A clever idea, well handled.
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Caroline M. Yoachim. Ninety-Five Percent Safe. (Asimovs January 2015)
Life in an underground city, hiding from nuclear winter on Earth. Or a 95% success rate journey through a wormhole to (alien) pastures new…. worth the risk??
Caroline M. Yoachim. Five Stages of Grief After the Alien Invasion. (Clarkesworld Magazine #95, August 2014)
A clever way to construct a story, and the characters are well-drawn.
Caroline M. Yoachim. Beneath the Willow Branches. (Interzone #250)
Echoing an oriental fable, a scientist must head back in time, or, rather, experience time in reverse, until he is able to pluck his wife, stranded in a loop, into a time-stream that does not see here in a coma.
Caroline M. Yoachim. The Philosophy of Ships. (Interzone #243, Nov-Dec 2012)
The title refers to the ancient question : if a ship has its planking replaced plank by plank over a period of years, when does it become a new ship? How does this applies this to humanity?
Asimovs. February 2010.
A strong issue, with stories from authors well-established and authors on the way up : Aliette de Bodard, Bruce McAllister, Caroline M. Yoachim, Damien Broderick, David Erik Nelson, Stephen Baxter.
Caroline M. Yoachim. Stone Wall Truth. (Asimovs February 2010).
Low on tech, high on humanity, an excellent Asimovs debut. (And ruminations on Avatar and The War Horse).