Madeline Ashby. Death on Mars. (Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities, Arizona State University, 2017.)
Short, tight, claustrophobic and up close and personal.
Reviewing short SF since 2000
Short, tight, claustrophobic and up close and personal.
A reflection on what will happen to the individual self when bodies can be swopped at a whim.
Ashby makes self-replicating Von Neumann machines pretty much as exciting as they are going to get.