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It was when I reached the THIRD STORY ABOUT AGING BABY BOOMER HIPPIES ENCOUNTERING THE FANTASTIC in this anthology that I decided that perhaps it wasn't for me (and promptly quit reading it). That and stories about abortion seem to be the theme of the magazine in the 90s.

John Crowley and Gene Wolfe had some decent stories, but the standout by far was Tanith Lee's "All the Birds of Hell," a creepy post-apocalyptic-ice-age story set in a Soviet-style bureaucracy and revolving around two frozen bodies preserved in a dacha.
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