Price €5.95 Shipping €2.00 ALBEDO ONE ISSUE 31 56 pages A4 This issue presents all the short-listed stories competing for the one thousand euro prize money of the 2005 Aeon Award: "My Marriage" by Julian West "Queen of Engines" by Dev Agarwal "Like Snow" by Brian Richmond "Expiating Ancestral Sins" by Tais Teng "Letting Out The Angels" by Andrew McKenna "I Hold My Father’s Paws" by David Levine More fiction in this issue: "A Coin For The Ferryman" by Justin Stanchfield Charles Stross interviewed by Michael Lohr: "One of the projects Google are pouring a lot of money into is machine translation, using huge corpuses of translated text to come up with probabilistic based phrase-level conversions rather than the more traditional parser and lexical analyzer based systems. If and when this pays off (and there's a huge amount of money riding on it) the implications are explosive. Hitherto we've only had access to that part of the world information sphere that someone was willing to pay a human to translate (or that we could read for ourselves, or someone was willing to translate for free). Along with things like the proposed $100 universal laptop for kids everywhere, and the $10 third world cell phone, this is going to change things more than we can imagine. The English-speaking world has a huge and powerful collective media culture but it's still only about a tenth of the planet's potential media culture; the rest simply isn't joined up yet. Useful machine translation is going to have more of an impact than the internet (into which it will be woven)." Plus the usual columns: book reviews in 'Famous Monsters', polemic in Severian, and readers' comments in 'Ugly Chickens'.

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