The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March/April 2011

Contents6 • Scatter My Ashes • novelette by Albert E. Cowdrey26 • Cartoon: "It's me, Mr. Tucker, your accountant. This is an intervention." • interior artwork by Arthur Masear27 • Books to Look For (F&SF, March-April 2011) • [Books to Look For] • essay by Charles de Lint27 • Review: Midsummer Night by Freda Warrington • review by Charles de Lint29 • Review: The Silence of Trees by Valya Dudycz Lupescu • review by Charles de Lint30 • Review: Elixir by Hilary Duff • review by Charles de Lint31 • Review: The Turning: What Curiosity Kills by Helen Ellis • review by Charles de Lint32 • Review: The Ghost and the Goth by Stacey Kade • review by Charles de Lint33 • Review: Kiss of Life by Daniel Waters • review by Charles de Lint34 • Review: The Sorcerer's Companion: A Guide to the Magical World of Harry Potter, Third Edition by Elizabeth Kronzek and Allan Zola Kronzek • review by Charles de Lint36 • Books (F&SF, March-April 2011) • [Books (F&SF)] • essay by James Sallis36 • Review: Detour to Otherness by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore • review by James Sallis43 • A Pocketful of Faces • short story by Paul Di Filippo63 • Metaversal • poem by Sophie M. White64 • The Paper Menagerie • short story by Ken Liu77 • The Evening and the Morning • novella by Sheila Finch155 • Cartoon: "Fe, fi, fo, fum, I smell the blood of an upload sheep. No, no it's triglycerides with a blush of glucose." • interior artwork by J. P. Rini156 • Night Gauntlet • short story by Robert M. Price and Jeffrey Thomas and Richard Gavin and Don Webb and W. H. Pugmire and Walter C. DeBill, Jr.173 • Happy Ending 2.0 • short story by James Patrick Kelly180 • The Second Kalandar's Tale • novelette by Francis Marion Soty205 • Bodyguard • short story by Karl Bunker216 • Films: Who's the Indie-est of Them All • [Films (F&SF)] • essay by Lucius Shepard221 • Cartoon: "Where to find takers here, the U.S. government will sell treasury debt to SPACE ALIENS!!!" • interior artwork by Bill Long222 • Botanical Exercises For Curious Girls • short story by Kali Wallace238 • Ping • short story by Dixon Wragg239 • The Ifs of Time • short story by James Stoddard256 • Coming Attractions (F&SF, March-April 2011) • essay by uncredited258 • Curiosities: The Haunted Pajamas, by Lawrence Perry Elliott (1911) • [Curiosities (essays)] • essay by F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre258 • Review: The Haunted Pajamas by Francis Perry Elliott • review by F. Gwynplaine MacIntyreCover: Kent Bash, illustrates "The Evening and the Morning".