Water Logic - It is certainly a strange day when you discover that something you read in a Terry Pratchett book (Making Money) and you thought was just a bit of made up crazyness is in fact real. Taking into account the date, I guess this must be a Christmass miracle. Campbell tkes the concept of the hydraulic computer even further by weaving it into a computational study of a poem. Great concept, although the execution is not on par with other stories by Campbell. It is still good story, and very much worth reading, it's just that she has otherr stories where herr writing is superb.
Another lovely issue of Capricious. I particularly enjoyed Alexander Hardison's "The Nameless Boy and the River", which drew me in right away and did a great job of showing off the conworld without any of the text feeling like exposition, and "Bone Length, Wavelength" by Octavia cade, an absolutely gorgeous, touching story about shaping your own legacy.