Price €4.40 Shipping €1.50 ALBEDO ONE ISSUE 24 48 pages A4 Interview with Simon Clark: 'Have I spilt Something Down Myself or What?' Fiction: 'Another Thing Coming' by Nigel Quinlan - IRISH 'The Man Who Fell To His Death' by James Michael White 'The Fold' by James Viscosi 'Subs' by Lauren Halkon 'Becoming Jim' by Mike O'Driscoll Plus the usual columns: book reviews in 'Famous Monsters', polemic in Severian, and readers' comments in 'Ugly Chickens'. From the review in Tangent On-line: "The longest story in this issue is Mike O'Driscoll's "Becoming Jim." Genetic engineering has created two species of humans: "abos," run-of-the-mill Homo sapiens, and the "Shem," long-lived and emotionless, who use abos to vicariously experience the emotions they lack. Lunny and Brett are bonded with Kayem, a Shem, but when their bond fails they flee, unsure how to survive without the Shem. Lunny eventually abandons Brett to strike off on his own, falls in and out of relationships with abos and Shem alike, and when at last his path crosses Brett's again, he helps Brett "become Jim:" Brett is purged of his emotions and can live as a Shem, but only for a few weeks, as the process is fatal. There's a lot packed into this story, and at times it felt too compressed. The story is a novelette in length, I think, but it might have benefited from being a novella. Nevertheless, I found Lunny and the Shem to be engrossing characters, and overall this was a strong story with an intriguing setting."

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