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Summary: Space and Time, 2005
Space and Time this year put out issue #99, a truly impressive total for a small press magazine. It's been around since the late 60s. The Editor-in-Chief is Gordon Linzner, the Fiction Editor is Gerard Houarner. #99, dated Spring 2005, included ten stories, one of them a novelette, for right at 40,000 words of fiction. (There are also many poems.)
The novelette is Uncle River's "The Lizard", a pretty substantial length story at over 10,000 words. It's only barely fantastical -- there are sightings of implausibly large sheep-eating lizards. But the main story is purely contemporary, an angry and effective story of good people in a New Mexico town persecuted by a clueless careerist cop, and by a money-grubbing lazy lawyer, and by the nonsensical drug laws of this country. I liked the story, but I don't really think it qualifies as SF. (Not that that matters, except to the extent that these summaries try to be about the genre.) I found most of the rest of the fiction disappointing, though I did rather like John Everson's "The Strong Will Survive", about a rather harsh genetic experiment, and there was decent work by Darrell Schweitzer and Pete D. Manison.
