Issue of December 24, 2007
6 articles in this issue.
Katrina Stonoff reviews "The Book of Flying" by Keith Miller. A modern allegory, she notes, and a traditional quest.
One thing marks all the spaces between the stars: silence. Be there joy, or despair, elation or loss, the vacuum of space marks each emotion, each triumph, each death in utter quietude. This is the life the spacers know, and strangely, crave. Most of the time the stars welcome those silent travelers, but there comes a different kind of explorer, and there is only one place left for that kind...
In order to make the detective understand the true horror and desperation of her situation, Alanna opts to tell him her story from its very beginning. But what she doesn't know is that someone else is listening to her tale as well...
At the end of the rainbow, Johnny finds a pot of gold, all right -- stashed in with pieces of old boats and dirty leprechaun laundry.
Sometimes it's not what you GET for Christmas, it's what you get taken away from you that makes the season bright ...