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The rating is for "Our Lady of the Open Road" by Sarah Pinsker
3.5/5.0
Good issue. The Ladies Aquatic Gardening Society was a witty little short with a fun sense of humor. The Muses of Shuyedan-18 was affecting, and Mutability put forward a neat concept in a quiet sort of way without coming right out and saying it.
This is one of the best issues of the magazine I've read in years, both in the stories and the quality of the prose. Henry Lien's story was the winning rose in a garden of delights. Need a tool to battle genre snobs who like to use literary quality as a gate keeper? You can smack them on the head with this, although it's light... and probably won't hurt much. But maybe, just maybe, they'll read it.
I've written this review with a few more additions you can find at SF Signal . NOTE: I go deep into the stories, so you want to be surprised by the works, better not read. The great strength of short fiction is its length – a counterintuitive argument as it’s often the matter of length that has people champion novels as the superior form and dismiss short fiction as thin and shallow. But short fiction’s power lies in the ability to compensate for its brevity and conjure a full world rich in pos...
Al igual que Wind will Rove, es ciencia ficción porque transcurre en un futuro en el que hay cosas futuristas, pero todo el relato va de otra cosa. Una banda de música punk, de las últimas que hacen directos, sobrevive como puede en un mundo en el que los Holoconciertos en 3D dominan el mundo musical. Igual también que en Wind will rove, la descripción del momento en que la protagonista coge su instrumento musical y empieza a tocarlo es algo que solo ha podido ser escrito por una persona que hay...
I just read the Ladies' Aquatic Gardening Society by Henry Lien and have to say this is one ridiculously fun story -- with a bite too! Henry is one of the few people that I see do clever ways in formatting of stories and that I actually feel like they're fresh and amusing, and they always fit the stories. His character work is also superb as I don't think I've seen close to the same voice twice. This is probably my favorite so far I've read of his and hope to see more in future Asimov's!
One of the better issues I've read in a while. No bad stories, really only one story that didn't suit my taste, 'Our Lady of the Open Road' by Sarah Pinsker. 'Ghosts of the Savannah', 'Ladies' Aquatic Gardening Society', and 'The End of the War' were all solid and good stories. 'Muses of Shuyedan-18' was great, poetic, topical, and touching, and 'Mutability' is a best of year type story, simply amazing. Wondering if maybe this issue was editing by someone else? Kathleen Ann Goonan did fill in fo...
I feel like this is one of the issues that I've enjoyed most in the past while: First off, I really liked The End of the War. It took a very interesting take on future warfare and made it very believable in its likeness to modern video games. It was a neat idea. The Ladies' Aquatic Gardening Society was equal parts enjoyable and stressful. It was very well-written and absolutely believable in the ways that high society thinks. I liked Ghosts of the Savannah, although I was a bit disappointed bec...
Overall the fiction in this issue of Asimov's is a cut above, highlighted by two major standouts. The first is an outstanding short story called "Mutability" by Ray Naylor, which imagines an unique (but forehead-slappingly obvious, in retrospect) consequence of a future where people live unnaturally long lives. The other one is the real five star winner in this issue: Sarah Pinsker's novelette "Our Lady of the Open Road" - about a crappy van driving, dumpster diving band fronted by a punk legend...
Another strong issue, featuring four novelettes. "The End of the War" reminds me of the stories of the trench war in WWI, where the common soldiers from both sides interacted with each other and formed relationships based on their commonalities. "The Ladies' Aquatic Gardening Society" is a look at Newport Society early in the last century and the unintended consequences of "one-upmanship." "Ghosts of the Savannah" is set in prehistory, but looks at loyalty, friendship, social obligation, and lea...
A really good, varied issue this month with multiple stories that stood out positively for me. Wexler's "The End of the War" is a great offering of speculative space opera setting a large conflict within the isolated confines of people who spend long times in near isolation fighting over scavenge material from abandoned tech from the early days of a war that has gone on for far too long. The story raises a lot of issues both large-scale and personal and does so with compellingly fresh characters...
The theme of this issue seemed to be relationships between females. In some stories, such as The Ladies' Aquatic Gardening Society, a conflict between two women made for engaging and absolutely fun SF. In Ghosts of the Savannah a relationship between two women yielded a story I wouldn't normally describe as science fiction, but it made me curious about the changing definition of SF. The female protagonist of Our Lady of the Open Road used encounters with two different women to better understand
"Mutability", by Ray Naylor. 4 stars. Short story."The Muses of Shuyedan-18", by Idrapramit Das. 3.5 stars. Short story."Our Lady of the Open Road," by Sarah Pinsker. 4 stars. Novelette.
Not much really outstanding in this magazine. Story highlights include Henry Lein's amusing "The Ladies' Aquatic Gardening Society", Indrapramit Das' "The Muses of Shuyedan-18" and Sarah Pinkser's "Our Lady of the Open Road". I also liked M. Bernnardo's "Ghosts of the Savannah", but I'm not it's science fiction.
