The Fall 2008 issue of Diplomacy World, #103, has been released!  104 pages of articles, photos, news, variants,

convention reports...but that's just the beginning.  The theme this issue was Science Fiction and Fantasy in

Diplomacy, so you will find plenty of articles relating to that -- but much more too!

You can download the new issue (in pdf format) from the official Diplomacy World website at:

http://www.diplomacyworld.net/

or from the Dipllomacy World Yahoo group at:

http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/diplomacyworld/

Incidentally, there is now a NEW DW Yahoo group intended for open discussion among the readers of any Diplomacy

World issue or article.  The forum will include polls, contests, and who knows what else?  Join now at:

http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/dwreaders/

Among the articles you will find in Diplomacy World #103 are:

* Frank Oosterom and Joushua Danker-Dake on Austrian Strategy

* Gerald Todd's Star Trek Diplomacy variant

* Lewis Pulsipher's Fighting SUNS variant

* David Hood on DixieCon

* David Webster, Jim-Bob Burgess, and Rick Desper on DipCon in Bangor, Maine and the aftermath

* Benjamin Hester's The Dark Ages variant

* The Hobby's First Scandal: 1964C

* Steven McKinnon on Star Trek and Diplomacy

* More of Rod Walker's "Fatman and Frottage" lunacy

* and too many other articles to list here!

Check the issue out, and be sure to send some feedback along, either in an email or in the new DW Readers Forum!