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My favorites from this month's Asimov's were among the short stories. There was a good variety: Jason Sanford's "The Eight-Thousanders", Michael Libling's "Robyn in Her Shiny Blue Coffin", Y.M. Pang's "Mangy White Dog", and Gregory Frost's "Traveling On".
Of the longer stories Gray Rinehart's "Flare Shack" is my favorite. I think the storylines of small group working on desolate world/asteroid lead people to write good stories. "Flare Shack" feels like classic science fiction without feeling stale or dated. It works on a plot device that's been used many times before, but does so well.
I also liked Ian Tregillis' "When God Sits in Your Lap". I didn't feel he quite got the dialect/slang thing right, but it was a fun story. Personally, I wouldn't have been surprised at all to see Crowley show up because it felt like a slightly grittier riff on Good Omens. For some reason, I kind of compare it to Christopher Moore's "Noir". Perhaps it's the slang. Tregillis does it better than Moore.
We got longer stories from Kristine Kathryn Rusch and R. Garcia Y Robertson. The Rusch story really wasn't a story. It was an idea for a story in an interesting universe.
28. Asimov's Science Fiction September/October 2020
Of the longer stories Gray Rinehart's "Flare Shack" is my favorite. I think the storylines of small group working on desolate world/asteroid lead people to write good stories. "Flare Shack" feels like classic science fiction without feeling stale or dated. It works on a plot device that's been used many times before, but does so well.
I also liked Ian Tregillis' "When God Sits in Your Lap". I didn't feel he quite got the dialect/slang thing right, but it was a fun story. Personally, I wouldn't have been surprised at all to see Crowley show up because it felt like a slightly grittier riff on Good Omens. For some reason, I kind of compare it to Christopher Moore's "Noir". Perhaps it's the slang. Tregillis does it better than Moore.
We got longer stories from Kristine Kathryn Rusch and R. Garcia Y Robertson. The Rusch story really wasn't a story. It was an idea for a story in an interesting universe.
28. Asimov's Science Fiction September/October 2020