Steve Rasnic Tem. The Carl Paradox. (Asimovs January 2014)
A lightweight course to cleanse the palate during a multi-course repaste.
Read moreA lightweight course to cleanse the palate during a multi-course repaste.
Read moreAn effective glimpse at the impacts, on a global and personal level of dislocation due to the passage of time.
Read moreA short, cautionary tale, looking at an all-too-plausible (un/desirable?) future in which the whole wealth of human knowledge is at your fingertips/physical artefacts such as books and magazines are consigned to the dustbin of history.
Read moreAn interesting story, which follows a young man who wakes up far, far into the Earth’s future.
Read moreAn elderly couple are on a trip they make every five years – to Phoenix Sanctuary, where people (and pets) are kept ‘suspended’ whilst cures for their ailments are found.
Read moreA clever little story to end the issue.
Read moreA deceptively affecting short story from Tem.
Read moreThe Goldstein and Rusch stories start and finish the issue strongly, with the other stories being good without being great. Other stories by Crowell, Cooper, Steinmetz, Oltion, Resnick, Robyn, Tem.
Read moreThe collection successfully brings together a litte bit of sf, a lot of speculative fiction, fantasy, horror and thrillers, but which all work together and which don’t leap out as being stories of that ilk, but simply good stories with a shared setting.
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