Status Updates From The Year's Best Science Fic...

Foreign Skins - Lee: Indian-themed story. Great writing, at least.

Company in the Wings - Lafferty: What was that.

A Cabin on the Coast - Wolfe: Interesting ending, though the setup was a little rough for me.

The Lucky Strike - Robinson: I love this story. Alt-history where the bombardier on a different B-29 *doesn't* drop the bomb on Hiroshima.

The Trouble with the Cotton People - Le Guin: A story from Always Coming Home. Very anthropological.

Twilight Time - Shiner: An interesting time travel story about averting a bad future.

Black Coral - Shepard: Drug trip.

Friend - Kelly & Kessel: Interstellar peacemaker, somewhat convoluted.

Pursuit of Excellence - Yount: An unpleasant vision of the future of bioengineered kids.

The Kindly Isle - Pohl: A man runs into someone he knows on a nice island.

Rock On - Cadigan: Gina is a sinner on the run.

Sunken Gardens - Sterling: The Regals are big ole jerks.

Trinity - Kress: Seeking God via incest or something. I'm joking but also not really.

The Map - Wolfe: A boat ride down to a city.

Interlocking Pieces - Gloss: A transplant from someone about to die.

Trojan Horse - Swanwick: Reread. Computer/brain/becoming like a god.

Bad Medicine - Dann: A bad experience at the sweat-lodge.

At the Embassy Club - Lynn: The truth of a bar story about a forbidden romance.

A Message to the King of Brobdingnag - Cowper: More of a *green* goo story vs. a gray goo one, ha!

The Affair - Silverberg: Telepaths having emotional affairs. Meh.

Press Enter ▮ - Varley: A quiet veteran with PTSD finds out his dead neighbor was a ghost-like hacker, but his new love interest also suffers.

New Rose Hotel - Gibson: Reread. Corporate skull war.

Salvador - Shepard: Creepy war in El Salvador/Nicaragua leads to dark places for the pill-popping Dantzler.

Promises to Keep - McDevitt: A dying space program undergoes an inspiring disaster, I guess.

Bloodchild - Butler: Reread. Humans come to a symbiotic relationship with the native aliens.

Blued Moon - Willis: Classic Willis screwball romcom, though pushed the limits of what I enjoy.