Editorial Matters

By Cheryl Morgan

I’m delighted to have John Shirley’s contributions in this issue. Tim Powers has long been a favorite author of mine, and I’m sure that many other people are looking forward to Three Days to Never. I’m also looking forward to John’s new novel, The Other End, in which he promises to take back the Day of Judgment from the right wing. For more information on John and his work, see his web site.

I’ve decided not to have an official subscriber draw this month. It isn’t exactly fulfilling its purpose. Some months it has cost more to send out the books than we have got in from subscriptions. And we have a bunch of unclaimed books from previous months. I’m going to do a draw with some of those instead. Hopefully I’ll find people who want them.

There is also no Out of Synch column, because I can’t find any books that I need to mention in it.

I see I promised a review of David Louis Edelman’s Infoquake for this issue. I did try to read it, but I just couldn’t get into it. I suspect this may be because I’ve seen too many devious and dishonest businessmen in real life and Edelman’s Natch seemed like a rank amateur to me. Anyway, I don’t like reviewing books I haven’t been able to finish, so I gave it a miss.

Definitely in the line-up for next issue are End of the World Blues by Jon Courtenay Grimwood, The Demon and the City by Liz Williams, and Scar Night by Alan Campbell. Charlie Stross’s Glasshouse is winging its way to me from California and should be in there as well.

Best wishes,

Cheryl