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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Next up: Analog SF, May/June 2017.
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An OK to good edition.
The Novella was "The Girls with Kaleidoscope Eyes" by Howard V Hendrix. A rather unconvincing 'Midwich Cuckoos' type of scenario.
Three Novelettes, "To See the Elephant" by Julie Novakova which was interesting but also unconvincing for me, "The Final Nail" by Stanley Schmidt where I couldn't beleive the antagonist, and "Kepler's Law" by Jay Werkheiser, a colonisation story which I also found unconvincing.
15 (!) short stories, of which I'll only mention two. "The Chatter of Monkeys" by Bond Elam, a rather wonderful post-apocalypse story. "Ténéré" by Manny Frishberg and Edd Vick was an interesting cultural clash story.
Hmm... having reviewed the fiction, I think I must downgrade my rating to just "OK" this month. The longer works weren't good enough.
Then I read some fan-fic: "
Draco Malfoy and the Practice of Rationality" by taogaming, a fan-fic followup to the fan-fic "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality". Despite the occasional typo, a story that rolled along merrily.
And now I'm reading
Imperative by Steve White and Charles E. Gannon.