Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Brief posts: 8 stories, some good

  1. Mike Resnick's "Distant Replay" (A); fantasy: An unusual love story.
  2. Gene Wolfe's "Green Glass" (C), a fantasy, from Asimov's April/May 2007 - to big story list.
  3. Two Lucifer Jones stories by Mike Resnick - "The Flame of Bharatput" (A) & "Secret Sex" (B) - to his "Exploits" collection contents. Neither is good enough to warrant its own post. Both are non-genre humor.
  4. Cory Doctorow's "Printcrime" (B) & "Truncat" (C). Former is dystopic society based on an extreme case of US movie industry winning against file sharers; later is jargon filled utopia of long lived people where sharing (via file sharing networks) of somebody's braindump without owner's consent is common. To Cory's list.
  5. Peter Anderson's "The Copper Responds" (B) - good but dark fanfic rejoinder to Cory's Printcrime. Assumes you've read Printcrime. To Cory's list.
  6. Gregory Benford's "The Voice" (B) in David Heartwell's Best SF 3 anthology contents list. Science fiction story of a destopic far future.
  7. Existing post of Arthur Clarke's "Maelstrom II" gets 2 more links: a slide show illustrating the story with pictures, & a 3-minute average quality movie showing the preparatory part of the story (till the crisis develops - not rescue).

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