OUR SEPTEMBER ISSUE promises to be a good one. The incomparable Harlan Ellison returns—sort of. See, in his long and storied career, Mr. Ellison has only had two story ideas he couldn't finish. So he gave us one of them, and we turned Michael Libling, Tananarive Due, and Michael Kandel loose on it. The results are very entertaining.

The table of contents next month also includes an item entitled "Dear Starbear." Behind this title waits the correspondence of Ursula K. Le Guin and the late James Tiptree, Jr. Tiptree loved writing letters as much as she enjoyed writing fiction, and that love shows in every missive. These letters are something special.

We've also got great stories lined up by Paolo Bacigalupi, Peter S. Beagle, Carrie Richerson, M. Rickert, and Geoff Ryman, among others. Subscribe now so you won't miss any of them.