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This issue began in disappointment with two stories in the SF section that you don't read because they are written, at least in significant part, in the second person. Which is a shame as you found the lead story by Onyebuchi intriguing until it turned on you and started telling you what you were doing.The reprint of Newitz's "The Blue Fairy's Manifesto" is a story I've read before, and I found myself liking it a more than originally. A revolutionary AI drone infects a factory robot with malware...
Zen And The Art Of An Android Beatdown, or Cecile Meets A Boxer: A Love Story - Tochi Onyebuchi ****A nurse repeatedly cares for and repairs an android boxer brought in every time he is too beaten to keep fighting, while having visions of other androids killing themselves. There is a tenderness to their relationship based so centrally around pain and a depth to those treated as subhuman finding their humanity where they can. The End Of The World Measured In Values Of N - Adam-Troy Castro **More
Notes while reading"The Swallows of the Storm" by Ray Nayler: development of a scientific research project on holes in living beings told as reports in a hearing. Good structure of the story."Baba Yaga and the Seven Hills" by Kristina Ten: Baba Yaga's hut ran away, so she travels to San Francisco to find help from the people in the 'magic' city. A crazy and humorous clash of Slavic folklore, San Fransisco modern life and high tech."The End of the World Measured in Values of N" by Adam-Troy Castr...
This rating and review are only for the story Great Gerta and the Mermaid by Mari Ness located in this volumeSo I obviously chose this story because of the word “mermaid” in the title. I’ve read one story by Mari Ness before, a Robin Hood retelling called “In the Greenwood” that I absolutely loved and five-starred. So when I began reading and realized this was a Peter Pan story set in Neverland about pirates and mermaids, I was like But I am very surprised and underwhelmed to report that this st...
