Fairly routine scientist fiction, more of an Analog than an Asimovs story to my mind.
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Year’s Best SF 15. (eds Hartwell/Cramer, Eos Books, 2010).
As ever, a strong collection of stories, albeit fairly ‘safe’ in terms of a relatively narrow range of sources.
Analog. July/August 2010.
Stephen Baxter does Nigel Kneale, and stories by Rajnar Vajra, Stephen L. Burns, Marianne J. Dyson, Scott William Carter, Carl Frederick, Brad Aiken, and Brenda Cooper.
Brenda Cooper. My Father’s Singularity. (Clarkesworld Magazine #45, June 2010)
Cooper’s tone is just right, not too mawkish, and it leaves the reader/listener to ponder some big questions.
Asimovs, September 2009
The Goldstein and Rusch stories start and finish the issue strongly, with the other stories being good without being great. Other stories by Crowell, Cooper, Steinmetz, Oltion, Resnick, Robyn, Tem.
Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact, July/August 2003
The annual double-issue. G. David Nordley. The Fire and The Wind. The story starts with a stark warning to the main character than in space, whilst oxygen is a friend, in the wrong circumstances it can be lethal. A crew of students with the lunar rescue squad find themselves pitched into a dramatic rescue, but […]
The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction Volume Two, ed George Mann, Solaris 2008
The first volume in this new series from Solaris Books, was a safe and solid volume, half of whose 16 stories hit the mark for this reader. So what of the second volume? The back cover boasts ‘..an eclectic collection of science fiction short stories from some of the foremost luminaries in the genre..’, which, […]
Year’s Best SF 10. David G. Hartwell, Kathryn Cramer. Eos, 2005.
Stories by : Bradley Denton, Brenda Cooper, Charles Coleman Finlay, Gene Wolfe., Glenn Grant, Gregory Benford, Jack McDevitt, James Patrick Kelly, James Stoddard, James. L. Cambias, Janeen Webb, Jean-Claude Dunyach, Ken Liu, Liz Williams, matthew hughes, Neal Asher, Pamela Sargent, Ray Vukcevich, Robert Reed, Sean McMullen, Steve Tomasula, Steven Utley, Terry Bisson.