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Review for Water God's Dog - Strange story of devotion and sacrifice to a mysterious, powerful and capricious god.
Excellent as always. I especially enjoyed Stillborne and Water God’s Dog.
As always, the first thing I read when it becomes available. Love this magazine forever.
My favorite stories:- Marc Laidlaw - Stillborne- J. R. Dawson - Marley and Marley (I will nominate for Hugo)- David Erik Nelson - Whatever Comes After Calcutta (another one I will nominate)
Attachments - Kate Wilhelm ***Carbo - Nick Wolven **Big Girl - Meg Elison **Stillborne - Marc Laidlaw ***Solid fantasy with a strong hook of the human and gargoyle linked by their magically swapped hands. The jumps in time confuse things, without any signifiers of which period the story is in, but a fun read nonetheless. By The Red Giant's Light - Larry Niven **Marley And Marley - JR Dawson ***Water God's Dog - RS Benedict **A servant of the titular water god who must obey its whims or suffer pa...
C.C. Finlay liked my review!!!This magazine has never disappointed. I always find a few gems therein. This one had a story by Meg Elison inside. Wonderful. Perhaps in the top 3 of the year’s issues.
A variety of really powerful stories -- and, as always, something for everybody. I think this is the strongest issue of F&SF this year.My standout stories:Water God's Dog, by R.S. Benedict. A hard-hitting story of a world that lives at the mercy of its remote water god. The god is ostensibly benevolent, but the story makes clear how precarious is the charity of those who have amassed power. The story works beautifully on both levels; as a self-contained story, and as a mirror of late-stage capit...
Stand out stories for me were Stillborne by Marc Laidlaw, By the Giant's Red Light by Larry Niven and Water God's Dog by R. S. Benedict. A solid issue. The Laidlaw has characters from several other stories but I didn't feel I missed anything not having familiarity with the earlier stories. It started out a little slow for me and I thought it was going to be a particular kind of story. But it ended up being something very different and I ended up loving it way more than I thought I would.This is
An above average issue, with a ghostly theme running through it with various ghosts in various forms featured in some of the stories. Kate Wilhelm's ghost story is the strongest with a test of wills between ghosts and the living. Marc Laidlaw's story is another good one, while the tale by J. R. Dawson features a metaphorical ghost from the future, or perhaps the past, depending on your time point of view. - "Attachments" by Kate Wilhelm: an interesting story about ghosts who are cursed to be att...
The stories in this issue of F&SF range from time travel, to ghosts, to a clever extrapolation of the sleazy side of self-driving cars, to a space race round one of Saturn's rings. I liked all three of the short stories, liked Marc Laidlaw's novella "Stillborne" better, and liked R. S. Benedict's unusual, beautifully-written novelette "Water God's Dog" most of all. Benedict's tale reminds me that is long, long overdue that I read the "Epic of Gilgamesh." Not that "Water God's Dog" features Gilga...
8 • Attachments • 27 pages by Kate Wilhelm Excellent/VG. Drew visits ruins in England and two ghosts attach themselves to her. They draw energy from her making her feel as if she is going to die. That's not what they want. They have unfinished business. 35 • Carbo • 31 pages by Nick Wolven Very Good. Jim gets a car when he's in high school. At the start of a road trip while in college a friend plays with Carbo's programming which leaves Carbo with some quirks. The adaptive programming in Carbo g...
This issue had three very good stories and one not so good story, and the rest were better than average.Kate Wilhelm - Attachments - 4 stars - An unusual ghost story, well written, a fairly unique idea.Nick Wolven - Carbo - 5 stars - Beware of self-driving, intelligent cars. Ya know, that virus that infected your PC? Well ...Meg Elison - Big Girl - 5 stars - A girl suddenly grows gigantic, I mean really gigantic! How does society respond? And then what happens when she starts shrinking?Marc Laid...
This was a good issue, but with only two stories that I can recall easily: Carbo and Attachments. The novella was a big fantasy piece, and I'm not a big fan of wizards and such. But it's a good fantasy novella. All in all, certainly worth reading.
My favorites in this issue were all by women: heartbreaker / head-scratcher "Big Girl" by Meg ElisonSPEED-RACER STAR WARS NASCAR ON SATURN"Racing the Rings of Saturn" by Ingrid Garciatime travel foster care flip-flop personas "Marley and Marley" by J.R. DawsonI also mostly loved David Erik Nelson's "Whatever Comes After Calcutta" mostly for the body horror and MAGA witch hunt.
Meh. A few good stories.
So far only read/listened to:-- Marley and Marley by J. R. Dawson - 3*A good 'escape pod' episode and quite unique. It opens with this so it's not a spoiler... Young Marley (maybe 12) becomes an orphan. An official has to find her a foster parent but she has no relatives. So using time travel they bring back Marley as a 28 year old to care for her younger self!. haha cool bit of time travel there. Young Marley doesn't like old Marley and old Marley has rules to follow so she doesn't mess up the
