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sergebroomThe October/November issue of Asimov’s really knocked my socks off. In fact, it has three stories I may nominate for a Hugo next year.
One is Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s novella “Stealth”, which shares the same background as “Diving The Wreck”. It centers on a woman who’s become an authority on the stealth tech of the long-dead Dignity starships, which means that she’s the only person who knows how little anybody knows, and she think all the deaths incurred trying to master the technology is too high.
Kij Johnson’s novella “The Man Who Bridged the Mist” is, yes, about a man who’s building a bridge, but not over a river covered by ordinary mist. In fact, nobody knows what the mist is made of, but they know if can kill you. That’s why the Empire has embarked on a years-long project to achieve a safer way to cross the river and the story shows how the construction affects everything around it even before it’s completed.
In Eleanor Arnason’s humorous and sad novelette “My Husband Steinn”, a writer living in an isolated part of Iceland finds a dead swan in front of her house. Later, a big dead fish. Neither she nor the local police officer can decide whether it’s a death threat or someone courting her. Let’s just say that it involves an ancient being who has a problem with sunlight.
Recommended.
One is Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s novella “Stealth”, which shares the same background as “Diving The Wreck”. It centers on a woman who’s become an authority on the stealth tech of the long-dead Dignity starships, which means that she’s the only person who knows how little anybody knows, and she think all the deaths incurred trying to master the technology is too high.
Kij Johnson’s novella “The Man Who Bridged the Mist” is, yes, about a man who’s building a bridge, but not over a river covered by ordinary mist. In fact, nobody knows what the mist is made of, but they know if can kill you. That’s why the Empire has embarked on a years-long project to achieve a safer way to cross the river and the story shows how the construction affects everything around it even before it’s completed.
In Eleanor Arnason’s humorous and sad novelette “My Husband Steinn”, a writer living in an isolated part of Iceland finds a dead swan in front of her house. Later, a big dead fish. Neither she nor the local police officer can decide whether it’s a death threat or someone courting her. Let’s just say that it involves an ancient being who has a problem with sunlight.
Recommended.
