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13. Asimov's Mar/Apr 2021
This month's Asimov's was a real treat. It has a solid colleciton of stories. My favorite was the cover story "Glitch" by Alex Irvine, which takes place in a not too future Portland, Maine. Irvine does a good job of representing our fair city, it all rings unfortunately true. I wa surprised by the conclusion of Greg Egan's "Light Up The Clouds". Rudy Rucker's "Mary Mary" had a promising start, but in the end fell into the psychidelic surfer trope of his that I can't stand. For me that was the only sour note in the issue. Overall, this was one of the standout issues in all my years of reading Asimov's. Maybe Covid isolation will be a boon for fiction.
14. Arthur Ransome "Missee Lee"
I finished Arther Ransome's "Missee Lee" this morning. Like "Peter Duck" it is written as a fiction written within the world of Swallows & Amazons. It features the characters from the original Swallows & Amazons book having adventures on the coast of China. I doubt this book would be published if it were written today because there is so much dialect in the dialog. However, Ransome doesn't use the dialect as a cheap joke. This isn't the cringe inducing character of Mickey Rooney in "Breakfast at Tiffany's". Ransome uses dialect/accent as an indication of how well the different characters can communicate and also as a reinforcing reminder of how one of the central characters is caught between two societies. As such, I think indications of the accents are important. It is a fun story, which moves right along, and it rings true as a yarn told by a teenager with a passion for pirates and adventure.
This month's Asimov's was a real treat. It has a solid colleciton of stories. My favorite was the cover story "Glitch" by Alex Irvine, which takes place in a not too future Portland, Maine. Irvine does a good job of representing our fair city, it all rings unfortunately true. I wa surprised by the conclusion of Greg Egan's "Light Up The Clouds". Rudy Rucker's "Mary Mary" had a promising start, but in the end fell into the psychidelic surfer trope of his that I can't stand. For me that was the only sour note in the issue. Overall, this was one of the standout issues in all my years of reading Asimov's. Maybe Covid isolation will be a boon for fiction.
14. Arthur Ransome "Missee Lee"
I finished Arther Ransome's "Missee Lee" this morning. Like "Peter Duck" it is written as a fiction written within the world of Swallows & Amazons. It features the characters from the original Swallows & Amazons book having adventures on the coast of China. I doubt this book would be published if it were written today because there is so much dialect in the dialog. However, Ransome doesn't use the dialect as a cheap joke. This isn't the cringe inducing character of Mickey Rooney in "Breakfast at Tiffany's". Ransome uses dialect/accent as an indication of how well the different characters can communicate and also as a reinforcing reminder of how one of the central characters is caught between two societies. As such, I think indications of the accents are important. It is a fun story, which moves right along, and it rings true as a yarn told by a teenager with a passion for pirates and adventure.
