Mary Robinette Kowal. Rockets Red. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2016)
Story in the same setting as Kowal’s Hugo winning ‘Lady Astronaut of Mars’
Reviewing short SF since 2000
Story in the same setting as Kowal’s Hugo winning ‘Lady Astronaut of Mars’
Lengthy near-future police thriller in which an AI which is the detective’s constant companion, is removed from the police station.
Clever playoff between an AI and a crewmember both suffering from memory loss.
As ever, a strong collection of stories, albeit fairly ‘safe’ in terms of a relatively narrow range of sources.
An excellent issue. Rusch and Popkes perhaps the slightly weaker of the contributions, Broderick and Reed edging ahead of Blumstein, Zumsteg and Kowal.
As has been the case with others in his take on the year’s best SF there is less I agree with than is the case with the other year’s best volumes.
Stories by : Alastair Reynolds, Aliette de Bodard, Charles Coleman Finlay, Daryl Gregory, Dominic Green, Elizabeth Bear, Garth Nix, Geoff Ryman, Gord Sellar, Greg Egan, Gwyneth Jones, Hannu Rajaniemi, Ian McDonald, James Alan Garner, James. L. Cambias, Jay Lake, Karl Schroeder, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Mary Robinette Kowal, Mary Rosenblum, Maureen F. McHugh, Michael Swanwick, Nancy Kress, Paolo Bacigalupi, Paul McAuley, Robert Reed, Stephen Baxter, Ted Kosmatka
The first volume in this new series from Solaris Books, was a safe and solid