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Asimov's Science Fiction, July/August 2018
CONTENTS
Novella
Starship Mountain by Allen M. Steele
Novelettes
Ephemera by Ian R. MacLeod
Lieutenant Tightass by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Unter by Michael Cassutt
True Jing by Zack Be
The Backward Lens of Compromise by Octavia Cade
Liberating Alaska by Harry Turtledove
Straconia by Jack Skillingstead
SHORT STORIESStones in the Water, Cottage on the Mountain by Suzanne Palmer
Rules of Biology by Dale Bailey
Attachment Unavailable by Leah Cypess
‹b›Poetry‹/b›
The Hull Breach by John Richard Trtek
Leaving by Bruce McAllister
Note to Our Guests by Amy Miller
Counting the Cost by Jane Yolen
Novella
Starship Mountain by Allen M. Steele
Novelettes
Ephemera by Ian R. MacLeod
Lieutenant Tightass by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Unter by Michael Cassutt
True Jing by Zack Be
The Backward Lens of Compromise by Octavia Cade
Liberating Alaska by Harry Turtledove
Straconia by Jack Skillingstead
SHORT STORIESStones in the Water, Cottage on the Mountain by Suzanne Palmer
Rules of Biology by Dale Bailey
Attachment Unavailable by Leah Cypess
‹b›Poetry‹/b›
The Hull Breach by John Richard Trtek
Leaving by Bruce McAllister
Note to Our Guests by Amy Miller
Counting the Cost by Jane Yolen
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First published January 1, 2018
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Sheila Williams is the editor of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine. She is also the recipient of the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Editor, Short Form.
Sheila grew up in a family of five in western Massachusetts. Her mother had a master's degree in microbiology. Ms. Williams’ interest in science fiction came from her father who read Edgar Rice Burroughs books to her as a child. Later Ms. Williams received a bachelor's degree from Elmira College in Elmira, New York, although she studied at the London School of Economics during her junior year. She received her Master's from Washington University in St. Louis. She is married to David Bruce and has two daughters.
She became interested in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (as it was then titled) while studying philosophy at Washington University. In 1982 she was hired at the magazine, and worked with Isaac Asimov for ten years. While working there, she co-founded the Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing (at one time called the Isaac Asimov Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy writing). In 2004, with the retirement of Gardner Dozois, she became the editor of the magazine.
Along with Gardner Dozois she also edited the "Isaac Asimov's" anthology series. She also co-edited A Woman's Liberation: A Choice of Futures by and About Women (2001) with Connie Willis. Most recently she has edited a retrospective anthology of fiction published by Asimov's: Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: 30th Anniversary Anthology. Booklist called the book "A gem, and a credit to editor Williams."
She has been nominated for 4 Hugo Awards as editor of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine.
See also Sheila Williams's entry in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.
Sheila Williams is the editor of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine. She is also the recipient of the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Editor, Short Form.
Sheila grew up in a family of five in western Massachusetts. Her mother had a master's degree in microbiology. Ms. Williams’ interest in science fiction came from her father who read Edgar Rice Burroughs books to her as a child. Later Ms. Williams received a bachelor's degree from Elmira College in Elmira, New York, although she studied at the London School of Economics during her junior year. She received her Master's from Washington University in St. Louis. She is married to David Bruce and has two daughters.
She became interested in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (as it was then titled) while studying philosophy at Washington University. In 1982 she was hired at the magazine, and worked with Isaac Asimov for ten years. While working there, she co-founded the Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing (at one time called the Isaac Asimov Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy writing). In 2004, with the retirement of Gardner Dozois, she became the editor of the magazine.
Along with Gardner Dozois she also edited the "Isaac Asimov's" anthology series. She also co-edited A Woman's Liberation: A Choice of Futures by and About Women (2001) with Connie Willis. Most recently she has edited a retrospective anthology of fiction published by Asimov's: Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: 30th Anniversary Anthology. Booklist called the book "A gem, and a credit to editor Williams."
She has been nominated for 4 Hugo Awards as editor of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine.
See also Sheila Williams's entry in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.
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August 2, 2018
Three of the stories in this issue are featured on my list of the best short SFF for July: https://1000yearplan.com/2018/07/31/t...
