★★★☆☆
(Colony SF) Cornelius comes to Ceres for a last visit with his daughter’s family before he’s too old to make the trip, but he has extreme difficulty relating to them at all. (11,066 words; Time: 36m)
"The Terminal Zone," by Nick Wolven [bio] (edited by Sheila Williams), appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction issue 07-08|19, published on June 15, 2019 by Penny Publications.
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Pro: At its core, this story is about Granddad making a real emotional connection with Calla and her kids. Everything else is just introducing us to the Ceres colony.
Con: I found it hard to believe that the colony’s life-support systems were so fragile that a teenager could so easily put everyone at risk.
From the cultural references, this story is set in the late 2000s, but it’s not plausible that we’d have a colony on Ceres by then.
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Pro: At its core, this story is about Granddad making a real emotional connection with Calla and her kids. Everything else is just introducing us to the Ceres colony.
Con: I found it hard to believe that the colony’s life-support systems were so fragile that a teenager could so easily put everyone at risk.
From the cultural references, this story is set in the late 2000s, but it’s not plausible that we’d have a colony on Ceres by then.
Other Reviews: Search Web
Nick Wolven Info: Interviews, Websites, ISFDB, FreeSFOnline
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