Fiction

• "The Button Bin" by Mike Allen
  Sometimes skin deep is too deep.

• "The Makeover Men" by Jayme Lynn Blaschke
  Just a little correction and improvement — what's wrong with that?
• "Kill Me" by Vylar Kaftan
  There really are worse things than death.

• "The Mechanical Mechanic, His Apprentice, and the Judge"
  by Sarah K. Castle
  He'd given them all he had and they wanted more.

• "The Golden Whip" by Jay Lake
  Mother knows best.

• "The Snake's Wife" by Ann Leckie
  Gods speak with forked tongues.

• "The Last Stand of the Elephant Man" by Jennifer Pelland
  He was a human being. What were they?

Poetry

Bringing you the best in SFnal verse.

• "Next August" by Danny Adams

• "Geis" by Kendall Evans

• "The Gates" by David C. Kopaska-Merkel & W. Gregory Stewart

• "The Envoy" by Mikal Trimm

• "The Robot's Daughter" by JoSelle Vanderhooft

• "At Ripley's" by S.C. Virtes

Regular Features

• Past Masters by Bud Webster
  A look at forgotten masters in the field of speculative fiction.

• The Well-Bitten Hand by John Barnes
  A piquant blend of SF, sensawunda and semiotics.

• News and Announcements
  Because we need publicity, too.

• Archives
  Past joys and delights.

Editorials

• William Sanders and Lawrence Watt-Evans
  Our glorious leaders pontificate on the subjects closest to their hearts.