Work Shadow/Shadow Work, by Madeline Ashby

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★★★☆☆ Honorable Mention

(Modern Fantasy) In her old age, Sigrid doesn’t do as much witchcraft as she used to, but she doesn’t think she really needs the robot assistant her daughter got to help look after her. (7,496 words; Time: 24m)

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Death on Mars, by Madeline Ashby

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(SF Adventure) Four women staffing an advance base on Phobos get a male visitor who brings them some bad news. (8,206 words; Time: 27m)

Rating: ★★★★☆ Moving and thought-provoking

Panic City, by Madeline Ashby

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(Post Apocalypse) When fan #6 fails, the underground city's AI decides to abandon it, but an overachieving worker is determined to fix it anyway. (2,962 words; Time: 09m)

Rating: ★★★☆☆ Average

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A Stopped Clock, by Madeline Ashby

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(Military SF) An elderly pair of food vendors in a near-future Seoul, Korea cope with increasingly troublesome malfunctions in the city's cyber infrastructure. (4,800 words; Time: 16m)

Rating: ★★★☆☆, Average

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Memento Mori, by Madeline Ashby

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(SF) Anika has a happy life in a world where people switch to new bodies when they get tired of the old ones. But someone is stalking her--maybe from her past, which she can't remember. (6,600 words; Time: 22m)

Rating: ★★★★☆, Recommended