Keeping the Peace, by Elisabeth R. Adams

[Analog]

★★★☆☆

(Alien SF) A race of intelligent lizards prepares their conquest of the Solar System, but one of them is a dissenter with a plan. (3,983 words; Time: 13m)

Rising Stars, by Elisabeth R. Adams

[Analog]

★★★☆☆ Average

(Hard SF Adventure) With just two weeks before she has to present her thesis, Dee lets her friend drag her to a cave in South Africa where hominids might have drawn the constellations a million years ago. (4,451 words; Time: 14m)

Mandalas on the 405, by Elisabeth R. Adams

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(Near-future SF) New models of self-driving cars in Los Angeles have started making patterns on the roadways, and the engineers need to figure out why. (1,326 words)

Rating: 3, Unremarkable

 

Second Birthday, by Elisabeth R. Adams

Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March 2015; ~1,500 words
Rating: 2, Not recommended

Lisa gets invited by her friend Erika to visit her lab for the second birthday of two of her creations.

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Nothing really happens in this story. Lisa attends the party, sees the saber-tooths eat ground sloths, and goes home.