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It is always a surprise – unfairly so – to find a small new magazine and realize that it’s re­ally quite good! I had that experience with the previous issue of Curiosities, and now I see the Winter issue, and it does not disappoint. Konstantine Paradias offers “ And the Faces Screamed in the Galleries” – a really striking, surrealist story. The paintings in the Louvre have come to life and are attacking humans. This is a case for… the Astrolabe! It’s a wild story that has a lot of fun with its premise and has some philosophical points to make too.

skip to main | skip to sidebar This blog comments on a variety of technology news, trends, and products and how they connect. I'm in Red Hat's cloud product strategy group in my day job although I cover a broader set of topics here. This is a personal blog; the opinions are mine alone. Sunday, October 25, 2020 This is an update to 50 authors, 50 science fiction stories shorter than novels. It's mostly an addition of 30 more authors (many from outside the "big SF names") but I also made some other tweaks.  I've been playing around with re-reading favorite science fiction short stories ...

The Failed Dianas” by Monique Laban. A young woman return­ing from a space-based financial internship goes to a high-end restaurant and meets a different version of herself, quite a bit older. It turns out that this is the original Diana who disappointed her parents deeply by refusing to go into finance; by the end of the story we’ve met five versions of the same person, each one cloned and raised at a different age by the same parents. This is a very pointed story about filial relationships, expectations, and autonomy. A very different and unexpected rela­tionship forms in “

Inten­tionalities” by Aimee Ogden, where in the near future Sorrel gets trapped in an all-too-plausible system of debt peonage and ends up “confer­ring” a child to Braxos Corp. She bears the child, Abigail, and is able to raise her to the age of five with resources from the corporation, then has to surrender her, as she’ll eventually become a space miner. The rest of the story is Sorrel’s work with non-profits that have the goal of dismantling this system of debt-based slavery. It’s a very short story in which to sketch out a complex system and a whole life, and sometimes it fe...