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  • "Man's First Enemy"
  • Bruce Corbett
  • Issue #127 February 4 2000
  • An interesting story about a party of time travellers going back in time to hunt dinosaurs. This story is told from the viewpoint of a female predator, leading her small family pack on hunts. They see the humans, wondering at their strange behaviour. Eventually, she decides that they are so stupid, that they would be easy prey. So her pack hunts the humans. Several of the dinsoaurs are killed, but they prevail. The losses are acceptable, such is life.

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  • "The Man Who Talked To Water"
  • James Keenan
  • Issue #106 September 10 1999
  • Winner of The Readers' Choice Award 1999
  • Michael has an unusual encounter while water skiing one weekend. He is dragged under the water, but finds himself suspended with an air bubble around his head. He learns that day that water, all water on the planet, is a huge sentience. It has become concerned with damage it has been detecting on its surface for some time. Michael comes to realize that water is referring to the testing of nuclear weapons. When Michael explains what the explosions are and what their purpose is, water decides that it must eliminate the human race. Now Michael must find a way to convince water to let his people live.

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  • "The Marking"
  • Kate Tompkins
  • Issue #63 November 13 1998
  • Winner of The Readers' Choice Award 1998
  • A wonderful fantasy tale about a young man who is disgusted with the attention and devotion bestowed upon a worthless old man who no longer contributes to the tribe. The young man finds himself on a strange journey in which he learns that the value of people is not always measured in their ability to hunt or build.

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  • "Masking"
  • Paula L. Fleming
  • Issue #169 November 24 2000
  • A beautifully mysterious fantasy tale about a society where magically powerful people live behind masks. The maskers are the elite of society and rule over it. When an outcast masker meets an aristocratic daughter, he begins to wonder if he can make his way back into that society.

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  • "Memoirs of an Intergalactic Diplomat (Or, How To Cook An Antarean And Get Away With It)"
  • S. D. Campbell
  • Issue #86 April 23 1999
  • An amusing story about Earth being visited by aliens who look like pink bunnies. One of the alien envoys gets shot and eaten by a mountain man and his family. Now the human diplomat has to smooth things over before the bunnies blow up the planet. When he discovers that brussel sprouts act like aphrodisiacs and they love Cuban cigars (to eat, not smoke) he not only patches things up but nails a very lucrative trading agreement.

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  • "Memory Bank"
  • Bert Ellis
  • Issue #10 November 7, 1997
  • It is the future and the world has a transportation network of teleportation booths. Mike is one of the operators and he gets dragged out of bed in the middle of the night to deal with a crisis; people have gone missing in transit. Mike stumbles onto being able to duplicate the people by recalling their patterns from the memory bank of the computers which control the system.

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  • "Mere Survival"
  • Brett Boyko
  • Issue #67 December 11 1998
  • An engaging story which blends fantasy with cyber-punk as an Elven assassin seeks to take out a target with a Nosferatu guardian. She learns to adapt a new way of looking at the world, becoming a guardian rather than an assassin.

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  • "Microverse"
  • Shikhar Dixit
  • Issue #44 July 3 1998
  • A young college student uncovers a centuries old theory that his world is doomed to destruction. What worries him is that it seems to be drawing close to the time of the cataclysm. We, the readers, slowly learn that his universe exists within the dirt on a bathroom wall, next to a urinal; the one a staggering drunk is about to attempt to use.

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  • "Misplaced Reality"
  • Karl El-Koura
  • Issue #149 July 7 2000
  • In the future, the planet is crowded and resources are being stretched to the limit. So the United States comes up with a solution for their country. They create institutes where you can voluntarily check in and become part of a virtual reality. You are then only occupying the space of one bed and using minimal resources to sustain your body while your mind lives out whatever life you care to have. But one man keeps committing suicide within his simulations because he is always vaguely aware that they are not real. During his awake times, he asks to be returned to the real world. But he cannot, there is no room. A solution is found; he can have a small dome to himself on the moon and perhaps the moon colony can spare him some supplies. He agrees and he lives out his meagre life, alone on the moon—but there is something that he doesn't know!

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  • "The Missing Half of Irian"
  • Jonathan Fesmire
  • Issue #82 March 26 1999
  • A fantasy tale about Irian, who is a dual. A dual is two people who share the same body. The body alters in appearance according to which person is in control. Oanya is female and Irian is male. One night, Oanya is nearly raped and stabbed in the process. As she starts to fall unconscious, Irian seizes control and fights off the attacker. He finds a healer and tells her what happened. The problem is, he can't find Oanya, whom he can normally converse with due to their connection. Now Roanin must enlist the help of an acquaintance who hates duals in order to force the change upon Irian so that they can heal Oanya before she dies.

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  • "My Tongue is the Pen of the Reddy Riter"
  • Gene-Michael Higney
  • Issue #110 October 8 1999
  • A worrisome story about government suppressing education in order to dumb down the masses and make them more manageable. Even more worrisome considering that some areas in the U.S. have decided that teaching spelling and grammar should be stopped as it interferes with a child's creativity. But is that their real reason?

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