{"id":591,"date":"2012-01-02T13:15:10","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T03:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/?p=591"},"modified":"2013-01-02T08:28:28","modified_gmt":"2013-01-01T22:28:28","slug":"asimovs-science-fiction-december-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/?p=591","title":{"rendered":"Asimov’s Science Fiction – December 2011 – review"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The novella All About Emily<\/em>\u00a0by Connie Willis is a well written piece about the introduction of artificial life into a near future world. The themes were well trodden (humans fearing the new lifeforms they have created, artificial life yearning for a more human existence) but the quality of the prose was excellent, with an interesting point of view through which the story was told.<\/p>\n

I also enjoyed the novelette Surf<\/em>\u00a0by Suzanne Palmer, which started off feeling like a “scientific research gone wrong” style of story, but quickly turned into a fun adventure where I was happy to go along for the ride.<\/p>\n

“Run,” Bakri Says<\/em>\u00a0by Ferrett Steinmetz had an interesting premise, of a woman trying to rescue her brother from prison with the aid of a “save point” – a device that let her consciousness slide back in time whenever her heart stopped to a pre-determined save point. Obviously very influenced by modern gaming, but I thought the idea of what that kind of bloody repetition would do to a person’s sanity was very interesting.<\/p>\n

Also in this month’s edition was:<\/p>\n