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Summary: Full Unit Hookup, 2005
Full Unit Hookup is a small 'zine of stories, poems, and essays, edited by Mark Rudolph. I saw one issue this year, #7, dated Summer 2005.
There were 5 stories, all short and one short-short (though at an estimated 7400 words one of them might have been a novelette given the error bars in my counting), 17600 words. I thought the best stories were "The Man Who Swallowed Mirrors" by Jay Lake and Scott William Carter, about radical body modifications and a game show in which the "best" body mod is chosen; and "The Revolution Will Be Fictionalized", by Ian Donnell Arbuckle, a story that a bit slyly incorporated the "monkeys typing Shakespeare" theme in postulating a man who takes stories out of copyright by randomly producing the identical works via the digits of pi. (Embedding the unproven (if likely) assumption that pi is normal!)
It's a cleanly presented small 'zine with some ambition, but I didn't like it as much as for example Electric Velocipede or Flytrap among similarly sized and similarly long-lived small 'zines.
