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Short Fiction Focus
by Nick Gevers

Since completing a Ph.D. on uses of history in SF, Nick Gevers has become a moderately prolific reviewer and interviewer in the field of speculative fiction. He has published in INTERZONE, NOVA EXPRESS, the NEW YORK REVIEW OF SF, and GALAXIES; much of his work is available at INFINITY PLUS, of which he is Associate Editor. He lives in Cape Town, South Africa.

Short Fiction Focus
a column by Nick Gevers
Nick Gevers' monthly column is a survey of recent short fiction. In this final installment of the column, this month's picks are Michael Swanwick's "The Dog Said Bow-Wow" in Asimov's, Gene Wolfe's "In Glory Like Their Star" from Fantasy & Science Fiction and "Small Houses" by James P. Blaylock posted at Sci Fiction.

Short Fiction Focus
a column by Nick Gevers
Nick Gevers' monthly column is a survey of recent short fiction. This month's picks are the latest extraordinary novella from Lucius Shepard, "Aztechs" at Sci Fiction and full praise here for a similarly probing political parable, "Into Greenwood", by Jim Grimsley, the lead story in Asimov's.

Short Fiction Focus
a column by Nick Gevers
Nick Gevers' new monthly column is a survey of recent short fiction. This month's picks are "One Last Game" by Robert Reed, Carol Emshwiller's "The Project" and "The Two Dicks" by Paul J. McAuley in Fantasy & Science Fiction and "First To The Moon!" by Stephen Baxter and Simon Bradshaw in Spectrum SF.

Short Fiction Focus
a column by Nick Gevers
Nick Gevers begins his new monthly column of surveying short fiction. This month's picks are "Isabel of the Fall" by Ian R. Macleod in Interzone, "His Own Back Yard" by James P. Blaylock from Sci Fiction, "Tom Kelley's Ghost" by Steven Popkes in Fantasy & Science Fiction and 4 dazzling short stories from Asimov's.