Cooling Chaos, by Gregory Benford

[Analog]

★☆☆☆☆

(Climate SF) When Sandra almost dies fighting a wildfire in the California Sierras, she gets an inspiration for a better way to fight fires in the future. (3,539 words; Time: 11m)

A Surprise Beginning, by Gregory Benford

[Analog]

Not Rated Reprint

(Time Travel) A man's flight lands 20 years later than expected, and he has to cope with a world transformed. (3,364 words; Time: 11m)

Shadows of Eternity, by Gregory Benford

[Anthology]

★★★★☆ Fun technical problem in a cool setting

(SF) There’s something about the recordings from probes sent to nearby stars that Rachael is determined to figure out, even though her teachers keep warning her not to waste her time if she wants to graduate. (8,293 words; Time: 27m)

Recommended By: NClarke+2

Although this was originally published in the UK in 2017, the first US Publication was in March 2018, so it should be eligible for the 2019 Hugo Awards at the 2019 WorldCon, to be held in Dublin.

Physics Tomorrow: A News Item of the Year 2116, by Gregory Benford

[Analog]

★☆☆☆☆ Needs Improvement

(SF Outline) In which we learn details about the first project to send interstellar messages via gravity waves. (1,926 words; Time: 06m)

Mice Among Elephants, by Larry Niven and Gregory Benford

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(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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Elderjoy, by Gregory Benford

[Analog]

★★★☆☆ Average

(SF Humor) Owing to the health risk, older couples pay a fee every time they have sex. Not everyone is willing to stand for that. (1,705 words; Time: 05m)

Vortex, by Gregory Benford

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(Hard SF) The Chinese Mars base asks old First-Expedition crew members Julia and Viktor for help with a problem involving Mars's only large native life form. (6,731 words; Time: 22m)

Rating: ★★★☆☆ Average

Recommended By: GDozois:5 LTilton

Aspects: A Galactic Centre Story, by Gregory Benford

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(SF) A group of human beings fleeing "mechs" that are trying to exterminate them, come across a building their ancestors constructed before their civilization was destroyed. (6,900 words; Time: 23m)

Rating: ★★☆☆☆, Not Recommended