CONTENTS: ~ ~ NOVELLA: Magic's Price [Bud Sparhawk]; NOVELETTES: Wet [J. Brian Clarke]; Creative Destruction [Edward M. Lerner]; SHORT STORIES: Out of the Fire [Pauline Ashwell]; One For the Road [David Phalen]; The Milk of Human Kindness [Brian Stableford]; ARTICLES: Redefining Copyright [Stanley Schmidt]; The Poverty of Nations [William Sims Bainbridge, Ph.D.]; A Modest Proposal [Walter G. Aiello]; Faster-than-Light Laser Pulses? [John G. Cramer]