CONTENTS: ~ ~~ ~ SERIAL: Shootout at the Nokai Corral (Part 1 of 4) [Rajnar Vajra]; NOVELETTES: Capture Radius [Stephen L. Burns]; Distance [Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff]; SHORT STORIES: Lavender in Love [Brian Plante]; Between Singularities [Wolf Read]; ARTICLES: What Iceland Reveals About "Wet Mars" [Richard A. Lovett]; Useful Illusions and Deadly Faith [Stanley Schmidt]; LENR (Part 1) [Jeffrey D. Kooistra]