Vector, December/January 1993

Editor(s): Catie Cary  Stephen Payne  Maureen Speller 
Pages: 40, A4
Price: £2.25
Cover:
Notes: #176, Roles: Editor & Hardback Reviews, Paperback Reviews, Magazine Reviews


Editorial
  Nuts & Bolts - Catie Cary 

Interviews
  The Red Prophet - Kim Stanley Robinson  by Kev McVeigh

Articles
  Foodies of the Gods - David Langford 
  SF for Children: The Best Current Paperbacks Rounded Up - jessica Yates 
  British SF: An Obituary - Paul Kincaid 
  Women of Colour: The Female Protagonists in the Novels of Octavia Butler - Carol Ann Green 
  Magic in Narnia - Cherith Baldry 
  Barbed Wire Kisses (F&SF Aug 1993; Asimov's Aug-Nov 1993; Interzone Aug-Nov 1993 ) - Maureen Kincaid Speller 
  Poetry Slips The Stream (The Lyre #2; Memes #7; Ore #45, #46; Terrible work #1; Acumen Magazine #16, #17; Sphinx #4; The Poetry Review Summer 1993) - K. V. Bailey 

Letters
   - Edward St Boniface 
   - Mike Cobley 
   - Philip Muldowney 
   - John Madracki 

Illustration
   - Roddy Doyle 

Book Reviews by Chris Amies
  Fractal Mode - Piers Anthony 
  The Book of Ultimate Truths - Robert F. Rankin 
  Alien Embassy - Ian Watson 

Book Reviews by Graham Andrews
  The Lightless Dome - Douglas Hill 
  Darkness - John Saul 

Book Reviews by Julie Atkin
  Demons Don't Dream - Piers Anthony 

Book Reviews by Susan Badham
  The Community - Ben Leech 

Book Reviews by Chris C. Bailey
  Captains Logs: The Complete Trek Voyages - Edward Gross  Mark A. Altham 
  Star Wreck II: The Attack of the Jargonites - Leah Rewolinski 

Book Reviews by K. V. Bailey
  The Little Country - Charles de Lint 

Book Reviews by Cherith Baldry
  Powers That Be - Anne McCaffrey  Elizabeth Ann Scarborough 

Book Reviews by David Barrett
  Great Irish Stories of the Supernatural (Edited) - Peter Haining 

Book Reviews by Norman Beswick
  House of Lost Dreams - Graham Joyce 
  Darkness Weaves - Karl Edward Wagner 
  The Firstworld Chronicles 3: From Enchantry - Philip G. Williamson 

Book Reviews by Colin Bird
  Down Among the Dead Men - Simon R. Green 
  Dog Wizards - Barbara Hambly 

Book Reviews by Lynne Bispham
  Crisis on Doona - Anne McCaffrey  Jody Lynn Nye 

Book Reviews by Martin H. Brice
  Yarrow - Charles de Lint 

Book Reviews by Catie Cary
  A Shadow on the Skin - Keren Gilfoyle 

Book Reviews by Mat Coward
  Don't Panic: Douglas Adams and The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Neil Gaiman  David K. Dickson 
  Who Goes Here? - Bob Shaw 

Book Reviews by Alan Fraser
  Serpent Mage: Death Gate Cycle 4 - Margaret Weis  Tracy Hickman 

Book Reviews by Chris Hart
  Star Trek: Who Killed Captain Kirk? - Peter David  Tom Sutton  Ricardo Villagray 
  Odyssey: The Authorised Biography of Arthur C. Clarke - Neil McAleer 

Book Reviews by L. J. Hurst
  Meridian Days - Eric Brown 
  Young Bleys - Gordon R. Dickson 

Book Reviews by Alan Johnson
  Green Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson 
  The Harvest - Robert Charles Wilson 

Book Reviews by Tom A. Jones
  Shadow Sisters - Stephen Marley 

Book Reviews by Paul Kincaid
  New Noir - John Shirley 

Book Reviews by Simon Lake
  Carnosaur - Harry Adam Knight 
  Red Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson 

Book Reviews by Vikki Lee
  The Shining Ones - David Eddings 

Book Reviews by Helen McNabb
  Topaz Fire - Brian Rayfield 

Book Reviews by Kev McVeigh
  Angel - Garry D. Kilworth 

Book Reviews by Andy Mills
  Dead Girls - Richard Calder 
  Across Realtime - Vernor Vinge 

Book Reviews by John Newsinger
  Vampire World 2: The Last Aerie - Brian Lumley 

Book Reviews by John D. Owen
  New Stories From The Twilight Zone (Edited) - Martin H. Greenberg 
  A Dangerous Energy - John Whitbourn 

Book Reviews by Steve Palmer
  The Emperor of Earth-Above - Sheila Gilluly 

Book Reviews by Stephen Payne
  Doomsday Book - Connie Willis 

Book Reviews by Michael J. Pont
  Caliban - Roger MacBride Allen 

Book Reviews by Ian Sales
  New Worlds 3 (Edited) - David Garnett 
  Grunts! - Mary Gentle 
  Star Trek TNG: Guises of the Mind - Rebecca Neason 
  Whisper of Death - Christopher Pike 

Book Reviews by Andy Sawyer
  The Life of Death - Clive Barker  Stewart Stanyard  Hector Gomez 
  Jack the Bodiless - Julian May 
  A Taste of Blood Wine - Freda Warrington 

Book Reviews by Andrew Seaman
  Waking Nightmares - Ramsey Campbell 

Book Reviews by Max Sexton
  Catwoman - Robert Asprin 
  Overtime - Tom Holt 
  Hidden Echoes - Mike Jeffries 

Book Reviews by Maureen Speller
  Blood Trillium - Julian May 

Book Reviews by Jim Steel
  Bedlam - Harry Adam Knight 

Book Reviews by Martin Sutherland
  Bill, The Galactic Hero ... On the Planet Of The Hippies From Hell - Harry Harrison  David Bischoff 
  The Brothel in Rosenstrasse - Michael Moorcock 

Book Reviews by Stephen Tew
  Nightfall - John Farris 
  Catspaw - Joan D. Vinge 

Book Reviews by Sue Thomason
  The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall - Anne McCaffrey 

Book Reviews by Jon Wallace
  Nightmare, With Angel - Stephen Gallagher 



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