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| Issue | Date | Content |
|---|---|---|
| Vol. 15 No. 42-52 | 04/18/97 06/27/97 |
Volume 15 Archive |
| Vol. 16 No. 1-52 | 07/04/97 06/26/98 |
Volume 16 Archive |
| Vol. 17 No. 1-52 | 07/03/98 06/25/99 |
Volume 17 Archive |
| Vol. 18 No. 1-53 | 07/02/99 06/30/00 |
Volume 18 Archive |
| Vol. 19 No. 1-52 | 07/07/00 06/29/01 |
Volume 19 Archive |
| Vol. 20 No. 1-52 | 07/06/01 06/28/02 |
Volume 20 Archive |
| Vol. 21 No. 1-52 | 07/05/02 06/27/03 |
Volume 21 Archive |
| Vol. 22 No. 1-52 | 07/04/03 06/25/04 |
Volume 22 Archive |
| Vol. 23 No. 1-52 | 07/02/04 06/24/05 |
Volume 23 Archive |
| Vol. 24 No. 1-53 | 07/01/05 06/30/06 |
Volume 24 Archive |
| Vol. 25 No. 1-52 | 07/07/06 06/29/07 |
Volume 25 Archive |
| Vol. 26 No. 1-52 | 07/06/07 06/27/08 |
Volume 26 Archive |
| Vol. 27 No. 1-52 | 07/04/08 06/26/09 |
Volume 27 Archive |
| Vol. 28, No. 1 | 07/03/09 | Acknowledgement (comments by Mark R. Leeper) Musical Parallel (comments by Mark R. Leeper) NUMB3RS: TEHRAN (comments by Mark R. Leeper) The Vanishing Money Trick (comments by Evelyn C. Leeper) OFF JACKSON AVENUE (film review by Mark R. Leeper) THE BROTHERS BLOOM (film review by Mark R. Leeper) 3-D Films (letters of comment by Lee Beaumont, Steve Milton, and Taras Wolansky) THE RISING: BALLAD OF MANGAL PANDEY (letters of comment by Steve Milton and Taras Wolansky) This Week's Reading (MIDDLEMARCH) (book comments by Evelyn C. Leeper) |
| Vol. 28, No. 3 | 07/17/09 | Acknowledgement (comments by Mark R. Leeper) Science Fiction Discussion Groups Charles N. Brown (1937-2009) Another Theory Shot to Heck (comments by Mark R. Leeper) Thus I Refute Buzz (comments by Mark R. Leeper) A DOG OF FLANDERS (film review by Mark R. Leeper) Unassociated Thoughts about Time Travel (comments by Hugh McGuinness) This Week's Reading (THE AFFINITY BRIDGE and A YEAR WITHOUT MADE IN CHINA) (book comments by Evelyn C. Leeper) |
| Vol. 28, No. 4 | 07/24/09 | Acknowledgement (comments by Mark R. Leeper) Turning on a Dime--Or Getting Your Dollar Playing with Units in Physics (comments by Mark R. Leeper) Mangal Pandey (Letter of comment by Taras Wolansky) A DOG OF FLANDERS (letter of comment by James E. LaBarre) Time Travel (letter of comment by Wendy) This Week's Reading (BORGES ANTES EL ESPEJO) (book comments by Evelyn C. Leeper) |
| Vol. 28, No. 6 | 08/07/09 | Acknowledgement (comments by Mark R. Leeper) Song Lyric (comments by Mark R. Leeper) Thoughts On Issues of Exo-Biology (comments by Mark R. Leeper) Sex and Birds (letter of comment by John Purcell) Birds (letter of comment by Steve Milton) This Week's Reading (The Connectivity of the Library of Babel [Part 2]) (book comments by Evelyn C. Leeper) |
| Vol. 28, No. 7 | 08/14/09 | Acknowledgement (comments by Mark R. Leeper) Science Fiction Discussion Groups Enceladus Calamity (comments by Mark R. Leeper) Ants and the Holy Grail (comments by Mark R. Leeper) Hypothesis VV and Hydrothermal Vents (letter of comment by Lee Beaumont) This Week's Reading (THE GREATEST MINDS AND IDEAS OF ALL TIME and the Vinland sagas) (book comments by Evelyn C. Leeper) |
| Vol. 28, No. 8 | 08/21/09 | Acknowledgement (comments by Mark R. Leeper) Retro T-Shirts (and Art) Not To Be Confused With... (comments by Mark R. Leeper) The Halifax Explosion (comments by Mark R. Leeper) University of Massachusetts Science Fiction Society (comments by Evelyn C. Leeper) FISSURE (film review by Mark R. Leeper) DISTRICT 9 (film review by Mark R. Leeper) I SELL THE DEAD (film review by Mark R. Leeper) Perpetual Motion Machine? (letter of comment by David G. Leeper) Reason and Dinosaurs (letter of comment by Pete Rubinstein] Novels (letter of comment by David Goldfarb) Genetic Diversity (letter of comment by Mike Lukacs) Vanishing Money (letter of comment by Morris Keesan) 3-D Television (letter of comment by Kip Williams) This Week's Reading (MERTON OF THE MOVIES, PATHFINDER) (book comments by Evelyn C. Leeper) |
