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12 January 2009

ARTICLE: Elven Lays and Powerchords: Chaos, Revelry, and Community in Tolkien-themed Heavy Metal, by Stephanie Green

Why is it that thousands of metal fans worldwide see Tolkien's works as synonymous with the ideology of heavy metal, when Tolkien would have abhorred the music and its fans?

FICTION: Greetings from Kampala, by Angela Ambroz

It was dangerous on such an epic level of dangerous that Ghada was awestruck by the captain's lethal levels of stupidity. If you went down the wrong Drop, the space-time anomalies could rip you apart.

POETRY: The Time Traveler Takes His Nth Lover at a Point of Departure, by Bruce Boston and Marge Simon

Centuries have come and gone / in the flash of a passing station

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

Monday: The Best of Lucius Shepard, by Victoria Hoyle
Wednesday: The Spirit, reviewed by William Mingin
Friday: The Chronicles of the Black Company by Glen Cook, reviewed by Martin Lewis

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