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Analog Science Fiction & Fact, November/December 2021
Volume CXXXXI, No. 11 & 12.
Contents:
4 • Population and Genius • [Editorial (Analog)] • essay by Howard V. Hendrix
8 • The Malady • [Malady • 1] • novelette by Shane Tourtellotte
30 • Will Nuclear Power Save Us from Global Warming? • [Science Fact (Analog)] • essay by Christina De La Rocha
37 • Mare Cognitum • poem by Josh Pearce
38 • A Sports Story • short story by Brenda Kait
47 • From the Maintenance Reports of Perseverance Colony, Year 12 • short story by Jo Miles
52 • An Hour to Ames • short story by Dan Reade
59 • Dan Reade • [Biolog] • essay by Richard A. Lovett
60 • Never to Happen Again • short story by Barry N. Malzberg and Bill Pronzini
64 • Ars Brevis Est • short story by Anatoly Belilovsky
66 • No Stranger to Native Shores • novelette by Matt McHugh
81 • What We Forget • poem by Bruce McAllister
82 • The Transparent World • short story by Robert Reed
85 • The Library at Ecbatana • short story by Timons Esaias
86 • Constellating the Darkness • short story by Howard V. Hendrix
88 • Kardashev Civilizations, Dyson Speres, and Black Holes • [The Alternate View] • essay by John G. Cramer
92 • The Kindness of Jaguars • short story by Monica Joyce Evans
102 • The Water Beneath Our Feet • short story by Alice Towey
109 • Wander On • short story by William Paul Jones
118 • Caoimhe's Water Music • short story by Mike Wood
124 • Moon Unit • short story by Bill Frank
131 • In Times to Come (Analog, November-December 2021) • [In Times to Come (Analog)] • essay by uncredited
132 • Kepler's Laws (Part 2 of 2) • [Kepler's Law] • serial by Jay Werkheiser (book publication as Kepler's Law 2017)
206 • Letters & upcoming events.
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Contents:
4 • Population and Genius • [Editorial (Analog)] • essay by Howard V. Hendrix
8 • The Malady • [Malady • 1] • novelette by Shane Tourtellotte
30 • Will Nuclear Power Save Us from Global Warming? • [Science Fact (Analog)] • essay by Christina De La Rocha
37 • Mare Cognitum • poem by Josh Pearce
38 • A Sports Story • short story by Brenda Kait
47 • From the Maintenance Reports of Perseverance Colony, Year 12 • short story by Jo Miles
52 • An Hour to Ames • short story by Dan Reade
59 • Dan Reade • [Biolog] • essay by Richard A. Lovett
60 • Never to Happen Again • short story by Barry N. Malzberg and Bill Pronzini
64 • Ars Brevis Est • short story by Anatoly Belilovsky
66 • No Stranger to Native Shores • novelette by Matt McHugh
81 • What We Forget • poem by Bruce McAllister
82 • The Transparent World • short story by Robert Reed
85 • The Library at Ecbatana • short story by Timons Esaias
86 • Constellating the Darkness • short story by Howard V. Hendrix
88 • Kardashev Civilizations, Dyson Speres, and Black Holes • [The Alternate View] • essay by John G. Cramer
92 • The Kindness of Jaguars • short story by Monica Joyce Evans
102 • The Water Beneath Our Feet • short story by Alice Towey
109 • Wander On • short story by William Paul Jones
118 • Caoimhe's Water Music • short story by Mike Wood
124 • Moon Unit • short story by Bill Frank
131 • In Times to Come (Analog, November-December 2021) • [In Times to Come (Analog)] • essay by uncredited
132 • Kepler's Laws (Part 2 of 2) • [Kepler's Law] • serial by Jay Werkheiser (book publication as Kepler's Law 2017)
206 • Letters & upcoming events.