Kristine Kathryn Rusch brings us the earliest tale yet in her exciting diving/fleet universe with the novelette “Lieutenant Tightass”. Well before he became captain of the Ivoire, Jonathan “Coop” Cooper was a newly minted lieutenant assigned to the Arama, a search and rescue vessel for other ships that get lost in foldspace – a depressing and mostly fruitless endeavor, as ships lost in foldspace are almost never recovered. The Voimakas is one such ship, and Coop has a daring new theory about how to recover it. His only problem is getting Captain Nisen, who flaunts fleet regulations and mercilessly harangues him with the titular nickname (and encourages the rest of her crew to do the same), to mount a dangerous rescue based on his calculations. “Lieutenant Tightass” has the kind of kinetic plotting and tense action we’ve come to expect from procedural SF master Rusch. The ending kind of labors the “point” a little too much, and the point being that Nisen’s bullying is for Coop’s own good is tough to sell. It’s a thrilling tale up to then, and the climactic rescue attempt is a knockout.
Allan Steele’s novella “Starship Mountain” is a mildly disappointing sci-fi adventure that follows the events of last year’s intriguing tor.com short “Sanctuary”. I loved the setup: human colonists live on a planet where the native Cetans keep the human population at a stagnant 18th century level of technology. Jeremy Crowe is a “Dick”, a private eye hired by a powerful family to track down their missing daughter, who is set to be married to another noble. The investigation leads Crowe to a heretical sect known as the Originalists, who question the truth of the colony’s founding narrative. Exploring this world was alluring enough to hold my interest for most of the story’s length, but the “big secret” is easy enough to sus out halfway through, especially if you’ve read “Sanctuary”. The characters are likeable if unmemorable, and most of the story’s threads are snipped off at the end with a drab tidiness. I like the world Steele built (which has loose connections to his novel Arkwright) enough to anticipate the next story in the planned cycle.
Other stories I liked included Suzanne Palmer’s multiversal tale “Stones in the Water, Cottage on the Mountain”, where multiple apocalypses in multiple timelines seem bent on stopping a woman from reaching her destination. Palmer devises a number of very creative end-of-the-world scenarios, and I always enjoy the bitterly funny tone of her tales. Dale Bailey’s “Rules of Biology” is a troubling, Twilight Zone-ish fable about an absent father whose teenage daughter begins exhibiting the genetic characteristics of the man who has taken his place as the head of the household.
Jack Skillingstead’s “Straconia” has a great premise: a man secretly follows his wife to find out where she’s been going when she leaves the house late at night, and subsequently finds himself trapped in a Kafkaesque reality he can’t escape. The problem is that the protagonist, Frank, isn’t very likeable and makes flat-out terrible choices throughout, so the story gets more unpleasant to read as it goes on, and in the end it just crumbles under the weight of its shifty internal logic.
Kristine Kathryn Rusch brings us the earliest tale yet in her exciting diving/fleet universe with the novelette “Lieutenant Tightass”. Well before he became captain of the Ivoire, Jonathan “Coop” Cooper was a newly minted lieutenant assigned to the Arama, a search and rescue vessel for other ships that get lost in foldspace – a depressing and mostly fruitless endeavor, as ships lost in foldspace are almost never recovered. The Voimakas is one such ship, and Coop has a daring new theory about how to recover it. His only problem is getting Captain Nisen, who flaunts fleet regulations and mercilessly harangues him with the titular nickname (and encourages the rest of her crew to do the same), to mount a dangerous rescue based on his calculations. “Lieutenant Tightass” has the kind of kinetic plotting and tense action we’ve come to expect from procedural SF master Rusch. The ending kind of labors the “point” a little too much, and the point being that Nisen’s bullying is for Coop’s own good is tough to sell. It’s a thrilling tale up to then, and the climactic rescue attempt is a knockout.
Allan Steele’s novella “Starship Mountain” is a mildly disappointing sci-fi adventure that follows the events of last year’s intriguing tor.com short “Sanctuary”. I loved the setup: human colonists live on a planet where the native Cetans keep the human population at a stagnant 18th century level of technology. Jeremy Crowe is a “Dick”, a private eye hired by a powerful family to track down their missing daughter, who is set to be married to another noble. The investigation leads Crowe to a heretical sect known as the Originalists, who question the truth of the colony’s founding narrative. Exploring this world was alluring enough to hold my interest for most of the story’s length, but the “big secret” is easy enough to sus out halfway through, especially if you’ve read “Sanctuary”. The characters are likeable if unmemorable, and most of the story’s threads are snipped off at the end with a drab tidiness. I like the world Steele built (which has loose connections to his novel Arkwright) enough to anticipate the next story in the planned cycle.
