(Far-Future SF) Irtholin visits her friend Anketil to tell her that a long-lost starship has been found, and to try to interest her in helping salvage it. (4,540 words; Time: 15m)
Rating: ★★★☆☆ Average
Recommended By: GDozois:5
Showing posts with label Athena Andreadis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Athena Andreadis. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 10, 2017
Fieldwork, by Shariann Lewitt
(Hard SF) Anna’s grandmother died on Europa, and her mother was traumatized for life, but she’s determined to go there and finish the work they started. (9,942 words; Time: 33m)
Rating: ★★★☆☆ Average
Recommended By: GDozois:5Monday, January 9, 2017
Crossing the Midday Gate, by Aliette de Bodard
(Space Opera; Xuya) Dan Linh returns from twenty-years exile to head up her old lab again. She’s a scientist, not a politician; can she really make it work? (7,411 words; Time: 24m)
Rating: ★★★☆☆ Average
Recommended By: GDozois:4Saturday, January 7, 2017
Carnivores of Can't-Go-Home, by Constance Cooper
(SF Mystery) A professor and her student investigating carnivorous plants on a colony world find the bones of a teenager inside one of the plants. (8,213 words; Time: 27m)
Rating: ★★★☆☆ Average
Recommended By: GDozois:4Wednesday, January 4, 2017
To Shape the Dark, edited by Athena Andreadis
(Hard SF) An anthology focusing on women scientists who pursue science not-as-usual and who are not subject to the "snooze-inducing conflict of work vs family." (116,503 words; Time: 6h:28m)
Rating: ★★★☆☆ Average
The Seventh Gamer, by Gwyneth Jones
(Virtual Reality SF) Chloe wants to write an article about gamers in a massive virtual-reality world who believe that some of the NPCs are actually being played by creatures from other planets. (9,958 words; Time: 33m)
Rating: ★★★☆☆ Average
The Pegasus Project, by Jack McDevitt
(Far-Future SF) In fifteen thousand years, humanity has never found evidence for alien life, but Ronda gets tasked with checking out a possible transmission. (4,911 words; Time: 16m)
Rating: ★★★☆☆ Average
Two Become One, by Kiini Ibura Salaam
(High Fantasy) Ketah, an apprentice in Meherenmet’s lab, struggles to be a good student, even though the work can be rather gruesome. (10,390 words; Time: 34m)
Rating: ★★★☆☆ Average
Ward 7, by Susan Lanigan
(Brain Enhancement) Vera’s do-it-yourself brain experiments have greatly enhanced her sense of smell. Now she’s desperate to undo it. (5,960 words; Time: 19m)
Rating: ★★☆☆☆ Not Recommended
Recursive Ice, by Terry Boren
(SF Mystery) Bret doesn’t know how she wound up in Munich nor why she has fragmentary memories of murders on the moon. (9,189 words; Time: 30m)
Rating: ★★★☆☆ Average
The Age of Discovery, by C.W. Johnson
(Hard SF) Edith’s lab wants to improve the Casimir pump enough to use it for space travel, but Edith can’t help running her own experiments even without permission. (7,046 words; Time: 23m)
Rating: ★★★★☆ A fun story with a realistic feel
Building for Shah Jehan, by Anil Menon
(SF) Kavi and Velli just need to finish their architectural model and then they can get their degrees. (5,562 words; Time: 18m)
Rating: ★★☆☆☆ Not Recommended
Of Wind and Fire, by Vandana Singh
(Scientific Fantasy) The villages fall slowly down the face of the mountain, trading with the people on the ledges as they go, but is there a bottom, or does it just go down forever? (10,944 words; Time: 36m)
Rating: ★☆☆☆☆ Needs Improvement
Recommended By: GDozois:4From the Depths, by Kristin Landon
(Colony Planet SF) Rinna is going to study one of the vast grass mats that’s the closest thing to dry land on Ta’aroa. Her teenage daughter wants to come along, but there’s a big storm brewing. (9,721 words; Time: 32m)
Rating: ★★★☆☆ Average
Sensorium, by Jacqueline Koyanagi
(Alien Communication) The Tagli came to planet Ila ten years ago, but communication with humans has been very difficult. To fix that, Yora is going to try to bond with one. (3,970 words; Time: 13m)
Rating: ★☆☆☆☆ Needs Improvement
Chlorophyll is Thicker than Water, by M. Fenn
(Near-Future SF) Retired scientists Susan and Hina are trying to make plants “think” in real time. Kim intends to steal their research. The plants have their own ideas. (8,746 words; Time: 29m)
Rating: ★★☆☆☆ Not Recommended
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