Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Seeds. (Shine).
Editor de Vries provides another story set outside the usual SF settings (ie space or the USA), for which he is to be applauded.
Mari Ness. Twittering the Stars. (Shine).
A twitter-format story, which can be read in either direction.
Lavie Tidhar. The Solnet Ascendancy. (Shine).
A light tone from Tidhar, as he looks at how Vanuatu transforms itself from an idyllic place with little technology, to a worldwide internet hub.
Matthew Kressel. The History Within Us. (Clarkesworld Magazine, #42, March 2010)
Top quality writing and podcasting.
Gareth L. Powell and Aliette de Bodard. The Church of Accelerated Redemption. (Shine)
A strong contribution from Powell and de Bodard.
Paula R. Stiles. Sustainable Development. (Shine).
Short piece site in francophile West Africa, where the woman have not reaped the benefits of technology, and the traditional roles for women remain in place.
Holly Phillips. Summer Ice. (Shine).
Aa nice enough story, well written and capturing the languid nature of life and love in a sapping heat, but not SF, and barely speculative.
Caitlin R. Kiernan. Galapagos. (Eclipse 3).
works well in looking at the impacts on a psychological level of events that in SF are typically shown as part of a dramatic action story.
Asimovs. June 2010.
A bit of a deja vu feeling with the opening and closing stories, with two experienced writers re-treading footprints into the sfnal regolith, with the other stories being good without being great.
Stephen Baxter. Earth III. (Asimovs June 2010)
The descendents, many generations hence, of those from Earth II, struggle to understand the nature of their planet and how they got there.
Anna Tambour. Dreadnought Neptune. (Asimovs June 2010)
A father seizes a sudden opportunity to reach for the stars with his son.
Molly Gloss. The Visited Man. (Eclipse 3)
Beacuoup de humanite mais seulement un peut de fantastique.
Peter Friend. Voyage to the Moon. (Asimovs June 2010).
An entertaining bit of invention that ends with a cliff hanger and the reader wanting more.
Jane Yolen and Adam Semple. Mesopotamian Fire. (Eclipse 3)
A student bemoans his grade.
Paul Di Filippo. Yes We Have No Bananas. (Eclipse 3).
Another piece of classy slightly skew-whiff gonzo world creation from Di Filippo.
Chris Beckett. The Peacock Cloak. (Asimovs June 2010).
Ponders the responsibility of the creator for deeds done by those created in his image.
Jason Stoddard. Overhead. (Shine).
A good story, one that begs for more detail and to be continued.