Contents (view Concise Listing)

• Guest Editorial • essay by Liz Williams
• A Note from the Editor (The Third Alternative, Spring 2004) • [Editorial (The Third Alternative)] • essay by Andy Cox
• Golden • short story by Al Robertson
• Robin McKinley interviewed • interview of Robin McKinley • interview by Sandy Auden
• 6 • Iridescence • short story by Jay Caselberg
• 16 • You Will Hear the Locust Sing • short story by Joe Hill
• 23 • The Dodo Has Landed (The Third Alternative, Spring 2004) • essay by Allen Ashley
• 24 • Ursula Le Guin: Hopping, Hoping and Questing • interview of Ursula K. Le Guin • interview by Andy Hedgecock
• 28 • Mission Memory • short story by Karen D. Fishler [as by Karen Fishler]
• 34 • Electric Darkness (The Third Alternative, Spring 2004) • [Electric Darkness] • essay by Christopher Fowler
• 37 • Japan's Dark Lanterns • essay by John Paul Catton
• 38 • Rhythms and Complications • short story by Gavin J. Grant [as by Gavin Grant]
• 42 • Stripped Bare (The Third Alternative, Spring 2004) • essay by Jasper Bark (variant of Stripped Bare (The Third Alternative #37, Spring 2004)) [as by Jaspre Bark]
• 44 • Terrible Ones • short story by Tim Pratt
• 52 • Relics • short story by Tim Lees