Viewpoints

• Graham Sleight: Editorial
• David Ketterer: Locating Slipstream

Papers

• Chris Pak: "A Fantastic Reflex of Itself..."
• Sandor Klapcsik: Cannibalising "Anicient" Technologies and Art Forms
• Victor Grech: "The Trick in Hard SF is to minimise cheating and disguise it with fancy footwork..."
• Alex Kane: Individualism, Atheism, and the Search for God in Cormac McCarthy's The Road.

Reviews

• Andy Sawyer: Zoo City by Lauren Beukes
• Joseph Viney: The Best of Michael Moorcock
• David Seed: Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century by William H Patterson Jr
• Niall Alexander: Son of Heaven by David Wingrove
• Jen Gunnells: Codename Prague by D. Harlan Wilson
• Paul Kincaid: Bests of the year, eds Anderson and Dozois