David H. > Recent Status Updates

Choppy Water: A future colony planet also oppresses the Basque people.

The Exchange: A science fiction Norse retelling of some kind!

The Digital Maze: A Basque woman is used as cover to convince the local inhabitants to allow a special dome, the use of which is kept hidden until the climax. It's a disappointing & depressing ending, though.

Miren: A woman decides go out, though for different reasons than you'd expected.

Row, Row: A little girl learns about the sea and what's happened to it in the future.

Feedback: Spain has been reconquered by Muslims, and they wonder about Basque country.

The Far Call (Part 3/3) - Dickson: That was mind-numbingly boring. I was never invested in this.

The Reference Library: Part-Time Scholars - Miller: Reviews of 2 best-of SFF anthoogies, plus Orbit 12 and a Laumer novel.

Brass Tacks: Letters. A fun fight between Poul Anderson & Harry Harrison, too many letters on the articles/editorials, and praise for GRRM's "With Morning Comes Mistfall"

An Earnest of Intent - D'Attore: Nuclear gamesmanship.

Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand - McIntyre: The very first Dreamsnake story! Pretty good.

Antalogia - Richmond & Richmond: What if we describe a normal scene in the most alien way possible?

The Hand is Quicker - O'Donnell, Jr.: Telekinetic cheaters never prosper.

Guest Editorial: Experiments in Utopias - Sagan: Excerpt from book, discussing alien & human societies.

Science Fact: A Program for Star Flight - Stine: A detailed plan for star flight that convenient handwaves a lot of things away.

Whalekiller Grey - Cochrane: What if we did whalekilling like we did bullfighting?

Notes from Magdalen More - L*ng: A parody(?) of Heinlein's "Notebooks of Lazarus Long."

Crying Willow - Rager: An incredibly stupid story about a plant protection agency called LEAF and lots of plant puns.

Martyr - Janifer: A silly story about a negotiator dealing with kids who have a nuclear bomb.

The Reference Library: The John W. Campbell Memorial Awards - Miller: Reviewing some books, a couple awards, and books by Gerrold and Schmitz.

Brass Tacks: Letters. All about crackpots psychics or welfare.

Override - Martin: The first Corpse Handlers story that GRRM has written! (The only one that will be in Analog). Pretty good, though I liked some of the initial bits before we got to the conflict/climax near the end.

Prisoner 794 - Maxwell: A somewhat silly story about a special prisoner in a special prison cell and his efforts to escape.

The Far Call (Part 2/3) - Dickson: A mind-numbingly boring continuation.

Editorial: The H₂indenburg Society - Bova: Where the editor promotes hydrogen as a fuel source in this energy crisis.

Persephone and Hades - Schumack: An entertaining and sweet post-apocalyptic tale about the last cyborg and the last woman on Earth.

Science Fact: The Case for the Hydrogen-Oxygen Car - Escher: A very technical article that does what the title says.

The Sweet Smell of the Past - Perkins: A time machine works differently than expected.

The Jungle - Hudgins: A mercenary uses his unique talents in a dystopian future.

The Reference Library: It Seems There Are (At Least) Two Sexes - Miller: 2 anthologies plus reviews of books by Gerrold, Lanier, Elwood, and Priest.

Brass Tacks: Letters. A grab bag of 23(!) letters. Such a whiny bunch, LOL.

Stimulus-Reward Situation - Fisher: A somewhat silly story that leads up to a very silly ending line.

Forty Days and Nights - Chilson: A surprisingly boring story about, essentially, a failed marriage and the changing future.

The Epoxy Goat - Lewis: An almost OK story about a trash-pickup machine and the jerk who invented it.

Editorial: Giant Step Backward - Bova: Sounding the alarm about religion in science textbooks.

The Far Call (Part 1/3) - Dickson: An incredibly boring and repetitive start to the new serial novel. It's hard to take a problem seriously if I can't figure out what the problem is.

Science Fact: The Synchronistic Barometer - Brennan: A crackpot article taking I Ching seriously. Sigh.

Belonging

William Wilson - Poe: Reread. Mean classmate.

Galloping Foxley - Dahl: Mean bully.

Giant Days - Allison: Mean girls.

The Sound of Children Screaming - Jones: Reread. Mean mice.

Her Finished Wings - Pichette: Mean loneliness.

The Afterlife of Madness - Blake: Mean scientists.

Desire

Amour Dure - Lee: Italy!

White Lines on a Green Field - Valente: Football!

A Brief History of Nonduality Studies - Samatar: What?

Some Muses are Not Gentle - O'Brien: Poetry!

Stars, Hide Your Fires - Rose: Literature!