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Fascinating short about spaceborne microorganisms, and the human tendency to annihilate what it can't predict.
Place holder for Afrofuturist 419 by Nnedi Okorafor
This issue had some really interesting stories in it; both new and reprints. The articles were quite good as well.
I was eh on the story, except THE AUDIO. Holy.
“Afrofuturist 419” by Nnedi Okorafor: on the quite-short side, a bit of a tease, but intriguing and with a very distinctive voice. 4 stars
My favorite pick is: Chen Hongyu's "Western Heaven"It has an Wall-E setting, It's about being human, it's about robots discovering themselves by searching their creators in other worlds. What else could you want?As a second pick I would choose Samantha Murray's "Of Sight, of Mind, of Heart". It's thought provoking, but predictable. It reminded me a lot current or past situations where the country's leader would ask from the citizens to give birth to as many babies as possible so to build big arm...
Great play with forms! So on point, inventive, not a wasted word. Loved it.
Such a fabulous concept.
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A very twisted short story, that mixes audio and text in an experimental and interesting way. It is a satirical of the famous Nigerian scam, with a science-fiction spin. What sets the story apart is the underlying satirical commentary of modern society, and its deep xenophobia.
Retroactive Review (12 Sep 2021): I really liked Chen Hongyu's "Western Heaven" (a robotic Journey to the West, in a way) and Bo Balder's "Follow the White Line."
Podcast version is phenomenal.
This is . . . cute. Not Locus worthy, but cute.Spoiler Alert!Those aren't space rocks.Merged review:This is a good source of "new" authors. Kate Baker does a yeoman's job of reading the monthly offerings. I appreciate your dedication Kate. I hope your father's doing better.
Review for "Of Sight, of Mind, of Heart" by Samantha Murray, available free online here at Clarkesworld. Review first published on Fantasy Literature:You pick up a newborn baby from the hospital. You name him Ben, ignoring the manual’s advice not to name him at all. Your mother doesn’t approve, but tries to be supportive anyway. Ben grows quickly ― far more quickly than a normal baby.Ben is healthy, intelligent, and active, everything he was engineered to be. It doesn’t say it in the manual, but...
3.5/5 Me encanta el concepto de este relato corto y lo mucho que ha experimentado la autora en él. Escuchadlo en versión podcast si podéis porque así vais a disfrutar mucho más de la historia.Sobre el relato no tengo mucho que decir, una historia con toques de ci-fi que mezcla la cultura popular con la nigeriana criticando la xenofobia, entre otras cosas. Okorafor sabe utilizar tan bien las palabras que con unas pocas ya te puede sacar mil reflexiones.
I see that this is the second Samantha Murray story I'm considering for the Hugos this year. Chen Hongyu's Western Heaven was my other favorite in this issue.
