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Tuesday, August 18, 2020

The Plague, by Yan Leisheng

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[ Clarkesworld ] ★☆☆☆☆ (Epidemic SF) A plague that turns people to stone is depopulating the planet, and the narrator has the job of inci...
Sunday, July 5, 2020

The Mad Cabbage, by Céline Malgen

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[ Analog ] ★☆☆☆☆ (Hard SF) A Ph.D. student struggles to figure out why her fermented cabbage experiment has produced a result that’s almo...
Monday, June 15, 2020

Refuge, by Ben Peek

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[ Lightspeed ] ★☆☆☆☆ (Dark Fantasy Adventure) The story of how Aned Heast, having lost a leg and his entire army, reclaimed his honor in ...

The Postictal State of Divine Love, by Julianna Baggott

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[ Lightspeed ] ★☆☆☆☆ (Vampire) It turns out there’s a secret society of vampires all around us, and they offer immunity to viruses. (7,3...
Saturday, May 9, 2020

Moral Biology, by Neal Asher

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[ Analog ] ★☆☆☆☆ (First Contact Adventure; Polity Universe ) A first-contact team visits an alien planet where the aliens have a defense ...
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Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Cooling Chaos, by Gregory Benford

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[ Analog ] ★☆☆☆☆ (Climate SF) When Sandra almost dies fighting a wildfire in the California Sierras, she gets an inspiration for a better...
Thursday, February 13, 2020

The Host, by Neal Asher

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[ Clarkesworld ] ★☆☆☆☆ (SF Adventure) Captured for his crimes, Ivebek expects to be executed, but an AI is taking him to another planet t...
Wednesday, January 15, 2020

The Perfect Sail, by I-Hyeong Yun

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[ Clarkesworld ] ★☆☆☆☆ (SF Adventure) A wealthy woman has the multiverse searched for divergent versions of herself who’re near death, of...
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Saturday, December 14, 2019

Symbiosis Theory, by Choyeop Kim

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[ Clarkesworld ] ★☆☆☆☆ (Fantasy Science) Scientists look for a link between an eccentric artist with “memories” of an alien planet and od...
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Eclipse our Sins, by Tlotlo Tsamaase

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[ Clarkesworld ] ★☆☆☆☆ (Climate Dystopia) Two children observe their mother’s horrible death as the spirit of the Earth, ravaged by clima...
Saturday, November 16, 2019

Operation Spring Dawn, by Mo Xiong

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[ Clarkesworld ] ★☆☆☆☆ (Post Apocalypse) The Great Freeze has left the Earth almost lifeless for 20,000 years, but robots have awakened a...
Thursday, November 7, 2019

Keep the Line Tight But Not Too Tight, or Esteban and the Moon, by Joe M. McDermott

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[ Analog ] ★☆☆☆☆ (SF Drama) A man struggles to bear up under the stress of building starships on the moon knowing that any mistake could ...

Just a Guy and Some Aliens, by Michael Carroll

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[ Analog ] ★☆☆☆☆ (SF Epic) A Spanish exoplanet specialist joins a team launching a probe to τ Ceti and spends the rest of her career with...
Friday, October 11, 2019

High Hopes, by Kali de los Santos

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[ Strange Horizons ] ★☆☆☆☆ (Near-Future SF) People in Brazil are happy when flying cars finally become available, but over time there are...
Wednesday, September 4, 2019

Something in the Air, by Carolyn Ives Gilman

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[ Anthology ] ★☆☆☆☆ (SF Fantasy) Suppose there were a star system where quantum entanglement operated on a grand scale. Three researchers...

Genesong, by Peter F. Hamilton

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[ Anthology ] ★☆☆☆☆ (SF Thriller) The crew of a ship routing ice from the Oort Cloud to Venus is attacked by pirates. (8,684 words;  Tim...
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Sunday, August 11, 2019

The Virtue of Unfaithful Translations, by Minsoo Kang

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[ Anthology ] ★☆☆☆☆ (High Fantasy) In which we learn how bad translations averted a war and led to lasting peace. (7,867 words;  Time : ...
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Sunday, August 4, 2019

The Second Nanny, by Djuna

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[ Clarkesworld ] ★☆☆☆☆ (SF Adventure) Post-humans on a space station at Triton try to defend their “Mother” AI from attack by an evil “Fa...
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Friday, July 12, 2019

One in a Million, by Rodrigo Juri

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[ Clarkesworld ] ★☆☆☆☆ (AI Apocalypse) No longer entirely human, Luis revisits his childhood home and reflects on how the world ended. (...
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Wednesday, July 10, 2019

The Universe Within the Universe, by Dominica Phetteplace

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[ Asimov's ] ★☆☆☆☆ (Virtual Reality) The narrator wants to visit her own past to try to make her life better, but all she has to work...