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24 November 2008

[Column by Iain Jackson]

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ARTICLE: Gort Power!: A 3-D Pete Cartoon, by Mike Fisher

Michael Rennie seems well cast as the strange alien Klaatu. Maybe that's because his head is as big as a window-mounted air conditioner . . .

COLUMN: Bouncing High into the Stupidsphere (Part One), by Iain Jackson

And a lot of these stories tread the line between interesting execution of interesting concept and "No, really, perhaps you should take this concept back to the drawing board and think about it for a little while longer. Or find better writers. Something. Really."

FICTION: Up In the Air, by Richard Larson

"This doesn't have to be awkward," he said as we stood in line, boarding passes in hand. I almost laughed, but instead I regarded him soberly, or as soberly as I could considering the martini, the tequila shots, and our spontaneous rendezvous in the airport's public restroom.

POETRY: Beowulf Goes to the Deli, by Tarun Shanker

They arrived at Heorot deli, / there was not a deli more magnificent

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

Monday: Very Bad Deaths and Very Hard Choices by Spider Robinson, reviewed by Greg Beatty
Wednesday: Twelve Collections and The Teashop by Zoran Živković, reviewed by Lara Buckerton
Friday: The Angel Maker by Stefan Brijs, reviewed by Paul Kincaid, reviewed by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro

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