29. Asimov's Nov/Dec 2023
This issue is the end of an era. I started getting issues of Asimov's in 1986 I think.![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
derien may have started a bit earlier. With exception of a few lost issues with moves, we've kept a subscription continuously the whole time we've been together. But this is our last printed issue. I had been debating ending our subscription entirely because I feel the overall quality of the content has been tailing off for a while. But when I found out we can get epub versions, which should be compatible with our ebook readers, I decided to go that route. So the next issue will be electronic only. I like the printed format, but I think we have 5 boxes packed full of old issues and can't read them because of allergies and decomposing paper.
In this issue, my favorite long piece was Dominica Phetteplace's "The Ghosts of Mars" Many of the of stories in Asimov's recently have had non-sociotypical characters, but a lot of them just feel like it's a cover for the author's inability to write emotion. The main character in this one felt real to me, with a voice which was believable. Among the short stories, my favorites were Prashanth Srivatsa's "Meet-Your-Hero", Frank Ward's "In The Days After", and James Patrick Kelly's "Embot's Lament".
This issue is the end of an era. I started getting issues of Asimov's in 1986 I think.
derien may have started a bit earlier. With exception of a few lost issues with moves, we've kept a subscription continuously the whole time we've been together. But this is our last printed issue. I had been debating ending our subscription entirely because I feel the overall quality of the content has been tailing off for a while. But when I found out we can get epub versions, which should be compatible with our ebook readers, I decided to go that route. So the next issue will be electronic only. I like the printed format, but I think we have 5 boxes packed full of old issues and can't read them because of allergies and decomposing paper.In this issue, my favorite long piece was Dominica Phetteplace's "The Ghosts of Mars" Many of the of stories in Asimov's recently have had non-sociotypical characters, but a lot of them just feel like it's a cover for the author's inability to write emotion. The main character in this one felt real to me, with a voice which was believable. Among the short stories, my favorites were Prashanth Srivatsa's "Meet-Your-Hero", Frank Ward's "In The Days After", and James Patrick Kelly's "Embot's Lament".
