Reading Tomorrow

“Impossible Dreams” by Tim Pratt
Originally published in Asimov’s Science Fiction, July 2006
Hugo Award nominee for Best Short Story

Pete, a low-key guy who loves movies more than anything else in the world, finds a strange little video store called Impossible Dreams, a store that he’s positive wasn’t there before. Unable to resist going in, he finds the shelves lined with movies that shouldn’t exist (more…)

I think I’m getting the hang of this monthly SF magazine thing. Or it could just be that I read three of the stories in this issue a few months ago. Either way, the January Asimov’s was a mixed bag that got better as it went along.

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Honestly, in over ten years of buying SF magazines with the best of intentions, this was the first one I’ve read cover to cover. Well, I skipped the letters.  It was, predictably, something of a mixed bag, but a most enjoyable one.

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“A Billion Eves” (novella) by Robert Reed
“Biodad” (short story) by Kit Reed
Asimov’s Science Fiction, Oct/Nov 2006

Two authors named Reed, two stories that have a less than flattering view of fatherhood.

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