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Originally Posted by pdurrant
IBack to the Analog!
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Which was only average overall.
The cover story,
Nexus by Michael F. Flynn was only OK. I didn't really like the style or the unexplained coincidences.
The other novella,
Plaisir d'Amour by John Alfred Taylor, on the other hand, was excellent.
There were three novelettes:
Europa's Survivors by Marianne J. Dyson was implausible and with an obvious ending.
Host by Eneasz Brodski was interestingly ambiguous, but a bit depressing.
The Human Way by Tony Ballantyne was OK, but no more. Given the technology shown, the economics didn't make sense.
Nine Short Stories: Six of which are time travel stories, only one of which is worth mentioning:
Alexander's Theory of Special Relativity by Shane Halbach. An excellent love story involving time travel gone wrong. (The others were all rather trite.)
Of the other shorts,
Unbearable Burden by Gwendolyn Clare was a very good look at AI from the AI's point of view,
Concerning the Devestation Wrought by the Nefarious Gray Comma and Its Ilk: A Men in Tie-Dye Adventure by Tim McDaniel should have been shortened to a Probability Zero story, and
Ecuador vs. the Bug-Eyed Monsters by Jay Werkheiser had too many implausible hidden things going on.
And then I read a short from the Baen web site:
Do Bears Shoot in the Woods? by Wen Spencer. An excellent short set in the same universe as her new novel,
The Black Wolves of Boston, but not the same characters.
Next up:
Triple Crown by Felix Francis. I've read all the novels by Dick Francis, so it's time to see how his son gets on.