David H.’s Reviews > The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection > Status Update
David H.
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Jack - Willis: One of the air raid wardens during the London Blitz is a little different from the rest.
La Macchina - Beckett: What if you really hated robots in Italy?
One Perfect Morning, with Jackals - Resnick: Reread. Koriba is an asshole to his son in yet another Kirinyaga story.
Desert Rain - Van Name & Murphy: What if you had a ChatGPT boyfriend but you wrote the story in 1991?
— Jun 17, 2026 11:36PM
La Macchina - Beckett: What if you really hated robots in Italy?
One Perfect Morning, with Jackals - Resnick: Reread. Koriba is an asshole to his son in yet another Kirinyaga story.
Desert Rain - Van Name & Murphy: What if you had a ChatGPT boyfriend but you wrote the story in 1991?
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David H.
is 83% done
Pogrom - Kelly: Boomer generational anxiety in a short story!
The Moat - Egan: Incredibly Australian in an interesting way.
Voices - Dann: Great story about 2 kids and death.
FOAM - Aldiss: A story that plays with memory and history.
— Jun 17, 2026 01:07AM
The Moat - Egan: Incredibly Australian in an interesting way.
Voices - Dann: Great story about 2 kids and death.
FOAM - Aldiss: A story that plays with memory and history.
David H.
is 75% done
A Walk in the Sun - Landis: A survival story on the moon--keep on walking.
Fragments of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria - McDonald: Well, that's depressing.
Angels in Love - Koja: Horny AF.
Eyewall - Shelley: Could this *be* any more of an Analog story?
— Jun 16, 2026 11:15PM
Fragments of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria - McDonald: Well, that's depressing.
Angels in Love - Koja: Horny AF.
Eyewall - Shelley: Could this *be* any more of an Analog story?
David H.
is 62% done
Matter's End - Benford: Assessing a new physics experiment, but has a dumb ending.
A History of the Twentieth Century, with Illustrations - Robinson: Who doesn't want to avoid work by running away to Scotland?
Gene Wars - McAuley: Genetic engineering run amok.
The Gallery of His Dreams - Rusch: A Civil War photographer sees a future. Devastating and bittersweet.
— Jun 16, 2026 12:32AM
A History of the Twentieth Century, with Illustrations - Robinson: Who doesn't want to avoid work by running away to Scotland?
Gene Wars - McAuley: Genetic engineering run amok.
The Gallery of His Dreams - Rusch: A Civil War photographer sees a future. Devastating and bittersweet.
David H.
is 46% done
A Tip on a Turtle - Silverberg: A hotel guest seem to be able to guess who will win turtle races.
Übermensch! - Newman: What if Superman had landed in Germany?
Dispatches from the Revolution - Cadigan: Alternate history story if everything had gone to shit in a different way. Incredibly depressing in today's world.
Pipes - Reed: Premise is interesting, though definitely not one of Reed's best.
— Jun 09, 2026 05:10PM
Übermensch! - Newman: What if Superman had landed in Germany?
Dispatches from the Revolution - Cadigan: Alternate history story if everything had gone to shit in a different way. Incredibly depressing in today's world.
Pipes - Reed: Premise is interesting, though definitely not one of Reed's best.
David H.
is 36% done
Prayers on the Wind - Williams: An absolutely fascinating story about a strange Buddhist space empire.
Blood Sisters - Egan: I don't think he knows about triple-blind experiments, Pip.
The Dark - Fowler: It seems interesting, but I had no idea what she wanted me to take away from this story.
Marnie - MacLeod: A time-traveling man makes the same mistakes.
— Jun 09, 2026 02:52PM
Blood Sisters - Egan: I don't think he knows about triple-blind experiments, Pip.
The Dark - Fowler: It seems interesting, but I had no idea what she wanted me to take away from this story.
Marnie - MacLeod: A time-traveling man makes the same mistakes.
David H.
is 22% done
Beggars in Spain - Kress: Fantastic story about people being genetically modified to go without sleep.
Living Will - Jablokov: A man builds himself a "living will" as his memory goes.
A Just and Lasting Peace - Tilton: An alternate history with an occupied South decades after the Civil War.
Skinner's Room - Gibson: Apparently homeless people occupy an unused SF-Oakland Bay Bridge in the future.
— Jun 03, 2026 07:26AM
Living Will - Jablokov: A man builds himself a "living will" as his memory goes.
A Just and Lasting Peace - Tilton: An alternate history with an occupied South decades after the Civil War.
Skinner's Room - Gibson: Apparently homeless people occupy an unused SF-Oakland Bay Bridge in the future.