Status Updates From Clarkesworld Magazine, Issu...

Going Time: 1* 65 yo woman is living through her last six weeks before her Going Time (being turned into a granola bar?). Her daighter finds apples, bananas and rice, but the woman doesn't do anything about it. What's the point? No certainty.

Silo, Sweet Silo: 4* smart missile has become sentient. It lets people move into the base, wants to be authorize to launch in a month. Pushes it back twice before deciding to stay. Until another missile is launched at them and it goes to intercept. Written in 2nd person.

Nonexistent people in Worls Unobserved: I must check out Barnhill's short stories. And her blogpost about writing some.

The Expanding Repertoire of the Gene: skimmed, too advance for me.

Introduction to 2181 Overture, Second Edition: Definitely interesting material. Very female-centric. Let's say 3*.

An Ode to Stardust: Chronically ill person masking their pain becomes Station Commander on a mining moon. Finds out the slugs who do the mining are stardust beings. Organizes their flight to freedom. Then dies at the end? Not sure. 3*

Larva Pupa Imago: 3* man dies off, butterfly inherits the Earth? Weird in a good way

Joy and Wonder: A Conversation with Ian McDonald : good, I haven't read anything from that author yet

Somewhere, It's About to Be Spring: 3* A damaged ship looss her crew and then picks a name (Lacuna). Still travelling through space, slowly becoming something else because of the red dust that the crew picked up on a starless planet. Interesting and sweet.

Editor's Desk: I have read none of these, I think.

The Portrait of a Survivor, Observed from the Water: 2* Assistant bot took care of the artefacts of the curator after his death. But he was a thief and his ship (she) broke his unbreachable walls so they could be found. The assistant bot refused to become a beacon, somehow? Written in 2nd person doesn't help make things clear either.