Issue #2 - Autumn 1999
Earth is The Alien Planet

 
TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editorial / Table of Contents

FICTION

The Parallax Garden
GEOFFREY MALONEY serves up an uneasy tale of alienation, displacement and bad TV reception. Dedicated to all those who feel they do not belong. Art by Rully Zakaria.

Over The Hump
They seek warmth in the collective mind, in the blind and self-effacing amassing of bodies. But the boy is different, because he knows there is a world beyond the Hump. JOHN KILBEY weaves a strange and hallucinatory coming-of-age tale. Art by David Fode.

A Length of Scarlet Silk
She would be the hands the great humming machines lacked. She would love the machines as her family, and in return they would shelter and protect her. Until a man from the outside arrives to remind her she is still a girl. Still human… By LYN McCONCHIE. Art by Andrés Vaccari.

New Map of Hell
Flight, memory, technology. How many moments are contained in a moment? SYMON BRANDO explores the forces that shape our existence, while spending too much time at the airport. Art by Nick Howlett.

FEATURES

Voices
GEORGE ALEXANDER writes on water and descends into the centre of the earth. Musings on the universes reflected by the art of DENIS MIZZI.

The Art of Dreaming
JACK DANN talks to Abaddon about the making of imaginary cathedrals. An extensive interview with this remarkable writer, plus a complete bibliography.

Love and the Great Dark
ANDRÉS VACCARI explores Jack Dann's most recent work.

 
Millennial Anxiety and the Event-Film
By HAMISH FORD. Our resident cinema analyst gets stuck into the megalomaniac logic of the Event Film.

POETRY

Lamentations / Gone with the Wind By Cathy Buburuz.
Night Cars By Kyla Ward.
Gush By Ariel Riveros.
Tunnel Vision / Body Language By Kerry Ridgway.
Time is Now By Ned Matijasevic.
Siren By 481.

REVIEWS & Retrospecto

 
Dreaming Down Under By Jack Dann and Janeen Webb (Eds.). The Football Factory By John King. How We Became Post-Human By N. Katherine Hayles. The Forest of Hours By Kerstin Ekman. Pig Tales By Marie Darrieussecq.

 

RETROSPECTO by Andrés Vaccari:

“They Live” (1988) Dir. John Carpenter