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Originally Posted by pdurrant
I thought it was a bit short. The weird magazine format from Amazon caused me to miss a story. The short novel by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, The Runabout! Now reading that...
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I finished the Asimov's, and I'll do a proper review this evening.
[LATER]
There's one novella, which is really novel sized.
The Runabout by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Part of her diving series, and while I enjoyed it, I'd rather have novels as separate books, and keep the magazines for shorter works.
There are two Novelettes.
Come As You Are by Dale Bailey is a future drug scene exploration, and was OK, but not really to my taste.
Night Fever by Will Ludwigsen is an alternate history of Charles Manson. Alternate history is only fun if you're know the big of history they doing an alternate for. Otherwise they're just rather dull fiction. I gave up half way. Definitely not for me.
The short stories were "On The Ship" by Leah Cypress, a long term interstellar voyage story which was OK, "Good Show" by William Preston, a rather fun look at a film reviewer and some ?aliens?, "The Escape of the Adastra: Asha's Story" by James Gunn, a generation-ship story which I found hard to suspend disbelief on, "Tired of the Same Old Quests?", and amusing fantasy about role-playing games, "The Best Man" by Jay O'Connell, an odd dystopia, "Triceratops" by Ian McHugh, a odd story that features other human species brought back from extinction, but doesn't go anywhere, "Persephone of the Crows" by Karen Jay Fowler, reverse changlings, but I didn't really like it.
You know - having done this review, I'm going to have to downgrade this issue from 4 to 3 star.
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Then I read
Crown in Darkness by Paul Doherty. Another excellent historical mystery.
I would have given it 5/5, but I fear I know Edinburgh a little bit better than the author - there's no way one would go towards Arthur's Seat when travelling from Holyrood Abbey to the Castle! But otherwise, it seemed pretty accurate.
Now back to
Shadow Magic by Patricia C. Wrede.