For this reason we must look away from the politicians and corporate executives, who are in each other’s pockets, to our writers, artists and scientists for deliverance from this plague. Before action we need
vision. The makers of arms and the practitioners of greed use the zero to calculate their wretched profits, and that zero was born of the vision of mathematicians who stood to gain little from it but the joy of giving mankind the wherewithal to reach the stars.
In this issue you will find reviews of Weeknights at the Cathedral by Marjorie Maddox and The Banyan and The Alder by Martina Newberry and Bam Dev Sharma. Addressing the subject of war are: Kirby Wright, Duane
Locke, Susan Rich, Ysabel de la Rosa, Allen McGill, Amy King, Jeff Schiff, Ali Alizadeh, Emery L. Campbell, Semia Harbaoui, Nouri Gana, Devreaux Baker, Vasillis Zambaras and others.
It is altogether appropriate for writers and artists to address the subject of war, since their voices have so often been silenced by it. While the lies and hypocrisies that give rise to it savage the earth as
your read this issue there is perhaps hope in our knowledge cyber space, one of those visions from the future, is proving difficult for liars, censors and profiteers to manage.
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