Other stories I liked included Suzanne Palmer’s multiversal tale “Stones in the Water, Cottage on the Mountain”, where multiple apocalypses in multiple timelines seem bent on stopping a woman from reaching her destination. Palmer devises a number of very creative end-of-the-world scenarios, and I always enjoy the bitterly funny tone of her tales. Dale Bailey’s “Rules of Biology” is a troubling, Twilight Zone-ish fable about an absent father whose teenage daughter begins exhibiting the genetic characteristics of the man who has taken his place as the head of the household.
Jack Skillingstead’s “Straconia” has a great premise: a man secretly follows his wife to find out where she’s been going when she leaves the house late at night, and subsequently finds himself trapped in a Kafkaesque reality he can’t escape. The problem is that the protagonist, Frank, isn’t very likeable and makes flat-out terrible choices throughout, so the story gets more unpleasant to read as it goes on, and in the end it just crumbles under the weight of its shifty internal logic.
June 24, 2018
I purchase this when I see a story by an author I love. This one has a story by Kristine Kathryn Rusch about Coop one of the main characters in the Diving the Wreck universe. This really ties into what happened to Coop and his ship later in his career. I enjoyed the story and am looking forward to the new Diving novel coming out in September. While this is the main reason I purchased the issue I enjoyed some of the other stories as well. I got this as a ebook and will not do that again, It is cheaper but is very hard to navigate.
August 22, 2022
Solid issue.
There's nothing spectacular about Steele's outing Starship Mountain, but I enjoyed it. Good solid entertainment, if somewhat derivative of his other works.
Lieutenant Tightass was quite good. This is one of my favorite KKR stories, and I typically like her material quite a bit.
True Jing was an excellent, weird, and creative space yarn from first time published writer Zack Be. An outstanding first pub.
Straconia was fun to read, and the Backward Lens of Compromise was thought provoking.
Suzanne Palmer diverts from space opera here for something that didn't work for me as much as her other material, but it was still a decent read.
All in all, not a bad story in the bunch. Though outside of True Jing, nothing really blew me away.
There's nothing spectacular about Steele's outing Starship Mountain, but I enjoyed it. Good solid entertainment, if somewhat derivative of his other works.
Lieutenant Tightass was quite good. This is one of my favorite KKR stories, and I typically like her material quite a bit.
True Jing was an excellent, weird, and creative space yarn from first time published writer Zack Be. An outstanding first pub.
Straconia was fun to read, and the Backward Lens of Compromise was thought provoking.
Suzanne Palmer diverts from space opera here for something that didn't work for me as much as her other material, but it was still a decent read.
All in all, not a bad story in the bunch. Though outside of True Jing, nothing really blew me away.
August 6, 2018
This is a somewhat mixed issue. I liked it better than others in my sf club.
I thought Ephemera by Ian MacLeod did not really get going until near the end of the story after the humans blow themselves up. We didn't really need so much of the AI's early days.
Stones in the Water by Suzanne Palmer, another post-disaster story, is an interesting take on the alternate worlds concept although it is never spelled out and one has to wonder, why these specific scenarios?
I liked Lieutenant Tightass by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, especially how what eams like a lazy incompetent captain turned out to have her own reasons. Another person in the club said it only works if you knew the stories in the Lt's later career but I disagree.
Rules of Biology by Dale Bailey had a new-to-me concept of how when a divorced father is replaced by a new father figure, the kid genetically changes to match the new father figure (and loses memory of the old one).
Unter by Michael Cassutt had an interesting take on the allowing other people to pilot your body concept, treating it as a form of uber. But it fell apart at the end.
True Jing by Zack Be was confusing and did not do anything for me.
I liked The backward Lens of Compromise by Octavia Cade, although I would have liked some explanation for her "worst superpower ever" that kept changing the telescope. I especially liked how the poor people were able to force the mayor into giving up plans to close the school system's planetarium.
