CONTENTS

Reader's Department: EDITORIAL: HOW FAR THE FRONTIER by Stanley Schmidt

Reader's Department: IN TIMES TO COME

Novelette: RAY OF LIGHT by Brad R. Torgersen

Science Fact: POISONS, TEMPERATURE, AND CLIMATE CHANGE: WILL GLOBAL WARMING MAKE EVERYTHING ELSE WORSE? by Richard B. Robinson, Ph.D.

Short Story: TURNING IT OFF by Susan Forest

Short Story: FREUDIAN SLIPSTREAM by Brad Aiken

Department: THE ALTERNATE VIEW: CELL PHONE RADIATION, CANCER, AND THE WHO by Jeffery D. Kooistra

Short Story: HIDDEN by Kyle Kirkland

Short Story: ART FOR SPLENDOR'S SAKE by Dave Creek

Novelette: THE IMPOSSIBLES by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Novelette: NOT FOR OURSELVES ALONE by Charles E. Gannon

Reader's Department: THE REFERENCE LIBRARY by Don Sakers

Reader's Department: BRASS TACKS

Reader's Department: UPCOMING EVENTS by Anthony Lewis

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Vol. CXXXI No. 12 December 2011

Stanley Schmidt, Editor

Trevor Quachri, Managing Editor