Bull Spec #5

Contents: (final, 64-pages, full-size, glossy, 4 pages in color)

[ publication spring 2011: 11 april ]

Contents: (cut and paste for now from layout…)

COVER ART BOTHER Richard Case

FICTION

4 CAEL’S CONTINUUM Preston Grassmann 6 BOTHER Rebecca Gomez Farrell 10 HELL’S LOTTERY Tim Pratt 14 THE COFFEEMAKER’S PASSION Cat Rambo 16 MORTAL PASSAGE Roger Williams 26 ABSINTHE FISH M. David Blake 28 THE MESSENGERS Benjamin Paul [TEEN WRITING CONTEST WINNER]

GRAPHIC SHORT

31 THE LONG LIVES OF HEROES Jeremy Whitley and Jason Strutz PART 1 OF 4

FEATURES

30 FIASCO Jason Morningstar and Steve Segedy :: Interview by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn 35 THE QUANTUM THIEF Hannu Rajaniemi :: Interview by Preston Grassmann 38 LIFE ON MARS Jonathan Strahan :: Review by Paul Kincaid; Interview by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn 43 JOURNAL OF A UFO INVESTIGATOR David Halperin :: Review and Interview by Richard Dansky 48 THE SWORN Gail Z. Martin :: Interview by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn 58 ATOMIC ANTS Daniel M. Kimmel :: THEM!

DEPARTMENTS

50 THE CLOCKWORK PEN Joseph Giddings :: THE BUNTLINE SPECIAL Mike Resnick; THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE CLOCKWORK MAN Mark Hodder; THE FALLING MACHINE Andrew P. Mayer 52 REVIEWS :: THE CALLED Warren Rochelle by Fred Chappell; SACRED SPACE Douglas E. Cowan by Paul Kincaid; SONGS OF THE DYING EARTH George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois by Richard Dansky; THE LOST GATE Orson Scott Card by Patrick Ward; WELCOME TO THE GREENHOUSE Gordon Van Gelder by Nick Mamatas; THE WISE MAN’S FEAR Patrick Rothfuss by Brian Howe; MONSTROUS CREATURES Jeff VanderMeer by John Bowker 60 POETRY :: THE DIRTY VAMPIRE, A RECIPE Alexandra Seidel; SNAKE EYES Nathaniel Lee; SEEING RED RUSS BAIN; BASILOSAURUS Carol Allen; AND NOW THE TIDE RECEDES Kaolin Fire; KYRIELLE FOR A CLONED BABY Lisa M. Bradley 62 EDITORIAL :: There’s Something Happening Here