All three of the stories in the Advance Preview provided to me (I am related to one of the authors) show a rich familiarity with the literature and tropes of science fiction, yet with the freshness of clear grounding and relevance to this century.
"Turnabout" follows John Campbell’s prescription for a good science fiction story: Make one change in the conventionally accepted universe, then explore it, play with it. Here the accepted universe is the fantasy trope of Aladdin’s lamp, but for one change. When the lamp rubber refuses to make a wish, what can we expect to happen to the lamp rubber, or to the sensual trickster genie? Not what I thought was going to happen!
"Mara’s Shadow" brings together the tropes of Hidden/Lost Valleys and ShangriLa and the Andromeda Strain with our 21st century awareness of pandemic potential, geopolitical research realities and the suspense of cutting-edge viral GMO research that . . . I was on the edge of my chair until the resolution at the very end of this science-solid, human-interest balanced How-Done-It.
The last story in my preview humanizes, and alienizes, more intricacies than you might expect in sex with an alien. It’s been over six decades since Philip José Farmer broke the write-about-sex barrier in science fiction (and with aliens, no less). In "A Bitter Thing," the author explores more the “why” than the “how” of the sexual, social and emotional dynamics of an affair with an expat who happens to be quite . . . different.
I’m looking forward to the nine unread stories in my newly arrived full copy!
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