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Joachim Boaz @SFRuminations@wandering.shop · 2 months ago

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#12. Clifford D. Simak’s “City” (1944). Cheap transportation technology gives humanity the opportunity to flee the cities for acred estates in the countryside. Effectively establishes the rest of the memorable series compiled in City (1952). https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2024/08/18/short-story-reviews-clifford-d-simaks-city-1944-ogre-1944-and-spaceship-in-a-flask-1941/

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Joachim Boaz @SFRuminations@wandering.shop · 2 months ago

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#11. Lisa Tuttle’s “Stone Circle” (1976). As the forces of fascism transform a near-future America, a nameless female narrator attempts to find meaning in the ashes. https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2024/09/08/short-story-reviews-lisa-tuttles-the-stone-circle-1976-and-grania-davis-new-way-groovers-stew-1976/

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Joachim Boaz @SFRuminations@wandering.shop · 2 months ago

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10. Fred Saberhagen”s “Birthdays” (1976),. Bart, fourteen years old, awakes alone on a colony ship. The nature of the Ship isn’t entirely clear as Bart’s memories have been carefully edited. His task? Serve as the sole human parent to a squalling group of babies. https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2024/05/04/generation-ship-short-story-review-fred-saberhagens-birthdays-1976/

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Joachim Boaz @SFRuminations@wandering.shop · 2 months ago

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#9. Robert Abernathy’s “Single Combat” (1955). A nameless man, in a nameless city, plants a bomb in a basement. The city, cloaked with a heady dystopian gloom of racial violence and pollution, attempts to prevent his desperate escape. https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2024/06/02/short-story-review-robert-abernathys-single-combat-1955/

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Joachim Boaz @SFRuminations@wandering.shop · 2 months ago

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8. Howard Waldrop’s “Mary Margaret Road-Grader” (1976). After the “Highway wars,” Native American groups within North-Eastern Texas are on the ascent. At the annual Sun Dance and Big Tractor Pull, the Fossil Creek people gather for masculine demonstrations of honor and strength. But something seems different this year. https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2024/01/28/short-story-reviews-howard-waldrops-mary-margaret-road-grader-1976-david-j-skals-chains-1971-and-tom-purdoms-courting-time-1966/

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Joachim Boaz @SFRuminations@wandering.shop · 2 months ago

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7. Clifford D. Simak’s “Conditions of Employment” (1960) operates on the premise that space travel places inhuman stress on the worker: intense work hours, sleep deprivation, the terror that a slight mistake would spell death, tension and psychical discomfort, and the existential “dead, black fear of space itself.” https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2024/07/11/short-story-reviews-clifford-d-simaks-conditions-of-employment-1960-retrograde-evolution-1953-and-youll-never-go-home-again-variant-title-beachhead-1951/

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