Ron Collins

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analog1105

Analog. May 2011.

Stories by Rajnar Vajra, Ron Collins, Bond Elam, Ian McHugh, Walter L. Kleine, Bud Sparhawk.

asimovs061011

Asimovs, October/November 2006

Robert Reed. A Billion Eves. A complex and initially very satisfying story. The story beings is a just-slightly-off-kilter rural American, describing a family vacation in a battered old car which is doomed to failure. Scarily, part of the background is that the trip is against a backdrop of women disappearing : there are ‘missing’ posters [...]

analog0311

Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact, November 2003

Larry Niven and Brenda Cooper. The Trellis. Pluto and Charon are conjoined through genetically modified creepers, which carry water from Charon to Pluto, and also enable the scientists at the research facilities at each base of the creeper to travel between the ‘planets’. It is Lark’s sixteenth birthday, and she is headed down/up the creeper, [...]

analog0203

Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March 2002

Hearts in Darkness. H.G. Stratmann. A most peculiar story. The International Space Station a few years hence is the setting. The hero, the all-American medic who is looking after the rest of the crew. The rest of the crew include a relatively ageing Russian astronaut (short, thick set – you know the type), and his [...]