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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description: Our October issue features two quite different novelettes: "New Wineskins," by Richard A. Lovett and Mark Niemann-Ross, and "Stealing Adriana," by Dave Creek. One is chillingly plausible and close to home, about a journalist who wanders into a scene that seems a little too idyllic to be true--and it is, concealing a sinister new twist on a (relatively) old problem. The other is distant and exotic, in time, distance, and technology, a tale of new human abilities at cross purposes on an alien world. Both are thoroughly engaging, entertaining, and thought-provoking.

The rest of the fiction includes short stories by Robert R. Chase and Carl Frederick (I'll leave it to you to guess which one[s] might be considered "seasonal") and the climax and conclusion of David R. Palmer's Tracking.

Richard A. Lovett also supplies the fact article, "Here There Be Dragons: The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker and Other Mysteries of an Explored Planet." Obviously a planet being visited for the first time will be full of mysteries and surprises; but the recent (and still controversial) rediscovery of the ivorybill is but one example of how even our own planet may still have tricks up its sleeve, even though our kind has been exploring it for hundreds of thousands of years.

CONTENTS
Reader's Department: EDITORIAL: RSVP by Stanley Schmidt
Novelette: NEW WINESKINS by Richard A. Lovett & Mark Niemann-Ross
Science Fact: HERE BE THERE DRAGONS: THE IVORY-BILLED WOODPECKER AND OTHER MYSTERIES OF AN EXPLORED PLANET by Richard A. Lovett
Reader's Department: BIOLOG: MARK NIEMANN-ROSS by Richard A. Lovett
Novelette: STEALING ADRIANA by Dave Creek
Short Story: THE MEME THEORIST by Robert R. Chase
Short Story: STARSHIP DOWN by Tracy Canfield
Reader's Department: THE ALTERNATE VIEW: TRACKING ADOLPH by John G. Cramer
Probability Zero: WHERE CREDIT IS DUE by Edward M. Lerner
Short Story: VITA LONGA by Carl Frederick
Serial: TRACKING: PART III OF III by David R. Palmer
Reader's Department: THE REFERENCE LIBRARY by Tom Easton
Reader's Department: IN TIMES TO COME
Reader's Department: BRASS TACKS
Reader's Department: UPCOMING EVENTS by Anthony Lewis

eBook Publisher: Dell Magazines, Published: 2008
Fictionwise Release Date: July 2008

22 Reader Ratings: Great Good OK Poor

Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [1.1 MB], Adobe Acrobat - Large Print (PDF) [1.2 MB], eReader (PDB) [387 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [289 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [303 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [681 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [313 KB], hiebook (KML) [1.1 MB], Sony Reader (LRF) [822 KB], iSilo (PDB) [259 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [581 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [639 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [444 KB]
Words: 77707
Reading time: 222-310 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
Adobe Acrobat (PDF) Format:  Printing ENABLED, Read-Aloud DISABLED
All Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED

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