Issue #290: March 1985: 1984 Nebula Nominations (final ballot); Dan Reeder: Screamers as the Lost Art; Official LAcon Final Figures Released; Robin McKinley wins Newbery Award (The Hero and the Crown); Philip Jose Farmer’s FANTASTIC VOYAGE; SF at the Oscars; Stephen King admits pseudonym (Richard Bachman); “Conjuring Helliconia” by Brian W. Aldiss; convention listings; 1984: One Year of Soviet SF, by Vladimir Gakov; SF in Czechoslovakia; Report from China; The Chinese Connection; News from Yugoslavia; Along Publishers Row (forthcoming books); Windycon XI report (w/ photos); January Magazines; January Books.