AntipodeanSF magazine, issue 115 (December 2007 - January 2008): Annotated table of contents

10 tiny stories, 1 worthy. See opening remarks of #116 for any non-obvious conventions in the listing below. Full issue #115 is available here.

Story list (best first).

1. Lynton Haggett's "The Favour" (A); download; fantasy: Two crooks, & only one convicted. Convict extracts his revenge. Not an original story idea - even the way revenge is taken, but well done.
2. Matthew Wallace's "Good Home Wanted" (B); download; sci-fi: Electronic message from a program on the net that claims to be an unwanted AI in danger of destruction. If you provide safe space on your PC, it will help you out in many ways. You are provided instructions to load it. Any takers?
3. David Kernot's "Entropy" (C); download; sci-fi: Apocalypse results when Lorenzo is teaching his pupil Marec how to magically move a physical object by just thinking about its movement via the "seventh" degree of freedom!
4. Shaun A Saunders' "CRT" (C); download; non-genre: Rude guards manhandle an innocent at a shop. CRT of title is "Consumer Response Team", a fancy name for shop's hired bullies.
5. Theutes' "Back Memory" (C); download; fantasy: On Gelhan, memory of everyone dead permeates the air in the form of small! This smell is called "Back Memory". May be I'm not very good at appreciating fantasy - I just didn't see anything worth reading in the story.
6. Richard Pitaniello's "Close Encounter" (C); download; fantasy: A suspected alien salesman puts his pitch to a human. Title comes from "Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind".
7. Joan Malpass' "Just Your Type" (C); download; fantasy: A female vampire (?) surprises & kills a security guard.
8. Simon P King's "The Barbeque Stopper" (C); download: Apparently a piece of humor, but even the point of the story escaped me. A world where there are no men younger than grandpa, & the explanation of the phenomenon that I cannot make out the head or tail of.
9. Des Rogers' "The Boardriders and Windsurfers" (C); download: Cannot figure out anything sensible in this story.
10. Nathan Burrage's "The 32 Paths" (C); download; religion: Cannot make out the head or tail of it, except that it has something to do with faith & religion.

Related: All stories from AntipodeanSF magazine.