| Vol. 28, No. 9 | 08/28/09 | Acknowledgement (comments by Mark R. Leeper) Puzzle Painting Science Visualizations (comments by Mark R. Leeper) The Lessons of Prehistory (comments by Mark R. Leeper) Trailer Park, 2009 (comments by Mark R. Leeper) Anticipation, the 2009 Worldcon (Part 1) (convention report by Evelyn C. Leeper) IN THE LOOP (film review by Mark R. Leeper) COLD SOULS (film review by Mark R. Leeper) ANATHEM by Neal Stephenson (book review by Joe Karpierz) BROKE: THE NEW AMERICAN DREAM (film review by Mark R. Leeper) Zombies and Mathematics (comments by Paul S. R. Chisholm) Halifax Explosion (letter of comment by Fred Lerner) Vanishing Money (letter of comment by John Sloan) Perpetual Motion Machine? (letter of comment by Rob Stampfli) This Week's Reading (TEA TIME FOR THE TRADITIONALLY BUILT) (book comments by Evelyn C. Leeper) |
| Vol. 28, No. 10 | 09/04/09 | Acknowledgement (comments by Mark R. Leeper) Safe Bet (comments by Mark R. Leeper) Seven Essential Fantasy Reads (comments by Evelyn C. Leeper) Change the Past? No Problem! (comments by Mark R. Leeper) Anticipation, the 2009 Worldcon (Part 2) (convention report by Evelyn C. Leeper) PONYO (film review by Mark R. Leeper) WWW:WAKE, by Robert J. Sawyer (book review by Joe Karpierz) INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS (film review by Mark R. Leeper) Stereoscopic Effects (letter of comment by Morris Keesan) This Week's Reading (THE BEST OF FREDERIK POHL) (book comments by Evelyn C. Leeper) |
| Vol. 28, No. 11 | 09/11/09 | Acknowledgement (comments by Mark R. Leeper) Correction (comments by Mark R. Leeper) Beloit College Mindset List for the Class of 2013 (comments by Evelyn C. Leeper) The Internet (comments by Tom Brokaw and Tom Friedman) The Viking Way (comments by Mark R. Leeper) TCM Halloween Horror Line-Up (comments by Mark R. Leeper) Magnetic Monopoles Found??? (comments by Mark R. Leeper) Anticipation, the 2009 Worldcon (Part 3) (convention report by Evelyn C. Leeper) FRAGMENT by Warren Fahy (copyright 2009) (book review by Tom Russell) Anticipation Art Show (letter of comment by Jo Paltin) Christmas(tm) (letter of comment by Dan Kimmel) Overtaking Technology (letter of comment by David Goldfarb) Multiverses (letter of comment by Steve Milton) This Week's Reading (PLASTIC FANTASTIC and A GREAT IDEA AT THE TIME) (book comments by Evelyn C. Leeper) |
| Vol. 28, No. 12 | 09/18/09 | Acknowledgement (comments by Mark R. Leeper) Correction: Christmas(tm) (letter of comment by Dan Cox) Science Fiction Discussion Groups Display of Fantastic Art Younger and More Efficient (comments by Mark R. Leeper) The MT VOID Asks Its Readers (comments by Mark R. Leeper) Mirror Neurons May Explain Common Decency (comments by Mark R. Leeper) Free Will Versus Determinism (comments by Evelyn C. Leeper) Anticipation, the 2009 Worldcon (Part 4) (convention report by Evelyn C. Leeper) Corkage (letter of comment by Charles Harris) Playing with Units in Physics (letter of comment by Ian Gahan) This Week's Reading (WHY YOU SHOULD READ KAFKA BEFORE YOU WASTE YOUR LIFE and EAT MY GLOBE) (book comments by Evelyn C. Leeper) |
