Uploaded July 16, 1997 -- Updated July 28, 1997
Here is the list of stories in this issue. If you have any comments or reviews, send them to jbailey@sff.net. Please indicate which issue and/or story you're referring to in the subject line, and try to keep comments for different stories separate in you letters so I can place them properly.
"Izzy and the Father of Terror" by Eliot Fintushel
"Words and Music" by William Sanders
"Guest Law" by John C. Wright [6/5/97]
"The Holy Stomper Vs. the Alien Barrel of
Death" by R. Neube
"Black Canoes" by Tony Daniel
"After I Killed Her" by Tanith Lee
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Rich Horton: 6/5/97
This is a neat story about a far future in which humans live mostly on space habitats and spaceships. Given the size of space, and the slowness of travel (sublight, apparently), enforcement of any kind of law is a problem, and most ships are laws unto themselves. The "Guest Law" is a tradition govering trade and exchange between ships. This story concerns an encounter between one such ship and a mysterious, ancient-seeming, ship. Does the Guest Law apply?
It's not perfect: there is quite of bit of rather clumsy infodump, and I'm not sure I really believe in the self-contained sublight ships travelling between stars forever. But the story is fascinating for the depiction of the modified space-living humans and their strict "society", and worthwhile for the moral points concerning the Guest Law and enforcement.
Rich Horton
http://www.sff.net/people/Richard.Horton/
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