Bull Spec #4

Cover Art
Jet Packs! Jason Strutz
Fiction
4 Freedom Acres Andrew Magowan
12 O, Harvard Square! Nick Mamatas
16 The Burning Room David Tallerman
21 A Mathematician.s Apology Don Norum
24 City of Shadow and Glass Erin Hoffman
26 Tornado of Sparks James Maxey
Graphic Short
33 Closed System Mike Gallagher part 4 of 4
Features
32 Closed System Mike Gallagher :: Interview
by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
42 Pyr at Five & 100 Lou Anders :: Article and
Interview by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
50 Children No More Mark L. Van Name ::
Excerpt; Essay and Interview by Dan Campbell
56 The Greyfriar Clay and Susan Griffith ::
Review by Natania Barron; Article by Alex
Granados
57 Pathfinder Orson Scott Card :: Article by Alex
Granados
Departments
40 Happenings
58 Reviews :: Surface Detail Iain M. Banks
by Patrick Ward; The Secret History of
Fantasy Peter S. Beagle by Paul Kincaid;
Sacred Space Douglas E. Cowan by Paul
Kincaid; The Horns of Ruin Tim Akers by
Joseph Giddings; The Strange Affair of
Spring-Heeled Jack Mark Hodder by Joseph
Giddings; The Way of Kings Brandon
Sanderson by Richard Dansky; Stories Neil
Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio by Richard Dansky;
The Universe in Miniature in Miniature
Patrick Somerville by Jason Erik Lundberg
64 Poetry :: Masdevallia Mark Brandon Allen;
Beastwoman’s Snarled Rune Rose
Lemberg; Enchantment Jennifer McConnel;
with the fisher on the lake Kaolin Fire;
The Guardian at the Fountain of
Eternal Youth Alexandra Seidel
66 Editorial :: The Year That Was & The Year to
Come
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2 Pyr
11 Tachyon Publications
20 Firetower Studios
23 Durham Literacy Center
25 Baen
38 Foundation’s Edge
39 StellarCon
67 Mur Lafferty’s I Should Be Writing
68 Angi Shearstone’s BloodDreams