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A: Dune/Dhalgren/Froomb
Q: How did little June Dailene Fromm pronounce her name when
she had the mumps?
ЧBrace Serges
A: The Demolished Man
Q: What is the state of the Competition Editor after each contest?
A: Buy Jupiter!
Q: What did the man who sold the moon do next?
A: The Sheep Look Up
Q: What happens when there's No Blade of Grass?
A: The Lathe of Heaven
Q: Where can you watch As the World Turns?
ЧChris Leithiser
A: The Day the Sun Stood Still
Q: When did you get that awful sunburn?
A: Friends Come in Boxes
Q: How can you tell your friends from your enemies?
A: Postmarked the Stars
Q: Why has this letter taken 1732 years to be delivered?
A: Against the Fall of Night
Q: Why are you wearing that enormous hard hat?
ЧMary H. Schaub
Ed Bryant's story about stim star Jain Snow is a terrifically intense extrapolation of the communion between performer and audience. It received a Nebula nomination from the Science Fiction Writers of America for best short story of the year.
Stone
by EDWARD BRYANT
Up above the burning city, a woman wails the blues. How she cries out, how she moans. Flames fed by tears rake fingers across the sky. It is an old, old song:
Fitt me like the mountains Fill me like the sea
Writhing in the heat, she stands where there is no support The fire licks her body.
All of me
So finely drawn, and with the glitter of ice, the manipulating wires radiate outward. Taut bonds between her body and the flickering darkness, all wires lead to the intangible overshadowing figure behind her. Without expression, Atropos gazes down at the woman.
Face contorting, she looks into the hearts of a million fires and cries out
All of me
ЧAs Atropos raises the terrible, cold-shining blades of the Norn-shears and with only the barest hesitation cuts the wires. Limbs
72 Edward Bryant
spread-eagled to the compass points, the woman plunges into the flames. She is instantly and utterly consumed. The face of Atropos remains shrouded in shadows.
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IN CONCERT
JAIN SNOW
with
MOOG INDIGO
sixty-track stim by RobCal
June 23, 24 -One show nightly at 2100
Tickets $30, $26, $22.
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