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Again aimed at teens; again with the whiny people with trivial problems. Has Terry Bisson's "They're Made Out Of Meat," for which alone it would be worth the cover price. Other terrific stories: Geoffrey Landis' "A Walk in the Sun" (about a teen stranded on the moon, and hey! her problems are not trivial!) Spider Robinson's "Serpents' Teeth" (about a world where kids can divorce their parents) Debra Doyla and James D. Macdonald's "Uncle Joshua and the Grooglemen" (a post-plague story that starts out sounding like fantasy) Greg van Eekhout's "Will You Be an Astronaut?" (shaped like a kids' book and very very impressive) Nancy Kress's "Out of All Them Bright Stars" (which almost reads like non-SF, like a realist short story, except for having an alien in it).

2022-10-29 03:31