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January 27, 2022
This is the November/December 2021 issue of Analog Science Fiction And Fact , the last in 2021. There are a lot of interesting if not great stories and the final to the serial. Contents:
Population and Genius [Editorial (Analog)] essay by Howard V. Hendrix a short piece about the usual approach of most states that they should stimulate population growth and is it a fallacy. 2.5*
The Malady novelette by Shane Tourtellotte an alien race has a disease that affects almost all and that makes them dull and weak. Finally, after a thousand years they find a cure, and readers follow their exponential sophistication growth, as they follow our Earth 1900-1970, with wars, planes, and rockets. The twist at the end is quite well done, but the pace is uneven. 3.5*
Will Nuclear Power Save Us from Global Warming? [Science Fact (Analog)] essay by Christina De La Rocha a nice outline of advantages and disadvantages of nuclear power, with an overview what are radioactive wastes, what is alpha and beta radiation, etc. 4*
Mare Cognitum poem by Josh Pearce
Sports Story short story by Brenda Kirk a war veteran of an alien race returns home after being a prisoner of war with humans. He was a champion in the local wrestling version and tries to return to that sport. Interesting aliens but a bland story, maybe intentional to show that if it was about humans it’ll be just a contemporary fiction. 2.5*
From the Maintenance Reports of Perseverance Colony, Year 12 short story by Jo Miles
A human colony ruled/managed by an AI, Factron, who rules both stock of everything and an army of bots. Servobot 43 noticed that the orders from Flatron lead to slow decay of the colony and confronts him. A bit reminiscent of The Secret Life of Bots by Suzanne Palmer that won Hugo for best novelette in 2018. 4*
An Hour to Ames short story by Dan Reade an interesting story about duty and guilt. Rachel’s mother is dying of cancer in a hospice, but has been constantly passive-aggressive with her daughter. After relatives once again urge her to visit her mother, she lookalike robot. 4*
Dan Reade [Biolog] essay by Richard A. Lovett an overview by the author why he wrote the story above.
Never to Happen Again short story by Barry N. Malzberg and Bill Pronzini Christopher has been director of the Museum of Epochal History for three decades but now the museum is about to close. He worries what he will do, will he be retired or send to curate some other collection? This is a punchline type of story, but the twist has been used earlier. 3*
Ars Brevis Est short story by Anatoly Belilovsky a flash fiction of a meeting of an android and a military robot (who are written as an artdroid and a robbot). 2*
No Stranger to Native Shores novelette by Matt McHugh a version of a space Mowgli. This time a human couple visited a newly discovered civilization but died, only their young daughter survived. Now the sister of the girl’s mother, who is an important politician visits the planet w/o knowledge of her surviving relative. 3*
What We Forget poem by Bruce McAllister
The Transparent World short story by Robert Reed a brief introductory talk of some kind of spy agency which was ordered to disclose all data they have on you after your request. Do you really want to see your own past instead of warm memories about it? 3*
The Library at Ecbatana short story by Timons Esaias the vast repository of human knowledge, maybe the last is about to be closed for there are too few users. 2.5*
Constellating the Darkness short story by Howard V. Hendrix a pandemic came from the ocean and slowly goes higher and higher, killing mankind. Two persons in an observatory high above may be the last people. 2.5*
Kardashev Civilizations, Dyson Speres, and Black Holes [The Alternate View] essay by John G. Cramer a Dyson sphere around a black hole can get a lot of energy, how can we detect such civilizations? 3*
The Kindness of Jaguars short story by Monica Joyce Evans The protagonist Silar runs a company that has sells cloned meats including exotics, such as jaguar. Part of its profits is used to restore native habitats and repopulate it. However, a journalist investigator arrives, threating to uncover the fact that the company also overfeed real geese to make foie gras. Silar ought to find a way to protect her company (and her own expensive habits, like nails with jewels). However, unlike a lot of modern works it is not a diatribe against evils of capitalism but more a point that ‘professional activists’ can only have blind spots. 4*
The Water Beneath Our Feet short story by Alice Towey a farmborg named Twelve is ordered by a farmer, his master, to check why one orchard is so dry. He finds out that some squatters are stealing water to irrigate own small garden. Unlike his master, they, like him, like gardening, so he has to find a way to protect them. 3*
