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

Magazine Section - Lafferty: A silly man writes silly stories, ends in a silly way.

The War at Home - Shiner: People who didn't go to Vietnam thinking they had, to their detriment.

Rockabye Baby - Sykes: A quadriplegic learns about a new opportunity for his disability, with costs.

Green Mars - Robinson: Climbing Olympus Mons.

Flying Saucer Rock & Roll - Waldrop: The doo-wop story!

A Spanish Lesson - Shepard: A teenager living abroad stumbles upon some very strange neighbors.

Roadside Rescue - Cadigan: A guy gets unknowingly used for an alien's satisfaction.

Paper Dragons - Blaylock: Wow now that's whimsy.

Side Effects - Williams: Amazing side effects from a drug are missed by a doctor.

The Only Neat Thing to Do - Tiptree: A young woman goes seeking adventure in space and finds a new alien friend for a short time.

Dinner in Audoghast - Sterling: An accurate prophet tells the future in 1014.

Under Siege - Martin: A timerider tries to change the future in 1808 Sweden.

Solstice - Kelly: Drugs and rock 'n' roll, and weird clonecest. Meh.

Duke Pasquale's Ring - Davidson: Somewhat confusing, but I just didn't enjoy the writing style or the story development.

More Than the Sum of His Parts - Haldeman: Story of a cyborg human gone "evil." Started off well, but I didn't like the plot "twist" & resolution.

Out of All Them Bright Stars - Kress: Beautiful story. I loved it.

Snow - Crowley: Grief and video and strangeness.

The Fringe - Card: A teacher with a disability is turned on by some students after a climate disaster future.

The Lake Was Full of Artificial Things - Fowler: Memory and grief and guilt.

Sailing to Byzantium - Silverberg: A man from our time is in a distant future of tourist dilettantes who travel between recreations of cities.

The Jaguar Hunter - Shepard: Hunter discovers more than he expected with a jaguar.

Dogfight - Gibson & Swanwick: Guy gets addicted to a local game.

Fermi and Frost - Pohl: A nuclear apocalypse leads to worldwide disaster, for a while.

Green Days in Brunei - Sterling: An engineer thinks he finds love in Brunei, but his horizons expand, maybe.

John Crowley's Snow is the obvious highlight here so far-- it's like a better version of Cronenberg's The Shrouds.