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What We Want to Leave Behind: A Conversation with Carolyn Ives Gilman good interview. I wouldn't have known from the cover that Testament was a SF mystery. I might check it out.

When You Give a Dokkaebi Taco Tuesday: 3* A cursed object (broom maybe? I'm not familiar with the word used) cannot help the man it is bonded to, but it can curse him. It lets goose into the store after the man fell and hit his head, then set fire to the shop so people will find the man in time to help. Interesting but the taco bit takes too long maybe.

The Minds and Bodies of Robots: A Conversation with James Patrick Kelly Good interview. I will check out his most-recent collection, sounds interesting!

The Universal Human Happiness Program: 3* Zishun is considering waking up all the Dreamers, but ultimately decides not to, but his dissatisfied colleague does it in his stead. Very Matrix-like

Destination: Saturn: good essay with many references to other works of SF

Feed Them on Your Dreams: 4* A child is unexpectedly born to a woman slave ("sailer") who was immune to the sterilization drugs given to her. The Library raises the child, Vacule, and make a weird puppet of his mother. Vacule is brilliant, makes a new engine and ship design, but he wants to go outside. Upon finding out his mother isn't alive, he learns he has no personhood outside the lab and can't leave.

A woman "borrows" an interruptor to share a meal with her aging mother without ads. She also made interruptor lenses at the end, to shield her mother who seems to come out of her shell more. Interesting world. Eerie.