Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 1999

By William Sanders, Marc Laidlaw, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, and more

1999

First Published

4.25

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162

Number of Pages

4H55M

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The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 1999 Editor: Gordon Van Gelder Cover: Bob Eggleton Cover illustrates "Strongbow." Contains the following Fiction and Essays • Strongbow novelette by R. Garcia y Robertson • Books to Look For essay by Charles de Lint • Musing on Books essay by Michelle West • Hooking Up shortstory by Michael Kandel • The Beastly Red Lurker shortstory by Michael Nethercott • The Girl Who Ate Butterflies shortstory by M. Rickert • Total Conversion shortstory by Marc Laidlaw • The Shadow Knows essay by Pat Murphy and Paul Doherty • Jennifer, Just Before Midnight shortstory by William Sanders • Salvage Efforts shortstory by Nina Kiriki Hoffman • Coming Attractions essay by uncredited • The Attack of the Ignoroids novelette by Wayne Wightman • Curiosities: The Unicorn with Silver Shoes, by Ella Young (1932) essay by Ruth Berman

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4.25

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Authors

William Sanders

Author · 2 books

this is William^^^Sanders William Sanders served with the US Army Security Agency during the Vietnam War. He is the author of more than 20 published books and many stories and articles; his short fiction has been nominated for major awards, including the Hugo and Nebula, and has twice won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History. see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...

Nina Kiriki Hoffman’s first solo novel, The Thread That Binds the Bones (1993), won the Bram Stoker Award for first novel; her second novel, The Silent Strength of Stones (1995) was a finalist for the Nebula and World Fantasy Awards. A Red Heart of Memories (1999, part of her “Matt Black” series), nominated for a World Fantasy Award, was followed by sequel Past the Size of Dreaming in 2001. Much of her work to date is short fiction, including “Matt Black” novella “Unmasking” (1992), nominated for a World Fantasy Award; and “Matt Black” novelette “Home for Christmas” (1995), nominated for the Nebula, World Fantasy, and Sturgeon awards. In addition to writing, Hoffman has taught, worked part-time at a B. Dalton bookstore, and done production work on The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. An accomplished fiddle player, she has played regularly at various granges near her home in Eugene, Oregon.

R. Garcia y Robertson

M. Rickert also writes under the name Mary Rickert. How did this happen and why, you might ask. It is a reasonable question but that does not mean the answer is reasonable as well. There was a time when M. was a young writer, scribbling in notebooks and on the back of envelopes, who thought she wanted to disappear behind the stories she wrote. (She still feels that way, and rather enjoys writing about herself in the third person as if she were someone else.) After years of rejections M. began publishing under the mysterious moniker, and was happy doing so, until she began to feel that she was repeating herself, or (and this is the weird part) repeating someone else who she once had been. At the age of 51 she decided to go back to school and earned her MFA as well as the rest of her name. She also wrote a novel, The Memory Garden, to be published in May, 2014.