Contents

25 August 2008

[Review  posted three times a week]

(Review)

COLUMN: Xenobiology At the Extremes: And You Think Your Neighbors Are Weird?, by Marshall Perrin

Over the past decade or so, spurred in part by the biological revolution and in part by our increasing confidence that earth-mass planets are potentially common, astrobiology has started to come of age.

FICTION: The Secret Identity, by Richard Butner

We were studying for midterms when I found out about the ghost.

POETRY: Maya Blue (at Chichen Itza), by Ann K. Schwader

Above us in the silence yet to come, / deep thunder speaks -- then lightning-axes fall

REVIEW: This Week's Reviews, posted three times a week

Monday: Neuropath by Scott Bakker and Blindsight by Peter Watts, reviewed by Nader Elhefnawy
Wednesday: The Roswell Poems by Rane Arroyo, reviewed by Karen J. Weyant
Friday: The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited by Ellen Datlow, reviewed by Richard Larson