Attachment Unavailable was very timely as an alien infiltrates a Facebook mothers' group.
Liberating Alaska by Turtledove read like an excerpt from one of his alternate histories. It is fine as a story but just a minor incident in the lives of the soldiers and the fact that this was alternate history, since the US never fought Russia over Alaska, did not really affect the story's action.
Straconia by Jack Skillingstead is an interesting political fantasy as a man chasing his sleepwalking wife finds himself on a much more regulated version of the world he knows.
Starship Mountain by Alan Steele is one of those lost colony stories that read like fantasy as technology has mostly been lost (there are a few guns) and stories of Earth are taken as myths and religion. This version is mashed up with a noir-style private detective hired to find a lost fiance who has joined up with a cult that knows the truth since they have discovered the original spaceship that brought the colonists to this planet. Another person complained that this was not subtle, but I enjoyed it.
Overall, a mixed issue but I still liked it overall.
I thought Ephemera by Ian MacLeod did not really get going until near the end of the story after the humans blow themselves up. We didn't really need so much of the AI's early days.
Stones in the Water by Suzanne Palmer, another post-disaster story, is an interesting take on the alternate worlds concept although it is never spelled out and one has to wonder, why these specific scenarios?
I liked Lieutenant Tightass by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, especially how what eams like a lazy incompetent captain turned out to have her own reasons. Another person in the club said it only works if you knew the stories in the Lt's later career but I disagree.
Rules of Biology by Dale Bailey had a new-to-me concept of how when a divorced father is replaced by a new father figure, the kid genetically changes to match the new father figure (and loses memory of the old one).
Unter by Michael Cassutt had an interesting take on the allowing other people to pilot your body concept, treating it as a form of uber. But it fell apart at the end.
True Jing by Zack Be was confusing and did not do anything for me.
I liked The backward Lens of Compromise by Octavia Cade, although I would have liked some explanation for her "worst superpower ever" that kept changing the telescope. I especially liked how the poor people were able to force the mayor into giving up plans to close the school system's planetarium.
Attachment Unavailable was very timely as an alien infiltrates a Facebook mothers' group.
Liberating Alaska by Turtledove read like an excerpt from one of his alternate histories. It is fine as a story but just a minor incident in the lives of the soldiers and the fact that this was alternate history, since the US never fought Russia over Alaska, did not really affect the story's action.
Straconia by Jack Skillingstead is an interesting political fantasy as a man chasing his sleepwalking wife finds himself on a much more regulated version of the world he knows.
Starship Mountain by Alan Steele is one of those lost colony stories that read like fantasy as technology has mostly been lost (there are a few guns) and stories of Earth are taken as myths and religion. This version is mashed up with a noir-style private detective hired to find a lost fiance who has joined up with a cult that knows the truth since they have discovered the original spaceship that brought the colonists to this planet. Another person complained that this was not subtle, but I enjoyed it.
Overall, a mixed issue but I still liked it overall.
October 7, 2018
Ephemera, di Ian McLeod (da non confondere con il più prolifico Ken McLeod). Racconto autobiografico di un automa molto particolare: dotato di autocoscienza e incaicato di preservare la cultura umana in un asteroide modificato artificialmente allo scopo, dopo una catastrofe. E un giorno incontrerà gli eredi dell’uomo.. bello stile sciolto. 3/5 abbondante.
Suzanne Palmer. Commovente e intensa storia di futuri alternativi, dove il ritorno nostalgico di una donna nel luogo dove finì il suo amore diventa una lente attraverso la quale vedere futuri molto diversi. Dell’autrice che ha vinto l’Hugo. 3/5.
Captain Tightass, di Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Un racconto ambientato nel ciclo del Diving, ovvero del “Foldspace”, sulla maturazione del giovane e troppo rigoroso capitano Cooper (lo si ritroverà più avanti nel ciclo), finito a bordo di quella che sembra una nave di incapaci alcolizzati. Profondamente umano, trasmette l’angosciante “sense of wonder” dei naufragi nello spazio tempo, anche se tutto narrato in interni. 4/5.
Rules of biology, di .. Si immagina che un figlio prenda le caratteristiche genetiche del genitore che lo alleva, anche quando questo non è il padre naturale: le conseguenze durante un divorzio. 3/5 scarso.