| Vol. 28, No. 13 | 09/25/09 | Acknowledgement (comments by Mark R. Leeper) Political Question (comments by Mark R. Leeper) Little Bitty, Simple Numbers (comments by Mark R. Leeper) Great Books of the Western World (letter of comment by Kip Williams) Anticipation Con Suite (letters of comment by Dan Kimmel, David Goldfarb, and Morris Keesan) Anticipation Masquerade (letter of comment by Jo Paltin) Speed of Light (letter of comment by Paul S. R. Chisholm) Thunderstorms on Saturn (letters of comment by Sam Long and Morris Keesan) Genes and Altruism (letter of comment by Morris Keesan) This Week's Reading (READING THE OED, MAD PROFESSOR, and alphabetical order) (book comments by Evelyn C. Leeper) |
| Vol. 28, No. 14 | 10/02/09 | Acknowledgement (comments by Mark R. Leeper) Announcement The New American Prayer (comments by Mark R. Leeper) Strategic Vision (comments by Mark R. Leeper) Water and Space ... Stories Come in Threes (comments by Mark R. Leeper) THE INFORMANT! (film review by Mark R. Leeper) Alphabetical Order (letter of comment by David Shallcross) Mirror Neurons (letter of comment by Andre Kuzniarek) The Oxford English Dictionary (letter of comment by Joseph T. Major) Digits of Pi (letter of comment by David Goldfarb) This Week's Reading (THE CITY & THE CITY) (book comments by Evelyn C. Leeper) |
| Vol. 28, No. 15 | 10/09/09 | Acknowledgement (comments by Mark R. Leeper) Convention Reports (comments by Evelyn C. Leeper) Puzzle (puzzle by Evelyn C. Leeper) True Story (comments by Mark R. Leeper) My First Science Fiction (comments by Mark R. Leeper) A New Theory of Diabetes (comments by Evelyn C. Leeper) CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS (film review by Mark R. Leeper) THE INFORMANT! (letter of comment by Sherry Glotzer) This Week's Reading (RED PLANET) (book comments by Evelyn C. Leeper) |
| Vol. 28, No. 16 | 10/16/09 | Acknowledgement (comments by Mark R. Leeper) Science Fiction Discussion Groups Puzzle Answer (puzzle answer by Evelyn C. Leeper) Internet in 2012? (comments by Mark R. Leeper) I Saw It Coming (comments by Mark R. Leeper) The Future of Horror May be True Horror (comments by Mark R. Leeper) MARY AND MAX (film review by Mark R. Leeper) GUNS ON THE CLACKAMAS: A DOCUMENTARY (film review by Mark R. Leeper) This Week's Reading (ANCHORWICK and THE CITY OF DREAMING BOOKS) (book comments by Evelyn C. Leeper) |
| Vol. 28, No. 17 | 10/23/09 | Acknowledgement (comments by Mark R. Leeper) Easy Mistake to Make (comments by Mark R. Leeper) Prime-Time Westerns (comments by Mark R. Leeper) WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE (film review by Mark R. Leeper) THE STONING OF SORAYA M (film review by Mark R. Leeper) Digital Science Fiction Conventions (letter of comment by James E. LaBarre) Water on Mars and the Moon (letter of comment by Greg Frederick) This Week's Reading (Edgar Allan Poe) (book comments by Evelyn C. Leeper) |
| Vol. 28, No. 18 | 10/30/09 | Acknowledgement (comments by Mark R. Leeper) Sleep Just 4 Hours a Day (comments by Mark R. Leeper) Does Germany Have a Better Class of Rich People? (comments by Mark R. Leeper) Radio Drama: Frankenstein (comments by Mark R. Leeper) Disassembly Day (comments by Mark R. Leeper) WORLD'S GREATEST DAD (film review by Mark R. Leeper) This Week's Reading (BEYOND RICE AND BEANS: THE CARIBBEAN LATINO GUIDE TO EATING HEALTHY WITH DIABETES, JULIAN COMSTOCK, and SUDDEN FICTION: AMERICAN SHORT SHORT STORIES) (book comments by Evelyn C. Leeper) |
| Vol. 28, No. 19 | 11/06/09 | Linda Buckley-Archer's Top 10 Time-Traveling Stories Science Fiction and Philosophy Culture (comments by Mark R. Leeper) Belated Happy 50th, TZ (comments by Mark R. Leeper) This Week's Reading (WONDERFUL ALEXANDER AND THE CATWINGS and MONSTER, 1959) (book comments by Evelyn C. Leeper) |
