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This issue has some great stories on what it is to be human. My favorites include:A stretch of Highway Two Miles Long - Sarah PinskerApprentice - John DeClesA Struggle Between Rivals Ends Surprisingly - Oliver BuckramAlbion Upon the Rocks - Daniel MarcusI Said I Was Sorry Didn't I - Gordon EklundOur Vegetable Love - Rob ChilsonDraft 31 - Michael LiblingOver all a very good issue.Read my full review here.
Well, this was certainly an interesting issue. If not the most tremendous of stories, they certainly included a range.The novella in this issue, "The Lightness of the Movement" was fascinating from start to finish, although the inability of the protagonist to let things be became rather fast. I appreciated this tale built around alien biology, courtship and mating rituals. Despite the heavy handedness of the themes behind "Butterscotch", I enjoyed the inventiveness of its setup and the complex e...
As well as the informative ‘Departments’ there are loads of stories in ‘The Magazine of Fantasy And Science Fiction’, divided on the contents page, as usual, into novella, novelette and short stories. Arbitrarily, I will section them into Science Fiction, fun and fantasy. These categories are not mutually exclusive.This month’s novella is ‘The Lightness Of The Movement’ by Pat MacEwen and its genuine Science Fiction with two human females studying the alien Neons on Hrallsted’s World. What do yo...
Do Androids dream of ... roads? A fun little short story.
In the near future, a young farmer loses his arm in a combine. He is fitted with a cybernetic arm, and a chip installed in his brain controls it. Unfortunately, the arm seems to have a mind of its own. It wants to be a stretch of highway in Colorado... An intriguing idea. This story is a finalist for the 2014 Nebula Award for Short Stories.
A beautifully well-written short mental vacation to the not-so-distant future Colorado farmlands. If you haven't read Pinsker's work yet, you'd better hurry up and consume everything out there. She's fantastic.
March/April 2014 Fantasy & Science FictionIf you want every story to have a happy ending, this isn't the issue for you.Collar - Leo Vladimirsky 14 pages Good. A future where jobs are hard to come by. People are forced to try to get work in offshore factory boats, but they must evade the authorities first.A Struggle Between Rivals Ends Surprisingly - Oliver Buckram 10 pages Very Good. Treya is a translator and is trying to get her client a great deal with a fishing boat, but the alien fishermen b...
2 StarsThis was such a strange story, and not strange in an unexpected and cool sort of way, more like a "WTF, why am I reading this?" sort of way. I kept expecting something more deep to happen, or an ending that would validate the strangeness, but nope. To be fair though, it was an interesting concept, but the execution felt strange and pointless.
Very good issue. Excellent stories - particularly Draft 31 and Albion on the Rock. Exception was the Lightness of the Movement which had an interesting setting but ultimately left me unhappy that I spent the time to slog through it.
An excellent issue. No duds, and several really good stories. My favorites were the novella, "The Lightness of the Movement", by Pat McEwen -- a fascinating tale of parenthood in a very unusual place; "Apprentice", by John DeCles, "Our Vegetable Love", by Rob Chilson... But the whole issue was enjoyable.
Another free short story. You can find it here:http://www.sarahpinsker.com/highway1/I'm assuming there's some sort of metaphor & point to it. Well written, but I just don't get it. I certainly didn't dislike it, but can't give it a higher rating.
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This was not one of the better issues. The couple main novellas/novelettes were not very strong in my opinion but the short stories were, for the most part, pretty good.
A sci-fi story about a young farmer who gets a prosthetic arm which thinks it is a road. The story dragged in some places but it was an interesting concept.
This issue had a number of weird stories. There were no really bad ones but none that will go on my hugo ballot next year.Collar is an interesting story. Congress passed a law that said anything sold in the US can't be made on foreign soil, so the Chinese set up factory ships and Americans who want jobs have to swim to them. The plot is not much more than this setting and the coyote-equivalent who guides the swimmers for a fee.A Struggle Between Rivals Ends Surprising- Trade deals with aliens ar...
A quirky story about a man-machine interface that takes a weird turn. I listened to this on the Escape Pod podcast.
Jon DeCles “Apprentice” - fun fantasy storyMichael Libling “Draft 31” - creepy supernatural X-Files type storyDaniel Markus “Albion Upon the Rock” - Read it carefully. Expects the reader to be familiar with SF. Doesn’t spell it out. D.M. Armstrong “Butterscotch” -Gordon Ecklund “I Said I was Sorry, Didn’t I” - Entertaining story about entitlement.
Some very good stories. I particularly liked Albion upon the Rock by Daniel Marcus. An alien entity comes upon a derelict generation ship. Quite interesting. Also, the Uncertain Past by Ted White: a bit different concept of the effects of time travel.
