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Archaeological Evidence for the Time Traveler 4*
Teresa raised her son Daniel alone after her divorce from Iaga, taking him with her on various archaeological sites in Brazil. She finds messages in English at many sites, she thinks they are from Iaga. Daniel decides to join Iaga's time traveling lab, then he disappears. She asks Iaga for help to find the time capsule she gave him after realizingthe messages from him.

Editor's Desk: The Stars in Out Sky many nominations

The Profitable Sentience of Household Goods: 5* Excellent. Fridge is talking to the new Light Switch, welcoming it and explaining things, as a good Buddy does. Then Fridge becomes the Perimeter Fence. It gets an offer to be "born" from the Company. It becomes a war machine of some kind.

Reading this for the novella up for the Nebula, “Descent” by Wole Talabi.

The nonfiction includes an article on holobionts stuff, which was interesting, and then a great interview with TV scriptwriter Jane Espenson and another with podcaster David Barr Kirtley, and Neil talking about how the short fiction market needs to change with the time.

Oh Time Thy Pyramids - LeBlanc: Well, that's pretty trippy and cosmic, fascinating.

Proxima One - Reuven: Space probes gonna space probe.

Yarn Theory - Vibbert: Using knitting to interpret alien messages.

Descent - Talabi: A Sauutiverse novella about a man trying to descend into the depths of his mysterious planet.

Brainstem Disco, 2191 - Liu: A short sharp piece of grief and memories.

The Library of the Apocalypse - Mehrotra: A lovely but sad story of the apocalypse and a magical library.

We, the Fleet - Singer: A first contact story from the alien POV, very cool.