• Publication: Descant, Fall 2003Publication Record # 897388 (View All Issues) (View Issue Grid)
• Editor: Karen Mulhallen
• Date: 2003-08-00
• Publisher: Descant Arts & Letters Foundation
• Price:
  C$19.95^?C$: Canadian dollar
• Pages: 376
• Format:
  tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
• Type: MAGAZINE
• Cover: Descant, Fall 2003 by Leopold Plotek
• Notes: Volume 34 #3, No.122 per Locus Month of publication per this page (archive) "Stargazing, an Inquisition", "If, the State of Affairs", "Machinations" are portfolios of art

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 11 • From Alterity to Ground Zero, Descanting Speculative Literature • essay by Karen Mulhallen
• 15 • Preface (Descant, Fall 2003) • essay by Peter Darbyshire and Brian Panhuyzen
• 17 • Over the Walls of Eden • short story by Jay Lake
• 26 • Master Plan; or, The Art of Tragedy in Relation to Human Morphology • short story by Marc Venema
• 36 • The Inexorable Tide • short story by K. V. Johansen
• 52 • I Wear Mourning, Seeing a World of Deceit • short story by Robert Lake
• 63 •  Stargazing, an Inquisition • interior artwork by Leopold Plotek
• 75 • Vanishing Point • short story by Christopher Barzak
• 89 • The Seventh Experiment of Senora Lopez • short story by Patrick Roscoe
• 105 • The Rower • short story by Bruce Holland Rogers
• 108 • Points of Contact • short story by John Keyes
• 123 •  If, the State of Affairs • interior artwork by Kristan Horton
• 131 • The New Production Lines • short story by Jan Lars Jensen
• 136 • Direct Mail 101: Lycanthrope Book Club • essay by Dawn Stanton
• 136 • Direct Mail 103: Keffany Cars Killer's Choice Program • essay by Dawn Stanton
• 140 • Found Carved Into the Hull of the Starship Cain on Paradise Three • (1993) • poem by William John Watkins
• 140 • Down at Bliss Control • (1993) • poem by William John Watkins
• 140 • How Freedom Comes • poem by William John Watkins
• 143 • The Program (excerpt) • short fiction by Hal Niedzvieki
• 159 •  Machinations • interior artwork by Mark Laliberte
• 165 • The Hospital for Sick Robots • short story by Hugh A. D. Spencer
• 176 • Szabra's Souls • short story by Sally McBride
• 186 • Click • short story by Gary Barwin
• 188 • Sure Signs • poem by Ben Murray
• 191 • Calculating Sawyer: Robert J. Sawyer in Conversation • interview of Robert J. Sawyer • interview by Robert M. Price [as by Robert Price]
• 194 • The Raptures of Ravivaloo • short story by Randy Schroeder [as by Alexandra Merry Arruin]
• 211 • The Last Temptaion - A Game Show • short story by Cem Akas
• 218 • The Letters • short story by Blaise Moritz
• 221 • Red-Winged Blackbirds • short story by Bruce Holland Rogers
• 223 • I Think Not • short story by Robert Lake
• 231 • For Each a Space Among the Stars • short story by Bettina von Kampen
• 240 • The World, Now in the Control of Its Creations • poem by John Grey
• 240 • The Last Nation in Space • poem by John Grey
• 247 • Dancer • short story by Dick Bird
• 253 • In the Loop • short story by Barbara Krasnoff
• 273 • The Wisemen of Gotham • short story by Todd Macfie
• 281 • Full • short story by Robert Dunbar
• 295 • Pirates • short story by Robert Boyczuk
• 295 • Beneath the White Layer • short story by Mark Anthony Brennan
• 309 • The Eater of Dreams • short story by Katherine Cameron
• 317 • Dead Man's Sheets • short story by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer
• 333 • Nail in the Coffin • short story by Stephen L. Antczak [as by Stephen Antczak]
• 345 • The Table • short story by Max Dean and Faye Guenther