reading (Asimov's Jan)

I finished the January issue of Asimov's last night. I liked the differing viewpoints of Kristine Kathryn Rusch's "Killer Advice". It wasn't really a mystery and it wasn't really a thriller, but a mixture of genres. I liked how "Ashes on The Water" played out. The plot and pictures it drew worked well together. The universe that "Dolly" awakens in is detailed to the pinpoint of social realism, which Elizabeth Bear builds in amazingly few pages. The I think some of the evidence building is left out in the process, but it doesn't really lessen the story.

Overall, not a bad issue. None of the stories overwhelmed me with "Oh, wow", but a pretty good pack.

30. Asimov's January 2011

the first rule of bubble is you don't talk about the bubble

Via CNN, I found this headline on a Fortune article: Can Bernake keep the stock bubble afloat?

Hello! It's supposed to be a secret that the chairman of the Fed is intentionally causing assets to be inflated beyond their underlying value? It doesn't work if the marks know there isn't a pea under one of the shells. What we have is no jobs, housing values in freefall, Americans contracting their debt spending in ways not heard of since boomers learned the word "Me". Ignore all that and just pay attention to the stimulus. We can party like it's 2007.