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Issue twenty-two of Theaker's Quarterly Fiction is one of our best yet (I know, I say that every time). From Mike Schultheiss we have "Darwin's Corridor", a rousing tale of action, colonialism, love, anthropology and philosophy on a far-off planet. Though I've enjoyed everything I've published in this magazine, this one probably comes closest so far to being exactly the kind of thing we're looking for. Then we have “The Spirits of ’26”, by Robert Laughlin, a Silverberg-esque story of ambition, dedication and calamity. Sam Leng returns to our pages with “A Matter of Taste”, another short, sharp tap on the shoulder, and Richard K Lyon and Andrew J Offut supply another in their series of Tiana adventures. John Greenwood describes the next events in the unfortunate life of Newton Braddell, researcher unextraordinary.