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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Next up: F&SF for Jan/Feb 2017, edited by C C Finlay.
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Another good issue. I think I'm enjoying this much more since CC Finlay became the editor.
"Homecoming", a novella by Rachel Pollack featuring Jack Shade, set in our universe with hidden magic was very good.
There were four novelets:
"Vinegar and Cinnamon" by Nina Kiriki Hoffman was a wonderful siblings story.
"One Way" is an interesting invention based SF story, but the idea deserves a larger setting. "Dunnage for the Soul" by Robert Reed involves an idea that I'm sure I've come across before - perhaps he's used it elsewhere.
"There Used to Be Olive Trees" by Rich Larson seems to be packing too much backstory into a novelet.
Five short stories:
"The Regression Test" by Wole Talabi was an interesting exploration of future AI developments.
"A Gathering on Gravity's Shore" by Gregor Hartmann about Franden's adventures on Zephyr will work better as part of a larger work.
"On the Problem of Replacement Children" by Debbie Urbanski was heart breaking.
"Alexandria" had inserts of quotes from the future of the story, which didn't quite work for me.
The poems and non-fiction I mostly skipped, although the Science article about brainless robots was good
Next up:
The Long Cosmos by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter. The last in the series, mostly completed back in 2013.