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Dying in Hull - Smith: An older woman scavenging the remains of her climate-flooded town.

Distances - Koja: People with computerjacks in their head have some issues.

Famous Monsters - Newman: A Martian reminisces on his career in Hollywood.

The Scalehunter's Beautiful Daughter - Shepard: A young woman is trapped inside a giant time-frozen dragon for years.

Mrs. Shummel Exits a Winner - Kessel: Do you really want to win Bingo, though?

Emissary - Kraus: This started out so great but the narrator was just a bit too competent.

It Was the Heat - Cadigan: What happens in New Orleans stays in New Orleans, maybe.

Skin Deep - Rusch: Alien farm worker under cover makes a realization and a decision.

The Growth of the House of Usher - Stableford: A dying man is really into his dead sister and bio-buildings.

Glacier - Robinson: A cooling world and a glacier outside Boston.

Sanctuary - Lawson: Cyberpunk mystery in the Southwest.

The Dragon Line - Swanwick: Arthurian characters in the present, dealing with family & pollution.

Our Neural Chernobyl - Sterling: A special virus causes issues globally. Beware the Raccoon Kingdom.

House of Bones - Silverberg: A time traveler is stuck 20k years in the past.

Schrödinger's Kitten - Effinger: A young woman has many futures ahead of her.

Do Ya, Do Ya, Wanna Dance? - Waldrop: Reread. This was a very enjoyable nostalgia trip to the late '60s with a fun ending.

The Girl Who Loved Animals - McAllister: She really did.

The Last of the Winnebagos - Willis: RVs are banned, the Humane Society are powerful cops, and all the dogs are gone.

Love in Vain - Shiner: Failing marriage, old connections, and a serial killer with powers.

The Hob - Moffett: The hobs of Northern England are apparently real and a bit out of this world.

The Last Article - Turtledove: Reread. Nazis win WWII, take over India. Gandhi attempts independence.

Stable Strategies for Middle Management - Gunn: Corporate management is a cutthroat arena..

In Memoriam - Kress: The role of memories and the end of life. Wiping yourself to start again, hmm.

Kirinyaga - Resnick: Reread. I feel like I can see what he meant with this story, but I still don't like it.

Surfacing - Williams: These people are not having a whale of a good time.

Home Front - Kelly: Growing up in an America at war.

The Man Who Loved the Vampire Lady - Stableford: An alternate history where vampires use their powers and elite status to control humanity.

Peaches for Mad Molly - Gould: Housing is expensive, so why not live on the outside of 700+ story tall buildings? Really fun.

One Plus One Equals Eleven - Edmondson: An engineer deals with a computer printing out apparent poetry.

Year 3 of the Shark - Witkin: Fussy sergeant of paperwork during a losing-war. Semi-satisfying ending.

The Reference Library: The Hugo Awards - Miller: The Hugos, Flash Gordon, Oliver, Dickson, Laumer, Hoyle, Boyd, Shaw, & Anderson.

Brass Tacks: Letters. Way too many McCarthyites, & other conflicting opinions.

A Thing of Beauty - Spinrad: An American tries to sell a Japanese business several monuments.

Cemetery World (Part 3/3) - Simak: The end of the serial novel. I felt this had such a strong beginning in part 1, only to get worse and worse in the subsequent parts :-/

Proud Guns to the Sea - Lunan: A simplistic alien pirate story but required too much setup and the payoff wasn't interesting to me.

Editorial: "With Friends Like These ... " - Bova: I get his general point but his examples were awful.

Integration Module - James: A cyborg brain finally realizes he's human. Interesting enough, I guess.

Science Fact: The Third Industrial Revolution (Part 1/2) - Stine: Serious consideration to space industry, but I skimmed it.

Health Hazard - Myers: An actually good Myers story?! Alien POV, quite fun.

P.R.D. and the Antareans - deFord: The punchline for this story was so, so stupid.

Pard - Wilson: This was quite fun until we got Wilson's usual libertarian lecture, sigh.

The Reference Library: Asimov Inside Out - Miller: An Asimov analysis, Wolfe's Fifth Head of Cerberus, and a "Soviet superheroine" (but it's actually a hoax in hindsight!)

Brass Tacks: Letters. Mix of pedantry, nerds, prudes, and a McCarthyite.

Original Sin - Vinge: Maybe researching life-extension for 2-year-old ravenous & intelligent aliens is not the smartest idea?

When I Was in Your Mind - Allred: Psychic-surgery and tumors with motivations.

Cemetery World (Part 2/3) - Simak: On the run on a depopulated earth and some potential allies and discoveries.

Editorial: Man in Space - Bova: Bova's plea for the manned space program as the last Apollo mission takes place.

The Second Kind of Loneliness - Martin: An excellent psychological piece about loneliness.

Science Fact: Magic: Science of the Future? - Goodavage: What the pseudoscience crap is this? I thought we wouldn't have this under Bova, very disappointing.

Halley's Passing - McDowell: A man appears to kill someone every day.

America - Card: Reread. I very vaguely recalled this one, but also, it's much worse than I remembered.

For Thus Do I Remember Carthage - Bishop: Hyperadvanced science encounters St. Augustine.

Mother Goddess of the World - Robinson: Climbing Mount Everest with a Buddhist lama.

The Million-Dollar Wound - Whitlock: A future war and the effect of 'miraculous' healing on soldiers.

The Moon of Popping Trees - Garcia y Robertson: Various indigenous Americans look for a new way out in 1890.

Diner - Barrett, Jr.: A sad tragic town in Texas. Everything sucks.

All the Hues of Hell - Wolfe: Hel and shadows and demons or something.

Candle in a Cosmic Wind - Manzione: A first-and-land contact story, quite interesting.

The Emir's Clock - Watson: A boring flat story for me.

Ever After - Palwick: Cinderella with a twist.

The Forest of Time - Flynn: A parallel-world jumper is captured by Knecht in an alternate disunited America. Very interesting.

Night of the Cooters - Waldrop: What if the Martians from War of the Worlds landed in Texas? Fantastic.,

Angel - Cadigan: A strange story of a person and their 'Angel.' Loved it even when i didn't get it.

Shades - Shepard: Reread. A veteran/journalist faces an old ghost back in Vietnam.

The Faithful Companion at Forty - Fowler: Tonto is pretty pissed at the Lone Ranger. Great voice.