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As a mail subscriber to #AsimovsScienceFiction magazine, I get a vote in their 2025 reader's awards. It was fun to go back and re-read my favourite stories for the year to decide my rankings:
Best Novella:
1. Quantum Ghosts, #NancyKress
2. The Chronolithographer's Assistant, #SuzannePalmer
3. Spare Parts for the Mind, #GregEganBest Novelette:
1. Most Things, #RichLarson
2. On the Night Shift, #ZoharJacobs
3. The Fight Goes On, #HarryTurtledoveBest Short Story:
1. Catch a Tiger in the Snow, #RayNayler
2. Lolo's Last Run, #EMKerkman
3. Woolly, #CarrieVaughnBest Poem:
1. I Try to Explain the Concept of Teeth to My Alien Roommate, #RachelLintonBest Cover:
1. July/August, #MaurizioManzieri (attached image)- My subscription started after the Jan/Feb issue, so that got snubbed.
- For all that print #SciFi magazines are now extremely marginal commercially and culturally, this one at least still attracts some pretty great material (mixed in, admittedly, with some so-so stuff) including by veteran greats of the genre - Kress and Turtledove are still producing amazing work in their mid-late 70s!
- I found the Novella section hardest to trim down to 3, with narrow cuts for stories by T.R. Napper, Ted Kosmatka, and John Kessel.
- It was a great year for pets in SF stories, or maybe as a dog- and cat-lover I'm just sucker for them. I found a place in my heart for Lolo, Magritte, Goobler the miniature woolly mammoth, Sponge, and of course, the tiger in the snow! -
"Nancy Kress has been exploring the possibilities of genetic engineering, human evolution, alien contact, artificial intelligence, and the future of the species for over forty years, with one eye on the bleeding edge of science and the other on the human soul and what makes it bleed. These stories, and the essays that explain her own history and worldview, compose a brief tourist’s guide for the world to come."
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Finished another of my growing collection of gigantic #GardnerDozois anthologies of best short sci fi from a year - this one, 2014. These collections are always so good, and diverse in themes and moods. #NancyKress ends this one on a particularly high note with her terrific novella 'Yesterday's Kin'. #Bookstodon @bookstodon
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#FinishedReading my first of a subscription to #AsimovsScienceFiction magazine. With its wonky printing (page margins randomly shifting, print changing darkness across each page) it feels a bit like samizdat; I don't mind that, but surely they could have done better with the cover (credited only to image corporation Shutterstock). More importantly the stories were solid and entertaining, although not top tier. My favourites were 'The Hidden God' by #TRNapper and 'On the Night Shift' by #ZoharJacobs , one a satirical thriller of AI attaining sentience and declaring class war, the other a fairly realistic story of mission control for a Mars landing trying to work through a climate change induced superstorm on Earth. #NancyKress , one of my favourite short story writers, has part 1 of a 2 part story so I'm intrigued to see where that goes next issue! @scifi
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#FinishedReading another brick of best-of-the-year picks of #SF #SciFi short stories selected by #GardnerDozois . These are always good, but the two stories from this 2013 collection that really floored me were both by #NancyKress . I need to seek out more of her work - any fans of her here who can recommend where to start with her longer fiction? #Bookstodon @bookstodon
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Sci-fi author and scientist team up to write a novel about consciousness and quantum weirdness - The novel “Observer” plays off the idea that acts of observation give rise to the... - https://www.geekwire.com/2023/kress-lanza-observer-consciousness-quantum/ #fictionscience #sciencefiction #consciousness #robertlanza #nancykress #science #quantum #books
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‘Observer’ blends way-out quantum science and fiction
Do we each create our own reality? Could different observers create measurably different realities? It's a fantastical line of thought that has sparked scientific inquiries as well --- and now the science and the fiction
https://cosmiclog.com/2023/01/09/observer-blends-way-out-quantum-science-and-fiction/
#FictionScienceClub #Books #CLUBClub #Consciousness #FictionScience #NancyKress #QuantumMechanics #RobertLanza #ScienceFiction -
some recommendations in no particular order:
#NancyKress - Beggars in Spain (Sleepless Trilogy)
#CJCherryh - Cyteen
#JohnScalzi - Old Man's War / Lock In
#JohnBrunner - Sheep Look Up / Stand on Zanzibar / The Shockwave Rider
#LoisMcMasterBujold - Vorkosiganand my all-time favorite
#TadWilliams - Otherland
