STG's

Ok, apparently my Kindle is taking the date of this issue seriously, because I just can't find it without using the search function. Weird. Not that surprising though - for whatever reason Amazon has created a very weird format for these magazines. Could be worse, though - in the Android version, it simply didn't remember where I stopped reading. So every time I reopened the magazine, I had to figure out where I was last (sometimes weeks ago, as I usually read only bits on the cell phone). Basically unusable. Well, the big reason I read this one is that Neal Asher mentioned his story: - The Other Gun - Neal Asher A nice novella on Asher's Commonwealth. It is part of a new trilogy - which should be interesting. This one has some serious steampunk flavor (the novella starts with the main character dropping from orbit in a bathysphere, for crying out loud!), and the sidekick is an human converted into an raptor. Nice villain, too. The end seems to drag for a bit after...

This issue of Asimov's was the first I've read with the new format. It is not great, but it is acceptable - specially if I stick to the Kindle instead of the Android Kindle Reader. Some notable stories in this issue were: - The Last Judgment - James Patrick Kelly. Interesting setting - aliens take look like demons decided the world was violent and troubled because of men and made us all disappear. The story is a murder investigation on this world. Pretty good. - Living in the Eighties - David Ira Cleary - cute premise - a web site is able to sync you brain in a way that can make you time travel (I imagine the author took inspiration from all the brain sync audio that is sold). One friend tries to go the past to save his girl, the other to the future to get cured of Diabetes. I didn't really enjoy this one - it mostly made me too anxious about everything that goes wrong. - Something Real - Rick Wilber - nice story in a classical setting - spies and time traveler tryi...