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Adrian Tchaikovsky: Sins of the Children (2024, Asterisk Magazine) 3 stars

A moral story about modifying the ecology of a planet without full understanding.

3 stars

An interesting story of a planetary expedition that discovers a planet with an impoverished ecology, but with plants that can concentrate the minerals required by the expedition. While harvesting the plants, the expedition comes under attack from unexpected biological forms. The expedition exterminates the attackers, but now discover, too late, how the ecology of the planet works and what they have done.

Mary Robinette Kowal: In the Moon’s House (2024, Tor.com) 3 stars

A new Lady Astronaut story! Dawn struggles to fit in with the rest of her …

On resolving feelings of being excluded from a group.

3 stars

A story set in the author's "Lady Astronaut" series, this one looks at a female astronaut in a backup crew for a moon mission, who finds herself being excluded from events from both her fellow male astronauts and from another female astronaut. One day, she decides to follow them and discover they were all secretly going to a particular pub, increasing her feelings of being excluded. Then events occur, and she decides to gatecrash the pub, only to discover that what goes on inside is not what it seems, and they all discover secrets about each other that will only bond the crew closer together.

Genoveva Dimova: Ace Up Her Sleeve (2024, Tor.com) 3 stars

Set in the same thrilling world as Genoveva Dimova's The Witch's Compendium of Monsters series, …

Is cheating at a game of cards against the Tsar of Monsters worth the gamble?

3 stars

An interesting little tale of a witch who is trying to hide from the Tsar of Monsters in a city. But when she is eventually discovered, she has no choice but to play a game of cards. However, this time, with some luck, she may be able to cheat to win and get away with it. But the deception may have a costly consequence in the future.

reviewed Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 217 by Octavia Cade (Clarkesworld Magazine, #217)

Abby Nicole Yee, Fiona Moore, Louis Inglis Hall, Damián Neri, Nigel Brown, Arula Ratnakar, Mike Robinson, Octavia Cade, Arley Sorg, Neil Clarke: Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 217 (EBook, 2024) 3 stars

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month …

An average issue of Clarkesworld

3 stars

An average issue with interesting stories by Nigel Brown, Fiona Moore and Arula Ratnakar.

  • "A Space O/pera" by Abby Nicole Yee: the Philippines sends up a dog into space. But a problem occurs, and the dog is left for dead in space. But her owner does not give up, and plans to rescue the dog.

  • "The Buried People" by Nigel Brown: an expedition goes to the frozen north to dig up people who have the ability to hibernate and freeze during winter. The reason for this, and how these people may have got this ability, are hinted at in this story about a climate catastrophe that happened in the past.

  • "The Children of Flame" by Fiona Moore: a community that sprung up after a civilization collapse now face a new challenge: a feudal group that wants to take over. It would need the community to realise that they need each …

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