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Future Science Fiction Digest #3
Future Science Fiction Digest, Issue 3, June 2019
Issue 3 of Future Science Fiction digest features over 60,000 words of fiction. A selection of moon-based stories commemorates the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, followed by a sampling of AI stories (featuring both humans owning robotic dogs and robots owning live dogs!), with a little bit of time travel to round things out. Fiction from authors in the United States, China, Russia, Bulgaria, and Sri Lanka.
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First published June 10, 2019
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Alex Shvartsman
158 books143 followersAlex Shvartsman is a writer, editor, and translator from Brooklyn, NY. He's the author of The Middling Affliction (2022) and Eridani's Crown (2019) fantasy novels. Kakistocracy, a sequel to The Middling Affliction, is forthcoming in 2023.
Over 120 of his stories have been published in Analog, Nature, Strange Horizons, and many other venues. He won the 2014 WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction and was a two-time finalist (2015 and 2017) for the Canopus Award for Excellence in Interstellar Fiction.
His collection, Explaining Cthulhu to Grandma and Other Stories and his steampunk humor novella H. G. Wells, Secret Agent were published in 2015. His second collection, The Golem of Deneb Seven and Other Stories followed in 2018.
Alex is the editor of over a dozen anthologies, including the Unidentified Funny Objects annual anthology series of humorous SF/F.
Over 120 of his stories have been published in Analog, Nature, Strange Horizons, and many other venues. He won the 2014 WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction and was a two-time finalist (2015 and 2017) for the Canopus Award for Excellence in Interstellar Fiction.
His collection, Explaining Cthulhu to Grandma and Other Stories and his steampunk humor novella H. G. Wells, Secret Agent were published in 2015. His second collection, The Golem of Deneb Seven and Other Stories followed in 2018.
Alex is the editor of over a dozen anthologies, including the Unidentified Funny Objects annual anthology series of humorous SF/F.
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January 27, 2021
Despite the three overarching themes in this issue (the Moon, AI, and to a lesser extent, time travel), it felt wonderfully diverse. It does help when you bring together writers from across the world. ;)
A few more specific impressions, with my personal favorites bolded:
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A few more specific impressions, with my personal favorites bolded:
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August 1, 2019
"Apologia" by Vajra Chandrasekera is on my list of the Best Short SFF of June 2019: https://1000yearplan.com/2019/07/01/t...
November 11, 2019
This issue contained 11 stories and an interview. This is a relatively new science fiction magazine, coming quarterly, and it has a great mix of stories from around the globe. Three of the eleven stories were translated.
For me, the standout stories were Vajra Chandrasekera's "Apologia" about a poet sent to apologize at various events in history via time travel, but includes some exposition that makes this story even more delicious a tale. The other was Amanda Helms's "Love, Death, and Printed Burgers" about an AI burger-bot with an ailing pet dog. I also really liked Edward M. Lerner's Holmesian AI in "The Satellites of Damocles" and Emily Randall's "Warden's Dilemma", a story of a prison warden AI who suddenly has a child to take care of. I'll be keeping an eye out for any other stories from these and the other authors.
The interview was with DC Fontana, who worked with Gene Roddenberry on the original Star Trek show and then some. She's definitely a personality, and I learned some not-nice things about Roddenberry and the Star Trek: TNG producers unfortunately.
For me, the standout stories were Vajra Chandrasekera's "Apologia" about a poet sent to apologize at various events in history via time travel, but includes some exposition that makes this story even more delicious a tale. The other was Amanda Helms's "Love, Death, and Printed Burgers" about an AI burger-bot with an ailing pet dog. I also really liked Edward M. Lerner's Holmesian AI in "The Satellites of Damocles" and Emily Randall's "Warden's Dilemma", a story of a prison warden AI who suddenly has a child to take care of. I'll be keeping an eye out for any other stories from these and the other authors.
The interview was with DC Fontana, who worked with Gene Roddenberry on the original Star Trek show and then some. She's definitely a personality, and I learned some not-nice things about Roddenberry and the Star Trek: TNG producers unfortunately.
July 14, 2019
This is such an awesome read! I cannot believe there are other digests (0, 1, and 2) out there that I haven't read (YET)! This contains so many sci-fi stories - most of them I absolutely devoured. Okay, I absolutely devoured them all!
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