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18) "Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: March/April 2018"
A good issue, I feel like so many of the stories deserve to be mentioned, and I can't take the time just now. Maybe I'll edit later when I can sit longer. Solid choices about how to order the stories for both satisfaction and to create a desire for more. The next to last story was 'Because Reasons' by Alexandra Renwick - a sweet, sad story of a friendship lost and an excellent analysis of punk sensibilities. The final story, "Bury Me in the Rainbow," by Bill Johnson, is a sequel to a novelette he wrote back in 1977 titled "We Will Drink A Fish Together," which I have not read and now I need to find it, and it implies that more is coming along. Hopefully more quickly! It concerns the doings and business of a community which used to be a Reservation when they're faced with an option of potentially leaving Earth with a group of aliens, and how they work out their conflicts on the decision.
There was also a good article about Fletcher Pratt which makes me want to go find more by him. I've re-read "The Compleate Enchanter" (Pratt with L. Sprague De Camp) several times since I was a kid, it might be past time for more.
A good issue, I feel like so many of the stories deserve to be mentioned, and I can't take the time just now. Maybe I'll edit later when I can sit longer. Solid choices about how to order the stories for both satisfaction and to create a desire for more. The next to last story was 'Because Reasons' by Alexandra Renwick - a sweet, sad story of a friendship lost and an excellent analysis of punk sensibilities. The final story, "Bury Me in the Rainbow," by Bill Johnson, is a sequel to a novelette he wrote back in 1977 titled "We Will Drink A Fish Together," which I have not read and now I need to find it, and it implies that more is coming along. Hopefully more quickly! It concerns the doings and business of a community which used to be a Reservation when they're faced with an option of potentially leaving Earth with a group of aliens, and how they work out their conflicts on the decision.
There was also a good article about Fletcher Pratt which makes me want to go find more by him. I've re-read "The Compleate Enchanter" (Pratt with L. Sprague De Camp) several times since I was a kid, it might be past time for more.