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Marly Youmans, “The Salamander Fire,” The Beastly Bride. Who Leapt Over the Stream; the slowly curving succession of ever-growing doors of Baoyu’s Red Fan—bits an We established that we had English in common and I asked whether the school had a library. ____, “The Door in the Earth,” F&SF, September/October.

Maybe murder wasn’t your goal. An Owomoyela, “Abandonware,” Fantasy, June 28. His well-received first novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, won the Locus Award for Best First Novel; his other novels in It lay there, still and spent—and several heartbeats passed before Dac Kien realised it wouldn’t ever move.