I enjoy reading the selections from Kristine Kathryn Rusch's tenure as editor during this period of F&SF.

The included fiction material is:

Bloodletting • novelette by Marcos Donnelly
I Died, Sir, In Flame, Sir • Kevin Grierson • short story by Richard Bowes
Drainage • short story by Nicholas A. DiChario
Shepherd Moon • Near Space • short story by Allen Steele
Mother to Elves • short story by Michael Armstrong
Bible Stories for Adults, No. 20: The Tower • Bible Stories for Adults • 20 • (1990) • short story by James Morrow
The Black Bus • novelette by Marc Laidlaw

There are also some book reviews and other interesting material. The stories in here were interesting and quite good overall. Most of these were never published or collected elsewhere in books, so this is where you can read them. "Bloodletting" is one of the highlights here - initially confusing but ultimately satisfying. The end of the world and more is coming. The rest of the stories were good/OK/interesting, just not as mind expanding as the opener "Bloodletting". Not one of my favorites of these, although not a bad story, was the "Bible Stories for Adults, No. 20: The Tower". Remember, these are stories from June 1994. In this story God comes to earth to have a good talking to the Donald. The Donald wants to make a deal. The God does not. The Tower in the title ...

I wasn't too crazy about the long final story here, my least liked in this issue, Marc Laidlaw's "The Black Bus." Grateful Dead fans would find it interesting. Or not. A little trippy, but a creepy horror sort of thing that I didn't understand, which tends not to work for me regardless of the writer. ( )