From Sci Fi Com's forum:

ON THE SPACED-OUT LIBRARY

KYLENIN: “If it's doubted that the series was negative and morbid, how about the fact that it ends first with the death of the infant child of Tucker and T'Pol, and then with the death of Tucker?”

     I don't think ENTERPRISE is any more “negative” or “morbid” than any other modern sci-fi series.  Someone is always going to die. I suppose it wouldn't be realistic if they didn't.  That doesn't mean fans like it when it happens, though.  Look at how many “red shirts” got killed on the original STAR TREK series.  I didn't hear anyone say how morbid that series is.

     I suppose what's really morbid is the fact that no one cared when the “red shirts” died on TOS.  But fans did care when Trip's baby and then Trip himself died (well, they would have cared more for Trip, if the situation was presented better).

     I'm so glad that they chose not to “review” STARGATE SG-1 and ATLANTIS.

     Then you will be sad to see that these shows are reviewed in this issue.

ON REFLECTIONS ON THE HABERMAN EXPERIMENT:

W84M48: Right in the first few paragraphs it got basic science fact wrong, so I stopped reading it.  Maybe the article is supposed to be fiction?

YDNIM: For a news article, it took way too long to get to the point.  I'm sorry, I couldn't make my way through it.

BOWMORE: Oh man that was a confused article, but still interesting to read…as fiction.  But the author would clearly need to focus more on what he/she wants to say instead of a lot of wrap in to make it seem scientifically correct.

     The article was a satire.

ON THE ANDROMEDA FEATURE:

DARTH.HUNTER (one of the authors): 6.03 was a complex episode.  When the first draft was written, we noticed there was a contradiction with the history of the Commonwealth.  It showed us once again how careful you have to be when writing Andromeda episodes….the Universe is broad and complex.  Something that the writers of Season 5 obviously didn't care too much about.

     You even have to be careful when reading them.

From the ANALOG Forum:

PC: It's got to have the most *colorful* webzine pages I've ever seen. Seriously!  (Great stories, too.)

ALEX:  The half-baked mummy has my attention; but it's late.  Tomorrow, maybe.

     He wakes up and reads about a mummy.

From Chuck Connors' PHLIZZ:

GARTH SPENCER:   It's about time somebody took the hypertext and multimedia features inherent in digital and Internet technology and applied them to zines.

CHUCK CONNORS:  It's a concept that, as far as I know, only John Thiel with his SURPRISING STORIES is working/experimenting with—though I understand that he is still knocking out his old Paper Zine, PABLO LENNIS, on a monthly basis as well.

     Hard core faans, PL is still available by ground mail.

And there were a few emails:

HERBERT JERRY BAKER: I got a look at the latest SURPRISING STORIES—thanks for running my story and poems.  I especially liked the photo with “Angelus Domini”—really spooky!

JESSICA HOWE:  I've been busy cutting my writing to pieces and sewing it back together.  Lately I've gone on a tech writing kick for helium com, not for any good reason but just because.  And the feng shui I did recently in my new home seems to be working because wow, I've been getting more pubs for this past year than ever!  (The one that floored me was to Jim Baen's Universe”.)

     I have a weird idea though that there needs to be a common ground between the no-pay and the money markets, in writing on the Internet and off.  I still publish in the former and will continue to do so because well, I think there are some very good and valid magazines out there.  “Bewildering Stories”, for instance, has one of mine coming up, and “Greensilk Journal” has a poem in its next issue.  Neither are for pay, and that's fine.

     Sigh, the computer age has sunk more and more into the business of writing, and I've found that for business purposes I really need to be Web-savvy these days.  I still refuse to join the cellphone-carrying crowd, though!  No pagers or ipods for me, and yes I still read real books (nothing like the smell of them…).  At best I'm just an Elf-friend and content to be so.

     The artwork on the recent SURPRISING covers is gorgeous—where do you guys find that?

     It finds us, and then we find it in SURPRISING ourselves.

     Good, don't join cell-phone carriers—it isn't always a good thing to be a Joiner.

     Glad to hear you're making it with some pay markets. But we don't want to lose our place on your poetry-writing list.