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Artists
Adam Duncan, Grant Gittus, acidheadwar, Michael Mayara, Andrew McKiernan, Marilyn Pride, Cat Sparks, Shaun Tan & Dianne Speter.

Interview
20 Questions for Dave Freer

Article
The Liminal Project: The making of a film by Claire McKenna

Reviews
The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best of Science Fiction edited by Jonathan Strahan & Charles N Brown (HarperCollins Voyager)
Singularity Sky by Charles Stross (Orbit/Times Warner)
Dr Identity or Farewell to Plaquedemia by D Harlan Wilson (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
Cowl by Neal Asher (Tor UK/Pan Macmillan)
Scrutator by Ian Irvine Penguin Australia)
Chimera by Ian Irvine (Penguin Australia)
Dhampir by Barb & JC Hendee (Orbit)
His Last Command by Dan Abnett Second in the new Gaunt's Ghosts sequence (BL Publishing)
The Year of our War by Steph Swainston (Allen & Unwin/Gollancz)
The Iron Tree by Cecilia Dart-Thornton (Pan Macmillan)
The Well of Tears by Cecilia Dart-Thornton (Pan Macmillan)
Kushiel's Avatar by Jacqueline Carey (Siren Books)
Lady Friday by Garth Nix Book 5 of Keys to the Kingdom 2007 (Allen & Unwin)
The Ragwitch by Garth Nix (Allen & Unwin)
Gene of Isis by Traci Harding (HarperCollins Australia)
Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Letters by Brian Froud and Ari Berk (Pavillion/HarperCollins Australia)
The New Space Opera edited by Jonathan Strahan and Gardner Dozois (HarperCollins Voyager)
Eidolon 1 edited by Jonathan Strahan and Jeremy G Byrne (Eidolon)
Dark Alchemy: Magical Tales from Masters of Modern Fantasy edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois (Bloomsbury)
Dark Space by Marianne de Pierres (Orbit)
The Darkness Within by Jason Nahrung (with Mil Clayton)  (Hachette Livre Australia)
Empress of Mijak: Godspeaker Book 1 by Karen Miller (HarperCollins Australia)
C0ck: adventures in masculinity edited by Andrew Macrae and Keith Stevenson (Coeur de Lion)
Fast Forward 1: Future Fiction from the Cutting Edge edited by Lou Anders (Pyr)
The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction edited by George Mann (Solaris Books)

Issue #7 (180 pages)                         Cover art by Peter Loader

Stories
Inducing by Paul Haines
A Complete Refabrication by Bren MacDibble
A Lady of Adestan by Cat Sparks   
Stranger and Sojourner by Sue Isle
Manisha's Sari by Karen Maric
An Account of an Experiment by Adam Browne
Now Cydonia by Rick Kennett
Midnight, Growler and the Lunar Rats by Chris Cheetah
In the Arms of Medusa by Nathan Burrage

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