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.
"Groundling Dancer" by Gene O'Neill
"Marrow" by Robert Reed
"Pyro" by Dana Paxson
"Deep Space Sein" by Thomas Marcinko
"Galaxia" by Gregory Benford [5/22/97]
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Richard Horton: 5/22/97
A time-honored SF story structure might be called the "travelogue", wherein a story is a thinly-disguised excuse for parading some particular scientific wonder in front of the reader. Benford is fairly fond of this (see his story "Alphas" for example), and "Galaxia" is another such. As a story, it's rather routine, basically a chase, with some unconvincingly motivated bad guys tyring to assassinate veteran Galactic politician Sir Zeb and his consort/bodyguard Fyrna. This business doesn't matter though: the interest in the story is the speculative astronomy: in this case featuring wormholes, "wild" wormholes, and a sort of ecology of interstellar "creatures" near the Galactic core. The story is fun and absorbing just for these last features.
Rich Horton
http://www.sff.net/people/Richard.Horton/
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