Status Update

Gene is 73% done

THE VERY SLOW TIME MACHINE Ian Watson - 4 - Utterly fascinating but missed the landing with a spiritual, new age mumbo-jumbo ending

— Dec 23, 2023 07:51PM

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Gene is 96% done

PALELY LOITERING Christopher Priest - 2 - interesting, in that it seemed to be a pastiche of the old style of sci Fi written in late 1890's, but the story was a bit too convoluted to really follow too well.

— Dec 31, 2023 09:12PM

Gene is 88% done

THE PUSHER John Varley - 0 - absolutely disgusting story about using relativistic travel for grooming thing girls

— Dec 28, 2023 07:28PM

Gene is 84% done

TWEMBER Steve Rasnic Tem - 1 - WTF did I just read? Storms of broken time risking across the land like tornadoes, I think. Pointless.

— Dec 27, 2023 06:16PM

Gene is 82% done

TRAVELLER’S REST David I. Masson - 3 - a little difficult to follow, but an interesting concept about time progressing at different rates

— Dec 26, 2023 07:41PM

Gene is 78% done

“IN THE BEGINNING, NOTHING LASTS . . .” Mike Strahan - 5 - absolutely devastating story about the world running in reverse

— Dec 25, 2023 06:31PM

Gene is 75% done

AFTER-IMAGES Malcolm Edwards - 4 - interesting idea of slowing of time around a nuclear blast

— Dec 24, 2023 06:38PM

Gene is 69% done

COMING BACK Damien Broderick - DNF - Could not figure out who the characters were, what was happening or even if it was supposed to be told in 1st person or 3rd

— Dec 23, 2023 05:27AM

Gene is 65% done

LEGIONS IN TIME Michael Swanwick - 5 - wonderfully strange, loved every bit of this awesome little story. Would love to see more of this world

— Dec 19, 2023 05:01PM

Gene is 60% done

WOMEN ON THE BRINK OF A CATACLYSM Molly Brown - 3.5 - a little longer and more repetitive than it needed to be

— Dec 17, 2023 06:09PM

Gene is 53% done

THE CHRONOLOGY PROTECTION CASE Paul Levinson - 4 - kind of complex way to re-tell the plot of Final Destination

— Dec 15, 2023 06:35PM