November 2011
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Noam Chomsky and the Time Box - Douglas Lain
Gate 23 multiple reactions.
3.5 out of 5
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Interzone 231 - Andy Cox
Two very good stories in one issue doesn’t happen in a lot. This Sanford special luckily he has one of them!
Five stories, all good or better gives a 3.70 and with the other non fiction stuff, good enough to round up to the 4.75 and hence 5 range.
Good that Interzone is back available on the web. This issue is definitely to good to be kept to just the pommies and their neighbours.
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Millisent Ka Plays In Realtime - Jason Sanford
Gene debt final performance.
3.5 out of 5
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Memoria - Jason Sanford
Bad Earth, Bad Ship ghost.
3.5 out of 5
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Peacemaker Peacemaker Little Bo Beep - Jason...
Triller cop killer. Killer killer, too. Bad aliens likely.
4 out of 5
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The Shoe Factory - Matthew Cook
Easy Rider No Singularity Emily loss tricky mind order rebuild.
4 out of 5
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Asimov's 431 - Sheila Williams
At 3.14 thankfully a huge improvement over the wretched last issue. The lead story by Suzanne Palmer is the best and suggests she is worth checking out for more work. McDaniel is funny again. Whereas stories by writers about books and writing are pathetically lazy in general, not so those about pure mathematics, so points for Ken Liu there. Steinmetz also geekily entertaining, again.
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All About Emily - Connie Willis
Artificial Rockette.
3 out of 5
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What should a sci-fi spaceship REALLY look like? -...
“The classic saucer wasn’t dead though. The Millennium Falcon from epochal sci fi game-changer Star Wars is probably the single most beloved spacecraft in fiction, and it’s at its heart a pimped-out saucer.
Probably the most interesting bit of spacecraft deign to come out of Star Wars was the Slave 1, personal runabout of bounty hunter Boba Fett. It’s like nothing else in science fiction,...
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Run Bakri Says - Ferret Steinmetz
The Dying Game.
3.5 out of 5
http://escapepod.org/2012/04/05/ep339-run-bakri-says/
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The Countable - Ken Liu
Cantor moments, bloody.
3.5 out of 5
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Ephemera - Steve Rasnic Tem
Stories about books. Not rare.
2.5 out of 5
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The List - Tim McDaniel
Santa got me.
3 out of 5
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Strawberry Birdies - Pamela Sargent
Needs more than an emp, this one.
3 out of 5
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Surf - Suzanne Palmer
With Rooan on the Space Turd to Aurora Station.
3.5 out of 5
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Surf - Suzanne Palmer
With Rooan on the Space Turd to Aurora Station.
3.5 out of 5
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Asimov's 429 430 - Sheila Williams
This issue is rubbish at 2.70. With apologies to Kristine Kathryn Rusch (who again fails to disappoint with a Diving novella) and Derek Kunsken, who manages to be funny.
Half of the stories are bad.
Silverberg and Kelly are also interesting in their columns. I’d say check those out if they are online, and wait and buy Rusch’s novella later this issue is so bad.
The Kress story is...
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The Man Who Bridged The Mist - Kij Johnson
Maybe big islands.
2.5 out of 5
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A Hundred Hundred Daisies - Nancy Kress
Water war.
3 out of 5
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To Live And Die In Gibbontown - Derek Kunsken
Gibbons vs Bonobos. With good insults.
3.5 out of 5
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My Husband Steinn - Eleanor Arnason
Troll construction.
3 out of 5
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Free Dog - Jack Skillingstead
Copy or whatever, with vomit.
2.5 out of 5
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The Pastry Chef The Nanotechnologist The Aerobics...
Bad drip.
1.5 out of 5
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The Outside Event - Kit Reed
“When I unfolded it, all there was on the paper were two crossed-out lines and a penciled note:
FUCK I’M BORED.”
1.5 out of 5
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This Petty Pace - Jason K. Chapman
Not good message.
2.5 out of 5
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The Cult Of Whale Worship - Dominic Phetteplace
With poison.
3 out of 5
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Stealth - Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Squishy’s ancapa fears.
3.5 out of 5
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Stealth - Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Squishy’s ancapa fears.
3.5 out of 5
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Analog 965 - Stanley Schmidt
More consistent than the last at 3.29 with a Creek Splendor story and Rusch and Gannon.
Analog 965 : RAY OF LIGHT - Brad R. Torgersen
Analog 965 : TURNING IT OFF - Susan Forest
Analog 965 : FREUDIAN SLIPSTREAM - Brad Aiken
Analog 965 : HIDDEN - Kyle Kirkland
Analog 965 : ART FOR SPLENDOR’S SAKE - Dave Creek
Analog 965 : THE IMPOSSIBLES - Kristine Kathryn...
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Not For Ourselves Alone - Charles E. Gannon
Barnard’s Star Arat Kur battle.
3.5 out of 5
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The Impossibles - Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Black Fleet defense case test.
3.5 out of 5
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Art For Splendor's Sake - Dave Creek
Fur and highland diplomacy.
3.5 out of 5
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Queen Sonja 24 - Lucio Parrillo
4 out of 5
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Hidden - Kyle Kirkland
Energy weapon.
3 out of 5
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Queen Sonja 28 - Lucio Parrillo
4 out of 5
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Freudian Slipstream - Brad Aiken
AI assisted ship travel suspension vaccine work. Tasty.
3.5 out of 5
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Red Sonja 59 - Walter Geovani
3.5 out of 5
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Turning It Off - Susan Forest
Safeties that is, for shagging.
2.5 out of 5
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Queen Sonja 25 - Lucio Parrillo
4 out of 5
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Ray Of Light - Brad R. Torgesen
Alien sun mirror block deepwater living daughter Glimmer Club surface discovery.
3.5 out of 5
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