I dreamt this morning that I was sitting with Peter Heck in a convention dealers room. Not sure why I was just sitting there, chewing the fat, as the only times I ever did that was when I was actually working a table, and I haven’t been involved in something like that for years.

But there we were, parked as if we intended to stay for hours, leaning back in our chairs, relaxed. Somehow we got to talking about the value of old magazines.

“Did you know,” he said to me, “that a complete run of Interzone in mint condition is worth $3,000,000?”

I did not know that, I told him, and thought back to the days when I’d bought the first issues of Interzone at the Forbidden Planet bookstore in New York, and how I’d sold them long ago for far less.

I woke, wishing that I’d hung on to them.

Once awake, I check over at eBay, and see that the sixth issue of Interzone is currently for sale. It has but a single bid, and its price is only $5.58. That tells me that you’re not going to need $3,000,000 should you wish to amass your own collection.

I have no idea why my subconscious thought that you would.