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A review by stadkison
Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 208 by Neil Clarke
Putting them into tiers, the A+ stories were Binomial Nomenclature and the Mother of Happiness and Just Another Cat in a Box. The former is about obsessing over a new way of visualizing emotions after tragedy, and the latter a dark exploration of a single post-apocalyptic concept on an infinite timescale.
Stories that get a regular A are You Dream of the Hive, Stars Don’t Dream, and Rail Meat. Those are about escaping a collective, Borg-like society from someone who doesn’t want to escape, a group of specialists coming together for a moonshot (or Venus-shot) dream, and a romance between futuristic thieves.
Finally, the still good B stories are Nothing of Value, a teleportation tragedy, Down the Waterfall, a poetic time-travel story, and You Cannot Grow in Salted Earth, a brief story about the young’s desire to explore space when earth is drained of resources.
Stories that get a regular A are You Dream of the Hive, Stars Don’t Dream, and Rail Meat. Those are about escaping a collective, Borg-like society from someone who doesn’t want to escape, a group of specialists coming together for a moonshot (or Venus-shot) dream, and a romance between futuristic thieves.
Finally, the still good B stories are Nothing of Value, a teleportation tragedy, Down the Waterfall, a poetic time-travel story, and You Cannot Grow in Salted Earth, a brief story about the young’s desire to explore space when earth is drained of resources.