Wander On short story by William Paul Jones there is a mining asteroid community of ‘bus drivers’, they care for each other and when one snips, another has to find a way to stop him. 2.5*
Caoimhe's Water Music short story by Mike Wood An Australian ocean-current scientist Dr. Roscoe Meade participates at a conference, constantly distracting to check why his wife and son, who about to land on the Maldives haven’t called him. He listens to a talk by a woman named Caoimhe. She is more an activist than a ‘serious’ scientist and she talks on the harmonics of tides and that climate change may greatly affect them. 2.5*
Moon Unit short story by Bill Frank another survival tale, this time on Enceladus, the icy Saturn’s moon. The protagonist Riley Fuzzle is a mech unit with an uploaded consciousness. He guides mech and biological people at a moon’s excursion when disaster hits. 2*
In Times to Come (Analog, November-December 2021) [In Times to Come (Analog)] essay by uncredited
Kepler's Laws (Part 2 of 2) [Kepler's Law] serial by Jay Werkheiser a great conclusion of the story. It reads a bit like a novelization of TV series, so dysfunctional are ‘Earth’s best’ sent to colonize a planet and keep humanity going. There are ego pissing contests, victims of PTSD, but the science part is good and an introverted Kotori Hayashi, who grows as a character quite profoundly, is a relatable character. 3.5*
Brass Tacks (Analog, November-December 2021) [Brass Tacks] essay by various usual ‘thanks for gooв stuff’ plus a brief discussion on making satellites black instead of reflective. 3*
Population and Genius [Editorial (Analog)] essay by Howard V. Hendrix a short piece about the usual approach of most states that they should stimulate population growth and is it a fallacy. 2.5*
The Malady novelette by Shane Tourtellotte an alien race has a disease that affects almost all and that makes them dull and weak. Finally, after a thousand years they find a cure, and readers follow their exponential sophistication growth, as they follow our Earth 1900-1970, with wars, planes, and rockets. The twist at the end is quite well done, but the pace is uneven. 3.5*
Will Nuclear Power Save Us from Global Warming? [Science Fact (Analog)] essay by Christina De La Rocha a nice outline of advantages and disadvantages of nuclear power, with an overview what are radioactive wastes, what is alpha and beta radiation, etc. 4*
Mare Cognitum poem by Josh Pearce
Sports Story short story by Brenda Kirk a war veteran of an alien race returns home after being a prisoner of war with humans. He was a champion in the local wrestling version and tries to return to that sport. Interesting aliens but a bland story, maybe intentional to show that if it was about humans it’ll be just a contemporary fiction. 2.5*
From the Maintenance Reports of Perseverance Colony, Year 12 short story by Jo Miles
A human colony ruled/managed by an AI, Factron, who rules both stock of everything and an army of bots. Servobot 43 noticed that the orders from Flatron lead to slow decay of the colony and confronts him. A bit reminiscent of The Secret Life of Bots by Suzanne Palmer that won Hugo for best novelette in 2018. 4*
An Hour to Ames short story by Dan Reade an interesting story about duty and guilt. Rachel’s mother is dying of cancer in a hospice, but has been constantly passive-aggressive with her daughter. After relatives once again urge her to visit her mother, she lookalike robot. 4*
Dan Reade [Biolog] essay by Richard A. Lovett an overview by the author why he wrote the story above.
Never to Happen Again short story by Barry N. Malzberg and Bill Pronzini Christopher has been director of the Museum of Epochal History for three decades but now the museum is about to close. He worries what he will do, will he be retired or send to curate some other collection? This is a punchline type of story, but the twist has been used earlier. 3*
Ars Brevis Est short story by Anatoly Belilovsky a flash fiction of a meeting of an android and a military robot (who are written as an artdroid and a robbot). 2*
No Stranger to Native Shores novelette by Matt McHugh a version of a space Mowgli. This time a human couple visited a newly discovered civilization but died, only their young daughter survived. Now the sister of the girl’s mother, who is an important politician visits the planet w/o knowledge of her surviving relative. 3*
What We Forget poem by Bruce McAllister
The Transparent World short story by Robert Reed a brief introductory talk of some kind of spy agency which was ordered to disclose all data they have on you after your request. Do you really want to see your own past instead of warm memories about it? 3*
The Library at Ecbatana short story by Timons Esaias the vast repository of human knowledge, maybe the last is about to be closed for there are too few users. 2.5*
Constellating the Darkness short story by Howard V. Hendrix a pandemic came from the ocean and slowly goes higher and higher, killing mankind. Two persons in an observatory high above may be the last people. 2.5*
