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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Still reading the Asimov's SF Magazine
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Finsihed the Asimov's. A bit of a disappointment this time.
Two Novellas, "How Sere Picked Up Her Laundry" and "The Girl Who Stole Herself". Both far-future tales, but the societies and characters didn't really work for me. Three Novelettes, "Other Words and This One", a tale about the Many Worlds interpretation of Quantum Mechanics that just didn't go anywhere, "@Lantis", a weird near-ish future which also just didn't work for me and "Gale Strang", looking at transgender issues through the unexplained consciousness of a bird cage. Not really SF to my mind. And six short stories, "Annabelle, Annie", a look at an environmental generation gap, "An Evening with Severyn Grimes", a near-future crime story, "Transcendental Mission: Riley's Story", "Weighty Matters: Tordor's Story", two snippets from what will probably be a novel by James Gunn, "The Patient Dragon", a medium future crime novel, and "Field Studies", a near future look at homelessness with a hint of time travel.
The two James Gunn stories were good, but cried out for the rest of the novel. "An Evening with Severyn Grimes" showed how poor the other crime-releated stories in the issue were.
On the whole, it scrapes a 3/5.
Next up: Analog SF, July/August 2017, edited by Trevor Quachri. Also still reading
Odd Hours, the 4th Odd Thomas book.