Christmas editorial / Michael Moorcock -- The shadow cabinet / Jeff VanderMeer -- The private passion of the rebellious reader / L. Timmel Duchamp -- (All that happens) before the epilogue / Andrew S. Fuller -- Captain's library / Zoran Zivkovic -- Cogitor, ergo sum / Dan Pearlman -- Dr North's wound / John Dodds -- Gauntlet of gorgons / Rhys Hughes -- Horrors by waters / Jeffrey Ford -- Lottery / Colin Brush -- Love in backspace / Barrington J. Bayley -- Pandora's bust / Rachel Pollack -- Self-portraits / Aleksandar Gatalica -- She found heaven / Nathan Ballingrud -- Still memories / Luís Filipe Silva -- The test / João Barreiros -- An excellence of Peake / Michael Moorcock -- Feverish country, this / James Sallis -- Fifty fantasy & science fiction works that socialists should read / China Miéville -- Old Nick and the magician of Moscow / Andrew Hedgecock -- Rescued from oblivion / Jeff Topham -- Utopia in childhood's end by Arthur C. Clarke / Zoran Zivkovic -- Writing rules I like to break / Carol Emshwiller -- The Bayley-Moorcock letters / Michael Moorcock & Barrington J. Bayley -- To ask the real questions / Paul Witcover.