(Columns)

COLUMN: Finale and Follow-Up, by James Schellenberg

Avatar: The Last Airbender wrapped up its third and final season earlier this year. Haven't seen it? You're missing the smartest fantasy on TV.

FICTION: Sisters of the Blessed Diving Order of Saint Peter and Saint Andrew, by A.C. Wise

Lucy came to the Blessed Diving Order of Saint Peter and Saint Andrew in the usual way: her parents abandoned her as a babe in a little woven basket on the shore. Her first lullaby was the hush of waves rolling smoothed stone over stone and stringing tangled seaweed around her cradle.

POETRY: Ascending, by Mike Allen

The escalator, rolling ever down, / has reached an end at last and here you lie

REVIEW: This Week's Reviews, posted three times a week

Monday: 2008 In Review, by Our Reviewers
Wednesday: Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin, reviewed by Adam Roberts
Friday: METAtropolis edited by John Scalzi, reviewed by Farah Mendlesohn

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(Articles)

ARTICLE: Can Life Compete?, by Keith Pike

If WoW [World of Warcraft] is the beginning, what will the middle look like?

ARTICLE: Where is My Favorite Martian Hiding?, by Omar Vega

There was a time not long ago when the solar system was full of life. . . . Does it sound strange?

FICTION: Engines of Survival, by Larissa Kelly

It's always the little things in the future that are the hardest to adjust to.

POETRY: The Invisible Woman Runs for President, by Karen A. Romanko

A woman president is nothing new, / but an invisible woman president—that's change

REVIEW: This Week's Reviews, posted three times a week

Monday: Other Worlds, Better Lives: A Howard Waldrop Reader—Selected Long Fiction 1989-2003, reviewed by Graham Sleight
Wednesday: Voices From Fairyland: The Fantastical Poems of Mary Coleridge, Charlotte Mew, and Sylvia Townsend Warner, edited and wth poems by Theodora Goss, reviewed by Karen J. Weyant
Friday: Queen of K'n-Yan by Asamatsu Ken, translated by Kathleen Taiji, reviewed by Kari Sperring

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(Articles)

ARTICLE: Speaking About Pancakes, by Sergey Gerasimov

Do we live in the aftermath of Chernobyl, or in the before-math of something bigger?

FICTION: How to Hold Your Breath, by Meredith Schwartz

In eighth grade, two of the guys started whispering "smells like fish" to each other whenever I came near them.

POETRY: Gourmand in Remission, by Ed Gavin

mindful of its bluer than blue bouquet

REVIEW: This Week's Reviews, posted three times a week

Monday: Half a Crown by Jo Walton, reviewed by John Clute
Wednesday: Liberation by Brian Francis Slattery, reviewed by Abigail Nussbaum
Friday: The Last Book by Zoran Živković, reviewed by Matt Denault

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(Fiction)

FICTION: The Same Old Story, by Naomi Bloch

Sarah was trying to come up with something friendly, but not empty, to say to her husband. Since the conversation in the lab they had kept their dialogue to a few safe, neutral subjects.

POETRY: Bardo Crossing, by Suzette Haden Elgin

Leave her alone. / She is a poor small huddled thing,

REVIEW: This Week's Reviews, posted three times a week

Monday: The Ant King and Other Stories by Benjamin Rosenbaum, reviewed by Dan Hartland
Wednesday: Winterstrike by Liz Williams, reviewed by David McWilliam
Friday: Shadowbridge and Lord Tophet by Gregory Frost, reviewed by Michael Levy

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