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eor5. Asimov's Nov/Dec 2022
Finally got around to reading the Nov/Dec issue of Asimov's. The novelettes and shorts in this issue had a lot of variety. "I'll Be Moon For Christmas" Michele LaFramboise was sweet although post apocalyptic. Ray Nayler's "The Empty" was so real you could feel the sun and grit of the sand getting into everything. It was honed sharp cutting close to current day reality and will likely be mistaken for a historical story in 50 years. M. Bennardo's "Forty-Eight Minutes at the Trainview Cafe" didn't end as I expected, but is an interesting sociological piece. I anticipated the end of "Falling Off the Edge of the World", but I still got invested in it.
6. Eric Garcia "Anonymous Rex"
This book has been sitting around the house a long time. Derien read it years ago, but I'd never gotten around to it. The coyote - road runner cartoons were fun even though they were completely absurd and impossible. But for me, this book was just absurd and impossible. Even suspending disbelief on the central premise of the universe, I felt like it wasn't consistent. So this guys outfit gets utterly shredded and soiled, but you can put it back on and walk in public with no one noticing?! If it's an intelligent, self mending outfit you have to say that. For the mystery part, it felt like the plot depended on too many coincidences to reach the end. The whole sequence was hella complicated, so I can see why it took a lot of contortions to work out, but that didn't make it any better for me. So in short, I'll pass on the sequel and I won't be saving it to read again.
Finally got around to reading the Nov/Dec issue of Asimov's. The novelettes and shorts in this issue had a lot of variety. "I'll Be Moon For Christmas" Michele LaFramboise was sweet although post apocalyptic. Ray Nayler's "The Empty" was so real you could feel the sun and grit of the sand getting into everything. It was honed sharp cutting close to current day reality and will likely be mistaken for a historical story in 50 years. M. Bennardo's "Forty-Eight Minutes at the Trainview Cafe" didn't end as I expected, but is an interesting sociological piece. I anticipated the end of "Falling Off the Edge of the World", but I still got invested in it.
6. Eric Garcia "Anonymous Rex"
This book has been sitting around the house a long time. Derien read it years ago, but I'd never gotten around to it. The coyote - road runner cartoons were fun even though they were completely absurd and impossible. But for me, this book was just absurd and impossible. Even suspending disbelief on the central premise of the universe, I felt like it wasn't consistent. So this guys outfit gets utterly shredded and soiled, but you can put it back on and walk in public with no one noticing?! If it's an intelligent, self mending outfit you have to say that. For the mystery part, it felt like the plot depended on too many coincidences to reach the end. The whole sequence was hella complicated, so I can see why it took a lot of contortions to work out, but that didn't make it any better for me. So in short, I'll pass on the sequel and I won't be saving it to read again.
