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

Jack - Willis: One of the air raid wardens during the London Blitz is a little different from the rest.

La Macchina - Beckett: What if you really hated robots in Italy?

One Perfect Morning, with Jackals - Resnick: Reread. Koriba is an asshole to his son in yet another Kirinyaga story.

Desert Rain - Van Name & Murphy: What if you had a ChatGPT boyfriend but you wrote the story in 1991?

Pogrom - Kelly: Boomer generational anxiety in a short story!

The Moat - Egan: Incredibly Australian in an interesting way.

Voices - Dann: Great story about 2 kids and death.

FOAM - Aldiss: A story that plays with memory and history.

A Walk in the Sun - Landis: A survival story on the moon--keep on walking.

Fragments of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria - McDonald: Well, that's depressing.

Angels in Love - Koja: Horny AF.

Eyewall - Shelley: Could this *be* any more of an Analog story?

Matter's End - Benford: Assessing a new physics experiment, but has a dumb ending.

A History of the Twentieth Century, with Illustrations - Robinson: Who doesn't want to avoid work by running away to Scotland?

Gene Wars - McAuley: Genetic engineering run amok.

The Gallery of His Dreams - Rusch: A Civil War photographer sees a future. Devastating and bittersweet.

A Tip on a Turtle - Silverberg: A hotel guest seem to be able to guess who will win turtle races.

Übermensch! - Newman: What if Superman had landed in Germany?

Dispatches from the Revolution - Cadigan: Alternate history story if everything had gone to shit in a different way. Incredibly depressing in today's world.

Pipes - Reed: Premise is interesting, though definitely not one of Reed's best.

Prayers on the Wind - Williams: An absolutely fascinating story about a strange Buddhist space empire.

Blood Sisters - Egan: I don't think he knows about triple-blind experiments, Pip.

The Dark - Fowler: It seems interesting, but I had no idea what she wanted me to take away from this story.

Marnie - MacLeod: A time-traveling man makes the same mistakes.

Beggars in Spain - Kress: Fantastic story about people being genetically modified to go without sleep.

Living Will - Jablokov: A man builds himself a "living will" as his memory goes.

A Just and Lasting Peace - Tilton: An alternate history with an occupied South decades after the Civil War.

Skinner's Room - Gibson: Apparently homeless people occupy an unused SF-Oakland Bay Bridge in the future.