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"Think Blue, Count Two" - Another tale of stewards watching over cryogenic sleepers aboard an interstellar flight. Some strange techno-jargon regarding a mouse brain (!) paves the way for a short space thriller wherein a series of techno-specters (!) help thwart a maniac.
Eerie talk of a doomed journey "Old Twenty-two."
A brief reference to Helen America ties this to "The Lady Who Sailed The Soul."
— Apr 26, 2025 06:17PM
Eerie talk of a doomed journey "Old Twenty-two."
A brief reference to Helen America ties this to "The Lady Who Sailed The Soul."
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"Himself In Anachron" - Once again we're exploring love strained — destroyed, even; perhaps hints of Smith's percolating Christian faith? — by fate, and man striving into the unknown. A spectacular ending sequence that foreshadows Dan Simmon's _Hyperion_. A great story.
— May 19, 2025 04:39AM
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“The Burning of the Brain” - Smith’s favourite themes—relationships strained by duty to the point of self-sacrifice; filial love and admiration—no frills.
“From Gustible’s Planet” - An uncharacteristically silly story. Darkly funny.
— May 13, 2025 04:53AM
“From Gustible’s Planet” - An uncharacteristically silly story. Darkly funny.
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"The Game of Rat and Dragon" - Man and animal psychically team up to battle cosmic monsters while planoforming through the Up-and-Out. Very cool.
— Apr 28, 2025 12:22PM
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"The Colonel Came Back from the Nothing-At-All" - A Colonel, world famous for mysteriously vanishing on the test-flight of an experimental method of interstellar travel, unexpectedly reappears. Except he's changed. Scientists, out of options, put aside their prejudices to employ the help of a psychic girl. An alluring story that could have used a bit more length!
— Apr 28, 2025 11:22AM
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"When the People Fell"
A fable told by a crotchety man with an artificially augmented lifespan, reminiscent of Heinlein's Lazarus Long. The Goonhogo from "War 81-Q"—perhaps the New Goonhogo, this presumably being many centuries later—is up to new machinations, pulling off a horrifyingly spectacular terraforming stunt. The first I've understood Bookpilled's description of Smith as scary.
— Apr 25, 2025 05:54PM
A fable told by a crotchety man with an artificially augmented lifespan, reminiscent of Heinlein's Lazarus Long. The Goonhogo from "War 81-Q"—perhaps the New Goonhogo, this presumably being many centuries later—is up to new machinations, pulling off a horrifyingly spectacular terraforming stunt. The first I've understood Bookpilled's description of Smith as scary.
