Cherry Wilder - Something coming through

A man visits his step-daughter and a youth in prison for being suspected Canadian separatists, in a 'United States of North America'. They are to be executed and are coping by chewing leaves of a drug called New Green. Has the feel of a nightmare.

Neil Ferguson - The Monroe doctrine

President Monroe (the blonde, not the other one) personally flies to Prague to meet Gorbachov and stop the Russian tanka invading. Lots of amusement is wrung from English/Russian mis-translations.

John Hendry - The views of Mohammad el Hassif

An academic leaves a student a poem in his will to translate. The poet committed suicide and the translation produces a strange poem about imagining 'views'...

L. Hluchan Sintetos - Angela's father

A moving, well-crafted tale of love lost, set in a Baron's palace in which peace talks are taking place.

Keith Roberts - Kitecadet

In the same post-holocaust milieux as Kiteworld, Raoul, a kitesman, gets a furlough in the 'big city', Middlemarch, but a feud resurfaces and a romance is ruined by a bad memory. ( )