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<DIV>Bruce Gillespie and Jan Stinson present STEAM ENGINE TIME 12, March
<BR>2009, 78 pages, the second issue in 24 hours. For the PDF version,</DIV>
<DIV>click on <A
href="http://efanzines.com/SFC/SteamEngineTime/SET12.pdf">http://efanzines.com/SFC/SteamEngineTime/SET12.pdf</A> .</DIV>
<DIV>The print version will be available in a couple of weeks time.</DIV>
<DIV><BR><BR>Subtitled OFF ON A TREASURE HUNT, this issue features another
exciting <BR>cover graphic by Ditmar (Dick Jenssen); Bruce Gillespie’s coverage
of <BR>his favourite books, films and music of 2009 — and of the decade 2000–09
<BR>— with special discussion of Christopher Priest’s *‘It’ Came from Outer
<BR>Space* and *The Magic*, Paul Kincaid’s *What It Is We Do When We Read
<BR>Science Fiction*, David Langford’s *Up Through an Empty House of
<BR>Stairs*, and new autobiographical books by Iola Mathews, John Litchen,
<BR>Rick Gekowski and John Baxter; Bruce Gillespie’s ‘The Treasure Hunt’,
<BR>about his love of treasure hunting in general, and books about SF and
<BR>films, especially essay collections by Joanna Russ, Thomas Disch, Paul
<BR>Kincaid, Michael Bishop, Peter Bogdanovich and Pauline Kael; Ray Wood’s
<BR>in-depth discussion of artificial intelligence in SF books, TV and film,
<BR>especially the DVD-TV series *Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles*;
<BR>George Zebrowski’s challenging essay about the role of the writer-editor
<BR>in book publishing; and Frank Weissenborn’s forensic dig into some later
<BR>A. Bertram Chandler novels that nobody else seems to have
noticed.<BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>