Kardashev Civilizations, Dyson Speres, and Black Holes [The Alternate View] essay by John G. Cramer a Dyson sphere around a black hole can get a lot of energy, how can we detect such civilizations? 3*
The Kindness of Jaguars short story by Monica Joyce Evans The protagonist Silar runs a company that has sells cloned meats including exotics, such as jaguar. Part of its profits is used to restore native habitats and repopulate it. However, a journalist investigator arrives, threating to uncover the fact that the company also overfeed real geese to make foie gras. Silar ought to find a way to protect her company (and her own expensive habits, like nails with jewels). However, unlike a lot of modern works it is not a diatribe against evils of capitalism but more a point that ‘professional activists’ can only have blind spots. 4*
The Water Beneath Our Feet short story by Alice Towey a farmborg named Twelve is ordered by a farmer, his master, to check why one orchard is so dry. He finds out that some squatters are stealing water to irrigate own small garden. Unlike his master, they, like him, like gardening, so he has to find a way to protect them. 3*
Wander On short story by William Paul Jones there is a mining asteroid community of ‘bus drivers’, they care for each other and when one snips, another has to find a way to stop him. 2.5*
Caoimhe's Water Music short story by Mike Wood An Australian ocean-current scientist Dr. Roscoe Meade participates at a conference, constantly distracting to check why his wife and son, who about to land on the Maldives haven’t called him. He listens to a talk by a woman named Caoimhe. She is more an activist than a ‘serious’ scientist and she talks on the harmonics of tides and that climate change may greatly affect them. 2.5*
Moon Unit short story by Bill Frank another survival tale, this time on Enceladus, the icy Saturn’s moon. The protagonist Riley Fuzzle is a mech unit with an uploaded consciousness. He guides mech and biological people at a moon’s excursion when disaster hits. 2*
In Times to Come (Analog, November-December 2021) [In Times to Come (Analog)] essay by uncredited
Kepler's Laws (Part 2 of 2) [Kepler's Law] serial by Jay Werkheiser a great conclusion of the story. It reads a bit like a novelization of TV series, so dysfunctional are ‘Earth’s best’ sent to colonize a planet and keep humanity going. There are ego pissing contests, victims of PTSD, but the science part is good and an introverted Kotori Hayashi, who grows as a character quite profoundly, is a relatable character. 3.5*
Brass Tacks (Analog, November-December 2021) [Brass Tacks] essay by various usual ‘thanks for gooв stuff’ plus a brief discussion on making satellites black instead of reflective. 3*
November 1, 2021
8 • The Malady • 30 pages by Shane Tourtellotte
Good/OK. The Malady impedes intelligence. Tehl-Voyf is experimenting with different compounds to see if there is a difference. Ten years later the rationalists want to emphasize study over family rearing. More segments of story in year twenty, thirty, forty and fifty.
38 • A Sports Story • 9 pages by Brenda Kalt
Good. A star athlete is kidnapped by aliens, after three years Linsnrt returned home. He struggles to regain physical conditioning in order to return to the sport he loves. The aliens were humans who thought he was an animal.
47 • From the Maintenance Reports of Perseverance Colony, Year 12 • 5 pages by Jo Miles
Good+. Factron is giving orders that don’t make sense. Prioritizing a barely used swing over a step that is a safety hazard. Maintenance bit 43 is going to do the important jobs.
52 • An Hour to Ames • 8 pages by Dan Reade
Very Good. Aunt Gladys wants Rachel to reconcile with her dying mother. She rationalizes sending Patty her lookalike bot.
60 • Never to Happen Again • 6 pages by Bill Pronzini, Barry N. Malzberg
Good. Christopher is curator of a museum that has just been closed and he is being reassigned. What will happen to all the exhibits?
66 • No Stranger to Native Shores • 16 pages by Matt McHugh
Very Good. A scout ship makes first contact. They’re betrayed, but a child survives and is raised by the natives. Seven years later another mission arrives. The child has bonded with the foster mother, but is being asked to translate, however limited that may be.
82 • The Transparent World • 3 pages by Robert Reed
OK. What to expect when you go to the data archive to see every scrap of data related to your life.
92 • The Kindness of Jaguars • 10 pages by Monica Joyce Evans
Good/OK. A food production company is being threatened by a reporter of its unethical treatment of geese.
102 • The Water Beneath Our Feet • 7 pages by Alice Towey
Good. Twelve, a farmbot, investigates an irrigation problem and comes up with a solution. A feel good story.
109 • Wander On • 9 pages by William Paul Jones
OK+. Bobby arrives at the station just in time for a funeral.
