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Our September issue features “The Last Temptation of Katerina Savitskaya” (which some readers may recognize as a follow-on to Henry G. Stratmann’s “The Paradise Project,” though that’s not a prerequisite). Confront two people with a very big, very mysterious artifact, and they may react to it quite differently, depending on their characters and backgrounds. If it offers new powers, they’ll have to decide what to do with them—but there’s one decision they can’t make. . . .

Edward M. Lerner’s fact article, “Follow the Nanobrick Road” is an update on where nanotechnology, which you may have first read about here some twenty years ago, is now, and where it seems to be going. It has evolved from a grand vision of a forested panorama in which we weren’t yet close enough to see individual trees, to a vigorous field of research in which many scientists and engineers are hard at work among those trees. Not surprisingly, things look different at such close range, and the forms of nanotech we can expect in the next couple of decades are not the wildest hopes and fears that sprang from the initial vision—but they’re no less fascinating and full of potential. Lerner’s article is a “report from the front,” based on his visit to the 2007 conference on “Productive Nanosystems: Launching the Technology Roadmap,” which brought together many of the foremost researchers making it happen.

We also have stories by Stephen L. Burns, David W. Goldman, and Bill Gleason; a timely poem by Geoffrey A., Landis; and last but by no means least, Part 2 of David R. Palmer’s Tracking.

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The Science Behind the Story: InterstellarNet
by Edward M. Lerner

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by C. Sanford Lowe & G. David Nordley

The Science Behind the Story: The Teller of Time
by Carl Frederick

The Science Behind the Story: Sun of Suns
by Karl Schroeder

The Science Behind the Story: The Science of Old Earth
by Stephen Baxter

The Science Behind the Story: Lighthouse
by Michael Shara

The Science Behind the Story: The Skeekit-Woogle Test
by Carl Frederick

The Science Behind the Story: The Speed of Understanding
by Susan Urbanek Linville

The Science Behind the Story
by Carl Frederick

The Alternate View
by Jeffery D. Kooistra
What IS "old-fashioned" anyway?

The Reference Library
by Tom Easton
Reviews of books by Paul Melko, Mike Botherton, Jeffrey A. Carver, Mike Resnick, Robert J. Sawyer, and Nancy Kress among others.

Upcoming Events
by Anthony Lewis
Every month, Anthony keeps you up to date on what's going on in the world of science fiction.

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Serial
Tracking (Part II of III)
by David R. Palmer

Novelettes
The Last Temptation of Katerina Savitskaya
by H. G. Stratmann

Once in a Blue Moon
by William Gleason

Short Stories
The Fourth Thing
by Stephen L. Burns

Forever Mommy
by David Grace

Invasion of the Pattern Snatchers
by David W. Goldman

Science Fact
Follow the Nanobrick Road
by Edward M. Lerner

Poem
In '69
by Geoffrey A. Landis

Reader's Departments
The Editor's Page
In Times to Come
The Alternate View by Jeffery D. Kooistra
The Reference Library by Tom Easton
Brass Tacks
Upcoming Events by Anthony Lewis

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