Megan Lindholm. Old Paint. (Asimovs July 2012).
Excellent, tender and affecting story with a node to Disney/Pixar Toy Story and Cars, with a bit of Wall-E thrown in. And Herbie.
Reviewing short SF since 2000
Excellent, tender and affecting story with a node to Disney/Pixar Toy Story and Cars, with a bit of Wall-E thrown in. And Herbie.
Moby Quilt. Eleanor Arnason. Another formulaic Lydia Duluth story which gets perilously close to plot
Stories by : Alan Brennert, Alexander Jablokov, Avram Davidson, Brian Stableford, Bruce Sterling, Charles Sheffield, Connie Willis, Gregory Benford, Janet Kagan, John Crowley, Judith Moffett, Kathe Koja, Lucius Shepard, Megan Lindholm, Michael Swanwick, Mike Resnick, Nancy Kress, Neal Barrett Jr, Robert Sampson, Robert Silverberg, S.P. Somtow, Steven Popkes, William King.
I can recommend this year’s ‘Showcase’ as being chock full of good stuff – a marked improvement over last year’s issue which didn’t have a whole lot of fiction in it to read