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Dan Goodman's journal - September 30th, 2008
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11:44 am
[Link] | Happy Birthday, joelarnold!!
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06:57 pm
[Link] | Fantasy & Science Fiction, Oct/Nov 2008 60th Anniversary Issue
Disclaimer #1 If your tastes differ greatly from mine, you may love stories I hate and hate stories I love.
Disclaimer #2 I'm reviewing stories, not bodies of work. I might love everything an author writes except this one story, or love one story here but find everything else by that author boring.
Disclaimer #3 I started reading sf magazines thirteen years before editor Gordon Van Gelder was born. I'm probably at least a bit jaded.
Short stories: Nine.
I very much liked Michael Swanwick's "The Scarecrow's Boy." It's an original story made up of familiar elements: a child in danger, the US under a dictatorship, a robot thinks and acts for himself much more than he was ever intended to. I cared about the characters, and I liked what Swanwick did with those familiar elements.
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