Q+A / with Gene Wolfe -- Slipping / Lauren Beukes -- Countermeasures / Christopher Brown -- Business as usual /Pat Cadigan -- Petard: a tale of just deserts / Cory Doctorow -- The shipping forecast / Warren Ellis -- Gallery: the artwork of / John Schoenherr -- Persona / Joel Garreau -- Death cookie/easy ice / William Gibson -- Los piratas del mar de plastico (Pirates of the plastic ocean) / Paul Graham Raven -- The various mansions of the universe / Bruce Sterling -- At home in the cosmos: a review by / Peter Swirski