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Issue # 61 - September 1999Interviews: Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy), Will Smith (Wild Wild West), Dean Haglund (The X-Files), Richard Biggs (Babylon 5/Crusade), Greg EganThe Blair Witch Project Buffy Season 3 Ep Gde Part 2DS9 Season 7 Ep Gde Part 2Millennium Season 3 Ep Gde Part 2The Black Hole. ... Read more

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Includes: Novella - Barnacle Bill the Spacer by Lucius Shepard. Novelettes - The Careful Man Goes West by Dony Daniel; Dust by Greg Egon. Short Stories - A Doe, in Charcoal by Greg Costikyan; Now that we Have Each Other by Steven Utley; The Astronaut's Wife: A Profile by DAvid Lunde; Blue Woofers by Patricia Anthony; The Light That Blinds, the Claws that Catch by Mike Resnick. etc. ... Read more

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Includes Novellettes - Luminous by Greg Egan; Green by Diane Mapes. Short Stories - Paradise Lost by Don Webb; War Memorial by Allen Steele; Fillet of Man by Eliot Fintushel. Poetry - Brownies at Work by Ruth Berman; Curse of the Cybor's Wife by Bruce Boston. Etc. ... Read more

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Greg Egan - An Unusual Angle
Greg Egan - An Unusual Angle

A thoroughly enjoyable novel which also provides a fascinating insight into the genesis of some of the concepts which Mr Egan develops with enthralling effect in later works.Some traditional Science Fiction devices are merged to good effect with an interesting approach to the first-person narrative style.The journey undertaken by the protagonist in the attempt to understand his world, without being limited by it, and while maintaining a sense of non-involvement and isolation from it, should be instantly recognizable to many people who went to School in a Western Culture in the second half of the 20th Century.

Many popular Australian / US / British cultural references, to films, books and global events, are included throughout the story to excellent effect.

Mr Egan's readers, and anyone who enjoys indulging in a skewed view of life, will be pleasantly surprised by this book.

This book changed my life!
Seriously!As an impressionable young teenager I read and reread this book, and I'm quite certain that it did something (good) to my brain.The protagonist is a high school student with the ability to film through hiseyes.Unfortunately, he is unable to get the film out of his head to showanyone.I noted with interest that Egan has re-used the notion of beingable to film through the eys in "Distress".

The book is notexactly a conventional narrative, rather it is a series of episodes thatallow Egan to make witty, thought provoking and at times poignantobservations about (the Australian) school system, and life ingeneral.

In short -- I recommend this book for anyone, but _especially_for younger readers (say 12 - 16).I am now 26, and have never forgottenthe brain-twisting joy this book brought me.

A funny debut about Australian school-life
Greg Egan wrote this book in the summer holiday at the end of school.It is light-hearted, satiric, and nostalgic.Sort of a Catch-22 about high school, and Egan's affection for The Catcher In The Rye is also evident.

A must for Egan fans -- his first published novel.
This was Greg Egan's first published novel, and the early promise of the younger Egan is evident.Unlike his more recent work, it isn't science fiction (although it would be possible to read it as SF if you really wanted to).The work is less hard-hitting and a little less polished than his more recent writing, but it shows a character more sympathetic and believable than many (in fact most) of his more recent characters.

The plotline effectively shows the daydreaming of a suburban schoolboy (but it's better than that makes it sound). ... Read more