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Rajnar Vajra. Her Scales Shine Like Music. (Tor.com August 2016)

September 25, 2016September 25, 2016 Mark Watson 0 Comments Rajnar Vajra

All in all, an excellent story.

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Analog 

Analog, June 2007

February 14, 2010February 16, 2010 Mark Watson 0 Comments Carl Frederick, Karl Schroeder, Rajnar Vajra, Richard A. Lovett, Scott William Carter

Richard A. Lovett. The Sands of Titan. A well trodden trope (can tropes be trodden?) : a lonely spaceman (almost

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Analog 

Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact, January/February 2007

February 14, 2010February 16, 2010 Mark Watson 0 Comments Carl Frederick, David W. Goldman, E. Mark Mitchell, Grey Rollins, Jerry Oltion, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, R. Emrys Gordon, Rajnar Vajra, Richard A. Lovett, Robert J. Sawyer, Stephen L. Burns

Rajnar Vajra. Emerald River, Pearl Sky. The story starts with unidentified observers from a thousand years beyond the narrative which

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Analog 

Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact, Jan/Feb 2006

February 14, 2010March 13, 2015 Mark Watson 0 Comments Ekaterina G. Sedia and David Bartell., Grey Rollins, John Barnes, Julian Flood, Karl Schroeder, Lee Goodloe, Mark W. Tiedemann, Rajnar Vajra, Richard A. Lovett

mobipocket version reviewed Karl Schroeder. Sun of Suns, Part III. Third installment of a novel serialisation. John Barnes. ‘The Night

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Analog 

Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact, July/August 2005

February 14, 2010February 16, 2010 Mark Watson 0 Comments Brian Plante, Bud Sparhawk, Carl Frederick, Gregorgy Benford, Joe Schembrie, Michael A. Burstein, Rajnar Vajra, Robert R. Chase, Scott William Carter, Stephen Baxter

Bud Sparhawk. Chandra’s Pup. I got a few pages into this story, and then did a check on previous stories

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Analog 

Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact, November 2004

February 14, 2010February 16, 2010 Mark Watson 0 Comments Edward Muller, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Mary A. Turzillo, Mike Moscoe, Rajnar Vajra, Robert Scherrer

Rajnar Vajra. The Ghost within. Give Analog regular Vajra his due, he’s quite happy to turn his hand to a

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Analog 

Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact, October 2004

February 14, 2010February 16, 2010 Mark Watson 0 Comments Catherine Shaffer, Don Sakers, Rajnar Vajra

Rajnar Vajra. Layna’s Mirror. Vajra has become an Analog regular of late. Last month he had a new-future, hi-tech virtuality

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Analog 

Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact, May 2003

February 14, 2010February 16, 2010 Mark Watson 0 Comments Don D'Ammassa, John C. Bodin and Ron Collins, Ken Wharton, Larry Niven, Rajnar Vajra, Steven Bratman

Steven Bratman. The Immortality Plague. In his editorial in the May issue of Asimovs, Robert Silverberg relates at length (and

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Analog 

Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact, April 2003

February 14, 2010November 4, 2015 Mark Watson 0 Comments Catherine Asaro, F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre, Kyle Kirkland, Mary Soon Lee, Rajnar Vajra

Catherine Asaro. Walk in Silence. One beef I have with many Analog stories is that many could easily have been

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Analog 

Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact, March 2003

February 14, 2010February 16, 2010 Mark Watson 0 Comments David Alexander, Lloyd Biggle, Rajnar Vajra, Richard A. Lovett, Shane Tourtellotte

Whoops, read this one a couple of weeks ago and plain forgot to write the review. I wonder how my

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Analog 

Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact, January 2003

February 14, 2010February 16, 2010 Mark Watson 0 Comments Daniel Hatch, Daniel M. Hoyt, Kyle Kirkland, Larry Niven, Rajnar Vajra

Daniel Hatch. Seed of Destiny. A story set on the same world as the author’s ‘Seed of Reason’ (Analog, April

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Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact, July/August 2002

February 14, 2010February 16, 2010 Mark Watson 0 Comments Adam Troy Castro, Edward M. Lerner, Jack McDevitt, Kevin J. Anderson and Gregory Benford., Larry Niven, Rajnar Vajra, Ron Goulart, Shane Tourtellotte, Tobias S. Buckell

Adam Troy Castro. Unseen Demons. A touch of the ‘Lecters’ in that a young woman, with some dark secrets in

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Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact, June 2002

February 14, 2010February 16, 2010 Mark Watson 0 Comments Amy Bechtel, Brenda Cooper and Larry Niven, Grey Rollings, Jerry Oltion, Marissa K. Lingen, Rajnar Vajra

One of the benefits of reading a magazine in electronic format is that you don’t have to worry about fellow

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Analog 

Analog Science Fiction and Fact, November 2001

February 14, 2010February 16, 2010 Mark Watson 0 Comments Brian Plante, Kevin J. Anderson, Mary A. Turzillo, Poul Anderson, Rajnar Vajra, Sarah A. Hoyt, Shane Tourtellotte

In recent months I’ve been reading Analog in digital format on my palmtop, courtesy of Peanut Press/Palm Digital Media. In

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