Uploaded September 10, 1996 -- Updated July 28, 1997
Here is the list of stories in this issue. If you have any comments or reviews, send them to jbailey@sff.net. Please indicate which issue and/or story you're referring to in the subject line, and try to keep comments for different stories separate in you letters so I can place them properly.
"The Robot's Twilight Companion" by Tony Daniel
"Mountain Ways" by Ursula K. Le Guin
(Nominated for 1997 Hugo Award)
"The Edge of the Universe" by Terry Bisson
"Earth: Your Toxic Dream Vacation" by David
Hast
"Counting Cats in Zanzibar" by Gene Wolfe [6/10/97]
Miscellaneous Comments (on the magazine as a whole, editorials, columns, etc.)
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(Nominated for 1997 Hugo Award, best Novelette)
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Rich Horton: 10/24/96
A mysterious woman meets a mysterious man on a ship. She is running away from something, and he seems to be a cop. The story is the revelation of why she is running away, and who and what the cop really is, and how far the woman is willing to run. Wolfe writes this story in an intense, closely focussed style very reminiscent of last year's wonderful novella "The Ziggurat", and another Asimov's story this year ("Try and Kill It"). He remains, in my opinion, the very best SF writer.
Mark Stackpole: 6/10/97
Giving a synopsis of a Gene Wolfe short ruins their effect on the reader. The pleasure of Gene Wolfe is the gradual unfolding of the setting and the discovery of what is going on. At the risk of giving away too much, this poignant tale of a young man's pursuit of an older woman manages to incorporate an homage to Asimov's three laws of robotics, and a meditation on travel and identity, all while tackling the big issue of mankind's passing on.
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