118 • Caoimhe's Water Music • 6 pages by Mjke Wood
OK. Roscoe finishes his presentation and then goes to a couple others. Caoimhe gives a talk on the tides and how they could rapidly change. Her talk gets him to worry about his wife who headed to vacation ahead of him.
124 • Moon Unit • 7 pages by Bill Frank
Good/OK. Riley is giving a tour of an icy moon in the outer solar system when there is a quake. The bridge starts to collapse and he has to start rescuing the tourists. A variation on the accident in deep space trope. Riley is a human that has downloaded himself into a moon unit and his tour group was a mix of bios and mechs.
132 • Kepler's Laws • 74 pages by Jay Werkheiser
Good+. Colonists of Kepler ran into immediate adversity, losing several in the first few days. Now there is a power struggle between Olivia and Geta, with the mission commander, Maddie,staying in orbit. It seems like Kotori and Jazz were the only rational individuals focused solely on survival.
Good/OK. The Malady impedes intelligence. Tehl-Voyf is experimenting with different compounds to see if there is a difference. Ten years later the rationalists want to emphasize study over family rearing. More segments of story in year twenty, thirty, forty and fifty.
38 • A Sports Story • 9 pages by Brenda Kalt
Good. A star athlete is kidnapped by aliens, after three years Linsnrt returned home. He struggles to regain physical conditioning in order to return to the sport he loves. The aliens were humans who thought he was an animal.
47 • From the Maintenance Reports of Perseverance Colony, Year 12 • 5 pages by Jo Miles
Good+. Factron is giving orders that don’t make sense. Prioritizing a barely used swing over a step that is a safety hazard. Maintenance bit 43 is going to do the important jobs.
52 • An Hour to Ames • 8 pages by Dan Reade
Very Good. Aunt Gladys wants Rachel to reconcile with her dying mother. She rationalizes sending Patty her lookalike bot.
60 • Never to Happen Again • 6 pages by Bill Pronzini, Barry N. Malzberg
Good. Christopher is curator of a museum that has just been closed and he is being reassigned. What will happen to all the exhibits?
66 • No Stranger to Native Shores • 16 pages by Matt McHugh
Very Good. A scout ship makes first contact. They’re betrayed, but a child survives and is raised by the natives. Seven years later another mission arrives. The child has bonded with the foster mother, but is being asked to translate, however limited that may be.
82 • The Transparent World • 3 pages by Robert Reed
OK. What to expect when you go to the data archive to see every scrap of data related to your life.
92 • The Kindness of Jaguars • 10 pages by Monica Joyce Evans
Good/OK. A food production company is being threatened by a reporter of its unethical treatment of geese.
102 • The Water Beneath Our Feet • 7 pages by Alice Towey
Good. Twelve, a farmbot, investigates an irrigation problem and comes up with a solution. A feel good story.
109 • Wander On • 9 pages by William Paul Jones
OK+. Bobby arrives at the station just in time for a funeral.
118 • Caoimhe's Water Music • 6 pages by Mjke Wood
OK. Roscoe finishes his presentation and then goes to a couple others. Caoimhe gives a talk on the tides and how they could rapidly change. Her talk gets him to worry about his wife who headed to vacation ahead of him.
124 • Moon Unit • 7 pages by Bill Frank
Good/OK. Riley is giving a tour of an icy moon in the outer solar system when there is a quake. The bridge starts to collapse and he has to start rescuing the tourists. A variation on the accident in deep space trope. Riley is a human that has downloaded himself into a moon unit and his tour group was a mix of bios and mechs.
132 • Kepler's Laws • 74 pages by Jay Werkheiser
Good+. Colonists of Kepler ran into immediate adversity, losing several in the first few days. Now there is a power struggle between Olivia and Geta, with the mission commander, Maddie,staying in orbit. It seems like Kotori and Jazz were the only rational individuals focused solely on survival.
