An effective story, which gets into the head of a young autistic man, balancing the narrative with some very complicated pure mathematics…
A short, cautionary tale, looking at an all-too-plausible (un/desirable?) future in which the whole wealth of human knowledge is at your fingertips/physical artefacts such as books and magazines are consigned to the dustbin of history.
Hawkins’ story takes up a lot of real estate in the issue in a story that didn’t engage, but the Tidhar/Lain stories very much did so.
Cambias and Gilman provide some strong SF.
Relatively routine horror from a master of the genre, set in the woods against a backdrop of climate change and rebuffed love.
Lengthy, staccato, fast-paced science thriller.
A bit of festive fun across one and a half pages, with one of my favourite pieces of closing dialogue in some time.
A story that zips along quickly, and doesn’t really go anywhere different than has been covered quite a lot.
A thriller (up to a point) in deep space, that starts with an Analog-y feel to it. Bari, a junior crewmember on an academic research mission studying some intriguing, migrating space creatures.
An 800-page Alastair Reynolds novel compressed into a couple of dozen (excellent) pages.
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