| Vol. 28, No. 20 | 11/13/09 | Correction 1 (comments by Evelyn C. Leeper) Correction 2 (comments by Mark R. Leeper) Science Fiction Discussion Groups Who Me? Celebrity of the Month? (comments by Mark R. Leeper) Was I Too Subtle? (comments by Mark R. Leeper) The Impossible Dream (comments by Mark R. Leeper) The Roquefort Files (comments by Mark R. Leeper) Time-Travel Books (letter of comment by Dan Kimmel) Digital Conventions (letter of comment by Morris Keesan) The Twilight Zone (letter of comment by Kip Williams) This Week's Reading (GASLIGHT GRIMOIRE) (book comments by Evelyn C. Leeper) |
| Vol. 28, No. 21 | 11/20/09 | Heinlein Timelines (comments by Evelyn C. Leeper) Wired Magazine's Readers' Favorite Science Fiction Films (comments by Evelyn C. Leeper) Simple Math Problem (comments by Mark R. Leeper) Sad Joke (comments by Mark R. Leeper) 42! Excellent, Excellent! (comments by Mark R. Leeper) Belated Happy 50th Birthday, TZ (letter of comment by Pete Brady) The Continental Op (letters of comment by Kip Williams, Alan Winston, and Tim McDaniel) This Week's Reading (THE WAY OF CHUANG TZU, THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL SOCIETY, SCAT, and THE HITCH HIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY) (book comments by Evelyn C. Leeper) |
| Vol. 28, No. 22 | 11/27/09 | An Explanation Is Ode (comments by Mark R. Leeper) An Open Letter to an India-born Friend (comments by Mark R. Leeper) WHIPPING STAR by Frank Herbert (audiobook review by Joe Karpierz) OUTRAGE (film review by Mark R. Leeper) A Simple Mathematics Problem (letter of comment by Tim Bateman) This Week's Reading (FOUNDATION) (book comments by Evelyn C. Leeper) |
| Vol. 28, No. 23 | 12/04/09 | Atlantic Provinces Trip Logs Sad News (comments by Mark R. Leeper) Protests Over Australia Banning Steeplechases (comments by Mark R. Leeper) A Brief History of the MT VOID and the Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society (comments by Mark R. Leeper) THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS (film review by Mark R. Leeper) THE SECOND BEST SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE EVER MADE (film review by Mark R. Leeper) PAUL OF DUNE by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson (book review by Joe Karpierz) Kiva (letter of comment by Tim McDaniel) Ravens (letter of comment by Pete Rubinstein) Ode to Joy (letters of comment by Kip Williams, Paul Dormer, and Doug Wickstrom) This Week's Reading (THE MARRIAGE BUREAU FOR RICH PEOPLE and THE MOTEL OF THE MYSTERIES) (book comments by Evelyn C. Leeper) |
| Vol. 28, No. 24 | 12/11/09 | Potato Paradox (comments by Mark R. Leeper) Casio and the Fabulous Logarithm (comments by Mark R. Leeper) FANTASTIC MR. FOX (film review by Mark R. Leeper) BRIGHT STAR (film review by Mark R. Leeper) The MT VOID and Mt. Holz (letters of comment by Dan Kimmel, Jerry Ryan, Rob Mitchell, and Rick Koehler) Steeplechases (letter of comment by Kathy Robinson) Motel of the Mysteries (letters of comment by David vun Kannon and Kip Williams) This Week's Reading (THE MANUAL OF DETECTION) (book comments by Evelyn C. Leeper) |
| Vol. 28, No. 25 | 12/18/09 | Science Fiction Vs. Reality (comments by Mark R. Leeper) The Lake Peigneur Disaster (comments by Mark R. Leeper) Who Goes to College (comments by Evelyn C. Leeper) INVICTUS (film review by Mark R. Leeper) Logarithms (letter of comment by Dave Anolick) Steeplechases (letter of comment by Kathy Robinson) This Week's Reading (WASHINGTON AND HIS COLLEAGUES, TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA, and film design) (book comments by Evelyn C. Leeper) |