December 21, 2021
On an alien world a bioweapon used during an internecine war caused “The Malady”, a syndrome which drastically reduced cognitive intelligence, particularly among males. When a researcher accidently finds a cure to the malady it creates a quandary between sudden scientific advancement and a reluctance to repeat the sins of the past in Shane Tourtellotte’s tale. When a Terran senator searching for her sister’s ship, following an unresponsive ansible beacon, finds the debris on the surface of a planet, she is surprised to find a human child among the natives. Things take a sinister turn when it is discovered that the ship did not crash - it was destroyed. “No Stranger To Native Shores” by Matt McHugh is an engaging and well-crafted tale. Of the shorter pieces I quite liked “The Kindness Of Jaguars” by Monica Joyce Evans, where a young hacker, infuriated by the sacking of her mother from a synthetic protein company, attempts to blackmail the lead scientist by revealing a company indiscretion; and Alice Towey’s “The Water Beneath Our Feet” has an overworked cyborg farm assistant trying to appease the truculent farmer and assist a group of squatters attempting to become self-sufficient. In the conclusion to Jay Werkheiser’s “Kepler’s Laws” the fledgling settlement is split into two factions due to insipid leadership and Olivia wants to form a breakaway group. When it is discovered that somebody has tried to print weapons the schism becomes dangerously serious. Meanwhile the attempts to tame Kepler continue…
January 16, 2022
Some enjoyable material here; also a few stories I didn’t like at all. I thought the serial, “Kepler’s Laws” by Jay Werkheiser, included some fascinating sf elements — the planet and the situation of the characters — but was flawed as a novel. Very interesting but a bumpy read. I liked the stories by Reade, Reed, Evans, Towey, Jones, Wood, and Frank, all quite interesting and satisfying as stories. Didn’t think much of the two novelettes (Tourtelotte and McHugh) or the stories by Kalt and Miles. I liked the science fact article, “Will Nuclear Power Save Us From Global Warming?” by Christina De La Rocha. All in all a pretty solid issue.
December 13, 2021
Not much to say about this issue. Some of the shorter stories were good, but otherwise a mostly forgettable issue for me.
"From the Maintenance Reports of Perseverance Colony, Year 12" by Jo Miles is yet another story about small robots with a bit of a personality. The story follows a maintenance drone on a colony settlement. It is being pushed around but by both humans and its supervisor mastercomputer, but it starts getting suspicious about something not being right anymore with how the mastercomputer is prioritising things. Everything gets wrapped up nicely at the end.
"The Transparent World" by Robert Reed is a rather dire prediction about how we might in a future manage having all our memories handled digitally by a big company.
"The Water Beneath Our Feet" by Alice Towey is also a story about a robot with a humanlike personality. It works on a farm doing various maintenance work. One day while working on some waterpumps, it discovers a little settlement close to the farm who are piggybacking on the farmers water supply to grow their own crops. Rather than report them, the robot comes up with a plan to help them and hide the water consumption from the farmer.
"From the Maintenance Reports of Perseverance Colony, Year 12" by Jo Miles is yet another story about small robots with a bit of a personality. The story follows a maintenance drone on a colony settlement. It is being pushed around but by both humans and its supervisor mastercomputer, but it starts getting suspicious about something not being right anymore with how the mastercomputer is prioritising things. Everything gets wrapped up nicely at the end.
"The Transparent World" by Robert Reed is a rather dire prediction about how we might in a future manage having all our memories handled digitally by a big company.
"The Water Beneath Our Feet" by Alice Towey is also a story about a robot with a humanlike personality. It works on a farm doing various maintenance work. One day while working on some waterpumps, it discovers a little settlement close to the farm who are piggybacking on the farmers water supply to grow their own crops. Rather than report them, the robot comes up with a plan to help them and hide the water consumption from the farmer.
December 23, 2021
Had to buy this as soon as it came out to read the conclusion to Jay Werkheiser's serialized novel Kepler's Laws, and it didn't disappoint!
December 16, 2021
Another excellent issue to finish out 2021 for ANALOG.
