Ken Liu and Mike Resnick. The Plantimal. (Asimovs March 2014)
A story that perhaps teeters a little over the dividing line between touching and sentimentality.
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Mike Resnick and Laurie Tom. Mooncakes. (Solaris Rising)
Shorter story in which a young woman leaving Earth on the first colony ship has to work out how to take part of her culture and history with her, and come to terms with the separation from her sister. It’s a shorter story, and skims through the issues quickly.
Read moreMike Resnick. The Homecoming. (Asimovs, April/May 2011)
A consecutive short and emotionally intense story in the issue looking at the impact on humans of loss through an sfnal lens.
Read moreMike Resnick and Lezli Robyn. Report from the Field. (Is Anybody Out There?)
Golden Age sf tropes being trodden, as aliens who are protecting earth from the rest of the universe are about to welcome us to the galactic fold, but upon closer investigation find some of our behaviours particulary worrying, report their concerns.
Read moreThe New Space Opera 2. (ed Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan, Eos 2009).
A big book, with a huge amount of top quality SF.
Read moreMike Resnick. Catastrophe Baker and A Canticle for Leibowitz. (The New Space Opera 2).
Catastrophe Baker meets his match with Voluptia von Climax, in a tongue in cheek homage to bygone space opera.
Read moreMike Resnick and Lezli Robyn. Shame. (Analog January/February 2010).
In a dusty old frontier town a dessicated corpse swings in the breeze, the word ‘shame’ scrawled against the gallows, testament to the folly of the rough justice dispensed by the townsfolks.
Read moreAsimovs. December 2009.
This issue got caught up in the big revamp of Best SF, and wasn’t reviewed close to the reading of
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