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M. Bennardo

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M. Bennardo. We Jump Down Into the Dark. (Asimovs December 2015)

March 6, 2016 Mark Watson 0 Comments M. Bennardo

Short, tense drama as an orbiting space-station gets knocked out of orbit, and a rescue is attempted.

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M. Bennardo. Ghosts of the Savannah. (Asimovs June 2015)

August 24, 2015August 25, 2015 Mark Watson 0 Comments M. Bennardo

A prehistory story from Bennardo (so why is it in an SF magazine I wonder??).

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M. Bennardo. Now Dress Me in my Finest Suit and Lay Me in my Casket. (Clarkesworld Magazine #99 December 2014)

January 4, 2015January 4, 2015 Mark Watson 0 Comments M. Bennardo

Neat five-pager from Bennardo. – quite impactful considering the short length.

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M. Bennardo. How Do I Get To Last Summer From Here? (Asimovs July 2014)

July 11, 2014 Mark Watson 0 Comments M. Bennardo

They say the past is a foreign country, but what if going back there was as simple as saying ‘there’s no place like home’, except that you don’t need a pair or ruby slippers, just the right mindset??

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M. Bennardo. Slowly Upward, the Coelacanth. (Asimovs April/May 2014)

April 27, 2014 Mark Watson 0 Comments M. Bennardo

Doesn’t really offer more to a story type that Stephen Baxter had fun with some years ago – humans in extremis looking to nature and the animal/marine kingdom the better to survive the new environment.

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M. Bennardo. Last Day at the Ice Man Cafe. (Asimovs February 2014)

January 23, 2014 Mark Watson 0 Comments M. Bennardo

A nice story about people and love, sitting a little uncomfortably on a frozen foundation.

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Asimovs, October/November 2005

February 14, 2010December 16, 2011 Mark Watson 0 Comments Geoffrey A. Landis, Jack Skillingstead, Jay Lake, L. Timmel Duchamp, Lois Tilton, M. Bennardo, Nisi Shawl, Philip C. Jennings, Steve Martinez, Ted Kosmatka, Tom Purdom

PDF/eBookMan version reviewed. Tom Purdom. Bank Run. Sabor Haveri, ultra-rich banker, finds his idyllic boating trip, in which his splitting

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