| Vol. 28, No. 26 | 12/25/09 | That Time of Year (comments by Mark R. Leeper) Erasing Memory (comments by Mark R. Leeper) AVATAR (film review by Mark R. Leeper) 9 (film review by Mark R. Leeper) CRAZY HEART (film review by Mark R. Leeper) THE YOUNG VICTORIA (film review by Mark R. Leeper) This Week's Reading (FORTY SIGNS OF RAIN and LAND OF THE DEAD) (book comments by Evelyn C. Leeper) |
| Vol. 28, No. 27 | 01/01/10 | I'll See Your SHANE (And Raise You a GORGO) (comments by Mark R. Leeper) From My Mailbox: AVATAR (comments by Mark R. Leeper) BETWEEN THE FOLDS (film review by Mark R. Leeper) THE ACCIDENTAL TIME MACHINE by Joe Haldeman (audiobook review by Joe Karpierz) NEWTON AND THE COUNTERFEITER by Thomas Levenson (book review by Pete Brady) Myrrh and AVATAR (letter of comment by Dan Kimmel) AVATAR (letter of comment by Richie Bielak) Myrrh (letter of comment by Jay Morris) Memory and Propranolol (letter of comment by Fred Lerner) FANTASTIC MR. FOX (letter of comment by Taras Wolansky) This Week's Reading (THE MATRIX AND PHILOSOPHY and 2009 recap) (book comments by Evelyn C. Leeper) |
| Vol. 28, No. 28 | 01/08/10 | The Things (comments by Mark R. Leeper) Linguistic Problem (comments by Mark R. Leeper) Writing Memory (comments by Mark R. Leeper) PONTYPOOL (film review by Mark R. Leeper) UP IN THE AIR (film review by Mark R. Leeper) This Week's Reading (QUESTIONING THE MILLENNIUM) (book comments by Evelyn C. Leeper) |
| Vol. 28, No. 29 | 01/15/10 | Science Fiction Discussion Groups Meta-Problem (comments by Mark R. Leeper) My Top Ten Films of 2009 (film comment by Mark R. Leeper) Top Ten Films of the Decade THE NEW SPACE OPERA edited by Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan (book review by Joe Karpierz) More on the Linguistic Problem (letter of comment by Sam Long) This Week's Reading (CHEAP: THE HIGH COST OF DISCOUNT CULTURE, AND LESS THAN KIND, and EYE OF THE CROW) (book comments by Evelyn C. Leeper) |
| Vol. 28, No. 30 | 01/22/10 | Bad Starts (comments by Mark R. Leeper) Chopsticks or Knife and Fork? (comments by Mark R. Leeper) THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS (film review by Mark R. Leeper) Meta-Problem (letters of comments by Pete Rubinstein and Pete Brady) Yet More on the Linguistic Problem (letters of comments by Michael Haynes and Pete Brady) This Week's Reading (LINGER AWHILE, ISLAND OF LOST SOULS/THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU) (book comments by Evelyn C. Leeper) |
| Vol. 28, No. 31 | 01/29/10 | Program Item Cancelled (comments by Mark R. Leeper) Eating Utensils Outside the Box (comments by Mark R. Leeper) THE LOVELY BONES (film review by Mark R. Leeper) THE HURT LOCKER (film review by Mark R. Leeper) A SINGLE MAN (film review by Mark R. Leeper) Mayans and AVATAR (letter of comment by Taras Wolansky) This Week's Reading (THE DRUNKARD'S WALK, ARCADIA, SERIAL) (book comments by Evelyn C. Leeper) |
| Vol. 28, No. 32 | 02/05/10 | A Mathematical Conflict (comments by Mark R. Leeper) Two Great Thrillers and Some Not So Great (comments by Mark R. Leeper) Chopsticks (letters of comment by Jay E. Morris, Philip Chee, David Friedman, Lowell Gilbert, Keith Lynch, David Reitman, Kip Williams, and Wendy Sheridan) Bad Starts (letters of comment by Kip Williams and Steve Goldsmith) THE HURT LOCKER (letter of comment by Jerry Ryan) AVATAR (letter of comment by Wendy Sheridan) This Week's Reading (GALILEO'S DREAM, ACRES OF DIAMONDS, and nitpicking) (book comments by Evelyn C. Leeper) |
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