reading (Asimov's Feb)
Jan. 5th, 2011 06:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eorI finished the February issue of Asimov's last night. It's amazing how a three hour wait at the auto repair shop will increase reading time! This month had many stories that left me with mixed impressions.
I really enjoy the society and history that we see glimpses of in Jeff Carlson's "Planet of the Sealies". I wasn't as convinced by how the plot played out. It just didn't ring right to me, but that may have been because the thought processes were supposed to be so alien that even the most understated examples were a solid basis for conclusion. I can give it the benefit of the doubt. Sara Genge's "Waster Mercy" took place in a setting we've seen in previous stories. It provides an interesting point of contemplation as to which of the characters is more insane. I didn't like Tim McDaniel's "Brother Sleep". The portrayal of teenage relationship angst was spot on. But after reading the attitude of the English in "A Passage to India", the tone of this story set my nerves on edge. Paul McAuley's "The Choice" had a complicated post change world. I always felt one step removed from the action though and I wasn't really drawn in. The change was even bigger in the many eons future Earth of "Out of the Dream Closet" by David Ira Cleary. This was a pixilated world, carefully drawn pixels floating in amorphous spaces. The pixels didn't quite come together into a picture.
Seems the overall theme is that I like the worlds, but where the story went didn't do it for me.
2. Asimov's February 2011
I really enjoy the society and history that we see glimpses of in Jeff Carlson's "Planet of the Sealies". I wasn't as convinced by how the plot played out. It just didn't ring right to me, but that may have been because the thought processes were supposed to be so alien that even the most understated examples were a solid basis for conclusion. I can give it the benefit of the doubt. Sara Genge's "Waster Mercy" took place in a setting we've seen in previous stories. It provides an interesting point of contemplation as to which of the characters is more insane. I didn't like Tim McDaniel's "Brother Sleep". The portrayal of teenage relationship angst was spot on. But after reading the attitude of the English in "A Passage to India", the tone of this story set my nerves on edge. Paul McAuley's "The Choice" had a complicated post change world. I always felt one step removed from the action though and I wasn't really drawn in. The change was even bigger in the many eons future Earth of "Out of the Dream Closet" by David Ira Cleary. This was a pixilated world, carefully drawn pixels floating in amorphous spaces. The pixels didn't quite come together into a picture.
Seems the overall theme is that I like the worlds, but where the story went didn't do it for me.
2. Asimov's February 2011
