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31. Asimov's Science Fiction Nov/Dec 2021
I liked the feature story for this month's issue of Asimov's. "La Terrieene" takes place in a complicated world with multiple alien races and draws on familiar literary ground of Agatha Christie and E. M. Forster. All the various elements and plots make for a wonderful curry or gumbo.
My favorite of the novelettes was Sandra McDonald's "The Gem of Newfoundland" which could be set in Maine but isn't. It painted the mood and life of the characters well and gave the reader a ringside seat. It might not be the seat you want, but it's the seat you got.
This month we got another of the dream VR princess stories from R. Garcia y Robertson, "Daydream Believer". I considered the first in the series a farcical homage to space opera. But as The Smiths might say "that joke isn't funny anymore." Someday I might be found blind lying on the floor next to a spork. You will know why.
Of the shorter works, my favorites were Ray Nayler's "Muallim" which provides the classic short story end twist and Misha Lenau's "Bread and Circuits" the plot of which is close enough to reality to make it bite a little.
I liked the feature story for this month's issue of Asimov's. "La Terrieene" takes place in a complicated world with multiple alien races and draws on familiar literary ground of Agatha Christie and E. M. Forster. All the various elements and plots make for a wonderful curry or gumbo.
My favorite of the novelettes was Sandra McDonald's "The Gem of Newfoundland" which could be set in Maine but isn't. It painted the mood and life of the characters well and gave the reader a ringside seat. It might not be the seat you want, but it's the seat you got.
This month we got another of the dream VR princess stories from R. Garcia y Robertson, "Daydream Believer". I considered the first in the series a farcical homage to space opera. But as The Smiths might say "that joke isn't funny anymore." Someday I might be found blind lying on the floor next to a spork. You will know why.
Of the shorter works, my favorites were Ray Nayler's "Muallim" which provides the classic short story end twist and Misha Lenau's "Bread and Circuits" the plot of which is close enough to reality to make it bite a little.
