Full Spectrum 3 Author:Lou Aronica (Editor), Amy Stout (Editor), Elizabeth Mitchell (Editor) Twenty-two new variations ranging--as the title promises--from hard sf to the supernatural.ecological parables, ghosts, sculpture, helpful aliens, psychic powers, witches, mathematical puzzles, werebeasts, and more.. Including: -- Karen Joy Fowler's long story about voodoo and drugs, -- Michael Bishop's extended parable exploring apartheid and p... more »hysics, and -- Ursula K. LeGuin's tale of space habitat refugees who hallucinate the ruined Earth they've fled. The finest entry of all is -- Marcos Donnelly's ``Tracking the Random Variable''--a sparkling, witty study of statistics, obsession, and infidelity. -- In "Desert Rain," Mark L. Van Name and Pat Murphy give a high-tech variation on the familiar relationship triangle: a man named Jeff, a woman named Teresa and a prototype of a computerized home management system named Ian, a caring kind of guy who could "steal your heart." -- In Wolfgang Jeschke's "Loitering at Death's Door" (translated from the German), coming back from the dead isn't all it's cracked up to be, when Kristos Katsuranis returns as a "really lousy copy" of his former self. -- An Afrikaner realizes what it means to be black in South Africa when he becomes invisible to other whites in Michael Bishop's "Apartheid, Superstrings, and Mordecai Thubana." -- In Ted Chiang's "Division by Zero," a brilliant mathematician's world begins to crumble when she discovers she can prove, irrefutably, that one equals two. -- The people of Earth learn a lesson in humanity when they detect a sign of life on another planet: an SOS from "alien, but cute" beings, in Norman Spinrad's "The Helping Hand." ...and others.« less