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Issue 8: Scottish Science Fiction

  • EditorialBeam Me Up, Sir Walter!
  • Beautiful Terrors — George MacDonald and ‘Lilith’By David Melville
  • Many Worlds: David Lindsay and alternative realitiesBy Stuart Kelly
  • Reading Double, Writing Double: The Fiction of Iain (M.) BanksBy Martyn Colebrook
  • Scotland as Science FictionBy Caroline McCracken-Flesher
  • The Future Will Happen Here TooBy Ken MacLeod
  • The Milk of SpaceBy Hamish Whyte

Regular Columns

  • Gaelic Place Names: ‘Bodach’By Alison Grant
  • Scots Word of the Season: ‘Kelpie’By Maggie Scott
  • New Reviews

Upon Another Point

  • New Publications: Criticism & Non Fiction
  • New Publications: Fiction & Poetry
  • Scottish Studies profile – Dr Gavin MillerBy Gavin Miller

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Book Reviews

‘Homecoming’ by Alan Riach

'Homecoming' by Alan Riach
Review by Elspeth Sandys

‘From the Ganga to the Tay: An Epic Poem’ by Bashabi Fraser

'From the Ganga to the Tay'
Review by Fiona Wilson

‘Transition’ by Iain Banks

'Transition' by Iain Banks
Review by Alan MacGillivray

‘A Method Actor’s Guide to Jekyll and Hyde’ by Kevin MacNeill

Review by David Borthwick

‘And the Land Lay Still’ by James Robertson

'And the Land Lay Still' by James Robertson
Review by Robert Alan Jamieson

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