(Hard SF) Stories that look at super-engineering projects. (100,124 words; Time: 5h:33m)
Rating: ★★★★☆ 4 RSR-recommended stories + 2 others out of 15
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Thursday, November 17, 2016
Bridging Infinity, edited by Jonathan Strahan
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Seven Birthdays, by Ken Liu
(Far Future SF) Mia marks her birthdays as powers of 7, which gives her lots of time to work out her issues with her mother. (5,864 words; Time: 19m)
Rating: ★★★★☆ Recommended
Recommended By: GDozois:4 JStrahanRead an interview with the author about this story.
Wednesday, November 16, 2016
Induction, by Thoraiya Dyer
(Near-Future SF) Christian returns to Anguilla to say goodbye before an attempt to raise it covers the island with lava. (7,490 words; Time: 24m)
Rating: ★★★☆☆ Average
Anguilla is an island in the eastern Carribean.
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Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Travelling into Nothing, by An Owomoyela
(Far-Future SF) Kiu Alee escapes a death sentence by agreeing to pilot a very special vehicle to a very xenophobic arcology in deep space. (6,583 words; Time: 21m)
Rating: ★★★★☆ Recommended
Cold Comfort, by Pat Murphy and Paul Doherty
(Climate Change) Maggie has a plan to reverse climate change by capturing methane up in the arctic and selling the carbon. (7,956 words; Time: 26m)
Rating: ★★☆☆☆ Not Recommended
Recommended By: GDozois:5Read an interview with the author about this story.
Apache Charley and the Pentagons of Hex, by Allen M. Steele
(Far-Future SF) Humans were given just one "hex" on the Dyson structure, but "joyriders" like to break the rules and explore the place. Including the seven "hexagons" that only have five sides. (7,276 words; Time: 24m)
Rating: ★★★☆☆ Average
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Monuments, by Pamela Sargent
(Climate Change) An AI tries to carry out the last wishes of the last human governors to bring back snow and ice. (5,087 words; Time: 16m)
Rating: ★★☆☆☆ Not Recommended
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Parables of Infinity, by Robert Reed
(Far-Future SF; Great Ship) An ancient robot tells a human how it helped build a planet-sized ship and what the consequences were. (5,424 words; Time: 18m)
Rating: ★★★☆☆ Average
Recommended By: GDozois:4 NClarkeThis is a stand-alone story in Robert Reed's very rich Great Ship universe. They're so loosely connected, there's no reason to read any other one before this one.
Monday, November 14, 2016
Mice Among Elephants, by Larry Niven and Gregory Benford
(Hard SF) Sunseeker decelerates into the Excelsius system to investigate a gravity-wave generator built by potentially hostile aliens. (7,290 words; Time: 24m)
Rating: ★★★★☆ Recommended
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Sunday, November 13, 2016
The City's Edge, by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
(SF) Petras visits the ruins of the domed city where his wife died, determined to make sense of it. (6,593 words; Time: 21m)
Rating: ★★★☆☆ Average
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Ozymandias, by Karin Lowachee
(SF) Luis signed up for a six-month solo tour of duty on an almost-complete space station. He should be alone, except for the AI, but he's sure he hears other people. (6,954 words; Time: 23m)
Rating: ★★★☆☆ Average
Recommended By: RHorton:5Read an interview with the author about this story.
The Mighty Slinger, by Karen Lord and Tobias S. Buckell
★★★★☆ Recommended
(Far-Future SF) Developers are planning to resurface the entire Earth to create properties for people from Mars and Venus. But can an old singer and his band rally the solar system against it? (9,647 words; Time: 32m)
Recommended By: πNClarke+2 πRSR+1 (Q&A)
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Rager in Space, by Charlie Jane Anders
(SF Humor) Sion and her best friend get invited on the first interstellar flight, which is odd, since they're teenagers, and that kind of technology doesn't really exist. (6,461 words; Time: 21m)
Rating: ★★★☆☆ Average
Recommended By: RHorton:5Read an interview with the author about this story.
The Venus Generations, by Stephen Baxter
(Terraforming) Cooling Venus down is only the first step. (7,375 words; Time: 24m)
Rating: ★☆☆☆☆ Needs Improvement
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Six Degrees of ̶S̶e̶p̶a̶r̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ Freedom, by Pat Cadigan
★★★☆☆ Average
(Transhuman) Recruiting people to live in space is harder when they have to accept irreversible body modifications. (5,810 words; Time: 19m)
Recommended By: πGDozois.r+1 (Q&A)
Sixteen Questions for Kamala Chatterjee, by Alastair Reynolds
(Far-Future SF) Kamala discovered an alien artifact inside the sun, and she spent her life finding a way to reach it. (4,314 words; Time: 14m)
Rating: ★★☆☆☆ Not Recommended
Recommended By: GDozois:5Read an interview with the author about this story.
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