Sunny Moraine, “What Glistens Back.” Lightspeed, November 2014.
Sunny Moraine’s previous story was a reimagined fairytale. They come back with a science fiction story that could’ve been written fifty years ago, save for one important detail. An astronaut has his landing craft break up around him while attempting to land on an alien planet; now he’ll land a whole sooner. Meanwhile his husband up above in the mothership is desperately trying to save him…
If anybody ever tries to convince you science fiction is looking forward to the future, remember this: why wasn’t this story not published fifty years ago?
John P. Murphy, “Still Life, With Oranges.” Lakeside Circus, January 6, 2014.
A neat, clever little time travel story.
Anna Noyes, “Becoming.” Guernica, November 3, 2014.
Perhaps the type of science fiction story I like best is the sort that requires the reader as a detective, puzzling out what it is talking about through the clues scattered through it, untill the whole picture emerges. This story starts this way, but ends up in an emotional sucker punch.