Asimov’s caps a strong year with a strong November/December issue. Best stories here are “The Discrete Charm of the Turing Machine,” by Greg Egan, in which a programmer learns the sinister secret behind the tide of automation that’s putting almost all humans out of work, “And No Torment Shall Touch Them,” by James Patrick Kelly, in which a dead man whose consciousness has been downloaded and manifested as a hologram projection must struggle to prove the continuity of identity with his former organic self, and “In Dublin, Fair City,” by Rick Wilber, another of Wilber’s Alternate History tales about the adventures of Moe Berg, professional baseball player turned spy in an Alternate World War II, this one concerning efforts to smuggle Werner Heisenberg and the secret of the atomic bomb out an occupied Ireland. Also good in November/December are “Afloat Above a Floor of Stars,” by Tom Purdom, which takes a couple of quarreling politically divided astronauts further into space than anyone has ever gone before, “Confessions of a Con Girl,” by Nick Wolven, about a student who falls afoul of a system which constantly evaluates what the people around you think of you, and Connie Willis’s reimagining of the Little Magic Shop story, “I Met a Traveller in an Antique Land.”
2017 was a particularly strong year for Analog, and they end the year with a good November/December issue. Best stories here are “Reentry,” by Brendan DuBois, in which an astronaut returned to Earth after a mining accident on an asteroid gets a far different greeting than the one he expected to receive, “Two Hours At Frontier,” by Sean McMullen, in which the crew of a spaceship en route to investigate a mysterious artifact at the outer edge of the Solar System wakes from hibernation to find themselves transformed and faced with mysteries to be solved, “Hybrid, Blue, by Firelight,” by Bill Johnson, another in Johnson’s series of stories about a man lost in time struggling to restore the obliterated timeline he came from, and “Native Things,” by Catherine Wells, which takes us to a devastated Post-Apocalyptic America for the first meeting for a generation between two separate groups of survivors, who must now try to find ways to live with each other. There are also good stories in November/December by Bud Sparhawk, Jay O’Connell, Scott Edelman, Ian Creasey, Tom Jolly, and others.
After an exceptional September/October issue, its best issue of the year, F&SF heads out of 2017 with a disappointing November/December issue. Best work here is by the Old Pros, veteran authors Kate Wilhelm and Larry Niven. In “Attachments,” Kate Wilhelm gives us some very good reasons why you should stay away from haunted castles, and in “By the Red Giant’s Light,” Larry Niven takes us to Pluto in the last days of the Solar System, when the swollen Sun is in the process of swallowing Venus, for the story of how Pluto’s sole human resident must find a way to work with an alien robot to keep a massive comet from destroying the planet.
About the Author
Gardner Dozois was the editor of Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine for almost twenty years, and also edits the annual anthology series The Year’s Best Science Fiction, which has won the Locus Award for Best Anthology more than any other anthology series in history, and which is now up to its Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection. He’s won the Hugo Award fifteen times as the year’s Best Editor, won the Locus Award thirty-one times, including an unprecedented sixteen times in a row as Best Editor, and has won the Nebula Award twice, as well as a Sidewise Award, for his own short fiction, which has been most recently collected in When the Great Days Come. He is the author or editor of more than a hundred books, including a novel written in collaboration with George R.R. Martin and Daniel Abrahan, Hunter’s Run, and, in addition to many solo anthologies, the anthologies, Songs of the Dying Earth, Warriors, Dangerous Women, and Rogues, all co-edited with George R.R. Martin, the last two of which were New York Times bestsellers. His most recent book is a major solo fantasy anthology, The Book of Swords. Coming up is a sequel, The Book of Magic. He has been inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame, and won the Skylark Award for Lifetime Achievement in Science Fiction. Born in Salem, Massachusettes, he now lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Index
Index 1 - Real People
(Authors, editors, etc.)
