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Originally Posted by pdurrant
also reading Analog SFF for Jan/Feb 2018.
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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Now also reading I, Claudius by Robert Graves.
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I've just finished both of these.
I, Claudius was great. Most enjoyable and highly recommended.
Tha Analog was good, let me review the stories:
"The Quantum Magician" by Derek Künsken is the first part of a serial. If I'd realised I would have left it for when I had all parts available to read together, but the silly Magazine format that they use on the Kindle meant I didn't notice until I'd finished this part. An enjoyable far-future story.
Novella:
"Blurred Lives" by Adam-Troy Castro is an odd story of mind control.
I enjoyed it.
Novelettes:
"The Journeyman: Through Madness Gap" by Michael F. Flynn is an amusing continuation of the story of Teodorq and Sammi and their quest on behalf of some failing technology. I look forward to the next installment, whenever it appears.
"Endless City" by David Gerrold. Hard bitten detective in cyberspace and realspace. OK, but not really my kind of thing.
Short stories:
"Hobson's Choices" by Mary A. Turzillo is a very good flawed utopia story.
"Ten and Ten" by Alan Dean Foster is a story of communication. Pretty good.
"One to Watch" by Andrew Barton is strange. I don't really understand the motivation of the protagonist.
"Home on the Free Range" by Holly Schofield considers the problems of farming with no experience of the yearly cycle. Good.
"When the Aliens Stop to Bottle" by Ian Watson is a story of alien conquest. Hmmm.
"Two Point Three Children" by Marissa Lingen is a very good story about AI.
"Air Gap" by Eric Cline. A completely different very good story about AI.
"The Dissonant Note" by Jeremiah Tolbert is a very good story about the consequences of uploadable consciousness.
The Probability Zero story "Margin of Error" was a fun look at a political campaign.
All in all, 4/5.
next up:
Asimov's SF Magazine for Jan/Feb 2018.