August, 2005 (Vol. II: #7)

Editorial

Figure and Ground

assumptions and the context of story

The intent of early SF and what we draw from it now may be quite different.

by Joy Ralph

Call for volunteers

copy editors wanted

Help breathe the breath of life into IROSF each month!

by Joy Ralph

Interview

Interview with Mel Odom

...there are writers, a rare breed of them, who support themselves, who fish the seven seas of genre and reel in the sales, and yet somehow remain not-quite-household names.

by Dotar Sojat

Feature

What Happened to Hyperfiction?

...hyperfiction and its multimedia successors remain as much a fringe phenomenon as they were fifteen years ago—if not more so.

by Ruth Nestvold & Jay Lake

Essay

Nuclear Fallout

The Bomb in the Hollywood Imagination

Casual and profound, sixty years of film’s nuclear awareness.

by MaryAnn Johanson

Review

Voluntary Committal by Joe Hill

An unsettling look inside the mind of a troubled youth.

by hugh ryan

A Reverie for Mister Ray by Michael Bishop

More than thirty years' worth of Bishop's musings on SF, writing, and life.

by Greg Beatty

Howl's Moving Castle by Hayao Miyazaki

Beautiful images and a surreal fairy tale from Miyazaki.

by Michael Andre-Driussi

Short Fiction Reviews, August 2005

Sexism in reviewing, and other hot topics. But mostly reviews.

by Bluejack

Final Staff

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