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A review by kayeofswords
Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 137 by Fran Wilde, Julie Nováková, Neil Clarke, Robert Reed, Pat Cadigan, Joe R. Lansdale, Chris Urie, A Que, Carolyn Ives Gilman
2.0
I really enjoyed these two stories:
The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi by Pat Cadigan
The Power is Out by A Que, translated by Elizabeth Hanlon
(The nonfiction material was also good.)
Two stories may have disappointed me because I have a degree in library and information science; I can get thrown out of stories really easily when my professional brain notices that something doesn't work. "Deep Down in the Cloud" does not account for pre-late 90s information science architecture, so its premise and near-future information worldbuilding was not very believable to me. "Obliteration" was an interesting concept that could have been taken a bit further; I enjoyed the cautionary data management aspect of the story, but the characters took a backstage to it, and I found the MC a bit flat.
"Umbernight" was an interesting concept, and I guess one of the reasons it didn't land well for me is that I'm a bit fatigued about exoticism and alien planets.
The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi by Pat Cadigan
The Power is Out by A Que, translated by Elizabeth Hanlon
(The nonfiction material was also good.)
Two stories may have disappointed me because I have a degree in library and information science; I can get thrown out of stories really easily when my professional brain notices that something doesn't work. "Deep Down in the Cloud" does not account for pre-late 90s information science architecture, so its premise and near-future information worldbuilding was not very believable to me. "Obliteration" was an interesting concept that could have been taken a bit further; I enjoyed the cautionary data management aspect of the story, but the characters took a backstage to it, and I found the MC a bit flat.
"Umbernight" was an interesting concept, and I guess one of the reasons it didn't land well for me is that I'm a bit fatigued about exoticism and alien planets.