November 28, 2021
B (very good):
No Stranger to Native Shores by Matt McHugh
An Hour to Ames by Dan Reade
Never to Happen Again by Bill Pronzini & Barry N Malzberg
The Water Beneath Our Feet Alice Towey
Wander On by William Paul Jones
Caoimhe's Water Music by Mjke Wood
Ars Brevis Est by Anatoly Belilovsky
The Library at Ecbatana by Timons Esaias
C (average):
The Malady by Shane Tourtellote
A Sports Story by Brenda Kalt
The Kindness of Jaguars by Monica Joyce Evans
Moon Unit by Bill Frank
D (poor):
Kepler's Laws, Conclusion by Jay Werkheiser
From the Maintenance Reports of Perseverance Colony Year 12 by Jo Miles
Constellating the Darkness by Howard V Hendrix
No Stranger to Native Shores by Matt McHugh
An Hour to Ames by Dan Reade
Never to Happen Again by Bill Pronzini & Barry N Malzberg
The Water Beneath Our Feet Alice Towey
Wander On by William Paul Jones
Caoimhe's Water Music by Mjke Wood
Ars Brevis Est by Anatoly Belilovsky
The Library at Ecbatana by Timons Esaias
C (average):
The Malady by Shane Tourtellote
A Sports Story by Brenda Kalt
The Kindness of Jaguars by Monica Joyce Evans
Moon Unit by Bill Frank
D (poor):
Kepler's Laws, Conclusion by Jay Werkheiser
From the Maintenance Reports of Perseverance Colony Year 12 by Jo Miles
Constellating the Darkness by Howard V Hendrix
February 12, 2022
A fairly good issue to close out the year. I enjoyed the conclusion to Jay Werkheiser's serial "Kepler's Laws."
Interestingly, the two pandemic-related stories in this issue ("The Malady" by Shane Tourtellote and "Constellating the Darkness" by Howard V. Hendrix) originate from before the current disaster. I wonder, though, if we are in for a raft of stories on that theme in upcoming issues. The mag has a tendency to reflect what's current in the headlines (lots of Mars and AI nowadays) so perhaps we will.
Interestingly, the two pandemic-related stories in this issue ("The Malady" by Shane Tourtellote and "Constellating the Darkness" by Howard V. Hendrix) originate from before the current disaster. I wonder, though, if we are in for a raft of stories on that theme in upcoming issues. The mag has a tendency to reflect what's current in the headlines (lots of Mars and AI nowadays) so perhaps we will.
May 24, 2025
Overall: 2.44
1-Star:
- The Malady
- Ars Brevis Est
- Constellating the Darkness
2-Stars:
- A Sports Story
- An Hour to Ames
- Never to Happen Again
- The Transparent World
- The Library at Ecbatana
3-Stars:
- No Stranger to Native Shores
- From the maintenance Reports of Perseverance Colony, Year 12
- The Kindness of Jaguars
- The Water Beneath Our Feet
- Caoimhe’s Water Music
- Moon Unit
4-Stars:
- Kepler’s Laws, Conclusion
- Wander On
1-Star:
- The Malady
- Ars Brevis Est
- Constellating the Darkness
2-Stars:
- A Sports Story
- An Hour to Ames
- Never to Happen Again
- The Transparent World
- The Library at Ecbatana
3-Stars:
- No Stranger to Native Shores
- From the maintenance Reports of Perseverance Colony, Year 12
- The Kindness of Jaguars
- The Water Beneath Our Feet
- Caoimhe’s Water Music
- Moon Unit
4-Stars:
- Kepler’s Laws, Conclusion
- Wander On
May 21, 2022
Good issue, with some fantastic illustrations. My favorite stories:
1. From the Maintenance Reports of Perseverance Colony, Year 12: A fun comedic story following a robot on a struggling colony world, with a great twist.
2. The Transparent World: A pretty brief story, but it packs a great punch. Loved the narration style and the way it directly addresses the reader.
3. The Kindness of Jaguars: Easily one of my favorite stories in a while. It centers around the CEO of a company that sells cloned exotic meats as its product (so lab-grown meat of, say, tigers) and prides itself on being pro-environmentalist. Things begin to unravel, however, when a journalist uncovers a potential company scandal. I loved the unique premise and the characters, and enjoyed the story's reflections on activism.
1. From the Maintenance Reports of Perseverance Colony, Year 12: A fun comedic story following a robot on a struggling colony world, with a great twist.
2. The Transparent World: A pretty brief story, but it packs a great punch. Loved the narration style and the way it directly addresses the reader.
3. The Kindness of Jaguars: Easily one of my favorite stories in a while. It centers around the CEO of a company that sells cloned exotic meats as its product (so lab-grown meat of, say, tigers) and prides itself on being pro-environmentalist. Things begin to unravel, however, when a journalist uncovers a potential company scandal. I loved the unique premise and the characters, and enjoyed the story's reflections on activism.
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