - Graham Sleight

Book Reviews by Simon Bisson
  Counting Heads - David Marusek

Book Reviews by Alan Fraser
  Year's Best Science Fiction Twenty-Second Annual Collection,The (ed) - Gardner Dozois

Book Reviews by Niall Harrison
  The Clock King and the Queen of the Hourglass - Vera Nazarian
  In the Palace of Repose - Holly Phillips
  The Periodic Table of Science Fiction - Michael Swanwick
  Nova Scotia (Edited) - Neil Williamson Andrew J. Wilson

Book Reviews by Penny Hill
  Talyn - Holly Lisle

Book Reviews by L. J. Hurst
  R is for Rocket - Ray Bradbury
  S is for Space - Ray Bradbury

Book Reviews by Steve Jeffery
  Anatomy of Wonder: A Critical Guide to Science Fiction, 5th Edition - Neil Barron

Book Reviews by Carol Ann Kerry-Green
  The Necessary Beggar - Susan Palwick
  The Hickory Staff - Robert Scott Jay Gordon

Book Reviews by Vikki Lee
  Flight of the Nighthawks - Raymond E. Feist

Book Reviews by Martin McGrath
  The Vesuvius Club Graphic Edition - Mark Gatiss Ian Bass
  Emerald Eye - The Best in Irish Imaginative Fiction (Edited) - Frank Ludlow Roelof Goudriaan
  Back to the Vortex: The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Doctor Who 2005 - J. Shaun Lyon

Book Reviews by Kev McVeigh
  Blindshrike - Richard Kadrey

Book Reviews by John Newsinger
  Grief - Ed Lark

Book Reviews by Colin (& Mitch Le Blanc) Odell
  The Lure of the Vampire: Gender, Fiction and Fandom from Bram Stoker to Buffy - Milly Williamson

Book Reviews by Susan Peak
  Lord of the Silver Bow - David Gemmell

Book Reviews by Dave M. Roberts
  Secret Stories - Ramsey Campbell

Book Reviews by Estelle Roberts
  Fishin' With Grandma Matchie - Steven Erikson

Book Reviews by Sue Thomason
  The Rat and the Serpent - Bryn Llewellyn

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