Price €4.40 Shipping €1.50 ALBEDO ONE ISSUE 26 48 pages A4 Interview with China Miéville: 'Moving on to Grotesquerie' Fiction: 'Perennial Mosely' by Martin Taulbut 'One More Hit' by Cathy Freeze 'That Summer on the Moon' by Mark A. Mellon 'On Going Round the Bend' and 'The Waiting Room', graphic stories by Sean Mac Roibin and John Robbins - IRISH 'Encore' by John Kenny - IRISH 'Cinderella the Dirt Queen' by H. Turnip Smith Plus book reviews in our regular column 'Famous Monsters'. From the review in Tangent On-Line: "John Kenny's "Encore" is an intriguing piece, more an evocation of a mood than a strong narrative, but it is effective. Fermino Salousse lives in Maputo, Mozambique, and is dying from some unspecified disease. Shunned by nearly everyone, he makes his way through the heat and dust to the Parque José Cabral to see a traveling circus. From one tent, spectators emerge dazed and stunned; curious, Fermino makes his way inside and witnesses what may be a miracle, or what may simply be another illusion. The ambiguity of the ending is not a cop-out, or a hopeful attempt to substitute confusion for meaning, but emerges from Fermino's character. The prose is solid, with a blunt naturalism that serves to accentuate Fermino's plight."

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