Reading Tomorrow

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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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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The Time Machine by H.G. Wells (originally serialized in The New Review, January 1895 – May 1895, first published in 1895 by Henry Holt and Company)

For those few who may not know the plot: A nameless inventor in Victorian London tells his colleagues he has built a machine that can travel through time. A week later he arrives at dinner late and disheveled, and he regales them with a fantastic tale. He says he used his machine, and travelled eight hundred thousand years into the future. There he found that humanity has become two equally decadent species, the beautiful but frail Eloi and the brutal, subterranean Morlocks.

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