A review by catevari
Asimov's Science Fiction, February 2011 by Jane Yolen, David Ira Cleary, Sara Genge, Bill Pronzini, Peter J. Heck, W. Gregory Stewart, Erwin S. Strauss, Paul McAuley, Aliette de Bodard, Robert Silverberg, Sheila Williams, Tim McDaniel, Barry N. Malzberg, Jeff Carlson, Uncle River

4.0

Another short story in de Bodard's Xuyan universe; this one is from the Mexica part of the universe about the process of birthing "mindships" for space travel (riff off brain-in-a-jar). Space travel stories tend to be so Westernized; I love the conjecture of what a still viably Aztec based space faring society might look like. As well, the main character, Acoimi, is uncomfortable in the hard set gender lines of his society. The combination of those two things makes for a fascinating, welcome further look into the Xuyan universe.