Issue #1 - Spring 1998
Angel of The Abyss

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Editorial / Table of Contents

 

FICTION

 

Ethel and Her Cross-eyed Typing
In RENO NEVADA's oddball world of office politics, where incompetence and apathy reign supreme, only innocence can save you. Art by Nick Howlett.

Flight Path
Alien abduction or sexual fantasy? As SYMON BRANDO reminds us, the mind is a terrible place indeed. Art by Nick Howlett.

 

The Great Lakes
GRAEME USSHER went in search of the real America, but found only layers of mystery. Art by Nick Howlett.

 

Chariot of Fire: Preliminary Analysis and Damage Reconstruction of the Death of Diana, Princess of Wales
A brutal post-modern, post-mortem hatchet job on one of the great myths of this century. By ANDRÉS VACCARI & NICK HOWLETT.

 

FEATURES

 

Borges in Mars: Jorge Luis Borges' lost introduction to Martian Chronicles
For the first time in English, one of the century's greatest writers explores a science-fiction classic. Translated by ANDRÉS VACCARI

Ulysses is Computer
What do Star Trek and Homer's Odyssey have in common? For HAMISH FORD, both reflect a shift in the dialectics of knowledge and technology.

While You Were Dreaming
Dreaming is like dying every night. In this dissolution lies one the great horrors of the self. An essay on Milan Kundera's Identity, by ELIZABETH POWELL.

Mortuary: The Work of David Haines
David Haines' haunting creations explore some of the mechanics of language through video and computer-generated graphics. By ANNE FINEGAN.

Bim & Pam (Cartoon)

 

POETRY

 

Sea Dream / Stonetown by Ned Mitajasevic

 

REVIEWS

 

The Resurrected Man By Sean Williams. The Land of the Golden Clouds By Archie Weller. Living at the End of the World By Marina Benjamin. Disco 2000 Sarah Champion, ed. Quicker Than The Eye By Ray Bradbury.