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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