Unter, di Michael Cassutt. Curiosa storia sul futuro dei siti per incontri: si arriva a noleggiare il proprio come un'auto di Uber..
Attachment unavailable, Leah Cypess. Simpatico, brevissimo racconto, forse una metafora del rapporto degli USA con la Russia, ma soprattutto una brillante reinterpretazione dei famigerati "gruppi di Whatsapp per mamme".
Liberating Alaska, Harry Turtledove. Turtledove, si sa, ama la storia alternativa, soprattutto nelle sue implicazioni militari. Dopo “Zigeuner”, ambientato nella II Guerra Mondiale e pubblicato un anno fa, questo racconto immagina che l’URSS tenti di riconquistare l’Alaska negli anni ’30: seguiamo uno sbarco di marines fino alla riconquista di un villaggio. Un racconto di azione con scene crude, mitigate dagli sfottò scambiati tra i due sergenti, un irlandese e un greco, che ci permettono di seguire la storia.
Un gioiellino è a mio parere “Straconia”, di Jack Skillingstead. Bravo artigiano già autore di “Destination”, ci introduce a un’atmosfera thriller: un uomo scopre che la moglie ogni notte scompare verso le 4, per recarsi chissà dove: in garage il cofano dell’auto è ancora caldo, i vetri coperti di gocce d’acqua, eppure il cielo fuori è sereno e il contachilometri mostra un progresso minimo.. cercando di seguirla nottetempo, si ritroverà in una città parallela, una combinazione di “Orrori di Omega” e Inferno, o piuttosto Limbo, dantesco. Ma qual è la sua colpa? E saprà espiarla?
Starship Mountain, Allen M. Steele, inaugura una nuova serie di Steele, piuttosto diversa da Coyote: ambientato tra gli umani che vivono nel quartiere loro assegnato, una specie di ghetto, appena tollerati dalla specie dominante; ridotti a parlare un inglese imbarbarito. Solo le loro leggende parlano di un loro arrivo, dallo spazio, secoli prima, ma si tratta di eresie non tollerate dalle autorità; così come la leggenda che vuole che la collina, Starship Mountain appunto, al centro del loro quartiere sia il mezzo che li portò fin lì.. in questo primo episodio, un investigatore privato dai modi chandleriani viene ingaggiato per ritrovare la rampolla di una potente famiglia, ma con discrezione: si sospetta che sia fuggita con gli eretici.. un piacevolissimo esempio di “science fantasy”, con atmosfere di cappa e spada in un mondo alieno. Steele si conferma capace di creare avventure in ambienti alieni non troppo diversi dalla Terra ma coerenti e ricchi di dettagli, con protagonisti accattivanti, un tocco di umorismo e nessun eccesso di violenza o erotismo.
Suzanne Palmer. Commovente e intensa storia di futuri alternativi, dove il ritorno nostalgico di una donna nel luogo dove finì il suo amore diventa una lente attraverso la quale vedere futuri molto diversi. Dell’autrice che ha vinto l’Hugo. 3/5.
Captain Tightass, di Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Un racconto ambientato nel ciclo del Diving, ovvero del “Foldspace”, sulla maturazione del giovane e troppo rigoroso capitano Cooper (lo si ritroverà più avanti nel ciclo), finito a bordo di quella che sembra una nave di incapaci alcolizzati. Profondamente umano, trasmette l’angosciante “sense of wonder” dei naufragi nello spazio tempo, anche se tutto narrato in interni. 4/5.
Rules of biology, di .. Si immagina che un figlio prenda le caratteristiche genetiche del genitore che lo alleva, anche quando questo non è il padre naturale: le conseguenze durante un divorzio. 3/5 scarso.
Unter, di Michael Cassutt. Curiosa storia sul futuro dei siti per incontri: si arriva a noleggiare il proprio come un'auto di Uber..
Attachment unavailable, Leah Cypess. Simpatico, brevissimo racconto, forse una metafora del rapporto degli USA con la Russia, ma soprattutto una brillante reinterpretazione dei famigerati "gruppi di Whatsapp per mamme".
