A review by krep___
Carbide Tipped Pens: Seventeen Tales of Hard Science Fiction by Eric Choi, Ben Bova

4.0

CONTENTS
• Preface by Eric Choi
• The Blue Afternoon That Lasted Forever • short story by Daniel H. Wilson
• A Slow Unfurling of Truth • [Universe of Xuya] • novelette by Aliette de Bodard
• Thunderwell • novelette by Doug Beason
• The Circle • novelette by Cixin Liu
• Old Timer's Game • short story by Ben Bova
• The Snows of Yesteryear • novelette by Jean-Louis Trudel
• Skin Deep • novelette by Gabrielle Harbowy and Leah Petersen
• Lady with Fox • novelette by Gregory Benford
• Habilis • novelette by Howard V. Hendrix
• The Play's the Thing • (2013) • short story by Jack McDevitt
• Every Hill Ends with Sky • short story by Robert Reed
• She Just Looks That Way • novelette by Eric Choi
• Siren of Titan • novelette by David DeGraff
• The Yoke of Inauspicious Stars • novelette by Kate Story
• Ambiguous Nature • novelette by Carl Frederick
• The Mandelbrot Bet • short story by Dirk Strasser
• Recollection • short story by Nancy Fulda