This issue, we have original mysteries by Albert Tucher (courtesy of Acquiring Editor Michael Bracken) and James Blakey, plus a modern tale by SJ Rozan (courtesy of Acquiring Editor Barb Goffman). For our mystery novel, we have a Golden Age tale set in the Canadian Northwest Territories, The Long Arm of the Mounted, by James French Dorrance. Rounding out the section is a solve-it-yourself puzzler by Hal Charles.

We also have one of Norman Spinrad's occasional 'Norman Spinrad at Large' columns-wherein he talks about when (not if) we will find life elsewhere in the universe.

On the science fiction& fantasy front, we have an original collaboration by Paul Di Filippo& Claudio Chillemi, a tale by British fantasy master John S. Glasby, and classic space opera by Nelson Bond (the original version of 'Honeymoon in Bedlam,' which he later rewrote as a Lancelot Biggs story for Lancelot Biggs: Spaceman), plus tales by William Campbell Gault and Edmond Hamilton. Fun stuff!

Here's the complete lineup-
Mysteries / Suspense / Adventure:
'The Bottle Blonde,' by Albert Tucher [Michael Bracken Presents short story]
'The Fatal Founders Day,' by Hal Charles [Solve-It-Yourself Mystery]
'New Day Newark,' by SJ Rozan [Barb Goffman Presents short story]
'The Five People You Meet in Atlantic City,' by James Blakey [short story]
The Long Arm of the Mounted, by James French Dorrance [novel]

Nonfiction:
'Norman Spinrad at Large: Life As We Don't Know It?' by Norman Spinrad