Liberating Alaska, Harry Turtledove. Turtledove, si sa, ama la storia alternativa, soprattutto nelle sue implicazioni militari. Dopo “Zigeuner”, ambientato nella II Guerra Mondiale e pubblicato un anno fa, questo racconto immagina che l’URSS tenti di riconquistare l’Alaska negli anni ’30: seguiamo uno sbarco di marines fino alla riconquista di un villaggio. Un racconto di azione con scene crude, mitigate dagli sfottò scambiati tra i due sergenti, un irlandese e un greco, che ci permettono di seguire la storia.
Un gioiellino è a mio parere “Straconia”, di Jack Skillingstead. Bravo artigiano già autore di “Destination”, ci introduce a un’atmosfera thriller: un uomo scopre che la moglie ogni notte scompare verso le 4, per recarsi chissà dove: in garage il cofano dell’auto è ancora caldo, i vetri coperti di gocce d’acqua, eppure il cielo fuori è sereno e il contachilometri mostra un progresso minimo.. cercando di seguirla nottetempo, si ritroverà in una città parallela, una combinazione di “Orrori di Omega” e Inferno, o piuttosto Limbo, dantesco. Ma qual è la sua colpa? E saprà espiarla?
Starship Mountain, Allen M. Steele, inaugura una nuova serie di Steele, piuttosto diversa da Coyote: ambientato tra gli umani che vivono nel quartiere loro assegnato, una specie di ghetto, appena tollerati dalla specie dominante; ridotti a parlare un inglese imbarbarito. Solo le loro leggende parlano di un loro arrivo, dallo spazio, secoli prima, ma si tratta di eresie non tollerate dalle autorità; così come la leggenda che vuole che la collina, Starship Mountain appunto, al centro del loro quartiere sia il mezzo che li portò fin lì.. in questo primo episodio, un investigatore privato dai modi chandleriani viene ingaggiato per ritrovare la rampolla di una potente famiglia, ma con discrezione: si sospetta che sia fuggita con gli eretici.. un piacevolissimo esempio di “science fantasy”, con atmosfere di cappa e spada in un mondo alieno. Steele si conferma capace di creare avventure in ambienti alieni non troppo diversi dalla Terra ma coerenti e ricchi di dettagli, con protagonisti accattivanti, un tocco di umorismo e nessun eccesso di violenza o erotismo.
October 8, 2018
Lots of good poetry in this edition, including one of my favorite authors, Jane Yolen. And a novella by Allen M. Steele, "Starship Mountain," which does not take place on Coyote, but is related (sort of) to his "Arkwright" series.
"Ephemera" is about the ultimate librarian and archivist of human culture and is their a point to doing something no one is left to appreciate it?
"Rules of Biology" is a scary look at the cost to a parent abandoning their child. "Stones in the Water..." has a "Groundhog Day" feel to it, but more poignant.
And the rest of the issue is worth checking out as well...
"Ephemera" is about the ultimate librarian and archivist of human culture and is their a point to doing something no one is left to appreciate it?
"Rules of Biology" is a scary look at the cost to a parent abandoning their child. "Stones in the Water..." has a "Groundhog Day" feel to it, but more poignant.
And the rest of the issue is worth checking out as well...
July 10, 2018
My favorite stories:
Ephemera by Ian R. MacLeod - If there is no one left to read it, does a story cease to exist?
Lieutenant Tightass by Kristine Kathryn Rusch - The importance of knowing when and when not to follow the rules.
Attachment Unavailable by Leah Cypess - An amusing allegory of our Putin problem.
Ephemera by Ian R. MacLeod - If there is no one left to read it, does a story cease to exist?
Lieutenant Tightass by Kristine Kathryn Rusch - The importance of knowing when and when not to follow the rules.
Attachment Unavailable by Leah Cypess - An amusing allegory of our Putin problem.
July 19, 2018
This was an average read overall although the novella "Starship Mountain" by Allen M Steele was pretty good. I thought the novelette "Lieutenant Tightass" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch was outstanding. I also thought "True Jing" by Zack Be was excellent although darn, it ended too soon!!
August 21, 2018
Good stories again. Really enjoyed Kristin Katherine Rusch's Lieutenant Tight Ass. I can't do Harry Turtledove for some reason. Alternate history just confuses me. I blame my dyscalculia and dates.
September 5, 2018
Usual mix of stories, some excellent and some so so. I particularly like Starship Mountain by Allen M Steele and look forward to reading more stories from him in the same world.
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