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10 November 2008

[Article by Ben Crispin]

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ARTICLE: What Killed the Robot Soldier?, by Ben Crispin

Did the Army receive their new machines on the radio-clogged battlefield, relieved that all of those worrying signal problems had been resolved . . . and then discover that they hadn't been?

COLUMN: Wii Fitness: Rocking the Hula Hoops (And the Weight Issues), by E. Cabell Hankinson Gathman

The release of the Wii Fit convinced me that I would actually use the Wii once I bought it, and having a ground floor apartment made it a morally defensible purchase.

FICTION: Return (part 2 of 2), by Eric Vogt

Before Tima had left, he and Svena used a 0.7-Turing AI to build a reactive construct of him. That construct was all that Vishi had known of her father.

POETRY: Dream People, by Bruce Boston

If dream people were the world / there would be no time / for reflection.

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

Monday: A Field Guide to Surreal Botany, eds. Janet Chui and Jason Erik Lundberg, reviewed by Richard Larson
Wednesday: The Last Theorem by Arthur C. Clarke and Frederik Pohl, reviewed by Nader Elhefnawy
Friday: The Temporal Void by Peter F. Hamilton, reviewed by Karen Burnham

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