Vector, January/February 1997

Editor(s): Tony Cullen  Andrew M. Butler  Gary S. Dalkin  Paul Kincaid  Tanya Brown 
Pages: 32, A4
Price: £2.25
Cover:
Notes: #191, Roles: Production & General, Features, Features, Hardback Reviews, Paperback Reviews


Editorial
  A View From Below Stairs - Andrew M. Butler 

Articles
  The Weaponry of Deceit: Speculations on Reality in "The Wasp Factory" - Kev P. McVeigh 
  Living In His Own World: A Tim Burton Retrospective - Dave M. Roberts 
  Cognitive Mapping, 6: Magic Realism - Paul Kincaid 
  Bookspotting: "Northern Lights" by Philip Pullman - Justina Robson 

Interviews
  The View from the Bridge - Michael Marshall Smith  by Paul Kincaid

Book Reviews by Graham Andrews
  Roc and a Hard Place - Piers Anthony 

Book Reviews by K. V. Bailey
  Endymion - Dan Simmons 

Book Reviews by Janet Barron
  The Virgin and the Dinosaur - R. Garcia y Robertson 

Book Reviews by Norman Beswick
  Byzantium - Stephen Lawhead 

Book Reviews by Colin Bird
  The Eternal - Mark Chadbourn 
  Fairyland - Paul J. McAuley 

Book Reviews by Lynne Bispham
  Songspinners - Sarah Ash 
  Darkfell - Mary Corran 
  Archangel - Sharon Shinn 

Book Reviews by Tanya Brown
  Midshipman's Hope - David Feintuch 
  Fevre Dream - George R. R. Martin 

Book Reviews by Andrew M. Butler
  Rama Revealed - Arthur C. Clarke  Gentry Lee 
  A Sudden Wild Magic - Diana Wynne Jones 
  Zeitgeist: A Novel - Todd Wiggins 

Book Reviews by Barbara Davies
  Lady in Gil - Rebecca Bradley 

Book Reviews by Alan Fraser
  A Call to Arms: Book 1 of 'The Damned' - Alan Dean Foster 

Book Reviews by L. J. Hurst
  The Secret of This Book - Brian W. Aldiss 
  Starborne - Robert Silverberg 

Book Reviews by Steve Jeffery
  The World on Blood - Jonathan Nasaw 
  Witchcraft - James Robinson  Peter Snejberg  Michael Zulli  Steve Yeowell  Teddy Kristiansen 

Book Reviews by Paul Kincaid
  Milton in America - Peter Ackroyd 
  Amnesiascope - Steve Erickson 
  The Glamour - Christopher Priest 
  Spares - Michael Marshall Smith 

Book Reviews by Vikki Lee
  The Forging of the Shadows - Oliver Johnson 
  A Man Betrayed - J. V. Jones 

Book Reviews by Pat McMurray
  The Green Mile 1: The Two Dead Girls - Stephen King 
  The Green Mile 2: The Mouse on the Mile - Stephen King 
  The Green Mile 3: Coffey's Hands - Stephen King 
  The Green Mile 4: The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix - Stephen King 
  The Green Mile 5: Night Journey - Stephen King 
  The Green Mile 6: Coffey on the Mile - Stephen King 

Book Reviews by Helen McNabb
  Palace - Katharine Kerr  Mark Kreighbaum 
  Red Star Rising - Anne McCaffrey 

Book Reviews by Andy Mills
  Virtual Zen - Ray Nelson 

Book Reviews by John Newsinger
  Tides - Melanie Tem 
  Mirage - F. Paul Wilson  Matthew J. Costello 

Book Reviews by John D. Owen
  Chaga - Ian McDonald 

Book Reviews by Steve Palmer
  Writing Horror Fiction - Guy N. Smith 

Book Reviews by Stephen Payne
  The House on the Borderland - William Hope Hodgson 
  Hard Questions - Ian Watson 

Book Reviews by Mark Plummer
  The Breath of Suspension - Alexander Jablokov 
  Star Wars: The Black Fleet - Michael P. Kube-McDowell 
  Crisis Book 2: Shield of Lies - Michael P. Kube-McDowell 
  The XXXX Files - David Lines  John Abbott 
  Ancient Shores - Jack McDevitt 
  Star Wars: X-Wing Book 1: Rogue Squadron - Michael Stackpole 
  Star Wars: X-Wing Book 2: Wedge's Gamble - Michael Stackpole 
  Star Wars: X-Wing Book 3: The Krytos Trap - Michael Stackpole 

Book Reviews by Liam Proven
  The Crow: City of Angels - Chet Williamson 

Book Reviews by Maureen Kincaid Speller
  Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind: Alien Abductions and UFOs - Witnesses and Scientists Report - C. D. B. Bryan 

Book Reviews by Kathy Taylor
  Golden Witchbreed - Mary Gentle 

Book Reviews by Jon Wallace
  Ronan's Rescue - James Bibby 
  The Deity Dozen - Andrew Harman 



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