★★★☆☆ Average
(Space Opera; War Hero) Umerah Javed comes to Osiris to recruit a washed-up operative to help her track a particular fugitive. (8,829 words; Time: 29m)
This story doesn’t entirely stand alone; it will help to have read at least the previous story.
"Crash Site," by Brian Trent [bio] (edited by C.C. Finlay), appeared in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction issue 05-06|18, published on April 27, 2018 by Spilogale Inc.
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Pro: Harris and Umerah accomplish their mission, for the most part, even though they don’t recover the sporegun.
It’s cute that the mollusks that Bok had been wantonly shooting are the ones who actually took the sporegun back.
Con: The bad guys are cardboard villains.
The science has some problems. For example, a blue sun won’t have a habitable planet because they’re too short-lived.
It leaves a lot of unfinished business. It feels a lot like a fragment of a longer story.
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It’s cute that the mollusks that Bok had been wantonly shooting are the ones who actually took the sporegun back.
Con: The bad guys are cardboard villains.
The science has some problems. For example, a blue sun won’t have a habitable planet because they’re too short-lived.
It leaves a lot of unfinished business. It feels a lot like a fragment of a longer story.
Other Reviews: Search Web, Browse Review Sites (Issue 05-06|18)
Brian Trent Info: Interviews, Websites, ISFDB, FreeSFOnline
Follow RSR on Twitter, Facebook, RSS, or E-mail.
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