Abercrombie, Joe ref#1 ref#2 ref#3 ref#4 ref#5
Abraham, Daniel ref#1 ref#2 ref#3 ref#4 ref#5 ref#6 ref#7 ref#8
Adams, John Joseph ref#1 ref#2 ref#3 ref#4 ref#5 ref#6 ref#7 ref#8 ref#9 ref#10 ref#11 ref#12 ref#13 ref#14 ref#15 ref#16 ref#17 ref#18 ref#19 ref#20 ref#21 ref#22 ref#23 ref#24 ref#25 ref#26 ref#27 ref#28 ref#29
Adams, W.S. ref#1
Adani, Z.S. ref#1 ref#2
Aesop ref#1
Agapakis, Christina ref#1
Ahmed, Saladin ref#1 ref#2
Aiken, Jim ref#1
Aiken, Joan ref#1
Akers, Tim ref#1
al-Ayad, Djibril ref#1 ref#2
Aldiss, Brian W. ref#1 ref#2 ref#3 ref#4 ref#5 ref#6
Alexander, Alma ref#1 ref#2
Alexander, Michael ref#1 ref#2 ref#3 ref#4 ref#5 ref#6 ref#7
Alexander, William ref#1
Allan, Nina ref#1 ref#2 ref#3 ref#4 ref#5 ref#6 ref#7
Allen, Mike ref#1 ref#2 ref#3 ref#4 ref#5 ref#6
Allred, Lee ref#1
Allston, Aaron ref#1 ref#2
Amis, Kingley ref#1
Amnuel, Pavel ref#1
Anders, Charlie Jane ref#1 ref#2 ref#3 ref#4 ref#5 ref#6 ref#7
Anders, Lou ref#1 ref#2 ref#3 ref#4 ref#5 ref#6 ref#7 ref#8
Anderson, Liz J. ref#1
Anderson, Poul ref#1 ref#2 ref#3 ref#4 ref#5 ref#6 ref#7 ref#8 ref#9 ref#10 ref#11 ref#12 ref#13 ref#14 ref#15
Anderson, Richard ref#1
Andreadis, Athena ref#1 ref#2 ref#3
Antonelli, Lou ref#1
Arbesman, Samuel ref#1
Arkenberg, Megan ref#1 ref#2 ref#3
Armstrong, D.M. ref#1
Armstrong, Kelley ref#1 ref#2
Arnason, Eleanor ref#1 ref#2 ref#3 ref#4 ref#5 ref#6 ref#7 ref#8 ref#9 ref#10 ref#11 ref#12 ref#13 ref#14 ref#15
Arthur, Chet ref#1 ref#2
Ashby, Madeline ref#1 ref#2 ref#3 ref#4 ref#5 ref#6 ref#7
Asher, Neal ref#1 ref#2 ref#3 ref#4 ref#5
Ashley, Charlotte ref#1
Ashley, Mike ref#1 ref#2 ref#3
Atabef, Ken ref#1 ref#2
Attebury, Brian ref#1 ref#2
Atwood, Margaret ref#1
Bachus, Kate ref#1
Bacigalupi, Paolo ref#1 ref#2 ref#3 ref#4 ref#5 ref#6 ref#7 ref#8 ref#9 ref#10 ref#11 ref#12
Baggot, Julianna ref#1
Bailey, Dale ref#1 ref#2 ref#3 ref#4 ref#5 ref#6 ref#7 ref#8 ref#9 ref#10
Bailey, Robin Wayne ref#1
Baker, Kage ref#1 ref#2 ref#3 ref#4 ref#5 ref#6 ref#7 ref#8 ref#9 ref#10 ref#11 ref#12 ref#13 ref#14
Balder, Bo ref#1 ref#2
Ball, Peter M. ref#1 ref#2 ref#3 ref#4 ref#5 ref#6
Ballantyne, Tony ref#1 ref#2
Ballard, J.G. ref#1 ref#2 ref#3
Ballingrud, Nathan ref#1 ref#2
Bangs, Elliott ref#1 ref#2
Banks, Iain ref#1 ref#2 ref#3
Bara, Dave ref#1
Barbeau, Justin ref#1
Barber, Jessica ref#1 ref#2 ref#3
Barcia, Jacques ref#1
Barnes, John ref#1 ref#2 ref#3 ref#4 ref#5
Barnes, Steven ref#1
Barnhill, Kelly ref#1
Barrett, Neal ref#1 ref#2 ref#3 ref#4 ref#5 ref#6 ref#7 ref#8 ref#9 ref#10
Barringer, Stephen J. ref#1
Barron, Laird ref#1 ref#2 ref#3
Bartholomew, Kathleen ref#1
Barton, William ref#1 ref#2
Barzak, Christopher ref#1 ref#2 ref#3 ref#4
Battersby, Lee ref#1
Baum, L. Frank ref#1 ref#2
Baxter, Alan ref#1
Baxter, Stephen ref#1 ref#2 ref#3 ref#4 ref#5 ref#6 ref#7 ref#8 ref#9 ref#10 ref#11 ref#12 ref#13 ref#14 ref#15 ref#16 ref#17 ref#18 ref#19 ref#20 ref#21 ref#22 ref#23 ref#24 ref#25 ref#26 ref#27
Beagle, Peter S. ref#1 ref#2 ref#3 ref#4 ref#5 ref#6 ref#7 ref#8 ref#9 ref#10 ref#11 ref#12 ref#13 ref#14 ref#15 ref#16 ref#17 ref#18 ref#19 ref#20 ref#21
Bear, Elizabeth ref#1 ref#2 ref#3 ref#4 ref#5 ref#6 ref#7 ref#8 ref#9 ref#10 ref#11 ref#12 ref#13 ref#14 ref#15 ref#16 ref#17 ref#18 ref#19 ref#20 ref#21 ref#22 ref#23 ref#24 ref#25 ref#26 ref#27 ref#28 ref#29 ref#30 ref#31 ref#32 ref#33
Bear, Greg ref#1 ref#2 ref#3 ref#4 ref#5 ref#6
Beauman, Ned ref#1
Beckett, Chris ref#1 ref#2 ref#3 ref#4 ref#5 ref#6 ref#7 ref#8 ref#9 ref#10
Beckett, Samuel ref#1
Bedford, Jacey ref#1
Beerbohn, Max ref#1
Bein, Steve ref#1
Belilovsky, Anatoly ref#1
Bell, Helena ref#1 ref#2
Bellet, Annie ref#1
Benedict, R.S. ref#1
Benford, Gregory ref#1 ref#2 ref#3 ref#4 ref#5 ref#6 ref#7 ref#8 ref#9 ref#10 ref#11 ref#12 ref#13 ref#14 ref#15 ref#16 ref#17
Bennardo, M. ref#1 ref#2 ref#3 ref#4 ref#5 ref#6
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