Short Stories/Novellas

Noona, the unhappy teenaged daughter of a cave family, is breaking out with pimples and lacks the brow-ridges of the rest of her kin-group. She feels life is a grand tragedy. Then she meets someone twice as tall as her father, blond-haired, blue-eyed, and marked with a crimson figure on his forehead. It's love at first sight...

August 1995. Cover art by Stephen Gervais, illustrating the story “The Amber Room” by Ian Watson . Other stories in this issue: ”The Canterbury Path” by Rebecca Maines [as by Pamela D. Hodgson] ”Our Prayers Are with You” by Robert Reed ”Dry August” by Raymond Steiber ”The Seven Beds” by Eric C. Hartlep ”Aura” by Elizabeth Moon ”Miranda's Monster” by Mary A. Turzillo ”Abelard's Kiss” by Madeleine E. Robins ”A Birthday” by Esther M. Friesner FEATURES Editorial by Kristine Kathryn Rusch; “Books to Look For” (reviews) by Charles de Lint; “Life at Galactic Center” (science essay) by Gregory Benford