About the book: 1998 / FICTION Monthly magazine Contents: Kir Bulychev. THE STARS ARE CALLING! story by Leonid Leskov. REACHING COSMOSAFACTARobert Sheckley. LABYRINTH OF THE MINOTAUR, story DIRECT CONTACTRobert Sheckley “JUST GET TO LIVE!” (answers to questions from “If” readers) Greg Beer. MANDALA, story LITERARY PORTRAIT *Igor Petrushkin. GOTHIC STAR SPACE FACTS Michael Payne. LANGUAGE OF SPIRITS, story by Vladimir Korochantsev. DON'T LOOK AT YOUR MOTHER-IN-LAW! Jack Haldeman. SAND CASTLES, story by Stephen R. Donaldson. ANIMAL LOVER, story COMPETITION BANK OF IDEAS Alexey Zarubin. EVERYTHING THAT IS AT HAND, story COURSE REVIEWS PERSONALIA VERNISAGE * Vl. Gakov. FREE HAND OF JIM BURNSAVIDEODROME *How it's done—Evgeniy Zuenko. LORD OF THE MONKEYS*Document—Dmitry Kryukov. GUIDE TO THE WORLD OF MAGIC...*Series—Alexander Mayorov. ALIENS VS. RIPLEY*Reviews*Interview—Natalia Meloserdova. THERE IS AN IDEAS CRISIS IN HOLLYWOOD! (interview with Yuri Karra) *Attention, engine!— Arseny Ivanov. NEWS FROM THE SET Cover by D. Burns (Jim Burns) Illustrations by O. Dunaeva, A. Filippov, S. Shekhov.