Reading Tomorrow

The grandaddy of American SF magazines gets the new year started in fine fashion with an enjoyable January/February 2009 issue. Reviews of the seven stories and one serial installment behind the cut—beware of minor spoilers (but I’ll try not to give away the endings).

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Still a few days to go until it’s 2008 proper, but the new year’s short sci-fi (and fantasy) has already been available for a while. We won’t call it a “resolution,” per se, ’cause we all know how those turn out, but I will try to stay on top of things from here on out. In this ginormous double issue, we get eleven (!) stories, one of them the first part of a serial, plus a “Probability Zero” (a short, humorous vignette) and all the usual features and departments. With such an abundance of riches, this is gonna get unwieldy, so I’ll try doing it in two parts.

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Another day, another restart. In the words of Bullwinkle: “This time, for sure.” The goal: get caught up by six weeks from now — in other words, read and blog all three of the major SF/F short fiction magazines through their May 2007 issues by May 1. No sweat… right?

Warning: this is gonna get wordy. Even skipping the conclusion of Robert J. Sawyer’s serialized novel Rollback (which I fully intend to read at some point, especially given the way Sawyer’s been cropping up constantly on my radar as someone I really want to read) and the two Science Fact articles, Analog’s big year-opening double issue leaves us with ten stories to get through, which should be plenty.

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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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