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“Submergence” by Arula Ratnakar is a kind of horror story that in my opinion tries to do too many things at the same time. Sentient...

“Submergence” by Arula Ratnakar is a kind of horror story that in my opinion tries to do too many things at the same time. Sentient magical sponges, mind transplants, plagues and loves.
#clarkesworld

“The Orbiting Guan Erye” by Wang Zhenzhen is an absurd—and I don't mean that in a negative sense—science fiction short story....

“The Orbiting Guan Erye” by Wang Zhenzhen is an absurd—and I don't mean that in a negative sense—science fiction short story. The most surprising bit about it SPOILER

is the fact that the dodgy dark web company that promises to send things with mystical connotations to space on your behalf *actually sent things to space*.

I guess “The Boston Hearth Project” by TX Watson goes on my reading list. After @SolarpunkPrompts,I heard it also mentioned by Ariel...

I guess “The Boston Hearth Project” by TX Watson goes on my reading list. After @SolarpunkPrompts,I heard it also mentioned by Ariel Kroon on @solarpunkpresents and it sounds right up my #Solarpunk alley.

I've heard plenty of stories of sky planet ecosystems, and “Finisterra” by David Moles is a marvelous addition to that lot. And to...

I've heard plenty of stories of sky planet ecosystems, and “Finisterra” by David Moles is a marvelous addition to that lot. And to think I might have skipped it because it came in a list of #Clarkesworld stories that I remembered, more or less!

“The Peppers of GreenScallion” by Myung-hoon Bae is an interesting story about cross-border friendship. Except it falls very short in...

“The Peppers of GreenScallion” by Myung-hoon Bae is an interesting story about cross-border friendship. Except it falls very short in explaining the food economy of its remote planet (saying “nothing grows there” but colonization is nonetheless a massive topic??) and it is somehow crazily obsessed with meat. #Clarkesworld

“The Painter of Trees” by Suzanne Palmer reminded me of Orson Scott Card's “Speaker of the Dead”. Goes vastly different from...

“The Painter of Trees” by Suzanne Palmer reminded me of Orson Scott Card's “Speaker of the Dead”. Goes vastly different from that one, though.
#Clarkesworld

I remembered “The Sun from Both Sides” by R.S.A. Garcia from its start. Well, I don't remember exactly how the middle of the story...

I remembered “The Sun from Both Sides” by R.S.A. Garcia from its start. Well, I don't remember exactly how the middle of the story went. But the pastoral fantasy turning cyberpunk revenge turning Valencian intrigue I recognized. Maybe I'll listen to it again. But first, onwards to other #Clarkesworld stories I may or may not remember.

“When Home, No Need to Cry” by Erin K. Wagner is another #Clarkesworld story I heard before, but this one I had forgotten so I listened...

“When Home, No Need to Cry” by Erin K. Wagner is another #Clarkesworld story I heard before, but this one I had forgotten so I listened again. It is a very personal story about an astronaut life.

“Eater of Worlds” by Jamie Wahls was vaguely familiar. I think I heard it before, but couldn't remember much. It's a beautiful...

“Eater of Worlds” by Jamie Wahls was vaguely familiar. I think I heard it before, but couldn't remember much.
It's a beautiful optimistic post-apocalyptic story.
#Clarkesworld

I re-shuffled my podcast playlist, which put three interesting #Clarkesworld stories back on top:- “KIT: Some Assembly Required” (Kate...

I re-shuffled my podcast playlist, which put three interesting #Clarkesworld stories back on top:
- “KIT: Some Assembly Required” (Kate Koja and Carter Scholz, surveillance internet AI meets Christopher Marlowe)
- “Without Exile” (Eleanna Castroianni, about refugees and identity)
- “Marshmallows” (D. A. Xiaolin Spires, very Christmas cyberpunk)
I vaguely recognised the stories when I heard them, but found it worth listening to them again.

The glimpses of dystopia in Robert Jeschonek's “Dog and Pony Show” point to a massively horrible world infested with double speak....

The glimpses of dystopia in Robert Jeschonek's “Dog and Pony Show” point to a massively horrible world infested with double speak. The end comes a bit sudden and without consequences. #clarkesworld

“The Lonely Time Traveler of Kentish Town” by Nadia Afifi has an interesting model of time travel (special individuals can take others...

“The Lonely Time Traveler of Kentish Town” by Nadia Afifi has an interesting model of time travel (special individuals can take others to perceive, but not interact with, the past in roughly the same location), an interesting story (with one big question left open – what is the other brother' deal??) and is set in a UK that is a step more to the right than currently, in an unfortunately believable manner. #Clarkesworld

“Calf Cleaving in the Benthic Black” by Isabel J. Kim is one of those generation ship stories. Except not told from the inside of the...

“Calf Cleaving in the Benthic Black” by Isabel J. Kim is one of those generation ship stories. Except not told from the inside of the ship, but from two scavengers waiting for its empty corpse on the outside. It is funny how despite all the discussion of possible causes, we never learn much about the actual cause that this one failed. It is also funny that the main character has such a disdain for Earth ecology, but is perfectly fine with a mayfly metaphor…

Oooof. “The Rhythm of the Soul” by Michelle Julia John hits hard.It describes an abusive, torturous system that doesn't need to be...

Oooof. “The Rhythm of the Soul” by Michelle Julia John hits hard.

It describes an abusive, torturous system that doesn't need to be like that. It describes very graphically what happens to the main character. Extremely painful, because it's not some abstract supernatural horror, but such situations, people and motivations exist in reality. #Clarkesworld

“Rondo for Strings and Lasergun” by Jared Oliver Adams is a cute little piece about the power of music. #Clarkesworld

“Rondo for Strings and Lasergun” by Jared Oliver Adams is a cute little piece about the power of music. #Clarkesworld

In ”Fly Free“ by Alan Kubatiev, birds have taken over the world. Owls run the legal system, and a big statute of the new legal system is...

In ”Fly Free“ by Alan Kubatiev, birds have taken over the world. Owls run the legal system, and a big statute of the new legal system is condemning people to become bird food as punishment for siding with the enemies of the birds (poultry farmers, hunters, cats, etc). In front of this backdrop, the story is filled with allusions to literary works about birds and what the birds think about them. #Clarkesworld

I liked the previous stories of M. L. Clark set on Drasti Prime. “Lost and Found” is also nice and alien, but it is much more personal,...

I liked the previous stories of M. L. Clark set on Drasti Prime. “Lost and Found” is also nice and alien, but it is much more personal, not focussing on the misunderstandings between the Guest species on the Makers' planet and their hosts' stewards but on one mystery of their aftermath. #Clarkesworld

Stories about generative AI writing stories may have been still vaguely interesting two years ago when James Sallis published “Rivers...

Stories about generative AI writing stories may have been still vaguely interesting two years ago when James Sallis published “Rivers Bend” in #Clarkesworld, but by now I'm happy it was a rather short piece.

Meh, “Coding Van Gogh” by Elaine Gao is weird in a way I don't appreciate. It is very cyberpunk but leaves weird gaps in my...

Meh, “Coding Van Gogh” by Elaine Gao is weird in a way I don't appreciate. It is very cyberpunk but leaves weird gaps in my imagination, mostly around the concept of the programming language that can create physicality. For example, how does a language have physical sockets? #Clarkesworld

“Junk Hounds” by Lavie Tidhar, #Clarkesworld. Full of strangeness and unfounded but reasonable optimism.

“Junk Hounds” by Lavie Tidhar, #Clarkesworld. Full of strangeness and unfounded but reasonable optimism.