Wheel Of Echoes, by Sean Mcmullen

[Analog]

★★☆☆☆

(SF Drama) The discovery of an attempted audio recording from Elizabethan times causes an uproar. (5,249 words; Time: 17m)

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Terminalia, by Sean McMullen

[Interzone]

★★★☆☆ Average

(Steampunk Horror) At the turn of the 20th Century, an expert on death, dying, and resuscitation is forced to help a woman make a short visit to the land of the dead. (7,959 words; Time: 26m)

The Washer from the Ford, by Sean McMullen

[F&SF]

★★★☆☆ A Nice Start

(Modern Fantasy) Peter witnesses a brutal murder and is shocked to see someone washing the dead woman’s clothes just an hour after the police took them away. He doesn’t know it, but he has a curse, and she has a gift for him. (7,426 words; Time: 24m)

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Extreme, by Sean Mcmullen

[F&SF]

★★★☆☆ Average

(SF Sports) George is into extreme sports—so extreme that he comes close to dying, and so into it that he does it over and over. Enough that he’s intensely interested when a mysterious woman offers him something really extreme. (4,990 words; Time: 16m)

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The Pendant Lens, by Sean McMullen

[Analog]

★★★☆☆ Average

(Historical SF) A British engineer comes to France at the height of the Terror to fix a steam engine that drives a unique electrical apparatus—something so valuable to the Revolution they may never let him leave. (8,275 words; Time: 27m)

Two Hours at Frontier, by Sean McMullen

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(SF Adventure) The digitized crew of the Icefarer awaken near the distant planetoid they were meant to investigate, but almost everything seems to be wrong. (6,832 words; Time: 22m)

Rating: ★★☆☆☆ Not Recommended

The Influence Machine, by Sean McMullen

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(Historical SF) In 1899 London, Inspector Grant investigates a lady who claims her big electrical apparatus is for a camera, even though it looks like a bomb or a death ray. (8,457 words; Time: 28m)

Rating: ★★★☆☆ Average

Exceptional Forces, by Sean McMullen

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(Hard SF) A radio astronomer comes to a conference prepared to deliver a shattering paper, but fully expecting to die before he gets the chance. (6,183 words; Time: 20m)

Rating: ★★☆☆☆ Not Recommended

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The Audience, by Sean McMullen

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The Javelin reaches a rogue planet 36 light-days from Earth, but the crew finds something terrible there. (9,200 words; Time: 30m)

Rating: ★★☆☆☆ Not Recommended

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The Ninth Seduction

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A goblin craftsman who makes things of beauty for his cruel elvish mistress learns to make her weapons from the mundane world. (6,700 words; Time: 22m)

Rating: ★★★★☆ Recommended

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